The gameplay loop is sad, but your wrong about sanity because its even worse.
So you only get a limited amount of sanity per day and it resets after 24 hours. If you have sanity you can gain likes and hand out likes to other players, if you have 0 sanity you cannot gain likes or hand out likes. This is according to Project Helius to stop 'afk farming of likes'
Now there is one other way to gain likes and that's to have the alien and girl climax at the same time then the 'girl' gives you 1 likes.
To properly be able to have simultaneous climaxes with both actors, you need to raise the girls sensitivity to full which there are two ways, First way is to when the girl is in "Heat" to press a special button and if it works you gain a tiny bit of sensitivity if the special action even works which it does barely half of the time. Second way is to do animations with teasing in them, which means you start a teasing animation and wait for like 5 minutes for the sensitivity bar to fully max out after that then you can move onto an animation you like. Sensitivity also declines partly after climaxes and shit so you need to refill it.
When an alien or girl climaxes you gain "Inspiration" which is what you use to hand out likes to other players and study experiments you don't own from other players. But you can't get this as I understand it if your sanity is 0.
"But how do we unlock outfits and other animations?"
"Likes" "Data" and "Insight" are the three currencies, Insight you can gain from daily tasks, which you only gain 1 daily task per day and it gives you 3 insight if i remember correctly. You also gain 1 reroll of a daily task but as said you only get 1 daily to do per day. So you can only earn 3 insight per day everyday without spending "Likes"
"Insights" can be used to buy a "Blueprint" which is a lootbox, 1 blueprint costs 2 "Insights" So you can only buy 1 blueprint with insights per daily task. The "Blueprint" is seperated into categories such as human only, Xeno, and for the three characters so you can kinda choose what random "Blueprint" you get but its all RNG.
"Blueprints" Can also give you duplicates which means you get a small amount of "Data" depending on its rarity, with "Data" you can synthesis any animation you want so to speak as I understand it but its costs depend on the cards Rarity.
Outfits costs "likes" and is the only way to buy them is with "likes". Currently if you want all outfits in the game it will cost 1300 "likes".
Now there is also a ingame Shop where you can buy stuff with your "Likes", in the shop you can buy "Blueprints" = lootboxes but they are limited per day so, currently there are 3 different "blueprint" boxes one for Erika, one for Xeno, and one for human only and you can only buy 2 "Blueprints" per category per day. They cost "10 Likes" each, so if you want to 2 "Blueprints" for Erika it costs "20 Likes"
In the shop you can also buy "Insights", It costs "5 Likes" for "1 Insight" for a total of "10 Insights" per day.
Same with "Data", "1 Likes" per "1 Data" for a total of "20 Data" a day.
As Patron you will also get ingame currency for how much you've spent on the project, but currently the rate we have gotten is 1 dollar = 10 likes, which means you would need to have spent 130 dollars to even unlock all current outfits in the game.
Now season passes are... weirdly named wrong in my opinion, they should've been called DLC as they will be able to be bought whenever, just that if its not in season you wont get an additional 20% boost on them as in you only need to grind 80% to unlock all the content of the "Season pass"
Season passes will give, one new character and animations which is why they should be called DLC
Now Harem mode will apparently cost 20 dollars to access because for some reason the game will be free to play but you'll only get access to the scrapped gallery mode which might or might not be updated. Why this is going to be free I do not know.
We also don't know if campaign will be given to patreons? At least I don't remember hearing that we will get it from Project Helius.
Now they will also sell Booster packs! This is one of the reasons I believe is for the unreasonable grind and F2P and Mobile mechanics. You'll be able to buy a booster pack for one character, we don't know what they will cost but they will apparently included multiple outfits? And animations but we have no idea how many animations at this point, but if Currently 1 outfit is worth 5-10 dollars I do not know how low they will sell a character booster pack if its going include both outfits and animations for one character.
Now the only thing missing is being able to buy "Sanity" refresh and buying "Likes" with real world money to make this F2P economy to make sense.
To addon they have all but abanoned the steam forum, they have no updated information there not even a moderator is on there helping or answering questions, they haven't even seperated the forum up in different languages so its all a mixed bag of threads.
They also missed a patch last weekend, and we didn't get any information about a delay or anything until today a post just said an update is coming somewhere around Christmas and no explanation or anything about the delay.
They are pretty unprofessional, no info, no updates.
