As someone who was interested in this project for a while, however wasn't able to follow it closely, can I ask you guys a couple questions about current state of the game?
1. They said the game is going to be released this year. How likely is that?
2. Do we know anything about character customization, except for costumes (me don't like unnaturally huge booba, me like small booba)
3. Will there be any trans/futa characters?
And the most important question.
4. Do you guys believe the game will be good or are we going to have another Subverse kind of situation? (ngl, played an early version of this game and I am legit thinking about buying a proper PC in a month just so I can try this game in VR on high settings)
1. They may release it this year, they are really focusing to apeace Steam apeace Steam terms for publication, but at its current state, it will definitely be incomplete. (Worst performance than prevoius versions, bugged graphic setting leaving you to toy with the .ini files to fix it, aberrant controlls, 0 gameplay, clipping clothes/models).
2. You can tweak hair colour and change the full cloth set (no mixing, and almost all animations wont let you certain cloth peaces). There is no body sliders and the only human looking body type will be Galatea, but its a (borderline) child, leaving no options for vanilla enjoyers. all the other 1254323character concept arts are the same big booba woman with different hair styles. (they could easily mix all clothing sets and hair styles on 1 character but they wont for the sake of "character selection".
3. No futa as far as i've seen. They dont have one on its previous game. maybe strapons? I really dont know so dont quote me on this.
4. This game is delivering graphic quality and animation details like no game has ever done, same as fethises.
So far is my favorite game, but the bar is not that high to be honest. Devs are wasting all the founds on features that LITERALLY no one asked and where never proposed to the patrons. My head cannon is that they intentionally never proposed them because they knew people wont want them. Im talking about gacha mechanics to unlock animations and energy sistem to limit your progres to give you the undying modern gaming option of "pay real money to skip a tedious process that has no other purpose that anoy you until you give us more money" or "engaging gameplay" as EA says...
TL;DR: This game had SO MUCH potential but now is going down on a spiral down the sink because devs got really greedy and think that consumer feedback is meaningless because they already have the founding from missguiding philanthropist, as patreons usually do.
My financial and moral advice is: Dont buy this game at any cost. Dont get baited just for a few animations that you like. Nowdays imo the best use of your money in herotic consumage is paying a talented animator/artist for things that really hit your spot. Its the best example of "Get what you paid for" we have nowdays.