this can lead to pretty intense burnouts, where I sleep 14+ hours daily.
And sometimes I need over 3-4 weeks to recover, depending on how I feel.
I hope you'll take care of yourself. I've been in projects that led to this level of burnout, or worse. If this keeps happening, one may end no longer enjoying something that was like a breath of fresh air before. That is quite sad when it happens. So, to keep your soul (and its kinky interests) alive, please take care of yourself!
The truth is:
Sometimes I receive messages, really really wholesome ones, from people really thanking me.
And I receive a high motivation and dopamine boost reading those.
Like... some life-changing stuff, people I "really" helped in their real life through my game somehow.
Someone even turned from suicide because of my game, some other guy kinda dealt with trauma.
Some other guy saved even his marriage. I mean... these may sound funny to you, but its pretty serious
to some others.
I'm very glad to hear that, and actually curious. If someday you (only with their permission of course) would like to share some of these people's experiences, and how your game helped them, I would be quite interested.
On the other hand, negative reviews can make me super depressed.
Some dominant-males expecting to fuck girls and tiddies instantly for example kinda piss me off.
Some others have a gentle-dom fetish and my brutal world is not their cup of tea- and they negative-review my game.
But the worst of all are players who spend over 200 hours of playtime, and then they write a negative review
because they spot some bugs or glitches, and then keep playing for 200 more hours.
Others have already said, these are just trolls and bullies who get off on being mean -- regardless of whether or not they're even being sincere in their reviews. There's a way to criticize with good intentions ('constructive criticism'). The opposite of it is simply trolling. Don't pay attention. What you do is way better than anything these people could ever do by themselves. Let this thought erase anything bad they say.