Played this game a long time ago, around the middle of book 2. It was a fantastic product so I've decided to wait for the final version to play the complete experience.
Could someone help me out, is the version (0.9) representing the current completeness to the developer plans to finish the game with the next major update?
I see some comments about burnout within the dev teem, no problem from my side been there also in my job, wishing the best to the developers, so I can wait, I am really just curious that do we know whether it is planned to finish the product with the next update or not yet?
Thank you all!
The version number is indicative of how close we are to 8 complete routes, but bear in mind the decimal. The latest route (Book 4 Slave) ended on version 0.8.7d, meaning it took 7 major updates to finish it. The current and last route, Book 4 Love, only just started in September. I expect it to take at least the same amount of updates until it's done.
Book 4 Slave Route took 15 months to develop (Mar 19 - Jun 20) and since Book 4 Love Route does not re-use the Slave Route's location and mechanics like it usually does, we're probably looking at a development time at least that long, especially now that the coder is late again and the artist is making a filler Halloween minigame just like last year.
And since I don't think they're in a rush to finish this last route, I'm just gonna arbitrarily add three more months of development time and say it'll take 18 months.
And then there's the Epilogue, to be made after this final route is finished to tie up the story. It will probably be a single build and take, say, three months. That puts us at a total of 21 months of development remaining, starting from last June.
So according to my bullshit numbers, the full game will be released in March 2022. Mark your calendar!!