If you really want to know, the developer has explicitly said on Discord that he is slow in development and it is not due to hardware limitations or anything like that. He is doing the best he can.
Now let me show you some strange shit.
Release
Name | Renders
Count | Release
Date | Days In
Development | Renders
Per Day | Change from
Avg Speed |
|---|
| Episode 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Episode 2 | - | - | - | - | |
| Episode 3 | - | 2019-08-27 | - | - | - |
| Episode 4 | 430 | 2019-10-13 | 47 | 9.15 | +160,00% |
| Episode 5 | 512 | 2020-01-16 | 95 | 5.39 | +53.00% |
| Episode 6 | 524 | 2020-05-17 | 122 | 4.3 | +22.00% |
| Episode 7 | 506 | 2020-09-26 | 132 | 3.83 | +9.00% |
| Episode 8 | 595 | 2021-02-25 | 152 | 3.91 | +11,00% |
| Episode 9 | 948 | 2022-02-13 | 353 | 2.69 | -23.00% |
| Episode 10 | 1544 | 2023-05-21 | 462 | 3.34 | -5.00% |
| Episode 11 | 1118 | 2024-06-22 | 398 | 2.81 | -20.00% |
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| TOTAL | 6177 | | 1761 | 3.51 | |
So, as you can see, he worked slower on the latest updates, and the size of the updates grew up, so that the last three updates took more than a year to develop each.
Of course, one very important point is not taken into account here - bonus episodes! These are short stories that either have no connection to the canonical plot of the game, or are fantasies of "what if", or tell about some events that the characters mentioned at some point in the game but which are not important for the main plot. There are a lot of these bonus episodes, I don't remember how many exactly, I think about ten. And they also consume development time, and some are quite long in terms of the number of renders.
It is also important to mention one more thing - there is only one LI in the game. It means that there are several girls with quite advanced storylines (and whom everyone wants to see as other LIs) but the ending of the game will be either with this one LI, or with no one - this is how I understood it. Perhaps the developer will change this idea in the future, but for now this is it.
In general, if you understand that you will get a few hours of entertainment now (and the graphics in the game is very good, even though it is a little outdated) and then forget about it for a year - then go ahead! If you easily get attached to the characters and then check every week - whether a new update has come out, then it is better not to even start - it will not come out soon!
