RPGM Holdcraft Chronicles: Aki [Ch.9] [Seez]

[Troqu]

So basically instead of working on the final chapter, the dev is abandoning it to focus on their new game?

And yes I consider a tiny update once in a blue moon as the game being abandoned because it shows the dev has moved all their focus onto their new game.

No they're just talking mad shit. Primary focus has been on this the entire time, but it was always planned to be two games and so some work has been done over time on the sequel since the start. The only thing that happened here was chapter 8 was split into two updates (part 1 and part 2) and they decided it was best to just not do that again and instead make chapter 9 into two separate chapters 9 and 10 to finish off the game.

 

[riadhloch]

F95 users will take bad news and blow it out of proportion won't they? The dev made a choice to make a series of smaller updates while he gets his new game into a position where it has a lot of content. As opposed to one last big update to cap of the game. Yes, that sucks. But I can see the logic. He might be thinking that this is the best way to keep fans entertained while he gets the new game to a point of having a hefty amount of content. It's not about lack of faith. It's just how it is when you're starting a new project. Fans get bored and leave when you start a new project. It's why a lot of devs stretch out their game indefinitely.

The dev made a bad decision. One bad decision doesn't sudden speak to a lack integrity or manipulation.

Couldn't agree with you more. For example, this is more or less what happened with Good Girl Gone Bad years ago.

GGBD had a huge number of fans (and still sits atop many filter lists for likes, watches, etc. here on F95zone too) but once it finished, the F95zone users weren't loyal or patient. Even though the very nice and generous dev (Eva Kiss) waited to announce their new game Our Red String until GGBD was complete, the conversion rate of those fans to Our Red String was a comparatively small fraction. Fickle and far too fair-weather, they dumped Eva Kiss like they'd done nothing for them and moved onto other games rather than support Our Red String's development.

That example and many others like it were lessons to F95zone devs about how they should release content if they want to maintain interest and heaven forbid, some modicum of monetary recompense.

If we're being honest, it's also how a lot of SFW mobile games work too. I don't fault Seez and Holdcraft Chronicles for exploring similar survival strategies.

 

[Shalltear]

So basically the dev will do other game then the other game this game will meet each other at some point?
Is it better just continue in this game as next chapter
Kinda confuse for the ending of this chapter 9
Jake like being the bad subject then she show her power to make jake good subject?
Look to me he just become she at the end

 

[Youssef302]

is there a way to refuse the husband transformation into futa ? I wash he was transformed to sissy instead

 

[kentarou27]

So basically the dev will do other game then the other game this game will meet each other at some point?
Is it better just continue in this game as next chapter
Kinda confuse for the ending of this chapter 9
Jake like being the bad subject then she show her power to make jake good subject?
Look to me he just become she at the end

Nope, Luna isnt a sequel, or its linked to aki, it a complete new game, where the aki characters will make some minor cameo here and there, not something big. Seez plan since the beggining was made luna, aki was a way to him to learn rpg maker. He isnt abandoning the game, its just that he want to make the demo build for luna to have a good chunk of content, so its a little hard to work in both games, so he plan to do some little att in aki at the same time.

 

[John7733]

Made two saves. One before the start of ch 8(the competition event for a reminder of what happens) and another at the end of the chapter, when you can start ch 9. Hopefully it works...

 

[Hadorami]

BFOVマップE

You might need to install Japanese keyboard onto your PC in order for it to recognize the Japanese symbols properly. If you're running Windows, you can install language packs in Settings>Time & language>Language & region>Preferred languages

Thank you very much for your answer and advice!

 

[DOUGLAX]

Sorry for the stupid question since my English isn't that good but I got a little lost at the end of chapter 9, can someone explain it to me?

 

[HappyDoggy]

From the developer's subscribestar


Weekly Update Sept 8th 2025
Alright with THR: Aki CH9 out it’s time to actually start talking about HR: Luna in these weekly posts. But first let’s go over what the plan is for THR: Aki going forward.

For the foreseeable future the plan is to continue adding scenes to Aki. There are about 6 main story scenes that need to happen and a few minor story scenes. Each update from now on is going to have 2 scenes in it 1 Story scene and 1 voted scene. This will allow me the flexibility to work on both projects at the same time and not burn myself out.
Once all the story scenes are in I’ll reassess what the Aki updates will entail. The goal is to have the “end game” of THR Aki be an open map where you can explore and engage with different repeatable sex scenes. This means that pretty much anything goes. If there is a scene idea that you want you can send it to me via Discord in the #scene-suggestions channel. I’ll be posting the first vote details some time tomorrow.
With that said, it’s time that I start pivoting into working on HR: Luna as my main focus. I’ve been stopping myself from seriously working on the next game because I knew if I did I would probably never finish THR: Aki. My goal is to never do that to my audience. I’ll cut content if I have to, but I will always make sure it gets to a decent state for you guys.
Over the next 8ish weeks I’ll be working on HR: Luna with the goal of getting a playtestable version of the town gameplay loop made. The combat and story will not be in this playtest. The playtest will be a massively sped up version of what will take place over the full story. It’s there to demonstrate what that gameplay loop will look like. Briar’s town portion will not be in this test.


From my understanding the developer wanted to finish Aki all the way through but there was some content planned that might have resulted in being banned from Subscribestar. Rather than risking it was decided to go this route and work on Luna instead which is planned to be a more "vanilla" game than was planned for Aki.

 

[Jackie123]

Anyone got a full gallery save?

 

[Asura066]

Anyone got a full gallery save?

bruh there is a switch in the gallery to unlock all the scene

 

[B.W.H]

Is Nicole really a bad person or she was acting in the last scene?

 

[Thechamel]

Is Nicole really a bad person or she was acting in the last scene?

It seems to me she is more trying to play the role of a bad person in the interest of Aki, you can see her guilt thorough most of the scene

 

[dartis]

Is Nicole really a bad person or she was acting in the last scene?

A bit of both. She's a genuinely bad person and has always enjoyed getting one over on Jake. But she was acting this way in aid of some master plan and was probably masking some guilt.

I'd say on a scale of felt bad to didn't feel bad at all. Aurora and Misaki were at the completely guilt ridden and barely able to keep up the act side of the scale. Whereas Pearl and Elaina are at the needlessly cruel end of the scale. With Nicole fitting right into the middle.

I think the people who deserved to get splatted by Aki got a full hit of the magic blast. While Prudence and Aurora got shielded because karmic justice was a little more lenient in their favour.

 

[Onbunga]

Really looking forward to the next game from this dev. I love this one but I dislike the horse cock. The main futa in the new game will have a normal looking cock which is more up my alley.

 

[SloppyChrissy]

Gosh, like, that chapter 9 ending was really quite... hurtful to go through. Especially with Aki being the players/readers perspective, aka you/me and Nichole being the "love interest". Really feeling quite bummed out about it.

I hope chapter 10 comes soon and makes up for it, otherwise I might be, like, gnawing on this for a while.

I'm especially hoping for...

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I could say more, especially about Gideon and how out of place he is in, like, man(l)y ways, and him and Elaina could be merged into a less awful character, but maybe another time, or when chapter 10 made me sad, which I hope it won't, of course. I think the game could benefit from some story paths and choices. Gosh, I hope its not going to be a memory-wipe or "It was just a dream"-type ending.

Gonna, like, withhold a rating for now, but it would be a 1 star just based on how the ninth chapter ends and the feelings it left me with. I would like to give 4-5, despite there being some scenes and characters that feel off to me, and me usually not really liking netorare content, especially on the receiving end, but a lot of Female Protagonist content involves it. So...

Maybe if chapter 10 is good? <3

 

[lord_gumba]

I am trying to run the game on linux with wine but it doesn't even open, can anyone help?

 

[netcov]

Gosh, like, that chapter 9 ending was really quite... hurtful to go through. Especially with Aki being the players/readers perspective, aka you/me and Nichole being the "love interest". Really feeling quite bummed out about it.

I hope chapter 10 comes soon and makes up for it, otherwise I might be, like, gnawing on this for a while.

I'm especially hoping for...

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I could say more, especially about Gideon and how out of place he is in, like, man(l)y ways, and him and Elaina could be merged into a less awful character, but maybe another time, or when chapter 10 made me sad, which I hope it won't, of course. I think the game could benefit from some story paths and choices. Gosh, I hope its not going to be a memory-wipe or "It was just a dream"-type ending.

Gonna, like, withhold a rating for now, but it would be a 1 star just based on how the ninth chapter ends and the feelings it left me with. I would like to give 4-5, despite there being some scenes and characters that feel off to me, and me usually not really liking netorare content, especially on the receiving end, but a lot of Female Protagonist content involves it. So...

Maybe if chapter 10 is good? <3

I do feel the same. Ch9 left a bad taste in my mouth. Hopefully there is a resolution to it that leaves Aki happy. I am a bit stunned at how oblivious Aki is to her own power though.

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[Creator Seez]

Hello everyone,

Decided to finally poke my head in here again to see how it's going. It's about what I expected. I do want to clear up some of the assumptions people are coming to.

F95 users will take bad news and blow it out of proportion won't they? The dev made a choice to make a series of smaller updates while he gets his new game into a position where it has a lot of content. As opposed to one last big update to cap of the game. Yes, that sucks. But I can see the logic. He might be thinking that this is the best way to keep fans entertained while he gets the new game to a point of having a hefty amount of content. It's not about lack of faith. It's just how it is when you're starting a new project. Fans get bored and leave when you start a new project. It's why a lot of devs stretch out their game indefinitely.

The dev made a bad decision. One bad decision doesn't sudden speak to a lack integrity or manipulation.

Thank you for coming to my defense. This is somewhat true, but the reason is more benign. It's really 2 things; I need to take a break from working THR:Aki and I need to make the remaining updates more manageable to make. It's daunting when I finish an update and then I realize that I need to make another 200+ images and at least 20 animations to keep it in the same scope as the prior chapters. Conceptually I understand that I don't have to do that but it feels.. wrong.

The truth in your statement is that, yes this it my way of keeping people entertained in the meantime. I'm not planning on withholding the story or anything like that. It's just going to be done over several smaller updates rather than one big one. Once the conclusion is done I'll keep adding other voted scenes for fun.

Nope, Luna isnt a sequel, or its linked to aki, it a complete new game, where the aki characters will make some minor cameo here and there, not something big. Seez plan since the beggining was made luna, aki was a way to him to learn rpg maker. He isnt abandoning the game, its just that he want to make the demo build for luna to have a good chunk of content, so its a little hard to work in both games, so he plan to do some little att in aki at the same time.

Luna is a direct sequel to THR: Aki, we just don't follow the THR cast's perspective. Outside of that, thank you for interpreting my intentions correctly. It's too much work for me to make 2 games at once and I have to be realistic in what I can produce.

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I think a lot of users here have really been burned by other NSFW devs and it shows. THR: Aki is not being abandoned. I'm just making the updates smaller for my own sake while I get the framework of the next game rolling. I'm also just excited to show off what the plans are for the next game by getting a demo out. It's really not that complicated or nefarious.

 

[Mommysbuttslut]

I do feel the same. Ch9 left a bad taste in my mouth. Hopefully there is a resolution to it that leaves Aki happy. I am a bit stunned at how oblivious Aki is to her own power though.

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Nicole was crying on the car ride over. Gideon's last words were telling Aki she did good and that everything would be okay.

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