Yeah, the replayability of this game is great, not only because the mutiple paths. With every update (I remember playing it for the first time in .....0.2 I think?) Tess gives you some more hints and every time after finish it always start a new game trying to find a meaning to some theories I create.
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I will try and explain the ranks as best as I can in the following way: There is kind a main tree trunk story branch that is the major path of the story. Right now there are two MAJOR paths: K4 and below (sub) and K5 and above (dom). So ranks for those major paths won't matter as much as a K5 and K8 will see the same major scenes.
Thanks for the comprehensive breakdown. This is definitely one of the better games on the site - so I’m super excited for all future content!
Im kinda dumb sometimes so just making sure, so its possible for a k6 to get the same good ending as someone who got to k8 or higher?
Hi, without spoiling everything, yes. At some point in the story later, the ranks will have less significance than they do now. There is a critical point later in which certain decisions basically put Kane on a more locked path so to speak for the final Act of the story. Meaning, that you no longer will be able to just "switch evil/good" or "dom/sub" so easily anymore. My employee and helper artist Anais is a super avid gamer and maybe this example helps. She has seen my entire outline from start to finish, and she says it reminds her of a role playing game called Fallout where at some point, you commit to a "faction" in a beat up Las Vegas area as there is ultimately a big choice that closes off some other paths. Your romances/morality and dom/sub status impact the story in that area, but you can't switch allegiances so easily anymore. (although I may have surprises for this such as being offered to secretly betray one's own team, etc.) Maybe example this helps? So you can still influence and even betray that faction perhaps, but you can't really play certain scenes anymore with another group scene to scene. But that within that "team" you can be good/evil/dom/sub still with different choices, but that you can't magically just leap to another faction track. Harder to explain without being very spoilerly, so hope this gives a good enough clue overall.
That makes perfect sense, thank you. It makes sense that you cant switch so easily and it reminds me of other games where at a certain point you kind of get locked into a path so that doesnt bother me. I have been trying to make both the MC and his sister be dom but not evil and im sure others that are on that path wouldnt want to just randomly start being evil too. The betray thing is interesting and might make some people second guess their decision on it so i like that too. I wont be doing it unless the person you're going to betray ends up being very different or shows red flags kinda thing.
Olivia: "Kane, why did you kill Dominique?!"That is an opening scene from Fallout New Vegas. Can something like that work as ending in KG hmm. FNV is one of my favorite games of all time. Great role playing, so many different things you can do, factions to join and choices to make. Quite a few different endings too! I have almost 500 hours logged on Steam
I mean Karlsson's Gambit will have around 15 endings according to dev, so lets hope it becomes a cult classic of Adult VNs/games just like Fallout New Vegas is for regular games. Its certainly getting there I feel.
You may have confused it with the release of the 0.5 update which happened in October. The last two updates have taken around 5 months to make, so March or April would be my guess for the next one.
You've just answered yourself.
