Oh no I've played plenty of games with episodes/chapters/seasons/acts/whatever, I'm saying this is the first time I've had to essentially download 3 games that are connected like this, as far as I can remember. I've seen sequels where you had to do a "what you chose previously" thing before, but when it's the same connected storyline? That's a new one for me. Usually they would all be the same game/file/folder, and then there are just title cards inside the story that indicate when you go to a new "segment". At least in my experience.I could give you two games you have to DL each episode to play. One of which, you have to go on the Dev's webpage to play the final episode. This one is like many others I play that have seasons. Some don't call them seasons, though. Some call them chapters. Or some call them parts. I'm guessing you haven't looked on here for many games before. Which is fine. But, as I say, there are many of them.
But as I said earlier, I understand the splitting when you put it into a financial perspective, if patrons aren't enough throughout development