This is my 4th review of this game, the Developer is very aggressive about having negative reviews removed!
This information is critical for a new player!
The developer will tell you with a straight face that grinding is "challenging" and his Shills will say "what grind?" or "I don't understand why people are complaining about a so-called grind"
I get it now, after having a conversation with a man last week, who said " I'm not a racist, but...everybody knows white people are smarter than black people, that's just science!" So I asked him if he fully understood what the word racist means? He said "of course I do"
The dev and his shills don't fully understand the meaning of the word GRIND! Simple, now I get it.
Another review sums it up perfectly ( I edited in all caps):
this game is a EXTREMLY GRINDY. It's very repetitive, and if you play without a walkthrough you'll spend hours trying to find the next trigger that progresses the storyline. If you read through any of the forum comments, you'll see a lot of, "Help, I'm stuck at ##/74. What do I do?" For example, I had been to the kitchen at noon a dozen different times, and there wasn't ever anything to do there, so I stopped visiting the kitchen at noon. Then, after spending an hour trying to find the next progress-trigger, I wander into the kitchen at noon and suddenly there's something to do. It's tedious. There are 24 hours in a day and 8 different locations. 8*24 = 192. That's 192 different location/time combinations you have to investigate each time you get stuck. That's a lot of mindless grinding.
So, in summery : If you love mindless grinding, and I mean mindless., than this is the perfect game for you! Five stars! Otherwise the good artwork, character development, and storyline do not make up for the insane amount of grinding you must accomplish to move to the next level.