- - - Wonder if anyone can confirm what I'm suspecting about the free version of the game: Played earlier versions and ran again and again into bugs that would for the most part not outright break the game but force you to skip to next episode at some point. Read how others experienced the same, although hardly ever the same bugs (!). I remember a previous comment by the Dev (quote missing), that he then toned down, of how free players would never really get to play a bug-free version, etc.
Recently the dev revealed what mechanism he uses to protect the patreon-versions of his game from being published: he can identify/ban a leaker by individualizing versions of the game like this: in every episode he has ~10 alternative, slightly differing images - with 2 episodes that would already make for a 100 different versions of the game (with episode 3 1000 and so forth) that all can be identified/attributed individually.
Dealing with that type of ingenuous caution as regards the dev, I wouldn't put it past him if he also works with 'individually bugged versions' i.e. with bugs that can change from at least one upload of the free version to another, and that do not only concern the most recent episode but then earlier episodes as well, making it, after all, a total, unrepeatable bug-fest (at least for players of the free version). - Wonder if anyone has arrived at a similar suspicion?