I am curious why it is new devs always seem to gravitate to the worst aspects of adult visual novels? Namely the sandbox. Imo a sandbox 'game' is not a visual novel. The key to understanding what a visual novel is, is in the name obviously. A visual whether that be animation, or more so static images and a series of texts involving the characters in the story. I just don't get why new devs, gravitate to something which is a lot more advanced than writing a simple visual novel..sure they need to master renders etc, but it's nowhere near as complex as creating a sandbox. Added to that the sandbox game is one of the most hated genres within the adult visual novel spectrum. It's a niche area.
It sounds very much like this sandbox would have been far better off being a vn and not what it is now. I am not knocking anyone, but even the developer has said his coding is an absolute mess, and has to change it. Now is the opportunity to turn it into a avn and no more crappy broken issues, leveling up. Just make sure to have IC and zero ntr and your avn will sky rocket if its a good story, in other words you stand to make a lot more money than you will creating a sandbox lol
The girls are super cute, would translate easily to a vn story.