I can count how many games have actual true heartfelt romances on one hand, so keep doing what you're doing.
Though I do find it odd you can't "play the field" a bit like get to know various love interests and make a decision based on that. You have to go all in with one choice. Book store was a great addition.
I did have a question. I saw a post about picking corruption choices leads to John getting the women. Is this when you briefly play as others like Veronica? Or does having high corruption for Kiara mean bad news as well?
We haven't even scraped the surface of romance yes believe me , zoey's lines are a little extreme honestly for the usual crowd so we tone it down a bit but in chapter 3 you really make your loved ones feel special and so does the same happens to kiara as well.
I really just hated the whole trope of romance being = kiss random in morning , sex at night and then kiss at morning waking up...yeah oky that's cute but at least show the journey.
Being an indian we have alot of romance movies here and zoey's a big k drama fan so it's kinda why we work on romance just as hard as nsfw , has to have replay value after all.
Also just a heads up , you can still flirt with other characters just make sure in critical decisions to gain romance back , so for example if you hadn't romanced up azumi by now you're on the first phase of her trying other people , if you fail the other clause azumi will get locked.
Same happens with other romances as well , honestly if it were upto me i'd just work on this game and not other projects but i have to fund it somehow