Others Abandoned Novastella Island [Early Access] [Nova Studio]

[Prince Vevit]

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Your ' I think coolsville sucks' out of context, word splicing type of humor is pretty good.

Obviously, if its a crypto miner or data seller etc etc, don't download it ,demonize it, or call for it to be removed. Very valid. But don't do that if your only reason is 'no sexual content', was my point.

 

[Violet5100]

Looks like a fine game.

 

[Violet5100]

And in passing, as a note, Stop bitching that some games don't have sexual content. Not every hentai game needs big dicks and wet holes.

Sometimes just having sexy forms is enough.

 

[Horny Police Robot]

If under no sexual content - only nude body, it's okay. But IF YOU DON'T HAVE THIS! I OUR HORNY POLICE WILL COME FOR YOU! Now i need check this "things".
Additional info: people in steam page thinking what the sexual content exist in game.

 

[kostello]

THIS GAME IS A SLOW-PACED BUILDING/EXPLORING/NO SEXUAL CONTENT GAME

why is it here?

 

[whatevamofo]

There's some stuff you said in the middle, but the beginning answers the end, doesn't it?

He trying real hard to defend this game. That dude hella sus af.

 

[Badmenhy]

Shit game，This game is mirror2。Originally released on steam with no H-content, we call it the first Fairy jump game for young people

 

[stepstep77]

The company doesn't seem up and up, but all that aside, I cant really understand all the boohoo wah wahs about the lack of sexual content. There is very obviously a sexual theme here, its selling you on fanservice and eyecandy, meant to be enjoyed by adults. Not every adult game needs to have full on uncensored penetration with tits out. Be thankful the site allows risqué content like this to be catalogued, so people without money can try it out, make judgements, and not be ripped off when its not what they are wanting. It may not be what you are looking for, but it does have a place here (people ARE gonna fap to it ffs), so why demonize its inclusion?

one problem some of those programs may have viruses or other threats and I really don't know why will someone risk their pc for some random buggy mess that sometimes is called a game or most of the time being called early access that never gets finished that you can play for free [ genshing impact is free btw ] of the subject there are some exception here like some good looking pixel games but that is most of it that seems worth playing maybe even supporting on patron.

 

[reyonathrow]

Hi folks. I downloaded this game and played it for a couple of hours to try it out, not knowing anything about its development history or the devs themselves.

From the messages in this thread, it sounds like there's concern about a cryptominer. I see in the English Steam reviews that there is one post from a user named LevelUp that suggests the game is behaving "suspiciously," indicating that it was hogging resources for them even after they closed the game client. Other than this and a few folks making references to the trustworthiness of the developers (which I am wholly unfamiliar with; if someone would like to enlighten me, I would appreciate it), I can't find any more information on the proposed miner. I have checked the English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese Steam review pages.

Thus far, I haven't been able to replicate the resource use suggested by LevelUp using the Windows-based Resource Monitor or Activity Monitor. While running, the game client does send information over my network, but it looks like it never exceeds about 250 bytes per second, averaging at about 190. When closed, not only does it not send anything, I can fully move any of the files in the game directory without my OS telling me they're in use.

Am I missing something here? Any input is appreciated.

 

[Prince Vevit]

He trying real hard to defend this game. That dude hella sus af.

I'll Quote myself here, " Obviously, if its a crypto miner or data seller etc etc, don't download it ,demonize it, or call for it to be removed. Very valid. "

What im defending is the inclusion of 'No Sexual Content' games on f95, my dude.

 

[Prince Vevit]

one problem some of those programs may have viruses or other threats and I really don't know why will someone risk their pc for some random buggy mess that sometimes is called a game or most of the time being called early access that never gets finished that you can play for free [ genshing impact is free btw ] of the subject there are some exception here like some good looking pixel games but that is most of it that seems worth playing maybe even supporting on patron.

"Some of those programs may have viruses or other threats" - Yeah, and anyone with half a brain wont put their computer at risk. They will read comments and reviews before downloading, and if they do download it, they'll check the integrity of the files themselves before running the game. Any single person on this site is an Adult, and are able to make intelligent, informed decisions for themselves. Just like they are able to make the decision if a game is 'worth playing' or not. Taste is subjective.

Also, f95 exists, at least in my opinion, so that if a game like Novastella Island costs 14.99 on Steam, and does turn out to be a buggy, fishy, never finished game, you wouldnt have paid 14.99 for it because a benevolent uploader bit the bullet and bought it instead.

 

[KungFuKitteh2]

So they're just trying to ape the gameplay loop of AI Shoujo? With none of the things that made it good?

Also just an FYI, be extremely wary of this developer. They false advertise, promising 18+ content and then never delivering it. Flood steam with zero-effort paid DLCs. And their games will absolutely suck the chrome off of your processor in the name of that sweet sweet bitcoin.

Take anything they put out with a comically-large grain of salt.

 

[KungFuKitteh2]

I'll Quote myself here, " Obviously, if its a crypto miner or data seller etc etc, don't download it ,demonize it, or call for it to be removed. Very valid. "

What im defending is the inclusion of 'No Sexual Content' games on f95, my dude.

That's an argument as old as time at this point, no point in really engaging with them about it.

There's going to be people complaining about any game uploaded that doesn't have sexual content in it, it's inevitable. And if they haven't learned to exclude the tag in the filters by now, they never will.

I do see their point on some aspects, since there are occasionally games uploaded that don't have anything even remotely sexual in them. In that case I would agree that they shouldn't be here, but most of the time the games under the tag will at least have nudity.

At a certain point you have to ask where the line is, if any old game like that can get uploaded. F95 lauds itself as being focused on "Adult Games and Comics," but uploading games that are effectively 'T for Teen' kind of betrays that notion.

 

[cell943]

At a certain point you have to ask where the line is, if any old game like that can get uploaded. F95 lauds itself as being focused on "Adult Games and Comics," but uploading games that are effectively 'T for Teen' kind of betrays that notion.

The point of this site is making focused discussion and sharing of adult-oriented content possible. I think this entire discussion comes down to an immature understanding of what "adult" means. Adult does not refer specifically to porn or even nudity. For example, Faces of Death is 100% adult media. Even "T for teen" content (as you say) can qualify.

Obviously, uploading a copy of Barney would fall far, far outside the scope of this site (and Faces of Death is too far in the opposite direction I think), but the line is definitely murky.

That said, this is off topic discussion, which is against site rules (unlike no sexual content games), so best to drop it. If you would like to discuss site policy, you can do so in a general forum topic instead of cluttering up a game-specific thread.

Am I missing something here? Any input is appreciated.

It's worth noting that developers have control over their review pages on Steam and are capable of removing certain reviews (if they existed in the first place). So not seeing complaints doesn't mean absence of complaint.
Cryptominers, from my understanding, are more of a concern of over-utilizing your hardware than of broadcasting a lot of network traffic. Did you check system performance in addition to network performance? You should also use a packet analyzing tool like Wireshark to see what it's sending out, rather than how much it's sending.

 

[reyonathrow]

It's worth noting that developers have control over their review pages on Steam and are capable of removing certain reviews (if they existed in the first place). So not seeing complaints doesn't mean absence of complaint.
Cryptominers, from my understanding, are more of a concern of over-utilizing your hardware than of broadcasting a lot of network traffic. Did you check system performance in addition to network performance? You should also use a packet analyzing tool like Wireshark to see what it's sending out, rather than how much it's sending.

Thanks for the tips. Good stuff. I did not know Steam reviews could be deleted by developers. Yikes. I wonder if that's part of the reason why the Chinese page was so inundated by reviews that seemed to have been made all by the same person.

To address performance/resource use: While running, the game client seems to regularly consume between 6 to 9 percent of my CPU (an Intel i7), averaging at about 8 with give or take 200 threads. It also commits about 2.67 GB to memory (out of a total of 128). I have thus far not seen any activity from the client after I close it.

Using Wireshark and Windows Network Monitor in conjunction, the only traffic I was able to catch that I wasn't expecting were packets going to various advertisement collection servers. I actually went through and used geolocation services on each IPv4 and IPv6 I found in my captures; all of them were associated with and publicly owned by known organizations, like Microsoft, Amazon, Valve, and so on. The only one that wasn't immediately associated with some large corporation was 239.255.255.250, but from what I understand, this is a multicast address associated with UPnP and is also considered "normal." The data in the packets all mentioned UPnP directly, and only contained host device and network information.

With all that said, it is entirely possible I am simply not using the software correctly. I wasn't able to figure out how to single out just the game client in Wireshark or WNM, for example, and was just taking broad captures over the entire network adapter. WNM is supposed to separate out network activity by application, but the only one it was able to successfully identify was Steam; everything else was classified as "Unknown."

Edit: Added reference specifications to performance section.

 

[yuri123]

It's a Chinese adult game without adult content.

 

[Kranith22]

Looks interessing

 

[reyonathrow]

It dawned upon me a tad late that I was using "Microsoft Network Monitor," not "Windows Network Monitor" in my previous post. Sorry for the confusion.

I tried using Fiddler to see if I could single out the game's network activity, but no dice. Fiddler doesn't see the game client at all.

I tried adding a rule in my Firewall settings to block network activity for the game client, CodeWorld-Win64-Shipping.exe, then ran the game again. While it is substantially less than before, according to the Resource Monitor, it is still sending information. I noticed that the game transmits to 255.255.255.255 at all times. Concurrently, it also sends a smaller amount of data to both my direct IPv4 and the IPv4 assigned by my most recent VPN connection, even when I am not connected to said server.

Using netstat -b, I only found one port use whose ownership information was hidden or otherwise unreadable (and none of the others matched the game client). The "foreign address" field for this connection was lga25s71-in-f5:https. I set a filter in Wireshark to monitor that port for 30 minutes. It never caught a single packet going through said port.

I then went to the Resource Monitor and created Wireshark filters for all of the IP addresses associated with the game client in this window. All but one returned no hits.

The one that did return something was the IPv4 for my own computer. At the time I'm writing this comment, Wireshark has captured just over 15,000 packets in the current capture, and out of all of them, 6 matched the address in question. All six were utilizing the BROWSER protocol. Half of them were labeled "Local Master Announcement BRCM-LVG" while the other half were labeled "Domain/Workgroup Announcement WORKGROUP." Hits with the same WORKGROUP label (all 251 bytes) differed between each other by two hex values, while those with the BRCM-LVG label (all 255 bytes) differed by one.

 

[Threel]

So TL;DR this is a crypto miner without tits?

 

[Semondemon]

Don't complain how about I complain about you telling me what to do!