I don't understand this game. I don't remember seeing it before, supposedly it is part two of a three story series, what was part one? Anyway, I looked at the preview pics and thought they looked good. The ratings were good so I read some of the comments in the discussion thread. There was all this talk about dark secrets. I checked out the Patreon page and saw that the game was only making about $150/month. Usually good reviews and no money mean rape/sexual abuse in the story or in a back story. I hate that as those familiar with my rants can attest. I don't know why but I decided to give it a try. Much to my delight, no such content. So what I can't understand is why this game makes so little money. Usually I can answer that question but here I am at a loss. The game is good, it seems to have had a decent number of updates during the time that it has been out. Is there something about the history of this game that I don't know? From what I can tell, there are only two minor points that might keep some people from pledging. Still, it should have at least 175 patrons at this point. I pledged as soon as I finished.
His player base will grow but it's going to be a steady rise.
Seen it before with devs that do the same thing, story based games are slower to build up as they take longer to spread around.
Due to how many games get abandoned, investing in something heavily story based is a risk because you run the chance of it being dropped and will never see the end of that tale.
It's happened to me on more than one occasion.
Devs that work on story games build up as they complete work. Once people see their games get finished more people are willing to risk backing financially.
Assuming the devs learn the lessons of the past and don't repeat the same mistakes. A dev that made games I loved based around lesbians only wanted that one big game that was going to net him pure bank. He was growing steadily as games got finished but he hadn't got that one big moment so he started abandoning games after 2 updates if people didn't back his patreon and this happened a few times with his main and a couple of alt accounts to the point where he lost the player base he'd built up and was laughed off the site.
The balls in the devs court here.
So far it's been fantastic now he just needs to hit the next 2 updates and stick the landing on a great ending which should lead him nicely into the next game of the series.
Also helps if people shill for devs like this. Those that don't cover fetishes don't get spoken of as much so those sigs really help or a mention in games list etc...
I have it mentioned in my sig but i'm in a bit of a tight spot when it comes to sig stuff as Notty of Heavy Five is a friend so I can't take hers off, other devs I enjoy have to settle for links. I post enough that they should get some notice anyway.