Stepmother's Maid

Thank you for replying to my comment. I've finished the story now, and have a few more insights...

It did get better as it went along. And though I still would much rather have seen that torture and abuse happen to a male than to a female, I do kind of understand now why, plot-wise, the protagonist had to be female, what with the marriage layer and everything. But I still have a couple major problems. In no particular order...

Too kinetic. If there's no choices, there's no game. I liked the story, but with no choices, it's not playing a game, it's just looking at a picture book. Even if two options of a choice circle around and lead back to the same path, that still would have been better than no choices at all.

And it ended too abruptly! I was looking forward to seeing Marie seduce Edmond and torture Cindy some more in the context of their engagement and marriage, but no such luck. It just ends. The series finale of The Sopranos gave better closure than this!

Anyway, you got a lot of good stuff here, but a whole lot of room for improvement too. I wish you good luck with what you create  in the future. I know you have it in you.

in June, I'll be releasing 3 full comics. 2 of which are more hardcore than SM's maid. 1 about the same. They'll all be available for sale on multiple platforms (likely including itch.io)

Alice-sama is generally less hardcore

I actually disagree, for the main reason that trying to include a fetish as much as possible (and in this case hardcore is a fetish) distracts from story-based content, and G7K is entirely story-based. Maid and Alice don't have that issue, as they are fetish-based.

Now, there's nothing wrong with lashes being in G7K. But trying to justify a story reason for something like Maid's bathroom scene in G7K would be a challenge.

If I can be honest, the #1 factor in how much a work sells is publicity. The #2 factor is the amount of content. And #3 is quality. All 3 are important, however:

- No one wants to pay for only a few hours of content.

- No one will buy sonething they don't know exists.

- Incomplete and buggy games deter people.

- Very few people want to pay per update.

- Money IS positive feedback.

So if you're relying on patreon for funds, make sure the game is publicized outside of patreon, make sure each update is mostly free of bugs, and make sure content releases have a good amount of content while you give tiny extra pieces to patrons.

You have all of these down except for G7K itself having an itch page. G7K takes at least a day to read, so content volume is already solved and it's not even 10% done yet. That means once it's finished "full game only" buyers will 100% buy the game, especially if that version is also put on steam.

That said, although money IS positive feedback, you'll get far more comments on itch than patreon. So just make sure public demo versions are updated on itch if you want a lot of verbal feedback.

And a few months definitely isn't long enough to tell whether a game is going to sell or not. Especially with h games, they're a niche, and niches sell well but take a while to get noticed first. Once your games are noticed by more users, you'll make bank.

That said, your current plan to make a short game like Alice, if it has enough content to last longer than a few hours, is definitely the right option right now financially. It will get you quick bank while also bringing more attention to you and your games.