Gameplay Update Now Live: All Romances, Replay Improvements, and More

Hello everyone!

Thank you for all the thoughtful feedback since release. I have been reading what players enjoyed, what felt repetitive, and where the game did not explain things clearly enough. This update adds many improvements based directly on that feedback.

💕 Experimental All Romances Option

When starting a NEW GAME, you can choose the experimental All Romances option and pursue all four existing romantic routes in the same playthrough. Standard remains the default, and existing saves remain Standard.

Each character keeps their existing individual story, progression, and gifts. This is not a newly written group romance or group ending, and some dialogue can still imply that a relationship is exclusive. At the finale, you choose one companion, with a pre-finale checkpoint allowing you to return afterward and explore another ending.

☕ Less Repetition for Returning Players

After completing a qualifying romance ending or saving the café, optional replay conveniences become available. If you have already played the opening, you can start a new playthrough after it, with the characters' personal introductions still ahead. Café chapters you have actually seen can use short summaries, previously completed café targets can be waived, and basic supplies can restock automatically.

You still progress through each character's personal story and make your own choices.

✨ More Feedback-Based Improvements

• Clearer progression guidance: The Journal explains how to give route gifts and can take you straight to an owned gift in your Inventory. Waiting instructions and hints for missing Collection entries are clearer too.

• Smoother scheduling: Conflicting events are handled more carefully, including a fix preventing optional Ash overnights from repeatedly delaying required friendship milestones.

• Gallery and Memory fixes: Tracking and targeted recovery were improved for affected Ellis, Noelle, and Jamie entries. Controls can also be hidden while viewing artwork, then restored whenever needed.

• More follow-through: Several existing romantic scenes now have short closing dialogue so they do not end as abruptly.

• Better café rewards: Later café shifts now provide modestly higher tips to help with gifts and outings.

• Languages and compatibility: The revised text is included across the existing 23 languages, together with targeted compatibility work for affected saves.

Thank you again for taking the time to explain what was getting in the way of enjoying the game. Once this build has finished testing and is released, please try the changes and let me know what works well or still needs improvement!