Important


First, I'm sorry that I missed the promised deadline for an update, things happened and I had to take a step back to get my private life in order.

The game is being worked on, of course, and an update was planned for the near future.

Emphasis on "was".

Some of you might have heard about it, something very bad is happening on Itch right now: https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

To make it short, all games categorised as NSFW have been shadow-banned and taken off the search.

Mending Yesterday is a NSFW game due to its themes and what's in the making, this means my game's impressions and CTR have dropped to pretty much zero.

Most of my players have come from the NSFW/horror category, the game being shadow-banned has therefore eliminated 90% of my potential playerbase.

This is outrageous considering that my game is free, what payment providers and hate-groups want should have no effect on me but it sadly has.

Itch claims to reinstate games, to some degree, after their review is over - I no longer trust Itch.

I won't be updating the game at this point because it would make no sense, the update would be hidden from every single potential player and my work of months go down the drain.

Right now I'm really not sure what to do but I'm contemplating to pull the game completely and change to a site that doesn't screw over their creators in favour of puritan hate-groups trying to dictate what adults can and can't engage with.

I will make an update once I decided, I'm sorry to everyone who hoped for a new version soon.

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It's not your fault that payment processors are enforcing censorship

If you do end up removing your work please do reupload it for access again if possible - I say this out of selfishness because it breaks my heart when IF games become lost media 🥹

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Thank you, and I would upload it on another site, the options are just very limited.

I have to think it through some more but I tend towards censoring the Itch version to make it available again and offer the full version on a site that allows adult content, for those who want the grittier parts.
This would add a lot of work and complications yet seems to be the only way to keep it on here and not lose basically all of my players.

Of course, the full version would be free as well, just hosted on a different platform.