Hello hello everyone! It's been two weeks since The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not released, and I'm quite glad with how well the release went! As of this post Forget Me Not has hit 50 purchases on Steam, and the Demo's been downloaded across both sites over 90 times! For my very first paid release these numbers are very solid, and I have a good feeling that between future sales and any other moments I can promo the game these will continue to go up. Forget Me Not has also received 4 reviews so far on Steam, which I greatly appreciate! As a reminder, once we hit 10 reviews Steam will give it an official rating and boost its publicity to more people, so if you played the game and really liked it, be sure to drop even a quick sentence or two to help share it to more people! On that note, I do want to talk about my plans for Forget Me Not from here on out. There will be some small updates in the near-ish future for any bugs or writing-related issues that have been brought to my attention (I really appreciate that by the way, so don't be shy about pointing that out!). As well, I do plan on eventually adding proper controller support! This game was made with a mouse and keyboard in mind, but now that easier methods of incorporating controller support exist for Ren'Py, I'll slowly work through adding that. I'm hopeful that I can get that working by the end of the year, but I'll keep you all posted! For those of you who somehow played this on a Steam Deck, first off how, and second I hope you decide to give this game a quick try again once that's added to see the difference! And lastly, to touch on something a few reviews have mentioned. Due to the wish for more romance, I'm actually cooking up an epilogue for the game! (Yes the Finale is not an epilogue it's a fifth chapter). I already have an outline made, so once I have time I'll get right to work on adding it in. It'll be a free update, so no need to worry about having to buy extra DLC just to see Desire and Irina spend more time together. That's everything I wanted to touch on though, so I'll see you all later. Thanks once again for checking out my funky little game about phantom thieves. See ya!

[ 2025-03-06 02:01:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

After almost 5 years of development, my newest game The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not is is now finally fully available!
The Mysterious Thief Forget Me not is a girl's love visual novel that takes place in the fictional city of Twinbells, England; the city that loves phantom thieves. Explore the city with point-and-click mechanics through the perspectives of the four main characters - Desire LeChance, the titular phantom thief, the visiting ballerina Irina Lebedev, the city's most infamous thief "Crow", and the detective in charge of the Forget Me Not case Aiden O'Malley. This game features:

• ~80k words (roughly 4 hours long)
• The first chapter as a free demo (~16k words, roughly 1h long)
• Point-and-click style exploration mechanics
• Over 20 CGs and cut-ins
• Four chapters, centering around each main character
• Two ladies who slowly fall in love

Along with the full game, I'm also releasing an artbook full of concept art and developer dialogue about everything that went into making this game! You can get it individually or in a bundle with the full game! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3334380/The_Mysterious_Thief_Forget_Me_Not_Artbook/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/49414/
Thank you to everyone who's wishlisted the game and tried out the demo before release! It's been a wild few years, but I hope you all enjoy experiencing the story of my loveable phantom thief. Take care! solarProtag

[ 2025-02-20 04:06:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for 100+ wishlists and 40+ downloads of the demo!!! It means so much to see the love that Forget Me Not has gotten so far! Because of the progress I've made on these last few things I wanted to finish up before release, I can confidently say that The Mysterious Thief; Forget Me Not will release in

February 2025!

There's no definitive date yet, but I'm super excited that I can release it sooner than my estimate of May. I hope everyone's excited as well, and thank you all for the love and attention the demo has gotten so far! As I mentioned before, the full-game previews will stop now that we're about a month before release, so if you haven't seen them be sure to check them out on my bluesky! As well, you'll notice the artwork for this announcement! Along with the full game I'll be releasing an artbook DLC at the same time! The artwork for this announcement is a crop of the cover art, and you can see a preview of what one of the spreads looks like in its DLC page here on Steam! That's all for me for now, so I'll see you all later!

[ 2025-01-21 18:41:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! To celebrate the demo of The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not being finally released, I started a special campaign to build hype for the full game! As it says in the image above, for every landmark hit I'll share one preview from the full game over on my Bluesky! I've already posted a couple so far, so if you like what you see then help spread the word! This campaign will last until one month before release, and I'll be sure to let you all know when that is. For now though, I'll see you all later. Bye!

[ 2024-12-14 17:42:44 CET ] [ Original post ]