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You can now wishlist The Symbiant: After Stories! + business decisions

Added 2023-07-18 12:00:06 +0000 UTC

(repost from kickstarter, somehow we didn't post it here)

Greetings Terrans!

As the title says, the Steam page for The Symbiant: After Stories is officially LIVE! (As Coming Soon)

Even if you may have pre-ordered it already through itchio or Kickstarter, if you have a Steam account, please add it to your wishlist! We'd really appreciate the gesture as it greatly helps with visibility!

The first After Story will transport you to the planet of Cayama, where in the main game Brahve finds Danya in the space port and confesses his love to him. What happened to the Odarian in the last two years and why is he so set on getting Danya back after breaking up with him? And where in the world is the Symbiant?

In the second After Story with our love birds you visit Odaria, Brahve’s homeworld where the team meets his cousin. This story takes place after the happiest ending in the main game. You’ll get a chance to explore the luxurious hot spring resort, as well as the surrounding forest nearby and experience some exquisite one-on-one times with Brahve.

Exotic forests, board games with friends, and torrid intimate moments between the two men await in this fun-packed adventure on a new alien planet!

GAME FEATURES

First After Story: 17.5K words
Second After Story: 18K words
Approx 3 hours of play
20+ CGs (not counting variations)
Full English voice over
Dialogue Choices
Original soundtrack

Steam page here >

New planned release date

After much debating, we decided that The Symbiant: After Stories will be a separate game and not a DLC for a few reasons:

The After Stories became several times longer than we originally planned and although it's still shorter than the main game, its length is still relatively close.
We invested as much funds for the After Stories as we did for the main game, partially because we wanted to better compensate our contractors (our character and background artists, our voice acting crew, translators, etc...) on top of the project being a bit bigger than planned
In order to recoup this cost, we need its release at a later date to make as big an impact as possible with extended time for promotion

If you backed the "Precious Cargo" ($65/75 CAD) tier and up through Kickstarter or itchio, you will still receive a key for the After Stories as originally planned!

Due to the aforementioned reasons, we're pushing back the release date for The Symbiant: After Stories to February 2024 at the soonest, which we hope will give us enough time to both iron everything out as well as get the hype up.