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About Our Upcoming Development Schedule (And the Steam Winter Sale!)

Hello everyone,
Are you enjoying Chapter 4 of the Misha route?
Now that the Chapter 4 update and bug fixes have settled down, we would like to share with you our upcoming schedule for the final chapter of this route!
Please take a look at the following message from Daraneko.

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■ Future Updates
At the end of last month, we released Chapter 4, and then we released a few updates to patch and polish it up.
And now, the dust has finally settled, so I think I'll stop fiddling with Chapter 4 for now and move on to make the next chapter.
Unless some horrible game-breaking bug appears, there won't be any updates for a while.
I'll leave the small bugs and tweaks to after the final chapter is released.

The next chapter will be the final chapter, and thus the ending, of this route. (Chapter 3 of the Kohaku route will come after)
It's a chapter focused on the final battle, so it won't have a dungeon section.
Get ready to go toe-to-toe with the biggest baddest final boss!

As for the update schedule, ideally it would be something like this...
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I'll work super duper hard in January and February and release it on Valentine's Day along with a Valentine's illustration of Misha!!
And then I'll fix some bugs, and then by March I'll curl up in bed and cackle evilly as I play Unicorn Overlord aaall day...
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Alas, reality is a cruel mistress.

My day job wants me to leave home for around a month or so. At the moment, I can't tell how much this will effect the development schedule.
I'll try my best to keep working on the game even while I'm staying away from home, but... it might take until the end of March or so.
But February and March are those months where gamedevs suddenly drop surprise reveals and then there's popular game series coming out too, which will bury my little game under all the other game news, so I don't wannaaaa! I don't wanna release at the end of March!! Noooooo!!

Anyway, it's really hard to tell when I can release the game until some time has passed and I fully know what my situation will be like.
So... probably sometime in the spring...? That's all I can say for now.
I'll keep writing status updates every month though, so if anything comes up, I'll let you know.

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And that's all for the message from Daraneko.
By the way, The Use of Life is participating in the Steam Winter Sale! Why not try out the game before the upcoming chapter update?

What's more, we've also updated the demo version of the game! You can carry over your save data from the demo to the full version, so feel free to try it out if you're stil on the fence, and then grab it while it's at a lower price to see the Misha route story to its end sometime next spring!

Check out the full Winter Sale lineup at our publisher page:
https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Playism


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1483370/_/

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