True Lover's Knot News

Hey Everyone,

There is no easy way to say this so we’ll just come out with it. We’re retiring “True Lover’s Knot” and taking it off steam. It’s received too many negative reviews and we feel that it truly does hurt our portfolio by having it around. We know that we said that we would attempt a re-write last year but we found that it was simply not economically feasible (it would involve very nearly making a new game and many of those that had bought and played True Lover’s Knot would have never even known about this). We would like to extend an apology to those of you that were either looking forward to the re-write or simply found the game disappointing. True Lover’s Knot was only our third title (and 2nd Visual Novel) and we were not yet so adept in the craft of making VN’s so we do understand why the reviews were so negative.

Anyway as a final hurrah we’ve decided to put a 66% discount on the game for this week. After that we will begin the process of retiring True Lover’s Knot!

Thank you so much for your support with everything!

The Sapphire Dragon Productions Team

Hey Everyone,

There is no easy way to say this so we’ll just come out with it. We’re retiring “True Lover’s Knot” and taking it off steam. It’s received too many negative reviews and we feel that it truly does hurt our portfolio by having it around. We know that we said that we would attempt a re-write last year but we found that it was simply not economically feasible (it would involve very nearly making a new game and many of those that had bought and played True Lover’s Knot would have never even known about this). We would like to extend an apology to those of you that were either looking forward to the re-write or simply found the game disappointing. True Lover’s Knot was only our third title (and 2nd Visual Novel) and we were not yet so adept in the craft of making VN’s so we do understand why the reviews were so negative.

Anyway as a final hurrah we’ve decided to put a 66% discount on the game for this week. After that we will begin the process of retiring True Lover’s Knot!

Thank you so much for your support with everything!

The Sapphire Dragon Productions Team

Hi Everyone,

We’ve made a few modifications to ease gameplay in “True Lover’s Knot”:

- Achievements added

- Video cut scenes now skippable

- Slight UI interface update

- Story consistency updates

Thanks so much for your patience and we hope you enjoy the improvements.

Hi Everyone,

We’ve made a few modifications to ease gameplay in “True Lover’s Knot”:

- Achievements added

- Video cut scenes now skippable

- Slight UI interface update

- Story consistency updates

Thanks so much for your patience and we hope you enjoy the improvements.

Hi all, after reading the reviews we’ve come to a few conclusions about the feedback for the game and wanted to share some exciting news for you:

We think a lot of people were mislead by our term “semi-kinetic”. We really meant it in the sense that your conversation choices do have different effects but essentially you would walk through the same story. In hindsight we should have just called it a “kinetic novel” and we apologise for any confusion. We have changed the description in the blurb to make it all clearer.

With this in mind, we have decided to make a dating sim version of the game! It will appear as an additional branch option after you start the game. The story will vary quite a bit from the original one in the kinetic version, but we think players will enjoy the new and more interactive version of it. Also the "match 3 element” might be taken out as players will have already had their fill of it in the kinetic novel version. Expected release will be in Spring 2016.

So for now please do just enjoy the game as the kinetic novel with a casual “match 3” game, to keep the story together, and for those of you who were wanting a more dating sim style game, the new version will be out soon!

Keep being awesome!

The Sapphire Dragon Production Team