Chapter two of The Thistle and the Flower has been released

Hi everyone,

Just making a quick post to let you all know that I've released a second chapter of my spicy BL visual novel, The Thistle and the Flower!

I actually wrote three chapters of this story (I might have mentioned that in my author's notes of the base game), but I only adapted the first chapter into a VN. I was doubtful it would sell well, and I wasn't sure if I could justify spending more time and money on an unpopular story while working on so many other things... (glances into the horizon)

Well, I was right, and The Thistle and the Flower sold very poorly. It probably won't recoup its initial production costs, which is often the way of indie VN dev, but!!! I enjoyed working on it, and I really liked the second chapter, and I wanted to turn it into a real VN anyway...

And so I did haha, surprise. Maybe you can see this as an early Christmas present?

I had initially planned to release the second chapter for free, but in the last couple of months Steam put out a statement saying devs of r18 games are not allowed to update their games to include more adult content which hasn't been through a proper content review: devs need to submit any additional r18 scenes as DLC so they can be checked to determine if they are 'appropriate' for Steam.

Because of this, I had to release the second chapter of this VN as DLC so it could be reviewed but even then Valve only reviewed the store page of the DLC, not the actual build, so I'm a bit ??? about this policy which meant setting up the second chapter was more of a pain than anticipated.

Since I had to release chapter two as DLC, I figured I mght as well charge for it, since it's around the same length as the first chapter and it has quite a few CGs. I'm sorry if this is disappointing, but dealing with Steamworks and setting up DLC is such a time-consuming process I felt like I owed it to myself to put a price tag on this hahaha......

I don't really expect this to have a lot of readers, but I think the second chapter of this story turned out very cute and I'm happy with it. I hope the handful of Yuel/Tavi likers out there will appreciate it as well!

Thank you for all of your support over the years, it's appreciated! I'm gonig to release chapter three as DLC at some point in the future too, so I hope you will all look forward to it!

You can find the DLC here:
View game page - ebi x