Poll: The Future of Happily Ever After. (Patreon)

Hello, everyone.

I have received quite a bit of feedback from many of you regarding the game Happily Ever After and its premise. For the most part, people like the game. However, I have also noticed that many seek out and enjoy these types of games for their story and character background, something that HEA lacks a bit.

As you know, HEA currently features a gameplay method based on maps and free player movement, in order to include secondary and/or optional events.

With this setup, it is difficult to focus on a unique story with greater context, because for a lone developer (like me) it is quite a lot of work to write dialogues, program events and “sandbox” logic, create characters, CG, and animations to present in each version. Remember that HEA releases a new version every month.

With all that said, I now ask you and give you the power to decide the future of HEA. There are two options:

- Sandbox: Keep the game as it is currently, with side events and free movement. As usual, there will be more focus on events (basically porn) than on the story and character background.

- Visual Novel: Change the gameplay to a conventional visual novel. This would remove the entire map and free movement, but the characters and their general story would remain. There would also be some tweaks to the story already presented to avoid “going too fast,” and the side events would be tied into the main plot.

The poll will be open until January 18, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. (GMT-3).

The decision made will be implemented starting with version 0.6.

Important: If the “Visual Novel” option wins, version 0.6 will likely take a little longer than usual, given that there are quite a few changes to be made.

EDITS

2026-01-12: Poll completed. Results will be published in Dev. Log #04.

2026-01-12: The deadline has been changed from January 18, 2026, to January 14, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. (GMT-3).