Two years of PTK... (and v0.9 Patreon Release)!

We can't believe this milestone has come so quickly, but it has been two whole years since our first PTK release! This year of PTK passed by so quickly for us, but you have all made it so rewarding and given us so much of your love, energy, and support as we worked to crank out some of the most content-heavy updates to-date. In terms of numbers, we're nearing 100k lifetime downloads with more than 500k total views on our Itch.io page alone - outpacing last year's growth by an amazing margin.

As part of our anniversary celebration, we have a few announcements (and follow-up announcements) that we'd like to make!

First, our amazing sound design lead, Rene, has added all the new tracks from the updates this past year to the official OST on Bandcamp! If you already paid for the album or used a Patreon-specific code, you shouldn't need to take any extra steps - the album should update with the new tracks automatically for you to download. For those of you who are new patrons (or maybe didn't know about the OST), please check out this Patreon post for more information.

Second, as part of this Hunter update, our wonderful team of artists have revisited some of the CGs and art pieces in earlier days of the VN and given them some sprucing up! The composition of the pieces is largely the same, but as our cast developed with us through the year, their designs have seen some small changes, too (and the revamped pieces reflect them!). Make sure to play through the prior days to see these updated CG pieces.

Third, we'd like to make a follow-up post about merch! Last year, for our first anniversary, we mentioned that we were looking into creating some merch for the visual novel; we've been working this year to set up some operations for merch creation, but have run into tax & production challenges given that our team works largely from the United States (a whole different issue...) - we do want to reassure everyone that we're working on getting merch going, and already have mock-up designs for some of the things we'd like to bring to our supporters! More to come on this, so stay tuned.

Lastly, but importantly, we're happy to share that Hunter Day 4 (PTK v0.9) is now available here on Patreon for our $5+ members and on our Discord server for Legacy Supporters! We are so appreciative of your patience as our team worked on this update while battling the holiday chaos. As a reminder, we took some time to return to Hunter Day 3 and add a few bits of text throughout, so be sure to play from Day 3 for the full experience. As previously announced, we plan to publicly release this update in one week (January 24th - but it may come a day early, as we usually release updates on a Friday). 

As always, following this release, we'll be releasing a post-update Patreon AMA in a few days and will be running a poll on this page to decide our next route for the following PTK update. We're super excited for you all to play this update!

Happy reading!