Hello friends. This is Tanya and Emily from Best Laid Plans Productions, Inc. We wanted to thank you for the support and concern you’ve shown after we revealed the harassment campaign that we have experienced for the last few months. 

We thank you for helping us realize that we are not alone during this difficult time. We cherish your support as we take whatever measures we can to ensure our safety.

We also want to thank Save the Villainess’ current and past players and testers. We alpha-tested in March 2023 with 15 players, then ran a public beta-test in January 2024 with 245 players. You can see a summary of our beta-test results below.

86% of our 245 beta-testers reported enjoying our beta, while 66.9% reported high or very high enjoyment. Overall, we received a great deal of feedback from beta testers that we compiled into over 40 pages of actionable notes.

Our goal has been to incorporate this feedback from our alpha- and beta-testers while staying true to our vision of Save the Villainess as an animated dark-comedy romantic mystery game with many lurking surprises. 

We spent several months revising our demo - a process documented in our Steam and Itch.io devlogs. We edited our writing, added the self-voicing option to the animated dialogue segments, made it possible to skip animations with more clicks/landing-points and to skip most tutorials, revised character expressions, and optimized animated backgrounds to allow the fastest loading time available.

As a small indie game team of two, we have done our best to incorporate actionable feedback from our 260 testers while staying true to our vision of Save the Villainess as a dark-comedy romantic mystery with a rich fantasy lore and supernatural elements.

We thank you for your understanding and support. We will continue with our Kickstarter and our development process. Ultimately, we hope to make Save the Villainess the best animated dark-comedy-romantic-murder-mystery that it can be.

Thank you again for your support. We love and appreciate you so much.

Sincerely, Tanya & Emily, Best Laid Plans Productions, Inc.