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Women of Xal - %15 off

It’s time for some gay alien politics. 

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Seen this CG yet? No? You should! That’s right, year two of the game being out means it’s time for our second Steam Summer Sale, let’s gooooooo! 

Guide Xjena up the political ladder to the coveted position of Matriarch. Or guide her into a knife repeatedly! That’s fine too! In an alien society where lying is impossible, make sure you utilize your powers to rewind time as you choose the best path forward.

A visual novel with many significant choices and four major endings: two bad, one neutral, and one good. Plus a bunch of ways to accidentally end things early.

12 character arcs with options for romance and/or friend routes! 7 women and 8 men. 

Aro/Ace and Poly runs! One player in our Discord mapped out the maximum number of dates they could go on in one run. 10/10 speed dating strats.  (How do you get the Discord link? Well, that happens to be in game.

Plus!!

Many, many bugs have been either squashed or gently relocated outside since launch. Some still haunt us, but we’re working on it.

Steam Achievements very soon??? We figured out how, we just gotta... do it. lol

Want to get to the gay faster? You’re in luck! We’ve added a whole new mode to the game: Steamer Mode. If you want to skip the exposition at the start and get right to the interesting stuff, this mode offers you a streamlined early game - at the cost of missing a few clues along the way, of course. 

Curious what our team has been up to since Women of Xal’s release? Well.... mostly recovering from moving, if I’m honest. We’ve keeping our heads down and working at our boring day jobs while tossing around ideas for future games and stories in the background. We plan to have the script for Women of Xal’s sequel completely written before launching the Kickstarter, but we’re also looking at things like art books, novels, a 15 minute horror game, Patreon.... maybe even a silly little mobile game for collecting ploofs. Or snakes. One of our founders really likes danger noodles. 

Until then we’ll just wait.

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(I had a big work meeting today and I’m loopy lmao ~Shald)  

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Mx Hilde had a lecture on human organs.

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It’s Alright Eros!

A dating sim where you can match with cute characters that think you’re a fictional alien from a fantasy world called “Earth”! They’re also aware you think they’re fictional! Wholesome shenanigans ensue!

We here at PlotTwist Studios are proud to introduce the upcoming launch of our new dating app “Alright Eros”!  Coming sooner than Women of Xal did to a store near you, is a service that will let you do more than the cover may suggest!

Gameplay Features:

Features the same artist and writers from Women of Xal

Geared towards Android devices and Steam

We’re aiming for at least a dozen characters at launch.

Swipe on the characters you want to interact with!

The affection system only determines the kind of unlocks you get!

No dramatic interactions! Unlike Women of Xal.

As you bond with characters, CGs and animations unlock!

Great comfort food for those who cried playing Women of Xal!

We will not charge you to see who liked you.

We may have an axe to grind with OKcupid.

Story Overview:

Imani, Nix, and Jul are very, very jaded, lost, and tired from the past six years. The most recent two have proven to an excellent study in mortal stupidity. So, each of them allowed themselves a bit of cautious optimism and installed an app called “Alright Eros”, an app that promised them the ability to match with cute fictional aliens housed on a fictional planet called “Earth”. They heard about its crowdfunding campaign that took place June 2022, and decided a harmless game with cute people doing cute things would make for a nice, peaceful distraction from the nonsense that continues to take place on their planets. 

What to Expect:

Events on Discord and Patreon to RP with these characters!

A crowdfunding campaign to determine characters at launch

And animations, and CGs, and support post-release

An opt-in/out of the NSFW features

The writer and composer from “Women of Xal” only got madder...

Fans will prove to be clutch in the overarching narrative~

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Women of Xal: The Official Artbook

The artbook to visual novel Women of Xal.More information will be available soon!

And who doesn’t like a good preorder for official artbooks?! If you’ve played Women of Xal (Steam link!) you have no doubt seem some very gorgeous art from the talented ladies that drew them! Now you can preorder the artbook for $10! Though if you rather wait until more details and previews are out before you do any such thing, don’t you worry!

We’ll be making a fresh new post when we have a visual update.  ಠ_ಠ

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PlotTwist Studios

Oh the Places We'll Go

PlotTwist Studios’ official website is now up! The pre-music purchase page is a little bare, as is the content we’ve released under our company name (for obvious reasons), but you can learn one or two new things about the company that you couldn’t before! There’s also an investor page, but we definitely won’t push that until we have a new video specifically for them!

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On Borrowed Time

Hi! If you’re new here, welcome to my blog! I’m John! I’m the founder of fledgling entertainment company “PlotTwist Studios”. Most of you, if you do know of us, will know us from our one title “Women of Xal”. It’s out on Steam and itch.io for Early Access, but desperately marching to full release later this month (October 2021). I brought you all here today to bring you my positive[!] financial update, along with the looming ominous money clouds ahead.

Women of Xal. You’ve all heard about it: Overwhelming visual novel with too many branching paths to get half the picture, over 100 CGs, animated cutscenes, voice acting, Kickstarter some folks thought was a scam back in the day, ect. Well that all came at a cost. And for once, I’m not talking [just] mental health!

$50k+, revenue sharing, and an incredible amount of original music from yours truly.

They called me a madman. They’re probably right, but don’t focus on that! The present problem is that Women of Xal might not make its money back in any reasonable amount of time. So we’re looking into small project ideas that might, gasp, bring in more of a male audience. Because apparently WoX drew in every demographic EXCEPT men. I know there’s a few guys who are fans of WoX, but let me tell ya, not enough! So my question to you all is:

Is it time to look into the more lewd mini-titles?

I’m not as much of a stickler about said market like I was back in 2016. However, there are two problems I currently face: looking at Google images for anime ladies to figure out what a lot of guys are into... ticks me off. Earnestly ticks me off. (I speak chiefly of anime search results, so opinion may vary) Yet I know if I just do my own brand of sexuality, it’d just be Xuna being a dork for 10 hours. Again, I would LOVE to explore that genre of visual novel[?] and see if I can add the same sense of uniqueness that Women of Xal has offered players. I love breathing fresh air in avenues stressfully suffocating with sameness. And if I bring my A-game to the characters, I might actually recover that money before retirement.

The second problem, is, of course, that the game might succeed as a story, but FAIL HORRIBLY as a smut game. You know, just John things. :| Anyways, the obvious answer is to have another guy write for guys, but that scares me as much as handing future Women of Xal stories to another dude. I’ve seen how too many guys write and, well... it ticks me off. Earnestly ticks me off. lol

Anyways, this is just early morning ramblings of a man trying to recover his money. Thanks for listening to my XALtalks. I just want my 50k back, man.

But what do you think? Am I overthinking NSFW/R-18 games? Do I just do my thing and assume the target audience will arrive and adore it?

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We’re not ready to show you all our official website QUITE yet, but I’m super excited to give ya’ll a teaser of what we’ve been working on since Women of Xal is wrapping up and we actually have things to show on the site.