Sifting Thyme

You should not need to! Your Google Play account should have record that you already purchased it

Hi there! We're currently running a Kickstarter campaign and partial voice acting is one of the stretch goals! Hopefully we can raise enough funding to afford voice acting as our tiny team of three women would love to be able to make that happen if we had the funds to do so 🙏

Hello! The game was brought to life with Kickstarter funding from many backers for mobile game development. Because of that,  a PC build does not exist as it would require making the game from scratch for PC - a bit difficult for our team at this time as we're a small team of three women and we're working on another project at the moment 💦

We hope we'll be able to raise enough money someday through ko-fi / other channels to cover the cost of porting to PC 🙏

Hi there! We're a small indie team of 3 women making our games full-time. This is a paid game as we'd like to be able to have the chance to make more games - and maybe eventually pay ourselves minimum wage 😅 

Purchasing it in the app store for the one time cost actually unlocks ALL content for the game so it's much cheaper than Nintendo Switch otome games! We appreciate your understanding in this as we hope that we're able to afford making more game titles for players.

Hi there! Google unfortunately requires the game to be updated to match current android OS so we're in the process of reconverting the game. However, we don't have a date for that yet since we're a small team of just three women and we're currently working on "Untold Atlas" which will be released on Steam in July. And are in middle of a Kickstarter fundraising campaign for "Sweetcore Brews" - our newest title that is slated to release in November if the campaign is successful. Unfortunately, our hands are a bit tied right now with the two active projects as the Google requirement was a surprise to us so we hadn't allocated time to address that 😅

We hope that we can update Sifting Thyme in the next few months!

Hi there! Did you also send us an email yesterday? If yes, could you check our email response to you (sent yesterday as well)? Because if the phone model is correct, we'd appreciate the confirmation because it looks like we have 17 other current active players who have the app downloaded on the same phone model. So we want to double check if this might be potentially another issue so we can help look into it for you :)

Thank you for sharing your feedback! We appreciate it and have logged your comment as we continue to keep an eye on the general public interest 😊

Hello! Thank you so much for checking out the game 💖

We did have exclusive guides for our Kickstarter backers as they paid $15-18 USD for each character's guide. To be honest, we're not sure if players would be interested in us selling the same walkthroughs at $20-25+ USD since we need to honor our Kickstarter Backers for funding our project to life - as they took a risk on us so we don't feel that it is right to offer the same pricing to the public when it was meant to be a special Kickstarter reward for them.

If there is an interest for this though, we would love to know!

hello! Most likely it is not as we developed it to meet Google Play Store requirements, which their minimum is arm64-v8a

Hello! The game's serialization ended in March 2021 with an epilogue that was released at that time. There are 13 full chapters with 4 romanceable routes and an epilogue for each route with a good or neutral ending that is included in the game. (Please see the below screenshot of the game that shows the last few chapters)

We recommend updating your app through the official Apple App Store and or Google Play Store to ensure your app is most up-to-date from the March 2021 release. Any outside apps from third parties are not supported by Nochi and are not endorsed for safety reasons including malware. Please ensure to download the official published version from Google or Apple.

Thank you for your interest and support!

This is super delayed, but THANK YOU! We really appreciate your ratings and your comment as we're a small team of three so this means a lot to us 💞 Every positive feedback really helps our team!

As for the skip / auto function, this feature has been on our list for a while. We've made a slot for the capability in the "phone menu" button where you will see a missing button in the group of four on the right - that blank spot was the intended skip function. However, we had so much issues with Renpy since it's not completely mobile friendly - especially with our modification -  so we haven't been able to figure out a bug-free skip solution yet. Currently, the fix would require us to completely remake Sifting Thyme in a new game engine. But unfortunately we have only one programmer on the Nochi team so we're not able to tackle everything in the time that we wish we could as we're also working on our upcoming game Somnium Eleven as well 😔 Many apologies!!! We hope that we can get support to hopefully get to the skip function 🙏

The original intention was to have the game demo available when the itch.io page was made. The game ended up being redeveloped and it wouldn’t work as an embedded downloadable. But we wanted to keep the profile with all the game and character info. However, the game is still an on-going story and we would like to port it one day to non-mobile platforms once completed!

Unfortunately the way the game was developed is causing issues to get it embedded as a downloadable. However, the game is still an on-going story and we would like to port it one day to non-mobile platforms once completed!