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 :)
I just finished one play-through of all the routes and I really enjoyed it!! All the characters have a unique appeal. I am curious though, by the time I was done with all of them I thought I would have all the CGs. Is there a guide available to get them all?
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! 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.
Hello there! Thank you for your comment and we're very happy to hear that you like the Sifting Thyme characters ~ ✨
Unfortunately we're not sure when we will be able to publish the skip function. The function has been on our list for a while and 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 intended for the skip button.
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 🙏
We really appreciate your understanding~ 💞 Good news is that we already switched over to the new game engine for Somnium Eleven so we've already finished developing the skip functionality for the upcoming game. And so far through all of the play testing, it's working smoothly so we hope you'll enjoy that feature once the new game is released 😉
i already rated it in the google play , but i must say again : the game is AMAZING !!! the story is very well - written , the art is just the best , the characters are pretty and all of them are charming in their own way . i don ' t usually buy / spend money on games , but it was SO worth it !!!
( p . S : it would be very nice if the game had a skip / auto function , but thats not a problem !!! it just would be easier since you need to re - play the game sometimes to choose different things ^^ just a idea tho ! )
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 🙏
I have a question. So, If I pay $5, I get full access to EVERYTHING? Like, I don't have to pay per chapter, or wait for gems or stuff. Or premium choices that cost some premium currency or premium scenes (like those choices games). Also, on a side note, how long will this be? Thank you!
That is correct~ you will get full access to the core storyline! The game is currently a monthly serialization with one chapter released every month - we are currently on Ch 10. But we anticipate that the core story should be wrapped up a few months into 2021.
hey, sorry if its a stupid problem but i really wanted to play the game and even supported you on Ko-fi but when i try to buy the game on Google Play it says the transaction was refused, i tried other payment methods and its the same and i bought pther things on there recently so i guess its not a problem with the payment method, i dont know if its because of the phone version i have or my region or if its a bug, i didnt know where to ask so im here, if you could help id be really glad, thank you for your time anyways ><
Hello! Thank you for your support and checking out our game :)
The year 2 button was intentional upon the game launch back in April 2020. Since the game is a monthly serialization - similar to shoujo manga format - we didn't have a clear timeline of when the storyline would end so we had a placeholder for the 2nd year for potential future content.
At this time, you should be able to see Chapter 0 through Chapter 8 on your iphone, accessible via Year 1. In the next update (sometime this week), Chapter 9 will be released and we will actually be removing the 2nd year placeholder as Ch 9 will have romantic routes locked down.
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!
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I love this game. Every single route. All the friendships...
This game reminds me of the anime named Yumeiro Patissiere! Was it by chance inspired by it? @devs
Are you thinking about bringing a translation into other languages?I am from Brazil
Do I have to rebuy this on Android if I already bought it?
You should not need to! Your Google Play account should have record that you already purchased it
is it going to be voiced? i have it on my phone and i absolutly love this game
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 🙏
Wait so is this not playable on PC through Itch.io? I was looking forward to trying this out since it caught my eye.
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 🙏
Is there any way to play this without buying it?
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.
I can't play it cause its saying it was made for an older version of android so it would not be able to play🥲
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!
Is there any way to play this game, i did not see in on the app store?
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 :)
I remember playing this last year xD it was wonderful. I love the CGs, the plot, and the character art.
I am just chipping in here to say that I would be interested in a guide and would be happy to a pay a higher price than the Kickstarter backers.
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 😊
I just finished one play-through of all the routes and I really enjoyed it!! All the characters have a unique appeal. I am curious though, by the time I was done with all of them I thought I would have all the CGs. Is there a guide available to get them all?
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!
Is it compatible with armeabi-v7a devices?
hello! Most likely it is not as we developed it to meet Google Play Store requirements, which their minimum is arm64-v8a
Is it already over? They didn't update it anymore for months now, where is all the routes and there is no skip button.
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!
Fun game, I like the characters.. But are you guys ever going to add a skip function?
Hello there! Thank you for your comment and we're very happy to hear that you like the Sifting Thyme characters ~ ✨
Unfortunately we're not sure when we will be able to publish the skip function. The function has been on our list for a while and 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 intended for the skip button.
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 🙏
Thank you for explaining it to me! I understand now, and wish you and your team the best of luck on your upcoming game.
We really appreciate your understanding~ 💞 Good news is that we already switched over to the new game engine for Somnium Eleven so we've already finished developing the skip functionality for the upcoming game. And so far through all of the play testing, it's working smoothly so we hope you'll enjoy that feature once the new game is released 😉
i already rated it in the google play , but i must say again : the game is AMAZING !!! the story is very well - written , the art is just the best , the characters are pretty and all of them are charming in their own way . i don ' t usually buy / spend money on games , but it was SO worth it !!!
( p . S : it would be very nice if the game had a skip / auto function , but thats not a problem !!! it just would be easier since you need to re - play the game sometimes to choose different things ^^ just a idea tho ! )
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 🙏
I have a question. So, If I pay $5, I get full access to EVERYTHING? Like, I don't have to pay per chapter, or wait for gems or stuff. Or premium choices that cost some premium currency or premium scenes (like those choices games). Also, on a side note, how long will this be? Thank you!
That is correct~ you will get full access to the core storyline! The game is currently a monthly serialization with one chapter released every month - we are currently on Ch 10. But we anticipate that the core story should be wrapped up a few months into 2021.
Thanks for your interest in Sifting Thyme!
Okay thank you! I'd rather buy games like these than those F2Ps that have those cursed premium choices aha.
hey, sorry if its a stupid problem but i really wanted to play the game and even supported you on Ko-fi but when i try to buy the game on Google Play it says the transaction was refused, i tried other payment methods and its the same and i bought pther things on there recently so i guess its not a problem with the payment method, i dont know if its because of the phone version i have or my region or if its a bug, i didnt know where to ask so im here, if you could help id be really glad, thank you for your time anyways ><
Thank you so much for your support on ko-fi!! ❤️
Could you please contact us at support@nochistudios.com with some screenshots and let us know where you are located? We will try our best to help you!
i tried again today and managed to buy the game already but thank you for your help anyways and sorry for the unconvinience
We're so glad that it worked! And no inconvenience at all, feel free to reach out to our support email or message us here if there is anything else :)
hey I recently got this game on my Iphone but I can't seem to progress to 2nd year. Is it a bug?
Hello! Thank you for your support and checking out our game :)
The year 2 button was intentional upon the game launch back in April 2020. Since the game is a monthly serialization - similar to shoujo manga format - we didn't have a clear timeline of when the storyline would end so we had a placeholder for the 2nd year for potential future content.
At this time, you should be able to see Chapter 0 through Chapter 8 on your iphone, accessible via Year 1. In the next update (sometime this week), Chapter 9 will be released and we will actually be removing the 2nd year placeholder as Ch 9 will have romantic routes locked down.
Hope that helps :)
Thanks,
Nochi
oh i'm so sorry I didn't notice. Keep up the good work you guys . You guys rock.
Ahh! Don't be sorry! It's an excellent question and we really appreciate your interest and support 💖
What's the point of posting this on itch.io if you can't have the game on itch.io?... 🤔
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!
How can you get the game on itch.io?
I'm not interested to buy a mobile thing.
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!