Casual Desires has been officially approved for release on Steam! It's been a long and difficult year, but the store page has finally launched.
If you can, adding CD to your wishlist would help out a lot:
👉https://store.steampowered.com/app/2676940/Casual_Desires👈
This is extremely good news for the future of the game, since it means it will be able to return to a regular release schedule after Chapter 20. There's a lot of work that needs to be done before I can consider the game ready for Steam.
My plans for CD are roughly as follows:
Chapter 20 release. While I still can't give an exact date, I can promise that it will be out before the end of the year at the very latest.
New chapters return to a release pace of every 2-3 months. Each new chapter will also bring a bunch of improvements and additions to older content, in preparation for the Steam launch.
CD releases into Steam Early Access around Summer 2025 (Jun - Sep).
After about a year in Early Access (potentially a few months longer), the game sees its full 1.0 release and is completed.
If the Steam release is popular enough, I may update it with extra content (v1.1 and v1.2) before moving on to the next project.
Overall, I expect Casual Desires will take roughly 2 more years until it's completed.
Thank you to everyone, both new and old players alike, for being patient throughout these past months. It's been a long wait, but the future for Casual Desires is looking bright. I'll do my best to make Act 3—and all the earlier content— as good as it can possibly be.