Tekkaman-James: Tokyo Dark, a gorgeous point-and-click adventure/horror game that I covered in my monthly Kickstarter review series back in June of 2015, is finally launching on Steam next week. Unfortunately, according to their most recent
project update, the DRM-Free version has had to be delayed. Here is what they had to say:
For those of you who opted for a non-Steam version unfortunately we heard some disappointing news that the platform we had hoped to release on feels that Tokyo Dark has too much in common with Japanese visual novels (well it is a visual novel / adventure game hybrid) and as such does not suit their current store policy of no VNs.
Tekkaman-James: I applaud the developers for not mentioning "the platform we had hoped to release on", but we all know they're talking about GOG. The thing I don't understand is why GOG gives developers these obtuse excuses for rejecting their games. We have both
Hatoful Boyfriend games here, which are straight visual novels, as well as the visual novel/puzzle hybrid game
Hunie Pop. If the reason GOG gave for rejecting this game is true, why are these three games allowed to be here?
Tokyo Dark is far more of a point-and-click game than it is a visual novel. With how many point-and-click games are here, you would think GOG would love to add this game to the library...especially with how beautiful it looks.
I understand that GOG won't carry every game that I like, but it still doesn't keep me from scratching my head from time to time.
Perhaps GOG will reconsider if that wish collects enough entries. I think they'll start to notice somewhere around the 10.000 wishes mark. ;-)