My opinion, you can do both. Keep her as loli for now and just give her a special chapter that takes place years later when she's 18 before adding in the lewds. I have nothing against lewds for a petite character (there ARE petite females irl) but a 12 year old? That's a hard no.
Well, either way it's done I'm sure it'll be enjoyable. This is my most anticipated indie H game in quite a long time, so whatever you decide I'll take.
Dude, people keep saying they should do this. But it won't help better production and development. If they were to do this they'd most likely still come back to the Steam issue of no minors being depicted in the game. And before you try and reason with me after a week of no replys from anyone to you. Steam probably does semi-thorough inspections into the game, and if it has any lolis or underage characters on another download offsite. It'll probably still fail and maybe even get permanently banned from appling to join the steam store.
Hell the whole reason they made this post is because they wanted to see how people would react to one of the characters being changed and for them to be added to steam. And in the process they exposed people for wanting to fuck or see lewds of a literal child.
I'm now going to vanish for another week.
They don't, I can 100% guarantee you this. There are plenty of games on Steam that has loli/shota characters where they only change the age, loli/shota characters with lewds added in through patch, loli/shota characters that stay completely the same but they have no lewds. And they are 100% aware that the same game is being sold elsewhere with all the content they don't allow.
Main point of evidence: Kagura Games, do the research yourself.
All I'm saying (others opinions are their own) is that there's no need to change the character for the story. If they wish to add lewds for her, just give her a special chapter that takes place when she is of age. Simple as that.
Edit: Sorry, bit of clarification. Steam does not care about patches outside of their site, but yes any works with H they want all characters to be 18+ (some still get by visually but that's more high end company than indie works). So yeah, it's better to just change her to get by Steam and if RNG so chooses add original version back in through patch for story elements. For H, nah still a hard pass for me.
