To any people wondering, I purchased this on steam today and my saves are there waiting to be loaded (I even made sure they would load!). It was very nice to see I won't have to start over from the beginning again! Yes it would've been nice for the people who purchased the game here on itch to get a steam key but it's selling on steam for way more than it cost me here a year ago ($5) so I guess I can understand since apparently the dev decided later on they wanted more for their product. A $5 credit or something like that would've been nice towards the steam purchase too, but since I've really been enjoying this I guess I just chalked up the original $5 I spent here as a early access fee or something. It's not ideal, but itch has been doing weird things to these adult vn devs and didn't seem to give them any heads-up so they could make other arrangements.