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thank you for the suggestion. i've tried dol now, and while technically it's a very similar game to cot, the two could not have been more different emotionally however: where cot creates a playful, fun atmosphere of exploration of hidden but not exactly dark parts of the life, dol from the very start has appeared depressing, hopeless and full of mindless child abuse; i could not bare it for long and had to uninstall. two very different experiences indeed.

i did not expect to find something _that_ addictive yet immersive and rewarding here at itch.io, even in the «for adults» section despite it being somewhat famous for all those slice of life visual novels. for me, «course of temptation» beats all of the titles i've tried by (i think) being a text-only interactive fiction (made me actually _read_ the story rather then click through) and bringing a meaningful subset of realistic routine activities in a sandbox'y, non-linear, «you decide'y» way that the player settles into and really «lives through». loved it from the very start even before all the lewd stuff became possible. 

of course nothing is ever ideal (and it's a good thing too!) so i had zillion ideas about how things should or could have worked. not going to bother the author and other players with those, lol: i bet every player has tons of similar ideas and the discord forum is already brim full of them (sorry i hate that proprietary platform, i wish the discussion board lived on fediverse, matrix maybe, idn); i'll only mention the most persisting through my play:

1) i wish the cot society, both in the town and on the campus were not so uni-aged; there are adults but they behave very differently in-game with very few options; ex. i'd like for the professors to have phone numbers and be potentially available for chat, inviting out, harassment or stalking, be part of the gossip landscape, etc.;

2) past a certain point, everybody becomes very consensual, unrealistically so, the result being: the sex scenes become mostly repetitive and uninteresting, suddenly the pc practically doesn't have to persuade, beg for a certain activity or pose, there's no more feeling of life and human interaction and after that part of the game just becomes pornographic;

3) there's practically no emotional landscape: spending more time with the partner's friends or even rivals and agressors doesn't seem change the partner's response and doesn't create the tension that's so much part of real life interactions (humans _are_ possessive that way no matter how civilized we want to believe ourselves);

4) the town should be much, much larger =)

lastly, the one real grudge i have against the author: for me, you've made all the other visual novels out there look linear and shallow so now i just can't find anything to move to from cot! how am i supposed to put the game aside and wait for those new releases with more content? you've ruined my gaming experience, although in a painfully good way =) 

thank you.

this is a masterpiece! not a game, but a piece of art, really! two things seem a bit strange to me though... first: the sniper's position is in the part of the airport that was controlled by ukrainian forces (it's easily recognisable to anyone who follows the conflict),  and second: the airport was in a ukrainian city, but the narrator speaks russian, the names of killed are given in russian phonetics etc. hence my question: do you have plans to also make games on all the other local wars started or  by the russian federation against those nations on those nations' territories: syria (2015), georgia (2008), chechnya (1999, 1994), moldova (1992)?