Benefitship is a short and linear futa x female visual novel.
Now on Steam and Itch! Android also available.
Illustrated by
@Sulcate_NSFW
Developed by
@rfhgames
Since "Common criticisms" won last week's poll, here's a prioritized list of the 5 most common ones, from most common to least common. The list is based on Steam reviews and a previous poll.
(The poll was pretty close, so we might do the others too, if people are interested?)
Thank you all for trying out the demo and giving us your feedback - it's been extremely valuable!
For the full release, we'll be colour-coding the dialogue, so it's easier to tell who's speaking!
Before we launched, I was hoping to break even on Benefitship within the year, but I was totally ready for it not to.
We just managed it within the first week!
Some fun numbers about Benefitship!
1. It cost ~$13.000 to make.
2. Development began ~17 months ago.
3. It'll be on sale for $2.99.
4. Considering taxes, etc., it'll need to sell ~10.000 copies to break even.
Uh... buy it when it releases, please.
You might be wondering what we've been doing these past few weeks, after Benefitship released.
Why, we've been working hard to register a fully-fledged corporation because Benefitship earned so much in its first week that if we didn't, we'd be in breach of Danish tax law!
Fun!!!
It's only a couple of weeks until Benefitship makes its full release on Steam, Itch, Kagura Games, and Fakku!
If you haven't already, now is a good time to wishlist it or follow us to be notified when we release!
I feel like we need a fan-name, like all those VTubers.
How do you feel about Cocksuckers (laudatory)?
(Oh, and here's the page for those of you that don't use Steam: !)
As promised, we've given you the freedom to disable voice acting completely, should it not be your thing.
We hope you'll be willing to give it a try, though! We've got some great talent and it'd be a shame to waste it!
I can't promise that "THIS GAME WILL MAKE YOU CUM IN 30 SECONDS," but this girl is pretty cute, right?
You can see "much more" of her in the upcoming
#futa
#visualnovel
, Benefitship.
(
#hentai
#futanari
#dickgirl
)
It has officially been 24 hours since Benefitship was released! We've already sold 4000 copies and gotten a lot of great feedback.
If you haven't already, please leave a review and tell us what you think!
We read all of them and it helps the Steam algorithm push us up!
It's official; Benefitship will have *full* voice acting!
Stay tuned over the next couple of weeks for cast announcements.
(...and if it's not your thing, you can disable it in the options menu.)
Ayo, wanna SMASH?
Well, Benefitship can't let *you* smash, but you *can* watch other people smash and that's just as good... right? No?
Does it help if they're both girls and one of them has a dick? A good bit, surprisingly enough.
Some exciting news about Benefitship! We're working with
@MediBang_Global
on a Japanese localization of Benefitship!
Obviously, most of you can't read Japanese, but the translation comes with an additional bonus!
Full. Japanese. Voice acting.
We've just finished off a small quality-of-life update to Benefitship.
It contains a scene select, an improved gallery, a more intuitive dialogue position switch, and a couple of retakes for some of Chloe's lines.
Expect it to release some time this week!
We've been looking at some forums, and there's a surprising amount of unofficial Android ports of Benefitship.
Stranger still, they gain a *lot* of traction, despite the fact that we actually *do* have an official Android version on Itch and FAKKU.
Exciting news, Cocksuckers (laudatory)! The demo has just been approved by Steam.
You'll be able to play it on February 5th on Steam and !
(In the mean time, I'm going to be playing that new Portal mod.)
We're in the home stretch now.
Sulcate is squeezing in one more CG and Gina Galore is doing the last retakes.
Expect Benefitship to be released on July 12th.
(Or, in the worst case scenario, possibly the week after.)
We know it's a bit unusual for dialogue to be at the top of the screen, so the full release will have a slider, allowing you to move it down!
We hope you'll have a pleasant reading experience when the full release comes out later this year!
I reviewed the Japanese translation of Benefitship this Friday, and it's looking great!
We've also been reviewing potential Japanese voice actors, and we've got some really good candidates! I hope you're looking forward to it!
Here's a fun little overview of Benefitship's Itch statistics over the past 30 days!
- The spike before July 14th is the game's release.
- The spike after August 4th is when we changed the thumbnail from a cute drawing of Amy to an incredibly NSFW drawing of Amy.
In addition to Steam and Itch, Benefitship will also be available on FAKKU and Kagura Games upon release.
We'll probably also make a mobile version, which will be exclusive to Itch, unless otherwise specified.
Hopefully that covers all your needs!
We might be a bit silent starting September, since I'm going on a 90-day trip to Japan.
That said, we will have a public post on our Patreon come the 15th, which was written just before release. It describes my thoughts, feelings, fears, and expectations at the time.
Minor update 1.1 of Benefitship should now be available on Steam and Itch. It comes with a scene select, improved gallery, and improved settings.
Any further updates will likely be patches fixing bugs that people may encounter.
If you had to pick ONE thing we could have improved about Benefitship, what do you think would have made the biggest difference to you?
(Leave a comment if it's not on this list.)
For those interested, here are Benefitship's daily sales across the last 30 days on Itch (left) and Steam (right).
(Actually interesting news coming soon, by the way! Promise!)
I hope you'll excuse me as a I do a rare cross-promotion here.
I wrote an essay about NSFW-friendly game storefronts for this collection. If that's of interest to you, consider supporting it.
(...and now back to your regularly scheduled Benefitship posts.)
We've launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the next issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, a collection of long-form, high-quality writing about adult games and adult game culture! Back the campaign here:
And... we just immediately broke some old saves with our first update. Not the greatest start in the world.
Unfortunately, it seems like it's related to the way that the game engine handles saves, so we can't do much about it.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
I wish I could show you all the magnificent new CGs for Benefitship...
...but I need to sell you a game.
Believe me, I'm looking forward to July just as much as you are.
We've just reached 1000 wishlists on Steam. For an SFW game, that wouldn't be much.
For us, though? It means a lot.
The demo is in for review on Steam now, too! Expect news soon.
I measured Benefitship's playtime for the first time today.
If you enable "auto" mode and listen to all the glorious voice acting, it's almost exactly 1 hour, 20 minutes, and 0 seconds.
If you click "skip," it's around 30 seconds.
So choose your play style, I guess, haha~!
We've now released an update on Steam that will hopefully fix the issues people have been having with past saves. We're sorry about any inconvenience you may have experienced.
Please let us know if this doesn't solve the problem for you.
Be on the lookout for an upcoming Steam store page for
#benefitship
some time this month.
Still quite a while until release, but if you're mad enough to wishlist us... you can!
Soon.
Here are some fun numbers for you!
I have nearly 5 hours of raw voice acting files to cut up and process.
At an estimated rate of 0.7 hours per day, it's going to take me approximately 1 week to complete - not counting final touch-ups, retakes, etc.
Just to set some expectations: Benefitship isn't going to be a long story with a bunch of choices.
It's just a good story with good art, designed to make you horny.
If that sounds fun to you, expect a Steam page to wishlist next week.
Let it be known that we're always happy to respond to inquiries in private. Our DMs are effectively always open, so don't be afraid to ask questions or give us your feedback on the demo!
We do read every single comment, and respond to as many as possible.
No good visuals to show you for Benefitship this week, I'm afraid!
I've been implementing systems to lower the music volume when our delightful voice actors are talking, so you can actually hear them!