I could not agree with you more about the genre.
I played Dark Chronicle (North American Title: Dark Cloud 2) on the PlayStation 2 growing up and fell in love with the concept of time travel instantly. Since then I’ve been on the hunt for other games that handle time travel in interesting ways and I always seem to find myself depressed and bored with the overall lack of options.
Sure, there are a few somewhat interesting and genuinely good games out there, but I haven’t found anything that really screamed “This is it!” for time travel related games yet.
As a result of my interest in time travel, I inevitably found myself playing time loop stuff, too. There’s a fair bit more to pick from but absolutely not enough. So I’m genuinely pleased to have found this and my only major complaint at the moment is just how dang early it is in development (meaning there’s little content to enjoy lol) but please don’t rush - I’d rather play a great game than a ‘good’ game that could have been much better.
If you are looking for new ideas for other games, let me know and I’ll gladly spitball a bit with you. Schedule is unreliable at the moment so I doubt I’ll be much help with development, but I will gladly playtest and provide feedback and ideas when I can.
Are you planning to allow mods for this game? Spent a couple hours yesterday messing about with another game (NSFW game, won’t link it here; or even name it lol) and now that I’m here… I’m curious. I have some weird and random ideas about content for this game that definitely would not fit with your version, but I think would be fun and goofy if I could get my hands on the source code. xD