Driving down a wooded path at night, a man becomes stuck in Blackgate—a peculiar town without daylight that acts as a barrier between worlds, inhabited by monsters torn from their homes. Forced to start a new life, the man soon finds himself ostracized by the other denizens of Blackgate, who have been led to believe humans have a connection to The Eternal—a powerful, all-destroying force of nature that threatens the town and everything beyond it.
Echo (and an abandoned VN called Laika Dosha) were stretch goals the Patreon reached when it was in its golden years. Each VN would be worked on by their own team. AFAIK their earliest builds were funded by the Blackgate Patreon. When that started going downhill, the Echo team split off of what was then a collective called HTBH Games and formed their own Patreon.
The scope of Blackgate was always quite large. Not because of how long a single read-through is, but because it has 16(!!!) subroutes (characters) divided between 5 main routes (occupations). This seemed feasible when Bane was making Patreon money and could continue to afford new CGs, sprites, editors, etc... He was also the first in the fandom to try something with this scope, so we were more optimistic then (even though furries already had a reputation for not finishing their Big Projects).
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Note: Unlike reviews, comments are considered temporary and may be deleted/purged without notice.The scope of Blackgate was always quite large. Not because of how long a single read-through is, but because it has 16(!!!) subroutes (characters) divided between 5 main routes (occupations). This seemed feasible when Bane was making Patreon money and could continue to afford new CGs, sprites, editors, etc... He was also the first in the fandom to try something with this scope, so we were more optimistic then (even though furries already had a reputation for not finishing their Big Projects).