I feel so bad for the developer. :/

This is such a strange statement to make considering it is impossible for many creators to make youtube their full time job without sponsorships or paid reviews.

I am a switch owner (my only console), who can't play games on PC (so steam games are a no no) because i only own a laptop for university. My reason for considering buying spirittea even though i didn't like it that much was because switch simply doesn't have that many other options when it comes to that specific type of cozy life-SIM management RPG-like indie games. Steam has a lot more and thus i believe a lot more competition like Little Witch in the Woods or Travellers Rest. And Spirittea seems by no means perfect imo, which is why i decided not to get it. The publishers statements are really shitty and ignorant? Like aren't they as a publisher supposed to know things like that? .. thanks for covering this. It honestly makes me want to support them even less now. I do hope they do inform themselves better from now on. Also i knew about Spirittea before it came out, yes, but i knew about it from youtubers who included it in cozy games list and reviewed the demo.

A friend of mine got approached by the publisher for the game to do free promotional content. His niche isnt even close to be relevant for the cozy game community. They simply reached out to big channels no matter what their main game was.

I bought the game because of the cozy game clubs video. I think he is very blind