It feels weird to be back in Woodpine after so long away. You remembered the place being small, but damn. Yesterday, when the taxi dropped you off, you couldn't believe how tiny and pathetic the little town looked.
You've spent the last three years working for a small startup in New York by the name of SCAREAWAY. The company needed a psychologist -you- to help develop a mobile app that could be used to cure people of their fears. Along with other... less noble uses as you would discover in your time there. It actually showed a lot of promise.
You have the only surviving copy of the hypnosis app.

Most characters in the game can be renamed, including the MC. Their roles and relationships can be defined freely. For example, India can be your mother, step-mother or landlady, and all descriptions and dialogues in the game will be adapted accordingly. Elliot can be your cousin and Romi's son or just a neighbor living with Romi, etc. Since version 0.24, the relationships between characters can be defined much more precisely.

You (MC)

You've just moved back to your old home town, Woodpine. You've always been interested in the human mind. In recent years, more specifically, how to manipulate it. You have the only surviving copy of an hypnosis app that you helped develop in your previous company. You intend to use it in your small, isolated home town, in which you got a new position as a teacher.

India

Your kind mom/step-mom/landlady, a real estate agent struggling to sell houses in this small town.

Karlee

Your bitchy sister/step-sis/roommate who is hiding some secrets from her family/landlady.

Jessica

A teaching assistant who is brighter than she looks, and who is not afraid to take part in some unusual experiments.

Romi

Your aunt/neighbor who thinks that the whole world should bow to her. She owns a clothes shop in the local mall.

Elliot

Your shy cousin/neighbor, a geek with hidden fantasies. He lives with Romi.

...and many other characters that you will discover as you play the game: the students Alex and AJ, India's colleague Emma who would do anything to be promoted, a mysterious hacker, Gia the waitress, Katerina the warehouse boss, some other members of your family/neighborhood, etc.

This game includes a Guide with hints about what to do next for each NPC that you have met, so you should be able to have hours of fun without a walkthrough.  The NPCs from the early game can be met by exploring the map or waiting a few days, but most of the other NPCs will only be unlocked after reaching a specific part of the story of first NPCs.

• India's story unlocks several characters in the early game and unlocks many more later, especially on her "private" route (the "public" route is not complete yet).
• A scene in Elliot's bedroom is necessary before discovering a mysterious hacker and other characters. The help provided by that hacker can reduce the amount of grinding needed in the early game. This also unlocks several new characters related to that hacker. Since version 0.24, the help provided by the hacker can be doubled later in the game.
• Elliot and Romi currently start with a joint story arc, so you need to interact with both of them to go further. Starting from version 0.18, you can decide after a few days if you want to continue their joint story arc or have a separate one for Elliot (this choice will only be available if you start a new game, not if you load a game saved by version 0.17 or earlier).
• Karlee and Abella also have a joint story arc.
• Alex and AJ have some mutual dependencies in the early game. AJ's mother/landlady appears later, after you have made enough progress with them.

Some general advice:

• There is no time pressure and no need to optimize the sequence of events for each NPC. If you miss an opportunity for an event that only happens once a day or once a week, do not worry about it: you can focus on some other NPCs for a while, or just skip time. There is no penalty for skipping several hours or even days (and you will get your weekly revenues faster).
• If you feel that there is too much grind in this game, then you are probably playing it wrong.
• The minigames are optional: the automatic options allow you to get some quick rewards without playing the minigames. These random gains may be a bit smaller than the rewards for winning the minigames, but remember that there is no time pressure: you can keep on using the automatic option as often as you want.
• If your gains in cash or charge are too slow, then you should get some help from a hacker to build up some charge every night, and from several other NPCs who will ensure that you never run out of money.
• Focus on 2 or 3 girls at a time, not more, not less. If you try to focus on too many girls at the same time, then you will have too many events competing for the same time slots and you may be frustrated by your inability to make progress. On the other hand, if you focus only on a single girl, then there will be too many cases in which you will have to wait until the next day or the next week to make progress.

Notes:

• The game is now distributed as four archives (pack 1, pack 2, pack 3, pack 4) in order to allow each of them to stay below 2 GB. You need all four of them to play the game and you need to extract them into the same folder, not one folder per archive.
• Bugfix versions that contain only the HTML file have to be installed on top of the previous full version that contained the images.

v0.40
- Alex 11k words. (Start of public route.)
- Ashley 11k words. (End)

v0.39.1 (bugfix)
- Fixed a bad link that was stalling progress with AJ.

v0.39
- Elliot 11k words. (Start of public route.)
- AJ 11k words. (Public route.)

v0.38
- Khloe 10k words
- Leah (Recruiting) 10k words

v0.37.2 (bugfix)
-Patch that will roll India's story back a few steps for anyone that had Veronica get out of Sync with India. Just sleep to reset.

v0.37.1 (bugfix)
-Fixed a bug that was stopping progress with India's story.

v0.37
- Doctor's receptionist 10k words
- India (Recruiting) 14k words

v0.36
- Romi 19k words.
- Karlee 14k words.

v0.35.2 (bugfix)

- Fixed a bug that caused some players to get stuck with the Eva/Gia route.

v0.35.1 (bugfix)
- Fixed looping in Leah story passage.
- Fixed unclosed link in AJ's guide.

v0.35
- Leah 13k words.
- AJ 12k words. (Start of public arc) 

v0.34.1 (bugfix)
- Fixes bugs that were blocking the progress with Leah and Eve and that caused a black screen when working overtime in the warehouse.

v0.34
- Karlee (Recruiting) 13k words.
- Hacker 14k words. (Start of public arc)

v0.33.1 (bugfix)
- Fixes bug that was catching some people in a loop with the Hacker.

v0.33
- India (Recruiting) 12k words.
- Katrina 10k words.v0.32
- Doctor's receptionist 10k words
- Gia/Eva 14k words

v0.32.1 (bugfix)
- Fixed a bug that was distorting map images for some people.

v0.32
- Doctor's receptionist 10k words
- Gia/Eva 14k words

v0.31.1 (bugfix)
- Fixed the "recruit strippers" scene jumping from Reiko to Nina

v0.31
- Karlee (Recruiting) 14k words
- Leah (Recruiting) 10k words

v0.30
- Improvements to the navigation: when you pin a character in the Guide, a portrait appears in the side bar. Clicking on that portrait allows you to jump to that character's location or a location nearby.
- Alex 13k words
- Gia 8k words
- Eva 9k words 

(see the game or the forum for the full Changelog - it was becoming too large this IGDB game entry)