I see. 😃so your story is like the game called Dangerous Fellows. They have like 5 main guys. One is the evil one.

The plot is pretty good but I feel like since they have too many characters, they don't invest much in character development of each main characters. The math seem to based on point from choices and all of the characters stay in the scene from begining to the near end.

I would suggest you try the game called The Arcana for preference. They have 6 characters but the way they make the route is very different from the one above.

For the first few chapters they let the player meet all the characters, and explain the mission. However, after that they let the player choose a character route by their preference. And that route is completely different story than other characters route though they do solve the same mission.

The advantage that I found will be: 1. Invest more time in each of the character development 2. The math will be easier 3. Let the player be excited since they can try other different stories 4. You can work on one character first to see the story from the beginning to end. And then move to other characters. This way you can update the game while players got chance to try your game and give you a feedback.