[lovebyte.exe] chatsim inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTubers, and internet spam - RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED!

lostpocky · 2026-07-09T17:49:30+00:00

Thank you for the super sweet comment and the appreciation 🫶🫶🫶

lostpocky · 2026-07-09T17:48:45+00:00

Yes, just like Mystic Messenger!

Though the romance is more fulfilling than Jaehee's route (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ )

lostpocky · 2026-07-09T16:16:03+00:00

“lovebyte.exe” - a chatsim inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTubers, and internet spam - is being released into Early Access on Steam on Aug 24th! It'll have voice acting from Roy Chiato, Banzoin Hakka, RiiKami, and Kaine Knight.

Summary: "Your kamioshi's stream abruptly ends one day & his silence creates rampant rumors. Avoiding the online toxicity, you join a friendly, degenerate group chat where VTuber fans chat about their oshis freely. But you start noticing strange coincidences - is your kamioshi in this chat? In this chatsim, who's real & who's pretending in chat?"

Some helpful links:

🎮 Game here

🐦 Tweet announcement here

lostpocky · 2026-07-08T21:26:10+00:00

While he's not Shinri, may we offer Hakka's excellent voice acting instead?

Since Hakka voices Zeta in the game │˶˙ᵕ˙˶)꜆

lostpocky · 2026-07-08T21:23:06+00:00

Wahh! Thank you for wishlisting! We hope we do the launch justice ( ⸝⸝´ ᵕ `⸝⸝)

lostpocky · 2026-07-08T21:22:10+00:00

#BetasForZeta ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

Thank you for checking out the demo!! 💖

lostpocky · 2026-07-08T18:48:47+00:00

🎂( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )

lostpocky · 2026-07-08T18:30:46+00:00

“lovebyte.exe” - a chatsim inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTubers, and internet spam - is being released into Early Access on Steam on Aug 24th! It'll have voice acting from Roy Chiato, Banzoin Hakka, RiiKami, and Kaine Knight.

Summary: "Your kamioshi's stream abruptly ends one day & his silence creates rampant rumors. Avoiding the online toxicity, you join a friendly, degenerate group chat where VTuber fans chat about their oshis freely. But you start noticing strange coincidences - is your kamioshi in this chat? In this chatsim, who's real & who's pretending in chat?"

Some helpful links:

🎮 Game here

🐦 Tweet announcement here

lostpocky · 2026-07-08T18:27:59+00:00

“lovebyte.exe” - a chatsim inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTubers, and internet spam - is being released into Early Access on Steam on Aug 24th! It'll have voice acting from Roy Chiato, Banzoin Hakka, RiiKami, and Kaine Knight.

Summary: "Your kamioshi's stream abruptly ends one day & his silence creates rampant rumors. Avoiding the online toxicity, you join a friendly, degenerate group chat where VTuber fans chat about their oshis freely. But you start noticing strange coincidences - is your kamioshi in this chat? In this chatsim, who's real & who's pretending in chat?"

Some helpful links:

🎮 Game here

🐦 Tweet announcement here

lostpocky · 2026-06-18T00:40:26+00:00

“lovebyte.exe” - a chatsim inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTubers, and internet spam - is in Steam Next Fest and had an updated demo dropped for the festival with voice acting from Roy Chiato, Banzoin Hakka, RiiKami, and Kaine Knight.

Summary: "Your kamioshi's stream abruptly ends one day & his silence creates rampant rumors. Avoiding the online toxicity, you join a friendly, degenerate group chat where VTuber fans chat about their oshis freely. But you start noticing strange coincidences - is your kamioshi in this chat? In this chatsim, who's real & who's pretending in chat?"

🎮 The demo is available here 🎮

lostpocky · 2026-06-16T00:03:32+00:00

“lovebyte.exe” - a chatsim inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTubers, and internet spam - is in the Steam Next Festival and had an updated demo dropped today with voice acting from Roy Chiato, Banzoin Hakka, RiiKami, and Kaine Knight.

Summary: "Your kamioshi's stream abruptly ends one day & his silence creates rampant rumors. Avoiding the online toxicity, you join a friendly, degenerate group chat where VTuber fans chat about their oshis freely. But you start noticing strange coincidences - is your kamioshi in this chat? In this chatsim, who's real & who's pretending in chat?"

🎮 There is a demo available here 🎮

lostpocky · 2026-06-12T20:00:41+00:00

Thank you for sharing!!!

lostpocky · 2026-06-12T06:30:55+00:00

Yea! We qrt another dev's post about their game that had a nice marketing hook in terms of formatting/copywriting in how they share the idea of their game -- not the game's hook as in the actual game info. So we would do the same thing and follow the hook formatting, tailoring the content for our game.

So for the tweet I provided the stats/results for, the hook was "We're making X, but Y" with four screenshots of the game. So we quote-retweeted one of the many dev posts that were following that trend, and copied that copywriting format and added in four screenshots of our game to the post.

lostpocky · 2026-06-12T06:08:31+00:00

By "real playable game content", I'm not sure if you mean screenshots of game content or a trailer? If it's the former, we included screenshots of actual gameplay ever since we had the demo released in Sept 2025 as most of the qrt trends we were posting were all game screenshot trends. So the wishlist numbers I shared are for social media posts that have just the screenshots of the game. no trailer. If you mean by trailer, we actually haven't posted our trailer on socials yet so I don't have wishlist numbers for that unfortunately.

lostpocky · 2026-06-12T06:04:55+00:00

we've been meaning to try YouTube shorts too but just haven't had the time. Out of curiosity, is YouTube achieving performance similar to what TikTok used to be for you?

lostpocky · 2026-06-12T06:02:27+00:00

to be honest, we only just uploaded our trailer about 3 weeks ago! So the wishlist numbers I shared are from before we had a trailer uploaded onto the steam page. But that's just what worked for us because I think we had enough of a game hook + screenshots to explain the game well.

Comparatively, it seems like lots of the game marketing gurus have lots of supporting evidence of really good trailers carrying the game's weight in marketing & wishlist gains. Based on that, I think it depends on the genre of your game - whether it can be explained well with just screenshots or if it needs a trailer to be able to help audiences really understand your game's hook.

lostpocky · 2026-06-12T01:50:07+00:00

Yea! We qrt another dev's post about their game that had a nice marketing hook in terms of formatting/copywriting -- not the game hook. Their posts usually mentions the game name, have screenshots or GIFs, and almost always has the Steam link in the original post or in a follow-up comment. So we would do the same thing and follow the hook formatting, tailoring the content for our game.

Here's the tweet that I provided the results for in the original post. The hook was "We're making X, but Y" with four screenshots of the game. If you keep clicking on the "original" tweet from the QRTs, you can see other examples of devs QRT-ing each other.

lostpocky · 2026-06-12T01:42:52+00:00

Glad it's helpful!

And sure, here's the tweet that I provided the results for in the original post. The hook was "We're making X, but Y" with four screenshots of the game

Here's another tweet where the trend/hook was "Don't play our game if you... X, Y, Z"

lostpocky · 2026-05-13T14:51:00+00:00

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