Does anyone believe that Housamo (or any other game like that) will ever reached mainstream attention among furries?
Like, we have seen stuff like Beastars, and Aggretsuko which have been got it's surge among furries to mainstream levels after existing for a few years, with Netflix also giving us BNA, and Bojack Horseman. Films like Zootopia, The Bad Guys, Kung Fu Panda, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, How to Train Your Dragon (for the scalies at least) that became iconic furry classics. Don't forget that SpindleHorse Toons has got this treatment with Helluva Boss and now later Hazbin Hotel. Fortnite has now become probably heavily popular with furries after dropping a number a furry skins/outfits. A number a horror games like Five Nights at Freddy's and Indigo Park that have also become popular like in a heartbeat. Bluey also have a good chunk of it. Pokemon has crazy amounts of furry fans, with Digimon & Monster Hunter also at large popular for the same reasons. There alot more out there that are popular as well like VNs, but it's overwhelming or didn't caught my eye into it.
Meanwhile I'm perhaps one of the few furries in my region being into Housamo and some of the other gay gacha games, apparently such games apparently didn't get much attention here fandom-wise. I tried talking about it but they were saying like "Eww, Gachas" and something like that. Well, I know some of the reasons like lack of translation support along with the gameplay at some extent cause I hear some that it gets tiring, but games like AnotherEidos also have a translation simultaneously and didn't seem to get much attention as well especially in the west, so more translation doesn't seem to help that much either, probably. It's most likely because it's gacha which most of the games haven't gotten much attention especially when it comes to mobile-specific ones. LifeWonders right now, who give us Housamo & Live-A-Hero, have been barely marketing their games outside japan, especially in the west. Instead they it's just more milking it's games almost exclusively on it's native country, sometimes Chinese territories like Taiwan. I felt like to the point that when I attend furry conventions I rarely get lucky to see some of the merch from the game but I like one con I only seen it selling the fan-merch once on the artist alley.
I do hope it eventfully gets fix soon, whether it's Housamo or another game like that (even if it's not gacha and perhaps a different gaming genre). I don't think an anime is an likely scenario, so I'm hoping that something more possible pops up like a cross-promotion in an game, an console game from an existing one, or a new IP coming from LifeWonders or another company somewhere that is willing to do the same. It could've have the potential to boom interest in kemono in general, especially outside of Asia. Giving how popular anime is among furries it still surprises me that kemono is still somehow niche as it seems in western regions. Giving LifeWonders stating the truth to it's mission on serving the global market, I do believe they maybe open to appoint more of it's staff outside it's country and perhaps outside of asia, especially how hard it is to find staff particularly in it's native country, that is unless language is an issue.
For me, I have been thinking of making my idea of my own game for a long time now that inspire housamo and other similar games but addresses issues that keeps players from engaging on the games, particularly when it comes in the west. Those games are special for me how it influence me as a furry that I carry it on to my fursona and perhaps some of my ocs. I did tried to contact LifeWonders to see if they have any interest on making Console/PC games and didn't seem to get a response for some reason. I guess maybe it's the nature that Japanese companies tend to ignore message ideas from strangers like myself even if they are small and indie.
That's what I have to get this out of my system that have been on my mind for such a long time, BTW. My writing could be an hit or miss (Austitic person btw, just in case). So I apologize if my writing is somehow hard to understand and don't hesitate to mark parts of the writing that seem to be issue or hard to understand.