Fictif: Interactive Romance

I have played this game since it has came out, and it’s never failed me. It’s easy to get stars, barley any adds, and the stories are great! But 2022, it stopped getting updates. The stories with uncompleted endings haven’t been touched. Even though it says stories are “ongoing”, I’ve been afraid they have come to an end. Keeping my hopes high! Hopefully there will be future updates that me and other individuals have been waiting for!

Look, I really do love the stories and characters. All of the routes I’ve played have been super fun, the side characters don’t feel like just side decorations, and the art is beautiful. The problem is the fact that a good number of stories aren’t finished, more stories were added while others sat in limbo, and unfortunately I don’t think any that are unfinished now ever will be in the future (it’s been 1-2 years I think, that’s not a good look for an active story app). I don’t know if there was some kind of drama or if writers left the team or whatever. I even checked Dorian (the app) in case they just… stopped using the Fictif app, but couldn’t find the stories there either. So if you are new to their stories, my suggestion is to not waste your money on the little stars. Just save them up through logging in and ads.

Tl;dr: it’s a wonderful game with great stories and fleshed out characters, but don’t start reading anything unfinished. It probably won’t ever get updated. Ok so I got this shortly after it came out and ended up deleting it after like a year and a half. I started bc of its affiliation to the arcana and bc of ads I saw about last legacy, specifically about Felix. Now, it’s notoriously difficult to get stars in this game without spending money, and I’d like people to keep that in mind. I don’t think I ever bought stars while I was playing felix’s story, and through the course of like four or five months, I had completely played through his entire available story and bought every premium option. Meaning, I spent enough time to grind all the necessary stars to get premium options while waiting for new chapters. And then I finished chapter 13. I stared at “chapter 14 coming soon” under his story for six months before I came to the realisation that Dorian was probably never going to update it. I deleted it soon after, when I realised that it was the same for Sage. Now I’m not completely sure, but I’m fairly certain that I bought most, if not all of his premium options as well. I’m not sure how to articulate how LONG it takes to get stars for premium options, but the fact that I basically never had to spend money while getting them for both Sage and Felix shows how long it took them to update them. They worked on other stories too, which is fine, but I got completely fed up when multiple stories that were introduced AFTER last legacy were completed before ANY of the last legacy stories were. I mean, I’m pretty sure there were stories introduced after Felix’s 13th chapter that finished before we ever got chapter 14. I’m currently redownloading it (mostly to make a point to myself) to see if I can organically get the stars necessary to complete other stories. Looking at it like two or three years later, there STILL aren’t any updates for any of the last legacy stories, nor do there appear to be any for the other stories they have. It’s really disheartening to see something with so much potential be practically forgotten about in favour of their streaming(?) service. Idk, but I’ve seen ads and sponsorships for something else they made, and it’s clear that they’re focusing on that over finishing the stories they committed to in the first place. Also, upon reading other comments that criticise this point, Dorian just gives vague “join our discord for updates!” answers instead of giving even a facsimile of a genuine response. Other reviews have more in depth responses, while the ones criticising the lack of updates have only the barest of responses just to make it seem like they review every review

idk if anything happened but brooo I miss his character 😭

There are many good stories but they aren't finished. The team tends to go from one project to another and not want to finish. Or make it into a cash grab and milk their fans with that one game Dorian. I like the games and the characters but you need that passion back.

the app still works of course, and there are some finished stories on here that are worth reading, but anything that hasn’t been finished isn’t going to be finished, which is sad. i have no idea why they bother to update the app for compatibility instead of just migrating all the finished stories over to the dorian app, which is the company that now owns fictif. sure, i prefer the formatting of this app to dorian, but what’s the point when it’s totally stagnant?

Please do new updates and new stories

IM BEGGING YOU STOPPP MAKING NEW BOOKS AND JUST FINISH THE OLD ONES. IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SAGE CHAPTER 15 FOR LIKE OVER A YEAR. i understand all stories take time and won’t happen instantly but for the love of GOD finish what you start before making 20 more 😭😭😭

I used to love Fictif. Unfortunately, I got into it too late. It’s been a little under a year since Dorian has decided not to update The Arcana OR Fictif with any new content, and it shows just how little they care about either. With the Arcana it’s not as big of a deal since the main stories are over— but Dorian only cares about the Arcana in order to promote their own app. Fictif doesn’t get those annoying pop ups that the Arcana app does alerting to every new fanfiction written on the dorian app, nor does it have the community tab, but that’s both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it means Fictif has remained completely untouched from the days it was still owned by Nix Hydra, where we were actually getting content and these stories were actually owned and written by people who CARE about them, instead of just trying to profit off of fans while putting in little to no work to actually provide fans with any content. However, Fictif being untouched also shows just how little Dorian cares about these stories. The Arcana, at least, is profitable to them. It’s less risk due to being an entirely finished story, and has a bigger fanbase to appeal to. Out of the three Dorian properties on the App Store, (the arcana, Fictif, and the dorian app itself) the Arcana has the highest rating— and it’s well deserved, I think, as both a fan of The Arcana and Fictif. However a lot of the recent reviews are praising DORIAN for The Arcana, when they didn’t actually put any of the work in to make it the COMPLETE story we know and love. Then, notice the majority of the recent reviews and complaints for Fictif— that there are no updates. And then look at every single response! It’s all Dorian urging people to move to the Dorian app if they want more content. Even in the update logs, it’s been eight months since Dorian has last updated Fictif. Heck, even look at social media. The Arcana’s socials are being used almost exclusively either as promotion for things happening on Dorian or sales (whether they be merchandise or on the app) whereas Fictif’s socials have remained untouched for months. They’ve even removed the Fictif tags from the Arcana socials’ bios, which seems SO MINISCULE— but it shows that they don’t care about whether or not attention goes to Fictif, otherwise they’d put those tags back in to draw attention to them from their bigger, related fanbase, The Arcana. Dorian DOES NOT CARE about Fictif. Whatever automated response they’re going to give doesn’t make that untrue. Edit because Dorian responded about “preserving Fictif” and how Fictif stopped updating under Nix Hydra, how the Arcana’s storyline was finished in 2021 etc. etc. blah blah blah. I’m MORE than aware of that. I acknowledge both those things— in fact, I clearly state the latter as a reason why you people only care about the Arcana. Because you think it’s “safe” to work on. You’re not taking chances with a finished storyline. You claim you’re working to preserve Fictif as well, but then why do the update and version logs claim that the last update for the app at ALL—and I’m not just talking about stories, but bug fixes or ANYTHING else—was eight months ago? What was the purpose of removing any trace of Fictif from the Arcana’s socials? The purpose of not making Fictif an account on Threads, when you’ve made one for its sister app? This review was about how you don’t care about Fictif, and how you only care about the Arcana because you see it as “safe” to experiment with. That’s proven even in your response— you only talk about “fostering growth within the Arcana community”. Nothing about Fictif, which DESPERATELY needs more work and whose community is worse off and deader than the Arcana’s, largely because you’ve given us NOTHING to work with. I said that whatever automated response you’d give wouldn’t change that you don’t care about Fictif— and the automated response that you DID give proves that perfectly. Thank you for proving my point.

I downloaded the game when it was first starting and all the stories were incomplete. I quickly fell in love with it and would get excited whenever I saw a story was updated. But it upsets me that now Fictif has just seemed to be abandoned due to it not updating in months. I’ve tried Dorian and it really isn’t great and I had issues with it. I joined the discord and saw people talking about Fictif maybe getting updated just for it to never happen. I find it upsetting Fictif was dropped for Dorian