{"rewrite":{"id":"r_2dddd04e5d3441b2beda4638","clusterId":"c_9b40280e016ef8dc0be9e90e","slug":"steam-page-opens-for-family-time-a-child-rearing-sim-from-the-developer-of-viva-project","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Steam Page Opens For Family Time, A Child-Rearing Sim From The Developer Of Viva Project","summary":"Solo developer sgthale opened the Steam store page for Family Time, a child-rearing simulation in which the player is a dad raising many kemono daughters. Daughters increase every night, and the player chops trees, builds a house, farms and hunts to feed them. Forgetting to care for the daughters three times results in the player being killed by an angry mom.","whyItMatters":"The store page marks the point where sgthale's AI-character interaction work moves into a management sim with an explicit failure state, a shift in genre for the developer behind Viva Project and MyRobot.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eFamily Time is the next project from sgthale, the developer behind Viva Project and MyRobot. The Steam page is now live, with the game listed for PC.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn-progress builds are going out to supporters through the monthly subscription support site Patreon, and video from those builds shows daughters carrying lumber and the player holding the wolf kemono mom. The structure is a loop of chopping trees, building or having a house built, and feeding the household through farming and hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Family Time turns failure into a death sentence: three missed care checks and the mom kills the dad. sgthale makes neglect the loss condition, not a stat drop.","twitterPost":"Family Time's fail state is the mom executing the dad after three missed care checks. sgthale makes neglect lethal, not a stat drop.","threadsPost":"Family Time's fail state is the mom killing the dad after three missed care checks. sgthale makes neglect the loss condition itself, so the survival loop is feeding daughters, not managing a meter. The Steam page lists chopping trees, building, farming and hunting as the labor that keeps that from happening.","newsletterBlurb":"Solo developer sgthale has opened the Steam store page for Family Time, a child-rearing sim about a dad raising many kemono daughters. Daughters increase every night, and the player chops trees, builds a house, farms and hunts to feed them. Forget to take care of the daughters three times and an angry mom kills the player.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/14/172255.html\",\"title\":\"Steam store page opened for 'Family Time,' a sim about raising lots of kemono girls - and if you're a good-for-nothing dad, mom will execute you\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4756,"outputTokens":558,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789398867,"createdAt":"2026-09-14T15:08:59.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-14T15:13:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-14T15:13:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_9b40280e016ef8dc0be9e90e","canonicalTitle":"ケモノ娘いっぱい養うシム『Family Time』Steamストアページ公開―なお、甲斐性なしパパだとママが処刑","representativeArticleId":"a_1795918f3bc050c5c5fff431","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Family Time\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-14T13:46:25.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-14T13:46:25.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-14T15:13:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/14/172255.html","title":"ケモノ娘いっぱい養うシム『Family Time』Steamストアページ公開―なお、甲斐性なしパパだとママが処刑"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Family Time"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}