Despair Dilemma is being made at an A5 size, and will be roughly 6x9" on your shelf including the hardcover.

If you backed IT THAT LURKS as well as Despair Dilemma, you'll get two designs - one from Despair Dilemma and one from IT THAT LURKS. You'll receive your copy from us with Despair Dilemma and your copy from IT THAT LURKS from them.

All tiers offer to put your name in the book as a special reward exclusive to backers. Once you get access to your pledge manager, you'll be asked how you want to be referred to in the book - this is how you'll appear - however, Double Summon Games has the right to not include any offensive or illegal options.

Despair Dilemma, and all of our other projects, are 100% AI free. We believe strongly in supporting artists and that quality work can only come from people making creative and interesting choices. BackerKit itself has a strong Anti-AI policy, so you can feel secure that all other projects joining Pocketopia are also AI free.

While it's possible with further stretch goals we may get more art done by new artists, we have two main artists who have contributed to Despair Dilemma. The cover art for the game is done by Cassandra Rose, and the art for Usashi has been done by MasuPasu. Both of them are fantastic artists, and you should absolutely check out their work and support them!

All you need to do is back both Despair Dilemma and IT LURKS INSIDE at a physical tier before the end of Pocketopia 2025! You'll receive a question in your pledge manager asking what design you want, and you'll receive it alongside one of your physical rewards.

If for whatever reason, you are unable to receive your book or something goes wrong in shipping, we'll do our best to offer you a refund for the relevant rewards. Otherwise, since we are delivering some digital rewards as soon as the campaign ends, we won't be able to offer refunds at this time for those pledges.

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