Mess of ideas

[chubby_cat]

I'm digging your sketchbook; your designs and overall theme is very charming. Try not to be too discouraged by the release of similar games. It sucks, yea, but as you said nothing can be done about it (also considering these games have been in development for likely years to boot). You could try and flip it and use these new games to push your project - making sure your version is truly different by putting unique spins on the similarities. Your character designs seem a world different from Bugsnax, so you're on a good path imo

Keep it up!