Let me start by saying that this game is unique. This is not a judgment of it's value, I'm not trying to do that just yet, so it just means that there is no other game like it. Let me explain why.
This is first and foremost an incest game. It explores several family relationships:
- mother/son
- mother/daughter
- brother/sister
- 'mother'/sister
- and then also
- 'mother'/female friend
- 'mother'/young male friend
- 'mother'/blackmail
- 'mother'/nursejob
- 'mother'/sex ed teacher
This is second a real slow burn game. So in most games, for whatever reason, you have normal burn or quick burn. It is typical for a mother to walk into her son's room while he's getting dressed and start thinking 'I need that dick, it's such a shame he's my son' and by the next scene she's already lusting and ready to start the usual handjob, blowjob, titjob, etcjob and fuck routine.
Slow burn games take it a bit more slow, the mother doesn't immediately want the dick oh no, she first has a couple of 'I can't do this' type of thoughts, so it takes at least three scenes for her to accept the dick as her new pal.
Now...real slow burn games, of which exist very few out there, they try at least to make some real world sense. Why would a mother or a sister or a brother lust for a family member like they are strangers? It's not an easy thing to happen, it takes time and it needs lust and passion to build up to a point where the desire takes over the logical centers of the brain.
That's what you get with AWAM. That's the main kink it has and it's very powerful to the right fans. You get a lot more EROTIC than PORN in such a game which is why the porn lovers hate on it so much and constantly complain about there being no fucking after so many years of development. They don't understand what genre of game they are playing.
Another one of AWAM's biggest strengths is represented in the relationship list I wrote back there. For the fans of the erotic and the 'real slow burn', they tend to start losing interest in a game when the lust stops winning and the logical takes over. Once the mother loses all inhibitions and just wants to fuck with no moral issues (and you've seen a couple of sex scenes), well you're done. You lose interest after that.
But AWAM is being developed in a way where you basically have 10 different games in 1! Ten different paths, where you get to enjoy the discovery of giving in to the lust ten different times, in ten different scenarios, each one with it's different erotic appeal.
You could make a separate game based on just one of these paths with some 3000 renders and just over a year of development time. By trying to advance 10 paths the dev will ofc need, idk 30000 renders? That takes a lot of time. He's up to some 17000 now so still a ways to go.
Of course all paths could be fucking right now but that would've meant less renders per path which would've meant the mother had to 'ok let's fuck' by day 2.
The quality in particular I find it to be very good. The game is some 7 years old right now and the render quality has improved greatly. Animations were added that are very well done and I am a fan of the erotic situations created by the dev. The writing is good even if it slides a little bit here and there but it does a very good job at depicting these close to reality scenarios instead of the typical 'let's fuck' VN's.
In conclusion, if you're a fan of the erotic slow burn that makes it feel a bit more real in the gradual way the inhibitions are shed by the MC, this game will keep on giving for years to come. Even when in one path the 'mother' accepts that it's time to give in to lust and have sexual encounters, you will be able to repeat that feeling in a different path and then another and another...and it's a powerful sensation if this is your kink.
PS: Now, if by some way or another (adding helpers, using AI in some fashion, etc) it would be possible to speed up the creation of them renders to like 300-400 every 2 months so that we can have a steady flow of updates instead of it going over 4 months some times...that would be perfect!!!
PS2: Wouldn't mind some good sound work as well to round up the playing experience.