HTML - 7 Days with My Stepmom [v0.6.0] [Amoralea]

Interesting premise ruined by terrible AI dialogues and only semi-functional programming (I'm fairly sure it's AI as well).

If you're going to use AI to write your story you need to be capable of correcting any errors it gives (there are LOTS here).

I wish this concept had gotten a better production, because it could have been interesting.

Don't know why this game has bad reviews, I think it's pretty great. Different enough from other games mechanically to be novel. Simple enough to be a fap game. Open enough to feel like you have some choice, without giving you so many options that you get lost or bored.

Good
- Scenes are decent
- UI is OK

Bad
- Dialogue gets really weird sometimes.
- Scene quality is hit or miss

Ugly
- Continuity is basically non-existent
- Decisions sometimes make zero sense and do the opposite of what you think they're going to do.

This game was a really poor experience for me. The gameplay consists mostly of just guessing what choice you need to make to advance the story and/or not get a game-over, plus some mindless minigames. You have to guess most of the time because either there isn't enough context provided in the choice or it's so poorly worded that you don't know what it means. Then, even after you make a choice, other characters sometimes respond like you made a completely different choice or they just say something random. There's almost no feedback to let the player know they're making the right choice, so it's easy to end up going down a path that you realize is wrong, but the rollback queue is very short and sometimes intentionally disabled, so you usually can't rollback to fix it, and then you have to restart, again. I played one minigame, which didn't seem very difficult but also wasn't entertaining. You pretty much have to play this game like a robot trying to find the right sequence of choices through brute-force. I ended up playing for about 30 minutes before I just couldn't take it anymore. If the writing wasn't complete garbage and if there was good feedback after making a choice, then I would've kept playing.

The game barely has any content - it's the usual poorly designed interface paired with terrible writing that results in the player having to randomly click a bunch of buttons until they hit the right one and unlock the next equally uninteresting part of a forced story.

The dialogue is mediocre and full of broken English. Here's part of an actual conversation:

- How disgusting... I don't know how they can treat you like that
- Well... I also bring it on myself.
-It's not your fault at all
- Well, I'm the one who goes to drink.

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It also features one of the most annoying minigames I've ever played, and it asks you to pay for the "premium version" to disable it.

That's right: intentionally adding an annoying mechanic and trying to get people to pay to get rid of it, all while featuring broken code and tags all over.

Minigame are almost impossible, and even if you paid you can't skip it(Yes I subscribe, and you paid for nothing,very nice).

The videos are great but this....

Dev really needs to change that if he wants his game to perdure and not to be skipped.

For me it's a no, and I will delete my subscription,

Edit 30/04/25 :
Well my review was too impulsive.

The dev is really active.
The game is fun, and with the issues for the mini-game resolved, it is more "free friendly" than before.

The story is still not so great, but the video are really great.

I will upgrade my note for it and advice you to try it now.

The pictures and videos are okay.

The story doesn't make a great deal of sense and there's some weird continuity (at one point I fucked the stepmother out of the blue and then next day she wants nothing to do with me?).

The minigame is entirely obnoxious and you can turn it off by subscribing? Just absolutely abhorent way of making people pay for your game.

Otherwise it's mediocre at absolutely best, but the minigame (and the way it's designed to be increasingly annoying and so encourage you to subscribe) is gross.