Review for v0.9
Wow I cannot believe how good this was. I'm a little blown away honestly. For a rather unassuming niche game, this borderlines to near masterpiece on what it actually does and accomplishes. Little disclaimer that I only did the statue related ending and content. There seems to be other side paths for things like living sex dolls, but that isn't my thing so I avoided it.
A Silent Statue, as of this version anyway, is a very short and sweet game. At least in regards to the ending I reached. On the way home from your shit job, your truck breaks down hours away from any place that could help. Oh, but there is a strange mansion nearby out in the woods. Let's go explore that. Wait, why are all these sexy women statues here? Wait, why are they moving???
Pretty simple all things considered, but you know what I didn't expect? How actually touching this sort of mini story ended up being. Maybe it's just striking all my particular cords, but this is genuinely one of the best romance stories I've watched play out in recent memory. It's not super deep, its not a many hours long slow burn, nor is it really as complex as other RPGM games may be. But how easy I got immersed within this is nuts.
Never would I have expected a dev to be able to give what is literally just a statue of an ass so much personality. And this goes for all the statue women. Genuinely, they all have such a surprising amount of character in the short moments you get with them. Then you get to the one that can actually speak, and seriously? She might be one of my favorite "love interests" out of the MANY games I've played. Obviously subjective, but I find her personality pretty much prefect. A guy could fall in love with that statue.
Even the MC I was able to connect with. The sort of genuine nice guy thing and how he really finds himself caring about these statue women and tries to make them happy is very sweet.
It's also worth praising the more technical aspects of the game too. The sounds and music are well chosen, the art is pretty solid (get the joke), and even the animations are surprisingly good. The sex scenes are on the shorter side, but still hit regardless. There's even a lot of small flavor text I enjoyed.
Really the only thing I'd want out of this at this point is a little playable epilogue giving me some more cute scenes (and new sex scenes) with the statue girls. Besides that, the game is already gold. If you're in the mood for something a bit different and this caught your eye, I truly do recommend it.