Yes, most adult games and movies do share the same plot. But the problem here is, IMO, Do you need the same plot/theme shared with 3+ events? An example of this is Blackmail and Sex-Ed.
Blackmail:
- Mr. Bennett - Using Dylan's grades to his advantage with Sophia.
- Aiden - Threating Dylan to get what he wants out of Sophia.
- Don Morello - Possible Blackmail, based on reader interruption, but L&P said this isn't Blackmail. I guess you can look at it as a debt payment.
Sex-Ed:
- Dylan - The main plot to advance with Sophia.
- Ellie - During the shower scene, Sophia explains her thoughts on finding the right partner with Ellie and teaches Ellie how to find "The Sweet Spot." She may use this going forward to advance the sexual side, like Dylan.
- The 2nd Side Job - I'm not even going to touch this.
Old Men:
- Postman: I don't know what's going to happen here... So far, he's been delivering the mail.
- The 1st Side Job - Self-explanatory. Nursing Home.
The lesbian line is quite extensive as well. Again, I don't mind the different themes, but how many scenarios of the same themes do you need?
There’s a number of characters that could be “fused” in my opinion:
Alyssa/Amber
Sam/Zac
Vicky /Nathalie
Janitor/bennet
Oldmen/mail man
Subway thugs/homeless drunks
Carl/mr morello.
Etc, etc...
For example, what’s the point of Amber in the story? She’s not a love/sex interest for Sophia.
She’s just there for a side-storyline for Dylan when he comes back from boarding school every weekend (every 5 years in real life, at least...).
What is Zac, if not a subdued version of Sam?
Even their two last events were similar:
-Massaging Sophia shoulders
-A “what if” scenario
-Sophia in teasing mode
We even have a similar situation with Neil and Alyssa previous boyfriend of being 2 abusive people.
We could have the same situation that happens in the Neil event, but instead of nothing resulting of it (literally), here Amber/Alyssa would be in the event, witnessing what Neil did to Sophia. This would be the end of Neill as he would be kicked out of the house, ending in the same way where we’re at in the game right now:
-Neil was a one and only event and has been absent since then even narratively/plot wise speaking.
-Alyssa boyfriend was mostly a Neil that has been removed before the storyline.
Carl/don morello are basically rich guys that serves as plot devices that will help Sophia to get out of problematic situations.
The only interesting part of the janitor character was that he is a father that hasn’t seen is kids for four years and that Sophia empathized with him in that moment.
Instead of having 2 side characters, why not adding this background to Bennet, adding more depth to this character.
As you said we don’t need to explore the same theme/trope with slightly different characters.
In the same way that we don’t need 35 or I don’t know how many characters, to explore 35 themes/trope.
Not every character needs to be super profound with a deep backstory.
For example, I don’t need more background for Aiden than what has been given in the game to understand is attitude in life (basically feeling intouchable).
But some of the side-characters (and main ones) would benefit from being more fleshed out instead of being just kink/cliche/trope seen in every other corruption game and being transposed to the “realistic world” of awam.