So, let's get this out of the way.
I love NTR. I love the genre, I love the kink, I love the tropes. My and my husband even dabble in sharing and "cheating" in our real life relationship. I especially like the phone UI subgenre that's cropped up recently. I think it's a unique and fun way to explore I genre I like. So, when I say that A Wife's Life is one of the worst games I've ever played, you know I'm not some NTR hater who played a clearly labeled NTR game and got mad at encountering NTR.
But before I get into the bad, let's try to find some good. The UI is pretty good. It works. No bugs. The writing is mostly decent English. The dev tries, and mostly succeeds, in using consistent models for each of the main characters. The build up is pretty hot.
Everything else is trash.
The main character is the dumbest motherfucker in the world. Even for an NTR protagonist, which tend to be pretty dumb, he is a fucking idiot. He finds out his wife is cheating multiple times. He's seen it. She's admitted it. But not even two in game days later, he's back to his long monologues about how his wife would never cheat and he would never believe that she'd cheat on him.
This happens multiple times.
And not just with his wife, either. Every single character that does him wrong, either by fucking his wife, or sabotaging his job, he constantly goes on these monologues about how this person wouldn't do these things to him. And even when he does finally admit that, okay, these people are fucking him over, nothing happens. He just puts up with it, says he's going to do something about it, and then never does. And that brings up the most annoying part of this game.
The dev seems to be psychologically incapable of upending the status quo. The MC must always be incredulous that people who have betrayed him multiple times would ever betray him. He must always hate that his wife is cheating, yet constantly waffle about whether he should leave her or not. And let's be clear, this isn't an MC who secretly likes being cheated on. He hates it. There is literally no reason why he should be staying in this situation. His best friend tried to fuck his wife, but he still won't sever the relationship. His wife is outright staying out all night fucking black guys and he still isn't sure he should divorce her. And every time he actually makes a decision to change his circumstances, the narrative will just...keep going. Every day he'll say "I need to do ______" and then he never does it. There is no logic, here. Not even porn logic. If you told me this game was an experiment to see how long a writer could keep a story going without ever upsetting the status quo or have any character development, I'd believe you. It's just...so bad. It's so bad it distracts from the porn. This guy is so miserable and so pathetic that you just end up holding your quickly softening dick feeling sad and vaguely embarrassed for him.
The premise for the NTR is also really stupid. There's a migrant camp that constantly gets the female employees hooked on drugs that turn them into nymphos, but no one ever investigates it because "the government supports the migrants". I'm sorry, but even the most left wing, culturally suicidal European country wouldn't turn this much of a blind eye to the literal rape camp set up in their city. Especially not if the migrants are constantly sending the MC texts with proof of what they're doing. Look, I know NTR games usually have unrealistic premises, especially BNWO games, but at least those games usually operate within the limits of their own established logic. This game never even tries. MC is just told "there's nothing you can do" and he accepts it. He whines about it constantly, but he accepts it without ever trying. It's so frustrating.
So, yeah, I hate this game. And I hate that I hate it, because I should love it. It hits so many of my kinks, and the beginning is so promising. But fuck, man. It's so bad.
I love NTR. I love the genre, I love the kink, I love the tropes. My and my husband even dabble in sharing and "cheating" in our real life relationship. I especially like the phone UI subgenre that's cropped up recently. I think it's a unique and fun way to explore I genre I like. So, when I say that A Wife's Life is one of the worst games I've ever played, you know I'm not some NTR hater who played a clearly labeled NTR game and got mad at encountering NTR.
But before I get into the bad, let's try to find some good. The UI is pretty good. It works. No bugs. The writing is mostly decent English. The dev tries, and mostly succeeds, in using consistent models for each of the main characters. The build up is pretty hot.
Everything else is trash.
The main character is the dumbest motherfucker in the world. Even for an NTR protagonist, which tend to be pretty dumb, he is a fucking idiot. He finds out his wife is cheating multiple times. He's seen it. She's admitted it. But not even two in game days later, he's back to his long monologues about how his wife would never cheat and he would never believe that she'd cheat on him.
This happens multiple times.
And not just with his wife, either. Every single character that does him wrong, either by fucking his wife, or sabotaging his job, he constantly goes on these monologues about how this person wouldn't do these things to him. And even when he does finally admit that, okay, these people are fucking him over, nothing happens. He just puts up with it, says he's going to do something about it, and then never does. And that brings up the most annoying part of this game.
The dev seems to be psychologically incapable of upending the status quo. The MC must always be incredulous that people who have betrayed him multiple times would ever betray him. He must always hate that his wife is cheating, yet constantly waffle about whether he should leave her or not. And let's be clear, this isn't an MC who secretly likes being cheated on. He hates it. There is literally no reason why he should be staying in this situation. His best friend tried to fuck his wife, but he still won't sever the relationship. His wife is outright staying out all night fucking black guys and he still isn't sure he should divorce her. And every time he actually makes a decision to change his circumstances, the narrative will just...keep going. Every day he'll say "I need to do ______" and then he never does it. There is no logic, here. Not even porn logic. If you told me this game was an experiment to see how long a writer could keep a story going without ever upsetting the status quo or have any character development, I'd believe you. It's just...so bad. It's so bad it distracts from the porn. This guy is so miserable and so pathetic that you just end up holding your quickly softening dick feeling sad and vaguely embarrassed for him.
The premise for the NTR is also really stupid. There's a migrant camp that constantly gets the female employees hooked on drugs that turn them into nymphos, but no one ever investigates it because "the government supports the migrants". I'm sorry, but even the most left wing, culturally suicidal European country wouldn't turn this much of a blind eye to the literal rape camp set up in their city. Especially not if the migrants are constantly sending the MC texts with proof of what they're doing. Look, I know NTR games usually have unrealistic premises, especially BNWO games, but at least those games usually operate within the limits of their own established logic. This game never even tries. MC is just told "there's nothing you can do" and he accepts it. He whines about it constantly, but he accepts it without ever trying. It's so frustrating.
So, yeah, I hate this game. And I hate that I hate it, because I should love it. It hits so many of my kinks, and the beginning is so promising. But fuck, man. It's so bad.