All aspects of this game are mediocre; not outright bad, just passable and unimpressive. The screenshots are accurate to the final product, sans censorship. The writing is little better.
Gameplay is standard Renpy fare. The story is not very long, you have a decent quantity of choices but the plot is linear and it boils down to a route for each love interest.
Plot is contrived and you are not meant to think too hard about details.
The entire novel is contained in a small spaceship. The environment feels sterile, there's little to see or react to, and since the main character is an extraordinarily bland self-insert with no interesting thoughts, most of the novel consists of dialogue between the main character and one of the other characters individually.
The combination of dialogue-heavy story with a bland self-insert necessitates the others characters to be interesting but they aren't good enough.
The alien is horribly unaware of what makes humans work in silly ways that a bad data sample cannot explain. Its not really meant to be taken seriously but its not original or funny enough to be entertaining either. He spouts lore about his civilization that paints a low free-will, caste-based society but the writing can't depict his thought process or emotions as an genuine alien being; he feels more akin to a human without context to human behavior. And the romance came out of nowhere. He fell in love with the protagonist for literally no reason because the protagonist has literally no personality.
The other 'human' on the ship also falls short. His first conversation depicts him as smarter than our protagonist (a low bar to pass), but then further interactions make him hellbent on getting out with bold, reckless plans. The twist he gives on his route, so to speak, is interesting but clashes with his previous actions. Him falling in love with the protagonist is not executed better but its more palatable than the alien, as ingame they were just horny for each other and they spend months living together in the epilogue offscreen before they officially started a relationship.
Overall, its okay. Its never so bad it made me want to close the game, but it was pretty forgettable once I did.
Gameplay is standard Renpy fare. The story is not very long, you have a decent quantity of choices but the plot is linear and it boils down to a route for each love interest.
Plot is contrived and you are not meant to think too hard about details.
- You are inside a research vessel but it never felt like there was any research going on. You were held in a prison cell for about a week and then had a chat with the only alien in the ship.
- Said alien was horribly incompetent for the job and made nonsensical, amateurish mistakes.
- Human governments can detect the alien scanning the internet and can somehow limit the data the alien could get, giving them false, manipulated information. And gay porn for some reason (the alien canonically selected the abductees based on appearance to said porn).
The entire novel is contained in a small spaceship. The environment feels sterile, there's little to see or react to, and since the main character is an extraordinarily bland self-insert with no interesting thoughts, most of the novel consists of dialogue between the main character and one of the other characters individually.
The combination of dialogue-heavy story with a bland self-insert necessitates the others characters to be interesting but they aren't good enough.
The alien is horribly unaware of what makes humans work in silly ways that a bad data sample cannot explain. Its not really meant to be taken seriously but its not original or funny enough to be entertaining either. He spouts lore about his civilization that paints a low free-will, caste-based society but the writing can't depict his thought process or emotions as an genuine alien being; he feels more akin to a human without context to human behavior. And the romance came out of nowhere. He fell in love with the protagonist for literally no reason because the protagonist has literally no personality.
The other 'human' on the ship also falls short. His first conversation depicts him as smarter than our protagonist (a low bar to pass), but then further interactions make him hellbent on getting out with bold, reckless plans. The twist he gives on his route, so to speak, is interesting but clashes with his previous actions. Him falling in love with the protagonist is not executed better but its more palatable than the alien, as ingame they were just horny for each other and they spend months living together in the epilogue offscreen before they officially started a relationship.
Overall, its okay. Its never so bad it made me want to close the game, but it was pretty forgettable once I did.