Reposting my review from Andrash's bdsm thread
Animus Non Grata
BDSM rating: 5/5
Star rating: ****
Played v0.9.0 – the game’s story is complete and playable, but the renders are not finished yet (3/7 chapters have art so far). It’s html based visual novel with backgroundmusic. There quite a few choices (mostly boiling down to whether you are submissive or defiant) and a handful of different endings. For those who don’t like reading, be aware, that this is more an illustrated story than a game.
You play a woman who wakes up in Don’s house and are told that you are an android he saved from being scrapped. In exchange he wants you to be his sub until he removes the countermeasures from your body.
Has spanking, male domination, whipping, breath play, bondage, blindfolds, gags, device bondage and rough sex.
The renders are pretty, writing style is pretty good, sex scenes are well done and it’s obvious that the creator put in a lot of effort.
Now – to the bad parts – In every timeline, except for the on where you enthusiastically obey him and enjoy everything he does, Don comes across as an abusive, raging asshole and it’s no surprise that his wife left him. For someone supposedly into bdsm he really doesn’t get the whole consent thing. If the MC refuses, hesitates or asks him to slow down he is always a cruel ass-hat and does it anyway or punishes her. Which would be fine if he was depicted as a sadist that saved an android to get his own sex slave or if he didn’t consider her a person but the narration does not do that.
Recommended with the caveat that I consider Don an abusive predator who doesn’t understand bdsm.
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Normally I don't repost them in their threads, but here I wanted to tell
FlimsyLegs my thoughts. First I enjoyed the game, but like I mentioned the only playthrough, that feels organic is the one where you enthusiastically submit - and even there Don feels like a bit of a dick.
I'm not entirely sure how you could fix this since you already set up the story that way. On the romantic path you could introduce a fourth stat - Don_Consideration - that improves if you play along and has him act more kindly to the MC if she tells him to slow down or that she doesn't want to do something. Even a short scene inserted where he slows down or has a conversation with her after which she consents to his action would help make him more sympathetic.
On the defiant path - no idea really.
Don't get me wrong - I love the hard bdsm scenes, but there is a real dissonance between his nice moments and his asshole rapist moments. Maybe make the MC less defiant? Or make him more of an asshole who doesn't consider her a real person and gets more and more cruel until he ends up locking her up in a cage in the basement as his rape slave if she isn't compliant. That would make his character on the romantic path a lot more suspect though - is he only nice to her because she complies...
Or play up the "android, designed as a sex slave" thing - you hinted at it during the beginning where Don mentioned that he has to correct her if she starts acting outside of her training - maybe have her start going unstable immediately if she doesn't get some kind of bdsm-play, forcing Don to forcibly stabilising her with harsh bdsm play (thus giving him an excuse, because it's for her own good)
Seriously - it's up to you, but it doesn't work the way it is now. Hope that wasn't demoralising but constructive. I did enjoy the game.