There’s pornography and there’s erotica. Both can be hardcore. Either way you’re usually going to see genitals bumpin’ together. But pornography is blunt force, thrusting flesh on flesh in front of your eyes and hoping you’re in the mood to abuse yourself, cause that’s it, folks, that’s what’s on offer tonight. You get your generic plot (Brother comes back from college and dicks down everything still moving in the house or a teacher plows through an assortment of sluts), your standard dirty talk (”fuck me with that big dick, bro, harder” or “pound this slut-whore pussy, you’re so much bigger than my husband”), and your pre-selected garden variety stable of wanton women who fuck at the drop of a dime.
Erotica is a horse of a different color. It coaxes you, draws you in, lures you with whispers and promises of illicit thrills and an awful good time. It teases you in all the right ways and if you dig the fetishes it has, and sometimes even if you don’t, you fall under its spell. It withholds full-on orgies and sex parades because it’s confident enough in its writing to turn you on in subtler ways, and keeps you hooked not just for the inherent promise of what’s to come, but with what’s happening right now. It can turn a smack on the ass or a thumb in the mouth into an orgasm-worthy moment, and even in the afterglow you find you’re still pressing the spacebar because you want to see what’s going to happen next. ‘But I’m The Bad Guy?’ is erotica, through-and-through. It is deeply powerful libido cocaine, and I really love what it’s doing.
The premise is actually quite simple. Doctor Groper gets sacked from his old job for too much gropin’ and high-tails it to the suburbs to start fresh. Immediately upon arrival, he meets his neighbor, an oblivious husband mowing his lawn, and the descent into corruption begins as soon as the husband’s wife steps out onto the terrace above them.
This is a slow-burn. As of the writing of this review on 0.28b, there is still no actual sex. But there is always something happening, something twisted and wrong and depraved. Doctor Groper has his eyes set on the husband’s wife and their two children, one girl, one boy (along with a big-tittied Asian pit-stop that could fit right into any decent JAV), and underneath every single scene there is this tantalizing current of power as Groper does unspeakable things to this dude’s family. Braces, carrots, juice boxes, a goddamned rubber ducky, everything becomes soiled in this lecherous ditty.
I’m not a 'trap' guy. At all. That fetish just isn't in my wheelhouse, and I've avoided or stopped playing other games because of it previously. But this story is so fucking good I sat through whole scenes of it. I didn’t skip shit (Yes, you are given the option to), because the dev knows exactly what he’s doing. The renders are great, sure, and the models for the women are already fap-worthy but the story, the writing, the situations the game provides; that’s where the power lies. And one last thing. There’s no rape, there’s no violence, there’s no gore, but make no mistake about it, this game is nasty. It’s not mean-spirited, but yes, Groper is absolutely the bad guy. If you’re cool with that, and with maybe needing to shower your soul later, this is primo, grade-A, powerfully erotic filth. I can not recommend this game highly enough.