About Come Home
I was just asking myself why I like Come Home.
I mean, I've written some of it in the
review, but usually I play a game and then move on for a couple of months or half a year until there's enough content for another hour or two of fun.
So why did I join its Discord? Why do I keep hanging around here? Why did I even join the beta testing team?
I may have some answers to these questions.
rjrhodes you are probably not going to like all of the words, but it's another round of feedback.
On many levels Come Home comes close to what I am looking for in adult video games.
When I first played one I thought:
"Where were you when I was a teen?". Seriously, I've been playing video games for a long time, but none of them had explicit sex content. I enjoy that. When I play an AVN, I play it for the sex. Not ashamed of that.
Not ***only*** for the sex, of course. I want a story that is more than just a connection between sex scenes, a real story, but not too heavy. I read for a living at the moment, so I want something easy to follow, not too shallow, but not too much drama and sixteen different strings and arcs that are delicately woven together (until the game is abandoned, because most devs who try seem to realize at some point that they are not Shakespeare and should have tried only eight narrative strings tops, but that's a different story). Such a story needs believable characters to carry it.
So far that is: I want sex, I want a good, easy story I can relax and wank to, and I want believable characters.
I find much of that in Come Home. It is refreshingly normal.
The start is an old, but proven trope. MC comes home after some years away and re-connects with his family. It is clear from the beginning that there will also be a sexual connection. Which is perfect for me, because - another thing I look for in AVNs - it's on the list of kinks I like. Incest, or in this case step-incest, is something I like at the moment.
The relations between MC and all the other characters are building up at a good speed, not too fast so sex would be totally unbelievable, not too slow that you can write your own VN while waiting for some action, just right (for me).
And the chracters - and that is one of my main reasons I think - are not ridiculously over the top.
You have some adversaries, but it's not the Mafia or some high-powered crime family with an evil antagonist who will torture-rape your loved ones until they tell them all my sectrets, no.
They're normal criminals (so far). A bunch of meth heads.
Also some more white trailer trash aka Reba's mom, who is also a lowkey tragic figure. Born into poverty I bet she had dreams like Reba, but ended up an opinionated, fat, and sad person.
And let's not forget about the fiancé of your co-worker. He might get upset and break a commandment or two when he learns about the copy room adventures.
The rest are typical town characters, none of them is really larger than life. Even Mrs. Mills isn't just a harrassing stereotype. She doesn't blackmail or coerce, she's even quite open about that she enjoys being in control and dominating her male subordinates. Apart from that she's a tough lawyer, like there are many in every town.
The only unbelievable aspect is the one I also explicitly like in AVNs, and that's the MCs partners' willingness to accept a "harem route" through the game. Another thing I want: Games which I don't have to play over and over again to see all the sex scenes with all the characters.
Some might say some of the characters are boring, I say they're perfect for me. They do have a background, but not one seven pages long which I have to memorize to understand the story.
Apropos story. There is a disappearing scientist mystery hanging in the air. That has potential to be over the top, but doesn't necessarily have to. But even if, I'm a big sci-fi fan and so I'm optimistic I will have fun.
TL;DR: I like it. Will keep hanging around.
