Confession Game is a very linear visual novel that presents you with the ability to make simple choices that impact the final outcomes of the story. You can either hold out for your crush, or give in and find new ways to love.
Story and Gameplay
The story revolves around you finally rejecting your past crush because you now realize you actually love your senpai, who has grown close to you in the past year after a failed confession to that crush. She then starts a game with her friends to get you to do naughty thing with one of them, and you can either hold off to stay true to your senpai or give in to the wonderfully lewd activities. I won't claim a best girl, but the routes are fun to explore, if you don't mind potentially breaking other's hearts.
The gameplay is just decision making, so going with your gut reveals some interesting outcomes. Using saves to prevent bad outcomes is a tactic I used when I wanted, but some of the fun was just seeing what happens and enjoying learning more about all the girls.
Controls are a little awkward at times because they built what is just a visual novel in RPGM, when it would have been better suited in RenPy or other. Not bad overall though, and the translations were plenty fine in my experience.
The Sexy Stuff
There is a good variety of the types of naughty activities that the different girls try to pull you into, but all the scenes are pretty static images with sound and text describing the action. Body types available don't have too much variety, but are unique enough and actually have some impact on the story for each girl.
Content warnings: some paths and situations involve content that some may feel is cheating, with minor taste of netori. Whether it fully qualifies as that is debatable, but if that kind of content upsets you at all, it might be good to avoid.
Art and Sound
The music and sound effects are standard for this type of game, so nothing large to highlight here. The art is what I would also call standard, where nothing really stands above and beyond. What the art does really good at times though is be teasing and hot as the girls try to seduce you.
My Notable Highlights
- Fun execution of story. Multiple playthroughs meant I had fun on not just the "good" ending.
- Hot teasing art and scandalous seduction content
- Simple; doesn't try to be anything too fancy and delivers well on its premise
- Save-scumming is able to help you get the outcomes you want, even if you fail at certain points
Potential Flaws
- Nothing in the art or sound is particularly amazing, but just good
- Some minor translation issues (or just bad writing)
- Controls sometimes feel clunky and unrefined
My Conclusions
This is an okay game if you want to explore some of these flavors for the first time. The story and gameplay are built so you can get a vanilla ending, but the door is always open for you to just try new ways of "having fun" with some other girls. Maybe getting to know someone else could unlock fun new experiences for you? This game is worth a try, provided you don't mind the potential content warnings.