Good stuff but it’s in desperate need of more content.
It’s a text based sandbox rpg which attempts to simulate college life (but also porn) in the magical land of the US and does a pretty good job at that… mostly. The tl:dr is it has a good skeleton but really needs more flesh, which looks to be coming in future updates. But to go into more detail:
-ART / MUSIC-
There isn’t any. Well there’s a couple of maps but no visuals or audio to speak of. This is a purely text based game, which is… cool, but also a big ask for most people to even consider trying it out. Adding some form of art to the game is probably its most requested feature and I’m inclined to agree it would be a huge boost. Grabbing an artist (paid in exposure) certainly couldn’t hurt. Even adding AI art might not be the worst idea here as characters are all randomly generated. Point is, some visuals to accompany the text would really improve the experience here but I get that it is fundamentally a text based game (and again that’s cool).
-GAMEPLAY / WRITING-
I would like to compare this to other lewd games of varying… degrees. But that’s sort of, maybe, against the rules here so I’ll refrain. On its own merits the sandbox elements are solid. It’s cool how you can create your own stories with npc’s and there’s different relationships you can trigger with each of them, like becoming friends, rivals, fuckbuddies, boyfriend/girlfriend etc. But the best relationship is unquestionably hatefuck, which can be a little hard to trigger but really fun when it does. Imagine like the nemesis system where a rival appears to slap you in the cock and get nasty.
Unfortunately these relationships are also lacking a ton of depth atm. Most events can only really be triggered by having them happen to you and the game can be really stingy with that. It can also be really annoying to raise some npc's friendship & lust to get these relationships to even happen. And then there’s some really bizarre situations you can end up in because the game doesn’t really account for prior events and sexual encounters. You can have had sex multiple times with someone but try to flirt with them even once and they will say they just aren’t interested in you. Do this at the River Rat bar and then wait around afterwards until they proposition you anyway for maximum hilarity. I’d like to petition the developer of the game to add dementia and tsundere as traits to the game so this can be an intended feature. There’s some other stuff like having relationships with professors, helping someone cheat on their partner (the no.1 cause for most relationship jank in this game) or cheating around in general which just feel painfully underdeveloped at the moment. Relationships in this game have a solid foundation but they ultimately feel very flat, which is a shame because it’s such a core part of the game.
The game is also very grindy, it can be really slow trying to raise some skills especially assertiveness and compliance (aka dominance & submission). There’s also a bit of a disconnect there as certain things have no impact on these skills, where I would argue they should. Side bets at the arcade for example don’t raise your dominance or submission. You can literally go down on nine people in a row as a punishment for losing and it has zero impact on your submission skill. Similarly as mentioned before relationships are also really grindy, raising an npc’s bars can be an absolute slog of repetitive events. Don’t even get me started on trying to raise an npc’s dominance or compliance. Having sex with an npc seemingly doesn’t seem to change friendship or lust. Being submissive or dominant during sex doesn’t seem to affect dominance or compliance (or it’s barely noticeable) and it’s all kinda disconnected.
The grind will probably become less of a big deal as more content is added along with more ways to increase these skills and relationships. But for now. If you dislike the grind. I honestly recommend going into the options and changing the skill and relationship multiplier to 2x or even 3x. I’m gonna be real with you, I don’t think there’s enough content in the game currently to justify playing out a full college year, in which this level of grind might be more tolerable.
-CONCLUSION-
If all that sounds harsh and that I must hate the game, I don’t. Truthfully I played this game solid for a couple of days and found it pretty addictive. The events in the game are good, the relationship system is a great foundation, the customisation options are cool. The special npc’s are really cool (love the D&D storyline in particular) though suffer from the same grind and rng issues the rest of the game has. I do think the direction the game is going in looks promising and I genuinely want it to keep going. Honestly my biggest problem with the game is; I want more of it. And that’s a good problem to have.
It's good shit so far but needs more time to cook.