Unity - Abandoned - Dark Affection [v0.36a] [Nudis]

This game has great potential, but beginning is too long and boring. Art is fine however it could be better. The main reason why I llike this game is plot and variety of hot girls. The most annoying thing is repetitiveness and by that I mean using map to find girls, buying stuff for crafting items and buying gifts. I don't like this kinds of mechanics in games especially visual novels.

Nice art with an interesting story as well as a good corruption / mind control mechanic. So why 3 stars? The game being on a timer means that you can't experience everything you want to on one save, the corruption feels like it has no impact on the characters (e.g as their corruption stat increases they don't behave, or dress differently).

Amazing art coupled with atrocious game design.

Art is good and girls are hot, unfortunately that's about it for positives.

Game itself is pure suffering. Unironically almost everything this game tries to do even average Ren'Py games do better.
UI is garbage, it is so minimalistic what it takes you a second to even notice it. Also choice of having quick load right next to your save button is amazing (A lot of games do this, but you usually can save by right clicking so risk of misclicking isn't high. Well not in this game).
Terrible time management. In this game most actions will progress time forward. So instead of exploring and doing what you want you are forced to do what game demands. Sometimes in dialogue you will receive directions (no quest journal btw) like "go visit X" so logically you go and visit X right? WRONG, you actually need to do anything but visit X. "go visit X" is an automatic task, it will be done regardless and by doing it yourself you just wasted time segment (amazing game design).
Map. It's almost like a parody. You have a lot of locations and they are almost always empty. You have no way of knowing if someone is in a location. Your only option is to visit it to check and then move to the next location (Just put a small icon above location with a girl's picture). Also during second week game dumps even more locations, i honestly laughed at this, like i said beyond parody.
Girl's corruption. It is a bit annoying but mostly fine. You need to corrupt girls by using heart item. And you need to rise their love (like you need to rise their love since without love you can only kiss them) by gifting them garbage (candy/chicken/etc). It isn't too hard/tedious to get these items, but it is a bit grindy. Real problem is, you can only use one item at a time and using it will progress time. So to rise their love/corruption you need to constantly jump around the map searching for a girl just to get +5 love/corruption.

I honestly think there is no reason to play this game right now. Maybe wait until it is finished and dev worked on the design a bit more.

I know I'm being unfair since this is like the early stage of the game but Imma get it out of my chest.

• You have really low control in this game. Despise having a lots of choices shown in the map, Most of the times your only option is to follow instructions. When you do something the MC will moan that "I can't go there" or "we're wasting time". I can't even go buy gifts for the waifus, you have to do it in specific time or day.
• You only have free choices on only 2 decisions. You're being punished by choosing to be a good guy meanwhile most of the content is locked behind a "bad decision"
• More than half of dialogues in this game is MC and the voice in his head. Story pacing is slow, so after 1 hot session, you have to go through another 15 min of MC and Spirit argument dialogue. If you only come here to fap, turn on the unseen text skip and press control during dialogue.
• Always leave at least 3G in your inventory, trust me.
• You have to go the bathroom everyday, literally 1984. /s
• I can't turn off the voice acting wtf

Tbh, I like this game and I wanted it to succeed. I like the art-style, I like the animations, I like the story, but I think the dev should give player more freedom and control of the choices. Also make the story pacing a little faster. I think there should be a system where when MC refused to do what the spirit told in important situation. MC will not only get the white points but his mind strengthen too. The more your mind strengthen the less the spirit have control over you. And Please Please Please Please Please add quest note function in future update I beg of you.

Still don't let me decided this game for you since this review is purely based on my own experience. If you like it then yeah I hope you really enjoy the game. But this is a 6/10 for me. I hope the dev improved a lots of things in the future.

A superb start to an exceedingly interesting game. It needs to be a little clearer on the locations on the map. maybe have the names or something attached? Mmmmmm, possibly have a walkthrough mod attached or something similar or a warning about money spent? I had to restart twice for buying gifts for girls when a certain something insisted, I go buy other things at the mall.-

Dark Affection

Version reviewed: Ep.2

It's good! I like that it has an overarching story and it's not just a simulation/sandbox. On the other hand as of episode 2 the sandbox elements aren't really put to good use: you have multiple maps with many points of interest, half a dozen (or more) characters to interact with, but the game gives you little time to explore and little to randomly discover. For example I wanted to gift a book to the science girl but after I bought it I didn't manage to meet her before end of the episode since the MC always "had to go somewhere".

Defiantly not the right visual novel if you're looking for a quick fap, but if it's an original story you're looking for than this seems promising. While the first episode is mostly exposition and setup, the intriguing backstory, nice looking character art, and occasional erotic scenes will help you get through it. Hopefully the next episode really opens up more freedom as the developer says so the ball can really get rolling. Definitely one to keep your eye on.

I'm certain that the actual content is fine but, good lord! does it take too long to go through the story. Even skipping the tutorial does little to help with the time you are spedning clicking. A skip button would solve all my issues