Others - E-Thots: A NTR Game Set in a 100% PC Interface [Ch. 2 v2.4] [Archipote]

A great developer with the right priorities and principles.
The game as a whole is simply fascinating.
NTR through messages gives a strange sense of mystery, opening the way for your imagination.

The only downside for me was the speed of the dialogues. I read fast enough, so I got bored quickly, waiting for the end of the dialogue.

This game is quite unique. The code and the UI of the game are simply amazing, but as a game itself... I just don't get it.

I would describe it as a simulator of random shit happening. And gameplay-wise it's like two games in one:

Part 1:
• 20% of the time you are forced into reading random weird dialogues with three main girls. Are these dialogues interesting? Nope.
• 5% of the time you spend in a weird counterintuitive minigame, where you make choices that do something. The descriptions of these choices tell you nothing, neither the words used in these choices. Some choices affect lust and love stats that do... something ig idk
• 75% is transitions between fucking everything. Even with a finger constantly on skip (ctrl). I get it, it looks beautiful and all, but it would be at least good if there was really something interesting between these transitions
• 0,000001% is a couple of pictures with boobas

Then the game fucking changes completely as we enter part 2. While in the previous part we made choices that affected lust and love of our girls, now these stats are completely gone. Did they matter? Who knows. Anyways, here we go:

Part 2:
• 2 of 7 days of the week you work (new minigame where you distribute tasks to girls). If on both days you gave the same task to the same girl, you get a picture with them in hot clothes flirting or being harassed by random dudes. (no boobas this time, sorry)
• 5 out of 7 days you skip

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All in all, considering the production quality I can't believe how bad the game itself actually is. I constantly feel as if I'm somehow wrong and don't get it.

Leaving 2 stars for the amazing code, UI and pretty good renders

finally I could try this game since its require windows 10+ to run.
after spending about an hour I concluded this is not my cup of tea.
the MC is a prick. this overuse of wittiness is not cute just annoying.
how can u act like this nonstop it above my pay-grade. theres 3 main girls and they are all act strange. theres no real direction, its just random stuff happening with strange dialogs that try to be funny but its not. the mini-game is the same, again with strange text that I don't get, what is that supposed to tell me? how can I understand this world if its just gibberish.
I get options, but most of the time I don't know what to chose to make sense. sometimes I get events but again, no real continuity, just random stuff. some girl show boobs in live-tv and I can't understand why. is that supposed to be hot? its just ridiculous.

edit: after a PM from dev I decided to continue. Ch.2 is much better.
the Mc is calmer now. more "normal", still a bit odd, but ok.
gameplay is ok, but repetitive, the choices make more sense even if it could be a bit better. everything is smoother. I do however feel its too much linear, with this kind of game I expected more decisions. but so far I can't do anything. theres also a lot of things happening that I can not read and its a bit pity, would have been great to see more scene with the girls. I increase to 3 stars instead of 1 for Ch.2. chapter 1 is still 1 star.
the 3 stars are because of the UI and originaility. the characters are ok and u feel theres continuity when u read the messages.

The dialogue is fantastic but the sex scenes are few and far between. It's noticeably barren. A good erotic game has to have a balance of dialogue and sex, otherwise it loses its main appeal. The scenes that do exist aren't bad however.

Definitely not worth your time as of 2.2

The amount of positive reviews and comments made me think there was something special in here. But no. There's nothing.

The gameplay is repetitive. The 3 girls is exhausting when only your GF should be NTR. The transition from Part 1 to 2 is so jarring the mechanics changed completely. Confusing game design. No payoff yet.

its a great ntr game with solid funny writing, some character development, good (although not too many) sex scenes which are all realistically set within computer interfaces, as well as fun and unique progression

Moreover, the gameplay mechanics are top-notch, ensuring that player decisions significantly impact the narrative, keeping engagement and emotional investment high. The seamless integration of story and gameplay results in an immersive experience that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. Overall, this game is a masterpiece in narrative-driven design, deserving of high praise and a good score. I would say that it’s a really fun game to play; I really like the design of the characters, though I'm not a fan of nipple piercings, so I’ve changed my mind.

Funny Dialogue? Check.

Actually good game mechanics that tie into both story AND gameplay? Check.

Good CG's? Check.

NTR? Check. (ish)

The Game took me around an hour and a half to complete fully, was fun throughout and somehow I never felt the urge to skip any of the dialogue, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 had completely different main mechanics and that threw me on a wild spin for a bit before I actually understood what the fuck I was supposed to do but when it clicked, it was a nice feeling, kind of dissapointing that Hard NTR isn't in the game yet but at the same time, the game's early as fuck in development and the developer pumps out an actually fun game so I can't really complain that much

The only thing in future updates would be to make sure the player doesn't have too much empty time on their hands, as doing the girl command minigame on chapter 2 only for two days made the rest of the week empty, especially after I cleared all the dialogue.

Update/Edit: We can now work for 3 times a week, with minigames and little visual novel bits inbetween and we're slowly but surely getting more NTR as the updates roll out! Archi you are the goat....

9/10
Funny banter.
Great flow and pacing.
Hot dialogues.
And overall a very solid game.

One gripe with it: the tone of the game could be a bit misleading.
At the start, it seemed to me that the MC was acting like a piece of shit - and my first thought was: "Ah, it would be one of these..."
But then other characters started to dish out just as they were receiving, so it was clear - it is just banter all around.
And a really entertaining one. When you get used to it.

//Also I liked the card system much more than a Chapter 2 remake.
- In cards, you have funny, entertaining, and sometimes hot dialogues - with an occasional reward of the hot scene. And that's in every single card.
- In the remake you threw it all away for the sake of... mindless grind?
Although it's hard to call it a 'grind' when you need to do the thing only twice to get a CG - but COME ON. It's a vastly inferior system to what was before that.
The light-hearted writing here is good. Use it.

A very well put together interface, too bad the writing is all incoherent, cringy edgelord crap and this comprises the vast majority of gameplay. It'll give you the odd random 3DCG image after you've sat through a dozen agonizingly bad conversations in the game's discord clone

I have to say this game is remarkably impressive from a technical standpoint. The animations, graphics and overall presentation value are so far beyond what you would see from most games on this site. The dev has done something that most really struggle with around here, and that's carve out both a very unique visual and mechanical identity for their game. Everything feels very original, and you can't say that often.

The game takes place from a desktop, which can seem limiting, but the dev has thoughtfully added several great apps with which to routinely interact. Usually when you have an interface like this it's packed with apps or widgets that are either useless or disinteresting, but almost everything seems to have a fun utility and the store is populated with items that are actually gratifying to purchase. The extra costumes, events, etc. This is such a solid foundation off of which to build a game.

I have to say, content wise, the potential seems limitless for fans of the genre. There's a basic framework for every kind of NTS/NTR here; cheating, extortion, prostitution, corruption, etc etc. and the female characters all look great. Plus this is an ecosystem that seems very easy to introduce new characters without feeling contrived. Also the different avenues through which you can get scenes (Despot, HotHoot, Story Events, Work Day Events) are all varied and add some refreshing multidimensionality to the experience. Hell, even the Twitch moderation minigame is a humorous and novel idea.

All in all great work, really. I really hope this project gets way more attention.

This game is truly AWESOME i loved it! You really nailed the way in which some young people (I think they are young in the game) would behave on social networks in line with their personalities! I love how the girl claims to be obsessed with the MC and yet she is unfaithful to him because she is interested in that thrilling feeling when she is doing it!
As a recommendation, and something that I personally would like to see... Some scene of the girlfriend with the MC's rival, you know? I don't know, him texting her and her falling into temptation and at the end she sends him pictures or something like that, or at the end they end up doing it... It's great, all while she still says she loves the MC unconditionally. It's something I would love to see

Good game overall, the card game is a bit confusing at first but seems to have a lot of consequences. Will have to see in the long term. MC is a bit irritating, but the female models are sexy and charming, each with their own personality. Still have to see how far NTR will go, but the concept is very original and so far well executed.

5/5 for this initial release, and excited to see what happens next

Love the unique UI and gameplay. Art is of course beautiful as is in his other game roselake. So far no NTR that is not avoidable as of the initial release that I found.

Only suggestion is that there should be a gallery mode or way to pick cards that you didn't pick the first time in case you wanted to go see a scene you missed out on. I also didn't know I could skip text using ctrl until the very end, for I forgot to save and had to redo some of it.

I would definitely give it a try! 10/10 recommend!

ARCHIPOTE’s e-thot is a plumply overripe fruit of the counterculture, dripping with the juices of spiritual rebellion, semi-comic posturing, consciousness-raising and all-around freakiness. Hardly a moment passes in this game without a situationist display of outrageousness, it is a dream tableau of the weird and occasionally wonderful.

Unlike his celebrated breakthrough Rosulake Lobelia, this is less like a spaghetti-LSD metacricisme urban dystopia, notionally more political, and more satirical. But the key Archipote tropes are still there: the absurdism, the hedonism, the tpagano- mysticism. Some of the nudity scenes reminded me of the stoned hippy in Savitri Devi novel Ligthning and the Sun talking about establishing “a socialism of the emotions”.

For all that this entirely bizarre game is pre-eminently of its time, some of the more cultish scenes may put you in mind of the Ayahuasca ceremony , with middle-aged people wearing white robes and earnestly "vomiting up" their demons. the tone is very characteristic of Archipote artwork: not deadly serious, but certainly without 21st-century neo puritanisme and desillusion.

There are countless images of superlative weirdness, some of which I can never forget, such as this woman spending her time playing demonic catalysed autistic game like trial of cold steel 4, making the spiritual ascent of the game more hazardous.

As with Losulake Lobelia, some of the contrivances look a bit dated, but this is a key work of gaming’s great showman-provocateur, battling against conformity and dullness.

it's a surprisingly good game, not just a reigns with porn.
story is funny, even if the MC is an asshole but that what's fun
3D is really verygood

I really want to see what happens next, and more scene with morgane

5/5

*edit* - The developer has since updated the game and released the patreon version for people to try out in a good faith effort to remediate many of the issues people had.

Unfortunately, I just think the game isn't for me. As I said previously, it's pretty and the UI is great, but I didn't enjoy the gameplay loop and it got a little tedious a little too fast for me.

I think another issue I have is that the game is a little too irreverent. I appreciate some comedy, but it feels like it's a little over the top (again, personal preference, it's not my game after all).

I'll check in again in a few updates.

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It's pretty and it has what seems like a well-designed and implemented UI and game system.

However, I found it shallow, unconvincing and the absolute douchebag of a MC that I'm supposed to associate with really turned me off from the game.

I thought the plot was weak and uninspired and the gameplay was pretty tedious for the most part.

I might take a look in the future to see if it improves, but wouldn't recommend it at the moment.

It's rare to see games in this style, most often they have 200 buttons, most of which are designed to say "not now, mate", or the interface sucks. I really liked that the desktop behaves like a desktop, the interface is nice, finally a quality game.

Although I play mainly female character games, this game is also good, people have their own personality (how much of it can be conveyed through e-dialogues and so on)

The 3D art is also good and there is enough of it.

It's funny that you can change your desktop wallpaper, even though I'm not a fan of AI art (perhaps they are here to avoid copyright)

The gameplay is interesting, I hope in the future more types of agency management will be added to it, or other things will be added to it so that it does not become repertory.

There are practically no bugs, I found one, but it does not affect the gameplay in any way

Not just "skip for porn"
Good 2 hours, I recommend it