This one is kind of hard for me to rate. On one hand, I kind of like it. It has good worldbuilding, the dialogue is well done, the models are great, the story has me hooked, and the writing has me feeling things.
On the other hand, most of those things it's making me feel are exasperated and annoyed.
This is yet another porn VN that focuses way too much on the VN and not enough on the porn. There's a lot of plot and characters talking to each other and teases of actual sex, but it takes way too long to get there. That, coupled with introducing a mystery, leading up to the reveal of what happened, and then pulling the rug out from under you because the characters refuse to talk about it just ends up pissing me off. It's so painfully obvious that the dev wants to drag things out and can't do it organically, so instead they resort to lame melodrama tropes. I should not feel like I'm watching a JJ Abrams TV drama (in the bad ways) when I'm playing a porn game.
That said, I'd feel bad rating this any lower even though I'm probably going to delete it off my computer after writing this without even finishing the second chapter. I play porn games to edge for an hour or two and then cum. This game can't facilitate that at all. But it's still a well made game, and I understand that this is largely a case of the developer's aims not lining up with mine. And that happens, I get it. But it still annoyed me enough that I needed to vent this review out.
So, if you're one of those people who like story and character development to be the focus of your adult VNs, with the actual porn a secondary, at best, consideration, this might be for you. You might enjoy the melodrama and the way characters tend to react "realistically" to things instead of with porn logic. (This is the first porn game I've played where a mother catches their kid jacking off and there's not even a hint of her being turned on or curious, for example. And there are others. Basically there's a lot of set ups to what would be sex scenes in other porn games that the writing seems to go out of its way to tell you will never actually happen)
But if you're like me and you play porn games to get off, you can safely skip this one. Or download the gallery unlocker and see if there's anything coming up that might be worth your time.