While there is clearly a Starless feeling in the setting, Starless was anything like this in the realization. Starless is crude and explicit, with the effect of lacking sense and most of the time feeling like a joke. This game, however, has real character development and so far it feels like the character not only are believable, but the situations are subtle and every erotic scene felt more like character manipulation than simply threatening the victims, as it happens with Starless.
That is, if anything, is Starless done right.