Genuinely super impressed.
I didn't have the highest of hopes when starting the game. Expected a pretty generic harem game with a fantasy touch. It isn't.
Good renders, well-done animation, surprisingly intriguing plot-line on a well-paced slow burn, good world-building, likeable characters, but most of all some of the best writing I have seen in an adult game.
Genuinely made me smile and/or laugh at multiple parts. One reveal with the character Nova made me think "that is actually super badass" and made me forget I was playing an adult game and not a AAA JRPG or reading/watching a popular manga/anime.
In one scene, when the game tried to be creepy/scary (easily skippable/fast-forwardable for those of us out there who don't like frights), it was genuinely well-done and I was very impressed with the game quality. The mechanic used in that scene could easily be translated into a chapter of a new Resident Evil or Silent Hill game and be viewed as one of the iconic scenes of said game.
The core girls in the harem are all very likeable and I actually look forward to all of their stories, unlike most games where at least one girl ends up being fast-forward bait. Even the "best friend" character brings genuine laughs and is a likeable guy that you end up rooting for to be happy. A later joke with him had me genuinely laughing, and I'm really looking forward to the payoff.
One other note--I've gone long on this review as I'm genuinely super impressed--the overall game concept (the Eternum game) is honestly genius. It allows for a genuinely interesting real world plot-line, but also gives the developer(s) the opportunity to use any setting/genre they're interested in. Already, we've seen classical Greek/Roman, noir, fantasy, magic schools, cyberpunk, etc. Super creative idea that allows for more creativity in the future.
Will very much be looking forward to future updates and chapters of the game (the v0.3 tag means that the game currently has three full chapters, which are surprisingly long, wrap up their mini-stories well, and ends on a satisfying cliffhanger). The game dev's vision is one I'm genuinely interested in following, although I certainly wouldn't complain if we got more Penelope Instagram/modeling/photo-shoot scenes!