Looking for another game to take away the melancholy afflicting me after finally playing Acting Lessons (an absolute masterpiece by the way, Ana notwithstanding - I went in knowing exactly what happens and it still broke me into weepy little pieces!) I rediscovered Family Man. And it was the perfect remedy: a nice straightforward, but sexy as hell, game with great characters, though the writing is a little rough in places (since
@MMstudios posts on this site I attach my proofreading with suggested spelling corrections etc. for their consideration).
One of the outstanding features of this game are the highly distinctive character models. You can really see the care taken by the dev in creating something different, something very of, and only of, Family Man - no minor tweaking of the most popular/used Daz models here. My favourite is the totally unique Samantha, who is now in my top 3 for sexy game girls (admittedly I do like variety and unusual design choices: the other two are Amy from Love And Submission and Karen from Ethan's Legacy, who was the first realistic MILF I ever saw in a game, and as such also received a lot of uncalled for shit about her appearance). The picture of Sam in MC's arms from the swimming pool scene now alternates with one of the aforementioned Amy as my desktop wallpaper. They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and in my eye Sam IS beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Whilst I have no regard for posters making superficial judgements like "Character X is an uglyshit frog" when, with a bit of respect and manners, they could rather say "I find her unattractive", it still saddens me that more people cannot see past their limited definitions, see the wider beauty of the female form. If nothing else she has a smoking hot body and a truly magnificent ass! Subjective assessments of attractiveness aside, and whilst I concede that, if you are only interested in wanking, judging purely on appearance is a valid play-style, for anyone interested in story the girls personality must be a factor, and Samantha is simply adorable. She is the epitome of sweet innocence - I love her simple enthusiasm, her wonder-struck appreciation of MC's little considerations and her affectionate physicality. She just charms the pants off me, and I wish I could return the favour! Now, I am a pirate from necessity, not any natural miserliness, and I have only ever pledged on Patreon once before (when the creator of Ethan's Legacy, which introduced me to the porn game genre, returned) but if I thought Samantha was an actual romance option then I would pledge my measly $10 instantly. Unfortunately whilst there are hints about Ava and Carly (and even the unseen Mindy and Tiffany) this seems not to be the case.
The other outstanding feature of Family Man, for me, is the Alice route and this is because it really breaks my comfort zone of preferences. Normally I very much prefer to have a separate playthrough for each available girl in the game, remaining loyal to that girl throughout. I play the harem routes only because I am an OCD completist, to see all the game's content, but don't particularly enjoy them (because MC is usually a cheating, selfish arsehole). Similarly I don't like playing the kind of douche who would coerce a woman sexually. However, with Alice, and for reasons I am at a loss to explain, I find the whole subdued secretary scenario incredibly erotic, and the 'good' Alice sex scene is my favourite in the game. Alice, with her chunkier body, is also very, very sexy.
Of the other girls, Elie is great and I very much enjoy the instant, intense connection between her and MC (actually my first thought on this, given the title of the game, was previously unknown sister and 'genetic sexual attraction', before I realised there was no incest tag - a reflection, I guess, on the prevalence of this theme in porn games today). Scarlett is incredibly raunchy, but loses points with me because I can't really see a long term relationship with her, and Carly is so cute (which is a different kind of sexy). Ava is a no for me, even though I really like her more petite body, and for the same reason several others have posted here - the sex scene with Trent, and only because it seems like she is a possible romance option (come on now, would you really like to see a video of your girfriend having sex with her ex, particularly if she were enjoying it as much as Ava?). Paradoxically, I have no problem with Alice and Bill in their scene - maybe because MC is stealing Alice from him and he is kind of sad in bed. I will say that there was an excellent contrast in pictures for Ava, between her normal appearance and those of her in the pool with wet hair (I especially liked her laughing).
On the subject of the Ava sex scene, I notice it sparked a small flare up of the NTR debate we often get in game threads. As a suggestion to the mods, to alleviate the problem of these kinds of postings clogging up a thread, would it be possible to create a tag specifically for 'sex scene between a potential love interest and someone other than MC', which is the critical problem for many people, to distinguish this from NTR, where for fans of this fetish the essential feature seems to be that the girl must already be in a relationship with MC?
Anyway, hope the game continues for a long time.