Lust Campus & College Craze come close to scope and are personalised 2d drawings, but they are just started so its just promise as of now.
Shattered is the only game so far I feel which respects the choices and leads to various paths like GGGB but there are straight, gay, sissy and fem/male dom paths & MC starts out as bisexual so might not be to everyone. Its almost done.
I posted a list of good (my pref) Fem MC games in this thread if you are interested.
Thanks. Took me a while to find, you have a ton of posts in this thread.
To anyone curious:
Lust Campus (looks interesting, but it's too early to tell)
Jessica O'Neil Hard News (promising, but sadly the development pace slowed to a crawl)
A Wife and A Mother (probably the prime example for glacial development and blueballing on this site)
A Mothers Love (OnHold, played it quite some time ago and I remember it as being fairly linear)
Luna's Fall from Grace (Haven't played this one, might do so, but the setting puts me off a little bit)
The Office (Didn't play that one either, but 5 tags including 3DCG and Male Protagonist, plus the disclaimer 'This game is very short' don't get my hopes up
)
Free Pass (I played the last version before the reboot. Wasn't bad at all, but also pretty early in development)
Angelica's Temptation (I played the - now abandoned - "original" game, but I'm not sure I've played the
reboot. I'll download it.)
Project Myriam (It's a great game I had mentioned myself. My main problem with it is that so much stuff already happened, it's kinda hard to imagine the places the game could still go to.)
Healslut (Not really interested in this kinda theme, sadly)
I just finished New Coral City and while it has the abandoned label, apparently dev still working on it plus the game is MASSIVE in its current state so I'd check it out - many complex branching paths, slightly more linear than GGGB (tho lets be honest GGGB is like 5 fairly similar paths then the tyrone which is out there then the drug gang which is WAY out there), but NCC has similar high impact-decisionmaking early on - just don't piss off Yoshi too much!!
Yeah, I tried New Coral City, the first part when the second had just come out.
I agree that it's quite convoluted (in a good way), maybe it's even more varied than GGGB, but I didn't think it was AS good. Still, I liked it, and only didn't mention it precisely because it was abandoned. Maybe the dev is still working on it, but if so, it's at a glacial pace.
Anyway, to anybody else reading, I agree part 1 is worth checking out.
I'm a bit worried about your description of ORS. Still, I'll likely play it at some point.
It's exactly this that makes Japanese VNs unique. It feels like an adventure when my choice(s) lead me to different storylines.
Yeah, agreed, in some games this is used to great effect. It's a completely different experience, though. I have played a fair share of japanese VNs, I even tried to overcome my dislike of "pure" manga graphics, with the huge eyes and strange expressions and whatever.
No offense to those into that, but it's just a bit off-putting to me for some reason, so I really have to play these games in small doses. The "westernized" manga is easier to fathom ... I'm talking ANIM or Active's games.
Another great thing about GGGB (as an adult game) is that it obey's the writer wisdom "brevity is an art form". These wild side stories in japanese games often require a massive time investment to read through, and often enough, the stories aren't really stellar.
Sometimes - in adult VNs, there isn't a ton of "action" either. Other games have tons, there's no general rule. Anyway, I feel GGGB's length and pacing is very good - always a matter of taste, of course.