This review is based off Episode 7 and the tardy state of this game.
TLDR; it's not worth supporting this dev who is clearly in it for milking the game and shallow updates and terribly lazy work ethics.
Keeping the developer aside for a moment, let's talk about the game first. ISR doesn't offer anything out of the ordinary... It's a KVN with zero meaningful choices and an illusion of control over her actions. No matter what choices you pick in game, the other party will always do what they were going to do anyway. Picking defiant choices has no effect over submissive ones, the end result is always the same image with minor variation to make it look like you had an effect with that choice.
The most brazen example is the encounter with the Homeless man. You can choose to apologize or run away, but guess what happens? both events lead to Rebecca blowing the homeless man with the exact same images with some variation in texts. This pattern is repeated in literally every single choice you make.
The plot moves at a rapid pace and there is no deep storytelling to look for here. The game starts with Rebecca who is supposed to be a young and innocent Schoolgirl and yet her appearance looks like she's in her 20s. Despite having a protected childhood, her first instinct is to steal a dress from a store which leads to all the events that come. I mean sure, it's a porn game that needs a plot, but such shallow and cookie cutter story is prevalent throughout the game so shut off your brain while you play this one.
All I can say is, Fatherless behavior.
Lastly, about the developer, the dev used to be hardworking and released updates every 2-3 months back in 2020-21. He had a small but loyal following on Patreon and initially released Russian-only versions of the game. However, after transitioning to SubscribeStar and finding an international audience and gullible supporters that pay him every month, sadly he has gotten greedy and lazy... as is with most adult devs.
Adult games industry lacks accountability. The dev kept delaying every single month since September 2023 and he still wasn't able to complete one single event in February 2024, let alone all three of them. He has plenty of excuses on the ready and Episode 7 is the clearest example of a lazy and sloppy update. It is the shortest, uneventful, and hardly a bunch of images that can be called an entire "episode".
Another example is the dev opening a poll for 10 days only to collect "data" whether his supporters want an incomplete episode 7 now or a fuller version in the future. Five entire months had passed since episode 6 and yet he wasted another ten entire days of not working on the game and waiting for the results of the poll. If this doesn't showcase his terrible work ethics, I don't know what will.
TLDR; it's not worth supporting this dev who is clearly in it for milking the game and shallow updates and terribly lazy work ethics.
Keeping the developer aside for a moment, let's talk about the game first. ISR doesn't offer anything out of the ordinary... It's a KVN with zero meaningful choices and an illusion of control over her actions. No matter what choices you pick in game, the other party will always do what they were going to do anyway. Picking defiant choices has no effect over submissive ones, the end result is always the same image with minor variation to make it look like you had an effect with that choice.
The most brazen example is the encounter with the Homeless man. You can choose to apologize or run away, but guess what happens? both events lead to Rebecca blowing the homeless man with the exact same images with some variation in texts. This pattern is repeated in literally every single choice you make.
The plot moves at a rapid pace and there is no deep storytelling to look for here. The game starts with Rebecca who is supposed to be a young and innocent Schoolgirl and yet her appearance looks like she's in her 20s. Despite having a protected childhood, her first instinct is to steal a dress from a store which leads to all the events that come. I mean sure, it's a porn game that needs a plot, but such shallow and cookie cutter story is prevalent throughout the game so shut off your brain while you play this one.
All I can say is, Fatherless behavior.
Lastly, about the developer, the dev used to be hardworking and released updates every 2-3 months back in 2020-21. He had a small but loyal following on Patreon and initially released Russian-only versions of the game. However, after transitioning to SubscribeStar and finding an international audience and gullible supporters that pay him every month, sadly he has gotten greedy and lazy... as is with most adult devs.
Adult games industry lacks accountability. The dev kept delaying every single month since September 2023 and he still wasn't able to complete one single event in February 2024, let alone all three of them. He has plenty of excuses on the ready and Episode 7 is the clearest example of a lazy and sloppy update. It is the shortest, uneventful, and hardly a bunch of images that can be called an entire "episode".
Another example is the dev opening a poll for 10 days only to collect "data" whether his supporters want an incomplete episode 7 now or a fuller version in the future. Five entire months had passed since episode 6 and yet he wasted another ten entire days of not working on the game and waiting for the results of the poll. If this doesn't showcase his terrible work ethics, I don't know what will.