July In View
Well, that’s July out of the way and with that, we are now closer to 2050 than we are too 2000 – man, do I feel old. Still its nice that we get to fill this fleeting time with AVN’s, some more worth while than others.
It was a bit quiet on the new game front this month, there was actually a time I was starting to consider what I would do if I didn’t have enough girls for the fappies. Though I suspect I may have just kicked that can down the road, and I will hit that problem soon.
Updates how ever were plentiful, and along with the “blast from the past” I have actually managed to tick two games of my “to play” list that have been there for some time. I did actually delete the full list when I started this month by month thing, but some games are just too important too ignore.
Anyway, let's look at what July brought, shall we
New Games
Seduced in Rio – This seems to be a nice fish out of water tale told with some questionable AI – there are times it looks really out of place. Specifically the angles in rooms. The models, however, do seem a little consistent, but other than that I can't really tell you much about it. It could be good, it could be bad. I need more on this one
Tale of Two – Well, another month, another AI phone game focusing on cheating, what I will say though, is that this one does give us the POV of both the female and the male, so it is trying to be different. I've always said these stories would be better told through the eyes of the female, so I am very interested in this one
Lust Haven Island – The second new game built around AI – It's relatively good AI to be fair, I can tell there has been at least some effort gone into making it consistent, there are times clothing changes shades and hair styles change, but overall it's very well done. I can't tell you anything about the story, though, we have yet to even set foot upon the titular island, but based on the short start we got, it looks like it's going to be the usual NTR/NTS – time will tell on this one
NTR Chronicles Group – And we have another one, this one is a little more brutal than most, given it's focusing more on NTR than NTS. There is no real build up though, and it kinda just happens. Bit of a waste, really, considering most focus on NTS. Still, the art is nice, though a little few and far between. Not in any rush to continue this, but if it pops up again and I have time
Existence – Wont lie, I bowed out of this one pretty early. The renders were poor to average, and the “Engrish” was shocking. On top of that, the Dev's instance on calling people ???? until they were introduced just led to poor understanding. I wasn’t at all pulled by the premise. Sorry, there just wasn’t enough here..
Lost Solace – I liked this one a lot. There’s a bit of meat to this one, we get an introduction to lots of characters, some mini games and a freeroam, its not a 5 minute wonder. It's only giving us snippets of the story, but its enough, well enough to want me to play the next one. I’ll be watching where this one goes
The President's Daughter – Not exactly a 5-minute wonder, but nothing of real substance either. Here we find our MC, the titular character, and she seems to be a spoiled princess who is about to be punished. It seems it's going to be a very BDSM heavy game. I suspect this one will be a kin fest going forward and will continue to have no substance. The renders here are top though, its a very nice looking game. I’ll need a few updates on this one
How Bad Can It Be – Well, this one is a bit weird, it's the guys first attempt, so I’ll be a bit lenient, but I won't lie and sugar coat it. The renders are poor to acreage. Sometimes they shine, other times the poor quality shows. The writing is okay, but borders on cringeworthy a lot of the time. This is one of them accidentality finding out you like NTR kinda games. There’s nothing special here at all.
Updates
The Last Challenge – It was a bit of a weird one this one, it was full of content but really went nowhere, a lot of deposition and clearly setting something up – what that is remains to be seen as the cliffhanger was at least interesting. I’m interested in the next chapter, at least as it will determine if I continue this or not.
Netorase Phone – This is one I have
reviewed in the past and don’t return to quite as often as I should. The game did get a bit stagnant and same-ish, which to be fair is a problem with these game. There are only so many times you can describe and share pictures of sex scenes after all, still it looks like now we’ve established rules, this could get quite interesting.
Where It All Began – This was such a pretty game, really really stunning. The story, however, is a bit of a jumbled mess. I have reviewed the game
here. I am in no rush to get back to this one.
Rave – This update was relatively short and added nothing to the overall game but deposition, considering the length we got with the Teaser, I expected more from this. Still, I am not ready to give up on it yet.
Memories – This was a nice little update of nothingness, well I say nothing, I’d like to think this was a “Transition Chapter” It was essentially a chapter filled with the talk any couple going into swinging should have, Boundaries have been set, Lines drawn and crossed – now this important nugget is out the way, the best is yet to come.
I Love Your Wife – So I’ve had to bow out of this one. It seems like it is a nice game, but the dev insistence on showing who is speaking with a different coloured font rather than a name tag has made this game pretty unplayable. Shame really.
NTR Chat: My Girlfriends Travel – So this is becoming quite the staple of this list, it’ll be time this one gets a full review soon. For now, though, it's keeping my interest to keep playing, even though there are a lot of these games now.
Come Right Inn – An AI game that doesn’t focus on NTR/NTS. Colour me impressed. I’m liking this one – you can read my review
here.
NTR’ed by My Friend – and here we have one of the AI games that actually does focus on NTR, this one seems a little fast and silly though… The writing is terrible, constantly pushing our characters into situations they need to be in. There’s no form here at all. It’s a shame, really cause this one did start well
University of Problems – This was an update of nothing really, a few hot scenes with the girls and a bit of deposition to move the main story forward. I can't really add much to what I put in
my review here, except that, as it has done before, it feels like this one's stalled….
Because I Love Her – A small little update that added nothing but a quick lewd scene for one character. I'm not too keen on these updates when they take a bit to come out and are effectively nothing. Just wait to release till you’ve actually got something.
The Beautiful Game – I won't lie, I was a little disappointed in this update. For a game that shot itself straight to my
top 10 on first play, this game is now dangerously close to dropping out. It was one of them updates I like to call “An update of Nothingness” It had content, just not enough to move our story forward in any shape or form. I expected better from this.
Netori Phone: Bull Simulator – This was a nice little update, and I think it confirms my point that the most NTR/NTS games are told from the wrong PoV. I especially like the fact that you get to take a pic mid conversation, it adds to the immersion. Looking forward to where this one is going
Whispers of Desire – I talked about this in May and the fact that a number of these dropped at the same time, and I was confusing them. I mentioned I was dropping this game then, but given the fact that there was many games of this genre Id forgotten Id dropped it. Not only that I'd forgotten what the game was about. I tried to get back into it, but there are better games than this, one already mentioned.
Welcome To Port Heaven – So this was a nice little update, really. The art style is getting better, there’s much more consistency from what I played back in April, but I cant help but feel this game is struggling to find its legs. When AI games seem to be pumping out at quite the rate, this was a disappointing update for what is essentially a 3-month wait
The Big Step – I actually liked this one a bit more than I thought I would. The story is a bit basic: a sweet and innocent girl goes to college and slowly gets corrupted. But I found it actually told in a humorous way, it's barely got started, but I’m excited about this one
Price of Desire - A short update, really, which is a shame as this was a contender to win Game of the Month back in April – despite being short, it was filled with lewds, didn’t exactly move the story along though and has had more content than most this month, still think this is one to watch
NetoPhone Stories – This is actually quite different from the usual phone games we get; there are multiple stories from multiple perspectives telling multiple kinks. It's actually quite well done. I look forward to more of this one
Life in Windvale – So last month's “New 2D Game of the Month” has returned in quick succession. I like when we get speedy big updates like this – this is going to be a fast game though, its only chapter 2 and we have already crossed well over the line. It's nice that this is definitely not just an NTS game, and the husband can play too.
No Fap Island – Another game that is getting regular updates and seems to be appearing in the recap more often than not, So I last played this in May and expressed a little concern about how I didn’t know how it was going to continue giving its premise, well that concern has been resolved. It was a little update, really, a little incomplete too, given we could only go on 3 of the 5 dates. That’s not saying it was needlessly short, as it still has some content to it, but it would be hypocritical of me not to mention it, when I have been hard on games before
Corrupted Key – A nice little short, but completed game. A little half arsed towards the end, but the dev had issues, so it could be forgiven. As first games go, it is a good entry, though the art is a little rough. Not a bad effort, but certainly not going to blow socks off
Hard to Love – This one was missed off the April update for some reason, despite the fact I had saves for it, Seems this game is ramping up from what I put in my review way back in January. I feel next time this one drops, I should perhaps start again, as things seemed to come together in this one, but I was slightly confused, maybe due to lack of memory of the game. With this being the end of Act 1, it’ll be nice going in to act 2 refreshed.
Harmony Heaven – A game that has been on my to watch list for a while… unfortunately, its time to change. I last played this back in May and said it would be approaching a point where it becomes apparent just how good this is. Well, I don’t think we are quite there, but this is the 3rd one of these this month, and I think Memories is doing it better. I’ll probably come back to this later, but for now I’ll pause this one.
College Kings – Well, I reviewed this one
here, but now that Season 2 is finished, I’ll add that the game is a pretty buggy, unplayable mess. Seriously, if you’ve not started this yet, there’s no point in even starting now. Pretty much has a game-breaking bug in chapter 5… Disappointing
Chasing Sunset – Well I this one hits you right in the feels, doesn’t it? I was kind of glad I was late to the party on this one… I feel I appreciated the game a lot more completing it as a whole rather than in chunks over months – I go more into my
thoughts here.
Growing Things Up – An update of nothingness that was to be expected, really. Essentially, another option of a scene we've already gotten. As a result, the game hasn’t moved on any since 2 updates ago. It isn’t surprising, really, as we were forewarned. As a result, I can not add anything more to what I said
here
Defending Lydia Collier – Ah, one of my top 10’s, though given the fact it was well over a year between updates on this one and the content wasn’t as much as some games provide in that time frame, I can see it dropping fast, despite the favourable
review here
Sorority Temptations – A risky, yet unwarranted return (it appeared in the latest update list dspite not having an update) to this one following its debut in March, and to be honest, I am glad I did – what an improvement, while there are still some sandbox elements that remain. The worst of it has gone. It's a massive improvement and well worth playing. The games are still a bi tattoo heavy, but the renders are beautiful regardless. It's nice to finally get an NTR/NTS story from the girls' side. This could be great, it could be pants. Time will tell.
University Secrets – So this was last played on release back in February, and I still couldn’t tell you what this game is about. I can tell you the university is still nippy and you still need eyes brighter than the sun to enrol. I think this one needs a few updates to find itself. But I’ll be honest, off the top of my head, I can name 5 University games I am playing that are better. I do not hold up much hope.
Falling Undercover: Nox Syndicate – This one seems to be ramping up and going a little faster than the last game. It's still a little wordy, but overall, this is nicely turning out to be quite the NTS game. I am liking this a lot… but still, I liked the last one until I didn’t
Summer Sent – This is one I tried a long time ago and either got to the end of the current update and forgot about it, or dropped it for a more pressing update and forgot about it – there has been several updates since, and the game has changed from what I remember it. Anyway, I enjoyed this one for what it was. You can read about it
here.
Blast From the Past
This month, I went to City of Broken Dreamers, a game I have tried to play no less than 4 times and failed to get into each time. I was conflicted with it, I really was. I go into it
here in my review, but the TLDR version is an average game carried by beautiful renders, that I do not understand why it gets the praise it does. But that’s 2 for 2 on disappointments from this developer now – if there’s a 3rd game, I’ll be going in wary
The Fappies
Best New Game – This wasn’t a hard choice at all. Though it does seem to be the best of a bad bunch situation. Not that this game was really bad, but the competition was lacking, given there was a distinct lack of new games I played. Anyway, this month Lost Solace gets the nod.
Best Update – It was a difficult choice this – I felt I had to exclude Chasing Sunsets mainly because I know the update itself only brought an epilogue that couldn’t be considered great and I was just fortunate enough to play from the start. Instead, I think the game that really deserves it is
Sorority Temptations, though its barely got started, there’s enough here to at least see what its going for and the difference from what is was is night and day.
Best New 2D Game – Out of the three I played this month, my notes say I needed more time on two of them. I have also been claiming for a long time that certain games would be told best from the woman’s POV, therefore, the best of this month was
Tale of Two
Best Updated 2D game – There were a few released this month, but when I thought back without consulting my notes, I only remembered two of them. Drilling down even furthe,r one stood out above the other.
Come Right Inn gets the nod.
Best Girl in a New Game
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Best Girl in an Updated Game
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Best Girl from Blast from the Past
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Best Lewd Scene – Given when Groewing Things up dropped last time, it didnt get the award as I said this version would be better, i was shocked to find it didnt even pop into my head when I was thinking about this - two scenes from the same game popped up and it was the threesome scene in
Defending Lydia Colier, I think the one with Lydia, Steph and MC pips it though
Worse New Game – Easy one this.
Existence gets the gong – A first release should not be full of so much “Engrish” and ???? as names – this is supposed to grab peoples attentions and make them want to play. Do Better.
Worst Update – There were a few that deserve this one this month, I thought about giving it Growing Things Up again as it is essentially more of the same from what we got last time… however, to be fair, we knew what we were getting there and its already been punished once. In fact, it doesn’t even go to a game that has put out a nothing update out.
College Kings gets the award this month. Despite the fact that it was a meaty update, you can't put one out that makes your game unplayable. That is a shocking bug, really