The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on v2.0 Beta 2...
I played this game for a couple hours, more so to get a feel for what it entails and is all about...
The visuals are ok, not the best I've seen, although in this style of game you can only do so much, depending on your budget, developer talent, and overall goals... Being a life management game the characters were not bad... Most characters you run into are randomized, low to moderate quality, 3D models, that could be of various gender types/styles (some clothed and some not)... The downside, for the clothed models (yes, many characters are generated without clothing), is that it's very hard to tell if they are transgender and/or hermaphrodite, etc... It is rather easy to tell from the unclothed models, but not the clothed ones... This could be considered a mix of reality, with total unrealistic visuals, at the same time...
The character creator screen has many body and visual sliders for determining a characters looks, with a small mix of pre-generated things like hair styles and so forth... This feature was a nice touch, although in some cases didn't feel like some of them effected very much... It's a concept you see in many Asian style MMORPG's, but not as detailed... I also noticed, that when clicking on various predetermined clothing, she stayed naked... Not sure if that was a bug, or intended...
The navigation map is basically a top-down (slightly angled) view of an entire city scape, with only grey boxes for the actual building visuals... The Points of Interest were small single colored icons, that are in some cases very hard to see... Even when zooming in... Hovering over an icon is a bit tricky sometimes to get it to show what that location is, as far as name and so forth... It is very complex to be super detailed about most locations in as vast a city as this game focuses on, for a key feature... Over all the city scape map, which is where most of the game mechanics take place, feels a bit archaic and unfinished... At times, the left and right clicking of the map can feel a bit tedious and/or annoying... Such as getting a left click menu to go away (requires right clicking the map) or part of the menu appearing off screen because the location was too close to the edge when you left clicked it... You can't use the mouse movement to move the map around, but instead need to use the keyboard to move it around, which felt a bit dated...
The visuals of the characters, when interacting, as well as during events, presented themselves alright... Using a general backdrop of the location with characters standing in the space, with choices and event text playing out like they might in a Visual Novel... Selecting choices for how you want the character to react to an event... Based on stats and luck, you will either fail or succeed at certain tasks and/or events... Most tasks in the game outside of the events, take a predetermined amount of time to finish, and during that time, events may or may not take place... Different tasks may raise and/or lower specific character stats... Stats like Energy, Mood, Arousal, and several others... You will see some of these stats effect the facial expressions of your characters model as well...
Most of the sexual act visuals are very basic 3D modeled animations, where you can control the speed based (num pad + and -), selecting changes to the scene (left click menus), and some event text that plays out until a climax is reached... So there is a small bit of interaction, which also includes some camera angles... It's not High Quality visuals, but they are ok for a game that has a lot of randomness to the character models... I ran into a bug where I selected 3 NPC's to have an orgy with, and when the visuals spawned, they were all standing in the exact same space, standing up... Which looked bizarre, and was probably a bug... Other one on one scenes, didn't do that... Although sometimes, when you select a new sex position, the models appear off screen until you zoom way out... Definitely got some polish needed with this system...
When hanging out with other characters, they appear behind the main character model (as shown in the lower right corner), with their facial expressions changing, depending on if they are enjoying a task or not... They will also engage with the player when they are bored of a locations and so on... When with another character, right clicking on the main map will list more options for interacting with that character... And when you go to other locations, they will follow you to that location and may or may not like things you do there... This was an interesting feature of the game...
Game play in general offers many varying ways of playing out tasks and events... Making this game primarily a Life Management Simulator with several options for more adult/erotic themed tasks and events... You have to work on stats and skills, build or destroy relationships, socialize, work for money (how ever that might play out, hint-hint), have a place to stay, shop, and the list goes on... It is a rather complex, albeit slightly hard to navigate game system... Add to that, this game allows for player created Mods, such as varying cities made by other players and/or developers... The game code is also public domain, open for coding changes, for those with the skills to do those kinds of things... Personally I only tried the city that was actually included with the game; London, U.K.
I really feel some sort of Tutorial was needed in the beginning... Something to guide a new player on how the various UI interactions functioned, what buttons to press on the keyboard for various game play functions, when mixed with mouse interactions as well... Sure, I was able to figure it out as I experimented, but for some folks, the complex UI and game play interactions may become tedious to the point of quitting right off the bat, without some guidance....
This game has been in development since late 2017, which is a very long time and it seems to have many of it's basic game play elements nailed down, for how they want it to proceed... But you can tell that some aspect are still a bit rough, and it has a ways to go before being a High End Triple-A type product... If that is even their goal, I don't know... Perhaps it isn't... It is definitely a lot different then most other erotic themed and/or influenced titles that I've played... It's even a lot different then other life management games I've played, without the erotic tid-bits...
Overall, did I have fun? It was alright, but I can see it has many grinding elements to it, which is normal for many management type simulators... I can see much time and sweat has been put into it's development... And it shows a tiny bit of promise... I think with a lot more polish and development, maybe at some point it might shine... But only time will really tell... Do not go into this game thinking it's a story rich visual novel type game, because that is not really it's goal... It is meant as a sandboxy type world, and by sandboxy, I mean you can choose where you go, what you do, and how you do it, as you see fit... You are only limited by time and ensuring the characters stats don't plummet for too long... I can't really say it's a great game overall, but it definitely isn't bad by any stretch... In time, and with a lot more polish, perhaps I can see this title doing well... We'll just need to wait and see...