Game Version Book1:v1.0.7b, Book2:v0.2.5b.
A bit of a disclamer I've played up to day 144 and the following "review" will contain spoilers!!!!!
Let me beggin by saying that in my oppinion the game is very good to great!
It has a great story, some good and some amazing characters and very few that kinda miss the mark. The univers in witch the story takes place is very interesting, well designed and decently well explained and considering the game is still going it has room to improve even more!
That being said the game is not perfect (no game is).
Here are some of the "gripes" I have with the game:
(incoming wall of text, I think I was polite enough but if there are any issues please let me know)
There are a few inconsistencies mainly with the Main Character. As a mentioned earlier there are some characters that are weaker than the rest. In my oppinion that is the main character being the worst followed by a "type" of characters ( women with above small size breasts ) I'm not even kidding here, all women that are even slightly big breasted in this game are either dense are a rock, evil or have little to no screen time.
Now to return to the issue of the MC he is sometimes relatively smooth when interacting with powerfull characters(in terms of ingame strenght/power) and most of the time dumb as a rock, ignorant, kind of an ahole (you the player have no choice in the matter) and when it comes to most women incapable of doing anything if not first told what to do mainly by his ingame wife or Molly his first chosen.
There is a reason on the background image of the title you are with Emily on one side and the rest of the cast is on the other side!
There is a huge focus on your relationship with Emily (Ingame Wife/ you have no choice in the matter it's basically part of the main story or is the main story) and I mean Huge focus in my oppinion to much of a focus on her to the detriment of the other characters since Bella, Katie and Molly (followed up by Chloe who has huge potential) are some of the best and most fun characters I've seen in a adult game. Now Emily is not a bad character, in my oppinion she is above average but your jurney to fall love with her is done in the first ingame month after that you just keep doing the same stuff with her, you go from 0 to 100% way to fast. The relationship with Katie"Best friend" is amazing, very slow/too slow to progress but amazing up to this point. This is tentatively countered by Emily saying that she understands that it's your destiny to have other women around you and basically give you the green light.
Now you are a young god and the women mentioned earlier Bella, Molly joined by Akane(who needed more screen time before stating that she is in love with you when you barely interacted with her) become your "chosen". The game and the MC and your Wife (Emily) states repeatedly that the bond that you and your chosen share is so strong that no one and nothing can get between you (Not even your wife) and you the MC repeatedly state that these women are very important to you and you have dialog choises in witch you can say that you love to then immediately say that well not like Emily but you love them. And then proceed to mostly ignore them for the majority of the game.
Even Emily states again repeatedly that you are treating them badly, you agree and proceed to do the same or ignore them even more and I as the player have no choice in the matter.
The game does this a lot, states repeatedly stuff and the proceeds to more or less ignore that. You as the MC have one priority and that's it, Emily, the rest is irrelevant no matter how much the game and you (MC) tell the rest of the cast that they are important. You mostly treat them are extras. Your chosen (incredible bond between you and all that) are "employes with occasional benefits" at best the rest of the cast even less than that.
At one point Chloe opens up about living for a very long time and shows a moment of vulnerability when you promptly dont give a damn and when Emily asks if she is ok you just answer without a care in the world that yup she is just fine no issues there at least none that you care about! ( missed oportunity to expand on Chloe, but I mean she is not Emily so yeah...).
Another example is the end of book one with the new year "party" You spend most of the time prior to the party with Emily, when you interact with Bella, Molly, Akane and Katie at the party it's rushed and short, you get the feeling that you cant wait to get through this so you can spend time and watch the fireworks with who? Ah yes Emily!!!
Again wasted potential to progress with the rest of the cast. If you would usually be busy with others like your chosen and the rest of the cast it would be ok but you spend most of the time with her!! When other characters show moments of vulnerability or you have sensitive scenes with them they are quite quickly forgoten and until now not followed up on. Bella and her rage, Molly and her loneliness (because of you ofc) are kinda pushed to the background and ignored. (until now atleast)
To "fix" the issues (if you actually consider them issues in the first place, maybe thats the way you want it to play out) you would not need to change the story in any way just maybe give more "screen time" to the other characters and develope their relationship with the MC a bit more.
Now enough of that!! The renders are great, the sex scenes have their own style but I dont dislike them, the scenes are decent enough, the game is a slow burn (I like games that dont rush into sex to fast) but it is a bit bloated sometimes (textwise) I feel that way in a few conversations with Emily but that may be because half the game or more is Emily. (How many times do you have to tell her that you love her and she is your world??? Because a lot of the scenes and conversations can be broken down to just that)
The combat is quite enjoyable not all companions are equal but that can still change and the base combat system is very decent.
The sound is great it enhances the atmosphere and it ramps up at important moments. The animation is well done and at least until now I have not experienced any major bugs only the occasional in combat issue where you click on the companion and have to click again anywhere on the screen to bring up their "text bar" instead of it appearing on its own when you click on the companion.(this happend mostly in book one)
So all in all this is a very good game with great potential!!