Unity - Completed - Lust Is Stranger [v1.0] [The Architect]

Very good high quality and high effort game, not perfect but giving it less than 5/5 would be unfair. Keep an eye out for this dev.

Note: I haven't played the game this is based off of.

The worst aspect for me is that this should've just been a point and click game, while you have to use WASD to move instead. It's annoying to have to play with 2 hands for no good reason. Well, I assume the dev didn't want to bother learning how to do it or maybe it's not straightforward to do on this engine.

The premise of the story is ok, then the game has a combination of funny, wholesome, corruption and vengeance moment which are done well and everything flows nicely.

The game also seems to have very high replayability, I'd assume at least like 3 times. Many choice have a lot of impact on the outcomes so you really shape your role in the story. I personally only completed in once and I'll move on to other games but that's just me, I'll definitely try the gallery unlocker to see the scenes I missed out on.

The graphic style is very good, from I can see he was able to recreate the same as the original game which is very commendable. The animations are also good and so is the audio aspect of the game.

The game also has achievements if that's something you like.

Overall I think this is one of the best games on the website, again, very high quality and high effort product. Definitely recommend to play it.

A glorified VN in an engine designed for gameplay, the good:
- Good sex scenes.
- Decent story and English.

Bad gameplay and mediocre exploration:
- Copy pasted interactable doodads. Enjoy clicking on 3 identical trash bins to find the right one.
- The usual fetch quests in a linear story, no repeatable scenes either.
- One autosave slot and can't rollback. Get ready to save regularly.
- No autoforward mode. Get ready to click every 8 words.
- Mass effect dialogue wheel complete with timed interrupts. Better pay attention and not use the fast forward mode that skips them.

Overall the game is clunky, tedious and really lacking in basic accessibility features, but there's some good there if you're willing to trudge through the mediocre sandbox.

Beautiful game in many contexts:
- the graphics has it's own distinctive style - similar to the original game
- the models represent the original models both in look and behaviour
- the game itself is simple yet entertaining, some dialogues are very witty an fun
- sex scenes are good, a little repetitive in sound area
- the full gallery is accessable after first finish - you can check the rest of animations
Great game worth playing.

Lust is Stranger brought me back to my childhood gaming days. Without prior knowledge of the original, I was instantly drawn to the main character's portrayal and the game's classic adventure-style movement. The numerous witty references and, let's face it, the quirky animated lewd scenes added a hot touch.

Playing this game sparked my curiosity about the original, and once I did, the countless parallels were undeniable. The developer has done an excellent job of capturing the essence of the original while adding his own unique spin. A big shoutout to The Architect for creating such an enjoyable gaming experience.

Let me get the unconstructive aspect out of the way first.


DAYYYYYUM. Fuck. Went through this in a night and I'm frankly wow'd. Somebody keep an eye on the Architect. This madlad is going places.


Now, to speak a bit more constructively? This is a CYOA Smut Fanfiction for LiS, that's entirely complete and aware of itself. It manages thrilling dramatic moments alongside gut busting humor, and really that is praise worthy in of itself.

The smut is good. The wholesome is good. The corruption is tantalizing. Any porn game that got me dedicating runs just so I can explore the differences and see them all well accounted for?


WHEEWWWW. Architect is gonna be big leagues one day, fr fr. This is a masterpiece of genres its interwoven with - the only complaint is that there ain't more of it.

But with the subject medium, the week-compact format makes complete sense.

This is a smut for LiS Haters, just as much as it is for LiS fans.

I very much don't like the og game. Too much tumbr-tier writing and political stuff I don't quite agree with.
And it was a very nice surprise to learn that THIS game offers the player options to morally degrade and have his way with all the retarded characters you dislike, despite the fact that it's clear the author actually likes the og game and it's characters.
So it's a big W that the haters of Life is Strange can still enjoy this.

great graphics, great game.... thank you the architect for this please keep on good work. i am really glad you completed this one. it is just better than ther original Life is st.....thank you the architect for this please keep on good work

Great game all around. Interesting gameplay experience with the ability to make choices depending on how you want to play the game. Great scenes with the characters, and great pacing throughout the entire game.

One of the best games I have ever played. The plot, graphics, and humor are all top-notch. I completed all the achievements and highly recommend this game to anyone who wants to experience a great gaming experience. Thank you to the developers for creating such an amazing game!

This is lowkey one of the best games on this site. I avoided it for a very long time because I didn't enjoy the other game made by this developer ( Goons raid her ) but this game was a huge step up for me. I've tried out dozens of the highly rated games on this site, both complete and incomplete but this one is definately one of my favorites. The writing is pretty good and the characters talk in a way that is similar enough to the game this is a parody of.

Hot girls, good gameplay length, not too short and doesn't overstay it's welcome. ( 15-20 hours if you're a completionist ).

I couldn't get into "Goons raid her" cause I felt the writing was a bit too silly and the pacing was annoying, but this one was a huge improvent. It's not perfect, but I found myself actually enjoying reading the dialogue and seeing the story develop. The characters are very endearing and behave/speak in their own way.

As for negatives..While the writing is pretty good, the grammar isn't, it's not uncommon for a type or bad punctuation to crop up here and there but it's nothing too terrible, when trying to unlock missed scenes and fastforwarding you can sometimes miss prompts by accident, but the auto-save function is very reliable and frequent and counteracts this. That's pretty much it for me in terms of negatives.

Lastly, and most importantly, this game was finished in a timely manner, 99% of the other games on this site would take 5+ years to make a game of this quality and length while still not being close to being finished.

I really enjoyed this game! Really my only criticism would be that there are only 2 love interests. I'd love it if every NPC were romanceable. Yes, you can have sex with them all, depending on your choices and actions, but the "pure religious type" and the "kindhearted tomboy type" are the ones you can romance. I personally enjoyed the "rich bitch type" and was drawn to her story the most (both the dominant and submissive routes).

This is a top notch game. Great writing and story, great scenes, great animations, hot girls with personalities, gameplay is fun. The only downside of this game is that there is not more of it. I would like to have more scenes and little bit more sandboxness. Its quiet linear but you still have different choices that affect the outcomes and scenes. Very well done.

Oh yeah, and despite there is some NTR in the game, i wish there was more!

3.5/5

So the plot is great, I like even the fact that basicailly any PC can handle this game so that's great from the dev to not make the game too heavy.
Back to the plot thing, so I liked how all the characters behaved realisitically and how talking to them felt like talking to someone irl, the characterization was really good and you can tell he spent some time trying to make it good and he accomplished it.

The H-scenes? Well it's The Architect we're talking about, he's always next level on these and here he made everything even better. I liked them but I'm a little disappointed there wasn't more NTR between Max and Warren, Kate, Taylor, voyeurism between Max and Warren and all that.
At first when I oepened the gallery, didn't even started the game at the time, I thought there were really many scenes but there are many only for few characters. Brooke and Juliet got barely nothing and I hoped there was more action between the MC and Victoria. Because of the lack of scenes I can't give 5. Last thing about scenes that just came up to my mind, the lack of different voices, it's the same sound.

As for the last 1/5 is the ending, the ending is criminal because you play 16 hours of your life, do all the things "correctly", so behave good, help everyone exc, and at the end if you didn't choose girl X but Y, as I did, you'll get a big dick up your ass. I really felt disappointed because I worked 16 hours for NOTHING.

Aside the amount of scenes and the ending choice, the game is just great. One of the best that you can find out there and since it is this great I have to be more critical because The Architect is someone that knows his stuff and seeing him "fail" to accomplish some things that I call errors is really bad.

One last thing, I didn't play Life is Strange so maybe there's a deeper meaning to why you can only stay home if you choose Max instead of the others, either way this is a parody and as much as it should resemble the game, novel or whatsoever, I believe there's nothing wrong, especially in a game where multi endings exists, to make one that would differ from the original work

Review for Lust Is Stranger [v1.0].
{Size : 1.51GB (After Extraction)}
{Time Spent: ~10hrs (On first play through, without skipping), ~15-20hrs (For 100% Completion)}

PROS:
+ Great Storyline & Characters (Obviously from good game)
+ Good Mechanics & Progression system
+ Consists of multiple Endings based on the choices
+ Personally liked the acheivement system which helps figuring out what scenes are left and additional contents
+ If you want to experience all the scenes no need to play the game from scratch, can select from gallery or chapter select
+ Overall, great parody game. Loved the original game, like this twist.

CONS:
- Sometimes animation feels a bit jancky, make sure to play at high graphics settings to enjoy the scenes to the full.
- Need to play the original game to understand some of the references.
- Consists of long dialouges. (good thing you can skip it, but still takes a bit of time.)

The game is very good, the animations, arts and music are really cool too.
It's cool to see that you have a lot of choices during the game, whether to be the devil on earth or a little angel to people.
The game's jokes are very funny, and it's cool to see this "alternative reality" of life is strange.
Overall, it's a great game, I had a lot of fun, it's 100% worth playing
For me, 5/5

I have never written a review before, but The Architect made another banger.
Multiple paths, wanna be a good guy? a bad guy? a really bad guy?
Its so rare to see actual good parody games, and its clear the dev cares alot about the original IP.

An excellent game.

Congrats to Architect again and again for delivering and completing high quality projects. I actually didn't play LiS from start to finish but still enjoyed this masterpiece nonetheless. I especially liked the endings and impact of choices we made. Just don't expect any extreme lewd content and go with the flow.

Great game! The best in its genre!
Nice picture, great animations, good story and very interesting tags, not a plain vanilla game)
I recommend to play who haven't played yet!
Hoping for a continuation of the story, or waiting for a new project from the developer.

The_Architect might be my favourite porn game creator now by virtue of actually finishing his games instead of keeping them in Patreon-milking hell forever.
But don't let that detract from the fact that his games are also really good if you enjoy classic Sierra style point and click adventures.

Lust is Stranger is a well written game with plenty of porn scene, and as such doesn't commit the sin of most well written porn games: forgetting that they are porn.

It captures perfectly the melancholic nostalgia a lot of people enjoy about Life is Strange, but twists and corrupts it into a power fantasy where you get to talk your way in the girls' lives.
There's plenty of choices to be made depending on where you want certain characters to end up (with some seriously fucked up endings for Chloe if you choose to do so). But it rarely feels gratuitous, everything is the result of some decision you made or that you influenced a character into making.

But if high levels of corruption and degeneracy isn't your thing, there is also a seriously sweet and healthy relationship to be had in this game ! I was stunned at how much I got attached to that character and even though I was setting up a harem ending, I decided to go the full love route.

The game also has a complete scene replay system, so that even if you picked a specific path you are not locked out of seeing the other versions of the scenes you had.

What this game has going for it:
- Writing that's fun to follow along
- Animations are detailed in a style very close to the game it parodies
- A sweet "vanilla" relationship with a nice, if naive, girl (or break her heart)
- Turn the school's Mean Girl into an actual prostitute without her knowing (for the most part)
- Manipulate someone into getting into a horrible relationship just so you can see her suffer (or save her)
- Make a character into a sex slave to someone she hates for probably the rest of her life (or don't, and let her have her good ending)
- Threesomes if you play your card right

What was unfortunate:
- Some parts are a bit long when you don't know what to do, but there's always the fast forward feature coming it clutch in those moments
- That's it honestly, if you enjoyed Goons Raid Her, don't hesitate

Yet another banger game by The Architect. I've been a die hard fan of LiS ever since the original game came out and so I was very excited to play this parody. But I decided to wait till it was completed. Oh man was the wait worth it. It is shorter than Goons Raid Her but has way more going on. Its crazy how faithful this is to the original game, the map, the details, the characters, the designs, all perfect. The game is also very replayable with all the different choices, scene variations and endings. I love the world of LiS and I had a blast seeing it such a different and erotic way. I do have one nitpick that some characters weren't very prominent or weren't utilized the way I would have hoped for, ah well it is what it is.
All in all, one of the best games on this website. The Architect once again proves that they r one of the best devs out there. Goons Raid Her is still their magnum opus but I am excited to see what they make next.