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

Very good parody on Life is Strange. Nice attention to details and plenty of memes. I would like to see more background music, slower minigames, and maybe an official guide. Always wanted a date with Kate and this game granted my wish.

haven't play any great game like this for a long while!!!!
don't even bother to ask or read any reviews!!!!
just download it and play it!!!!
you are going to love it!!!
play it!!!!!!!
u can jump in this game, omfg awesome!!!
I never leave any review to other games cuz it all these just so ordinary, but this is fun and worth your time!!!!

This game must be seriously well optimized. I cant believe that its only 161mb. Full animations, detailed areas, and true to the original game. Also good job on the writing, the characters actually feel like themselves. Seriously looking forward more content!

Perfect game, not boring 'male protag', good dialogs, small file size, atmosphere also very nice just like you playing orig game lol!
Not gonna lie, I thought it was going to be another crappy game, BUT ..... I really liked it , good job very very good job!
Girls are really tiny, hope to see kind of belly-bulge here.
Minuses: 1st - i have only two hands (about keyboard),
2nd - This is Life is Strange parody, not on TombRider (some shit really hard),
3rd - because of the quests, a long period of time is created between scenes, it needs to be shortened a little.
The review is over, now i want to check their patreon .

Not gonna lie, I did not expect this game to be this good given the small file size. I guess as the saying goes, don't judge a book by it's cover. It's very well made, you can tell they've put in a lot of effort, and it's very well optimized even for low end devices. I enjoy the ability to interact with things even when it's not necessary for progression, it's immersive. I love the humour as well. The mini games are extremely fun, and the fact that your choices can have different impacts on people and the outcomes can be different is very good as well. Very excited for future updates, but It's definitely worth playing in it's current state as well.

I really like this game. I first tried the tech demo before I even heard of or played the original game. I thought that the tech demo was disappointing. I stared a girl's thighs, walked around a room, and picked up trash. Like, oh joy. How can I get excited about a Unity tech demo that shows one or two game mechanics and then most likely will never get another update again, much less get completed? Seems like there are way too many Unity tech demos like that out there that get one or two small demonstration updates and then become abandoned. So anyway, I eventually played the original game, not even knowing that Lust Is Stranger was a parody of it, and I loved the game a lot. The side story is really boring for me though, so I haven't been able to finish it. So today, I finally got around to playing this 0.3.2.3 Beta version and I was pleasantly surprised. I was in for a real treat. It was incredibly sexy. I was already excited by the time that I checked out Victoria's behind and I liked how I scored some affinity points with her by just being brave. Then I saw Kate in the hallway, and I don't know what it is about that girl but I just like her a lot. I'm really happy that I get to corrupt and do things with her. Then Brooke? Wow. That situation escalated nicely. Max accidentally grinding on me on the bathroom fllor was nice, and honestly she looked better naked later on than I thought that she would. Then back to Kate and her handjob. I can't wait to go all the way with her. This game is going to be a lot of fun. I can tell. I wonder if Joyce is on the table. So this game is incredibly good because you can do things that you can't do in the original game, like walk around and use camera movement. The characters have been expanded on. So you see stuff like the skateboarder doing a bit of hustle on the side after getting an internship job. The dialogue is crazy good, exactly how the real characters would talk. The quests have been fun. Everything has been great. There are some complaints though. So I will address those now.

1.) The game audio was on full blast when I started the game, with no way to lower the sound from the Options menu. I hate games and websites that have sounds on full blast. The audio on some websites is so loud that I have to turn the volume down from anywhere from 1-4 on a 1-100 slider. I actually had to install a persistence volume extension in my browser so I wouldn't hear the video blast every time that I refreshed the page. At least some Ren'Py developers are smart and they have the default volume at 25% and you can then turn it up if you want. But some Ren'Py developers are really bad in that they purposely make their game loading music and sounds super loud, like they want to excite you and make you think you are on a thrill ride or something. It's a very poor tactic and I don't like how this Lust Is Stranger developer is doing the same thing. He should have added an audio adjuster in the game in the tech demo version. The fact that it is still lacking one now is pretty bad. And even if he adds an audio adjuster later, that does not change the problem that the default volume was way too loud. It needs to be lowered to 25% or at least 50%.

2.) The game has serious camera glitches when first interacting with people. I first noticed it with the janitor. You click on him and the camera just spins wildly nonstop. I reloaded and replayed that part of the game many times and also tried talking to him later in the game, and most of the time the camera will glitch and spin nonstop when talking to him. Then like three or four other times with various characters the camera will point at the ground or sky and not show the female you are talking to. And that will last a couple of minutes until your dialogue has progressed enough, and then you will be able to see them once the scene changes. I noticed this when Kate was sitting on the bench. And some other times like when sitting next to Kate in the restaurant or right when Max entered my bedroom.

3.) I don't like the mini game difficulty too much. I wish that the level of speed and difficulty was turned down some. For instance, when I wanted to tap my foot with the Principal or punch Warren's face, the game would clearly stop and freeze on my desired selection. Even after I pressed the spacebar on my desired selection, my desired selection was selected and remained selected for a few seconds. Then suddenly it would switch to some other random selection, and then I had to repeat that part of the game all over again until I was able to get what I wanted selected. Then the smooth talking events wasted a ton of my time. I must have repeated Kate's like 30-50 times altogether. Like a dozen times per afterschool event. That just takes away from the game, not add to it. I've gotten a bit better at it, but I just feel that the minigames speed and difficulty need improved some. It should be a slight challenge not an almost impossible one. No one should have to repeat the same part of the game countless times. Even repeating it once or twice is bad. But once or twice is far better than 12 x 3 = 36 times for smoothing talking or 5-6 times for quick dialogue responses.

4.) That's pretty much it. I wanted to keep taking money from the one kid, but I could only do it the one time. It would have been nice if I could have taken $1 from him each of the following days but he always tells me that he is out of money. I was hoping to see Chloe again too so I could buy some more weed or follow up with her on Prescott. Even if that is a future update, I would have liked to see her NPC with the words "No more content till future update" in dialogue. And this was a big one for me. Almost getting Max to go all the way, her leaving, and me being kicked to Main Menu and having to start the game over from before I invited Max over. But I guess these things are trivial and are just a reflection of nonexisting content. I just think that it could have been done better. Have the Max event end with you going to bed and starting a new day. Having Chloe around but not be able to progress further. Stuff like that.

5.) I'm kinda surprised that things progressed with Max so fast. I was expecting a bit more of a challenge. I was happy with Brooke and Kate, but Max was like "okay I'm getting naked now because you think that it will help my photo submission." I'm not complaining. I don't want it to be tedious or a chore. I was just surprised, that's all. On some doors that you have two options - open door, don't open door... I wish that it would just let me go through the door without slowing me down like that. If I make the wrong choice, I can always turn around and go back through the door again. I wish that there were some juicy easter eggs in the Principals office. Like be able to find three or four items that I could benefit from while he was in the parking lot. And I wish that I could have walked in on the one girl in the restroom after I beat her friend Taylor at the smooth talking game. I wanted to personally give her the bracelet that I found and then get intimately close to her in the restroom, since I already made her like me a little earlier by mentioning a TV show that she liked and "minions". It was really disappointing when I didn't see her after that, so I decided to just corrupt Taylor instead of giving her the bracelet. I'm not really thrilled by the idea that smoking weed decreases intelligence if used too often. Hopefully it won't be till like every 3-5 uses, and hopefully intelligence only lowers by one point. I am just greedy and want every point possible and don't want to lose points here and there because one item that increases points also decreases them. That's a bit annoying. And finally, even though the dialogue was crazy good, there were some really bad spelling mistakes made here and there. Like using the word she instead of her. And a few other bad spelling mistakes. It almost felt like the spelling mistakes were made intentionally by a master of the English language just so that he would have an excuse later if people ever complained about the dialogue.

I really enjoyed this game. The look of all the characters and environments are great and accurate to the original game. I've played the developer's previous works and didn't think that they could've topped Goons raid her, but this is looking to surpass it.

I look forward to the next update!

One of my new favorites. The 'loose' camera style works well with this game. The mini games are incredibly fun, really well thought out, and the charaters are all unique compared to many of the other games I've played. The female 'corruption' aspect of the game makes you want to be a real little devil. Can't wait for more content in future, the dev has a really good thing going here. Thanks 'The Architect'

I was very, very impressed with this game. I played Hack and Stalk 2 and 3, HnS2 was quite good actually, but this is on a whole different level. Models look great, original and realistic, graphics are amazing not just for an adult game although probably it is the best looking game of this kind ever. Writing is as good as it can be.
Yeah, I cannot praise this game enough. That such a talented and skilled developer is doing adult games is probably unique. Although it seems like a massive amount of work, I just hope he will not stop developing the game when it is actually becoming interesting like the case with HnS3. Instead of creating new games in the future, better add new areas and girls in this one. This game had an immense potential and would be a shame to be wasted.

Wow! That is really cool for some sort of pre release. Gameplay and look are on a level with orginal LiS,
I have played original LiS and was missing the "dirty touch". Maybe i am spoiled by using f95zone ...

Looking forward to see more content.

Unlike joe the beast i played the other games of this dev and those have plenty of content and fun and story influencing gameplay. Yes so far there isn't much sexual content, but the start is mostly about setting the atmosphere of the game . And imo it's done in a very good way by the dev. Personally i can't wait to see more of this game, keep up the good work.

Despite the game having some new and interesting concepts, I didn't really like this game.

It's nice to have a 3D game, where you can move around, talk to people, and do whatever you like instead of following a story with no freedom.

But this game has some major flaws:
- Models look bad: I think this is one of the worst mistakes a developer can make for this type of game, for obvious reasons.
- There is too little sexual content in the game: Another common mistake, trying to make a normal game with some porn in it, instead of the other way around. The ratio of sexual content to non sexual should be a lot higher. (I gave up this game after playing 20 minutes wondering when can I see something?)
- The plot is interesting and simple, but every mission is just a chore, for example: the first missions "collect the trash" or "find the key"

I know some people may think: it's early in the development!
But I'm not concerned about the quantity of content, but it's quality. And, for the reasons I mentioned above, I don't think this game is fun.

Looks amazing as all your work does. The puzzles and hidden easter eggs make me play this game like none. I always try to explore and search around before actually jumping to the plot. Can't wait for a bigger update.

I really like this so far, and I hope it turns out to be a really long game because there's so many possibilities for it to go down in terms of story. The settings are beautiful, the characters so far (Kate and Brooke) look pretty, the gameplay is very ambitious and creative and I'm looking forward to playing this again a few updates down the line!

The Architect is back again, and this time with another great choice of parody. Somehow he simultaneously has quick content updates, but also always with great quality. The Architect is no doubt one of the greats, and this game will no doubt be successful just like Goons Raid Her.

Author's games never disappointed. He manages to produce a compelling story with charming characters, so that hot scenes are more than just empty models performing an act, just like it is in the majority of the games.

I'm rating the preview build of the game, and while it didn't last very long to play it, I had a lot of fun. It was nice to see how similar the characters look, in comparison to the ones in the original life is strange game, and the settings looked really similar too. Overall, the visual side of the game is fantastic and it was refreshing to see
As for potential improvements, I'd suggest that background music will be an essential for the game to have a much better experience. Life is strange had some beautiful music so if you an find similar music somewhere that would make it perfect. As for other improvements, I don't think they need to be said, because this is only a preview build and so I'm assuming it'll change a lot anyway
In summary to everything I've said, the framework of this game is top quality, and I can't wait to see how it develops. It can become one of the best games on this site, I have no doubt about it

Its still early but this is the groundwork for a an extremely high quality game and it has the style down perfect. The environments and character models are all right. Its obvious that it is a passion project and Im very excited to see more updates. If I can put the game into one word, it would be Wowzers.