Lustful Apartment [Final]
STORY
The story is porn level with a few odd specifics. You’re Alex, a 25 year old single male who works at a photo job as an editor. He recently started renting an apartment from Scarlett, a ‘gorgeous’ married woman. I think you share the apartment with your ‘landlady’, although you don’t have a bedroom. You also share the apartment with Zoe, a 20-something college student who’s a nerd, or so the text says. Who actually has a bedroom in the house.
You’re a simp, so you’re offering to help your landlady with her heavy groceries. Then your college roommate comes along and asks for your help with the computer. You have to go out and buy stuff for them. Scarlett with hand you money for her product, but the other women (total of four) will prey on you and your money. In order to pay, you will have to work. But work is repetitive and nets you $20 per photo. You don’t use the money for anything else than buying stuff to help you unlock sexual acts with women, so all porn tropes apply here.
I think you get where this is going. The married landlady uses you for sex and then disappears, the nerd uses you to lose her virginity and then disappears. The co-worker used you to learn how basic sex works and then disappears and the random Asian girl that creeps on you only to let her hold your fishing pole can’t wait to be fucked by you, before she disappears. Alex now lives in a town where he is the only person in town at the end of the game. What kind of a story is that?
This game also has the habit of explaining actions which you would expect to see a render for, only to just skip to the next render. It breaks immersion because you lack the proper buildup to a good scene. When it does try to explain though, it overexplains and you end up clicking 10 pieces of dialog for one render. There’s no balance and it destroys the storytelling. The moral of the story is - if you go around fucking women, you end up fucking yourself to solitude.
PRESENTATION
Graphically, the game looks above average. It’s pretty sterile and not very stylistic, but the house looks like a home and work looks like work. The women are good looking, but you can’t really read much emotion off their faces. That coupled with serious shortage of rendering scenes make this a hard game to recommend. Even though it looks quite good.
The game is a bit rough in the UI aspect, but it’s not that big of a deal as the tasks you have aren’t that complex to begin with. Work is a different matter though - you have 40 puzzles to sort through, earning $20 for each puzzle. The puzzle is made up of a render from the game. Only thing is, solving all the renders will allow you to see all sex scenes way before you even got there. Which you then have to live through again because there aren’t many renders per sex scene in the game.
GAMEPLAY
The game is sandbox-like in the way that you get to pick which woman to work on. Each woman has about four stages and two of them include getting stuff from the store for money. So you work and all sex encounters get spoiled. Go to the woman, give her the product. And from that moment on you’re basically trying to fuck her. There aren’t much choices other than the choice of which woman will you try to fuck next. Porn simulator.
So about the work puzzles - each picture is divided into squares that you have to rotate until you set them upright. That’s right, it’s easy to solve and requires a lot of clicking. While mundanely clicking over and over again might actually feel like work, that doesn’t mean the game has to represent actual meaningless working. Now if the puzzles were optional or unlocked something you wouldn’t see otherwise, I could forgive the grind. This is bad game design.
OVERALL
At $7, this is a hard sell. While the story might sound bearable on paper, it usually comes down to bloated text and porn logic developments. The game looks good, but the quantity of sex doesn’t make up for the average quality of it. This dev needs to up the story, expand on activities and just create more worth for that price while removing all the mundane tasks and definitely come up with a better minigame to earn money. Right now, I can not recommend you to play this unless you absolutely just want to fap. And even then, there’s better games to get right now. I hope the developer can fix this game up and make it more enjoyable. Until then, you should treat this like Scarlett’s husband treats his wife - leave and take way too long before returning.
5/10
By WildBanana
