The Wanton Mother In Law is a fun little game with great characters, generally clean renders, and a nice premise. it's still very early in the design cycle but well worth following.
Per the dev's Patreon age, here is the expected format of the game:
Step 1 - I'll finish Alyssa's route until the choice between the first ending and the continuation of the route that will lead to the Open Marriage/Swinger Couple route. - DONE - 6/09/2024.
- **Working on this part now** - Step 2 - I'll add Melody's route until the choice between the second ending and the choice that will lead to the Cuckquean or The Harem route.
Step 3 - I'll add the consequences and bad endings for each route, meaning NTR events.
Step 4 - Finish the Open Marriage and the Swinger Route to their endings (I'm planning so you can choose one route or both simultaneously).
Step 5 - Finish the cuckquean route to its ending (Cuckquean Route will be mostly about the fetish Alyssa has of watching Jason with Melody
and being submissive to the two of them).
Step 6 - Finish the harem route to its ending. (The harem route will be where the 3 of them take an active role in seducing the other girls in the game and adding them to their unusual relationship where Jason will be the only male participant.)
Step 7 - Adding consequences and bad endings to all the other routes, meaning more NTR.
I know some will look at this list see step 3 and step 7 and scream and yell "NTR hell no!" and this was something I asked the dev about also. All too often these games end up with a slutty/whore wife, when the premise is not set up to be that way, and the initial story isn't built to support that story path.
These steps will, per the dev, *only occur* if the player doesn't do what they are supposed to, or they choose to have the NTR occur. I can only asume this would be neglecting, or deliberately going against one of the female characters and they would then find other options.
Now with that being said, the wife in the game has been written (to this point, I wouldn't expect it to change) where she refuses to see any other guys, unless her husband told her to go with them. So at least the way the story is now, the wife won't ever be involved with any NTR ornegative consequences, unless the player makes deliberate choices to force the story to go that direction.
So the current stance is that NTR will only occur if the player makes the choices to make it occur. And not just "oops I clicked one wrong choice" but deliberate, multiple choosing options to have the story shift to that path, that's how the dev seems to plan for this to happen.
So if you're the type to scream "NTR hell no!", unless you force it to occur, it doesn't exist in the game. And the game has some great scenes, with a lot more to come as the various paths progress.
The game is sandbox but unless the player super focuses only on one path it doesn't get 'too' grindy, any more than other sandbox games. The characters story arc's or steps progress usually one event per day (somewhere and some time) or maybe on specific days, but it never felt super grindy.
Overall, for anyone who likes attractive female characters, nice story instances, with plenty of areas that can be expanded on as time goes on, I'd say give this one a shot. With the potential to pretty much have almost any sort of fetish type someone may like, depending on the paths as they are developed, the game looks solid for the future also.