VN - Unity - Netorase Phone [v0.20] [Le Stag]

One of the BEST NTS games and probably THE best chatting game.

Pros:
Story
Choices
Art
Characters
Length
NTS (obviously)

Cons:
Can't think of any

Love how the story progresses and have complete OPTION to select who to have sex/share with, usually many games force you to have all, but here you can choose.

P.S. If the devs are reading maybe add option to get the "friends" as girlfriends which will make this game one of a kind NTS-harem, seriously it will be epic.

Summary:
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Le Stag masters storytelling, character depth and how to make you hold your breath with impeccable scene setting and writing. Shame the game falls short of anything else.
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Review:

• Art-style: ☆
Ah, stable diffusion, how you've rocked the world of porn games too hard.

To give Civitai anything more than one star would be insulting to developers who pay hundreds to invest in artists, or developers who themselves are artists and do the drawing, coloring, shading, coding, etc..

It's stable diffusion. You've seen it 236.000 times according to Rule34 alone. It's the same faces and same bodies over and over, with altered details.

• Gameplay: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
There is no "gameplay" as much as any linear VN. But honestly, it works.

I'm quite comfortable with the linear tone of the game. You're texting through a phone, what else do you expect? I do wish there were more Squaregram interactions like stories that would replace the constant selfies. For instance, you know Laura is going out with her friends, you're texting about it, but a story on Squaregram shows you what they're drinking, what they're wearing, etc.. It'd help immersing.

There are a few branching points, but the outcome is the same, only changing the characters. I'm fine with it. I'd rather have it this way, than having 40 saves per path.

• Storyline: ☆☆☆☆☆
Very well crafted, allowing you to bond and feel the characters.

Le Stag manages to write a very, very compelling and believable story. He nails some criteria that are very important:

1. Likely scenarios that don't deviate from reality.
2. Progressive introductions to each character.
3. Between-scenes content (sleeping; showering; coming back; etc.)
4. Usage of a Dark Night of the Soul technique* adapted to the light tone of the storyline (Mike Event; spoilers avoided).
5. Slowburning pace.
6. Focusing on the couple as well, and expanding upon their dynamic instead of merely on the other partners.

Unfotunately, the story becomes a bit more stale towards the end. Not enough for me to detract a star, though.

* - A critical turning point where the protagonist experiences something bad that makes them reconsider what they're doing or who they are.

• Grammar: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆☆
Flawless!

There are typos, but given you're talking through your phone, they can even be explained as intentional. That's cheating, dev!
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Stars: 15
Parameters: 4 (Art | Gameplay | Storyline | Grammar)
Final result: 4 ☆ 15/4 = 3.75 (4)

This game, instead of being a story, is a simple sequence of events that aren't tied thematically by anything deeper than being a flimsy excuse to include X fetish through the same NTR phone game tropes you've seen a million times even though the genre is relatively new. It's written to extremely vaguely imitate the standard structure of inciting incidents leading to rising action and resulting in some sort of climax but there really is no writing here. There's no plot, no deeper themes explored through any of the characters, no conflict and therefore no resolution.

Since there's no plot, no characters, no character arcs and the writer very clearly makes things up as they go this game can't be called a story but is rather a Progression. Well, plenty of adult games are Progressions and not true stories but what's awful is that even this Progression is not a particularly well-paced one as the events accelerate way too quickly and, lacking basic storytelling, end up having no bite or impact.

A properly written conflict could've served as a way to implement a character arc and therefore a contour for a potential story which would make it much easier to think of events to include and what they could potentially lead to. Instead by the midgame you'll feel trapped in this cuckold-themed Groundhog Day scenario where you'll constantly catch yourself thinking "haven't we done this already?" as the writer bloats the game up with samey scenarios and forgettable sex scenes you'll VERY quickly feel completely desensitized to. I don't think this was done out of spite or as a way to stall the development and milk the patreon but is instead the result of the total lack of story in this story game.

Since this is not a standard VN but rather a phone sim, the game lacks prose in any form other than written messages. This results in, apart from the total lack of subtlety, foreshadowing or, as I already mentioned, any proper storytelling techniques, constant torturously long sex scenes being described to you through awkward text by whoever you're messaging. These I don't even want to pick apart as they were just not arousing and I didn't care for them in the slightest.

The game also lacks choice. One shouldn't expect a crazy web of choices and consequences even out of big budget RPGs let alone porn games but the sheer amount of entirely pointless responses that don't allow for even the slightest degree of role playing gets genuinely aggravating really fast. The effect is doubled considering how absolutely sanitized and afraid to offend this game is as any and all "dirty talk" it includes is fully performative (and painted in specific color) in a uniquely soulless way and is always followed by the constant 'reclaiming' as if the game telling you "jk i'd never DARE to offend you in any way, my little snowflake!!!!".

Otherwise, well, you'll click on pretty buttons that work well, sound nice and don't bug out and the AI-"art" is at least not horribly aggravating, both of which are great and all but as far as the important things go, there is just nothing here.

Excellent!
Must play for Nts fans

Wonderful touching story, great side characters. I love this quite slow burn story even dynamics lower in the middle now it's on a great level. Can't wait author to develop announced kinks in later versions.

Best wishes to Le Stag

Sin duda uno de los mejores NTRS que he jugado, al principio me echaba para atrás el iacg pero finalmente me anime a probarlo y me alegro.
Si las imágenes de ia cg son lo que te echan un poco para atrás créeme y dale un impunidad, las imágenes de los personajes se mantienen coherentes de unas a otras no es las típicas que de repente parece que a encogido o engordado.

Ha parte de eso la historia me parece muy buena, no salta a los 3 minutos al tema si no que lo va cociendo a fuego lento pero lo lleva muy bien haciendo que simpatices con la novia, no es la típica que dice para adelante sin dudar, al principio parece recelosa tantea el terreno se preocupa de que ambos estén cómodos y poco a poco se van abriendo mas al fetiche del novio.

Los amigos de la fmc son simpaticos y son algo parciticipativos en la historia, ademas no es una historia de humillacion por ejemplo tara en un momento dado te dice cucky, si finges que no sabes que es eso y te lo explica puedes reaccionar indiferente o algo molesto, si actuas molesto te dira que no lo dice con mala intencion si no cmo apodo cariñoso, y si aun asi dices que no pasara a seguir llamandote dulce y eso es algo que me llamo mucho la atencion, aun que escogi lo de cuky en ningun momento senti que se burlaba en verdad.

El toro principal no actúa como un capullo si no que al principio es tímido con la situación y poco a poco se mete en el rol además de que es agradecido por la situación y no un imbécil que cree que eres basura (mas adelante si hay uno que es un capullo pero si le dices que no te gusta a tu novia dejara de verlo sin dudar).

Ese tipo de cosas son las que me han cautivado del juego, unas imágenes buenas, una historia que a pesar del fetiche que trata lo hace con respeto entre todos y a pesar de que puedes escoger varias rutas (dom/sub/stagg), solo es para digamos la charla sucia fuera de ello la novia no te trata peor ni mejor si eres por ejemplo sub a que si eres mas dom (si quieres humillación del tipo comparar tamaños en un momento dado te pregunta por que es eso una elección para dar sabor al juego sexual no una definición de la relaciona).

Si tuviera que decir algo negativo seria que durante las conversaciones sexuales muchasveces son muchos mensajes seguidos con solo una palabra y parece mucho texto pero no es importante ya que va bastante rapido si los mensajes son cortos.
Quizás lo que si me gustaría es que si tienes activado la humillación las frases que son en base a eso se remarcaran en rojo (las frases que son de ruta como el dom son azul y el sub rojos, si bien se puede tener la ruta dom y tener la humillación activada(creo) que el mensaje típico por ejemplo "es mas grande que tu" al estar del mismo color que el texto normal tardas un momento en darte cuenta por eso digo que me gustaría que estuviera resaltado en rojo ya que llama la atención de cualquier manera y suele estar mas ligado al sub)

y que no esta en español xd

Se que me he alargado mucho pero quería explicar bien ciertos puntos para hacer entender que tan diferente y bien hecho que esta es en comparación a otros.
Así que si te gustan los ntrs que el ai cg no te detenga que es bueno y dale una oportunidad.

I USED GOOGLE TRANSLATE (I'M TOO LAZY TO TRANSLATE EVERYTHING XD)

Without a doubt, one of the best NTRs I've played. At first, I was put off by IACG, but I finally got the courage to try it, and I'm glad I did.
If IACG's visuals are what put you off a bit, believe me and give it a try. The character images remain consistent from one to the next, not the typical ones that suddenly seem to have shrunk or gained weight.

Apart from that, I think the story is very good. It doesn't jump to the topic after 3 minutes, but instead slowly builds up the story, but it handles it very well, making you sympathize with the girlfriend. She's not the typical one who says "go for it" without hesitation. At first, she seems wary, tests the waters, makes sure they're both comfortable, and little by little, they open up more to the boyfriend's fetish.

I used google translate

The FMC friends are friendly and somewhat involved in the story. It's not a story of humiliation, for example. Tara calls you "cucky" at one point. If you pretend you don't know what that is and she explains it to you, you might react indifferently or somewhat annoyed. If you act annoyed, she'll tell you she doesn't mean it with bad intentions, but rather as a pet name. And if you still say no, she'll continue calling you "sweet," which is something that really caught my attention. Even though I chose "cucky," I never felt like she was actually making fun of him.

The main character doesn't act like a jerk. He's shy about the situation at first, but little by little, he gets into the groove. He's also grateful for the situation and not an idiot who thinks you're trash. (Later on, there's one guy who is a jerk, but if you tell him you don't like him, your girlfriend will stop watching him without hesitation.)

These are the things that captivated me about the game: good visuals, a story that, despite the fetish it deals with, does so with respect for everyone. Even though you can choose multiple routes (dom/sub/stagg), it's only for dirty talk. Outside of that, the girlfriend doesn't treat you worse or better if you're a sub, for example, than if you're more of a dom. (If you want humiliation like comparing sizes, at one point she asks you why; that's a choice to spice up the sexual game, not a decision about the relationship.)

If I had to say something negative, it would be that during sexual conversations, there are often many messages in a row with only one word, and it seems like a lot of text, but it's not important since it goes pretty fast if the messages are short. Perhaps what I would like is that if you have humiliation enabled, the phrases that are based on that would be highlighted in red (the phrases that are from the route, like the dom, are blue and the sub are red. Although you can have the dom route and have humiliation enabled (I think), the typical message, for example, "he's bigger than you," being the same color as the normal text, takes a moment to realize. That's why I say I would like it to be highlighted in red since it draws attention anyway and is usually more closely linked to the sub).

And it's not in Spanish xd

I know I've gone on for a long time, but I wanted to explain certain points to make it clear how different and well-made this game is compared to others.
So if you like NTRs, don't let the AI CG stop you; it's good, and give it a try.

Nice. I would like it to be a game where the partners experiment but stay together and there is no room for mistrust. All games tend to slide in the direction where the male loses his partner and I don't like it. Can't she really find another dick and stay faithful?

It is good, however i do have two major points of contention with this game.

1. Nathan
The game overall is very linear and nothing shows that better than the primary bull Nathan. If you dislike Nathan, or like me just grow tired of him, you are basically shit out of luck.

i personally realized it when Ashley mentioned sleeping with him and i just thought "great, more of this guy". i don't know exactly when i got tired of him, but as soon as i did, i know every response option annoyed me. i began to hope for any conversation where you could just respond "I think it's time to stop seeing Nathan" rather than yet another choice between an emoji or "I would love that/ lucky guy"
Look at games like "Adelaide Inn", "Adventurous couple" or "Couples duet of love and lust" all three have NTS routes that don't fall into the pitfall of a single Male interest that is constantly forced upon you as the player

2nd is the art.
Nature of the beast with AI but the art becomes very samey, a few times i was actually unsure whether i had seen an image before in the chat or not. Many images are also just kinda tame, both in setup and execution. the extremes you'd expect in a game like this in terms of dicks size and cum amount are just never really reached in my opinion.
However unlike some other games the AI art never actually becomes a dealbreaker, as the phone text format, creates an extra meta layer that greatly helps.

If you like NTS it is an easy enough reccomend however be prepared for a pretty linear journey, less exciting art, and at times very frustrating response options.

It's probably 4 - 4.5 stars but I'm giving it 5 for be best in class of all the other NTR phone games I've played on here.

A few things that standout:

Friends are not the overused insufferable plot devices that exist solely to derail your wife/girlfriend. I like how genuinely respectful and inclusive the friends are, limited to teasing that never felt overboard to me.

A full phone UI with a gallery, highlights of major decisions, and a public social media sight.

About the only con is that the story is stagnating in the later part of the game. The dev should either tie up the story or truly shake things up.

I'd like multiple save points too. It looks like you can jump back and forth to replay chapters but that's a little immersion breaking to me. (Only a soft con.)

Absolutely worth it if you're into phone games.

It's quite good game and I enjoyed playin it so much (even though I like to be on the other side of the NTR relation ) The scripts, the story, kink However I wanted to play this game with "3dcg"s instead of 2dcg aicg. The graphics dont give you the real sensation. It feels like a watching a cartoon. But anyway good game keep up with the good work.

Disclaimer: Haven't played the Mike update yet.

Started out good but is slowly becoming stale just like gilgamesh9 wrote in his review.

This desperately needs more player choice.
This also desperately needs more NTR variety, especially more random one-time events.
And I mean random as in random dudes she met somewhere and ghosts afterwards.

Currently we only have:
- The second boyfriend Nathan (which I personally find more and more annoying and would like to have the choice to get rid of him)
- The overbearing asshole Oliver (who is also annoying and luckily avoidable via dialogue option)
- Only very few interesting events in between

The latest updates focus more and more on Ash/Tara and the MC reversing the NTR, which, at least for me, is a complete waste of time.

I say it again, desperately needs more player choice, more random and different NTR events WITH OTHER PEOPLE THAN NATHAN.

I personally desperately need an option to get rid of Nathan. Sorry, just being honest here.

Laura doesn't need a second boyfriend IMO.
Sadly, that's the main focus of this game.
"Laura and her other boyfriends"...

For me, that's just getting boring

Was good in the start but now becoming really stale, just a bunch of the same with pointless decisions that make no difference. Would have been nice to have some choice of who to do what with and when. Instead its just i fuck your choice. Like should be able to choice who gets the first creampie in her (Mike for me). But its been prolonged so much that it has lost its value atp.

A very good game, very entertaining. But I would like more scenes of the protagonist having sex with girlfriend's friends, and the girlfriend as well. Even the protagonist participating in a threesome whit the girlfriend or her friends (Ahsly and Tara). And it would be great if this game had the option to be translated into spanish

I wrote a big review, but it's not saved and the truth is I'm too lazy to write everything again, so dare me to summarize in general.

Good game, spicy images, a lot of text, do not compensate for the text and images, several characters, good AI images, good lore, at the end of the update for players it can become a problem due to a lot of text.

I recommend the game, but be prepared to read a lot of text, they might give it a chance.


In general it is a good game and I sincerely recommend it, there are 2 routes to follow and the rest develops as you decide, but yes, I warn you to be prepared to read a lot because it has a lot of reading and you may feel overwhelmed but it is a good game and well worked.

Summary (SCORE: 7)
o Character Design/Visual: 9/10
o Background music/sound: 6/10
o Plot: 8/10
o Animation: 2/10
o +18 Scenes: 6/10
o Gameplay: 9/10
o Interface: 10/10

V.0.16.2
Pros:

• Varied cast size with different personalities.
• Buildup has decent pacing during the non repetitive events, characters discuss boundaries and expectations then immediately follow up with enacting it.

Cons:

• A lot of repetitive daily routine and sex events that adds no new context or content is constantly repeated on a very frequent basis. e.g. "you left before I woke up", "when do you get off work?", "I sucked and swallow someones cum today", "I went out and got pounded today", "Come home quick I want to have sex".
• No manual saving or rollback, single save slot requiring manually managing folders in your appdata, despite the game seemingly having different routes/flavor.
• CG are mostly similar even for different characters, aside from the variation in poses they are positioned in almost the exact same manner in nearly every groping/oral/sex/aftermath scene.
• Event choices are occasionally made by the characters instead of you despite asking for your input, forcing you down certain paths or locking you out of content despite of your choices, I'm not sure if this is a bug or its by design.
• Far too much emoji spam. I understand having redundant inputs to act as word-break since we don't have control over the text progression, but spamming the same emoji over and over as a response to encountering new situations adds to the repetitiveness and makes the characters feel shallow.
• Very little character development. Despite being a text game of corruption and exploring new kinks, the characters never really show any progression of how they feel about the changes, almost every encounter is a whiplash between "I don't want to do it I don't feel ready" to "I'm going to break all of our previous boundaries right now if you don't stop me" without ever saying why.

This is, without a doubt, my favourite game thus far on this site.

The AI art is impressive, and the story unfolds at a satisfying pace, blending everyday life with intimate moments. The developer is active, and consistently releases updates, his dedication for this game really shows. I particularly appreciate the focus on depth over breadth; a few well-developed characters are far more engaging than a large cast of shallow ones. The game also avoids excessive exposition, 'porn-logic', and maintains a believable tone.

The text-based format effectively captures the feel of real conversations, making it a great choice for fans of that style - which seems extremely well suited for the NTS genre.

I personally prefer waiting for the Android updates as they enhance the experience for me. While this may mean occasional delays, I believe it's well worth the wait.

If I had the means to support a game, this would be the one I chose to support.

In terms of quality, I believe this is fairly well done. The creator picked the phone messaging format and it has its merits - it aims for a sense of immediacy while also limiting information, trying to make it authentic.

But the phone format also has its limitations, which may become more pronounced over time. Personally, I feel that it already shows early on with scenes between MC and PC only being alluded to, so the direct relationship between PC and MC feels, on some levels, weakly established / maintained, while almost all visual and content focus is on other NPCs. Obviously, that is the content focus... but given that the game aims to embed this content in an (emotionally and sexually) stable, loving relationship, that feels like a definite weakness and something of an error. Something like "making videos together" or a memory section for the PC recalling some events with the MC, sans phone, might be worth considering.

The biggest design flaw, in my opinion, is the lack of choice or impact. The MC is established as entirely independent early on and the player has almost no direct impact or control on anything that occurs henceforth. If a choice is presented, it should be meaningful, at least short-term (e.g. telling her to not go out that night, to take things slower, not meet this person or that --> determining what content is unlocked while the overall direction of character development remains the same).

For that reason, I find it decidedly unsatisfying when choices are purely cosmetic with no impact whatsoever. Such choices are pointless and might as well just be automatic responses the player doesn't have to input. I've played too many low-effort games (that usually claimed high levels of interactivity) while offering purely cosmetic choices for this not to aggravate me on principle.
I hope the creator will keep improving as they keep gathering experience.

I love the setup and quality of the production; Dev put a lot of love and care into this. While the last two updates were not my favorite, I appreciate where the plot is heading and hope the quality and consistency remain high

My favorite game in the NTS/R phone genre. Overall top 5 in the parent genre. Semi slow burn with realistic dialogue and multiple personality choices for the player if they prefer to be more dominant or submission that affects how the other characters interact with you. Good writing and visuals. Highly recommend if you enjoy this genre.

Very enjoyable and engaging, slow build up with some hot milestones and generally very well made. Will be keeping tabs on this one, very much looking forward to the updates and how it'll all eventually resolve!

excellent game, but I believe the progress will be much slower from now on. Looking at the updates on the 0.14, it feels like this will be a subscriber milking project. I'm sorry if I'm being prejudiced.