VN - Unity - Netorase Phone [v0.28.1] [Le Stag]

The pinnacle of Phone NTS games. Each character texts in a unique way and feels like a genuine person, different fleshed out paths for different types of content and many different kinds of kinks/subgenres of NTS. The game's UI is well made, runs smoothly, with multiple apps that add to the experience besides texting. The art is AI generated, but well done enough without any weird AI quirks. What sets this game apart tho is the sheer amount of content, 56 and counting chapters totaling easily 15+ hours of gameplay for only one route. Dev delivers consistent and frequent updates and it seems like this game is truly getting into the good stuff now that all the vanilla stuff is done with. The only critic I would have is that I would like it to be more noticeable that Laura is changing throughout the game, if not physically than emotionally and mentally, to really sell the repercussions of the game's event and the add weight to the players choices.

This is probably my favourite adult game. I genuinely think that if you like the premise then you'll find it enjoyable. Its writing is focused through the phone interface , not switching away for cutscenes or anything. Sometimes this leads to contrivances to justify text communications, but otherwise messages, images and short videos are sent to and from the main characters phone and cover all of the info needed. Laura is compelling and her and the MCs relationship seems ideal. The other female characters are fun too, acting as foils, encouragement and eye candy. The story/smut ratio is great, with progress happening throughout. The art is ai, and is pretty consistent. Multiple "paths" depending on the attitude of the MC are available, though they will largely change the messages around images, with some activities not happening if they have been opted out of. I have near 100%'d this game, and don't regret the time spent.

One of the best "phone simulator" game.
there are a lot of different characters, during the game you can explore a lot of kink, not only netorase, and if you are not comfortable with something, you can just ask to not seek that path.
The only problem is that even if the player keep open every path, it's impossible to unlock every photo in the gallery. there will always be something missing.

i definitely suggest everyone to try this especially those who are into NTR stories. really really love the banter between the MC and his significant other. looking forward for more content since this is already brim to the point of content. really promising and hoping for more updates on this one.

Not even an NTR guy, but this one is a lot of fun. Side characters are great, too. Best so far of these text message type games. Also, does a good job toying with a few different fetishes. Pretty hot, overall

pretty linear vn, all text based. the whole thing is from the pov of using a phone. neat concept but kinda wasted.
dialogue feels off, like ai wrote half of it, and the pics are ai‑generated too which kills the mood fast. many of them looks noticeably inconsistent.
i thought it’d be more of a sandbox where you dig through her phone or catch her in the act, but it’s just straight text scrolling.
2 stars for the idea, -3 for the execution.

There is a lot of content for the version number, that suprised me. I haven't found many decent phone genre games so far, but this one is good.

Well written, characters have very diverse personalities, story is engaging, but not super deep, it's slice of kinky life. Not a lot of repetition in dialog, author should be commended here.

Images are not prolific, the game is a lot of text, but they are consistent and nicely done. I am not a fan of the Anime faces, I like the character bodies, and I know I am in the minority on a site like this. The pics almost detract from the experience for me, at least until the head scrolls out of view . I cannot judge the author for thier preference, and it is a very popular look, just not my thing.

There are a lot of choices, I haven't played mulitple playthroughs so I am not sure how much the story will change on my next try. It affirms the mc/girlfriend relationship a lot, but I didn't puke flowers, which is a plus. It's a safe space for those who play that need to be reassured.

Lots of kinks, but slow progression, not a drive thru slut simulator, which might make some angry and others horny.

Overall worth trying if you like the kinks and don't mind the phone interface. I think this one might actually deserve to jump out of the phone into an actual VN, but the extra work in art creation might not be what the author wants.

Review as of 0.28.1

This is a pretty solid offering as far as these phone-type NTS games go. It's definitely enjoyable for me to revisit every one or two updates. But it's also a game with some glaring weaknesses.

First, the good. Unlike a lot of similar games, this one is actually playable and doesn't hurt your eyes. The text moves quickly and can be skipped through even quicker. The art is fine as far as AI goes. Can't say it's super appealing but it gets the job done. I also think the female characters are all pretty appealing.

Next, the bad. There's parts of this game that just straight up don't work. This seems to pop up most often with the vignettes but the game just straight up shows you stuff regardless of what choices you made. On a second playthrough, I chose to skip a bull I didn't really care for. So the meeting never happened but then in a vignette, he showed up anyways. And then I had to talk to an NPC that hadn't been introduced because I never played through the storyline but they showed up anyways without any context.

Lastly, the uninteresting. This is pretty subjective to be fair but I think the bulls are all pretty boring and there really aren't enough of them either. It's not really a deal breaker because it's not like they're the focus of the game, but it wouldn't hurt to give them a personality or write them with the same care as the female characters. Also, for all the words in this game, I feel like not a lot actually happens.

But for all my complaints, I don't have too many complaints about the overall experience of playing this game. It isn't my favorite but it's also probably one of the better made ones in this little genre. I'd say it's biggest flaw is just being a little uninteresting.

Another AI cucking game. The story was fairly monotonous and a chore to click through. I didn't really like the way the story unfolds, and the lack of any actual choices or consequences for choices makes the dialogue feel pretty empty after a while.

Disclaimer: NTS isn't my kink, so I may or may not understand it well enough to rate this 100% fairly. I just try a lot of adult games. From my perspective, it would generally be a lot more fun to be in Nathan's shoes than the main character's, or just to play this game completely from Laura's perspective with the male lead written out almost entirely. You're able to tailor some of the kinks (e.g. anal, DP, MMF threesomes, humiliation, BDSM) to your preferences. Almost all of the non-mandatory kinks would have made the game completely unplayable for me. This game has a target audience that I didn't fit, and I still enjoyed a fair amount of it, so kudos to the dev.

The art's good. Pretty consistent for AI art. The writing is above average. Laura is attractive, and mostly willing to go along with whatever the MC wants. Laura's friends are fine. They seemed a little like people I've met. Tara is actually pretty cool. Other than seeing some pics of other women, and one BJ, I never had an option to have anything happen for the MC with the other female characters. I would have preferred for the MC to never have had to meet any of the guys or text with them, but that's not completely preventable. I do think if you're willing to have the MC try anal or be submissive there were some swinging options hidden that weren't open for me. If you're not into sharing, 2 - 3*, and if you are 4 - 5*. I'm giving it 4* because I think that's fair.

A game with NTS themes delivered in texting format may not be the most original proposition but this one delivers, in my opinion, a best in class execution of the formula, with quality consistent across the different routes which is a big plus.

Pros:

- The laser focus on this being the story of a loving couple, no matter which kinks they engage in and how they engage in said kinks, elevates the narrative and the intensity of the NTS. Too many games end up dedicating so little time to the romance that you almost can't tell that there's supposed to be a couple in there.

- Le Stag's writing of the erotic scenes is top notch, as is his decision making of which events should leave MC in the dark until they're over and which benefit from being live texted to him as they happen.

- UI and UX are polished which may sound like a minor thing but so many of these texting are so clunky that playing through them becomes a slog. I particularly like that you can pause the flow of text with a single click of the space bar.

- There's a LOT of content already for less than a year and a half since the original release.

- It's AI but the art is generally good quality and characters mostly look consistent with some exceptions. I love the 3 main female chara designs too.

Some (minor) gripes:

- Bouncing off the last pro, the male characters could stand to be a bit more varied. The two main ones (besides MC) are explicitly stated to look similar and in general for how corrupted Laura has already become she hasn't had that many partners and fewer distinct ones. Slut Era seems like the perfect moment to start fixing that !

- Some optimization issues as more saves are recorded (or is it just as the story progresses?), the game starts to slow down, which really I can't find a reason why that should happen.

- So I'm a sucker for social media content and the SquareGram stuff is a fine implementation but while all social media being in one app helps streamline the UI, it also oversimplifies the type of social content that can be made, with NSFW and SFW stuff sharing the same format and little interaction with the "audience". Maybe the Slut Era could also help fix that with "OF" type app for Laura (and Ashley... and maybe Tara soon) to actually get into interactions with the people who look at her stuff. Do like the caption content in the later parts of the current game tho !

Overall, a really, really great game and perhaps now my favorite NTS game out there.

Easily the best of this genre of phone chat games. The AI art is actually remarkably consistent and clean, and the writing is quite a bit of fun. The couple are loving and communicative, and the side characters are entertaining as well. There isn't a lot of branching but I think this helps make development easier and there's plenty of content, so it's worth the trade off.

A lot of AI art games are poorly put together slop but not this one - it's well worth your time

Good art and solid suspense during the early parts of the game; things build up very nicely.

My problem with the game came in later on when it becomes obvious that the player doesn't really have much choice - some of the choices will literally be to say that you like a suggestion from Laura, or an "I'm excited emoji" which is basically the same thing. The game would be much better served by giving the player enough agency and control to say 'no' if they don't like a scenario, etc. Since a game like this is based on respect between the characters, the MC should get final say on pretty much everything that happens so it was this part of the game design that has turned me off enough that I've stopped playing it.

Love the phone premise though - I first tried "Dirty Texts - Are You Sure?" and loved it and that's what led me to "Netorase Phone". With phone games like this, it's the suspense of not seeing everything happening, etc. and getting bits as it progresses, etc. But it felt like Dirty Texts you just had better control, etc. (and I liked that it was designed in such a way that the wife never saw the same person twice).

The best Netorase game I've ever played. I spent three days playing it. I really liked the girl Laura. Her behavior, obedience, and insatiability. I liked the graphics. But I have a couple of suggestions. When Laura was coming home from her parents' house on the train, she teased me so much that I wanted her to find a random guy on the train and ask him to have sex with her right there in the train bathroom. But the developers let me down. She didn't find anyone, and the whole point of her teasing and making a list of things she could do just went down the toilet of the train. Sometimes such good ideas get spoiled. It would be cool to see more social interactions. Chatting with friends is cool, of course, but it would be even cooler if there were random events, for example - Laura goes to the store for bread and seduces the whole store on the way. Or she flash there with her charms without panties. Or Laura goes to buy new clothes and asks a random guy to help her, and then, well, you know... Laura goes to a club, the main character can't go, and again... This is really not enough. I would like to see more missionary positions like the one when Nathan creampied her for the first time. It looks really cool. You can even add a foot fetish, because she has such beautiful and appetizing legs... especially when Ashley teased with photos of her legs. As for the local Instagram, it would be great if people wrote to her there and she would invite them home, because it was not for nothing that another bed appeared there, or went to their house, as she herself suggested. Otherwise, it's the coolest game of its kind I've ever played.

My short personal review of the game:
+ Great CG
- Boring
- Unnecessarily long conversations
- Nothing major happened in the latest updates
- The player doesn't know what will happen based on their decisions

Summary:
At the beginning, it seemed like a great concept, but it turned into a boring game. This type of game should gradually level up and reward the player for the amount of text they go through, but that's not the case here. You just keep reading and reading without getting anything in return. The lastest update was a huge disappointed. There are plenty of other games out there that handle progression much better.

I usually don't like these phone games because the interface is a total mess, but this game is an absolute joy to play.

The right amount of interactivity with as little useless clicking as possible.

On top of that, the girls are super fun, and the content drip is well paced, to the point where I actually enjoy reading 90% of the content, where I usually skip through a lot of the boring dialogue.

This game finds creative ways to put new spins on old scenarios to add tension. Group chats and side conversations mix up the flow enough to keep things interesting.

This game has made my "follow and play every update" list. Love it!

Honestly, I'm not giving 1 star only because girls are hot, especially main LI and Tara.

However, there is a lot of text and I mean a LOT. I spent like 3-4 hours and I was on fast skip text reading most of it but still. Most choices are very akward and most of the times lead to the same issue. You get asked early Stag, Cuck or ???? route? Like no details for the 3rd one. You never fully know if you take a turn or not or what can really happen. All I know is I tried to avoid being a cuck and get in Tara's bed.
I get asked choices like do you find this hot? Then when I get a choice like no or meh, she usually is like don't try or of course you did and then you bend and say yes.

I understand this is called Netorase phone and not Netorare but what is the point of playing a game when there is no free will? Might as well read a book, a manga or something. Especially coming from a game that took so much time putting that much text and is mainly text based,

I would have spent less time repeating encounters like

one of the best of the ntr/s genre, Some will say it's stretching too much, it's complicated to keep up with the releases but playing everything at once makes the game extremely complete. I would also say that interactions outside of the stories need to be improved, such as the applications themselves that seek to work within the cell phone of this universe. Perhaps reworking chapters that have already been released.

I meant to make a review for this earlier but only just found the time right now and I absolutely love the game. It's fun, hot, realistic, has great characters and little side stories, different paths to chose and is overall just really well made. It's simple, yet really damn fun. Great game and much love <3

If I had 3 words to describe this game it would be:

- monotonous
- inflated
- sanitized

Or you could just say its boring. Every chapter is large amounts of the same bland, tasteless slop. This game takes 'quantity over quality' to the extreme.