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Since I'm new here and you, likebeingdik, seem to really appreciate evakiss's work because of your photo, I'd like to know who your favorite girl is for MC Ian?
1. Ivy. Sadly EK is too skilled challenged for it to actually happen.
2. Emma. Solid booty and fun for real romance and casual.
 

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When you choose experimenting/open relationship for Ian/Lena in chapter 9 is it normal that you can't sleep with anyone else, because that feels like it defeats the purpose. Basically, I was being a slut with both of them, and they both came clean to doing a lot of experimenting while dating, and then decided to keep just experimenting as a couple, but the 3some with Alison got cancelled, I can't have sex with Emma in chapter 10, and they both whine about cheating on the other.
 
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When you choose experimenting/open relationship for Ian/Lena in chapter 9 is it normal that you can't sleep with anyone else, because that feels like it defeats the purpose.
The idea is for them to experiment together so that's not really a permit for either of them to fuck some third party on their own. It's not an open relationship. The "experimenting together" starts after a while with potential threesome with Louise and then maybe Emma down the road.

In the meantime if Lena cheats on Ian at the club and he finds out about it through Jeremy, this creates a possibility to switch to actual open relationship during discussion in Ch.13 at Perry's beach house.
 

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I like having that option yeah! I like romance and casual relationships too, but allowing Lena to just go out and get picked up is something I hope to see a bit more of. The three new strangers coming to Billy's party has me hopeful that we'll get some fun sexual situations to pick between. :giggle:
though i may have complained that lena has no real romance options besides ian and holly (which are kind of a package deal and ian is also the other playable character of the game, making them both quite obvious exceptions), i do enjoy lena having random hookups!

however i would hope ian gets some too! right now he is a bit too much of a harem-maker typical protagonist who has to have a romance path for each girl.
 

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however i would hope ian gets some too! right now he is a bit too much of a harem-maker typical protagonist who has to have a romance path for each girl.
Well, a lot of these romantic options are mutually exclusive so it's far from harem making. And while pretty much each girl has a romance option, in all of these cases that's all it is, an option. Ian can always make it instead just casual arrangement, from simple hookup to some sort of FWB deal.
 

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Emma and Cherry.

Emma has legit the best vibes (and booty).

Sad that she's a filthy homeless commie but that's just a detail in the grand scheme of things.
Best LI for Ian: Holly, Lena and Alison, honorably mentioned Cherry and a Gillian recognising she made a big mistake.

Holly, no matter her version, clearly likes Ian for being himself, shares his passion for writing, even wild Holly is a rather sweet, nice and intelligent young woman. Very good fit.
Lena depends on how we play her, can be a great match for Ian, a really good friend or just a fuckbuddy. As said, depends on the playstyle.
Alison, like Holly, is one of the few LIs liking Ian for being himself. Both had school crushes on each other, but never acted on it. Goes to Jeremy only if Ian does not see her visibly swung fence post with "I wanna be with you in a relationship" on it and even if she is with Jeremy, one move by Ian and Jeremy is history.(Unless Ian and her like threesomes)
Cherry seems to be a good LI, but as a side character is rarely seen.
Gillian and a reconciliation has to be seen in future chapters if an option, but what we saw so far hints strongly towards Gillian being aware having made a big mistake with leaving Ian.

Worst LI for Ian: Louise, Cindy, Emma

Louise has extreme character issues, Stan in comparison is an angel as a flat sharer. Needs therapy, her mental stuff is so severe.
Emma and Perry deserve each other, Ian is simply a "fuckbuddy plus" for her. It is very clear Ian is just a substitute. Something that taints her unrepairable for me is, I know some activists in her mold and can only say: No, thank you!
Cindy mainly popular due to her looks, is/was Wade´s girlfriend. Is high maintainance and would prefer Wade if he get´s his groove back.
 

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When you choose experimenting/open relationship for Ian/Lena in chapter 9 is it normal that you can't sleep with anyone else, because that feels like it defeats the purpose.
This is one of the plot descisions that confuses me. Maybe the meaning of "open relationship" is different for some, and "experimenting together" would be fine, if there were more than one option after this descision. After the beach, they are full romance, possibly thruple (current release), so very few experimenting options at all.

I guess the experimenting 'should' include them both, but in the coding and choices (mby) it's named open relationship, possibly the source of my confusion. The underlying dialog as I can remember it is something along the lines of keeping things the same, but being in a relationship, and if that were true they have both been whoring around if you take all options, but continuing that is not entirely possible, esp for Ian. The over dramatics about the cheating crisis and lack of choices at the beach is annoying to me. They both acted like horndogs, then they get all hurt that it might have continued, weak story point for me.
 

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Well, a lot of these romantic options are mutually exclusive so it's far from harem making. And while pretty much each girl has a romance option, in all of these cases that's all it is, an option. Ian can always make it instead just casual arrangement, from simple hookup to some sort of FWB deal.
to requote BlandChili again, but an emphasis on one certain line: "...casual relationships too, but allowing Lena to just go out and get picked up..."
meaning beyond casual relationships.
just one-night-stands. characters that show up for one event and then never again. that's what i want.

or what i mean with harem-maker typical protagonist, is that once a female character is introduced as available for the main character, she needs to have a possible romance option. at least that is very typical for harem games. for example AlwaysFan, which i actually like (for other reasons), there is a character (Carmela) who shows up just for once scene in a optional scene in one specific route. and that alone suffices for her to become part of the harem.
it's like in fear of offending any player who might get attached to random female characters, they have to be included in the fantasy happy ending.
of course ORS isn't like that, but it still comes of as strange that lena has characters like robert and john, who are obviously not going to be lasting relationship options (casual nor romantic), ian doesn't have those.
i would already be surprised if ian even gets a casual partner who he will never be able to advance towards romance.
 

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just one-night-stands. characters that show up for one event and then never again. that's what i want.
I'm not sure if Lena actually has this kind of content then too, because IIRC even for stuff like hookup with Jack the game records possibility of it evolving into something more. Robert does in fact have romance path (and is a recurring character obv, not a one time hookup) and for John it is unknown if he wouldn't get it included down the road.
 

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I'm not sure if Lena actually has this kind of content then too, because IIRC even for stuff like hookup with Jack the game records possibility of it evolving into something more. Robert does in fact have romance path (and is a recurring character obv, not a one time hookup) and for John it is unknown if he wouldn't get it included down the road.
but you do see how ian has it "worse", right? because even recent addition louise has already a love stat.
 
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Given the whole being cheated on in the past dymanic between Ian/Lena, and Lena having her inner 'kind of' turmoil about sleeping with him when he has a gf, but also being empowered by it somehow, and Ian dreaming of Gillian, who could be Mike's gf? It seems almost too obvious for me, and while the writing is pretty good, it isn't super complex, the happy ending is Lena/Mike after Gillian gets her heart broken by Mike cheating with Lena, then sympathizes with Ian and begs him to take her back, which of course Ian cannot refuse, back to square one pretty much. :ROFLMAO:
 

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Best LI for Ian: Holly, Lena and Alison, honorably mentioned Cherry and a Gillian recognising she made a big mistake.

Holly, no matter her version, clearly likes Ian for being himself, shares his passion for writing, even wild Holly is a rather sweet, nice and intelligent young woman. Very good fit.
Lena depends on how we play her, can be a great match for Ian, a really good friend or just a fuckbuddy. As said, depends on the playstyle.
Alison, like Holly, is one of the few LIs liking Ian for being himself. Both had school crushes on each other, but never acted on it. Goes to Jeremy only if Ian does not see her visibly swung fence post with "I wanna be with you in a relationship" on it and even if she is with Jeremy, one move by Ian and Jeremy is history.(Unless Ian and her like threesomes)
Cherry seems to be a good LI, but as a side character is rarely seen.
Gillian and a reconciliation has to be seen in future chapters if an option, but what we saw so far hints strongly towards Gillian being aware having made a big mistake with leaving Ian.

Worst LI for Ian: Louise, Cindy, Emma

Louise has extreme character issues, Stan in comparison is an angel as a flat sharer. Needs therapy, her mental stuff is so severe.
Emma and Perry deserve each other, Ian is simply a "fuckbuddy plus" for her. It is very clear Ian is just a substitute. Something that taints her unrepairable for me is, I know some activists in her mold and can only say: No, thank you!
Cindy mainly popular due to her looks, is/was Wade´s girlfriend. Is high maintainance and would prefer Wade if he get´s his groove back.
I like Allison alot for ian u can tell she been inlove with him for a while. I'm a little sensitive towards louise out of experience but they gotta give her some self respect man it just looks bad and she dont look bad at all.
 
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She has the charisma of a fucking doorknob. She exists for dudes with a morbid fantasy for shy inexperienced women because it's easier to feel confident next to a clumsy blabbering idiot.
You play the damn character, it's like jacking off to your own reflection.
Vomited a little. By the time she talked to Ian she already been sending pics to Jeremy and tryna fuck him. In what world does pursuing someone while fucking their best friend makes for a 'good' LI?
So... Your 'honorable mention' is a character who cheated on Ian, traumatized him then shows up again when his situation got better? And for what? Cuz she admitted she fucked up? lol
 

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Cherry seems to be a good LI, but as a side character is rarely seen.
Haven't played the game in a good long while but from what I've gleaned from the discussion thread here that seems to be largely true. I just can't help but also think of her as a side character even when trying to focus on Cherry during certain playthroughs too. It almost seems like Eva has forgotten about this character (much like how other characters were evolved differently and then essentially dropped). Whenever Cherry pops up it feels more like an afterthought addition to the game than anything else sadly. She just tags along with some other character that advances their story or a plotpoint instead of Eva allowing her some spotlight for that character. Other characters inevitably have more content and thus are more popular according to Eva's polls which then gets more development time, I assume, which feeds the cycle more. Cherry seems like an interesting character too and has her moments and wish she had more time in the sun too, but it is what it is. :cautious:
 
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of course ORS isn't like that, but it still comes of as strange that lena has characters like robert and john, who are obviously not going to be lasting relationship options (casual nor romantic), ian doesn't have those.
i would already be surprised if ian even gets a casual partner who he will never be able to advance towards romance.
Lena is fetish catalyzer. It's considerably easier to squeeze fetish scenes using her as the central point (black guys, gang bangs, big jacked dudes, rich old dudes, women, sex work, adult content creation, D/s dynamics, etc.) than it is to do it with Ian without losing coherence with the 'universe'.

Ian is more narratively constrained. You can't give him endless one-off partners without having him approach these potential partners which would effectively fuck up his grounded character design. He'd become a Jeremy without the dick size. Ian ends up hooking up with characters he has proximity/history with which will, logically, spark a relationship.
 

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Louise would be appealing if she wanted retarded when it came to romance. Ian plows her and all of a sudden that equals they are dating? Girl needs to be sent to a medical stint and get her head checked.

Alison... ugh. She hooks up with Jeremy then goes on the whole 'I'm waiting for that SOMEONE' mantra... Like girl, take a hint. I'm not interested. Normally, her breeding kink would have a massive appeal for me. In this case however, not so much. The whole needing a condom then flip flopping to not and back again makes me want to throat punch her and leave by the road side. Either go on the fucking pill or take it like a champ.
Buddy, the majority of women when they have sex it equals dating. Otherwise, they wouldn't be angry when guys tell them that they aren't interested in a relationship. Although, it would be nice of them to be honest before they have sex, but alas, it's rarely the case. So, I'm not surprised that my girl wants a relationship.
 
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