Short but promising, so far no sexual content yet.
Rated 19 is the kind of story where you'll have to suspend your disbelief a little. Some unknown entity that's assumed the form of a little kid has, with the aid of some other external forces, removed all the adults above the age of 19 and given the remaining humans superpowers in form of enhancements of gifts.
You play as the local basketball star who has to navigate this post-apocalyptic where all the rules have been thrown out to try to keep your brother and friends safe, while searching for a way to find your little sister and reunite with your illness-stricken childhood friend.
The story is currently a little on the shorter side and doesn't yet feature a lot of choices, but it does a good job of giving the characters their own personality. The writing is pretty decent, although a bit too much exposition happens through narration, instead of letting the images & the context speak for themselves, rather than spelling everything out for the player.
What makes this story promising in my eyes is that the developer actually develops conflicts, character motivations and emotional connections between the characters. A lot of games just throw good-looking characters your way that are barren of any soul and feature no connection to the protagonist except their fuckability. Rated 19 seems to intend to actually make believeable emotional connections, from the childhood friend that's been hospitalized for a terminal illness, to the protagonist's friends and siblings.
The protagonist also manages to credibly balance self-preservation instincts and human psychology, giving us a protagonist who's not an overpowered and undefeatable juggernaut but someone using street smarts to outmaneuver more enhanced foes and while not immediately resorting to excessive force or violence, will not shy away from taking a life if there is no other way.
It makes me hopeful that it's going to be a story with a protagonist that's not going to be an edgy power-trip teenager, but a more rational thinking but determined person thatdoes what it takes to get those he cares about through the dangers of a world unchained.
In that, the five stars are more of a encouragement than a final rating, since the game doesn't yet show much beyond chapter 1 and doesn't yet show how the developer manages to handle the sexual content.
Still, I prefer to give encouragement & hope the dev can manage updates in the near future.
Given that there's no sexual content yet and this isn't just a fap-story, the developer should probably be prepared to use other social media to spread awareness (twitter, bluesky etc.) and be prepared that support for slow-buildup games like this is usually slow to come and many people will wait multiple updates before they might commit to any support.
That said, I had fun playing the game and am genuinely curious how things pick up in the future.
Rated 19 is the kind of story where you'll have to suspend your disbelief a little. Some unknown entity that's assumed the form of a little kid has, with the aid of some other external forces, removed all the adults above the age of 19 and given the remaining humans superpowers in form of enhancements of gifts.
You play as the local basketball star who has to navigate this post-apocalyptic where all the rules have been thrown out to try to keep your brother and friends safe, while searching for a way to find your little sister and reunite with your illness-stricken childhood friend.
The story is currently a little on the shorter side and doesn't yet feature a lot of choices, but it does a good job of giving the characters their own personality. The writing is pretty decent, although a bit too much exposition happens through narration, instead of letting the images & the context speak for themselves, rather than spelling everything out for the player.
What makes this story promising in my eyes is that the developer actually develops conflicts, character motivations and emotional connections between the characters. A lot of games just throw good-looking characters your way that are barren of any soul and feature no connection to the protagonist except their fuckability. Rated 19 seems to intend to actually make believeable emotional connections, from the childhood friend that's been hospitalized for a terminal illness, to the protagonist's friends and siblings.
The protagonist also manages to credibly balance self-preservation instincts and human psychology, giving us a protagonist who's not an overpowered and undefeatable juggernaut but someone using street smarts to outmaneuver more enhanced foes and while not immediately resorting to excessive force or violence, will not shy away from taking a life if there is no other way.
It makes me hopeful that it's going to be a story with a protagonist that's not going to be an edgy power-trip teenager, but a more rational thinking but determined person thatdoes what it takes to get those he cares about through the dangers of a world unchained.
In that, the five stars are more of a encouragement than a final rating, since the game doesn't yet show much beyond chapter 1 and doesn't yet show how the developer manages to handle the sexual content.
Still, I prefer to give encouragement & hope the dev can manage updates in the near future.
Given that there's no sexual content yet and this isn't just a fap-story, the developer should probably be prepared to use other social media to spread awareness (twitter, bluesky etc.) and be prepared that support for slow-buildup games like this is usually slow to come and many people will wait multiple updates before they might commit to any support.
That said, I had fun playing the game and am genuinely curious how things pick up in the future.