I like the art style, but that's about it for me. There's just too much bland soup of repetitiveness. It's not bad by any definition, but I can't really recommend it for most people.
Gameplay summary: You run a cafe and you're trying to corrupt your employees, one of whom happens to be your GF. You can buy upgrades and you need to keep the cafe stocked with beverages and snacks. Every working day involves assigning girls to tables and clicking the right snack or beverage. This happens realtime and things can sometimes get hectic even though you can set the speed from 0.5x to 3x. Tip: Enable keyboard shortcut display, so you don't have to drag & drop. You can also pin the beverage, girl and action panel. Between days, there's a story scene and you can additioanlly talk to girls, and you need to restock the shop, buy more upgrades, items/gifts to raise lewdness and all that jazz. Rinse, repeat, far too many times. The game is comparable to Mystwood Manor, for folks who played that.
The main issue with this game: The core cafe gameplay loop is overdone to death and beyond. It looks nice in screenshots, and is why I tried the game in the first place but sadly, I can't emphasise this enough: There's no way to play this game without cheating (edit the save file) because you make so little money.
We're not even close to having the gameplay depth required for the amount of times you'll need to repeat the same tired old stuff. Every. Single. Day. 10-20 days of game time would be fine, but we're looking at at least >200 for a legit playthrough (I don't know if someone who has actually done one could chime in here). I happen to think some grind is essential to corruption games, but the level of boring repetition in this game is just ridiculous. I don't know what the dev must be smoking to believe this gameplay loop comes even close being good enough to pull this off. It also has annoyance issues beyond just being endlessly repetitive. For one, whenever you have a girl interact with a customer, a cartoon panel (eventually containing sexy times) pops up and blocks the entire damn interface, when you really need to move someone to a table or assign a beverage or whatever. It's infuriating when you would like to look at the smut, but you also really need to get that fucking panel out of the way. It's stupid and added greatly to my dislike for the game.
The intermission text, characters and scenes are also just... supremely bland... There's a lot of scenes to be sure, but I ended up just holding CTRL through multiple intermissions and even sex scenes. It's not badly written per se, but none of the girls, nor the main character, really have any true personality and so I didn't give a shit about anyone. Another issue is the game just ticks along and the grind doesn't feel like YOU are actively working toward a goal, you're just along for the linear ride. As far as I can tell, the only choice is NTR or not.. As a result, the corruption stuff was just boring to me.
Gameplay summary: You run a cafe and you're trying to corrupt your employees, one of whom happens to be your GF. You can buy upgrades and you need to keep the cafe stocked with beverages and snacks. Every working day involves assigning girls to tables and clicking the right snack or beverage. This happens realtime and things can sometimes get hectic even though you can set the speed from 0.5x to 3x. Tip: Enable keyboard shortcut display, so you don't have to drag & drop. You can also pin the beverage, girl and action panel. Between days, there's a story scene and you can additioanlly talk to girls, and you need to restock the shop, buy more upgrades, items/gifts to raise lewdness and all that jazz. Rinse, repeat, far too many times. The game is comparable to Mystwood Manor, for folks who played that.
The main issue with this game: The core cafe gameplay loop is overdone to death and beyond. It looks nice in screenshots, and is why I tried the game in the first place but sadly, I can't emphasise this enough: There's no way to play this game without cheating (edit the save file) because you make so little money.
We're not even close to having the gameplay depth required for the amount of times you'll need to repeat the same tired old stuff. Every. Single. Day. 10-20 days of game time would be fine, but we're looking at at least >200 for a legit playthrough (I don't know if someone who has actually done one could chime in here). I happen to think some grind is essential to corruption games, but the level of boring repetition in this game is just ridiculous. I don't know what the dev must be smoking to believe this gameplay loop comes even close being good enough to pull this off. It also has annoyance issues beyond just being endlessly repetitive. For one, whenever you have a girl interact with a customer, a cartoon panel (eventually containing sexy times) pops up and blocks the entire damn interface, when you really need to move someone to a table or assign a beverage or whatever. It's infuriating when you would like to look at the smut, but you also really need to get that fucking panel out of the way. It's stupid and added greatly to my dislike for the game.
The intermission text, characters and scenes are also just... supremely bland... There's a lot of scenes to be sure, but I ended up just holding CTRL through multiple intermissions and even sex scenes. It's not badly written per se, but none of the girls, nor the main character, really have any true personality and so I didn't give a shit about anyone. Another issue is the game just ticks along and the grind doesn't feel like YOU are actively working toward a goal, you're just along for the linear ride. As far as I can tell, the only choice is NTR or not.. As a result, the corruption stuff was just boring to me.