Game version: [Release 2]
I enjoyed this but it's very light on actual sexual content and the writing style kind of irks me. Realistically it's more of a 3/5, but since it's only on the second release I'll give a star for "potential." Out of all the "let's mix Vampire: The Masquerade and porn" games we have been racking up, I think this one is the most promising. Instead of going for some tired VtM plot retread with lore dumps and 90% vampire politics right from the start, we go straight to "you're a vampire, Harry, better get to work corrupting your mother and sister right away, because what else were you going to use those vampire powers for?" Which is also part of the game's weakness, at least in its current state. There is barely any side content to go along the mother/sister stuff and that tops out at "you get to make out and grab some titties."
There are three actual sex scenes with side characters in the game, you get to fuck your sister's best friend in a club toilet (easily the best scene in the game) and one blowjob and one vaginal sex scene with a prostitute (easily the worst scenes in the game.) The best friend scene works well because it feeds into the vampire power fantasy, it has stakes connected to your sister and also it's just really hot and nasty. The prostitute stuff on the other hand felt very "why is this here?" Some people hate prostitute stuff in general, not me, but the context and how she acts just felt wrong for the type of game it is. Like, you basically get funneled to her from your maker and she knows about vampires and clearly isn't afraid of them, which is already really boring, but then she also puts on this femdom act complete with leather gloves, calling you "boy" and wanting to finger your ass. You can tell her to stop and just have "normal sex" but it's fairly vanilla and there's no "turn it around on her" option, which seemed kind of weird. Like a prostitute is the last place you would expect the choice to be "femdom or light femdom without her sticking things up your ass". Also, the MC has pretty dominant scenes with his family members even in this early stage, but he can't smack a prostitute around? I don't even hate femdom, I just don't feel like it fits this MC or this game. Like, you're fresh on an insane power trip from becoming an immortal killing machine and starting to corrupt your family and you're going to let some random prostitute "dominate" you? Like, if it was at least some kind of Queen of the Vampires type character, maybe, but she's literally food. Idk, I just wasn't into it.
The progression system / "sandbox" is kind of undercooked and confusing. It's not terrible terrible, but it definitely needs some tweaking. Like your mother and sister have a dynamic schedule and there are so many events that you really never know when the specific event that you're looking for is up, but then there are also events that take longer than one time slot, so you might skip over the time where you needed to be and it's all a big fucking struggle. Like, either make a schedule where you can look up what is when or make all events only take up one time slot, otherwise you end up having to spam one-slot events you don't need to find the thing you actually want, which is just stupid. Also what's the point of capping the Love/Asshole points, you cap out so fast by literally doing every event once that the extra points from "achievements" you get end up sitting unused.
Now, my biggest problem with the game is the writing. The dialogue is fine, but the narration is consistently self-indulgent and pretentious. It feels like every sentence tries to be edgy emo poetry or something. Like, I get you want to "stick to the theme" and put some character into your writing, but you overdid it, you need to calm down. Like at some points it borders on incomprehensible gibberish, because apparently you're writing while flipping through a thesaurus, but then you also misuse words and it's really unnecessary and weird. The game already does a great job of building atmosphere without all that. The renders are great, you chose good environments and good character designs. The mother and sister are bound to be controversial, but at least they're fresh and interesting. I'm not really into chicks with muscles or emo teens with whatever that abomination of a hairstyle is, but I still appreciate the bold choices more than standard Daz models I've seen a half dozen times. Nice music picks too and the intro screen basically felt like knock-off Bloodlines, which was great.
Related to the writing, the character motivations are a little undercooked too, especially with the MC. We don't really get a good sense why he so easily falls into the things he does, apart from "he's a vampire now and apparently the super horny kind." I mean it's mostly fine, but once you get into influencing your mother to fuck ugly bastards in her dreams or your sister to become a snowbunny for... reasons (?) it kind of goes off the rails. I mean I'm all for degenerate content like that but it kind of feels very out of the blue. The whole dream influencing thing should maybe be pushed back further and then introduced bit by bit and with some story justification. Like just start with the simple stuff like making her more into you or wearing sluttier clothes and keep the weirder stuff for later. This also loops back to MC's motivations. At no point is it communicated to the player that MC is a huge perv or has weirdo hidden fantasies, so the first time you click the dream menu it's like "excuse me?"
If you tighten up the writing and the sandbox a little bit and actually pump out some content I think this game can be great.
