Played one of the early releases; gave it another try at 0.46.
I want to say the game is trash. I concede that it might just not be for me. While there are things I like about this game, there are some decisions pertaining to design, or what elements get focus, with which I cannot come to terms.
Let’s be real here: the protagonist of this game is Stukov, the ugly human bastard. The first two chapters are all about him: he’s there in every scene. It’s not even good corruption content, where the corrupter is scheming to have the pure character fall, and there are unexpected developments. Stukov just shows up in your cell every day and you do the next thing on the list. The content is dull too: show off your body, show off your body in lingerie, show off your body naked; do squats for him, do squats for him in lingerie, do squats for him naked; let him grope you, let him grope you in lingerie, let him grope you naked. At least the art is good.
Chapter 3 is the only playable one. That’s when things actually get interesting: the focus is really on Sarah and on her interactions with the different aliens. You know, the kind of content you expect when you download a game about aliens, not ugly human bastards. If you play this game, use the option when creating a new file to skip to chapter 3; trust me, you’re not missing anything. Of course, they had to ruin it with the ending: whereas chapter 3 was all about Sarah regaining autonomy and having an active part in her own corruption, in the end Stukov takes the upper hand back, and she and her gal pal Lizzandra just become his bitches. Really lame.
I also want to point out that this is more of a kinetic novel than a visual one. There are dialogue options, and even stats, but none of them matter: you have to do everything, only sometimes getting to decide in what order. There are a lot of “action” scenes too, in which all you do is look at a still image of a character standing, and which go on forever. Like I said, there were some weird decision made in this game.