VN - Ren'Py - Studio Hearts [v0.1.1] [Atemsiel]

(it's pretty damn good for the initial release so the lower rating doesn't make sense imo.)
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Story/plot: 3.9/5 -it's short because it's the first release but even then the story is pretty fluid in concept so far with good pacing. This is my score for it for now. The cliffhanger dropping an antagonist with an unhealthy parasocial obsession (enter the yandere stalker) while MC is the less common positive parasocial relationship opens the door for pretty heavy plot in the next update and I'm here for it.
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gameplay: 3.9/5 -so far it runs like any other AVN but with a pretty interesting interactive gimmick. There aren't any definitive actions as for now as it feels kinetic but i assume that will change in the next update from what I've read from the dev.
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Characters: 4/5 we've only been introduce to a few characters with the MC and the main Li driving the story. The supporting characters feel very plausibe and well written as of v 0.1.1 with the antagonist being realistic as far as negative parasocial relationships go.
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Art/visuals: 4/5 -setting art is pretty nice and doesn't take away or standout from the story/characters but accentuate them.The characters are simple but seem very visually likable. The lewd scenes are as captivating as they are realistic (tho they are few for now the dev promised a hefty amount for the next update.)
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Writing: 4/5 -dialogue and character interactions are what i feel i like most if not 2nd in the game so far. The character dialogue is tangible and believable giving depth and character building momentum. If dev builds on this momentum i feel like this one will come out as gold in the end, but we'll have to wait and see for now.

It's just starting out so it is fairly short, but it's pretty good. No idea why it's rated this low. Good graphics, good animations, good characters. Not tall tastes for a variety of reasons, but no game is.

Initially, this is a story about a Londoner (the MC) in a very well-paying job, and a camgirl in an obscure Russian-speaking country. The guy has no time for a real private life, so he spends a lot of time on the cam site, and especially with that camgirl. Two years before the story, when she was still working for a camgirl studio, she was in a difficult place and he gave her comfort. As a result, the two have a bit of an online friendship, and he is the only one who knows where she lives.

For some reason, the MC gets a chance to move to the camgirl's country to work there, still in his old job for his old company, and with the same pay -- which makes him super-rich in her country.

Despite all the wish-fulfillment expected and required for this kind of AVN, it is so far all treated quite realistically. So far we are getting the same excellent writing and visual style as in Stormside, the same author's abandoned first game, only this time linear and with a totally different setting.

There is a lot of whining here by guys who loved the earlier game's setting and are disappointed with this one, or have other issues with the author's decision to move on from a project with an unrealistic amount of branching to a linear one. But taken on its own, this isn't just the start of five-star game: This first release with no sex is already a five-star game itself.

See (Pemoj, FutaFred) reviews on the game for more detailed reasons for lower stars.

Or see (DeanNoriko) for pros and cons, and if you dont care about kinetic games with unavoidable fetishes or a female dom/simp MC.


I enjoyed his other game more because it has choices and the story was interesting, but he made too many branches and girls to keep track and he got bored.

This game, wow, MC just a Simp to a camgirl he has a crush on, and is told not to talk or interact with her until she allows it. MC moves to her city while still holding a good job, but he's single, has no friends, and is a loner.

She contacts him asking for help because her so-called cam friends can't help her. So our simple MC invites her to his place. He pays for her things and lets her stay with him.
She doesn't want a relationship but sees MC as a money man, and she will most likely invite her other Cam girl friends to be with her and MC.

In the future updates, she and her friends will start like MC and start a cam show with him just because he has a dick, and push over.
Plus, with Dev adding unavoidable lesbian content in future updates.
MC will be a good simp and accept it, and will love watching girls go at it while sitting on the sidelines until he's invited.


The first game of Dev was a promising start, with MC in the military, smart, friends, and wasnt a beta.

Now this game dev did complete one 180 with MC being a loser, controlled by a cam girl, female dom.
renders a decent impression; girls are fine, except for their personality and background.

Unless the future updates or rework, I dont see MC being the dominant type in this harem kinetic game.

Yeah, this ain't it....

While the overall story is of course still in a pretty early stage, and the overall setting is at least somewhat less common in this genre, the characters (especially the MC) do not stand out in any positive way.
In addition to that: At such an early stage, a good story needs a hook, that motivates you to follow the story, to see what happens next. And while I can see what the hook is supposed to be here, it simply does not catch me at all. This might be a very subjective thing, but so far, I simply do not really care about neither the plot nor the characters that much.

The developer is REALLY talented when it comes to animations (as was already shown in their previous game) and they are quite well done here as well. However, beyond that, the game simply does not look good. While there is a lack of polish and a severe problem with the general quality on the models and some textures, this does also extend to other parts of the visuals as well: A lot of the overall playtime is spend in webcam and chat windows, and while they are functional, and look like they could actually appear on a low-budget website, they are not visually attractive for a game like this. I also felt almost flashbanged at least once, going from a darker screen to the very white "web interface"....

I try to evaluate every game for itself, and not let comparisons to other games of the same developer or in the same genre bias my judgement too much, but that is really, really hard in this case:
Stormside might have been much too wide in scope and scale and I do not wish anyone to engage with a project that leaves them burned out and exhausted. But beyond scaling down, this game feels an overall thinned down experience in every aspect, so much so that it is hard for me to justify the time to play it in any capacity.
Stormside was set in a quite often used, almost tropey, setting, but was made unique by so many things (characters, details on how the plot was implemented, choices, scenes). This game has a more unique setting, but almost all aspects in how the game was realized feel more bland, uninteresting and in certain cases even rushed. If I did not see the developer name in the thread, I doubt I would be able to pick this game out of a lineup, and I fear it might just drown in the enormous ocean of forgettable games in this site.
It feels that in an effort to work on a more realistic, approachable project, the developer lost sight of their unique strengths, and settled for unremarkable mediocrity at best....

Tl:dr: Realistic characters try to deal with an awkward scenario in a mature way, in an entertaining story, feat. (Borat voice) bobs and vagene, very nice.

I will be honest, before deciding to give this game a try, I was skeptical. First of all, the average rating was slightly below my usual threshold for games on this site. I'm also not a huge fan of Honey Select models, especially if they are to portray Non-Asian races. There were complaints about the dev's integrity and reliability in the reviews and in the thread too. Finally, this is the very first release, which I usually avoid anyway, due to the lack of substantial content and lack of proper reviews.
But that is when I realised that I played the dev's previous game, Stormside, which I enjoyed very much, not having noticed until now that it was abandoned. Obviously, it's not a good sign when a dev abandons a promising project this far into its development for a new project. The initial complaints and skepticism seemed valid.
Until I read the dev's explanation and project plan for Studio Hearts from his Patron, that was luckily shared on f95 in the Stormside thread (which is also pasted in the Developer Notes, I just noticed. Oh well).
This and the excellent and very fair and nuanced reviews from some of the smarter people on here, have finally convinced me to give it a go anyway.

Let me just tell you that I did not regret that decision. Other users have already summed up the game pretty well, and as I mentioned, the Developer Notes include some insides from the dev on what to expect from the game, so I don't intend to dwell too much on those general aspects.
I just wish to address a few things that have been discussed in the reviews and in the thread.

"The MC is a simp. Yuck!"
Is he though? To be fair, I understand where commenters are coming from. His behaviour is a little cringe and he definitely gives off an introverted loner vibe. However, I find his character to be refreshingly authentic. He is in no ways a hardcore simp that mindlessly and submissively allows for a stranger to use him, i.e. financially abuse his naivety. Does the relationship between MC and the cam girl seem natural? No. Is it supposed to? Also no. The dev makes a very good attempt at letting the player feel the awkwardness of the whole situation, as other reviewers already said. Both characters are aware that their connection is very much based on a conflict of interest, on an unbalanced scale between, essentially, a customer and a service provider. He is supposed to simply jerk it because she is hot, and she is supposed to like him for the financial support. But is this really all? Could there ever be more to it?
The game offers a very ambitious and unique scenario by providing an opportunity for this fantasy to play out: The viewer gets to romance the cam girl.
Now I understand that at this point a lot of people will roll their eyes at this. "'To romance', he says, ha!". While many will feel this approach is the epitome of simp behaviour, of a typical cuck or whatever, since she is a "cam whore", the dev manages to portray her believably in two different sets of light: Her "work self", the ever horny and flirty cam girl that likes to show of and entertain her viewers. And her "every day self", that is much more reserved, grounded and insecure. It becomes very clear to the player, that behind this "act", there lies a "normal" woman that is simply performing, working, doing her job.
Many people seem to be unaware of the irony when they look down on such a character, when in reality, most of us are not much more than "whores", working for a "master", performing our daily dance simply to be rewarded with the opportunity to live a life of our own choice.
"Shut up, simp, it's pathetic to defend a whore", some people might think now. Fair enough. All I'm saying is that the scenario provided by the dev makes sense, the girl is making a lot more money than most of her peers by, admittedly, following a somewhat questionable profession, allowing her to step up in the world. Because if you lot were truly honest to yourselves, deep down, you know that most of you would suck your own dicks on camera every day for 6 hours if that potentially paid you 5-20 times your current salary.

Anyways, enough of that. My point is that the characters are authentic. They act maturely and logically, they feel like actual humans. The writing is very competent, the dialogue feels natural and effortlessly funny at times, something that is rare within porn games that usually drift between unintelligible drivel with questionable grammar and robotic ChatGPT verbiage that sounds like aliens pretending to be humans.

Visually, as mentioned in the beginning, everything is based on Honey Select models and assets. Personally, it's not my favorite style, however, the dev is brining pretty much the best out of the engine, if you ask me, similarly to his previous work Stormside. Girls look like humans and only slightly like dolls, there are some fairly natural facial expressions and the animations are smooth and nice to look at, especially the cam loops. Even the MC looks fairly normal, which I rarely see in games using HS. Ethnically, characters look relatively authentic, the dev managed to make the models look less "Asian", which is fairly difficult using the HS character creator, in my opinion.
All in all, I don't see this aspect of the game as a problem at all. It might lack a little bit of the refined details from Stormside, I suppose. But it seems like the dev is keen to improve on it, it's still very much serviceable already.

Gameplay wise, opinions seem to differ from player to player. Personally, I very much enjoy the dev's effort to give the player the opportunity to engage in the cam sections of the game. I'm all for immersion and it's a nice touch that you get to actively interact with chat. The phone feature works well too, the game is generally programmed competently. I always applaud devs trying to include additional code to enhance the player experience.
The moderator part of the game, as engaging as it may be, does not seem to have an effect though so far. I personally would not mind if it did, as I am a fan of meaningful player interactions in such games. However, I understand that some players might be too lazy or anxious or whatever to bother with such things. Also, the dev is clear in trying to reduce any unnecessary branching and bloating of the game, which I am generally in favor of for one-man projects like this.
Which brings me to my next point.

"Fuck it though, I can't trust a dev who failed to deliver a finished project before!". Fair. However, I'm opting to give the benefit of the doubt in this case. I believe the dev that he simply overburdened himself with his previous project. After all, it is not unheard of for ambitious first-time developers to get crushed underneath their own expectations and heaps of ideas and characters that snow ball into an unmanageable tangle of routes, paths and endless threads. Making mistakes is human and while I partially agree with some of the criticism in how this was handled, I am still willing to give someone a second chance if I believe they learned from the mistakes, such as in this case.
However, as the saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me". The dev must be well aware that he is expected to deliver with this one.

What is there left to say now?
I wish the dev good luck in reaching his artistic goal with this project. It really is promising. I actually like this one more than Stormside, simply because it is more grounded in reality, both with the characters and the scenario. While it will most likely offer much fewer characters and story deviations, I am optimistic that the quality and consistency of this tile will benefit from the focus on what the dev really wants to portray.
That being said, I implore Atemsiel to not listen to too much feedback and trust in his vision. Usually, the end product will be better by staying true to itself, rather than trying to appeal to too many different tastes and voices.

Hate me for it if you will, but I give this a 5/5 as of right now, simply because I believe in the potential of this story.

0.1.1 — in short: good start, visuals could be improved, a few UI and consistency issues to iron out, solid writing as expected from Atemsiel with the occasional bits of humor that land well. He did say he recycled a lot of code from Stormside, but I’m surprised he could pack so much writing into this in a month, presumably with a good plan for where he’s going with the story.

Looking at the negative reviews so far, most people are either butthurt about Atemsiel cancelling/pausing Stormside (even though they loved warning everyone that it was too ambitious and he could never finish it) or losing their shit because the game is about a camgirl and a simp (too bad they didn’t bother to read the description, they could have just played something else).

If you don’t care about either and don’t mind this being mostly a kinetic novel without meaningful decisions to make (you do get a couple minor choices in this release), give it a shot. It’s an uncomfortable setting by nature—parasocial relationships have an uneven power balance, and the two main characters have vastly different incomes and one becoming dependent on the other exacerbates that—but I think it’s interesting that Atemsiel decided to explore that and I like that he’s doing it in a mature way instead of making everything the characters do hinge on delivering porn to the player. The setting is sexual by nature, but the characters aren’t driven by the need to meet a sex scene quota.

Each protagonist has conflicts of interest in their interactions with the other, so there’s always this odd imbalance of trying to be respectful of each other while pursuing their own selfish wants and needs. The guy treats the camgirl like a person and is careful not to be a creep in spite of their context, but doesn’t pretend he wouldn’t love to get in her pants if the stars align. The girl develops actual feelings for the guy beyond being a client, but acknowledges that he could single-handedly lift her out of poverty and struggles with the sugar daddy vs. friend barrier. It makes you cringe in many ways, but it also feels very human, because they’re basically aware of what makes this weird.

Quite the oddball of a game, and at this stage I’m more curious to see where Atemsiel goes with this than interested in the porn. The third character is going to make things even more awkward, and it kind of feels like she’s going to cockblock both of the main characters in a sense. This really isn’t going to be a straightforward, happy fap-along story, is it?

P.S. As for the chat moderation mechanic, I’ve been a Twitch mod and the last thing I want in a game is to have to moderate fake comments made by fictional people. I’d rather that happen automatically rather than have to click back and forth between the main chat and PMs, if it has to be part of the story. For now, it doesn’t look you have to engage with that mechanic at all if you don’t want to, so I won’t dock a point for it.

There are already a lot of comments describing the game, so I'll talk about what stood out to me most, whether positive or negative.

Graphically, I can't say there's an improvement over the developer's previous game.
I think Mila's friend's face is very strange; the characters' hair looks like some kind of cutout.

The animations during the cam broadcasts are very good. I like the loop of Mila shaking her hips on camera.

The problem with limiting the player's choices and making the game practically kinetic is that the MC acts in a way that many players wouldn't if they were given options...
In this case, making the MC a simp.
The MC travels the world to be closer to the girl. He's the only one who answers her call when she needs it most, and none of her "friends" answer. He gives her money without any conditions. She goes to the MC's luxurious apartment... (and they sleep together without the MC doing anything indecent to her). pays for a week's worth of expenses when the girl loses her purse, only to have her say in the end that she doesn't completely trust him to the point of not being able to invite him over to her house?
She seems like a very insecure girl to me...
And one of the reasons is that her best friend keeps saying that you can't trust people on the internet, only to ironically become interested in the MC as well once she finds out about his money.

what if players can refuse something? no... just watch..

It's a bit of an extreme measure to make the game so kinetic... could have made it simpler... but not so kinetic as to make the MC a simp...
And just for the record... I like the idea of Li being a camgirl... as long as the MC isn't used... or a simp. I like having a popular Li... who wouldn't want a famous girlfriend?
But they could let the player develop the relationship.
The game starts with the MC and Li knowing each other for 3 years... while the player isn't even attached to Li yet.
After some of Li's insecurity crises, where I, as the MC, would have preferred to keep quiet and let Li chase after me... the MC rushed to give her tons of money, and now there are two Gold Diggers.

In terms of story... it's practically non-existent... the MC moves "for work" to another country, but no kind of climax happens... in the long run, I can't see a story without such a goal keeping me going.

edit: If Mila follows the psychiatrist's advice, she will become the monster she was afraid of all along, which would be very hypocritical of her... and would make me lose interest in the main LI completely.

Regardless of how you feel about this dev's recent questionable commitment to his projects, credit where credit is due: this is a fantastic start to the game.

The story, while absolutely romanticizing a relationship between a camgirl and her fan, also keeps itself grounded and doesn't shy away from the dubiousness and taboo elements of it.

Of course, that wouldn't mean much if the characters are walking stereotypes with no life breath into them, but luckily that's not the case for this game. The MC is an accurate depiction of the recent phenomena of digital nomads: people with good jobs disillusioned with the cost of living in first world countries and seeking a better life abroad in countries that are far less expensive but who most consider to be "underdeveloped". However, that perception breaks when they realize they get to live a far more luxurious lives abroad than in their own countries. Now, what is the point in bringing this up, you might ask? It's to negate the mischaracterization that this character is a simp that flew out to this country just for the girl, when it was a decision made to improve his living standard and job prospects first and foremost.
Moving on to the other important character (really the dev wasn't kidding when he said he was limiting the scope of the characters, which is a good thing), the camgirl or Mila by default: while her job as a camgirl is as stereotypical as it gets (teasing, overacting), that stereotype doesn't carry over for her character as she has clear boundaries and lines she wouldn't cross including not having sex with random guys, and not taking advantage of the money she gets from the mc after they meet: all elements that make her more than just the sex object you see on cam and gives her qualities that let the reader humanize her rather than just jerk off to her.

As for the technical stuff, I could go on about how unique the "gameplay" of this VN is, but I don't quite know exactly how to describe it accurately. Simply put, it actually has a whole setup for the camgirl site that you can play around with so that's cool.

In the end, while the premise might initially raise eyebrows, the execution shows a surprising level of nuance and restraint. The story doesn’t just revel in fetishistic fantasy but instead grounds itself in believable character motivations and dynamics, making both leads feel authentic rather than caricatured. Combined with the clever integration of the camgirl platform into the actual gameplay loop, this VN manages to stand out in spite of its simplistic cast and setting. Whether or not the developer’s future consistency remains in question, what’s here already demonstrates a strong start an something worth keping an eye on.

Very cool game.
Not just sex but an interesting story.
MC is not a typical asshole.
I hope to see them developping bonds but i like the harem type so both of them together with MC
Anyway you need to trty this.

Immediately after I saw this game, I thought about AlwaysFan, and yes, it's similar in some ways, except this one isn't OnlyFans, it's about webcams.
I've never been picky about graphics, but there's nothing to complain about here. NS2 is good.
One of the main aspects of AVN, for me, is the music and sounds, which are very well done.
The writing is good; I didn't notice any errors, and everything is quite easy and interesting to read.
It's too early to talk about the plot, but the premise seems interesting.
Most of the outrage about the game comes from fans of the developer's old game, which he abandoned.

Review for v0.1.1

I got some opinions on lewd game devs launching a second game when their first is still far away from being finished, but that doesn't matter much for the sake of reviewing this game specifically. What I'd ask myself though, is what exactly is the dev improving or doing differently this second time around.

In the case of Studio Hearts, it's story and scope. It's been awhile since I played their first game, but this feels like a very "same" level of quality. Which considering Stormside is pretty good overall, isn't exactly a bad thing. I do feel the renders look average, but with how good the animations are I don't care that much. Sound and all that are good as well. No complaints there.

So now the elephant in the room: it's a game about forming a parasocial relationship with a camgirl that just so happens to go "right." If you feel that sounds creepy, I'd say you're correct! There are moments in this that genuinely made the MC feel like a creep to me. A good natured creep, but still. I think it's just that inherent nature of a parasocial relationship that does it. Which honestly, props to the dev for exploring something different in a sort of what if fantasy. I guess that's most lewd games to be fair, but still. That being said, watching the MC mod for a camgirl after three years of watching her is certainly something. But that's what the game is about, and it embraces that.

Long story short your work gives you an opportunity to go to another country and operate within it. One of the options so happens to be the place the camgirl lives. You know what the MC does next. A couple months pass and suddenly Mila, the camgirl, texts you needing help. You oblige, meet her for the first time in person, and the game continues on. You're mega rich in this country because of currency exchange rates and really you kind of become the solution to all her problems.

Now while the game does feel like simp simulator, the writing IS good. I enjoy those day to day interactions with Mila a lot. Everyone is characterized pretty well so far, especially Mila, which is good considering she's the main love interest. She is pretty endearing. We see a bit of who I'm guessing is another main love interest, but not enough to say anything in confidence about her.

Really I think whether you enjoy the game or not is going to be solely based on how you feel about the premise. Again the main love interest, and probably the second one, are camgirls. The game emphasizes the more humorous side of it with some of the comments and interactions, and all the watchers are really just viewed as money sources. It's not playing into any type of NTR vibe.

Truth be told I've never been a big fan of cam content in lewd games. Not really because of "NTR!!!!!" but rather I just don't find it very erotic or enticing. I found myself skipping a bit through the cam streams at points. Even still, I enjoyed it enough to see where it goes for now. I get it's about the profession, but I can't quite tell how deep the game is going to dive into that. Or rather what it's going to do with it is maybe a better way to put it. It does leave off on a more dramatic cliff hanger (again not NTR) which shakes things up a bit. The scope is definitely a lot smaller and more focused it feels, which does do this favors I think. Guess it's sort of a waiting game for me now to see how this develops.

Review of Studio Hearts v0.1.1 aka First Release

Graphics – 2.5/5
Decent, nothing more. HS2, and even the developer himself, have much more potential than what he has shown in his second game. The characters deserve a special mention... a negative one. The faces have no appeal, and while wigs are one of the biggest problems when modeling characters in HS2, it’s still easy to get decent-looking hair. That’s not the case here.

Animations – 3/5
They’re fine, nothing more.

Music and Audio – N/A
I almost always mute the audio when I play something, and this was no exception.

Gameplay – 1/5
For now, it’s a kinetic novel. The few choices you get don’t matter. But it’s a prologue, so this could change in the future. There are no bugs, or at least I didn’t find any. The game has some customization, a scene gallery, and a well-made character gallery. The integration of a chat system in Ren’Py is well done, as is the effect for chat and phone conversations. But this is also a problem: half the game consists of boring and mostly meaningless chat or phone conversations.
Some people say the game is well-written and high-quality: if you truly see quality in a sex chat or phone conversation script, I urgently recommend you read at least the top 20 novels in history. In short, both the supposedly excellent writing and the gameplay — especially the chat and phone sessions, i.e. half the game — were boring to me, often superficial, and didn’t engage me at all. I skipped a lot of text and never felt like I was missing anything important.
The normal conversations seemed a little better, but they suffer from the same problems. Some people claim the game has good humor. I didn’t see any. At best, there were a couple of mildly funny scenes.
Summary: For me, bad gameplay that didn’t attract me at all.

Plot – 1/5
A 30-year-old man, with a good job, good salary, relatively good body and looks, etc., has spent the last three years of his life working and, in his free time, watching the porn shows of a cam girl. His company expands eastward. But even though he’s good at his job, he doesn’t seem very sharp. When he learns about the expansion, the only positions left are in third-world countries. But oh, what a coincidence, there’s a vacancy in the country where the girl from his shows lives. So off he goes.
Between work and the girl asking him not to contact her until a certain date, the man obeys — until she needs his help and he is forced to get back in touch. In short, the plot is about the real-life interactions of a camwhore and her moderator, and above all about the girl’s cam sessions. I don’t know, call me crazy, but being the moderator of a sex chat is boring as hell. If that’s really your thing, congratulations — this game is for you. For me, it definitely isn’t.

Characters – 1/5
Setting aside the boss and the friend, who almost certainly won’t appear again, there are three characters. The MC is the biggest simp I have ever seen. There’s nothing worse than spending three years without friends, girlfriends, or real sex just to have sex… by watching a camwhore.
Like the good simp he is, he obeys his goddess without question, even though she’s a prostitute. YES, CAM GIRLS THAT DO SEX CHATS ARE PROSTITUTES. The prostitute asks her simp not to contact her until the date she has chosen? No problem. Until then, when something happens, she remembers her simp, and like the fake white knight he is, he gives his all for his muse — the same one who has masturbated live for hundreds or thousands of men worldwide.
The simp lets her into his apartment, gives her a bath, cooks for her, gives her money... damn, what a good simp. And to hit rock bottom, the prostitute asks him to be her moderator during her chat sessions. And of course, the simp agrees. From my point of view, there’s nothing more pathetic than that. Which is surprising, since the man is young, relatively good-looking, educated, with a good job, salary, etc. He should be able to find women and have sex with them easily… if he wanted to. Which, obviously, he doesn’t. Why go from flower to flower like his friend, when you can jerk off to a rather average camgirl? Also, he goes to a therapist. And the therapist recommends that he talk to himself (?). Basically, the MC is a weirdo. But I guess the kind of people who spend the whole day watching a cam girl have sex while hundreds of strangers watch are like that.
The girl is no better. Besides being a camwhore — and therefore a prostitute — she sees her best client as what he is: a wallet. There’s some attraction, but no deep feelings for her simp beyond her interest in his money. Another girl appears, a friend of the prostitute, who — like her friend — is attracted to the easy money the cam girl earns. It’s obvious where that’s going to end up.
In short: a prostitute, her simp, and a friend who’s going to follow in her footsteps. Summary: the characters are trash. I only gave them one point because, despite being disgusting and unattractive overall, their personalities are at least well-shaped and defined.

Final Thoughts
The developer abandoned an excellent, successful game for this. In this new game, EVERYTHING is much worse than the previous one. Even if people defend him for his work on the other game, this game not only doesn’t attract me at all, but, as others have said, it’s just another one of those low-effort games that have been popping up lately. NOT RECOMMENDED. Unless you like prostitutes and simps.

Great writing. The characters are likable and realistic and the dialog goes smoothly. Please ignore the fuckton of incels calling decent behavior being a simp. The renders aren't the same quality as that of the last game, true, but if the pace of uploads is faster in exchange that shouldn't be any issue. Its good enough (still better than a lot of em) and I am here for a story not stellar graphics.

Characters: 4/5 might get better with time, but with just one chapter its hard to get a good read
Story: 5/5 its basic but in terms of porn games its the perfect middle ground of being there to drive things forward without adding too much unneccesary drama
Art: 3.5/5 pretty sure it will improve. Its fine eitherway

2/5 for me right now.

Renders are subpar, not polished at all

Story for me is 1/5. after the first chapter. Even if you ignore the premise just isn't very good. 80% of the story is delivered via phone text conversations to start and has been a chore to get through.

Music is like a 4/5, at least there is something going on in the background.

Pleasantly surprised by this game with great potential but already very good, I like the graphic style, I find the rendering pretty, the animations are good, the story is nice, I also like the dose of humor in the game, the sex scenes are very good. In short, another good game from Atemsiel

This a really good start of a story to a what if...? scenario that seems not too far fechted so far, with everything very relatable and grounded. The characters are really well developed and it doesn't appear to be going down the expected Mafia, exploitation, sex trafficking route where the poor girl needs saving; the classic western view of camgirls. It's just a job that can pay well, which is fantastic. The Li's are beautiful, although its really nice to see them outside, as unsurprisingly a huge amount so far is in cam chat (done really well) where she's seen in a tiny square box or by texting, which can get a bit heavy going at times. It is a visual novel after all. It's got me gripped so far and I loved the cliff hanger, so I can't wait for the next update. This could be a great 5 star VN.

I really liked this! The renders and animations are great, and the premise seems like it has enough legs to sustain a good story over the long term. The main thing, though, is that it feels like the characters have been thought through. It's within the heightened reality of a porn game, obviously, but the two leads feel three-dimensional. I've found them sticking with me, even after getting to the end of the update. As an initial impression, it has me wanting to see more.

The one reservation I do have, though, is just what happened with Stormside. I'll take the dev at their word that this is designed to go more smoothly and quickly (less branching), and that they're past the burnout/life troubles that caused it, but I'm slightly hesitant to get too invested, on that basis. Still, that's not a reflection on the game itself, so I won't dock any points for it.

I like this game. It's upfront about having a cam girl as the main girl, so if you don't want that, don't waste your time, but it's pretty solid quality, and there's enough in this first release to satisfy me. The animations are great as always with Atemsiel, and the writing flows fairly well. I'll be keeping an eye on this one too.