I couldn't get the MC's faithfulned to turn False. Even sleeping with everything that moved, it remained True. I think I may have different internal definiiton of faithful...
You can flip it while on vacation, but there are consequences and I'd advise against it. After that, I think the only way to define the MC as unfaithful is to have sex with
Nicole. Still, it's true that the MC can have sex with a
lot of women and only tells Anne about a few of them — both before and after she calls him out — which is a holdover from the original version that I wish would've been changed. Anne's faithfulness is, at least so far, a one-time-only choice. Once she's unfaithful she's going to keep cheating no matter what.
I just started playing this game yesterday and finished Chapter 10 today. It's a very good game, but is also very Anne-centric. I get the whole idea of wanting to spice up your sex life with something new, but the game is called The Adventurous Couple and not The Adventurous Wife Who Fucks Anything That Moves While MC Either Misses Out On The Action Or Watches Her Fuck Other Dudes While Watching.
Sure, but it signals this from the very beginning. The challenges are exclusively aimed at the wife. The story is the MC pushing Anne to go farther and farther until she finally relents and starts having sex with others. It's not until quite late in the game that Anne finally suggests that she'd like to watch her husband fuck other women (though she does retroactively claim that
sex with Nicole was a setup in which she was involved).
I don't really know how deprived the MC is, though. Just off the top of my head he had
two potential partners in the Dominican Republic and then Nicole, January, Chloe, Holly, Emma, another shot at Elena, Zarah, Shannon, Naomi, two women on the beach and two women in the gym, three women who work at the massage parlor, Josie, the swinger wife, plus the obvious ramp-ups to three coworkers. I'm probably forgetting someone. Of course, some of those routes exclude others (then again so do some of Anne's), but that's a
lot of extracurricular sex.
Still, it's a game about a hotwife/cuckold fetish wrapped in a more flexible narrative that offers some alternatives. Of course it's going to be Anne-focused, because that's the MC's fetish (and, one presumes, the author's fetish). We know it's a game about that because we're rewarded with hotter scenes and more (in some cases a
lot more) sexual content if the MC prefers watching over swinging. It's implicit in the
Mike scene and explicit in the
Dre scene when, if the MC joins in, Anne remarks that she wishes it would've been just her and
Dre.
And yet he feels bad (or by proxy the player feels bad by presenting us with a choice) whenever the opportunity comes up for the MC to have fun with another woman.
I've read that somewhat differently; I think it's about allowing the player to choose whether they're in an open relationship, a cuckolding relationship (and how hard that cuckolding is), plus a swinging or a cheating relationship layered on top of all that. I imagine some players like the idea of the MC getting 90% of his sexual kicks by watching Anne, hearing about Anne, wondering about Anne, and so forth, plus being forced to rely on her for the other 10%. (Evidence: note how often the MC gets upset about Anne going to sleep when he's in the mood.) Others prefer matters to be more equitable. I think a lot
more people would complain if all the MC's side action was forced.
I personally feel that what Anne is doing (with the MC not caring whatsoever who she hooks up with) is cheating, even though the game says otherwise.
This is another instance where I'm interpreting what I see in the game rather than speaking with any knowledge of the dev's master plan, but just as the game rewards the player for choosing a voyeur/cuckold route over a swinging route, the game also rewards the player with a whole pile of additional sexual content if Anne starts cheating. Anne's displeasure over the MC cheating remains in the game, as does her displeasure when he tries to put the cat back in the bag. To me, that's a story that was always meant to go off the rails. I'm sure there will be ways to play and finish the game in which it won't, but they won't give you the most or the hottest sex scenes. In fact, by the end of the current version it's very, very clear that Anne's enjoying sex with others more than she is with the MC...not that they're having all that much of it these days. If, for example, you manage to weave your way to the
MC/Anne anal scene, she not only doesn't appear to enjoy it all that much (and certainly nothing close to how much she enjoyed it with
Drake) or
the doctor, she spends a fair bit of that scene taunting him.
I did follow the walkthrough
The walkthrough's only nominally useful now, especially as so much has changed under the hood.
Did the revamp reach the point which the wife may start to cheat behind her husband's back?
Way past it, yes. If she's given permission to/pushed into having sex with
Martin in the shower she will cheat with Martin (on multiple occasions), Drake, Troy, Marcus, the group on the beach, the doctor, Donny, Nicole, Ryan, and (as the revamp rather explicitly hints, and now shows if you're on a cuckolding path) Mike at the beach. Plus whatever you want to call the sex toy party. On that list, only the
Ryan event can be avoided by the player via the MC, and at least one scene (the
doctor) is forced cheating; I can't remember if
Marcus is or not. I also suspect the game won't allow the MC to keep Anne away from
Dre if you chose that path over
Eric's, but that's still in the future.