Others - Completed - The Runaway Girl and Me [v1.05 + DLC] [level1]

ngl im not too fan of the writing
I think the writing of Teaching Feelings is much better. For instance in Teaching Feelings you get the choice to have sex with the girl or not, and the right choice is to say no. Here it's the opposite? You have to exploit your posiition and get sex? It's so weird.
Also the MC is too outright perverted, I like it better when the MC is just righteous.
Likewise, all the convos you can have with the girl are pretty boring/redundant.

Struggling between a 3 and 4 stars for this.

Good points:
- Cute LI, albeit super generic. The game is basically a typical "middle-aged salaryman happens to run across a 10/10 beautiful runaway and decides to house her, and she decides to repay him with her body in exchange" trainer story.
- Good art/animations.
- Reasonable gameplay systems - earn money at your job, use it to buy items to support the LI, and then gradually corrupt the LI from a nervous virgin to a turboslut.

Bad points:
- Like many JP games, there's an obnoxious amount of grind required. You have to corrupt the girl through the sex minigame, and that can take a while and get repetitive very quickly, even if you unlock a new action every now and then. There really needs to be some way to streamline this, otherwise you are just spending 75% of the playtime in a mind-numbing loop.
- I'm not sure if the translation is to blame but it is often unclear what the various stats mean and how they change over time.
- The game encourages save-scumming by having pretty tight requirements on resourcing ("earn $X over the next 5 days or something bad happens") and also high variance on whether various actions will be successful. It genuinely feels difficult to pay rent for the first couple weeks if you hit just a few bad rolls that cause you to either not have a good meal or to not complete a task. It is really important that the tasks get completed on each workday, and if you just get bad luck then you should reload and try again.

Ultimately though the grind is the biggest challenge. Once I realized that I would have to level up the LI's stats *for each different position* I decided to bail on the game, which is a shame. But as is the developer is not respecting the value of the player's time.

Difficulty 1/5 - Play with walkthru or get lucky and pay attention early, do nothing later
Game randomize the events:
Meal you get - action points
Sickness, Mood, malnurishment
Job Difficulty
you need to get 30 000 week 1 and 35 000 in each subsequent weeks
you can fail only in one week
Subsequent failures results in game over

Lewds 4/5 - hot interactive clicker sex
Fully Voiced
Decently Animated
Nicely drawn
minimum customization - Costume
Flaws are:
there is no way to auto-repeat action
there is no way to save sequence of sex actions and load it
sex is very grindy and game wants you to maximalize sex
so yes more you fuck more you develop your waifu
Even if your Sex Score is already S, you can fuck her more for SCORE
and because game is grindy as heck you will see

Grind 0/5 Hellscape of clicks
Grind money
Grind sex
Grind Girl development:

1. Vaginal
2. Oral
3. Nipples
4. Anal
5. Shamelessness
6. Trust
7. Sexual interest
8. Perversion
9. maximum trust limit
10. Gloom - dark thinking, negative score you grind down
11. Porn popularity
12. Cooking Skills

You also have to grind Porn Edits and video releases AT WORK

1. its modern days Adobe even with million yen you can't afford it

Objectives 2/5
While early objectives are more than clear
later the game throw unclear curveballs at you
where you are told you can do whatever and develop relation
However game never state them properly

Kinks and more lewds:
Living with girl 100% dependent on you 5/5? play it if you are sick
Sex Recordings 3/5 i mean sure you record amatour POW of slave-wife
Corruption 2/5 Girl explore her sexuality in happy way and nobody else bends to your will or agree to serve you / do 3some
BDSM 2/5 Girl can say STOP! you can also make her tolerate and enjoy abusive sexual actions, however everything is very vanilla and there is barely any bondage involved in most cases (this sounds good for me)
Anal 4/5 its nice, you can get lady to like anal and its fun
Pregnancy 3/5 - lady gets to advanced pregnancy sex and living
Sex Toys 3/5 - all the basics without anything fancy, most toys only works on ass/vagina, there is no nipple attachments, or under the clothes wears
no ropesuits under clothes or anything too hot
Exhibitionism/public sex - 0 or i havent unlocked
Cheating 1/5 - you can get drained few times by perverted flat chested weirdo lady, in mild femdom scenes that makes 0 sense
Side stories 0/5? i might be biased here
One get you trapped by succubus and you must stay with her for like 100 days before you can escape or do anything else
Grindy, slow, boring and not hot
2nd one is locked all the time even after i beat dream world and got wife pregnant and hear all the boss stories from job...

Summary 2-4/5
Depends how you see the difficulty and grind game can get rewarding
for me it is mind numbing repetitive slop porn game and bad time
However lewds are unironically HOT and im sucker for trainer games
so its kind of like agreeing to femdom bcs your gf wanted to try it even if you hate it because you like her so much
If you start feeling like game drags DELETE and SKIP you will thank yourself for that

Overall I quite enjoyed the story, and the artwork was fantastic. I got a fair amount of enjoyment out of the original story as well and played it to completion.

The biggest issue really is the gameplay when it comes to Sex, it's frankly just not very fun, and the core reasoning on why is the repetitive nature of it, with very little going on, and having to repeatedly click the same action again and again.

There were two simple ways that it could have been a lot better, in that it could have been more like Rec, where managing the wake up/nervous bar is of vital importance and something that you could actively control, along with actions you click automatically continuing.

OR it could have been a game where you had to get her to orgasm in the mini-game before earning a specific cutscene for that day's sex.

As it is, I ironically stayed more because of the story, and while I did manage to get something out of the sex scenes it was a lot less then several other games.

I have kind of a mixed feelings.

Gameplay - 7/10 - The game is grindy and the grindiness doesn't really reward you that much, after the "midpoint" of the game you basically need to farm hella lot of money, resources and a lot of h/perv points to progress and all you get for that is sometimes maybe a costume, a new scene and etc., but it's good you have a lot of options to choose from when it comes to income, dating, etc.

Sound Design - 7/10 - I wouldn't include that if the game wasn't voiced, but it is. The sound design overall is quite good, but nothing else. The dialogues for the scenes (voiced dialogues) don't really change depending on the scene, mood, or anything, so it's rinse and repeat, not fun or arousing after a couple of times, especially when the game is SO GRINDY.

Graphics/animations - 8/10 - The game has some beautiful graphics, but most of the assets for items or locations used are free/I've seen them in other games.
Overall, the graphics and animations are great, but there could be a little more when it comes to cumflation, more stages of body cum, body fluid, etc.

Story - 7/10 - The story is a little bit cliché, nothing heartthrobing, but kinda cute and sometimes sad in it's own way, the romance... is there, I wouldn't say it's bad, but it sometimes feels kinda pushed/too fast, nothing really crucial happens between points where you can start doing more things with her (besides one event when the "midgame" starts) and that's why.

Overall/TL;DR - 7/10 or 3,5/5 - The game is fun, but grindy and the romance or graphics could be better, still a good choice.

PS Also my first review, so sorry if anything breaks the rules too much.

So, another toy for fans of this style.

Is it worth playing? Yes. A good thing. Especially for those who like the gradual development of relationships with a girl. Sexual and not so much. Bad and good endings. Not bad dialogues. Filming of sexual acts with a sprinkle of grind. Voice acting and animation are in place. Classics, anal, oral and a little maso... more below.

The good:
In fact, there are a lot of such games. Especially with "sisters". There are two ceb games with the same mechanics and a sea of collecting funds in color. Escape with a girl, the current game, in my opinion turned out to be the best of them. And I played in many. There are shortcomings, but still.
The game will begin with a girl who has nowhere to go and she meets a kind Samoretian who must turn her into a sex slave or the love of her life. However, it does not interfere with the other. There will be a lot of sex. And it is animated nicely. The plot is well-written, but the dialogues are skipped and do not overload.
The main gameplay will consist of spying on a girl from work, taking rent in kind (if desired) and earning millions by filming pornography. Of course, in such games you need to buy sex toys, take into account the mood of your partner and gradually corrupt her. It was interesting. Very, very interesting. And most importantly, to start with adult scenes - you will not have to wait long. You, dear ones, will have to pull down your pants at least a couple of times, if such topics attract you. There will even be pregnancy for special tastes (though more orally than visually).

Bad:
Of course, grind. What else did you expect to hear? Well, as an honorary Sleeping Brother, I will add a few more details to you. Firstly, at the beginning we are given a hint about sexual intercourse with a sleeping woman (which is what I hunt for most often) - but there is no such mechanics in the game. Alas. It was a one-time incident. Even the corruption here seems almost voluntary. After all, we need to cum at the same time and so on..
Secondly, this grind makes you sad pretty quickly. You just constantly raise the Hentai scale, Sympathy and 5 levels for each... hmm... hole. To get to some scenes in the story, you will have to make a LOT of clicks.

Result:
As I already said, this is the best game I have watched in this style. I don't really like the visual component, the lack of sleepy adventures and grind, and yet... The game is very lively. It smells much more like ordinary adult life than other similar ones. The developers did not make it just to make it. It is interesting and demonstrates teenage concerns and thirst for entertainment well. A little perversion and love is... an almost perfect compromise for adult games. Quite often.

4.5 \ 5
8.5 \ 10

I played an earlier release of this game where I wasn't too impressed, but after replaying through the main story and added DLC content, this has become the new shining standard for adult games in the cohabitation genre due to the sheer amount of content, but with some drawbacks in the gameplay department.

Like most standard cohabitation games, you find yourself living with a hot girl, you go to work to obtain enough money to reach your weekly goals, and you develop your romance with the heroine until you have loads and loads of sex, training her to try new and more hardcore forms of sex. Most games of this type will last a few hours at most. However, with the full release here along with the DLC, you can easily reach playtimes of 10+ hours.

The heroine is a rich girl who has found herself destitute and you house her out of sympathy. Her sexual development is pretty standard-- she's a virgin whom you deflower and then gradually broaden her horizon, from missionary to blowjobs and titfucks, sexy outfits, sex toys, bondage, anal, and exhibition.

These forms of sex generally become unlocked as you play through sex scenes with her, stimulating certain parts of her body which grants her experience points, which then lead to required level-ups. The most gratifying and clever part of these sex scenes is learning to time your orgasms at the same time as her while stimulating as many parts of her body as possible to make her climax as hard as possible and maximize the XP gain. It's a fun, hot, and clever way to handle sex scenes, where most games of these types would resort to the simpler and more mindless method of just clicking on singular body parts over and over until level-ups happen.

Unfortunately, the animation in the sex scenes are pretty subpar. They're not traditionally animated or even well-done live2D. The sex scenes either consist of stills or they're very choppily animated. And while the heroine is likable and hot, her design is not terribly memorable-- long, black-haired ojou-sama with huge assets and a mole under her lips. Nothing to really write home about.

The new content in the full release and DLC are also very welcome surprises with their own changes in story and gameplay. Most interestingly, you can eventually enter a dream world with an alternative version of the heroine. It's an interesting twist in how to approach the same game in a different way, as it is a dream world partly based on the heroine's desire, which lets you make more bold choices to sexually tease the heroine (and the idea of the heroine's secret desires being set free is a hot one too). The DLC introduces entirely new scenarios with side characters, which also provides another nice change of pace.

However, as for complaints, the game does get very grindy. Each sex scene is usually done at least twice, as the best way to earn money is to film your sex with the heroine and get revenue from the porn you make, but these sex scenes have to be done off camera first. In addition, the heroine has her own sexual desire points and your playable character has his own "Hentai" points, both of which do not increase through sex, but must be done through other choices in game. For example, the heroine's sexual desire can eventually increase by 3 to 6 on weekdays (the latter of which only has generally a 50% chance of happening), and when you want hundreds of these points, it takes a lot of pointless clicking to up those numbers.

The sheer amount of gameplay and ideas wins out in the end though. Any adult game which I can spend double-digit hours playing is a good game in my mind, especially when the vast majority of adult games consist of throwaway 1-2 hour experiments basically. This clearly has a lot of time and passion behind it, containing multiple interesting game-plus or side-quest scenarios and concepts. It's flawed, but still very much worth a play.

H-scenes are great fully animated full screen romantic scenes, but very repetitive and very grindy. So I highly advise you to skip the actual grind and just load a save.

The story? Well, it's kinda interesting at the start, after that well, you live with this lady, and you get a happy ending.

Game was fucking grindy as shit, still good tho.

porn game review | The Runaway Girl and Me (7/10)
A very nice and sweet Cohabitation game. The art was nice, and the voice acting was pretty good as well. Unlike other cohabitation games, this one actually had a story more than just "Oh she ran away from home, that's it". I won't spoil it, but the game goes into the background of the character you're playing as well which is pretty nice. It was a very nice experience, but it's a more vanilla game, where the kinkiest you'll get is light S&M and anal. Personally, I liked it, but the grind was a fucking slog to the point where I was on my phone during H-Scenes to grind stats.
The Pros:
- Nice Art
- Good Voice acting
- Decent Story
- Decent Characters
The Cons:
- Extremely grindy even compared to other Cohab games.
- Repetitive gameplay

Game was great from start to finish, actual animations and great voice acting unlike other games on the site with the animation/voices tag. Maybe the story could use a bit more polish but who actually cares for stories in games like these lol. Overall a great experience and you should try.

Tried this because the game is described as wholesome up and down the thread but to be honest I don't really see it as such. The tone and stuff is pretty wholesome but you can cheat on her right from the get go, the story involves you two doing porn and she strongly implies before that that she was considering prostituting herself despite you two having already gotten together and fallen in love - though it could be some of that was just down to the translation and she was trying to imply she'd considered porn?

Anyway, I realise none of that's gonna be an issue for most (or for me, typically) so I'm not really counting that in the scoring but it wasn't what I was expecting based on stuff I'd read so I figured I'd mention it

Mechanically the animated sex scenes are pretty solid and there's different outfits/positions/etc. the more static ones where you're testing adult products at the store are hot too

There's also quite a lot of grinding though - including a very boring work mini-game - so things get pretty tedious pretty quickly. All the characters are pretty likeable, I'd give it a 3.5 but I'll round it down

great game but 2 star for being a huge grindfeast!
the game doesn't respect your time and energy and forces you to do the same scenes over and over and over again, would have given it 5 if it weren't for the grind.

So in this game you live together with this runaway girl (duuuh) called Natsuho and you deepen you relationship with her

This is a really good game If you enjoy vanilla, Its just you and the girl (and some foreplay scenes with the adult story clerk).

The VA does a really good job and makes everything better, the h scenes are good specially when you get to a point where you have a bunch of options

The story is ok! nothing woooooow but not too bad! It entertains you enough to like both MC and Natsuho! (I do think they fall in love too fast but okay!)

The boring part is that the early game can be a bit difficult If you dont pay attention and the game can be a bit grindy

Its a great game! It does have some problems but nothing that made my experience worse or something like that

Definetly a must play If you enjoy some vanilla content and great V.A!!

I still have some content to unlock so If something cool happens I will update my review!

Have fun o7

Will be buying this game to support the developer later.
Shockingly good use of the game format. Gameplay was surprisingly captivating much of the way, and I felt paced into the game format quite nicely. Definitely a bit of a grind to get some perks, but quite rewarding.

Its artstyle isn't personally my favorite, but still very good and will appeal more to most other people.
Story was totally fine and fit in with everything else.
Music was relaxing and nicely fit in.
Localization is excellent relative to what we're used to with games like this.

A bit tedious but the variety of stuff you can do is pleasant also it is cutely voiced and nicely animated. does not feel like doing a rubber. It would have been outstanding if it was polished but imo it is fine as it is.

The game is enjoyable but tedious. For anyone inspired by the game-play, here's a heads-up:
it's jarring to base requirement as objectives.
It feels like a mechanic from Ren'Py games used to track progress, but not something the player needs to see.

One Jarring mechanic it has is blatantly show the chance of success in your actions.
This makes the player less inclined to play and repeatedly load the game after failures.
On top of that, the beginning is tight on cash, and failure only makes things worse by lowering the player max stamina.
It felt like a sad attempt to prolonged the game and bypass Steam time-check refund policy.

But to be fair, Trust stat only used to measure her gloom, other than that, her "Trust" only spout insightful trivia of the girl, the focus is more on her body than her character.
Her life is a plot and you didn't even resolve it with her.

Then there are the H-scenes, ooh... the poor H-scene. Which need to be stream lined or make it felt earned.
Do you know what constitute as good video here? The teasing, the stripping? Nope!
You need to make her cream fast in a short time frame, so cram all kind of bad boys on her hole until the time run's up!
If Pure Love = Lust, then no matter how sweet the night is, you'll get sick repeating it everyday and against a girl with unlimited libido, you'll get NTR by the toy while you work hard everyday.

If I have graph to scale my enjoyment of the game, is that the beginning is peak up until it gave illusion of what relationship the player have with the girl, while the mid to late gameplay is just grindy to the point it diminishes the fun factor of the game.

All in all, it’s a good game, if you ware to play it diligently though you're in luck, it IS linear, which means the fortune and stat you amassed will be used in latter chapter, especially when there's a time skip.

PROS

- Story is okay, somewhat substantial, with a good ending. Dialogue doesnt grate and Im not tempted into skipping the vast majority of it, which is always a plus.
- Girl is cute, and somewhat believable if you can excuse the fact that youre slapping cheeks within 7 days of meeting her.
- H gameplay is acceptably mid. Not mindblowingly complex, nor a slog

CONS

- Be prepared to down at least 4 hours into this game, and that's if you know what youre doing. If you dont, then likely you'll have wasted endless hours grinding stuff you dont need to
- Gameplay is tedious shit. I mean, surely its acceptable to say that no one is here to experience a day-to-day job which barely has any significance in a H game or from a storyline standpoint.
- H game ratings. Like seriously, I dont need a game grading how Im doing in bed. Even in real life girls dont review your performance because that's a surefire way to bring the mood down.
- Paced like a marathon for mature gentlemen in the olympics where the average age is 70.


GENERAL REVIEW

Alright, let's get the story out of the way with minimal spoilers. You play as random nobody who thinks living alone is some form of rebellion against society. You make your living through part time jobs (like really?) and one day you spot a girl around a playground who needs shelter and will offer you her body for it...yes, its that same tiresome trope of cohabilitation that wont be winning any prizes because there's like an entire continent filled with the thing.

So what do you do aside from the obvious H gameplay? Well, you get to work, take her on dates, work, buy her stuff, work, and work somemore. If this isnt telling exactly what you will be doing most of the time, let me spell it out: you'll be working, and work is about as tedious as it is in real life. Ive no idea why this part even needs expanding because ultimately, who gives a shit about this? Fortunately, at some point you'll start making enough money to skip this, but bloody hell.

H gameplay is where this game shines the best, and while there is no real animations there's sufficient complexity here that it doesnt feel like a button masher, though that is what it is. There are multiple positions, though you dont get to change this mid sex.

Just one last point, because I feel I have to rage against this cohabitation model a bit. Pace the H, because the first hump is always the most special and all subsequent humping feels like a grind. In other words, for gods sake make me earn the sex little by little, and not full blown penetration within the first week.


CONCLUSION

Its a decent attempt at a cohabitation game that at least impresses to a certain extent. Would be better if you remove the tedious working, the absurd sex rating at the end, and focus squarely on the interaction you're having with Natsuho, and of course, the H gameplay.

4 stars, because it accomplishes what it needs to do, completely fappable. Not as good or as emotionally satisfying as teaching feeling (because what really is) but better than 1room because at least the H gameplay doesnt feel like solving a puzzle.

Recommended because why not. Just be prepared to click, and click a ton. With the amount of stats given in game, there should at least be one that shows the number of right clicks your poor mouse has suffered.

Great game, I especially liked the voice acting, the scenes are solid and Natsuho is cute. It's a bit of a grind to get scenes but with living together scenarios, it'd be a bit odd to get everything too fast so I won't count that against it.

This game is genuinely tedious to play, i couldn't really finish it due to boredom, so i guess you can take my review lightly


Story
It tries more that most coahbitation games, but it's just a liniear slide show in the end, with no particular emotional weight behind it

Gameplay
Like all cohabitation games, very simple if not boring, this one is the latter
They could've done alot more with the video feature thing, havnig to go to work and ACTUALLY do something is crazy to me, youjust click a few fucking buttons and that's it, atleast a badly made mini game would've been betterm or just skip the work part and focus on the events at work part, like others games do


Sound/Voice acting
Voice acting is pretty rare in porn games, alright partial voice acting where the focuss is on important story events, nothing much to be said


Scenes/mechanics
You take what you can get, i doubt anyone on this platform has big standards to care about the minor details, they're alright, i can't say it's unfappable
What annoyed me more is the fucking 'interactive' sex
Unlike most cohabitation games, you have to keep. clicking. the. buttons
It just drained every little brain cell i had left in my brain from years of porn addiction, why did they put a timer on the actions? I can accept the actions being dictated by buttons by my god why did you add a timer to them

It was just a giant, fucking chore to play is how i'll finish off

After 9 hours of play, I can say that investing too much time in a vanilla game.
If you're looking for a beautiful simulator, with a protagonist who wants to do good, with beautiful sex scenes and very convincing voice acting, this is your game.
It has some problems that may put some people off, such as the rating you receive at the end of each sex scene, I didn't think there was an explanation for the score. Also not knowing how many scenes there are in the game or how many accessories it is possible to get. I only discovered that there was a BDSM outfit, through photos, researching the game.
I liked the story, the girl who has to run away, because of her father's problems, and I also liked the solution, there really is an ending to the game.