There's over 100 reviews, but keep in mind that almost all of them are from before the game's full release (May 19, 2024). To keep it short, I do believe the game is worth playing. My review will focus mostly on negatives, as they're more telling than a list of the same-old positives.
I'll start off with this: it's the epitome of a Western Patreon hentai game. If you've played enough h-games, this sentence tells you all that you really need to hear. On that note, we should be thankful that it actually reached a full-release (despite having an obviously rushed ending). Being this type of game, it released in patches over the course of a few years - and you can tell. It gives the impression of not having been fully framed from the beginning or having been framed but having seen random changes every major patch, with the dev not tying previous iterations and new sections together all too well. In other words, the promises and projections of things to come from the initial stages of the game do not deliver and/or provide payoff well in the latter parts of the game, likely due to poor planning or knee-jerk changes. This is mostly shown with the game-mechanics, but also prominent with the ending payoff of the story. You'll see a mechanic added to the game, then you never see it again. You'll see a mini-game used in one section, then never used again. You'll expect ABC to happen in the story, then the story swerves off to XYZ. You'll be a seventh of the way through the game, then it'll add a new one-dimensional character to the main-cast who then takes time away from the already established crew. You'll reach the climax of the game and think, "wait, that's it?" The side routes feel the same way as well. They feel like wasteful, random padding used to add h-scenes to the game and so it can pivot the story in a random direction without much consequence. This all comes back to the initial point of how it feels like it wasn't planned well in the beginning. If it was, we shouldn't see things seemingly come-and-go and we shouldn't see other randomness. Everything should nicely tie together and feel seemless from beginning to end. With proper planning, the game would feel like a more full game while using the same content and characters.
Next lets address the endings. A bad ending ruins a game, book, show, movie, etc.; as the ending is paramount to the story. The common statements of "it's the journey, not the destination [that matters]" and "in the end the journey is rewarding in itself" are horseshit. It's absurd to use that as an excuse to justify a writer's lack of follow through on anything as well as his/her inability to keep narrative coherency. This game not only has several bad main-story endings and several bad side-story endings, but they all feel like the dev just wanted to finish this game after years of work so he/she rushed them. Hell, the Karen/Jenna resolution (you know, that main goal of the main story) takes place during a time-skip! It also doesn't help that the story feels like it spins it's wheels despite progressing...
The next big thing is that the game is wildly tedious. Almost every mission is a fetch quest with the same structure. Worse of all, they all require you to slowly walk back and forth from point A to B and it's just so damn boring. Combat starts off promising, but becomes so unpleasant (in part due to terrible dungeon design) that you genuinely should use the "skip combat" button for the sake of your sanity. Many h-scenes require you to go to point A, do "thing," the walk back to the hotel to sleep only to rinse and repeat (the bar scenes and x-cross being the worst offenders). It's so much blank padding, its so boring.
To finish off my negative ramblings, I want to mention something regarding the characters and story. You play as a self-proclaimed lesbian (later cop-out bisexual) but you spend 80% of the game getting dicked-down by men and male stand-ins. One of your closest allies is a gay man, yet he spends nearly the entire game fucking women when he has an h-moment and is written to genuinely be into fucking Jenna and Jewel. Why did the story spend so much time emphasizing their sexualities whenever the content outright goes against this? And don't give me the "oh, the pure route doesn't have this! It stays true to character!" excuse. Bitch, nobody plays an h-game for the pure route unless said pure route is the primary source of h-scenes (in this game its not). We're a bunch of degenerates who are here for the ass, tits, and clits. The un-pure route is the main route, so if you're going to write gay characters then commit to the bit. One last thing with Jenna, but once she takes her first dick she flips the switch and goes full slut. It's not a gradual fall into degeneracy but a full-blown nose-dive. It's a bit absurd. This leads us to one of the story issues (the main story, the "unpure" route), it's fairly hard to believe that Jenna truly cares about Karen whenever she spends almost the entire game lustfully getting fucked by various people. Yes "yOu CoNtRol ThE bUttOns yOU prEsS," but this should at least reflect itself in the story. There's a reason why so many h-games have lust meters with thresholds that, once reached, alter the story (this one has one strictly for the pure ending in which you need a lust rating of 0, otherwise it changes nothing). However, this goes back to the very first point in that it would require proper planning of the game. Something random to add, but I genuinely have no idea why this game doesn't have the "cheating" tag as almost all sexual encounters are outright cheating.
Conclusion
I know what you're thinking: you just talked mad shit on this game, why are you giving it a 4/5? Well its a soft 4/5 but regardless, the game is still a good time. The porn is great and, like I said, I was going to focus on the negatives (I could've kept going, hell I didn't even get to the list of game breaking bugs). The content is a mile wide and a foot deep, but that mile wide of content is fun to experience. Should you play this game? Yes, I think you should. Hell, last Steam sale I bought it despite all of my issues because I think it's worth it. For a Western Patreon hentai game, it's pretty great.
I'll end with one positive. Even with this game re-using a lot of scenes (especially with the side-routes), the hentai is significantly better quantity and quality than most h-games out there. Not only are the scenes numerous, but the collectable "pinups" - which is mostly fan-art - is a welcomed addition and I would love to see more games implement something like this. Yes the hentai has some issues, such as "Lady" (the white hooded woman) having no h-scenes at all and Karen (despite being a story-critical character) having very minimal h-scenes, but the positives heavily outweigh the negatives.
I'll start off with this: it's the epitome of a Western Patreon hentai game. If you've played enough h-games, this sentence tells you all that you really need to hear. On that note, we should be thankful that it actually reached a full-release (despite having an obviously rushed ending). Being this type of game, it released in patches over the course of a few years - and you can tell. It gives the impression of not having been fully framed from the beginning or having been framed but having seen random changes every major patch, with the dev not tying previous iterations and new sections together all too well. In other words, the promises and projections of things to come from the initial stages of the game do not deliver and/or provide payoff well in the latter parts of the game, likely due to poor planning or knee-jerk changes. This is mostly shown with the game-mechanics, but also prominent with the ending payoff of the story. You'll see a mechanic added to the game, then you never see it again. You'll see a mini-game used in one section, then never used again. You'll expect ABC to happen in the story, then the story swerves off to XYZ. You'll be a seventh of the way through the game, then it'll add a new one-dimensional character to the main-cast who then takes time away from the already established crew. You'll reach the climax of the game and think, "wait, that's it?" The side routes feel the same way as well. They feel like wasteful, random padding used to add h-scenes to the game and so it can pivot the story in a random direction without much consequence. This all comes back to the initial point of how it feels like it wasn't planned well in the beginning. If it was, we shouldn't see things seemingly come-and-go and we shouldn't see other randomness. Everything should nicely tie together and feel seemless from beginning to end. With proper planning, the game would feel like a more full game while using the same content and characters.
Next lets address the endings. A bad ending ruins a game, book, show, movie, etc.; as the ending is paramount to the story. The common statements of "it's the journey, not the destination [that matters]" and "in the end the journey is rewarding in itself" are horseshit. It's absurd to use that as an excuse to justify a writer's lack of follow through on anything as well as his/her inability to keep narrative coherency. This game not only has several bad main-story endings and several bad side-story endings, but they all feel like the dev just wanted to finish this game after years of work so he/she rushed them. Hell, the Karen/Jenna resolution (you know, that main goal of the main story) takes place during a time-skip! It also doesn't help that the story feels like it spins it's wheels despite progressing...
The next big thing is that the game is wildly tedious. Almost every mission is a fetch quest with the same structure. Worse of all, they all require you to slowly walk back and forth from point A to B and it's just so damn boring. Combat starts off promising, but becomes so unpleasant (in part due to terrible dungeon design) that you genuinely should use the "skip combat" button for the sake of your sanity. Many h-scenes require you to go to point A, do "thing," the walk back to the hotel to sleep only to rinse and repeat (the bar scenes and x-cross being the worst offenders). It's so much blank padding, its so boring.
To finish off my negative ramblings, I want to mention something regarding the characters and story. You play as a self-proclaimed lesbian (later cop-out bisexual) but you spend 80% of the game getting dicked-down by men and male stand-ins. One of your closest allies is a gay man, yet he spends nearly the entire game fucking women when he has an h-moment and is written to genuinely be into fucking Jenna and Jewel. Why did the story spend so much time emphasizing their sexualities whenever the content outright goes against this? And don't give me the "oh, the pure route doesn't have this! It stays true to character!" excuse. Bitch, nobody plays an h-game for the pure route unless said pure route is the primary source of h-scenes (in this game its not). We're a bunch of degenerates who are here for the ass, tits, and clits. The un-pure route is the main route, so if you're going to write gay characters then commit to the bit. One last thing with Jenna, but once she takes her first dick she flips the switch and goes full slut. It's not a gradual fall into degeneracy but a full-blown nose-dive. It's a bit absurd. This leads us to one of the story issues (the main story, the "unpure" route), it's fairly hard to believe that Jenna truly cares about Karen whenever she spends almost the entire game lustfully getting fucked by various people. Yes "yOu CoNtRol ThE bUttOns yOU prEsS," but this should at least reflect itself in the story. There's a reason why so many h-games have lust meters with thresholds that, once reached, alter the story (this one has one strictly for the pure ending in which you need a lust rating of 0, otherwise it changes nothing). However, this goes back to the very first point in that it would require proper planning of the game. Something random to add, but I genuinely have no idea why this game doesn't have the "cheating" tag as almost all sexual encounters are outright cheating.
Conclusion
I know what you're thinking: you just talked mad shit on this game, why are you giving it a 4/5? Well its a soft 4/5 but regardless, the game is still a good time. The porn is great and, like I said, I was going to focus on the negatives (I could've kept going, hell I didn't even get to the list of game breaking bugs). The content is a mile wide and a foot deep, but that mile wide of content is fun to experience. Should you play this game? Yes, I think you should. Hell, last Steam sale I bought it despite all of my issues because I think it's worth it. For a Western Patreon hentai game, it's pretty great.
I'll end with one positive. Even with this game re-using a lot of scenes (especially with the side-routes), the hentai is significantly better quantity and quality than most h-games out there. Not only are the scenes numerous, but the collectable "pinups" - which is mostly fan-art - is a welcomed addition and I would love to see more games implement something like this. Yes the hentai has some issues, such as "Lady" (the white hooded woman) having no h-scenes at all and Karen (despite being a story-critical character) having very minimal h-scenes, but the positives heavily outweigh the negatives.
