So when sifting through the sands of smut, hopefully a shiny seashell appears. Also when trying to discern said seashell, I try to be as honest as a person can when looking at seashells.
What seashell do we have today?
A strange one. For a preface, I'm straight, and the bias lies there throughout this review. For pure straight people (on the male side), it's quite hard to find content catered to that in the game. As if you play a pure straight male route, you'll be locking yourself from the content present in majority of the game, from what I've encountered. More on that later.
So, you play as the heir/ess to Steele Corporation but your dad decided that to inherit the fortune of the company, you'll have to adventure out and find the probes he left behind through a slew of planets he screwed his way through. Through that and walls of well written smutty text (as the game is primarily text-based), you'll find that the majority of characters that lie within a plethora of sexualities and genders will want to willingly bang you through well written paragraphs.
A lot of kinks are covered tastefully in this game, ranging from S/M, BDSM, Exhibitionism and the sort, to just simple sex (which sometimes feels weak in comparison to what you find in the game--nothing too extreme though ie, no scat, watersports, etc). All the scenes of course stem from uniquely written characters that have their own interests that they want to (bang) into you, whether you want to be submissive you can source said scenes from certain characters you meet in unique , often repeatable encounters; or playing as a dom character you can also find other characters to do your thang. And it isn't just the whole dom/sub thang despite it being heavily present in the game, some characters are just lustful, or kinky, or want a nice simple bang-layden relationship. And a lot of the enemy NPC's also have their own unique, repeatable encounters.
Gameplay consists of exploring planets, trying to find the probes, of course meeting characters, and occasionally fighting. Fighting is done a lot like RPG's where you wander away from the 'safe' areas and into the wilds much like JRPG's of old (think pokemon). For a text game, the battles aren't bad, and are really well done, you lose, the enemy has its way with you, you win, you can either leave it be, or have your way with it. And for the majority of enemies, for lose/win scenes, a lot of the H-market when it comes to this type of thing portrays it as either rape, or rape leading up to the heroine liking it (which is a hit or miss on my part) but here everyone is apparently horny as all hell and wanting it so there's very little of that portrayal for both your protag and the enemies. You, also in typical rpg fashion, buy new gear, new tastefully written weapons, or dive into the transformation market and deck your character out as a space furry to the tastes of the majority of alien species you encounter (or just stay as whatever species you may be).
Now, for hetero guys. Its hard, no pun intended. Like, every female you'll meet will have a 75% chance of having a dong. A large dong, like, elephant sizes. If that isn't the case, then the small percent of ladies you meet will also have tit/ass porporations that'll make a hentai artist hate himself for not making them that gigantic. For me, what I usually do is roll as the biggest slut in the galaxy playing as a female character since you can just about bang anything, but rolling as a guy in this game going hetero is hard since the majority of characters you'll meet are already so androgynous that it isn't weird meeting someone with two dongs in the game, or you losing to enemies with dongs and being banged. Hell some people on the forum make it a game to have multiples of everything (like 2-3 monster dong characters with the vag-tail). Also, as previously mentioned, just about every girl you encounter, whether enemy or unique NPC, is a dick-girl. If it's your thang, then have a blast, but for those that aren't in the market for such smut then the game is a slog if you don't play as a female or are just turned off by the whole notion.
Whatever the case may be, it's worth a go-over, as if you can't get into the content (which is understandable--it's smut that goes pretty far out there) then you can just ignore the small download you just blooped through, but if it sucks you in, lawd help you you're going to be busy for a hot minute.
Overall, bias included 4/5, wish there was more content in being Captain Kirk and banging any hot alien girl you encounter, but in the future all you encounter is dong. I've supported the game since the premier, and it's just steered farther away from what my tastes are, despite me booting it up once every couple of months. And some content areas will be written, then forgotten as progress strays farther away, such as some characters never fully being developed and being left in the mud for sometimes years, with speculation happening where people wonder if said cool thing that the character was going to be will ever be implemented. Sometimes also, you wonder where the development is going, as it ranges from fleshing out a planet, then going onto the next one, while the weeds of the previous one just stay as they are. Though they have been going back recently and updating older characters, such as Penny that you meet on the first planet. But when you hit 100K through a kickstart, and have 35k through patreon (last time I checked), I guess you can take any pace you want so long as you show something is happening. And of course, there's a lot of furriness in the game, which they poke at with certain characters but it's heavily present for those that don't like alien furries.
And as a sidenote, I don't have anything against the plethora of sexualities and genders being presented in the game, as everyone is built the way they are (or modified as shown in this game), but I just say the forewarning to peeps that want or search for primarily straight content in this game.
