I read in some thread that someone is making it, the game appeared on 'Latest Games & Updates' yesterday.
(But since it's Ch.1, I haven't tested it yet.)
This isn't a link to the game itself, but to a post comparing the game to Twisted Memories.
I haven't mentioned, and won't mention, the name of the game to avoid breaking the rules, if you want to know, go to the discussion post at the link above.
If it gets the constant complainers out of this thread I for one encourage all of them to check out that game. But calling it a rival to Twisted Memories is pretty funny.
While there are similarities, especially in the first few minutes, its mostly superficial. Honestly it feels kindof like someone took some of the very basic elements of Twisted Memories, sanitized them to be more in line with a standard harem game and then build his own story on top.
So the basic building blocks are there. Mc is a looser living in a house with three women. One of the younger girls is nice, while the other is mean to him and calls him a pervert. He typically goes to school with one girl and one guy, the guy even looks somewhat like leo. At school he is bullied and has a sympathetic teacher with big breasts looking out for him.
That's where the similarities end. The graphic style is nothing like Twisted Memories and much more in line with the standard that Eternum has set that most new HS 2 based avn's use. The character designs are also much more standard. A few characters have bigger proportions, but it's nothing like TM. They're still pretty good, at least most of them, but again, not the same as TM.
The writing style also has very little similarities and in general the writing isn't very good. That isn't too much of a dig, this first chapter is only the setup so it has plenty of time to improve.
But let's look a little closer. The family for one isn't a family. Their landlady and roommates, like usual. The mean "roommate" that calls mc a pervert doesn't actually hate him here. An "Alyvia", she is not. There's no deeply hidden desires, no struggle to seduce her before anyone else. She's just a generic tsundere who thinly hides her feelings. How thinly you ask? She puts mcs head between her naked legs in the very first scene they have together.
This is part of what I meant when I said the basic elements of TM feel sanitized here.
In TM, Alyvia hates mc at the start, has a boyfriend and it's a plot point to seduce her before she sleeps with him.
Oh no, some people might not like that, so in this game the mean sister doesn't have a boyfriend, directly states that she's not interested in getting one and makes her attraction to the mc abundantly clear in their very first scene together.
In TM, Mc's bully is Victoria, one of the LIs.
Oh no, some people might not like that, so in this game the bully is instead some generic blonde dude and the "bad girl" LIs just vaguely hang out in the same clique as the bully.
In TM the mc has to put in effort to corrupt or seduce the LIs.
Oh no, some people might not like that, so in this game almost every girl is already attracted to the mc and immediatly likes him even if they just met.
The mc is also entirely different and, again, much more in line with the classic easily embarrassed, kindof wimpy harem mcs. This is clearly just the starting off point for the mc and he's gonna develop, but I cannot see him ever becoming even remotely as proactive or corrupting as ben. If anything, he's more likely to be the one getting corrupted.
And if you think this rival is gonna develop much faster than TM: Lmao. The dev of this game isn't even planning on making a chapter 2 at the moment and he has an entire different game that he is still developing.
That different game, btw, had it's first release in the very same month as Twisted Memories as a 0.1 and has currently reached a staggering 0.3.6. Maybe he just versions his releases differently than tm, but I personally wouldn't bet on him being that much faster at cranking out content.
All of this isn't to shit on that other dev btw. From his posts on this forum, he seems nice and if he puts some more effort in his writing that other game could become a pretty good zero to hero kind of game. Its just very funny to see this being proclaimed as a TM rival when the actual substance of the game, story and characters are so fundamentally incompatible with what makes TM the game that it is.