Recommending Western Sharing Games List

[redoubt27]

Is there an option to say to the boss that if he ever tries to approach my wife again I will gut him right in the office with a serrated machete?

well, not yet, but fingers are crossed that this, or something equally satisfying will develop, maybe as an ending...
Think it'd be awesome if Sarah and Eva get leverage on Neil, then start an online femdom site, with Neil as the star gimp...
just a thought...

 

[SinisterPortal]

Well, no. But the wife will be able to keep denying him forever.

Sad, I wish VNs gave us an option to treat those "bulls" like that.

To bring up some good stuff too - Harmony Haven seems to be a nice slow-burn sharing game in-the-cooking. Liked the beginning so far. There will be an NTR route but it seems to get that you have to neglect your wife and be a nasty hubby

 

[reidanota]

Is there an option to say to the boss that if he ever tries to approach my wife again I will gut him right in the office with a serrated machete?

Well, no. But the wife will be able to keep denying him forever.

SinisterPortal I'd make a suggestion to the dev that the wife could praise her husband in her denials (if she doesn't already). Even if the boss keeps his smirk, should be more of a forced smirk. Hope she can also talk about it with her husband and they end up unbothered, laughing it off or finding a way to use him.

There's a lot of comments in WoD, from me and others, about the couple using that plot to "use" Neil for their game, before "sticking it" to him... But again, personally, I ain't sharing her with Neil, at all, never, nope, not gonna happen... Sleaze bags and hobos ain't getting near my princess...

Been trying to connect the dots, so it seems like, up to this moment, if you share your "princess" with Neil, it's all to his advantage and you get no satisfaction out of it? I sure hope this changes, cause if this is the case, I'm with you, can't share her with a guy who would flaunt it as his conquest any more than I would share Claire with the neighbour in BILH after watching the one scene. So, I guess, it's less "steamy" scenes for me, until the dev makes it more palatable. Honestly, it wouldn't be enough that that the ending were fully satisfying from a "sticking it up to Neil" POV, I couldn't stomach it if there were any humiliation implied (either by dialogue or simply by the situation making the MC look weak).

To bring up some good stuff too - Harmony Haven seems to be a nice slow-burn sharing game in-the-cooking. Liked the beginning so far. There will be an NTR route but it seems to get that you have to neglect your wife and be a nasty hubby

That's good to know, I played that when it launched and wasn't sure which way it was going to go. It sure was a slow burn, but the cheating opportunities started coming before any sharing. Or maybe I'm mistaking it for Heated Hashtag? Damned HH games, always mixing them up. I think it was Hashtag that you weren't even in a relationship with the main LI to begin with, and the game never gave you an opportunity to make a move for the first 3 or 4 episodes, made me think some other guy was going to get her first.

 

[blkcrow20]

speaking about weird introduction into sharing, I don't know why some devs keep trying to make sharing as unappealing as possible. E.g. in Whispers of Desire the wife gets hired into the same company as her husband. For some reason, the boss and the corporate psychologist decide to turn the husband into a cuckold and the wife into a hotwife. So they start plotting against this couple. They conceive sophisticated plans, lie to both of them, manipulate them. I thought - wtf? Is this the least sexy way to introduce you into the lifestyle? All it makes me want is either to
1) try fighting back and ruin the weird plans of these weird people
2) stop playing the game (which I did)

As much as I hate Neil, I enjoy this game on the sharing/swinging path so far. You can totally deny Neil, which is what I am doing. For me, he's handling it way better than the majority of similiar type games out right now.

 

[larsalexanderson]

Whispers of Desire is weird. Like others have said the office makes no sense. No office has a psychologist. The boss (Neil) is a greasy piece of shit. There is no outright way to avoid him, but you can make choices against him. Also, the dev commented that it would be possible to avoid boss, but you would miss "steamy" scenes. Like at this point, to me, every man on Earth besides the boss can fuck the wife.

 

[redoubt27]

Been trying to connect the dots, so it seems like, up to this moment, if you share your "princess" with Neil, it's all to his advantage and you get no satisfaction out of it? I sure hope this changes, cause if this is the case, I'm with you, can't share her with a guy who would flaunt it as his conquest any more than I would share Claire with the neighbour in BILH after watching the one scene.

Yes. That is my one complaint about WoD... Alex and Sarah don't talk to one another...
On the "sharing" path, they should absolutely be talking about Neil & what they're talking about with Eva...
It would open up so much with the "sharing" story that would "feel good", no matter what else is going on around them.
But, I don't know how much more work that would cause. Seems like same/similar story line & renders, just different "Text", but idk...lol

 

[reidanota]

Yes. That is my one complaint about WoD... Alex and Sarah don't talk to one another...
On the "sharing" path, they should absolutely be talking about Neil & what they're talking about with Eva...
It would open up so much with the "sharing" story that would "feel good", no matter what else is going on around them.
But, I don't know how much more work that would cause. Seems like same/similar story line & renders, just different "Text", but idk...lol

Did Fable respond to comments about them not talking about everything? I mean, except for scenes where they both are present, I don't even count as sharing any scenes with other people that they don't either witness, participate or talk about. That's free pass (at best) and boooooring af

 

[redoubt27]

Did Fable respond to comments about them not talking about everything? I mean, except for scenes where they both are present, I don't even count as sharing any scenes with other people that they don't either witness, participate or talk about. That's free pass (at best) and boooooring af

Fable may have, but I'm not watching that closely.
Couples can absolutely have a dancing around the elephant in the room or reluctant to talk about hidden fantasies phase, but at some point, that has to end if the relationship is going to survive, let alone get stronger...

And right now.. I have max relationship points... and it's baffling that they aren't talking about this stuff, yet...
Seems like they'll get there, eventually...lol

 

[CursedByAll]

Fable may have, but I'm not watching that closely.
Couples can absolutely have a dancing around the elephant in the room or reluctant to talk about hidden fantasies phase, but at some point, that has to end if the relationship is going to survive, let alone get stronger...

And right now.. I have max relationship points... and it's baffling that they aren't talking about this stuff, yet...
Seems like they'll get there, eventually...lol

When I was last on discord with Fable, there were several people asking about "the discussion".
It was brought up on the very same day here in comments as the initial demo release. People went to a lot of trouble to explain why it was important. A lot. Here and discord...
Fable kept promising "next update", next update, next update.........so, I left the discord, lol.
I told him I ain't playing the game at all until it happens. So, I wait.....

 

[reidanota]

Fable may have, but I'm not watching that closely.
Couples can absolutely have a dancing around the elephant in the room or reluctant to talk about hidden fantasies phase, but at some point, that has to end if the relationship is going to survive, let alone get stronger...

To me it's not that they can't have a "phase", but to make it the entire game or even a major part of it swings too much towards the cheating side, shows both as weak-willed/hesitant/indecisive and, mostly, just makes for a ton of missed opportunities where a lot of teasing could have taken place. If "sharing" isn't shared, what's the difference between that, and a game where multiple (unrelated) protagonists have sex with multiple others?

When I was last on discord with Fable, there were several people asking about "the discussion".

That's already less that optimal. Means they WERE hesitant about it (despite having agreed to share, I presume)? I'll grant it, characters don't have to be always perfect, but it's hugely frustrating when an obvious and simple matter as being honest and forward with your partner isn't an option. They may behave like they're dominant with everyone else, but that will still make me feel like I'm railroaded along the story. At that point, I'd prefer it to be purely kinetic, and that my choices were reduced to "do I want to follow this story, or not".

 

[redoubt27]

To me it's not that they can't have a "phase", but to make it the entire game or even a major part of it swings too much towards the cheating side, shows both as weak-willed/hesitant/indecisive and, mostly, just makes for a ton of missed opportunities where a lot of teasing or could have taken place. If "sharing" isn't shared, what's the difference between that, and a game where multiple (unrelated) protagonists have sex with multiple others?

That's already less that optimal. Means they WERE hesitant about it (despite having agreed to share, I presume)? I'll grant it, characters don't have to be always perfect, but it's hugely frustrating when an obvious and simple matter as being honest and forward with your partner isn't an option. They may behave like they're dominant with everyone else, but that will still make me feel like I'm railroaded along the story. At that point, I'd prefer it to be purely kinetic, and that my choices were reduced to "do I want to follow this story, or not".

Fully agree.
My only rationale, is "Whispers" of Desire, not open conversations about desires...
It seems Fable has a good cheating, NTR, and cuckold/hotwife story/concept in mind, and struggling to fit a solid "sharing" story in with it. I think it'll get there, just a bumpy pot holed filled ride until we arrive...

 

[CursedByAll]

To me it's not that they can't have a "phase", but to make it the entire game or even a major part of it swings too much towards the cheating side, shows both as weak-willed/hesitant/indecisive and, mostly, just makes for a ton of missed opportunities where a lot of teasing or could have taken place. If "sharing" isn't shared, what's the difference between that, and a game where multiple (unrelated) protagonists have sex with multiple others?

That's already less that optimal. Means they WERE hesitant about it (despite having agreed to share, I presume)? I'll grant it, characters don't have to be always perfect, but it's hugely frustrating when an obvious and simple matter as being honest and forward with your partner isn't an option. They may behave like they're dominant with everyone else, but that will still make me feel like I'm railroaded along the story. At that point, I'd prefer it to be purely kinetic, and that my choices were reduced to "do I want to follow this story, or not".

For mine, it just shows a dev with zero understanding of the lifestyle they are attempting to write into their narrative.
The mere fact that it had to be pointed out, in the first place, that honesty was so important, tells me a lot.
A lot of devs just think that an open or sharing relationship is just ntr without the cheating, or just a striaght up cuck story with maybe a twist, and that the twist is the exciting bit that the dev believes will attract players, in full ignorance of one of the main priniciples of any shared or open lifestyle.
I do not enjoy NTR-based games that just alter a few dialogues and call it "sharing", all while running the exact same story.
WoD may not be that, and in fact holds a lot of promise to not be that way at all, because it is promised to be choice based for every character and action. But, we will see, especially if that discussion just never takes place, or we have to wait a year until one of them finally freaks out after discovering something happening with the partner.
Complicity is not cooperation...