WVM... aka Duckface - The Game... aka The Hugging Simulator...
There seem to be two diametrical opposite opinions about this game... many like or even love it... and then there are those who just find it bad and wonder why so many people have a favorable opinion.
I will say this: if you like a stereotypical power fantasy in which Sex Jesus has 10+ girlfriends or so who are all super duper happy to share the MC, and where the MC's starter virgin girlfriend turns from "let's take things slow" to "you should totally have sex with this character and that character and then some more characters, because you are SOOOOOO awesome and please, also become their proper boyfriend, because you are the second coming" over the course of 48 hours, then WVM may be something you can enjoy!
But only if you are willing to read tons of inane dialogue about mostly nothing. I eventually got so bored with the chatter that I just pressed the space bar as fast as I could ... and it still took me 15 minutes at times or so before something of note happened. Not just sex, but talking about interactions (dialogue) with the very few characters you may care about.
In my opinion WVM has few redeeming qualities. The women look weird, almost all of them at least. Virtually everyone has weird joker lips, many characters have huge anime eyes that just look creepy, some of the women have dead eyes and WVM is one of those games that have mostly a first person view, so you get creepy duckface kisses (LOTS of creepy duckface kisses), silly looking tongue kisses (the girls kiss empty air) and you will get a metric ton of first person hugs in this game. Including first person sex which just looks odd.
A few characters have comically large breasts... but fortunately most potential love interests have more or less realistic body proportions, ranging from petite to curvy, but not comically curvy.
Starter girlfriend Jamie is the stuff of nightmares though, she is one of the creepiest looking characters in this game and there is no way for you to get rid of her. Her personality is equally creepy, which doesn't help.
Shauna, the childhood friend (optional trans character if you want to, I disabled that option), is definitely the much less creepy looking and more attractive girlfriend you can have... but unfortunately almost all of her content is shared with Jamie so you mostly get threesomes with them... but no girl on girl action, they just take turns making Sex Jesus happy, even if it is ever so slightly teased here and there.
The game also wastes substantial amount of time on unromanceable characters because Patreon has strict rules about these things. Now it's not a bad thing per se to have non romanceable female characters in a game, like best friends, or maybe a mother who is just a mother and nothing else. So that's perfectly fine! If they are relevant to a proper plot. But WVM is slice of life for the most part and has no plot to speak of.
And WVM teases you with the adoptive mother over and over again, at one point the MC is encouraged to have a sexy fantasy about her and to consider making a move on her... then you get the choice to check out her cleavage at one point and there will be LOTS of kisses which "linger longer than is normal" from the adoptive mom. And of course the MC will sleep with her in one bed several times (with some additional girlfriends!), cuddling with her.... and she's one of those patented Milfs who never had a relationship since forever and of course is completely chaste, ready for Sex Jesus to give her a second coming, she only exists for her adopted son.
But WVM is one of those games that don't have a patch, since the dev never created the game with a patch in mind.
So all the scenes with the adoptive mother are more or less a complete waste of time, since she mostly exists to tease the player with something that won't ever happen. I believe this is bad form. Bad writing. And just plain nasty.
Either rewrite the adoptive mom so she behaves like an actual mother that doesn't shower the MC with kisses on the mouth or sleeps in his bed with his many girlfriends... or write her scenes with a patch in mind (and additional renders / animations) that is later provided elsewhere.
Then there's the MC's sister... for the longest time you will interact with a woman but make zero progress... other than cuddling here and there etc and a few heart to heart talks about boring issues etc... until it is revealed the girl is the MC's long lost sister. The MC has some mild form of amnesia for some reason or so and didn't recognize her all this time before.
There is nothing wrong about a game with a "normal" family without anything else going on, but once again the game is leading you on and then pulls the rug from under you. It's just annoying.
One of the few more interesting characters, basketball coach Harper, may or may not be a future love interest... the MC sure does sleep with her (and her daughter whom he is dating...) in the same bed a few times and cuddles with her quite a lot in bed, in addition to all the hugs he always gets from her.
Harper even eventually tells the MC she loves him and the MC will tell Harper that he loves her as well and then there is a moment where both think about kissing, until they get interrupted (of course)... but including the latest update that's basically it. Maybe the game will treat Harper like the adoptive mother or sister. Wouldn't surprise me. That would be yet another wasted character who is merely meant to tease the player. Or maybe she is actual endgame material.
But the very slow tease with Harper is more than compensated for with the insane fast action you get with almost any other female in this game.
After 9 days ingame time the MC has accumulated an impressive harem and has casual sex on the side with several other women.
In addition to that starter virgin girlfriend Jamie has basically become the MC's pimp over the course of few days.
And she is borderline psychotic about sharing him with the entire female population on this planet. That girl needs a therapist! Sadly, childhood friend Shauna is more or less exactly the same eventually and wants the MC to make everyone happy.
You can tell that a man wrote these female characters. They behave like quite a few teenagers (and some adults) may want their women. As shallow sex toys you can have fun with without any consequences. If the game was at least funny... but it isn't.
What else... I didn't care at all for the character of Jasmine who is in a relationship with a basketball teammate (who's in the closet, a plot that is very reminiscent of that in another extremely popular VN), but the game really pushes Jasmine on you, and you have to deny her path several times... and then she ends up sleeping in your bed with 10 other girls (it's a big bed) at the end of the current update anyway. Even if you reject her every single time. Whatever...
The game otherwise gives you choices, you can reject every girl and be more or less entirely faithful to your starter girlfriend, if you so choose. I would not recommend it because a boring game then becomes even more pointless and Jamie is just plain terrible.
She looks weird, she is meant to be cute and heartwarming and supportive, but on the harem path she comes across like a lunatic psycho sharing junkie, that girl really needs psychotherapy! It is not helped by her creepy stares and eternal duckface expression.
But generally speaking WVM is wholesome. In a somewhat creepy way here and there, not intentionally so, but big anime eyes with creepy stares and duckfaces will do that.
If I had a choice I would go on a Harper solo route, she's an actual adult and not a teen, she's looks pretty (and more or less normal), and she seems nice. But WVM is not this kind of game.
What else... the game has no music which is just weird for such a popular project.
The animations are cookie cutter, you have seen them plenty of times before and other than an option how you want to finish there are no choices really. At least no kinks are forced upon you. One of the many girls tells the MC that he can be rough with her and choke her... but you can then decide not to choke her and be gentle instead, which is also ok for the girl and she won't mind if you don't choke her. Which is always welcome. Nothing worse than forced kinks.
I find WVM ultimately very baffling. It's a shallow harem game with mostly weird looking women that don't behave like actual human beings. With few exceptions. Harper the coach is ok.
It's also a game that is VERY misleading about a few characters, it teases the player with them, but unless a completed build / season 1 will retroactively get content that can be unlocked with a patch it's a complete waste of time.
For me WVM is an exercise in boredem with unending dialogue about mostly nothing interrupted by sex scenes with characters you have almost zero connection with, because everything is so shallow and on the surface. The sheer quantity of love interests and sex partners outside the harem prevents the player from establishing a deeper connection to most characters.
And one of the very few characters with whom you might form a connection, Harper the coach, has so far almost zero progression on her potential romance route. And the other characters, like the MC's sister, with whom you will spend quite some time as well, are untouchable and off limits, just like the adoptive mom.
People who expect a VN to have a good story, interesting and good looking female characters who behave somewhat like real human beings, and who also expect a game to have a romance that is not as shallow as a puddle should probably avoid WVM.
If you are all for almost instant gratification, lots of women to choose from - but maybe not necessarily the women you may want the most! - and tons of dialogue and content... then WVM may be something you can enjoy. It's the most Sex Jesus harem game with psychotic sharing fanatics ever.
