First thing that hit me with this game was how it feels like someone mashed together a horny detective anime and a horny dating sim, then just said “yeah, that’s fine” and never sanded the edges. You’re this fresh grad magical agent with a stupidly heroic name you can change if you hate it, sent into a “quiet” town that is absolutely not quiet in the horny sense. The whole Hope Springs thing sounds wholesome but the moment you show up at the manor it’s like every girl there gets a notification on her phone that says “target acquired, tease him.” Mary is that elegant rich girl type who pretends she is all formal and classy, but her idea of hospitality is basically “oh, you don’t have a room? stay here and let my maids climb all over your self control.” The game loves slow teasing, it really drags it out, clothes sliding off piece by piece, animated little gestures, lips close but not touching for way too long, that kind of thing. Sometimes it drives you insane in a good way, sometimes you just want to scream “stop licking the ice cream and eat it already.”

I liked how it keeps playing with voyeur stuff without turning it into full creepy stalker mode. You catch glimpses of Sally changing through a half open door and you know the game set that up on purpose. Or you “accidentally” walk in on Alice in the shower and the camera lingers at exactly the spots your eyes would, wet skin and soap sliding down, her doing that fake shocked thing like “oh no, what are you doing here?” while clearly posing. There are scenes where you’re forced to just watch, not touch, listening to muffled moans through a wall, hearing sloppy wet sounds and little gasps, and the UI just refuses to move forward until you sit with it. It almost feels unfair and I loved that, but also hated it. The romance angle is actually way sweeter than I expected for a porn game, though. Characters flirt, joke, send you texts that feel like actual horny WhatsApp chats, not some stiff script. Mary will roast you one moment, then blush the next when you push back and tell her exactly how you want to pin her against her own antique wardrobe. There’s a ton of humor, stupid little jokes, bad puns, fourth wall nudges that show the dev watches too much anime. It breaks the mood sometimes, especially when you’re halfway through a blowjob scene and someone cracks a line that feels like it belongs on Reddit, but at least it feels like a real horny nerd wrote it, not a committee.

What really stuck in my head is how it lets the harem fantasy grow almost naturally. You flirt with one girl, another gets jealous, then she “accidentally” needs your help undressing, and suddenly you’re juggling promises and half-dressed bodies and tongue on skin in three different routes that start overlapping. There’s this one scene where you’re supposed to be questioning someone about the missing artifact but end up with your face between her thighs under a desk while another character talks right in front of you. The game leans hard into oral, like, full focus on lips, tongue, sucking sounds, your chin slick, their thighs trembling around your head. Animated movements make it feel extra filthy when a girl slowly sinks down in your lap and you can see the teasing little grind before she actually takes you in. It is romantic in a twisted, yandere-bait way too, the kind of “I will ruin every other girl’s chances and smile while doing it” romance. The story about magic and rogue agents is kind of cute and kind of background noise, sometimes you forget you’re supposed to be chasing an artifact because you’re too busy watching stockings slide off and panties get pushed aside. But then again, who cares about magic when you have a manor full of horny distractions that want your attention, your tongue, your cock, and your stupid soft side all at once.

Corruption is not just a bar on the screen here, it feels like a mood that slowly crawls under your skin while you click “next room” again like a degenerate. Forbidden Dungeon throws you into a fantasy world that pretends to care about saving kingdoms and slaying monsters, but everyone knows why you’re actually there. You start with these “heroes” who look serious for about five seconds, then the game starts stripping them, shoving them into traps with tentacles and cursed toys, and suddenly every combat choice is also a sex choice. You’re staring at a turn-based fight, thinking about buffs and debuffs, but also thinking “ok if she loses here, how badly is the dungeon going to fuck her this time?” Then you lose on purpose. Or you tell yourself it was a mistake. Sure.

What I like is how the dungeon feels hungry. Rooms are not just “fight skeletons, get loot”. You open a door, get a weird altar with a glowing toy on it, and you have that awful nice feeling like when you know you shouldn’t click “accept” but you do anyway. Take the blessing, your stats go up, your “purity” goes down, next encounter she is more sensitive, more aroused in the art, more easy to push over the edge. At start I was trying to play “correct” like it is some hardcore roguelike. After a few runs I was basically feeding my party to every corrupted slime just to unlock new scenes. There is that one event with the breeding pit where you think “ok, this is just some background lore thing”, then suddenly your character is on all fours, tentacles holding them open, multiple penetration from things that do not even have a name, and you are sitting there like, yeah, this is fine. Also the little text line that casually mentions the chance of pregnancy like it’s just another status effect, that got me. It is not like a soft romance thing, it feels more like the dungeon is marking them, making sure they stay its toys forever.

The parody bits are funny in a really trashy way. If you know those edgy solo-leveling memes or you played Darkest Dungeon, you will recognize some scenes twisted into horny nonsense. A “heroic” speech turns into a submissive pledge to serve the dungeon, that kind of thing. It keeps trying to pretend there is a noble path, but the more you progress, the more the skills, gear and even the AI-generated CG push you toward naked, chained, displayed in front of monsters. Exhibition stuff hits hard here because the game keeps throwing you into situations where the character should be ashamed, and the UI pops up like “Gain +10% damage if you let them watch.” Grind a bit, unlock another protagonist, and suddenly the same corridors feel different because you know exactly which trap will drag them into that familiar tentacle nest. I really wish the game let me corrupt the town hub more, like turn the whole support cast into willing dungeon slaves or something, but I guess that’s my brain asking for DLC already. Anyway, if you like your runs to end with your party fully broken in some dark corner of the map, soaked, pregnant, and still going back in because loot, then yeah, this dungeon knows exactly what kind of player you are.

Retired “hero” my ass. John feels less like some ex special ops badass and more like that dude in your Discord who keeps saying he’s done with drama, then his DMs are just wall to wall chaos. The game sells you this quiet old guy who just wants beer and football, then absolutely bodies his calm life in the first act. One weird, trippy dream later and suddenly every woman around him is way too interested, way too flexible about what’s “okay,” and way too related to be healthy. It starts slow, like a normal AVN trying to pretend it has restraint, then your choices start twisting everyone into horny trouble. You blink and you’ve gone from “concerned father figure” to “I should probably clear my browser history if I die tomorrow.”

The cast is basically a ticking time bomb of bad decisions. You’ve got the twins, obviously, and yeah, the game knows exactly what button it’s pushing with them. Every scene with them feels like the dev is just giggling behind the screen going “you’re really gonna click that, huh?” One minute you’re sharing some semi wholesome moment in the kitchen, next minute the camera angle turns predatory and you’re suddenly very aware how short their shorts are. And if you like to play the creepy voyeur type, the game spoils you. Peeking through doors, “accidentally” walking in on showers, sitting on the couch pretending to watch sports while everyone else in the house is basically a walking porn category. Of course I told myself I’d play John as a good guy. Ten minutes later I’m saving before every corrupt choice like I’m playing Dark Souls and scared of losing progress.

What actually surprised me is how openly horny the story is without even pretending it’s respectable. The MILFs are stacked like someone made a “mom pack” in a character creator and just cranked every slider to max. There’s a DILF vibe too when the game leans into John’s age and authority, especially when women start treating him like the center of their universe and he just rolls with it. Sex scenes go from soft to “oh shit, we’re doing that now?” pretty fast, with corruption stuff that slowly pushes the girls from shy and unsure into full on cock drunk, begging for creampies and acting jealous and possessive. Interracial scenes pop up in that classic porn logic way where nobody really talks about it, it just happens and you’re like, “yeah okay, that’s a thing now.” Masturbation and voyeurism connect a lot of the smaller scenes, like characters getting caught touching themselves in the hallway light, or you spying on them and deciding whether to walk away or corrupt them a bit more. It’s messy, morally fucked, sometimes hot as hell, sometimes a bit much, and it kind of feels like scrolling a very specific Pornhub playlist someone curated after a bottle of whiskey and three bad breakups. Which is exactly the energy this kind of game should have, honestly.

Zach is the kind of guy who knows the exact upload schedule of his favorite online dominatrix, but pretends he “just saw it in recommendations.” You know the type. One hand in his pants, the other on Reddit, arguing about whether hypnosis can actually turn a bratty dom into a drooling toy. Then one day he ends up with a real mind control helmet in his lap and Mistress Red tied to a chair in his crappy apartment, staring at him with that “I’d ruin your life for fun” look… and suddenly there’s no pause button. That’s pretty much the whole vibe here: you are sitting inside the head of a horny coward who just got god-level power and no emotional maturity to handle it. Sometimes he tries to be nice. Sometimes he absolutely does not. The game just quietly asks, “Alright quiz fans, A, B, C or D: do you fry her brain, make her your anal-obsessed house pet, or actually talk to her like a person?” and then watches what you click.

The kink stuff hits fast and messy in the best way. Once you get the helmet going, there are scenes where you stack triggers on her like you are building a cursed trivia scorecard. Say a word, watch her drop to her knees. Snap your fingers, she presents her ass, cheeks spread, no questions asked. There is this one moment where you tell her she can speak freely, then flip a suggestion so every time she tries to insult you, her mouth instead begs you to put a butt plug in and pull her hair. It feels gross and hot at the same time, like deleting your browser history right after you close Pornhub. Bondage is everywhere, but it is not just “shibari background decoration.” You actually watch Zach experiment. First he fumbles with ropes like a virgin trying to tie his first shoelace, then later he’s strapping her to a table, collar on, wrists locked, vibrator pressed against her clit, and she is moaning that she belongs to him while her eyes are dead and glossy from the hypnosis loop he ran twenty times in a row. And then you still get options to act like you are some moral hero. Which you are not. Not after what you did with that remote-controlled plug and her ass clenched so hard she almost snapped it in two during that “test run.”

I kind of love how the game lets domination swing both ways even when it feels unfair. Mistress Red is a pro dom, she knows her shit, and if you back off with the mind control or screw up a suggestion, she starts getting into your head instead. There is a route where you give her back some control, thinking, “Ok, redemption arc, I am a good person now,” and three scenes later she is the one using the helmet on you, making you kneel, edging you with a toy on your dick while she laughs and tells you exactly how pathetic your porn addiction is. That switch into female domination feels less like a clean route change and more like a trap you walked into because you wanted to feel less guilty. The game kind of quiet about it, but it really leans on that “who’s actually in charge here?” question. Also, the 3D style is a bit stiff in some angles, like weird elbow joints and one chair that looks like it was stolen from The Sims 2, and it annoyed me way more than it should. I kept staring at that chair during a really nasty anal scene where you’ve got her bent over it, drool on her chin, collar tight, her brain buzzing from post-hypnotic suggestions, and all I could think was “why is that texture so flat.” Anyway, between the mind control helmet, the moral illusions, the toys, and Zach trying to pretend he is not a villain while literally rewriting a woman’s brain, the whole thing feels like a dirty quiz where every answer is wrong but you still click next.