My partner read the patreon notes over my shoulder and laughed at the "great life except him" part. That hit a little close to home, honestly. Cross Worlds throws you into this city boy who swaps with his other dimension self and honestly, the first thing I did was ignore the main quest to see if I could just... wander into the wrong part of town. You can. And the wrong part of town has a monster girl with tits the size of her head who doesn't wear a top. My wife said "of course you found her first" and I couldn't even argue.

The mind control mechanic is where things get properly unhinged. It starts small, just nudging a conversation, and then suddenly you're telling a seasoned adventurer to strip in the middle of a guild hall. The exhibitionism tag isn't lying. There's a scene with a corrupted elf where you basically rewrite her whole personality mid dialogue and the transformation sequence afterward made me forget to breathe for a second. The oral sex scenes have this rough, sketchy quality to the 2DCG that somehow makes them dirtier than the polished stuff in bigger games. Like finding a dirty magazine instead of a art book. My only gripe, and it's a stupid one, is the inventory screen has this weird lag when you try to drag items. Not a dealbreaker but it happens every single time and I never got used to it.

The dating sim parts feel like they're held together with string and hope but the corruption paths are what kept me clicking. There's a moment where you dominate a monster girl and she transforms mid act, her body literally reshaping while you're still inside her, and the male domination tag earns its place right there. The fantasy setting is standard fare but the way the protagonist's "strange mystical force" manifests is basically just an excuse to bend people to your will. Which, you know, works. I wish the adventure segments had more bite to them but then again I wasn't really there for the quest logs.