The whole thing feels like someone ripped a page from a William Gibson novel and then spilled lube all over it. Cybergenic, this prequel thing, it's got that grimy neon future vibe but it's running in a browser window on my phone while I'm on the toilet. The setup is simple, your flight engineer is done, wants to retire planetside, so you gotta find a replacement. That's where Stella comes in. And Stella, she's got this look, right? Like a 90s anime OVA character who knows exactly what she's doing. The art isn't trying to be hyper-polished, it's got this deliberate roughness, like a sketch that got colored in a hurry but somehow it works better because of that. The jank is the aesthetic.
Met her in some docking bay bar that reminded me of the cantina from that old point-and-click Space Quest, but instead of buying drinks you're just clicking through dialogue trees that feel like they were translated through three different languages before landing in English. There's this one moment where she leans in and the text box just says something like "your proximity makes my circuits warm" and I actually snorted. But then the scene shifts and suddenly she's pulling down her suit and the whole tone changes. The explicit stuff is there, no fade to black bullshit, but it's framed in this weirdly mechanical way, like you're watching two androids figure out what genitals are for. Which, given the cybergenic tag, might actually be the point.
Spent way too long trying to figure out if the background hum was supposed to be the ship's engine or just a looping audio file that was slightly corrupted. Probably both. The game doesn't explain half its mechanics, you just sort of poke at the screen until something happens. At one point I accidentally closed the tab and had to start over because there's no save system, or if there is I couldn't find it. The whole experience is like finding a dusty floppy disk in a second-hand store and just running it, not knowing what you'll get. The adventure part is mostly just clicking on Stella in different locations, and the hentai scenes unlock in a way that feels almost accidental. Like you tripped into pornography. Which, honestly, is more honest than most games that pretend there's a deep plot. There isn't. It's about banging the new engineer in space. And the prequel setup means you already know where this is going, or you don't, and it doesn't matter.
