So I'm playing this thing, right, and the whole premise is you ditch your hot girlfriend and city life to dig graves in some nowhere town. Classic. The sex scenes, when they finally happen, are weirdly hot because of the context. You're not just fucking, you're fucking while hiding from something. There's this one scene with the ex, she tracks you down, and the tension is so thick you could cut it with a shovel. The dialogue is all "I shouldn't be here" and "why did you leave" but her hands are already undoing your belt. The art isn't polished, it's got this rough, almost sketchy quality that makes the bodies feel more real, less like plastic dolls. The way the shadows fall on her collarbone, the slight awkwardness of a pose, it sells the desperation more than any perfect render could.

But then the game does this thing where it forgets it's a porn game for like an hour. You're just chopping wood, talking to the weird old guy at the diner, reading cryptic notes. The mystery is actually interesting, which is a problem because I'm here to get off, not solve a small town conspiracy. The comedy bits land though, this dry, deadpan humor that cuts through the angst. There's a character, a goth chick who works at the morgue, and her flirting is all death puns. It shouldn't work. It does. Her scene is all cold metal tables and body bags in the background, and somehow that's the funniest and most arousing part of the whole VN.

The plot about your past catching up is genuinely tense. I found myself clicking faster through the sex to get back to the story, which is backwards. The romance with the ex is the core, it's messy and you make terrible choices, and the game doesn't judge you for it. The adult content serves the narrative instead of the other way around. That's rare. Most games just use plot as a flimsy excuse for tits. This one uses tits as a flimsy excuse for plot. Wait, no, that's not right either. It's a dating sim where the mystery is the real date. I don't know. The sound design is mostly just ambient wind and it's perfect. Don't play this if you want a quick fap. Play it if you want to feel weird about wanting a quick fap.