The loading screen is just a jockstrap hanging on a locker door. Already I know what I'm in for with Just Bros, and honestly, the game doesn't pretend otherwise. You're this guy, some fitness trainer or whatever, and suddenly you're surrounded by men who all seem to have skipped leg day exactly zero times in their lives. The first proper conversation I had was with a firefighter named Marco who kept doing that thing where he stretches his arms behind his head while talking. You know the pose. We all know the pose.

Spent way too long trying to figure out if the basketball coach was actually flirting or just being Canadian polite. The dialogue choices sometimes feel like they were translated through three different languages and then back to English, which gives everything this weird charm. "Your muscles are very... present today" is apparently a compliment you can give. And it worked. He blushed. I don't know what that says about the writing or about me for choosing it. The sex scenes unlock pretty suddenly, no real buildup sometimes, just boom, you're in a supply closet with a guy you met two conversations ago. Not complaining exactly, but my immersion took a hit. Then again, the mechanic where you can either pursue actual relationships or just go for hookups is right there in the menu, so maybe the whiplash is intentional.

The art style for the bodies is detailed, every ab and vein rendered with what I can only describe as religious dedication, but then the faces sometimes look like they were drawn by a completely different person who was in a hurry. One character's nose kept migrating slightly between expressions. Still, there's this one scene with a rugby player after a match, all mud and sweat and that specific kind of exhaustion that makes people honest, and the game actually let me just... talk. No sex, no flirting, just two guys sitting on bleachers. That stuck with me more than any of the hookups. The domination routes are there if you want them, power dynamics shifting based on dialogue choices I didn't even realize were power moves until the game told me afterward. Weirdly educational in that sense. The twink-to-daddy spectrum is fully represented, though the game seems to forget about the middle ground sometimes. Where are the average guys? The ones who maybe go to the gym twice a week and still eat bread? Not here. Everyone's either carved from marble or deliberately soft in that specific way that still requires maintenance. The adventure tag is doing some heavy lifting, mostly it's just walking between locations and occasionally a jogging scene that's really just an excuse for bouncing animations. I kept playing anyway.