Stocklinburg feels a bit like when you open TikTok for “just one video” and then suddenly it’s three routes later and you’re getting a titfuck from the girl who insulted you in the tutorial. The setup is simple: you’re this 18 year old guy, new city, fancy college, law dreams, all that serious life trajectory stuff. Then you start clicking and the game keeps asking you: do you want to be a decent human with a brain, or a horny gremlin with a passing interest in jurisprudence. I tried both. Both are funny. The whole thing is written like somebody actually remembers what college people talk like, with dumb memes, dirty jokes, weird roommate conversations about masturbation and exams and “what if the milf teacher sits on my face, is that sexual harassment or a blessing” kind of vibes. Half the time I laughed, half the time I went “ok this is stupid” and kept playing anyway.
Routes-wise, if you’re into otome stuff like me but flipped to male POV, it’s kind of wild how emotional it gets between all the creampies. You go from reading case briefs to getting your briefs pulled down in a dorm bathroom. One girl is all sweet romance and then shocks you by pulling a vibrator out of nowhere, pinning you to the bed and riding you until you cum inside her and she just smirks like “good boy”. Another is fake innocent, lets you study with your head on her lap, plays with your hair, then casually slides her hand into your pants and starts a slow, teasing handjob while asking stupid questions about legal theory. There’s both male dom and female dom and it doesn’t really announce which is which, it just happens. One scene you’re shoving a girl against a wall, groping her tits through her shirt while she whimpers, next scene a milf professor has you on your knees in her office, your mouth full of her while she grades papers and occasionally uses your hair as a handle. It’s messy in a good way, animated enough to make oral sex and titfucks feel like actual moments instead of checkbox scenes. I even liked the stupid little thing where your phone UI pops up and you sext instead of actually answering serious messages. They ruined one hot build up with a cheesy joke about “objection” right when I was about to finish and I swore at my screen, but yeah, I still replayed that route later.
Story tension hangs on exams, rivalries, and who you decide to fuck or not fuck. You can be a focused aspiring lawyer who still ends up balls deep in a classmate during a study group, or completely throw your future away chasing every milf on campus. There’s a groping scene in a crowded party that made me weirdly nervous, like, your hand under her skirt, her pushing back against you, the camera a bit too close, and I spent way too long checking if any NPC would notice even though the game obviously isn’t that complex. Masturbation scenes hit too close to home: the MC hunched over his laptop, trying to be quiet in his dorm while his roommate is “sleeping”, scrolling through pics of girls you actually know in the story, not random porn. It’s kind of gross and kind of honest. The humour is very hit or miss, some lines sound like horny Reddit, but then you get a little romance beat where someone kisses your jaw after a rough creampie and wipes the cum off their thigh with your ruined study notes and I’m like, ok, you didn’t have to go that hard. I still wish the UI color for choices was different, I hate that shade and I keep losing track of which option is “mean but hot” and which is “soft boy”, but that’s just me doomscrolling through routes like I’m on Instagram anyway.