Lost Times is what happens when someone plays Papers, Please while horny and thinks, yeah but what if I could also grab ass. The pixelated post-apocalypse aesthetic hits that lo-fi chill vibe, all muted colors and a soundtrack that sounds like a forgotten Boards of Canada B-side. You're the gatekeeper of Secret Refuge, which is basically a vault from Fallout but with more sexual harassment lawsuits waiting to happen. People show up at your door, you check their papers, and then you can just... grope them? The game doesn't even pretend this is normal. It's so deliberately unpolished, the AI-generated character portraits have that uncanny sheen where fingers melt into clothing and eyes stare at slightly different dimensions. It's perfect for this fever dream of a game.

The corruption mechanics are what you'd expect, slowly turning your gatekeeper into the exact kind of guy who'd abuse power the moment society collapses. You can strip search people, cop a feel during inspections, and eventually just straight up demand sexual favors for entry. There's this one faction leader with absolutely massive... political influence. The management side is actually more engaging than it has any right to be, juggling resources and faction trust while also finding time to sexually harass refugees. Wait, no, the management is tedious and the UI fights you constantly. I can't decide. The puzzle elements during inspections are basically just matching symbols but your brain is elsewhere because the game just showed you a sleep sex scene that came out of absolutely nowhere.

The humor lands somewhere between intentional parody and "oh god they're serious." One minute you're making genuinely difficult choices about who lives and dies, the next you're playing a point-and-click minigame to remove someone's clothes while they're unconscious. The male domination fantasy is so over the top it circles back to being almost satirical, like a 4chan greentext that gained sentience and learned to code. The sandbox elements let you ignore the main corruption path entirely, but why would you? The game clearly spent 90% of its budget on the animated sex scenes and the remaining 10% on everything else. Some of the teasing sequences drag on forever, building up to... well, exactly what you'd expect from a game with "big tits" and "big ass" in its tag list. The religion faction subplot tries to be deep but then you're back to groping refugees and any thematic weight evaporates. I wish the mobile version didn't crash when you try to load certain scenes, but that's never getting fixed and we both know it. The whole thing feels like it was made by someone who really, really wanted to make a serious post-apocalyptic management sim but their dick kept getting in the way.