The mask system is what got me. You pick a face and suddenly you're not you anymore, just another nobody in the market under the mountain. I spent way too long on that screen, like when you're making a Skyrim character at 4am and suddenly it's daylight. The masks aren't just cosmetic either, they change how NPCs react, which I didn't realize until my third run when I picked the creepy bird mask and suddenly everyone was way more hostile. Nice touch, but also fuck you game for not explaining that.

The blackmail mechanics are deliciously scummy. You dig up dirt on these masked weirdos and then you can squeeze them for info or favors. There's this one scene with a merchant who's secretly trafficking something nasty, and you can either report him or hold it over his head forever. I chose the latter obviously, because I'm trash, and the way his dialogue shifts after that is chef's kiss. He hates you but he has to smile. The corruption angle isn't sexual at all, which is weird for a game on this site, but it's more about moral decay. Your protagonist just gets grubbier and grubbier depending on what you do. By the end of my first playthrough I'd betrayed like four people and the ending was just... bleak. No tits, no ass, just existential dread.

The multiple endings thing is real though. I got the "nobody wins" ending first, then went back and tried to be a good person and somehow got an even worse one. The dystopian vibe is thick, reminds me of that old Pathologic game where everything feels wrong but you can't pinpoint why. Soundtrack is mostly ambient dread noises, which fits but I wish there was at least one banger. The female protagonist route has some different dialogue options but honestly the male one felt more natural for the scumbag playstyle. Graphic violence tag is earned, there's a scene with a knife that made me alt-tab for a second. Not for the squeamish, but if you're here for corruption and blackmail and that sweet sweet moral bankruptcy, this delivers without a single lewd CG.