Tentacles Thrive looks like a game someone built while horny and half distracted by YouTube, and honestly that kind of fits the vibe. You land in this weird little fantasy world where humans are kinda fucked as a race and tentacles are basically the new natural resource. The game throws you at Lilith pretty fast, this big-titted priestess type who’s supposed to be all proper and holy, and then five clicks later you’re breeding squirmy monsters with her blessing like it’s just another day at work. She’s in that awkward space between “serious story heroine” and “girl in a porn game who absolutely knows what’s going on but pretends she doesn’t”, which is kinda funny because the plot suddenly tries to act deep right when she gets told she can’t go home anymore. That scene actually hit harder than I expected for something where I had just watched a slimy purple tentacle wrap around a girl’s chest and make her moan like she swallowed a vibrator. It’s like the dev wasn’t sure if they’re making hentai farmville or low-budget JRPG drama and decided to do both halfway.

The whole thing is still alpha as hell, so it feels more like poking around a test server than playing a finished game. Turn system is kinda there, kinda not, so sometimes fights feel like you’re pressing buttons in Genshin while on auto and hoping the bars move in the right direction. There’s already three tentacle species to mess with, and each one has a slightly different personality vibe in how they’re used, but only one of them actually has sound, which is weird. You get these nice sloppy wet fx when that one species is pounding into a girl’s slick pussy, tits bouncing and tentacles squeezing her nipples, and then you switch to another monster and suddenly everything is mute, like someone turned the porn to silent mode and walked out of the room. Sex scenes cut off right when you’re expecting a full “after” shot too. You get all this teasing build up, Lilith or some other girl getting grabbed, pulled open, tentacles forcing her legs wide, one sliding between fat breasts and another pushing into her dripping hole, her eyes rolling back, talking about how she can’t take any more… then it fades out just when you’re waiting for that messy finish CG. As an integrity tester this drives me crazy because it feels exactly like a missing asset bug. As a horny player it’s worse. Also, there’s no proper UI to see your whole collection of monsters, so half the time I’m trying to remember what I bred where like I’m checking old chats in Telegram. Still, even in this scuffed state, the game already has that “I’ll just click one more time” loop where you’re chasing new tentacle combos, seeing how far you can push the girls before the story yanks you back into pretending you care about saving humanity and not just stuffing every busty priestess with writhing limbs.