Joel and Abigail are that married couple you see on Instagram pretending to be wholesome, but you just know they have a folder on their phone you are not supposed to see. The game throws them into one crazy world after another because they touch this weird sci-fi toy they absolutely should not have poked, and suddenly they are blinking into alien skylines, magic forests, and places where the laws of physics are drunk and horny. It starts kinda cute, like, “oh no, where are we, babe?” and ten clicks later he is wondering if it still counts as cheating when your wife is sitting there watching you get your brains rearranged by some green-skinned space hunk with extra hands. Or tentacles. Or both. And she is not just watching, she is leaning in. Asking questions. Taking notes like she is on Pinterest planning a remodel of their sex life.
The fun is how the game treats them like regular people who just keep saying yes to worse and worse ideas. You pick a dialogue choice thinking: oh, I will be respectful, I will be loyal. Next scene, Abigail is on some floating platform in a neon city, flirting with this tall alien lady in a tight suit that looks painted on, and she glances back at Joel like, “you good if she joins us?” She’s pretending it is all about “exploring other cultures,” baby please. I screamed at my screen like I was watching some messy reality TV on Netflix. There is one scene where they end up in a fantasy tavern, classic adventurer vibe, wood everywhere, horny bard in the corner, and you can choose if you want to entertain this swinger couple who just immediately clock Joel and Abi as fresh meat. That moment when Abigail reaches for the other woman’s thigh under the table, while Joel is busy being seduced by some roguish elf man with a smirk like he already knows your porn search history, that felt way too real. In a trashy, delicious way. And the story pretends to be about “finding a way home,” but half the time you forget you even have a home because every new world has some new way to stretch what “together” means. Sometimes it is romantic, sometimes it is messy, sometimes it is just filthy, like “we will talk about this in therapy later” filthy. The art is not perfect, some faces go a bit weird in certain angles and one background looked like it escaped from an old Ren’Py starter pack, and that random little UI sound when you click the wrong spot annoyed the hell out of me and then I just got used to it, but in a way it makes the game feel more like this scrappy messy comic you read on your phone in bed instead of some polished studio thing. Anyway, by the time you get to the more intense sharing stuff, where they are not just accidentally ending up in group situations but actively choosing to, you realize the real sci-fi experiment is not the portal thing. It is their marriage, baby.