Guy inherits a crappy old apartment building, thinks he is just going to collect rent and clean clogged pipes, and suddenly the place starts acting like it has a dirty mind of its own. That is pretty much the energy of My Place Is Cursed. You play this dude who moves into his grandfather’s place as the new manager, and the building kind of… watches you. You walk down the hallway, lights flicker, doors half open on their own, you catch glimpses of skin from gaps that are probably not “accidental.” It feels like the walls are trying to cockblock you and help you at the same time. One moment you swear some ghost is messing with your phone, next moment the “curse” basically hands you a view of a tenant quietly touching herself in her room with the curtains very not closed. The whole thing is like those late night porn banners that somehow know exactly what you like, but here it’s a haunted house with rent contracts.

What made it hit me a bit is how it feels kinda like those early browser porn games I tried in high school on Internet Explorer, with pop-ups everywhere and flash player crashing, but sharpened up and actually animated. The dev clearly loves big curves, because the first big event that stuck in my head is when you “check on a water leak” and this tenant opens the door with a towel barely holding on her huge tits, towel falls, and the game actually lets you linger. Not just a quick CG, you get that slow animated bounce, this nice heavy motion that looks dirty but playful too. There is a scene where you sit with her on the shabby couch, she pretends she is just “cold,” then her hand slides into your lap, and the game plays it long, with that drawn out handjob where you see every little jerk and squeeze. I liked that the camera is kind of voyeur style, like you are watching from the corner of the room, not in some perfect porn studio angle. Later you catch her masturbating in her room, lying on her stomach, ass in the air, big ass filling the screen while she rubs herself, and you have this choice to knock or just keep spying. Of course I just watched like a creep and felt a bit bad, but the game absolutely knows that is the point. The “curse” plays with you, moves doors, shifts objects, gives you those little peeping chances that feel wrong and hot at same time, and then acts surprised when you use them. The writing is simple, sometimes weird, but it adds to that vibe like you are reading horny notes from some pervert landlord who learned English on hentai subs and TikTok comments. It’s not trying to be deep, it just wants to get you horny, and honestly it works most when it stops pretending it’s a normal story and lets you be the guy who is half scared of the building and half grateful for how often girls forget to close their curtains.

This one hits like a fucked up Valentine’s card somebody dipped in blood and spit on. Oridelle is not a “heroine,” she is a girl who died, got dragged back, and now thinks the only reason she exists is to suck off the guy who saved her. That’s the whole emotional center of the game: her on her knees, him on the throne, and you sitting there clicking through that sick loop of “thank you for saving me, please use me again.” It feels almost too intimate sometimes, like reading someone’s horny therapy diary that got infected by a horror manga. The tone flips a lot. One minute she is this soft, almost cute corpse-girl whispering how grateful she is, and three lines later she is giggling like a brain-poisoned bimbo about how her mouth is “perfect for him” and nothing else matters. It is erotic, yeah, but there is this rotten taste under it, like you bit into candy and it was raw meat.

The horror wraps itself around the sex instead of fighting it. Every time she drags herself back to that coffin, body resetting, clothes fixing, face going back to the “normal” Oridelle, it feels like watching a save file overwrite a human being. She goes out, gets broken a little more, comes back, looks the same. Inside she is not the same. You can feel the split getting wider, her real self trapped under this shiny, porn-brain alter ego that thinks being his perfect cocksleeve is holy work. Some scenes are almost boring in how focused they are on his dick and her mouth, and then suddenly one line pops where she begs him to call her by a name he gave her, not her own, and it hits harder than the actual blowjob. The game keeps telling you, quietly, that she is already dead, just not all at once. And still you keep clicking, because the pacing is like a slow, dripping faucet you kind of hate but keep staring at. Sometimes the writing leans too hard into “bimbo talk” and loses that fragile, tragic vibe I liked at the start, but then there is a moment where she hesitates before opening her lips and it all comes back. I wish there was a way to pull her out, to give her a route where she looks at him and says “no,” but the whole point is that she will not. She crawls back, every time, happy to be used, proud of how empty she can become for him, and that is what makes the whole thing stay in your head after you close the tab and pretend you are just going to check Twitter.

You open your eyes in a garden that’s way too pretty for how fucked up you feel. You remember dying… kind of. It’s fuzzy, like that morning after too much vodka when you’re checking your phone and praying you didn’t text your ex. Except now the “ex” is literally your life, and instead of hangover you get a smug angel, a smug demon, and a bunch of confused hot dead people who all like girls, guys, both, neither, or “it’s complicated” in different flavors. They tell you this isn’t Heaven, not Hell, just the Garden hanging out in Limbo, like some cosmic waiting room where everyone’s bisexual or worse. You’re told you can pick your body and gender, like character creation but with the weight of “what the fuck am I actually” behind it. Female, male, futa, trans, something in between, something off to the side. The game doesn’t blink. You can just… exist the way you wish you had when you were alive. That alone hit harder than some porn games ever will, honestly. Then five minutes later you’re flirting with a demon girl who looks like she can ruin your life and you’re fine with it.

What really sticks in my head is how one scene goes from tender to horny to sad so fast it feels wrong, in a good way. You’re sitting under this glowing tree with another lost soul, talking about what you regret from your life. They’re quietly telling you about the first time they realized they liked girls, how they kissed a friend behind a church, shaking and happy and terrified. The garden lights reflect in their eyes, they lean closer, and your choices appear. You can joke it away, you can pull them into this slow, nervous kiss, or you can go full thirsty and grab their hips and push them against the tree. If you go thirsty, the way the writing describes hands sliding over still unfamiliar bodies, the awkward “is this okay” mixed with raw need, feels more real than half the polished porn out there. It’s not just “and then boobs appeared, wow.” It’s messy, people hesitate, someone laughs at the wrong time, it reads like two queer disasters horny in Limbo who never got to be honest when they were alive, so now they’re making up for it in one go. There’s even a moment where they say “I never had sex like this when I was alive” and you can answer “me neither” or pretend you were a huge player. Which is funny, because the game will totally call you out later on that lie.

In between the horny stuff, you’re doing trials, talking to angels that act like burnt-out office workers, demons who act like they run a queer nightclub, and other dead people trying to figure out if Heaven is worth the rules, Hell is worth the chaos, or if Limbo is secretly the best place because nobody really knows what the fuck is happening anyway. Sometimes the tone whiplash gets tiring, like you’ll go from heartfelt talk about dysphoria to a gag about someone’s ass in two lines and it almost kills the mood. There are parts where the pacing drags, especially when a character dumps lore on you about how Eden ended up stuck here and you just wanna go back to worrying if that cute trans boy is into you or only into your “tragic backstory.” But then later, one small choice from an earlier date suddenly changes how a big late scene plays out and you realize oh, okay, it was paying attention the whole time. There are multiple routes and endings, you can flirt with women, men, futas, trans characters, some are soft, some are monsters in a sexy way, some are just emotionally unavailable but so hot you try anyway. It’s not afraid to be horny, but it also doesn’t treat sex like the only reward. Sometimes you get a tender cuddle in the afterlife instead of a full-on scene, and weirdly that feels more intimate. Still, I got annoyed that one character keeps mentioning some specific snack from when they were alive and you never actually see it anywhere. No CG, nothing. That bothered me a lot more than it should have. Anyway, it all feels like a queer afterlife dating mess where you can be a lesbian, a dude, a trans futa, whatever, and still end up kissing under a divine tree while arguing about whether Heaven even deserves you.

"Beast Vessel" starts with you as the one guy in a world full of mana who has absolutely zero of it. Which is already kind of funny because in most fantasy porn games you are the chosen overpowered dick wizard. Here you are just... a guy. A magically useless guy who still somehow keeps ending up in situations where people are throwing spells around, monsters are sniffing you like a snack, and clothes are treated more like suggestions than actual items. It runs like a classic Ren'Py VN so if you ever clicked through horny dialogue while half watching YouTube on the second monitor, you know the vibe. Only here the world actually has some structure. There is a big continent, factions, rituals, weird rules around mana, and your body is basically this walking "empty container" that a lot of thirsty and dangerous creatures want to fill. In every sense. Sometimes with mana. Sometimes with other stuff.

The story likes to pretend you are making moral choices like "hero or villain" but half the time the real question feels more like "do you let the magic wolf lady pin you to the tree and drain you through a blowjob that looks like a spell" or "do you run away and miss the scene." I tried to play noble the first time, skipping the more fucked up voyeurism options, and still ended up watching a horny elf girl masturbate in her tent through a mana crystal that works as a magic CCTV. The game did that classic thing where it rewards you for being a creep with extra scenes, and as a data guy I can tell you from how this genre is going on F95 and Itch stats, voyeurism and exhibitionism are just exploding in popularity compared to even three years ago. The dev is leaning straight into that trend. You get animated loops with subtle movement, hips shifting, hands rubbing, magic glowing in just the right places. Not Pixar quality or anything, sometimes the 3D custom girl look hits that uncanny valley where the face is hot but the fingers look like noodles, but the sex scenes actually feel like someone thought about where the camera should be. One masturbation scene on a balcony really stuck with me. There is a mage girl using a mana orb as a vibrator, legs wide open over this glowing sphere, knowing the city below could see her if they looked up. I accidentally clicked the "watch in silence" option instead of "announce yourself" and it made the whole thing way nastier because she was moaning into the night and I was just... there. Invisible creep mode. And the game just moves on like "yeah this is normal."

What I kind of love and also hate is how your lack of magic keeps turning into an excuse for people to use your body like a tool. There is an early scene where a beastkin shaman straps you to a stone slab, explains that your "empty vessel" can channel overflowed mana safely, then proceeds to ride you while casting some ritual. Every thrust makes the runes light up brighter and she is half chanting, half screaming your name. She calls it a sacred duty and you obviously can choose to be offended or lean into it, but either way you end up being used. It is hot, no point lying, but there is also this small annoyance that you almost never feel fully in control. The UI even tricks you with "greyed-out" choices that you can't pick because your mana stat is zero, which honestly pissed me off more than any monster. Why show me an option like "overpower her with your own aura" when the whole point is that I have none. Still clicked it, still got mocked. I liked that. Or I didn't, depends when you ask me. There is some goofy humor too, just to break the horny flow. At one point a slime thing tries to eat you and ends up "tasting" another part first, and you get this text about "statistically significant rise in hardness" like the dev snuck a stats joke in my porn. I was weirdly happy about that line. The fantasy parts are not just dressing. There are actual small systems: mana corruption, beast influence, some flags that change whether a character later shows up as friend, predator, or crazed fan who wants to show herself off to you in public. One girl literally pulls you into a back alley and says she gets off on being seen with a "worthless non-mage" because it makes her feel even more powerful. She makes you stand there while she lifts her skirt at random passersby, then makes you clean her up with your tongue when some magical fluids start dripping. I wish there was a route where you can also become a proper mage and stop being everyone's toy, but honestly if that ever happens, this whole "beast vessel" idea would lose a lot of its nasty charm, so I kind of hope it never changes.