Star Periphery feels like someone smashed a lewd dating sim into a busted space freighter and just left the whole mess running. You’re this skinny space nobody with more hormones than sense, tossed into a universe where every second woman has a thick cock, big tits, a mean streak, or all three, and half the time you’re just trying not to stare while your eyes are glued to their asses anyway. It starts pretty simple, wandering around this rusty station full of flickering neon and suspicious stains, but it sneaks up on you. One moment you’re just checking a cargo manifest, next moment a smug futa customs officer has you pressed to a wall, one gloved hand casually groping your ass while she pretends to be “searching for contraband.” That scene sold me, honestly. The way she keeps her voice calm and bored while you’re clearly leaking through your panties, teasing you with slow strokes over the fabric, then just walks away like nothing happened. Loved it. Actually I hated it because I had to reload after choosing the coward dialog and missing half the scene, but that’s another thing.

The voyeur stuff is weirdly strong here. There’s this bit where you end up stuck in a crappy hostel pod, thin bulkhead, cheap audio insulation, and you can hear a monster girl mechanic in the next room railing some poor femboy trainee. You only see flashes through a broken panel and some flickering HUD readout, but you hear everything. Wet slaps, his breathy little whines, her low voice telling him to “push back more, toy” while she spanks his ass red. No explicit camera angle, no heroic close-up of internal cumshots, just your imagination and some nasty audio. It feels more filthy than most straight up porn scenes. Then later the game turns around and throws full-on internal views at you, showing a massive futa shaft stretching your virgin ass open while some clinical scanner overlays data on muscle tension and depth. It’s kind of hot, kind of medical, kind of fucked. In a good way. Maybe. I’m still not sure. Anyway, the point is, it does both subtle and really not subtle, and sometimes in the same arc, which is confusing and nice.

What I liked most is how the romance sneaks into all the filth. There’s this MILF captain, big ass, heavy tits, looks like she bench presses starship engines for fun. At first she treats you like a disposable cabin boy, orders you to your knees for a “stress relief” handjob after a bad run, uses your mouth while checking navigation on her tablet like you’re just another system. The first time she titfucks you, she doesn’t even look down, just talks about fuel prices while your cock is sliding between her slick cleavage and you try not to cum too fast or she’ll mock you. Then hours later she quietly asks if you want to sleep in her bunk instead of the cold cargo bay, spoons you from behind, hard cock pressed between your cheeks, no sex at all, just this heavy warmth and her arm over your waist. It feels almost wholesome, then she wakes you up in the morning by grinding against your ass and whispering “open up for your captain” and you remember this is still a dirty game about turning a shy guy into a proper slutty trap. Or not, depending on choices. Sometimes you can dodge the sissification paths completely and stay a more standard sub guy, and sometimes you walk straight into a shop that sells sex toys and walk out in a thong, collar, stockings and a remote vibrator inside you because a smug futa tech-girl convinced you it improves your “crew performance.” I swear I was trying to play it cool and avoid that content, then I clicked one flirt option in a bar and suddenly I’m kneeling while she adjusts my stockings and spanks me for fidgeting. It’s messy, half-polite, half-degrading, and I kept clicking anyway.

Ada in chains hits different here. This thing throws her straight into a filthy underground prison, stripped out of all that “cool spy lady” aura and turned into a lab rat with a pretty face and a sharp tongue that doesn’t help her at all. You open it in browser, see this cheap-looking menu, and you think “ok, this is some half-baked fetish trash,” and then five minutes later you’re staring at the screen like an idiot because the dev actually gets how humiliation should feel. It’s not just “haha, she naked now,” it’s Ada trying to keep her pride while some masked freak pulls her hair back and shows her reflection, forces her to look at herself while he uses her. That one CG where she’s cuffed behind the back, on her knees in the cell, mascara slightly ruined, eyes wet but still pissed? That stayed with me longer than I expected. For a “teaser” it already hits harder than a lot of “finished” stuff on Nutaku or F95, which makes no sense and also perfect sense.

The pacing feels like a fucked up tasting menu in a cheap BDSM restaurant. You don’t get full meal, you just get mean little bites. Short scene, hard cut, no big build-up, no romance bullshit. You get Ada dragged in, collar locked, quick medical talk about “experiments,” and before your brain catches up she’s bent over cold metal with a gloved hand on her neck and rough penetration that clearly isn’t about her pleasure. It’s almost clinical, which actually makes it hotter if you’re into that broken toy vibe. Then suddenly the scene ends and you sit there like “wait, that’s it?” I hated that. I also liked that. There is this weird tension because you feel there is more depravity coming, more restraints, more fucked up positions, but the content stops just before it turns into pure torture porn. Except it already kind of is. I opened another tab with Pornhub just to compare some RE4 Ada cosplays and they all felt way too soft after this, like TikTok roleplay compared to what this game’s prison does to her.

What surprised me most is how “respectful” it is to source while absolutely not respecting her as a person. It feels like the dev actually played Resident Evil 4 instead of just googling fanart. Ada here still has that “I know I’m better than you” attitude in her face, even while being slapped, gagged and used like property. Her lines, when she gets them, are short and sharp, not some cringe horny fanfic stuff. There’s one little moment I keep thinking about: she’s forced to kneel in front of the guard, he grabs her by the chin, and she actually tries to spit in his face, fails, and he just laughs and pushes himself into her mouth anyway. The animation on the gag reflex is almost too real, her eyes roll up for a second, and you feel that mix of disgust and arousal that is hard to get right. I kinda wish the game was longer already, with all the promised characters and heavier shibari scenes, but at the same time I like that it feels like being left locked in the cell with her, waiting for the next “experiment” that isn’t here yet and might never be. Maybe that’s the real kink. Or maybe I’m just coping. Whatever. It got my attention way more than it deserves and I’ll still complain that the collar sound effect is slightly off and nobody but me cares.

Zach is the kind of guy who knows the exact upload schedule of his favorite online dominatrix, but pretends he “just saw it in recommendations.” You know the type. One hand in his pants, the other on Reddit, arguing about whether hypnosis can actually turn a bratty dom into a drooling toy. Then one day he ends up with a real mind control helmet in his lap and Mistress Red tied to a chair in his crappy apartment, staring at him with that “I’d ruin your life for fun” look… and suddenly there’s no pause button. That’s pretty much the whole vibe here: you are sitting inside the head of a horny coward who just got god-level power and no emotional maturity to handle it. Sometimes he tries to be nice. Sometimes he absolutely does not. The game just quietly asks, “Alright quiz fans, A, B, C or D: do you fry her brain, make her your anal-obsessed house pet, or actually talk to her like a person?” and then watches what you click.

The kink stuff hits fast and messy in the best way. Once you get the helmet going, there are scenes where you stack triggers on her like you are building a cursed trivia scorecard. Say a word, watch her drop to her knees. Snap your fingers, she presents her ass, cheeks spread, no questions asked. There is this one moment where you tell her she can speak freely, then flip a suggestion so every time she tries to insult you, her mouth instead begs you to put a butt plug in and pull her hair. It feels gross and hot at the same time, like deleting your browser history right after you close Pornhub. Bondage is everywhere, but it is not just “shibari background decoration.” You actually watch Zach experiment. First he fumbles with ropes like a virgin trying to tie his first shoelace, then later he’s strapping her to a table, collar on, wrists locked, vibrator pressed against her clit, and she is moaning that she belongs to him while her eyes are dead and glossy from the hypnosis loop he ran twenty times in a row. And then you still get options to act like you are some moral hero. Which you are not. Not after what you did with that remote-controlled plug and her ass clenched so hard she almost snapped it in two during that “test run.”

I kind of love how the game lets domination swing both ways even when it feels unfair. Mistress Red is a pro dom, she knows her shit, and if you back off with the mind control or screw up a suggestion, she starts getting into your head instead. There is a route where you give her back some control, thinking, “Ok, redemption arc, I am a good person now,” and three scenes later she is the one using the helmet on you, making you kneel, edging you with a toy on your dick while she laughs and tells you exactly how pathetic your porn addiction is. That switch into female domination feels less like a clean route change and more like a trap you walked into because you wanted to feel less guilty. The game kind of quiet about it, but it really leans on that “who’s actually in charge here?” question. Also, the 3D style is a bit stiff in some angles, like weird elbow joints and one chair that looks like it was stolen from The Sims 2, and it annoyed me way more than it should. I kept staring at that chair during a really nasty anal scene where you’ve got her bent over it, drool on her chin, collar tight, her brain buzzing from post-hypnotic suggestions, and all I could think was “why is that texture so flat.” Anyway, between the mind control helmet, the moral illusions, the toys, and Zach trying to pretend he is not a villain while literally rewriting a woman’s brain, the whole thing feels like a dirty quiz where every answer is wrong but you still click next.

This thing feels like someone smashed a bloody vampire revenge story together with a porn addict’s search history and then just said “yeah ok, that’s the game now”. You start as either a pissed-off guy or a pissed-off girl, both with that “my life’s a mess and something supernatural is going on” vibe. The city feels half modern, half weird gothic fantasy, like you’re walking home from work and suddenly there’s a mind controlling monster girl in the alley who wants way more than directions. One moment you’re trying to figure out who ruined your old life, next moment you’re on your knees, some smug bastard using you like you’re part of the furniture, and the game just treats that as a normal Tuesday. A lot of scenes feel less like “romance” and more like “ok, you lost control of your own body, enjoy being turned into a toy”. The mind control parts are uncomfortable in a hot way if you’re into that: you click one choice and suddenly your character is begging to suck cock they clearly don’t want to, talking all dirty while their inner monologue is basically screaming.

The fun part is how the game lets you shift between feeling like a predator and feeling like someone’s fucked-up pet. As male MC you can go from getting blackmailed by some bastard with evidence of your past, forced to watch as your body gets used by a group, to later on having a terrified girl tied up, big tits shaking, and you decide if you’re “merciful” or you just pull her hair and go for a brutal anal creampie. When you play as the girl, it hits different. Humiliation is everywhere. There’s a scene where your character wakes up chained, ass in the air, blindfolded, and you only understand how many guys are in the room by the number of hands groping you and random cocks pressing against your lips. You don’t even see faces at first, just animated bodies and dripping fluids, the game focusing on every little movement, and you’re stuck picking dialogue that sounds like porn comments: “Please, not there” vs “Keep going” while you know neither one really saves you. I still keep thinking about this one lesbian scene where you’re forced to pleasure a milf vampire, licking her while she casually talks to someone else in the room like you’re not even human, more like a sex pet that cleans her with her tongue.

Then you have the “story” part, with this whole revenge plot, monsters ripping people apart, and some really graphic violence that drops in between blowjob chains and gang bangs. You can go from a sweet teasing scene where someone just traces a finger along your big ass, almost romantic, to the next chapter where that same person is ordering others to hold you down so they can fuck your throat until you pass out. Group sex is everywhere, and not in a soft friendly way; more like bodies piling on, your character shoved from one cock to another, holes shared, someone finishing deep in your pussy while another fills your mouth and a third just fingers your ass because why not. Sometimes you’ll be the one doing the groping, sometimes you’re being held by monster girls with claws gently on your neck while they grind on you. The game loves long oral scenes, like, “you’re stuck for five straight clicks just sucking and choking” long. It can be pretty hot, and then suddenly it kicks you in the gut with a dark choice like “do you torture this captive more to get info, maybe reward yourself with her body after” or “risk sparing her and get betrayed later”. The revenge stuff actually makes the sex feel meaner, like everyone is using bodies as weapons and rewards. And yeah, the UI font is kinda ugly and I still hate the sound that plays when you skip text, but I kept playing anyway, telling myself I was here for the mystery while clicking straight into another bondage scene.