Sylvara is fucked. Not in the poetic way. In the goblins-actually-run-the-place way, with their stink everywhere and those weird pheromone clouds that make everyone way too horny to think straight. You’re not some faceless hero here, you’re stuck in the skin of these three elf girls, Lea, Valya and Anneli, trying to pretend everything is “normal” while the city slowly turns into a green-skinned playground. The game leans hard into that tension between wanting to fight and wanting to just give in and get railed by the enemy. And because it’s a visual novel style thing, the pacing is slow on purpose: you wake up, decide what to do with the day, and every little choice pushes you closer to escape or closer to goblin breeding stock territory, sometimes both at the same time, which is honestly the main kink here.

What sold me isn’t even the sex at first, it’s the way the daily routine feels like it’s constantly humming in your ears. You’ve got tasks that are boring on paper, like helping in some supply room or going to “train”, but the game sneaks filth into it. One morning I sent Lea “just to gather information” in a tavern corner, and the sound layering there is wild. In the background, you have this sticky low murmur of goblin grunts, mugs slamming, chairs scraping on stone, and under that, some faint wet noise from a side room. Nothing on screen shows it, but your brain connects it instantly. That kind of sound hint is way hotter than showing every hole filled. Then when she accidentally brushes against a goblin guard, there’s this little sucking cloth sound as his hand grabs her ass, plus her tiny breath catching in the mic, just a half gasp, not some anime squeal. It feels dirty, like you’re listening from behind a door, not sitting in front of a PC with headphones.

Sex scenes themselves get pretty brutal, in a good way for this genre. There’s one where Valya gets cornered in a storage cellar after trying to steal some key item. The wood creaks when he pins her against the crates, you can hear little glass bottles rattling each time he slams into her. Her voice goes from stubborn, almost annoyed, to this broken, fucked-out stutter when the pheromones kick in. The goblin voices aren’t generic growls either; they’re nasal and taunting, with these wet lip smacks that made me actually pull one earcup off like, “ok that’s a bit too real.” I wish the footsteps on stone had more bass, that part feels weirdly light, but everything around the penetration is heavy and sticky and loud in that porn-audio way that’s hard to pull off without sounding fake. Here they ride the edge nicely. A few moans loop a bit too obvious after a while, you’ll start hearing the same “nhh!” in your sleep, but by the time you notice you’re already clicking “continue” just to hear how far they’ll humiliate her next time. There’s one quiet moment, after a long session, where Anneli just sits there breathing, no music, just a little trembling inhale and the gross slick sound of goblin cum dripping to the floor. That’s when I realized the game understands something most devs forget: silence is also a sound, and here it’s filthy as hell.

Celia’s day is already trash before the truck hits her. Classic isekai setup, but here it feels more like being yeeted out of a Discord call after saying the wrong thing in NSFW chat. She wakes up in this ridiculous fantasy world, still a lazy NEET at heart, except now there’s a smug dragon spirit living in her head and her body got “patched” in the weirdest way possible. One minute flat-chested hoodie goblin, next minute she’s futa with a magical cock that reacts way too much to teasing, fear, and honestly just light breeze. The game has fun with that. Sometimes a monster girl leans a bit too close, the screen shakes, and Celia’s “new equipment” twitches in the art like it has its own opinion. You don’t need a tutorial to understand where this is going. Dialog is like late night horny shitposting: awkward, self aware, dumb jokes about game dev and life, then suddenly someone is on their knees giving her a sloppy blowjob while the dragon spirit makes commentary like a pervy Twitch chat in her head.

What surprised me is how many scenes just spiral. You start with this goofy “pickup line” minigame, right, where you choose lines that range from smooth to absolute trainwreck. You try something semi romantic and end up with the busty milf monster girl pressing Celia’s dick between her huge tits and going to town, drool everywhere, her tongue poking out in that stupid ahegao way that would get you banned from Twitch in half a second. Pick the most cursed line and the same girl laughs, shoves Celia onto a bed, and suddenly it flips into a rough anal scene where Celia’s the one getting pinned while still jerking herself off, moaning like she’s going to break her own voice. There’s a lot of that weird double layering, where she’s fucking and getting fucked at the same time, creampies both ways, cum dripping in places the dragon spirit really doesn’t need to comment on, but does anyway. The AI CG looks like the dev fed a bot too much hentai and then just clicked “yeah, that’s good enough” and honestly it fits the tone. Monster girls with stupidly big tits, weird little details like claws around her shaft during a handjob, or a footjob scene where the girl’s toes are painted some tacky pink that somehow makes it way hotter. Sometimes the faces look a bit off, but when the futa protagonist is balls deep in some demon girl’s pussy and her belly bulges just a bit after the creampie, you’re not exactly opening Photoshop to complain. It plays smooth on mobile, too, perfect for that “just one more scene” loop where one minute you’re laughing at a meme about truck-kun and the next you’re watching Celia deepthroat a toy to “train” before she tries to swallow a monster girl’s cock in a harem scene that gets way out of hand in the best possible way.

Feng’s story looks soft at first glance, like some cozy wholesome VN you’d play on your laptop while pretending you’re a “serious gamer”, but that vibe lasts maybe five minutes. The moment the new “family” shows up, with those impossible curves and that weird tension you feel even when they’re just talking about breakfast, it’s clear what’s really going on. The game plays that slow burn guilt fantasy really hard: he’s adopted, they’re good to him, they’re kind, they’re warm, and your brain is screaming “don’t fuck this up” while your other brain is staring at her tits pressed against the kitchen counter. It’s that mix of comfort and pure filth that makes it work way better than it should. One minute you’re listening to some soft music, picking a dialogue choice about trust and trauma, next minute you’re wondering how long Feng can keep a straight face with his new “sister” bending over the washing machine, skirt riding up, ass basically framed like it was staged for Pornhub.

What surprised me is how much time the game spends on small, normal things and still keeps everything horny. Just walking past a half-open door and catching a glimpse of someone changing, or that scene where you join a movie night on the couch and the camera just lingers too long on a pair of huge tits barely staying inside a tank top. The writing keeps pretending it’s about healing and family and “moving on from tragedy” while it constantly shoves you into situations where touching is one bad decision away. There’s spanking too, and it isn’t some instant BDSM menu. It grows out of the story, like a joke that goes too far and suddenly she’s over your lap, moaning, acting offended but holding position instead of getting up. You get those moments where you pick a choice that sounds innocent, and three lines later you’re staring at a red ass and thinking “yeah, that escalated fast”. I kinda hate that some choices that look like they lead to wild scenes end up just giving you more teasing, but then again, when the payoff finally happens and that “we’re family, we shouldn’t” breaks into “don’t stop”, it hits harder.

The models are very much “porn brain” design: thick asses that fill the screen, nipples poking through thin clothes, legs spread just a bit too wide to be accidental. Not realistic at all, and that’s fine, this isn’t pretending to be a documentary. I liked how a lot of the secrets you dig up during normal dialogue wrap back into sex, like someone’s hidden kink sliding into the conversation while you’re talking about something totally normal. It turns the house into this pressure cooker where everyone is hiding something: jealousy, lust, shame, old wounds. And yes, the step angle is shameless. The game never really lets you forget what line you’re crossing. You’ll get lines about “we’re your new family now” in the same scene where her tits are pressed against your chest, or she’s sitting on your lap just a bit too comfortably, acting like nothing is wrong. It’s trashy and kind of emotional at the same time, which is a weird combo I didn’t expect to work. I do wish it stopped fading to black right at the moment when you want one more camera angle, but it keeps teasing like that on purpose. Not going to change, and maybe it shouldn’t.

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.