"FaithBound 2": Build Your Faith, Break the Rules
In "FaithBound 2", you take control of the decaying Temple of Aphrodite, an unconventional cult hiding behind the facade of a cathedral by day. Gather funds, grow your following, and invest your "harvest" into upgrading the temple, all while keeping the authorities off your scent. Expand your religion through weddings, baptisms, sermons, and other events that allow you to reach a wider audience. You’ll need to maintain appearances to avoid unwanted attention!
When night falls, the temple only gets more interesting... Participate in wicked ceremonies, summon creatures through dark rituals, or initiate new nuns into your faith. Only these activities will generate the profit needed to pull a forgotten religion out of ruin.
Once you’ve collected your (perfectly legal) hard-earned money, you can invest it in numerous temple renovations. As you progress, you’ll unlock new possibilities, such as tending to your own garden or sending missionaries to do the dirty work.​

So at the con last weekend someone shoved a laptop in my face with this MHA parody thing running, My Ero Story, and I gotta say the whole setup is jank in a way that loops back around to being perfect. The character sprites look like they were drawn by three different artists who never spoke to each other, Ochaco’s eyes are slightly too far apart in one scene and then perfectly fine in the next, and the background for the training ground is just a photo with a heavy filter slapped on. I live for that shit honestly.

The core loop is basically a corruption meter disguised as a leadership sim. You pick dialogue choices that push you toward inspiring these hero girls or straight up breaking them, and the game tracks it with this ugly little icon that shifts from a crown to a cracked skull. What got me was the uniform degradation system. Every time you lean into the tyrant path, the girls’ school outfits get progressively more disheveled, buttons popping, skirts riding up, and the text descriptions get real specific about the state of their tights. There’s a scene with Momo where she’s trying to give a class presentation while you’ve been messing with her head for three chapters, and the writing just lingers on how her blazer is hanging off one shoulder and she keeps tugging at her collar. No big animation, just this slow burn of fabric failing. The harem management screen is barebones but functional, basically a grid where you assign training tasks that double as fetish unlocks. I wish the game let you mix the leader and tyrant paths more fluidly instead of locking you into one track so early, but the modding scene is already doing unholy things with the character files. Someone on the discord ripped the sprite sheets and made a patch where the uniforms just fully give up during combat training, and honestly that should’ve been base game content.

The parody angle is thin but it works because the writing doesn’t pretend to be clever. Deku shows up once, gets shoved into a locker, and is never mentioned again. Perfect. No notes.

Ok so I'm clicking on this girl. Cherry Bubblebelle Delphinium. What a name, right? Like someone threw anime and candy into a blender. She's this fusion of Princess Bubblegum and Sakura from Naruto, which is a combo I didn't know I needed until my brain started doing backflips. The whole thing runs in browser, no downloads or whatever, which is good because my laptop is already crying from all the... research files.

The first thing you notice is how unpolished it is. Deliberately so, I guess? The 3d model is... there. She's got pink hair and a vacant stare that somehow makes the whole thing hotter in a weird, janky way. You just click on her. That's it. Click her shoulder, she kinda twitches. Click her chest, and there's this awkward boob physics moment that feels like watching a mannequin come to life but only halfway. I laughed. Then I clicked again. I don't know what that says about me. The lack of any real game mechanics, no dialogue trees or stat tracking, just pure tactile poking, is almost meditative? No, that's a stupid word for it. It's more like poking a weird science experiment with a stick.

There's this moment where if you click her skirt enough times, the fabric sort of glitches and you get a panty shot that feels like you broke the game. And that's the reward. The whole "dating sim" tag is a lie, there's no romance here, just you and your mouse cursor and this silent, blinking anime princess who exists only to be touched. The crossover aspect is completely unhinged. Why does Sakura's forehead protector look like it's made of gum? The cozy tag is also a joke, nothing cozy about the dead silence except your own breathing. But I kept going back to it while scrolling Twitter on my phone. It's like a fidget spinner for degenerates. Award for Best Use of a Single Animation Loop, I guess. The bubblegum pink color palette is honestly kind of nice though. Wait, I said it was unpolished. It is. But the color is nice. Forget what I was talking about.

ok so this game. it’s called something about sin or destiny, i forget, but the icon is like a shadow with horns and honestly i clicked because i was bored on a certain site you probably know. you play this guy who’s been hiding who he is for 18 years, and then suddenly there’s this devil. not like a scary devil, more like the kind that whispers stuff in your ear and you’re like “yeah okay ruin my life” and you mean it. the whole thing is a visual novel so lots of reading, but the writing is actually not bad? it’s got this weird poetic thing going on where a sentence will start normal and then just. drift into something about silk or shame and you’re like wait what.

the transformation stuff. it’s not just “oh i like dresses now”. it’s more like the character’s whole body is changing, and the devil is helping, and there’s this one scene where you’re looking in a mirror and the reflection isn’t yours anymore but it’s also more you than ever. i don’t know if that makes sense. the sissy angle is there but it’s not like those hypno games where it’s just captions and spirals, it’s more like a slow burn where you realize the guy is actually becoming something else, physically. there’s a futa moment that i won’t spoil but let’s just say the devil has a surprise and it’s not a tail. i wish there was more voice acting, even bad voice acting would be funny, but it’s just text and some ambient sounds that loop weirdly.

the art is. okay it’s not polished at all, like someone drew it in a hurry but also with a lot of feeling? the devil character has these eyes that follow you and the anatomy is wrong in a way that makes it hotter somehow. i kept clicking through dialogue just to get to the next cg and then feeling guilty because the story was actually making me feel things. it’s not a happy game. it’s like if a coming out story was also a horror movie but also a porno. i don’t know who this is for. people who like feeling confused and turned on at the same time i guess. the ending made me stare at my screen for a bit and then i closed the tab and opened it again. so there’s that.

so i loaded up living with belle last night, right, and the first thing that hits me is how weirdly specific the whole roommate setup is. like, you're just some guy and belle is there and then other girls start showing up. the dialogue trees are pretty basic but honestly that's not why anyone's here. there's this one scene where you can just keep poking at her while she's trying to watch tv and the way she reacts changes like four times before she finally snaps. that kind of stuff is more fun than the actual sex scenes sometimes.

the art is... fine. not gonna pretend it's groundbreaking. some of the poses look a little stiff, especially when the clothes come off. but the writing has this dumb charm to it. belle calls you a pervert in like six different ways and one of them actually made me laugh out loud. i don't remember which one. the sound design is basically nonexistent which is weird because there's a whole music toggle in the settings and it does nothing. i clicked it like ten times. nothing. maybe my browser is broken.

oh and there's a minigame where you have to sneak glances at her changing without getting caught. it's stupid easy but the fail state is funny because she just stares at you deadpan and says "really?" and you lose affection points or whatever. i failed on purpose a few times just to see how low it goes. she doesn't kick you out which is honestly unrealistic. if my roommate caught me doing that i'd be dead. anyway the other girls are fine, one of them has a weird accent that comes and goes. the whole thing feels like a fever dream you'd have after watching too much anime and eating gas station sushi. not that i've done that. recently.

The pixel art in this one has that crunchy, almost sticky quality, like a GIF from an old forum signature that someone forgot to optimize. Farida’s swimsuit is less a garment and more a structural suggestion, a few black lines containing a physics system that doesn't quite obey beach gravity. Her idle animation is a hypnotic loop of weight shifting, the kind where you realize you've been staring at the same three frames for forty seconds without blinking. The whole thing feels like a lost Game Boy Color cart found under a sticky arcade cabinet, but with proportions that would have made the 90s internet explode.

The premise is she's doing a "social science experiment" on the beach. Sure. The same way those old Leisure Suit Larry games were about cultural anthropology. The dialogue is this weird mix of academic jargon and breathless innuendo, like someone fed a sociology textbook and a swimsuit catalog into a blender. There's a moment where she adjusts her bikini top while explaining something about observational bias, and the text box just hangs there, letting the sprite do its thing. I wish the pixel work on the background waves matched the character detail. The ocean looks like it's made of static, but maybe that's a stylistic choice I'm too dumb to appreciate.

The visual novel bits are minimal, just enough text to string together the scenes. You click, she talks, the sprite jiggles. It's a loop. A very specific, single-minded loop. The whole thing operates on that "bonk" logic where the absurdity is the point. There's no complex branching path, just a straight line to the beach towel. The big tits tag is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but the pixel art style keeps it from feeling like the usual smooth, airbrushed eroge stuff. It's more like a demake of a fantasy that never existed. If you need a plot, you're at the wrong shore.

The big one, the one that makes my jaw ache just looking at it, is Amber’s entire torso. Aark0 draws these lads with a weight that feels obscene, like the muscles have their own gravity. You get this scene early on, maybe twenty minutes in after swatting at mosquitos along the Colorado, where the canvas tent rips. Just a little tear. But through it, you see Gabriel, the quiet one with the beard, stripped down and using a wet rag to wipe river silt from his chest. The way the water sits in the little dip of his collarbone. I stared at that single frame for maybe five minutes until my phone dimmed. The art doesn’t look finished around the edges, like a rushed pencil test, but that’s the charm? No, scrap that. It’s hot because it looks like a sketch someone drew with one hand.

Mateo is completely useless in a fight, by the way. There’s a moment where a jaguar lunges and he just freezes, which leads to a very prolonged sequence of having to pick thorns out of his backside while he groans into a hammock. The wound cleaning is absurdly detailed. You think you’re going to get a kiss or a heartfelt confession, but no, you just get a six-hour boat ride where they argue about burned beans. I wish there was a button to make the sound of the rapids shut up because it loops funny and I kept checking if my actual faucet was dripping. But then you forget about that because Amber finds this mossy staircase and Gabriel bends him over a ruined altar so fast the “achievement unlocked” pop-up blocks the good angle. Pacing is like a soggy sandwich, all this bread about colonialism and geology, then suddenly a wet, messy filling you didn’t expect on page seventy-four. I still haven't beaten it.

Okay so you know those games where everyone's like "oh no we must study hard for the big exam" and then suddenly there's a dick measuring contest in the library? This ain't that. It's way dumber. In a good way? Maybe.

The whole setup is a frat competition but calling it "somewhat unusual" in the description is like saying water is somewhat wet. You got this dude, fresh to university, and he's immediately thrown into this camp thing where the only rule is "prove you're the best fraternity." By... fucking? I think? The game never really explains the scoring system which drove me nuts. Like one minute you're talking to some girl about her major and the next she's bent over a table and I'm just supposed to accept that this counts as points for the frat. What are the metrics here? Endurance? Technique? How much noise she makes? I spent way too long thinking about this. The dialogue choices are bizarre too, sometimes you pick something totally normal and the reaction is like you just proposed marriage, other times you say something filthy and everyone acts like you commented on the weather. There's this one character, the redhead, her scenes are actually pretty hot, I'll give them that. The way the art shifts during those moments, it's deliberately rough but it works. Unlike the blonde girl who just looks confused the whole time. Not in a cute way, in a "did I leave the oven on" way. Anyway I clicked through most of her stuff. The humor lands maybe 40% of the time, which is better than most of these games honestly. Some of the lines made me snort. Others made me wonder if the writer was having a stroke. "You are make my heart become like the fast rabbit." That's a real quote. I think about it a lot. Wish there was more actual frat rivalry content instead of just random hookups that happen to be near Greek letters but I guess that's the genre, right? Visual novel players just want to see tits and the thinnest possible excuse for them. Can't blame the devs for knowing their audience.

So I'm playing this thing, right, and the whole premise is you ditch your hot girlfriend and city life to dig graves in some nowhere town. Classic. The sex scenes, when they finally happen, are weirdly hot because of the context. You're not just fucking, you're fucking while hiding from something. There's this one scene with the ex, she tracks you down, and the tension is so thick you could cut it with a shovel. The dialogue is all "I shouldn't be here" and "why did you leave" but her hands are already undoing your belt. The art isn't polished, it's got this rough, almost sketchy quality that makes the bodies feel more real, less like plastic dolls. The way the shadows fall on her collarbone, the slight awkwardness of a pose, it sells the desperation more than any perfect render could.

But then the game does this thing where it forgets it's a porn game for like an hour. You're just chopping wood, talking to the weird old guy at the diner, reading cryptic notes. The mystery is actually interesting, which is a problem because I'm here to get off, not solve a small town conspiracy. The comedy bits land though, this dry, deadpan humor that cuts through the angst. There's a character, a goth chick who works at the morgue, and her flirting is all death puns. It shouldn't work. It does. Her scene is all cold metal tables and body bags in the background, and somehow that's the funniest and most arousing part of the whole VN.

The plot about your past catching up is genuinely tense. I found myself clicking faster through the sex to get back to the story, which is backwards. The romance with the ex is the core, it's messy and you make terrible choices, and the game doesn't judge you for it. The adult content serves the narrative instead of the other way around. That's rare. Most games just use plot as a flimsy excuse for tits. This one uses tits as a flimsy excuse for plot. Wait, no, that's not right either. It's a dating sim where the mystery is the real date. I don't know. The sound design is mostly just ambient wind and it's perfect. Don't play this if you want a quick fap. Play it if you want to feel weird about wanting a quick fap.