The mouse click feels hollow. Another dialogue box about existential dread, another choice that probably changes some hidden meter I won't see for two hours. My boss is droning about quarterly reports in the next cubicle over, and I'm here, guiding this mopey college grad Matthew through a sci-fi crisis. The game's textures are weirdly smooth, like touching a polished plastic apple. Not bad, just... off.

There's this one scene early on where you, as some kind of guiding entity, first make contact with him. The screen gets this grainy filter and the vibration feedback on my laptop's trackpad actually synced up, a low buzz that crawled up my fingers. I almost slammed the screen shut. For a Renpy title that looks like it was rendered on a toaster from 2014, that moment landed. The sex scenes have that same uncanny valley problem. Bodies clip through the bedsheets. A hand phases through a thigh during what's supposed to be a heavy petting moment. But the sound design, fuck. The wet noises are mixed way too high, and the voice acting, when it's there, is just breathy enough to make you forget the janky 3d models for a second. You're supposed to be saving humanity or whatever, but I kept picking the "path of pleasure" options just to see how far the physics engine would break. It broke a lot.

The dialogue wheel is a liar. It'll give you three options that all sound like different flavors of the same thing, but then Matthew gets all huffy about free will and morality. Buddy, I just wanted to see some tits, not debate determinism. The ethical dilemmas feel stapled on, like the writer read a philosophy 101 textbook and then immediately wrote a blowjob scene. I wish the game would just commit to being trashy instead of pretending it's deep. The pressure the description mentions? It's just me, trying to finish a scene before my screen faces the aisle.

The card game in the Beacon cafeteria. That's where it starts. I kept clicking through dialogue thinking "okay, another RWBY parody where someone learned Ren'Py last weekend" and then Ruby's sitting there with Cardin fucking Winchester of all people and the whole thing feels wrong in exactly the right way. You know that specific flavor of "wrong" I mean. The one that makes you keep reading.

The AI art is... look, it's AI art. Sometimes Ruby's face looks like Ruby. Sometimes she looks like she's melting slightly at the edges. Cardin's jaw could cut glass in one render and looks like a thumb in the next. But here's the thing, I stopped noticing after the first sex scene because the writing actually commits. It's based on some old fanfic called "A Rose in Pain" and you can tell the creator gave a shit about the dynamic. Ruby's nervous but not in that annoying anime virgin way. Cardin's an asshole but there's something underneath. The romance beats hit different when you've watched the show and know these two should hate each other. Should. But don't.

The moaning sounds come from MagicalMysticVA and I spent way too long trying to figure out if I recognized the voice before realizing that's not the point. The point is Ruby Rose getting railed by the guy who bullied her friends and somehow it works. The sex scenes are explicit. Like, fully explicit. No fade to black bullshit. The dialogue during those scenes is better than it has any right to be for a spare time project. There's this one moment where Cardin says something that made me actually pause and stare at my ceiling for a second. Not because it was deep. Because it was hot in a way I wasn't prepared for from a RWBY porn game.

I wish there was more Jaune content but that's just me being greedy. The soundtrack is Pixabay stuff, nothing memorable, but you won't care. You're not here for the music.

The blood spatter effect is genuinely terrible. Like someone just dragged a red smear tool across the screen in MS Paint and called it a day. I spent way too long staring at it, wondering if the dev even owns a tablet. The rest of the art though, the character designs, they have this rough, almost uncomfortable quality that fits the gothic demon stuff perfectly. It’s not polished, it’s jagged, and it makes the nudes feel more raw than sexy. Which is the point, I think.

The sound design is just a low hum and some wet noises. No voice acting, which is a crime for a visual novel about supernatural domination. You’re telling me a demon with superpowers who’s about to tear your soul out wouldn’t have something terrifying to whisper? Missed opportunity. But the silence, the empty air between dialogue choices, it builds a weird pressure. I clicked through a scene where a character’s bisexual awakening gets violently interrupted by a survival horror moment, and the lack of music made my own apartment feel too quiet. I had to open a window.

The pacing is like a party where someone spikes the punch but you don’t know who. One minute you’re in a slow, erotic visual novel conversation, the next you’re making a choice that gets someone’s throat ripped out. The domination themes aren’t just kink, they’re the core mechanic. You crave, you submit, or you die. I got a bad ending because I thought picking the submissive dialogue would unlock a scene, but no, the demon just laughed and the screen went black. The heterosexual and bisexual paths seem to blur together in the gothic setting, which is interesting. It’s all about power, not labels. The nsfw content is explicit but never feels like a reward. It’s a trap. I’m still not sure if the clunky UI is a bug or a feature to make you feel helpless. Probably a bug. I don’t care. I need to see the other endings now.

2B’s ass is right there, on my screen, and she’s lecturing me about social power dynamics. Not even joking. Something about law 4, always say less than necessary, while her tits defy every law of physics I remember from school. The contrast is making my brain short circuit in the best way.

This thing calls itself educational. I mean, sure. Robert Greene’s 48 Laws of Power gets quoted between scenes where you can, uh, interact with 2B. The dialogue options are genuinely funny, not just “haha porn game funny” but actually clever. You pick responses that boost some invisible social skill meter while she strips down. There’s a moment where she explains mirroring body language and I’m nodding along, completely forgetting I’m also clicking through to the next lewd scene. The art is deliberately rough, sketchy lines, colors that bleed outside the edges like someone drew this on a napkin in a hurry. It works though. Feels intentional, like a zine you’d find at a convention that’s too cool for the main floor.

The humor lands somewhere between shitpost and genuine parody. Not every joke hits. The pacing gets weird when you’re reading actual self help advice and then suddenly there’s a close up of 2B’s spread legs. My dick and my brain can’t agree on what we’re doing here. But maybe that’s the point? The game never explains itself, never apologizes. You just keep clicking, learning about power law 15, crush your enemy totally, while 2B moans. I wish the interactive bits had more variety. Clicking the same spots gets repetitive fast. The dialogue trees are where the real meat is, pun absolutely intended.

Forgot to mention the NieR parody angle entirely until now. It’s barely a parody, more like someone borrowed the character design and said “what if she taught you manipulation tactics while getting railed?” The whole thing feels like a fever dream sent through a group chat at 4am. No voice acting, just text and those rough drawings. The music loops are surprisingly chill though, like elevator music for a very specific kind of hell. One track sounds almost like the original NieR soundtrack if you squint your ears. Don’t expect a full game. It’s a visual novel with tits and questionable life advice. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. My social skills haven’t improved but I do keep thinking about law 6, court attention at all costs, and isn’t that what we’re all doing here anyway?

I keep thinking about the scene where you first meet your daughter again after centuries. She's not scared, not exactly. She's disappointed. That hits harder than any fang scene in this whole bloody mess of a game. The First Beings isn't trying to be your typical vampire smut, even though it definitely has the graphic violence and the sex scenes that'll make you glance at your door.

The writing is deliberately rough around the edges, like someone's actual journal rather than a polished novel. Sometimes the dialogue loops weirdly, and I got stuck on one choice screen for way too long because the options were basically "be a monster" or "be slightly less of a monster but still pretty terrible." The fear/love system sounds clever on paper but in practice it feels like you're just picking which flavor of trauma to inflict on your progeny. I don't know if that's intentional or not.

The lore dumps about The Hidden, your secret lineage or whatever, can get tedious. I found myself clicking through paragraphs about ancient bloodlines while waiting for the next actually interesting bit. But then there's this moment with your former equal, the one you raised children with before everything fell apart. The sexual tension there is thick enough to choke on, and the game doesn't shy away from making it properly explicit when things finally boil over. Full nudity, detailed acts, the works. It's hot in that uncomfortable way where you're not sure if you should be enjoying it given the context.

The monster designs are genuinely unsettling, which makes the romance options feel even weirder. You're supposed to be this ancient terror who shaped civilizations with blood and fear, but now you're just... tired. The game asks if redemption is possible for something like you. I kept choosing the brutal options because honestly, the restraint path felt fake. Like putting a leash on a hurricane. But maybe that says more about me than the game. The mystery elements work better than the relationship stuff, which is backwards from what I expected going in.

You start as this small-town girl who suddenly lands in a big city for university, and the game just quietly goes, “yeah, you’re thirsty for knowledge, but also… you’re gonna feed some really bad habits.” It plays like a cute anime dating sim at first, all soft colors and shy smiles, but it’s absolutely not shy about what it actually wants to do with bodies. Every girl you meet has her own hang-ups, and almost all of them can be pushed toward getting softer, heavier, more stuffed, more… overflowing. It’s like someone took a wholesome campus slice-of-life and then asked, “ok but what if everyone slowly turned into walking curves because they can’t say no to dessert or late-night snacks or one more drink with whipped cream?” and nobody said no.

What I liked is how the weight gain and all the expanding parts aren’t just “you clicked, her boobs get bigger, congrats.” It kind of sneaks up. You’re on some normal date at a café, she orders something modest, you tease a bit, suggest the giant milkshake, then a second one, then some cake “since we’re already here,” and the dialogue starts getting this hungry tone. She blushes, complains she’s full, but her eyes light up when you suggest bringing takeout too. You come back for another event and suddenly the sprite has thicker thighs, her ass is straining her skirt, she’s tugging at her top because her tits don’t sit right anymore, and the text is like, “I don’t know why my clothes feel tight, it’s probably the laundry.” Sure. Then you hit the scenes where you deliberately stuff her until she groans and presses her hands into a round belly, and the game just leans into it. Not joking around. Belly bulges, shirts riding up, bras digging in, the whole thing. Sometimes it goes pretty far, girl pinned in her chair by her own ass, panting, still licking cream from her lips, asking if there’s more. The stuffing focus is strong, and it actually feels erotic instead of goofy, which is dangerous if that’s your thing. Breasts swelling out of a top mid-conversation, buttons popping, jiggling every time the text box advances, that kind of “oh shit this is escalating fast” feeling.

What bugged me a bit: the pacing is weird in spots. You get these long streaks where you’re clicking through campus small talk, class stuff, background drama, and you think “ok maybe this is just a normal VN with some chubby fanservice,” and then suddenly a single choice turns the scene into full-on gluttony porn with her moaning around a spoon and talking with her mouth full. No real ramp. I kinda love that and hate it. Also one character’s pants look like they’re painted on when she starts getting really thick around the hips, but then the next CG, the proportions hit just right and you forget you were annoyed. The writing has that slightly awkward, non-native vibe sometimes, like someone typed “I feel my body more heavy now” and forgot to fix it, which low-key makes it hotter because it feels less polished and more like a fetish passion project. There are a few routes where the expansion focuses more on hips and ass, and you watch her go from cute in jeans to basically one big ass with a girl attached, knocking stuff over in her dorm with her butt and pretending it’s an accident. Meanwhile you are absolutely pushing her there with “oh come on, have another plate, you worked so hard today” while your character’s inner monologue is like, “I want to see that zipper surrender.” It does that thing where the MC acts supportive and sweet but the choices are all like: encourage, really encourage, or absolutely ruin her self-control. And the game smiles at you and hands you another scene where she waddles a bit heavier, breathing harder, but saying she’s never felt so “free.”

You ever just watch a celestial bureaucracy in action and think, yeah, that tracks. This angel comes down, all pristine and glowing, and immediately tries to out-paperwork the demon. I spent the first twenty minutes just clicking through dialogue because the heavenly administration apparently runs on passive-aggressive memos. The demon's got this whole sleazy charm going on, a real feodosiy vibe like he just rolled out of a smoke-filled backroom deal, and he's supposed to corrupt a town. But the angel? She's not even fighting fair. She files complaints. Literally.

The whole thing plays out like a tug of war where the rope is some poor townie's moral compass. I got fixated on the baker. Just a side character, but the way his little pixel portrait sweats when you push the lust angle. The art's deliberately rough, like a doujin that got photocopied one too many times, and honestly it makes the lewd scenes hit different. Clean lines would ruin it. When the demon finally gets someone to fall, the screen goes all hazy and the sound design is just... wet. You know the sound. Don't pretend. I wish the angel had more corruptibility herself, a bit of a crack in that holy facade, but no, she's a brick wall of sanctimony and it gets a bit tedious.

Swiping between temptation options reminds me of those old choose-your-own-adventure apps on a busted phone, the ones where you'd accidentally click the wrong thing because the screen was shattered. Here, a wrong click means the angel gains influence and the demon throws a little tantrum. His frustration is the best part. There's a scene with a tailor, something about measuring inseams, and the demon's internal monologue during it is pure gold. Kept thinking about how this whole setup is just a cosmic game of sim city but with more tentacles and spreadsheets. The angel's spreadsheet, specifically. She definitely has one. Probably color-coded.

The whole thing feels like someone animated a series of very specific, very private Polaroids and forgot to add a back button. Lustful Years, right. You click around, make choices, and suddenly you're watching a scene unfold that you definitely didn't discuss in HR orientation. The protagonist, she's got this look. Not a polished, airbrushed look. More like she just woke up and remembered she left the front door unlocked. That kind of vulnerability. It works.

Spent an absurd amount of time on one dialogue tree with a character whose name I've already forgotten. He was leaning against a doorframe, talking about something mundane, and the whole time I'm just staring at the weird shadow his collar cast on his neck. It was slightly off, a little jagged. Couldn't focus on the "difficult choice" he was presenting because that shadow was living its own life. The oral scenes are direct. No coy camera pans to a flickering fireplace. You get what you clicked for, and the sound design, which is mostly just wet, rhythmic clicks, is strangely hypnotic. Like a leaky faucet you can't be bothered to fix.

Then there's a blowjob sequence that starts with an almost clinical framing, like a diagram, before the animation loops into something more frantic. The vaginal scenes have this weird physics to them, a bounce that defies anatomy but somehow feels more honest than the overly smooth stuff in bigger titles. It's like the developer focused all their energy on the exact moment of impact and let everything else, like the background or the guy's expression, just sort of exist in a low-poly limbo. You'll pick a lover, they'll break your heart or whatever the description promised, but the real story is in the jittery way a hand lands on a hip. That's the stuff that sticks.

The first sex scene I got was with a girl who had literal cat ears and I still don't know if that's a bug or a feature. The game calls itself New Heaven but it's basically what happens when someone plays too much Sword Art Online and then decides to make a porn game about it. You're this sad office drone who saved up for a Linker System, which is just a fancy way of saying VR headset that lets you fuck in fantasy land. The whole setup is so aggressively 2016 that I almost respect it.

The personality system is where things get weirdly ambitious. 22 personality types based on your choices, and characters actually remember if you were a dick to them three conversations ago. I picked some dialogue option about being honest and suddenly the game decided I was "The Candid" type, which sounds like a shitty indie band name. The minigame is... there's a minigame. I won't explain it because I still don't understand it after three attempts. Something about tapping at the right time while a bar fills up. You know the drill. The animations are custom made which means sometimes they look genuinely good and sometimes the characters move like they're being puppeted by a drunk god. There's a codex too, logging every person and place, which feels like the developer really wanted to make a real RPG but also really wanted to show animated tits.

The writing swings wildly between "oh that's actually clever" and dialogue that reads like it was translated through three different languages before landing in English. One character told me my eyes were "like pools of forgotten tomorrows" and I had to put my phone down for a minute. The affection system means you can slowly build relationships or just be a complete degenerate, and the game doesn't really judge you either way. That's refreshing. Or maybe it's concerning. I keep going back to the cat ear girl even though her storyline makes no sense and I'm pretty sure one of her quests just loops forever. The difficulty options add some actual game to your porn game, which I guess is what the "meaningful choices" tag is about. You can fail conversations. You can miss entire character arcs. The leveling system is just numbers going up but honestly that's all I need sometimes. The fantasy MMO setting is paper thin but the character designs are memorable enough that I remember their names, which is more than I can say for most games in this genre.