Debt in porn games is like isekai in anime: it just keeps happening and nobody goes to therapy. Here, it actually feels nasty though. You start as this guy whose family name sounds richer than his bank account, and in one shitty morning everything collapses. Debt collectors at the door, mom trying to keep her voice steady, that gross feeling in your stomach when you realize the house, the women around you, your whole so-called “normal” life is basically on auction. Then the game goes “ok, what are you willing to do” and it doesn’t blink. That’s when it gets fun and kind of fucked up in the same time. You’re not just clicking through sex scenes, you’re pushing people who trust you, spying on them, letting yourself be used, or using them harder. I felt a bit shitty and still clicked every dirty option I could find.

The whole family is hot in that over-the-top porn way but the writing leans more into the vibe of, like, a messy drama show that accidentally turned into a hentai. Your mom has that tired milf energy, the kind where you can see she’s holding the house together with coffee and lies, and then the game lets you slowly cross lines with her. It starts with “accidental” gropes when she’s stressed and vulnerable, then you abuse the situation, help her, touch her, push her, play the good son while your hand stays on her ass a bit too long. There is a really fucked up scene where she’s crying over the debt papers and you comfort her, and the way the camera lingers when she leans into you makes it clear the game knows exactly how wrong this is and does not care at all. Same with the sisters and other women that end up orbiting you, it turns into a harem not because you’re charming, but because you learn how to use secrets, money, and their weak points. Sometimes you dominate, sometimes they pin you down and remind you that you’re not actually in charge, especially when a “strong” woman realizes she can jerk you off for information or shove a toy in you as payment for her help. There are sleep sex scenes that feel like you’re the worst person alive and voyeur scenes where you’re watching them masturbate because you set up the situation that pushed them there. Oral, creampie, spanking, all that is here, but what sticks more is the constant teasing and blackmail tone. Half of the sex feels like a negotiation, half like harassment that everyone pretends is “just this once” while moaning with that stupid ahegao face. It is trashy, morally broken, sometimes surprisingly emotional, sometimes just pure degenerate grinding for the next scene, and I kept telling myself “ok, last route” while already opening the next one on another tab.

You drop into this thing as some rando mutant with a grab bag of superpowers and zero self-control, and the game basically asks, “ok, which X-babe are you corrupting first?” There’s no slow build, it just kind of throws you into the mansion vibe, with Kitty sneaking around walls, Rogue acting all “don’t touch me” and then totally letting you touch her anyway if you play your cards right, and Jean pretending she’s too important for your shit while clearly not being that strong against a bit of psychic teasing. It feels like a horny sandbox fanfic that someone made interactive after scrolling through way too many hentai tabs on Chrome. In a good way. Mostly.

The whole thing runs like a messy fantasy roleplay where you’re half student, half walking sex cheat code. One moment you’re in a “training session” with Storm, and she’s lecturing you about focus and discipline, then five dialogue clicks later she’s using lightning to pin you in place while she jerks you off slow, like she’s testing how long you can last under pressure. Kitty is peak brat energy: phasing in halfway through a scene, sitting on your lap like it’s nothing, then clipping out of your grip right when you’re about to blow, just to make you chase her through the mansion corridors. Sometimes the pacing is weird, like a scene looks like it’s building to a full-on threesome and suddenly you get kicked back to wandering around again. And the UI has this tiny button in the corner that you always forget, and it hides important stuff, and somehow that annoys more than it should.

There’s this “corruption” angle that sneaks up on you. At first you flirt, goof around, maybe get a handjob from Rogue while she struggles with her powers and gloves, and it feels kind of romantic in a fucked-up way. Then you realize you’ve slowly pushed her into public blowjob territory in the Danger Room while alarms flash red and robots spawn in the background. Jean starts as the classic redhead moral compass, but give her enough psychic pressure and she goes from lecture mode to “fine, I’ll sit on your face, but only to keep you quiet” in like three visits. Storm is accidentally the best milf in the game, all strict teacher energy with that calm, heavy-ass presence. Half the time I caught myself clicking through dialogue too fast, then going back like an idiot because the teasing lines actually carry the scenes. There are monster girls and weirder mutant stuff too, like the game forgot it was an X-Men parody and wandered into hentai swamp for a while, which honestly fits. Sometimes it feels like a horny fever dream cooked up on a broken phone during a commute, other times it hits that perfect sweet spot where you’re juggling a harem of big-titted superwomen and thinking “yeah, this is exactly the kind of trash my brain wanted today.”

Keigo feels like that dude who peaked in high school but actually never even peaked, just failed quietly and then left town. Now he drags his ass back, broke, horny, and still kinda pathetic, crashing at Ichigo’s place like some NPC side character who accidentally got promoted to main character. Ichigo’s still Ichigo, of course, walking cheat code for popularity, swords, and women, and somehow he’s married to Orihime now. And she’s exactly what all those old Bleach fanarts promised, just turned up to shameless hentai levels: giant soft tits that bounce a little too perfectly when she laughs, thighs that don’t even pretend to fit normal clothes, that smile that looks innocent until the camera angle proves it isn’t. The game knows why you clicked. It doesn’t pretend otherwise for even half a second.

What I liked is how the whole thing feels wrong in a very specific way. You’re in Ichigo’s tiny place, pretending to look for a job on your cracked phone, scrolling fake job posts like it’s LinkedIn hell, while Orihime leans over the couch in those shorts that absolutely do not count as shorts, asking if you want more tea, and you’re trying to not stare at her ass and failing completely. The mobile UI actually fits the vibe here: it feels like you’re sneaking porn in a WhatsApp group while sitting at a family dinner you weren’t invited to. Keigo tries to act like a good guest, but the game keeps throwing you small choices that slide from “just chat” into “ok, that was not friendly anymore” and then into “yeah, Ichigo would definitely punch you for this.” You start with mild flirting, then accidental boob touch that is obviously not an accident, then late night scenes in the hallway where she whispers too close, breathing on your neck, pretending she’s worried about you when her nipples are poking right through her shirt. It goes from soft corruption into full-on “I want you to fuck me while my husband is in the other room” without ever doing that big dramatic turn, it just slowly rots. Like mold on bread, sexy mold.

Sex scenes themselves are exactly what you expect and then a bit worse in the best way. Orihime rides you with those massive tits clapping in your face, eyes glazed, sucking her finger, begging you not to cum inside her, and of course the only button you actually notice is the one that makes you drain every drop in her anyway. Animated loops focus on the important stuff: her ass slamming down on your cock while you watch the ring of white around the base grow thicker, the way her belly jiggles when you push her legs up and fuck her hard, the little moment she presses a hand to her womb like she can feel you filling her. There’s a scene where Ichigo’s in the shower, humming like some idiot protagonist, and you’re behind Orihime on the kitchen table, her hair spread, creampie dripping out while she clenches around you trying not to moan too loud. The guilt is there for Keigo, kind of, but the game doesn’t pretend he’s a good guy. Which is nice. He’s just a horny loser finally getting the girl he always watched from the corner, and he ruins everything with a smile.

Weird thing that bugged me way too much: that one text notification sound they use keeps popping up in the middle of the hottest scenes, and it sounds exactly like a Telegram ping, so I kept pausing thinking someone actually messaged me. Completely yanked me out of a creampie once, I’m still annoyed about that. Also, sometimes the writing swings between decently hot dirty talk and those awkward lines like “I feel your naughty rod deep inside my womanhood” and it’s hilarious in the middle of all the moaning. But then Orihime throws her head back, calls you by name, and begs for more like she’s never been properly fucked before, and suddenly the cheesy lines don’t matter. It feels like some degenerate Bleach doujin that escaped from 2010, grabbed your phone, and decided Keigo finally deserves his turn to be scum. Honestly, he doesn’t, which is why it works.

Cheeky Ghost Girl feels like the exact kind of horny fever dream you get after binging too much Fate/Grand Order and then falling asleep with your phone on your chest. You’re this broke-ass delivery rider, P’Chad, tapping around town, dropping off coffee and snacks, just autopiloting with your thumb on the screen, then suddenly you knock on this crappy old rental room door and a girl literally floats into your face. Not a spooky “boo” ghost. More like “holy shit why are your tits jiggling when you’re not even solid” ghost. Namnueng looks soft, acts sweet, talks like a troublemaker, and the whole time you’re thinking, “I’m definitely getting haunted and I’m still okay with it.” The game leans into that weird mix of cute and horny right away: one second she’s teasing you, hovering too close, pretending she doesn’t know why your pants are tight, next second she’s pushing your hand onto her big ass like it’s just normal ghost etiquette. The touch controls actually matter here too, you’re not just tapping through dialogue, you’re choosing where to focus, who to grope, when to play submissive idiot or take charge for real, and on a small screen it feels way more personal than it probably should.

The story pretends to be light and fluffy, like, “oh wow, human and ghost learning to live together, how wholesome,” then you blink and your wholesome moment is her sitting on your face and giggling while she’s semi-transparent and you can kind of see through her thighs and it somehow makes the oral scene even dirtier. There are bits where she’s the one in control, sitting on your lap, whispering in your ear, grinding on you until you literally have to beg, and she smiles like a smug dom, but then later she’s lying on her back, legs wide, begging you to cum inside her ghost pussy anyway, talking about creampies like you’re not both completely insane. I liked that one early scene where she phases her clothes on and off while you’re trying to concentrate on a delivery route: you’re checking the map, she’s popping in front of the phone, lifting her shirt, grabbing your hand, making you miss a turn, and the app vibrates for “route updated” at the exact same time she moans. Unreal timing. Sometimes she’s bratty as hell, ignoring your choices, sitting on top and pinning your hands while she rides you, and sometimes you grab her by the hips, flip her over, and she goes from smug to messy, moaning into the pillow while you pound her and she begs you not to pull out. And yes, they don’t shy away from showing it sliding in, full penetration, her big tits bouncing when you slam into her, and that creamy finish dripping out after you cum deep. I kinda hate that the dialogue text box is a little chunky and covers part of the action if you don’t tap it fast enough, and every time I swear I’m going to adjust it in settings, then she starts teasing again and I completely forget what I was doing. The whole thing is just you, a phone, and a horny ghost girl who really, really doesn’t care if anyone’s watching while she rides your dick like she’s trying to make her own afterlife sequel.

Fantasy Harem: Heroine Backdoor is basically that horny crossover brain-mash you get when you scroll too long on Gelbooru, fall asleep, and wake up thinking, “Wait, did I just see that heroine on her knees, wearing cat ears and deepthroating an orc?” The game just goes “yes, you did” and then pushes it further. You play some generic guy, but that actually works here, because the point isn’t you, it’s the parade of fantasy girls orbiting around your cock like it’s a sacred relic. You hop between scenes where one minute you’re balls-deep in an elf virgin who pretends she’s too pure for anal, and the next a monster girl is riding you so hard the screen looks like it wants a cigarette. It has that sandbox vibe where you just poke around, click shit, and suddenly your “favorite heroine” is in a cosplay maid outfit, swallowing a messy creampie after a sloppy blowjob. Half the time it feels like fanfiction written by someone who failed grammar class but understood porn on a spiritual level. Which is a compliment, somehow.

The horny creativity is actually where it shines. Instead of just “heroine but naked,” it plays with costumes and cosplay in dumb but fun ways. I had one scene where a tough warrior girl shows up in this super skimpy armor that absolutely doesn’t protect anything, starts bragging how no man has ever made her submit, and five clicks later she’s drooling on my dick and begging to get filled in both holes. The animation is not perfect, some loops look like the girl is teleporting her hips instead of moving them, but the dirty energy is there. Oral feels wet, anal looks uncomfortably tight in a good way, and those big asses actually jiggle a bit when you pound them from behind. I did get a little annoyed by how often it jumps from vaginal to creampie like it’s a speedrun category, with barely a build up. One moment you’re just thrusting, next moment he’s dumping it all inside and the scene is already wrapping up, like “ok next girl, chop chop.” Also the interracial angle is there, but it’s more “here’s a different skin tone and some fantasy race” than anything really deep or political, which is fine, but don’t expect some big take, it’s just there so you can nut to variety.

What I liked a lot is how it treats the harem thing as chaos, not romance. The girls are jealous, horny, sometimes kind of stupid, and the game doesn’t even try to pretend you’re a good guy. You’re just the dick in the middle and they orbit you like horny planets, and the story occasionally remembers to exist just so it has an excuse to throw another heroine in your lap. One monster girl scene went from “I will eat you, human” to “please fuck my ass too” in like three lines, which made me laugh more than it should. Virgin tags are used in that very porn way where she “never did it before” yet somehow takes the whole length with some light whining and then suddenly loves it. If you’re the type who pauses Pornhub just to stare at how the cum leaks out after a creampie, you’ll probably enjoy how often the camera here goes right between the thighs and just stays there while it drips. It’s messy, dumb, horny, kinda trashy, and feels like it was made by someone who lives on Pixiv and hates subtlety. Honestly, that might be the charm.

Town of Redemption feels like somebody mashed a horny fantasy VN into a half-finished mobile sandbox and then just said “yeah ok, this is fine” and went back to drawing monster tits. You’re this dude who survived a village getting wrecked, finally lands in a big “safe” city that’s only safe if you ignore the amount of wet, thick, non-human girls wandering around it. You end up working as an alchemist for the guild, which sounds boring until every second job turns into “oops I spilled aphrodisiac on the wolf-girl with the huge ass, better check if she’s ok”. It’s that kind of game where you think you’re just clicking through errands, then suddenly you’re shoulder deep in a cow girl’s cleavage, trying to “measure milk output” with your hands instead of tools. She’s moaning, you’re pretending this is science. Absolutely my thing.

What I like is how the scenes creep up on you. One quest you’re mixing basic potions for some shy catgirl scout, next time she visits she’s pressing her big fluffy tits against the table asking if you can make something to “relax her nerves before missions”. Translation: give her a reason to pant and grind on your leg in the lab. And it actually feels like you built up to it, not just click sex button to win. There’s this lizard girl adventurer who keeps acting all proud, calling you “support staff”, then you slip a warmth potion in her gear and watch her swagger melt into heavy breathing and tail twitching while she begs you to check where exactly it’s getting “too hot”. Hand under her armor, fingering around her abs, then lower, then she’s using your hand like a toy. Feels good in that “ok, this is way too specific but I’m not complaining” way. The writing is sometimes messy, like someone glued horny ideas together without cleaning the edges, and the UI on mobile is clunky as hell with tiny icons that make your thumb miss the thing you want, but whatever, I stayed for the filthy bits. There’s an actual sense of being this low level dude building a little life, slowly turning half the guild into your personal test subjects. Except the inventory screen is ugly as sin and sorting items is a pain. I kept mis-tapping and using the wrong potion. Kind of funny when a buff elixir turns into a breast swelling one right before a fight though. Not for the poor bunny girl tank trying to move under her own bouncing chest.

The town itself ends up feeling like your playground. You walk out of the lab and already know which corner has the needy minotaur girl who leaks through her clothes if you even mention “pressure release”, which alley has the smug fox girl who pretends she hates humans but still arches her back when you “search for hidden enchantments” under her tail, which shopkeeper secretly has fur under the robes and loves it when you “accidentally” grope her while reaching for ingredients. There’s a nice rhythm where you run guild jobs, collect weird monster parts, then experiment not only in bottles but on bodies. At some point I had a batch of potions that made nipples super sensitive, and watching a proud warrior melt into a shaking mess from just a thumb rubbing her big areolae was stupidly hot. The game teases a lot too, sometimes giving you a scene that stops right at the edge, making you work more jobs or raise some stat before she finally lets you push her against the table and go full-on, tits slapping, claws in your back, panting in your ear. Some characters feel unfinished, like they were supposed to have more scenes but real life stole the dev, and there are dead spots where nothing new triggers even if you grind. Still, when it hits, it hits filthy enough: thick furry hips grinding on your lap, warm milk running down her belly while she moans your name, your hands sunk into jiggling titflesh like soft dough. It’s rough around the edges and kind of janky, but it has that unpolished charm where you can smell the artist’s brain: “what if every girl in this nice fantasy town was just a little too eager to get grabbed, teased, milked and ruined by some refugee alchemist who barely knows what he’s doing”. Honestly, I’m ok with that.

The sky in 2059 is this ugly, sick orange, like somebody pissed on the sunset and never cleaned it. You play a guy who basically grew up in that shit, no nostalgia for the old world, no “remember when we had internet” crying. Just concrete bones of cities, blown-out highways, and horny, desperate survivors who learned pretty fast that a hard cock and a sharp weapon can both save your life, just in different ways. The whole thing is built around trying not to die while everyone around you is trying not to wear clothes. You wander through ruined malls that look like war museums, find half-melted billboards with smiling people from before, and then two minutes later you’re in a scav camp where some big-titted raider queen is laughing while she makes a guy strip naked in front of everyone because he lost a bet. She tells you to choose if you wanna join in humiliating him, help him, or just watch and jerk off behind a broken vending machine. And the fucked up part is that all three options feel valid.

What sells the game for me is how it mixes “oh shit I could die” with “oh shit I’m hard” in the same scene. Like you’ll be low on food, trading bullets for a place to sleep in an underground bunker, and the guy in charge says the only open bed is already taken by his sister. You expect some cliché, but she’s the one who looks you up and down, this tall woman with thighs like she squats cars, and asks if you have any “special talents.” You can brag about your combat skills, or you can say something like “I’m good with my hands.” That tiny choice flips everything. In one route she tests you in a training room soaked with blood and sweat, in another she just grabs your belt, shoves you against the wall, and makes you prove it with her tits bouncing in your face while her brother “guards the door” and politely pretends he doesn’t hear her moaning loud enough to wake the dead. It’s gross. It’s hot. It’s weirdly funny. And somehow you still care if your character survives the night and doesn’t bleed out later in some sewer tunnel full of feral mutants.

There’s this scene that stuck with me where you’re escorting a small group through a ruined overpass. Wind howling, chunks of car skeletons everywhere, that feeling that someone is watching. You can choose to sneak slow and careful, or move fast and loud to scare off scavengers. I picked fast, like an idiot. Snipers open fire, one of your companions gets her leg shot and you have to drag her into cover. She’s this smug, curvy trader who kept flirting with you earlier, joking she’d “pay in kind” if you helped her find a safe town. When the bullets stop and it’s just the sound of her breathing hard, she asks you to cut her pants open to check the wound. You kneel between her spread legs, knife in hand, and instead of panicking she starts teasing you, saying “You’re blushing more than I’m bleeding.” You get this choice: focus on first aid like a good little boy, or let the tension flip into something filthy right there behind a burned-out truck. If you go lewd, you’re literally eating her out while she winces and laughs, leg wrapped in a bloody bandage, telling you to go faster before someone spots you. It shouldn’t be sexy. It absolutely is. And somehow that moment changes how she talks to you later when you run out of supplies and she offers to “share body heat” in a cold storage room that’s definitely not cold anymore by the time you’re done. The game keeps doing that. Serious survival, then stupid horny, then a joke about pre-war porn nobody gets anymore, then someone’s brains explode on a wall. It’s messy, and that’s exactly why it works.

Angel Perversion looks at that classic “guardian angel” fantasy and just goes, ok, but what if she was horny, impatient, and a little bit of a dictator in a cute outfit. It’s a short kinetic visual novel, so you’re not here to min-max routes or grind affection stats. No choices, no branching, just you being dragged along while this angel decides your dick and your life need “correction.” As a gamification nerd, honestly, I kind of like how blunt that is. The “progression system” is basically her losing respect for divine rules while gaining interest in your cock. That’s the level-up curve. No menu needed.

The first time she appears over the poor guy’s bed, all soft glow and big tits squeezed into that not-even-pretending-to-be-holy outfit, it feels like the game is setting up a standard “comforting guardian” vibe. Then she starts talking. She’s not satisfied with how timid he is, how he fails at basic life stuff, and she sure as hell isn’t satisfied with how little action he gets. So she just… intervenes. Not in a sweet way. Think more “I’m your angel, you’re my toy, and I’ll fix this mess by using your body like it belongs to me.” There’s a scene where she pins him by the wrists, teases the hell out of him with slow oral, then switches to riding him just because she’s bored of his moaning pace. Zero negotiation. It’s not subtle, but it’s hot if you’re into male dom flavored from her side but with that vibe of “I control everything, including when you finally get to fuck me properly.”

Every bit of her is designed to distract you from the fact you’re not choosing anything. Big ass that bounces when she grinds down on him, tits that move just enough during those animated thrusts to make you forget this is basically a linear slideshow with motion. She uses toys on him and on herself, not because the story needs it, just because she’s experimenting with how far she can push him before he breaks. There’s this one moment where she jerks him with a toy pressed tight against his ass, whispering that he doesn’t deserve heaven yet, then forces him deep insider her and demands a creampie like it’s some holy sacrament. I actually laughed a bit and still had a hard-on, which is like, the perfect eroge brain glitch.

I should say, the “cheating” angle is handled in this weird “technicality” way. He’s got a girl in his life, and the angel treats that like a cute obstacle, not a moral wall. She practically encourages him to treat mortal promises as small print while she gives him heavenly pussy and oral that would convert an atheist. There’s a quick sequence where he worries about being faithful and she basically shuts him up with her tongue on his balls. Honest talk, that’s fucked up, but it fits the game’s whole “angel gone feral” thing. The fantasy vibes are there, halos and light and all, but it’s mostly background to justify why she can appear, bend him over, and then vanish like nothing happened. I do wish they used more of the angel lore stuff for actual progression, though. Like, give me a sin-meter or something.

What annoyed me, and this is small but it kept poking at my brain, is the way the UI highlight color doesn’t really match her color palette. Total tiny detail, but every time I clicked forward, it felt off. Anyway. Mechanically, leveling here is more emotional than numeric. You watch this guy go from passive loser to someone who fucks his own guardian angel hard, grabbing her hips while she begs for more. At the same time, she goes from detached celestial being to a needy pervert who can’t stop asking for “just one more” creampie, like she’s addicted to corrupting her own mission. It’s kind of like watching a skill tree grow sideways instead of up. The pacing is fast, some scenes feel rushed, like a skipped animation frame during anal where you think “wait, we already switched position?” but maybe that’s just me being spoiled by longer VNs. Still, when she’s riding him, wings trembling, drooling on his chest while he thrusts into her, the lack of choices stops mattering and it just feels like a straight-to-the-point fantasy that forgot to pretend it’s pure.

Chrono Harem: Artifact of Syr feels like something a horny engineer cooked up on his lunch break and then accidentally made too addictive. You start as this regular dude in the present, nothing special, scrolling your phone on the train and suddenly you’re neck deep in time bullshit and alien tech that keeps pulling you into a shiny sci-fi future. One second you’re flirting with a thick milf in yoga pants who pretends she doesn’t notice how you stare at her ass when she bends over, next second you blink and you’re in this sterile, glowing lab where a girl with huge tits in a tight futuristic suit is explaining timelines while your eyes are glued to her cleavage. The game pretends it cares about “timeline balance” and “destiny” and all that, but half the time you’re just trying to decide if you wanna finish the handjob in the present or jump to the future to see if the ahegao scientist will let you go further this time.

What I like is how it keeps mixing the ordinary boring daily stuff with straight up porn fantasy. You wake up, check messages, maybe meet a milf neighbor who leans close to “fix your collar” and pushes her big tits right in your face, and you know already it’s going to end with her on the couch, legs open, you buried inside her, her face twisted into that full ahegao, drool on her chin and those stupid hearts in her eyes. Then later, in the future timeline, there’s this scene where one of the girls pins you to some weird sci-fi chair, starts stroking you slow while asking “for test data”, and when you finally cum she looks almost offended she got covered, then licks it off her fingers like it was planned all along. The animations make those little moments hit harder, like when a girl is riding you and her big ass actually bounces, cheeks smacking lightly while she moans into your ear, or when she slides down on your dick in one smooth motion and her stomach flexes, mouth wide open, tongue out, eyes rolled back. Sometimes the faces are a bit weird and plastic and I hate that, but then again, when she’s sucking you off and her lips shine and her head moves faster, you kinda forget everything else.

There’s a funny contrast between the “save the future” vibe and the fact that every path seems to end with you getting some kind of pussy. Even the “serious” scenes turn horny fast. One girl is explaining some artifact lore and halfway through she’s already on her knees, unzipping you and giving you this slow, sloppy blowjob, her cheeks hollowing in and out, spit running down your shaft. Another moment you have this calm talk on a balcony about choices and fate, then she just turns around, lifts her skirt, shows off her huge ass in tight panties, and you just know you’re going to end up fucking her from behind, her tits swinging with every thrust. The game loves vaginal sex most, there’s a lot of angles where you see yourself pushing in all the way, her body shivering and that shocked ahegao popping up just when you slam deep. Sometimes I wish there was one girl who wasn’t stacked like a hentai poster, but that’s never happening and I already accepted it. It’s dirty, shameless, very male-protagonist brain, and it sort of feels like watching your horny browser history turn into a time travel story you can poke at on your phone while pretending you’re just playing a “normal” game.