The whole thing feels like someone made a hentai game in MS Paint after chugging four Red Bulls and forgetting what anatomy is. I mean that as a compliment. Sort of. You're the mayor now because a virus killed everyone else on the city council. Convenient. The art has that weird charm where one boob is bigger than the other and a character's neck just... disappears in certain CGs. I couldn't stop clicking.

My first decree as supreme leader was basically "pants are illegal" and nobody stopped me. There's this survival meter thing ticking down while you're trying to corrupt every woman in the city. Makes no sense. I'm hoarding canned beans but also somehow convincing the librarian to do unspeakable things in the restricted section. Priorities. The choice system is hilarious because picking the "good" option just means you're a slightly less horny dictator. You still end up with a harem either way. It's like the game is asking "will you be a saint or will you be a degenerate?" and then winks at you because we both know why you're here.

The corruption mechanic is basically a patience test. Click. Click. Click. Watch the bar fill up. I complained to my cat about the UI being clunky and he didn't care. Some scenes trigger out of nowhere and the dialogue reads like it was translated through three different languages then back into English by someone who learned it exclusively from adult visual novels. "Your body is ready for mayor inspection." Actual line. I lost it.

For a visual novel about running a city during a pandemic, the city management part is just... there. A couple buttons. Who cares. I'm too busy unlocking the scene where the nurse discovers her true calling isn't medicine. The absurdity of being a survivor in an apocalypse while arranging my schedule to maximize harem efficiency is the real experience.

Claire hits this big nameless city like every small town girl who watched too many movies and believed them a little too hard. She wants that actress life, the lights, the casting couches, the fucked up directors who tell her “you’re perfect for this role” with their eyes on her tits instead of her face. And you just sit there on your screen, watching her stumble into all this mess, poking at choices that feel like nudging a drunk friend toward either the bar or the bad decision guy in the corner. It starts all sweet and harmless, like, “aww, she’s chasing her dream,” then two clicks later you’re quietly hoping she says yes to some sketchy “private audition” in a hotel room that absolutely doesn’t look like any real agency office. The game pretends it’s romantic sometimes, with soft music and cheesy dates and all that, but the whole time you feel this little tension like, ok, who’s lying to who here.

The sex stuff feels like it grew naturally out of shit decisions, not just “oh, it’s sex scene time now.” Claire goes to one casting, the guy asks for “more emotion,” suddenly her shirt is on the floor and you’re watching her trying to convince herself this is professional. Her boobs are huge, by the way, but not in a cartoon way that breaks your brain. More in this “Instagram model who got too many sponsors” way. The camera loves them. Sometimes too much. There’s a scene in her crappy apartment, cheap couch, takeout box on the table, she’s on a video call with some producer, and he tells her to stand up and turn around. You’re just there, clicking the option to let him record it, even though she clearly hesitates. That moment hit me harder than all the normal VN stuff. Felt wrong. Felt hot. Felt like both at the same time, which is kind of the whole game, honestly. Half romance, half “wow, that was basically cheating and I still clicked it.”

What got me hooked was all the voyeur-y bits. You don’t just see what Claire does, you see her being watched. Hidden cams in an agency office, that little red light in the corner of the screen that you sort of forget about, then later some creep shows her a recording of her getting railed and uses it to push her into more. There’s one balcony scene where she’s having “normal” sex with this guy who actually seems to care about her, soft kisses, nice words, all that Netflix couple energy, and the camera slowly pulls back to some neighbor with binoculars. That shit made me pause and stare like, ok, I’m technically the neighbor here too. Game loves putting you in that dirty spectator spot. You help guide Claire into romance, sure, but also into cheating on the one guy who treats her like a human, into fucking for roles, into weird situations where she’s half performing, half actually turned on. It’s messy, it’s uneven, sometimes the dialogue makes you roll your eyes, sometimes it hits way too close to those stories you scroll past on Twitter and pretend you didn’t see. But you keep clicking, because watching this girl try to balance dreams, love, and her own horny curiosity in a city that eats people like her for breakfast is way more addictive than it has any right to be.

You ever just want to be a scumbag informant drowning in debt to the state, but also surrounded by superhero tits the size of weather balloons? No? Well RICO: Sin City exists anyway, and honestly, bless its janky little heart for that. The whole thing feels like someone threw GTA and a bootleg DVD of The Boys into a blender, then forgot to screw the lid on. It's a 3DCG crossover where these corrupt capes and villains just strut around a city that makes Gotham look like a wellness retreat, all while you, some dude with a really bad legal situation, try to rub one out without getting lasered in half.

The animations are so stiff they might as well be action figures being smashed together, but that's the camp of it. There's this one scene where a heroine with knockers that deflate the concept of physics just starts going at it while still wearing half a latex mask. Iconic behavior. The writing tries hard to be edgy and funny, often succeeding at the first and faceplanting into the second, which circles back around to being hilarious. Buried in the middle of all this is a genuinely annoying mini game mechanic about collecting evidence that feels like someone owed a favor and it was coded out of spite, but you'll forget about it when a parody of a famous speedster villain shows up talking pure nonsense. The humor lands precisely because it doesn't realize how stupid it is, a perfect parody of parodies.

Downloaded this purely because a random Reddit thread said the criminal protagonist's deadpan expressions during lewd acts were "meme worthy," and they weren't wrong. The whole city map is way smaller than you expect. Don't think about the plot too hard, it's basically an excuse to go from point A to point B where point B is always masturbation with superpowered weirdos. What happens in RICO definitely should stay there, preferably in a locked folder.