Woke up with a weird taste in my mouth and a memory of this game's AI generated faces staring at me. Not the good kind of weird. The kind where you're not sure if you enjoyed something or just got hypnotized by jiggling pixels. The whole thing runs on this uncanny valley engine, like someone fed a thousand hentai images into a blender and hit 'puree'. Sometimes it spits out a face that's genuinely hot, other times a hand has seven fingers and it completely takes you out of the moment. You're a succubus, right, fresh out of hell or wherever, and you gotta eat. Eating means fucking. Simple enough.

The first girl you meet is this milf type with an ass that the AI clearly spent extra processing power on. The seduction is basically a point and click guessing game. Click the wrong dialogue option and she gets bored. Click the right one and suddenly you're getting a titfuck in a public park while the game's 'exhibitionism' tag does a little victory dance. There's a harem element, collecting these broken women like pokemon, but the 'romance' feels like a form you fill out. Compliment her. Touch her shoulder. Now she's ready for anal. The corruption arc is there, I guess, but it's less a slow burn and more a light switch. One minute she's shy, next minute she's demanding you spank her with a riding crop. The BDSM stuff is surprisingly detailed for a game that can't draw a consistent elbow.

Got stuck for twenty minutes trying to trigger a scene with the lesbian couple. The sandbox design means you just wander between the same three locations hoping a new exclamation mark appears. The superpowers are barely a thing. You can read minds sometimes, which just tells you if a girl is horny. Spoiler: she always is. The female domination path is more interesting than the male one, mostly because the succubus looks perpetually confused when she's supposed to be in charge. The handjob animations loop like a broken gif. Still, when the game accidentally generates a perfect creampie shot, you almost forgive the fact that the previous scene had a bed clipping through the wall. Almost.

The whole thing feels like someone made a porn game then forgot to add the polish, which honestly works for it. You're this detective, right, and your sister vanished five years ago. Standard setup. But then your brother dies and suddenly you're back on the case, and I gotta say the investigation bits are surprisingly decent. Not Phoenix Wright levels or anything, but you actually have to pay attention to clues and conversations. The game doesn't hold your hand.

What it does hold is a lot of other things. The women in this are absurdly stacked, like physics defying proportions that would make a chiropractor weep. There's this one scene with a suspect where you're interrogating her and somehow it turns into a titfuck. I don't even remember how we got there, something about her being nervous and needing to relax. The logic is questionable but the animation is smooth enough that I stopped caring. The harem builds up naturally too, or as naturally as a detective story can when every woman you meet wants to jump your bones. Virgin detective trope is in full effect here, and the first time with the coroner was genuinely hot. She's got this cold professional thing going on until she doesn't.

The roleplay elements are where it gets weirdly specific. You can dominate conversations, push for certain outcomes, and the game tracks your choices in ways that actually matter for the endings. I got one where everything went to shit because I was too aggressive with a witness. The criminal underworld stuff is darker than I expected, and some of the H-scenes have this uncomfortable edge to them. Like you're supposed to be finding your missing sister but you're also rawdogging a gangster's girlfriend while she tells you about evidence. The male domination angle is strong throughout, almost every scene puts you in control whether it makes narrative sense or not. Group sex pops up later and it's as chaotic as you'd imagine. The 3DCG models have that slightly dead eyed look but the bodies are rendered with loving attention to every curve and bounce. I spent way too long on the dating sim aspects honestly, trying to figure out which dialogue options unlocked the anal scenes. Priorities, right?

Okay so the first time I played From the Top I literally rolled my eyes at the setup. Oh wow another summer vacation mystery with a best friend who works in the film industry, how very Nancy Drew of you. But then the game hits you with a dead body and suddenly my jaded gay ass is sitting up straight. The whole thing has this weird unpolished charm like someone scanned their own pencil sketches directly into Ren'Py and said "yeah that's fine ship it." And honestly? It works. The jank becomes part of the vibe. You're not here for 4K ray traced dicks, you're here because the producer guy with the terrible goatee is giving you bedroom eyes at a wrap party and you need to know if he's a murderer or just emotionally unavailable.

The corruption tag is doing a lot of heavy lifting here but not in the way you'd think. It's less "demon lord claims your soul" and more "the entertainment industry will chew you up and you might discover you're into that." There's this one scene with a director who's clearly been in the business too long, the way he talks about "trading favors" while his hand creeps up your thigh, and the game doesn't moralize about it. You can lean in or pull back and the multiple endings actually fork hard enough that I replayed three times. The coming out stuff feels real too, messy and not wrapped in a neat little bow. Some characters accept you instantly, others get that tight lipped "I'm not homophobic but" energy that made my skin crawl.

What I don't get is why the inventory system exists. It's there, it does nothing, you collect like three items total and one is just a keycard you use immediately. I spent twenty minutes thinking I missed something. Also the translation has these beautiful moments where a character will say something like "I am feeling very suspicious about this situation" with the emotional range of a Google Translate output. And yet. The romance routes surprised me. One of the actors, the closeted one doing action films, his route got genuinely tender in ways I didn't expect from a game where the UI looks like a PowerPoint presentation. The sex scenes are explicit without being mechanical, you know? Like actual fumbling and hesitation and then that shift when someone decides to just go for it. Anyway I forgot where I was going with this. The sound design is three stock tracks on loop and I muted it after ten minutes. Still worth it for the producer's goatee alone.

I've been tracking the branching in this thing for three weeks now. My spreadsheet has 47 columns. FORTY SEVEN. And I still haven't found all the bad endings. The game keeps a hidden counter for how many times you choose to "smell the lavender" which, by the way, is not a euphemism until suddenly it is. That's the whole problem with this visual novel. It presents itself as a slice of life teaching sim at an all girls academy, thirteen romanceable characters, standard stuff. Then at random intervals the text glitches. Not in a jumpscare way. More like someone's editing your memories while you're still inside them.

The protagonist Sora gets dragged back to his hometown because his sister's in the hospital, and immediately inherits a teaching position he never asked for. The psychological horror tag isn't lying. There's a scene in the library where you're tutoring a girl and the dialogue options are normal but the background slowly desaturates and you realize you've been picking the same response for what feels like ten minutes and the game never stopped you. I alt tabbed to check my route tracker and when I came back the girl was staring directly at the camera. Not her sprite. The camera. I still don't know if that's scripted or if my save file corrupted.

The erotic content is genuinely well written when it happens, which makes the tonal whiplash worse. One route has you helping a student with her confidence issues, very sweet, hand holding, blushing, then the next scene she's whispering about parasites and you can't tell if she means metaphorically or literally and the game lets you sleep with her either way. I respect that. I think. The mystery dog at home is never explained. I've completed six routes and the dog is just there, sometimes mentioned, never shown, and in one ending it barks and the screen cuts to black. My spreadsheet has a dedicated column for "dog events" and it's empty except for a single note that says "what the fuck."

The art style is deliberately inconsistent. Character sprites are polished anime, but the backgrounds look like photographs run through too many filters, and sometimes objects don't cast shadows where they should. I spent an hour trying to figure out if the missing shadows correlated with route flags. They don't. Or maybe they do and my sample size is too small. The game auto saves at weird points, never when you'd expect, and there's no manual save option. You just have to live with your choices. Like the protagonist. Like the parasites.

Alright so Growing Thing's Up. The name itself is kinda dumb but whatever. I was clicking through it and the whole setup is this dude gets put in a girls only dorm by accident. Classic. The 3D models are... there. Some of the girls have these massive tits that just defy physics, like they'd need a structural engineer to hold them up, and the asses are equally ridiculous. But you're not here for realism right? The animations during the sex scenes are stiff sometimes, like they're mannequins rubbing together, but then there's this one scene with the redhead where she's using a toy and the way her face scrunches up actually got me. It's weird how one moment it's janky and the next it's hot.

The game throws you into these situations where you're basically helping these girls "explore" themselves. There's a lot of voyeur stuff, you catch them changing or in the shower, and the dialogue is so blunt it's almost funny. "I need you to watch me." Okay then. The male domination path is there but honestly the female domination bits hit harder, especially with the older dorm supervisor character. She's got this big ass and she knows it, and the way she teases the protagonist is more interesting than when you're the one in control. The handjob scenes are animated decently, there's this one where she's looking right at you and it's like, yeah okay game, you got me.

But then the cheating subplot with the lesbian couple feels tacked on and the romance options are thin. You just click and they're in love. The creampie finish is standard for every scene, no variety there. The sexual harassment tag is there but it's more like aggressive flirting that would get you arrested in real life. The sound design is basically nonexistent, just some wet noises that loop badly. Still, I kept clicking. The teasing, the stripping, the way the big titty goth girl looks at you when she's doing oral. It's a mess but it's a hot mess sometimes.

Right off the bat, the game hits you with this vibe. You got your typical anime school setup, a bunch of girls dealing with life and their own weirdness, but then there’s this ancient evil creeping around the edges. The whole thing feels like someone shoved a Junji Ito manga into a harem dating sim and just left it there to fester. My brain kept thinking of Doki Doki Literature Club, but with actual animated sex scenes and a lot more feet. For some reason.

The voice acting caught me off guard. Not because it’s amazing, but because a girl was literally mid ahegao, eyes rolling back, tongue out, the works, and the audio just clipped. That little crackle took me right out. I spent the next ten minutes just replaying different moans to see if it was a one time thing. It wasn't. I'm still annoyed. The animations themselves are pretty smooth though, for 3D renders. The horror bits are genuinely unsettling when they pop up, a quick flash of something wrong during a normal conversation, and then bam, you’re back to helping a virgin classmate with her... studies.

The protagonist is a total blank slate, which I guess is the point, but the story says he's at the center of it all. You get choices to either be a decent dude or just feed everyone to the cosmic horror. I went full bastard mode for a bit. Convinced one of the girls to mess around with another while I watched, classic voyeur stuff. Then later I’m getting a footjob from the school idol while she talks about her existential dread. The tonal whiplash is insane. One second it's sweet romance, next it's straight up psychological body horror, and then a lesbian scene breaks out. It doesn’t know what it wants to be, and honestly, I don’t think it cares.

The humor lands sometimes. Found a scene where a character is having a full on meltdown about the evil entity and the dialogue option was just "nice tits". Stupid, but I clicked it. The monetization is a one time buy, which is a relief. No gacha crap pulling for a rare horror themed panty shot. You get the whole messy package. There's a harem path, obviously, but managing it while the world is ending feels like a chore. The horror tag is no joke though, some of the imagery stuck with me longer than the sex scenes did. I completely forgot to mention the masturbation mechanics until just now. They're fine.

I went back to SexBot's sequel not for the plot, really. The sci-fi setup about some experiment gone wrong and time loops is just... there. Whatever. What got me was that one scene with the MILF character, the one where she's using this glowing toy on herself while looking right at you. The animation loops are janky as hell, her hand clips through her thigh at one point, but the way her eyes stay locked on the camera? That's the stuff. Pure yandere energy if you squint hard enough and ignore that she's supposed to be your step-something. The game doesn't lean into obsession properly, which is a crime. Give me a route where she locks me in the lab, not this harem sandbox where everyone's just... available.

The interracial scenes with the busty scientist are surprisingly hot, though. There's this one anal scene where the physics engine just gives up, her ass jiggles like water balloons, and honestly? Better than most polished AAA games. The creampie finish actually lingers, doesn't just fade to black like some cowardly devs do. But then you switch to the school setting portion and it's like a completely different game. The teasing scenes with the younger characters feel rushed, the groping mechanics are just click-and-watch, no real interaction. Why can't I decide how long to tease? The female domination bits with the alien chick almost save it, she's got this strap-on scene that made me forget the incest undertones for a solid five minutes.

The sandbox structure means you're constantly bouncing between locations, and the loading between the lab and the school breaks any tension you've built up. The titfuck animations are decent, especially with the redhead, but the handjob scenes use the exact same looping motion regardless of character. Lazy. The lesbian content feels tacked on, like they remembered they needed it for the tags. Still, I keep coming back to that MILF scene. The way she says "good boy" while the toy buzzes... my brainrot is complete. The fantasy elements are wasted, the sci-fi plot is nonsense, but the raw, unpolished sex scenes hit different at 2AM when you're looking for something that doesn't pretend to be classy.

The aunt. Right. Let's talk about the aunt because that's clearly what the whole Lovely Neighborhood thing is built around. She's got that 3DCG look where the skin is a little too smooth, like a plastic doll left in a warm room, but somehow that's part of the appeal? The animation when she leans over the kitchen counter, the way the big tits just... defy physics in that specific janky way only these games manage. It's not realistic but my brain doesn't care. The groping scenes start awkward, like Jack's hand is magnetized and her clothes are made of iron filings, but then the teasing kicks in and suddenly I'm clicking through dialogue options like my life depends on it.

The game calls itself a dating sim but it's more like a series of escalating "oops" moments. You're this kid Jack, staying with his step aunt, and the whole thing runs on this greasy hormone logic that's honestly kind of funny if you don't think about it too hard. The choices matter, supposedly. I picked the dumbest possible responses just to see what would happen and the neighbor lady still ended up in her underwear somehow. So maybe the choices matter but not in a way that makes sense. The milf next door has this walk cycle that's so stiff it loops like a broken GIF and I watched it for way too long.

There's this one moment where you're supposed to "accidentally" walk in on the aunt changing. The door opens. She gasps. The animation freezes for a beat too long. And I laughed out loud. Not because it was bad but because it was so perfectly, deliberately unpolished. Like the devs knew exactly what they were doing. The big ass shots are framed with the precision of a Renaissance painting and the dialogue reads like it was translated through three different languages and then back into English by someone who learned it from porn titles. I wish the neighbor had more scenes. She won't. I've accepted this. The whole thing feels like a fever dream where everyone's proportions are wrong and nobody questions why a teenage boy is suddenly a master of seduction. My phone buzzed during one scene and I forgot what I was doing entirely.

I don't know what's worse, the fact that this Halloween party game has a femboy option that's somehow the most emotionally stable character or that I spent twenty minutes picking out a costume for Alex like it mattered. It doesn't. Well, it does, but not in the way you think. The game splits across three protagonists and honestly Sierra's route is where things get properly unhinged. Anna's too. But Sierra. Jesus.

The Truth or Dare system is where the whole thing either clicks or falls apart depending on your tolerance for watching characters make catastrophically horny decisions. You pick dare and suddenly there's spanking, then someone's clothes are off, then the femboy is somehow dominating the situation and you're just sitting there wondering how a Halloween party turned into a netorase negotiation. The animations are janky. Not in a charming way, more like someone animated keyframes and forgot the in-betweens, but the ahegao faces during the creampie scenes are so absurdly exaggerated I laughed mid-stroke. That's not a complaint. I think.

Eight endings sounds impressive until you realize three of them are basically "everyone's miserable and also naked" variations. The humiliation themes are tagged as optional but the game nudges you toward them like a drunk friend whispering "do it, it'll be funny." There's this one scene where Alex watches through a window while Sierra gets absolutely railed and the voyeurism mechanic just... sits there. No interactivity. You just watch. Which I guess is the point but my hand was on the mouse ready for something, anything. The AI-generated art has that uncanny sheen where nipples look like they were calculated by a confused algorithm but honestly the cosplay outfits during the party segments are detailed enough that I screenshotted a few. For research. The BDSM elements show up late and feel tacked on, like the developer remembered the tag list at the last minute and threw in some rope.

The female protagonist route with Sierra lets you lean into exhibitionism and the party setting actually works for that. Anna's path is more about cheating and male domination but her dialogue reads like it was translated through three languages and none of them were English. "Your eyes make my insides become butterflies of wanting." What does that even mean. I wish the lesbian content wasn't buried behind specific choices that the game doesn't telegraph at all. Miss it and you're stuck in another hetero creampie scene wondering where it all went wrong.