Tom just wanted to do some boring homework with his quiet classmate Melory, right? Then you walk into her place and it all goes to hell in the horniest way possible. The game really feels like that moment when a “study session” turns into “how far can I push this before someone slaps me or sucks me off”. You start with really small stuff, like where you sit, how bold you are with your eyes, if you pretend to be a gentleman or you let your hands wander when she “accidentally” brushes against you. If you are into that slow tease, that almost painful build up, it nails that. Maybe too much. One wrong choice and you are suddenly just doing homework like a good boy while her hot older relative in the next room is basically walking porn and you know the game is laughing at you.

The wild part is how the game keeps layering dirty paths on top of that normal school vibe. One moment you are just trying not to stare at Melory’s legs when she bends over in that maid-ish outfit that makes absolutely no sense for homework, next moment there is a bottle on the table and clothes start disappearing at random. That strip game feels like it was coded by a drunk perv and I mean this in good way. Sometimes it lands on the shy character and you get this awkward, sweet undressing, sometimes it hits the dominant one and it turns into full striptease on the couch. You never really know if you are going to end up with soft oral under the desk, a thick milf riding you while her husband is out, your dick in somebody’s mouth while someone else is pissing in the shower, or getting turned into a plaything by the one person in the room you really should not have touched. There are paths where the “friend’s house” becomes a cheap strip club, where race, gender and power all mix into this messy soup of cheating, foot licking, anal begging, sleepy groping and that lovely moment when you are deep inside and the game just quietly lets you finish inside without any drama. And then you reload because you want to see what happens if you let the trans character take control instead and suddenly you are the one bent over the table getting used.

For a porn game it actually tries new stuff with sound, like this soft ASMR mix in some scenes. Breathing in your ear, tiny little moans, the rustle of clothes, someone whispering filthy suggestions so close you almost feel their lips. Not great with headphones if you have audio sensitivity, because you cannot really tune it nicely and there is no proper slider for voices, just a general volume that is kind of annoying. The interface is one of those “almost there but not” things. Text can be a bit small if your eyes are shit like mine, and there is no obvious high contrast option, so if you are playing on a dim laptop in bed, some menus are a pain to read. But the choices are clear at least, big enough you will not misclick when your other hand is busy. I liked how the game lets you completely avoid some fetishes if you do not want them, but it still likes to tease them first, like showing feet on screen for too long, or making you watch a strip scene in the club before you can say no. Accessibility wise, there is no way to slow down auto text properly, and if your reading speed is not native level, sexy talk sometimes disappears a bit too fast. Still, there is that thrill when you realize one small choice, like touching her leg while she sleeps, suddenly opens a whole new route where she wakes up, pretends to be mad, then puts your hand back exactly where it was and orders you to keep going. Kind of sums up the whole game: messy, horny, a bit annoying in the interface, but when it hits, it hits hard.

There is this rich brat academy dripping in gold and filth where every hallway feels like it smells of perfume, sweat and student loans on fire. They call it some proud National School for Wealth and all that, but the only honest word on the gate is the fuckery. You arrive as the new girl, not shy, not pure, just desperate enough to smile when a teacher’s hand stays too long on your hip. Every class is a trap. Every smile has teeth. The boys walk around like young CEOs with hard-ons, and the girls either bow, bite, or pretend they’re not already wet from the chaos. It is a school, yes, there are tests, exams, cute uniforms with short skirts, but the real grades are written inside you when you go home with his cum still dripping and your GPA somehow higher.

The game throws you in fast. One of the first things that hit me was a quiet little scene behind the gym, where a rich kid with dead shark eyes offers to wipe a piece of your family debt if you “help him relax” before the math test. You can kneel on the cold concrete, feel his fingers tangled in your hair while you choke around his cock, and then pretend it is just a transaction. Or you can try to outplay him, use that management layer to bet on his gambling streak, drag him deeper into his own addiction while he drags you into the stall, panties pushed aside, raw thrusts slamming your back into the door. There is this internal view that pops up when he cums inside, a hot white flood painting your insides, and it stays in your mind more than it should. I liked it. Actually I hated it. It made me feel like a piece of meat caught on camera, and I clicked it again anyway.

What I didn’t expect is how soft and cruel the game can swing between scenes. One moment you’re sitting in some fancy lounge, solving a small puzzle for extra credits, casual masturbation under the table with your phone propped against your thigh, watching a cheap interracial porn clip because the school wifi still hasn’t blocked that site. Next moment you’re pushed into a VIP room at a secret party, half drunk from mystery cocktails, the world blurry, clothes wrinkled, and three guys in suits arguing if they should take turns in your mouth or stuff all your holes at once. They talk about odds like it’s a poker table. You hear chips clacking on the side and understand you’re part of the bet. When the strongest one finally pins you, there’s no romance, just his weight, his cock forcing you open, wet sounds and the rough rhythm that makes your legs tremble. You can choose to pretend you’re in control. You can moan louder, ride him, whisper dirty words into his ear so he loses composure first. It doesn’t really matter. In the end he spills deep inside, again and again, and the game even teases the chance of pregnancy like a sick little flower blooming from all this cum and greed.

Some routes feel almost tender, like when you find a quiet corner in the library and just let the MC touch herself, fingers circling the clit under the skirt, thinking about that one strict teacher’s voice ordering her to stay after class. No big plot, no big drama, only slow breathing and sticky fingers, the small rebellion of using your own body for yourself. I wish there was more of that soft selfish pleasure, but this place is allergic to innocence. Even the romantic path with the “nice” boy can switch into rough male domination if you push him too far, his palm on your throat while he pounds you on the principal’s desk, both of you half afraid someone will walk in. There is a sandbox feeling to it, like the academy is a playground of options, but behind the freedom there is always a price, some drugs slipped in your drink, some lost money at the underground casino, some ending where you are rich, or ruined, or happily knocked up with the seed of the guy you swore you hated. It’s messy. Some scenes feel half-finished, some AI-drawn faces look a bit off, like they belong to a different dream, and a few dialogues read like they were written too fast on a bad day. Still, I kept clicking, chasing the next creampie, the next bad decision, the next time the screen fills with that internal shot that makes your stomach twist with a mix of shame and hunger. It is not beautiful. It is beautiful enough.

Overtime in this game is not just about spreadsheets and deadlines. You play this exhausted office guy who keeps pretending he’s “fine” while everything in his life is dry as toast, except that one rival coworker who somehow still lives rent free in his head. Nanako. The game just throws you right into that late-night shift where the office is quiet, lights half off, and your brain is mush from too many tasks. She is there, working too, pretending she doesn’t care, and you both start doing that fake polite talk that feels like it’s about work but actually is just sexual tension leaking everywhere. It starts slow, like little teasing remarks about who got the better project, some annoyed eye rolls, you catching glimpses of her shirt gaping when she leans over your desk. The POV angle really hammers that in: you’re at your monitor pretending to read something important while the camera is basically glued to her chest. When she notices you staring and doesn’t immediately flip out, that is the moment you know the night is going to go completely off the rails.

What I liked is how the “romance” part doesn’t stay cute for long. You get those sweet flashbacks of when you two used to be close, sharing cheap convenience store coffee, talking about dreams, and then it slams back into the present where you’re jerking in place because she’s stroking you under the desk while whispering shit like how she always knew you were a pervert. Her attitude is this nice mix of “I’m mad at you” and “I want your dick right now,” and the game lets that play out instead of turning her into instant lovey-dovey waifu. There are scenes where she climbs into your lap in your cramped little office chair, your view full of those heavy tits bouncing against your chest while she grinds on you, laughing low because anyone walking past the glass wall would see exactly what you are doing. The internal view shots during penetration are filthy in the best way: you see her getting stuffed, your cum flooding inside her, and the camera doesn’t pretend it’s just for aesthetics. The game really leans into the risk of creampie, pregnancy, and you get these quiet little lines from her like “you’re filling me too much” that hit harder than any over-the-top dirty talk. There is a lactation bit too that sneaks up on you, not like some random fetish checkmark. It pops up after you already got attached to her, and suddenly you’re sucking on her tits and she starts leaking, embarrassed and aroused at the same time, and your brain just goes “oh shit, I did not expect that, why is this so hot.” The voyeuristic angle sometimes flips, with her making you watch yourself in the reflection while she rides you, and your choices actually push toward different endings: you can stay the useless workaholic who only wants to blow loads and keep things “casual,” or you risk falling back into something real with her, even if that might include putting a baby in your so-called rival right there in the office where you both wasted your twenties being “productive.”

Cassie Cage in this one is like if your bully in school decided to wear tight tactical gear and grind you into the mat while trash talking your dick. The game sets you up in this weird sweet spot between “I’m a tough fighter” and “I kind of want her boot on my neck.” It plays like a visual novel wrapped around a kinky wrestling match, with little branches popping out every time you pick how much you wanna resist, how much you wanna be her toy, and how much you wanna piss her off on purpose. She talks. A lot. The voice acting is actually hot as hell, not that fake porno moaning where every line sounds same. Here she laughs when you fuck up, she taunts you when you get pinned, she calls you out when you pretend to be tougher than you are. I replayed one scene three times just to hear how her tone changes when you submit faster or drag it out and keep “fighting.”

The whole thing is basically sex as a fight and fight as foreplay. You’re in this private sparring thing with her, but everyone knows it’s not about practice, it’s about watching her slowly dismantle you and decide what kind of plaything you are today. Sometimes she’s cruel, sometimes she’s teasing like a cat with a mouse, sometimes almost caring, which is frankly more scary. The choices are sneaky. On the surface it’s “hit back” or “take the hit” but under that it’s like you’re building your own kink profile. You can nudge her toward total ruthless dom who rides your face while choking you on her thighs, or a more playful brat who sits on your chest, tells you how weak you are, then kisses you like a reward after humiliating you. There are different endings depending how much you push her, but funnily I keep messing up trying to go full top on her. She pretends to lose control, but you can feel the script pull back into her favor, like Earthrealm itself is on her side or something. There are also little costume unlocks, and I lost a stupid amount of time deciding if I like her more in the combat gear or that smug censor-killing outfit that leaves almost nothing to imagination but still makes you feel like she could snap your spine any second. I kind of hate how her boots sound when she steps closer and the game doesn’t even let you focus on that, but my brain just hooks on it and never lets go.

Everything starts with that lovely mess when you go back to your old house and nothing is like you left it. Dad ran off with his side piece, the money is gone, the place is half ruined and now it has to become some kind of cheap student dorm. You come back as this “good boy” who went to college, but in five minutes it’s obvious you were never that innocent. Every room has somebody connected to your past. Old crush who never got over you. Milf neighbor who pretends she only cares about rent. Twins who finish each other’s sentences and then sit a little too close on the couch. There is teasing everywhere. Butt cheeks hanging out of shorts, a “oh, I’m sleepy, can I stay in your bed?” that doesn’t stay innocent very long, a “massage” that suddenly turns into your cock sliding between soft tits while she pretends this is an accident. The way the camera keeps you in first person in some scenes makes it feel like you’re the one trying not to groan when she licks the tip and looks up.

The tone is funny and horny at the same time, which is weirdly relaxing. Characters throw jokes while they’re slowly getting corrupted, or maybe they were never that pure at all. One girl starts as this shy, proper type, and next thing you know she is jerking you off under the table during dinner, cheeks red, hand moving faster every time someone else speaks. There is a bit of everything: slow romance with “I love you” whispered right after a messy creampie, stupid porn logic like someone leaking milk from her tits and acting surprised, feet sliding over your shaft while she pretends she doesn’t know what she is doing, and those scenes where you wake up with someone grinding on you while “sleeping.” The incest tension is not subtle at all, it’s right there in the way they hug you too tight, in how they sit on your lap instead of the chair, in how kissing on the cheek is always one second away from turning into tongue. Then you get group scenes, where two girls argue who had you first, while one is riding your dick and the other is sitting on your face. The game loves to let you choose who you focus on, but sometimes it throws you into full harem chaos and just lets it happen.

There is this funny thing where it pretends to care about you being a “nice guy” or a virgin at the start, but the moment you realize you can chase multiple endings and see what happens if you go full netori, that idea just melts. You can steal someone’s girl with slow flirting, or by literally fucking her in her own bed while she whispers that her boyfriend is away. Some of the voiced lines are hot as hell, especially when they try to hold their moans and fail, though sometimes the acting suddenly sounds like a random TikTok. The 3D look is more sexual than pretty, if that makes sense: round asses, thick thighs, huge tits that bounce when you ram into them from behind, cum dripping out after a raw creampie and she smiles like that was all she ever wanted. A few animations loop a bit awkward, like a hand floating near your crotch instead of actually gripping it, but then the next scene has her milking you with both hands and swallowing everything, so you kind of forget. Stories with pregnancy hints sneak in too, with lines like “don’t pull out” and “I want to feel you stay inside,” and it suddenly hits different because you know it might actually stick in this game. It’s messy, horny, a bit wrong in all the right ways, and it feels made for those evenings when you just want to get lost in a house full of women who all, in one way or another, want a piece of you.

Cold frontier, horny gods, and way too many tentacles. This one drops you in the Frost Marches like the world just shrugged and said “good luck, slut,” then lets you figure out if you want to be a corrupted fuckbeast, a holy virgin warrior, or some cursed mix with tits leaking milk every time you cast a spell. It starts simple: you make your hero, poke at stats, choose if you’re packing a cock, pussy, both, neither, or something fun that used to be one thing and isn’t anymore. That first moment when you put points into corruption and see the little flavor text change after the first “innocent” masturbation scene is exactly where the game tells you what it really is. It laughs at you, a bit. Then it lets the monsters “say hello.”

Because it’s text based, the game goes hard on the actual writing. When a slime futa pins you in a ruined chapel and you’re trying to remember which skill was the stun and which one just makes her hornier, the whole thing reads like a trashy horny novel made by someone who really loves furries and mythology at the same time. One fight you’re trying to solve a little puzzle in combat, juggling lust and HP and cooldowns, next fight your cleric-boy build gets milked by a smug cow milf who calls you “little priest” while she rides your face, and you’re thinking “ok I’ll just lose this one on purpose.” The game keeps throwing weird stuff together that somehow fits: cultist nuns that spank you for “heresy,” a shark girl in a frozen lake that only respects you if you survive her rough groping, a demon daddy who treats you like his new project and slowly sissifies your tank into a frilly glass cannon. Romance and *** scenes sit right next to each other in the world, and the tone swings between silly, gross, and surprisingly tender. It will joke about ahegao faces and then write a paragraph about how your character is starting to like the collar a bit too much.

What I like most is how your body is basically a quest log on its own. Big ass, big tits, extra bits, lactation, tentacle “gifts,” cursed toys that rewrite your stats when you shove them in the wrong place, all that stays with you. Lose a fight to a pack of wolf-girls, wake up with bite marks and a new kink flag flipped inside your character sheet. Win against a smug incubus, and you can still end up jerking him off in a back alley three scenes later because you picked the teasing option one time too many. The multiple endings hide behind all this stuff, behind how corrupt or pure or weird your build becomes, and the game doesn’t sit you down to explain it. It just lets the world react. Some NPCs only open up if you’re a monster yourself. Some only touch you if you’re still technically a virgin but have done everything except that. Some straight guys become very not straight when you spec into that perfect futa/trans body and go for a more dominant route. The humor keeps it from feeling too heavy: horny ghosts complaining about “union rules,” tentacles offended you call them slimy, a dungeon boss that pauses mid-combat to comment on your fashion choices. It’s messy, horny, and kind of honest about what it is, which I respect a lot as a furry who likes his porn games with claws, cum, and actual choices that matter.

World’s a wreck, gods are gone or pretending to be, smoke still hanging over holy battlefields, and you’re this nobody farm kid whose biggest problem used to be getting up early to shovel shit. Then one normal day turns into a massacre. Slavers hit your village hard, everything’s burning, your old man gets cut down by some cloaked freak, and the one person you care about most gets dragged away in chains while you’re too weak to stop it. That’s basically the point where the game spits on your peaceful life, kicks you onto the road, and tells you: “Fine, now see how deep the rabbit hole of fanatics, demons and horny nobility really goes.”

It looks like some generic fantasy adventure for the first half hour, then the religious stuff starts to creep in. Ruined churches, broken idols, fucked up holy symbols carved into bodies in little cutscenes. There’s this fanatic order that still acts like the theocracy never fell, and yeah, they like mixing torture, sermon and sex in one evening. The mobile build actually holds up strangely well. I played a bunch on the toilet with Chrome and then on my phone in bed, UI is big enough so you can actually thumb through dialogue while jerking with the other hand. Not proud of that one, but here we are. You go from mud village to big cities, caravans, corrupted forests, all that. Sometimes you’re making real choices, other times you just click through because you wanna see if the barbarian gets her clothes ripped off in this scene or the next, and the game likes to tease. A lot of slow undressing, a lot of “almost showing everything” before it actually does. When it decides to go all in though, it really goes in. There is tit sweat, there is cum, there is blood. One scene in a desecrated chapel where a priest gets his face caved in while a half-naked zealot is still chanting about purity in the background stuck in my head more than it should have. I actually paused and thought, alright, that’s fucked, then unpaused because the camera angle on her ass was way too good.

The cast swings between horny anime brain and half decent writing. The barbarian chick is covered in scars, huge tits barely held by her armor strap, swears like a merc and pretends she doesn’t care if you live or die. Give her a bit of respect in dialogue and suddenly she’s grinding on your lap by the campfire, telling you about how she got betrayed in some siege. That whole scene went from sad to “ok we’re fucking now” fast. Princess girl is another story, all clean dresses and perfect posture early on, pretending she’s above everyone while hiding in a tavern under a fake name. First time you catch a glimpse of her actual curves is when the wind hits her cloak on a balcony and the outfit brushes tight against that big ass. She pretends not to notice you staring, but later in one of the routes she basically corners you in a storage room and starts this very slow, drawn out teasing game. No instant porn jump cut. Just her pressing you against sacks of grain, whispering that she hates her bloodline, hates the gods, hates the crown, then using your cock to “forget” for a while. Long, mean edging, barely letting you finish, and she walks out fixing her dress like nothing happened. The devilish one though, she’s the reason I kept at it. Shows up in dreams first, red eyes, sin stuck to every move, and every time you choose something a bit cruel or selfish, she’s a bit more affectionate in the next vision. At one point she has you on your knees in a half-burned temple, ass in your face while she explains how faith is just another kink, grinding slowly until you break and agree to one of her offers. People will probably argue online about which ending is “canon romantic” and which is the corrupted one, but the fun part is that the game doesn’t really judge you. You can play the holy hero who still pounds a fanatic nun against a statue, or sell bits of your soul to a demon and still end up holding hands on some cliff like a sappy idiot. There’s some annoying tiny UI sound that repeats every time you open the quest log and it drove me insane two hours in, and the pacing jumps between political plotting and “surprise, here’s a naked girl in chains” in a way that feels like the dev couldn’t decide if they’re writing an RPG or jerking off. But in a weird way that clumsy mix fits the whole world. Broken religion, broken people, and you in the middle trying to figure out if you’re here to save anyone or just enjoy the view while everything burns.

You come back from college expecting the usual awkward small talk and maybe some boring family drama, and instead the whole house feels like a porn set that hasn’t been set up right yet. Dad bailed to the Caribbean with his side piece, left a financial crime mess behind, and the place that used to be your “home” is about to turn into a student dorm full of horny people with no personal boundaries. As a convention planner I look at this and think, yeah, this is what happens when you run a cosplay afterparty in a regular hotel: too many bodies, not enough rules, and everyone secretly wants to fuck someone they absolutely shouldn’t. The main guy, Mark or whatever name you give him, is basically the only semi-functional adult around, but the game keeps throwing him into situations where his dick makes the decisions faster than his brain. Half the time you’re walking down a hallway and it feels like a hentai meet-and-greet: ex-girlfriend broke and bitter, twins who clearly share more than just clothes, a “totally not your mom” type with big tits that react to every touch, and girls who grew up around you but suddenly show up with huge asses and zero shame about teasing you in the kitchen.

What caught me off guard is how it mixes sleepy cozy moments with full-on degeneracy. One scene you’re sitting on a couch, phone in hand, just scrolling Telegram like a normal person, reading some dumb cosplay group chat, and the next second there’s a girl napping next to you in a tank top, tits half out, and the game quietly offers you choices that go from “be a decent human” to “yeah, touch her while she sleeps.” That whole sleep sex angle is handled with this weird, slow burn build-up: first a little groping, then a hand slipping under panties, then it just escalates into creampie while she mumbles your name in her dreams. Some routes double down on that corruption vibe, where a girl starts as shy and “good” and ends up riding you reverse cowgirl in your old bedroom while complaining she’s leaking your cum and might get pregnant again. The POV scenes make it feel like you’re the one looking down at her glazed face, or watching your cock sliding between her huge tits while milk starts to drip and you’re thinking, this is the kind of thing we’d have to ban from the family-friendly cosplay contest, but everyone would still joke about in Discord later. There are routes where you slide into a full harem situation without even meaning to: milfs in yoga pants grinding on your lap under the table, a virgin begging you to go slow then asking for anal two scenes later, someone’s feet on your cock in a “just teasing” moment that ends with a sticky mess on her toes. It’s messy, horny, often wrong in that delicious incest-and-netori way, people moaning in full voice acting while getting throat-fucked on a bed that used to be yours as a kid, and the game just lets you keep pushing, pretending this is all about turning the house into a dorm when everyone knows it’s really about turning every woman in it into another wet, fucked-out memory.

Mid-20th century Europe, guy fresh out of uni, totally lost, and suddenly he is in some fake-Italy place flirting with revolution and fox tits. That is basically the vibe. You start as Ryunosuke, this Japanese dude who has no clue what he wants in life, except he knows he wants something different and, very quickly, something thick. Stivale looks nice at first, old stone streets, political posters peeling off walls, people angry about some chancellor’s bullshit, and then boom, fox-eared warrior girl with a sword in your face and a rack so big your brain just gives up. Serena shows up like “Who are you and why are you in my country,” and five minutes later she is pinning you to a wall, collar half open, tail swishing, threatening to gut you while low-key eye-fucking you. The game just goes straight into this mix of serious war scars and horny teasing, and it works way better than it should.

The whole adventure thing creeps in slowly, between the porn. One scene you are dodging soldiers in turn-based fights, the next you’re hiding in a ruined barn where she makes you jerk off because “we need to relax before the next battle.” She watches, ears twitching, licking her lips when you go faster, calling you “good boy” in this soft Japanese voice that feels way too intimate, then suddenly she slaps your hand away and uses her tits instead, trapping your cock between them, spitting a little, whispering how she wants to be filled while the artillery rumbles outside. It is horny, but also oddly sad, like everyone here is a bit broken and just using sex as a breather between traumas. Then again, one hour later she is riding you in some half-collapsed chapel with stained glass over your naked asses, so the game is not pretending to be deep or anything. There is a bunch of different monster girls that join your crew, each with their own way of being absolute degenerates. A big-ass cow girl who starts leaking milk when she gets too turned on and begs you to suck it out so she can “focus on the mission.” A prim-looking mage who seems all romance and soft kisses, until she locks you in magical chains and tests how many times you can cum by just using her mouth and a single finger playing with your ass. Sometimes the group sex scenes come right after heavy story beats, like someone gets betrayed, and five minutes later you are in a smoky hideout getting your dick sucked while another girl grinds on your face, and somehow it fits the tone. War is hell, but also, apparently, one long orgy.

What actually surprised me is how much control you weirdly have over the relationships, considering how horny the whole thing is. You can lean more into the romance with Serena, where she is shy the first time you go vaginal and clings like a virgin who pretends she is fine but clearly is not, then next route she is cheating on you in a dirty alley with a monster ally while staring at you, making you watch as the other guy fills her and she squeezes his cum out with her fingers and smears it on your lips. There are quiet campfire nights where she lets you rest your head on her lap and you just grope her tits slowly while she hums, and there are drunk scenes where she orders you to lick her thighs clean after she pees herself laughing too hard, which is… yeah, that is a whole menu of kinks right there. The combat bits between all this are like snack breaks: simple turn-based fights, a bit of strategy, some leveling, and mostly an excuse to unlock scenes where losing means getting used by enemy monsters, or winning lets you fuck them into your army. Different endings depend on who you creampie, who you knock up, who you treat like a lover or just a toy. Some paths end with a kind of bittersweet “we saved the country but ruined ourselves” mood, others are basically “everyone pregnant, everything on fire, but hey, we are happy.” The voice work is honestly what sells the filth: Serena moaning in Japanese while calling your name, little gasps when you go anal for the first time, the shaky breath right before she begs you to cum inside. It sounds messy, human, sometimes awkward, and that makes it way hotter than some clean, robotic porn loop. The only thing that pissed me off is that one lingerie outfit she has in a late scene looks ugly as hell and you are forced to stare at it during a really good titfuck. I still think about that. Anyway, the game just keeps mixing politics, monsters, and sex in this weird cocktail that should not work but somehow does.