This one feels like some horny visual novel fan watched too many “choose your own adventure” videos on YouTube, then said “yeah ok but what if I add eldritch bullshit and way more pussy.” You’re this kinda clueless guy dropped in the middle of a school full of girls who are all acting normal on the surface, but something really wrong is crawling under everything. One second it’s awkward romance with shy virgins and dumb school drama, next second the lights flicker and you’re staring at a shadow in the corner that talks like it wants to wear your skin. And the game just goes “anyway, who do you want to flirt with now?” like that’s normal. That mix is what hooked me. You get these silly, horny scenes with teasing and ahegao faces and girls sucking you off behind some classroom door, but every time you cum you kinda feel like someone else is enjoying it with you. Something that shouldn’t be there.

What I really liked is how it turns normal pervy situations into something slightly fucked. Like, at first you’re just enjoying the usual stuff: groping during “tutoring,” some sweet romance with the class beauty, watching two girls get handsy with each other behind the gym because they “want to practice kissing” and you end up just spying instead of interrupting. That voyeur vibe is strong here, you can literally choose to just watch more than once, and it feels dirty in that specific pornhub-at-3g-on-your-phone way. Then, in another route, the same girl who was all cute and flustered about her first time is kneeling in front of you, drool sliding down your shaft, giving this slow, sloppy blowjob while whispering she can feel something “inside your seed.” Not like pregnancy talk, more like she thinks your cum belongs to the evil thing. She moans and goes cross-eyed and you get this ahegao face that should be pure hentai fun, but because of the horror angle it’s kinda hot and kinda disturbing in the same second. I still jerked off though. Obviously.

The best scene for me was in the dorm hallway. You can peek into one room where two girls are messing around on the bed, half playful, half serious, kissing and grinding and teasing each other’s thighs, panties already pushed aside. They start doing this slow oral on each other, and the sound is real filthy, and the game gives you the option to keep spying, join, or walk away. If you keep spying, the camera just lingers on their tongues and fingers, and then the lights behind them go weird and for like half a second their shadows don’t match their bodies. Tiny thing, but it made my dick twitch and my spine shiver at the same time. And the voices help a lot, they moan, giggle, talk shit, even when they’re doing a footjob or stroking you off lazily while half-watching some anime on their phone. Actually that phone thing annoyed me, the fake phone UI looks like some cheap knockoff of Instagram and it just bugs the hell out of me every time it pops up, but yeah, whatever, they’re still hot when they talk dirty. Sometimes the game plays like a straight corny dating sim, with you taking a girl out, choosing cute responses, slowly working toward her first vaginal sex scene where she clings to you, all romantic and trembling, and you feel like the hero saving her from the weirdness swallowing the school. Other times the choices push you into helping the evil twist them, and suddenly the same romance route turns into this dark harem thing, where they’re all kind of broken but also way more horny for you, and you’re jerking off over what you did to them like some pervert god. The animated bits look good enough to keep your hand busy, the 3D style works decent with the horror vibe, and the humor is actually funny in places, like when a girl is roasting you mid blowjob for being too easy to control. I kinda wish there was less foot stuff, but also I don’t, because one of the footjob scenes caught me off guard and turned me on anyway. So yeah, my morals are clearly not working.

This one hits that weird spot between horny fanfic and somebody’s actual DnD campaign notes that got corrupted by Pornhub. You play this witch hunter guy who is supposed to be all righteous and stoic, but honestly he feels like one of those burned-out heroes from old eroge, the type who drinks too much and still gets every girl because plot says so. The church sends this nun to give him a job, and she’s one of those “I’m totally pure, ignore my huge tits and the way I keeps licking my lips when we talk about sin” types. Their first real scene together already sets the tone: she’s all formal, talking about God and duty, and the camera just slowly drifts down her body while she pretends not to notice the hunter staring. Old-school pacing. No instant blowjob. Just that slow tease where she leans in a bit too close, her habit shifts, little bit of cleavage, and suddenly the game throws a tiny choice at you like, do you keep eye contact or let your gaze drop. It doesn’t actually matter much, but it makes the flirting feel dirty in a good way, like you got caught.

What I liked is how the sex scenes feel like those late 90s fantasy H things where they took their time. First time the hunter actually gets laid, it’s not some overproduced Marvel porn. It’s a cramped hut, the witch is half exhausted from the fight, and instead of instant tender romance she’s pissed off, spitting insults, then suddenly she snaps and kisses him mid-argument. They stumble over some alchemy crap, knock a candle, and she ends up on top, grinding against him through his pants while breathing hard, muttering stuff like “you fucking hunters are all the same” right into his mouth. When he finally gets her naked, there’s this nice little moment where she hesitates, covers herself with her arms, then the dev lets the animation loop on her hips slowly rocking as he pushes inside for the first time. Vaginal, nice angle, you see her expression actually change with the rhythm, not just those dead puppet eyes a lot of AI CG stuff has now. The blowjob scenes are better than I expected too. There’s one where the nun kneels in a side chapel, candles flickering, rosary still around her neck, and she starts with these soft little licks on the tip like she’s “testing” sin. Then she gets carried away, hand twisting on the shaft, spit running down, her eyes glassy like she’s about to confess and cum at the same time. I didn’t even skip the loop, which is rare for me now, I’m too old for that.

But the game can be a bit of a mess. The humor tries to be Witcher parody sometimes and lands like some lost Newgrounds flash joke. There’s a scene where the hunter meets a monster that is clearly supposed to be the “bargain bin leshen” and he cracks a line about union fees that made me just stare at the screen and open Twitter to complain, then forget what I was complaining about. Some dialogue feels like it was written by different people on different days. One line he’s this bitter veteran, next line he sounds like a horny teenager going “booba” in slightly better grammar. The combat bits are, well, there. You pick skills, sometimes the numbers appear, sometimes the game just skips straight to the result and you’re like “ok I guess I won.” I had one fight where I chose a careful approach, tried to actually roleplay the hunter as cautious, and the game still shoved me into a scene where he just charges in like a shonen idiot. Still got rewarded with titty though, so whatever. There’s this one really small thing that annoyed the hell out of me: the text box sometimes jumps a pixel up and down between lines, tiny tiny jitter. I noticed it once during a serious talk about his dead lover, and after that I couldn’t unsee it, kept watching the box instead of reading the words. But then the next minute I’m watching a fully animated scene of a witch riding his cock in some ruined tower, her hair flying, her moans timed with the thrusts, and I kinda forget everything I was mad about. Or maybe I just got old and this reminds me of those ancient fan-translated nukige on shady sites on my old ThinkPad, where nothing was perfect but the vibes were strong and the girls actually sounded like they wanted to fuck, not like they were reading SEO text. Anyway, it’s rough in places, it’s horny as hell, and the hunter somehow keeps his pants on way longer than any man in his position would. Which I respected. Then hated. Then respected again. I don’t even know.

Riley Ito is the kind of heroine you don’t usually see in erotic games: tired eyes, ex-soldier habits, completely broke, and still trying to pretend she has everything under control. The story throws her from shitty part-time jobs into this weird “elite security” gig in a hidden lab, where she’s supposed to keep an old genius alive and not lose her mind in the process. Of course she ends up doing both bodyguard work and very questionable “team bonding”. On one route I played her as this awkward virgin who salutes people when she’s nervous, then ten minutes later she’s getting her first blowjob lesson in a dark corridor from a guy who really should not be that patient with a rookie. On another run she was already curious about girls and somehow the first genuinely soft thing that happens in the whole game is her getting eaten out on a lab cot while alarms are quietly beeping in the background, like “yes there is security breach, but also tongue right there, priorities.” It sounds absurd and it kind of is, but the script keeps leaning into that mix of danger and horny and it starts to feel normal.

The sex itself is not just “click scene, watch loop, next”. There’s a whole slow burn where Riley is still trying to be professional while people around her clearly stopped pretending. One of the male teammates has this mocking way of “training” her in close-quarters combat that is literally just an excuse to pin her to the mat, breathe into her ear, slide his knee between her thighs and see how long she can pretend it’s just sparring. If you let her endure it, he’ll eventually call her bluff and push her over the edge with his hand still in his glove, which is a weird detail but somehow hot. Then in another path, she ends up on surveillance duty with the quiet girl from the tech division, the one who looks like she only knows Excel and hentai. Ten minutes of small talk about sensor coverage, next moment she’s on her knees under the console, shyly licking Riley’s pussy like she’s scared someone will walk in at any time, and the game really leans into that mix of fear and curiosity. There’s one scene I can’t get out of my head where Riley is forced to strip at a security checkpoint “for decontamination”, and depending on your earlier choices, the guards either humiliate her, making her spread her ass and show she’s still technically untouched inside, or one of them suddenly gets protective and turns into this weirdly sweet dom, making her masturbate just enough to calm down while still calling her “soldier” like she’s still on duty. The story keeps track of what you actually click through, so if you keep skipping anal or lesbian stuff, it quietly stops pushing it at you, which feels less like a menu option and more like Riley actually developing tastes over time. It’s messy, horny, sometimes romantic, sometimes absolutely not, and the whole thing feels like watching a tough woman slowly lose her armor, piece by piece, in front of people who might fuck her, save her, ruin her, or all three at once.

Desmond shows up for what he thinks is just a boring summer at his buddy’s place, throws his bag down, and suddenly he’s stuck in this house where every woman looks like she walked out of the “don’t touch, just stare” part of your brain. Problem is, the game does not let you “just stare” for long. It starts slow, almost teasing you with those long text scenes, simple choices, and him pretending to be a normal college dude. You’re reading, clicking along, thinking, ok, I know this kind of setup, I’ve seen this in a thousand games, then the story quietly starts twisting into something a lot filthier than it first pretends to be. The writing is messy in a good way: characters talk like actual horny people, not like porn robots who memorized a script from 2004. The real model photos hit you when you don’t expect, like you scroll and there’s the “friend’s mom” just casually bending over in yoga pants, and the text is describing Desmond trying hard not to stare at her ass and obviously failing, same as you.

What I liked is how the game lets the dirt build. It doesn’t jump straight into him ramming someone in the first five clicks. You get those tiny moments: a “friendly” hand on his thigh that stays too long, a bathroom door not locked properly, a quick view of someone touching herself when she thinks everyone is sleeping. Some routes really lean into voyeur stuff, where you are basically just spying on people doing the nasty, pretending Desmond is “conflicted” while you’re hammering the continue button. Then the scenes start to spiral out. That one time where he’s getting jerked off under the kitchen table with family walking by, or when he gets his cock pinned between those heavy tits and suddenly the writing goes from playful to filthy, describing every tiny drip and grind in way too much detail. And because it’s all text based, the game doesn’t baby you with animations, so your brain fills in all the gaps. Footjobs on the couch while Netflix is “playing”, blowjob in a car parked way too close to a busy street, that raw moment in the shower where she pretends to “wash him” and you both know what’s actually happening. Stuff gets complicated with who belongs to who, and the cheating angle is never really treated like a big moral crisis. It just happens, like, “oops, I let him cum inside me, let’s not talk about it” and then the story keeps going, which honestly feels more real than half of those fake drama plots in other games. By the time Desmond is juggling sex with different women, anal experiments in cramped rooms, and these reckless creampie scenes that should 100% ruin everybody’s life, it all feels like the natural result of one stupid summer where every line was crossed and nobody even tried to step back.

There is something kind of rude and honest about this game that hit me harder than I expected. You start as this regular husband who looks... not great, lets say. Old, ugly, kind of tired, he feels more like someone’s weird neighbor than a porn main character. And that is actually what pulled me in. No shiny hero body, no fantasy harem, just you and your wife in this quiet, too-clean house, with this fetish that both scares you and turns you on. Stefany comes off at the beginning like the classic sweet housewife with big tits and that soft face, but the game really takes its time showing how she slides from “I’m doing this for you, honey” into “I’m doing this because I’m fucking horny too.” The teasing is written in this slow, almost awkward way. She brushes past you in the kitchen, lets you see the top of her ass crack when she bends over, you notice the bra is tighter than usual around her big chest. It is not sexy in an obvious porn way at first, it feels like that moment when you scroll on your phone, see something on Xvideos, close it, then open it again two minutes later pretending you didn’t already decide.

The real punch arrives when Arnold shows up. The old neighbor. And he looks exactly like the guy your girl jokes she would “never touch in a million years.” Thick belly, bad hair, this worn out face. Watching Stefany react to him is where the voyeurism really kicks in. She is polite, a little too soft in her voice, and the camera loves that. There are animated moments when her mouth wraps around him and she is still glancing toward where she knows you are watching, like she is half ashamed and half proud that she can make you this jealous and this hard at the same time. The blowjob scene went from me thinking “ok, standard oral” to “shit, I can almost feel the wet sound in my earphones” because the sound work is weirdly on point. Not Hollywood level or whatever, just raw enough that when she gags slightly and then laughs it feels like some grainy porn tab you forgot to close on Chrome. Her big ass bouncing on top of him during vaginal is not some perfect loop either, it is a bit clumsy, like she is still finding the rhythm with this old guy, and that makes it even more brutal when she finally gets into it and starts riding like she forgot you exist. There is a handjob scene I honestly didn’t care about much but they linger on it so long it became hot against my will.

What I liked most is how the game makes you sit with your own bullshit. One moment you are pushing her to wear that tight top and go visit Arnold with you, thinking “yeah, this is my kink, I’m in control.” Next moment you are kind of begging her not to tell you all the details, but still asking. Watching your ugly self hiding behind doors or peeking through a window while your hot wife moans for another man is a whole mood. The cheating is not cartoonish. She texts you, sends you a selfie in the mirror with that big ass almost out, saying she is “only teasing” and then the next scene she is on her knees between Arnold’s legs and the teasing is gone, replaced by this focused, hungry look. And the game does not rescue you with some heroic turnaround. No harem, no magical fix. It just keeps pushing that dirty mix of love, jealousy, and arousal. There is one tiny thing that annoyed me: sometimes the text pacing jumps right past a moment I wanted to stay in longer, like the quiet seconds where she is deciding if she should spread her legs for him while you watch. I kept wanting a “wait” button that does nothing, just lets her hesitate more. Anyway, if you ever told yourself “I like NTR but only sometimes” this one will poke at that line and then step over it while you are still pretending you’re fine.

You’re 21, fresh out of uni, brain full of half-broken dreams and porn tabs, alone in a tiny place that looks more like a temporary save file than a real home. No job, no plan, no clue. Just a bed, a phone, and this weird feeling that whatever girl walks through your life next is basically a glitch in the code that will push you in some fucked up direction forever. This game leans hard into that idea. It isn’t trying to be “romantic” in the vanilla Netflix way. It feels more like fate dragging you by the collar through kinks you never admitted out loud, while you keep telling yourself “yeah, I can stop anytime” and then obviously you don’t. You start as this regular, kinda lost guy, but the story quietly puts you in spots where you’re kneeling, begging, turned on, confused, all of it layered, like when you’re scrolling Pornhub and suddenly your recommended list is just one big accusation.

The girls are not just checklists of tags, they’re like different corrupt routes for your soul. Tangent shows up like a walking red flag, the kind of woman you’d swear you should avoid, and then you end up refreshing Telegram waiting for her next message anyway. She treats you like a toy she already owns, plays with your ego, talks down to you while she has you licking her clean after she uses your face, or makes you hold still while she rides your cock and casually insults how pathetic you look. One moment she gives you a handjob so slow you want to scream, staring right in your eyes like she can read every dirty thought, then next scene she has a plug in your ass and your dick throbbing untouched, calling it “training” like this is some sacred destiny instead of her just having fun. Humiliation here isn’t just chat text, it’s in tiny moments, like her making you thank her for letting you cum, right after she slapped you for asking. And yeah, there’s titjobs and oral and all the classic stuff, but the way she paces it, like she’s tuning your brain, makes it feel less like porn and more like a long, slow hack of your identity.

Then the story swerves. Penny slides in from a totally different angle, all soft colors and weird comfort, like those TikToks that look wholesome until you read the comments. The tone drops into this messed up “innocent” vibe that obviously isn’t innocent, and suddenly sex toys feel more like props in a role you’re not sure you chose. You’re supposed to be the adult, but scenes twist it so you’re the one who needs control taken away, who gets told what to wear, when to touch yourself, when not to. There’s this one part where you finish in a way that should feel normal, just basic vaginal sex, thrusting, her moaning in your ear, your hands on her hips, and then the aftermath turns it sideways with one line of dialogue that makes you realize you’re not the one writing your own story at all. Natalie isn’t any softer. She just attacks your gender, your pride, your whole idea of “what kind of man I am” and pokes it until it bends. She might start with a blowjob that feels like a reward, sloppy, spit running down your shaft, eye contact that burns, then a few scenes later she’s got you dressed up, sitting pretty, dick hard and useless, while she teases you with a vibrator and jokes about how you were never much of a “real guy” anyway. The thing with this game is that every route pretends it’s just a bit of kinky fun, but then you look back and realize each girl quietly edited a part of you, like fate didn’t give you choices, only different flavors of surrender.

Everyone at this college looks normal on Instagram, but the place feels like Silent Hill decided to fuck a telenovela. You start as Lana, this “good girl” honor student who smiles too much and clearly has no idea what kind of meat grinder she is walking into. On the surface it is all lectures, clubs, cute study spots, and teachers trying to look cool with their little glasses. Underneath that, it is blackmail, corruption and people trading bodies for favors in hallways that finally make sense when you notice the security cameras tilt a little too slow. The game lets you feel her first slip. One moment she is just staying late in the library, next moment you are forced to watch through a cracked door while a classmate gives a blowjob to a teacher to raise her grade. The camera angle sits right on the spit shining on his dick, and Lana is stuck clutching the wall, thighs pressed together, horrified and turned on at same time. I kinda hated how much I liked that scene.

It is not only “watch and gasp” though. Bit by bit the game pushes Lana from voyeur to toy. A former cop runs half the campus from the shadows, turning students into little sex workers who pretend they are just helping with “private tutoring”. When he corners Lana, he does not start with full-on ***. He makes her do small things that feel forgivable. First time, he orders her to strip in an empty classroom for “security search”. Bra off, panties to the ankles, his gloved hands slipping between her legs while she tries to keep her voice quiet because there is an actual lecture going on in the next room. You get dialogue choices, but either way he has her on the desk, spanking her ass until it goes red and wet at the same time. Later, he has her giving handjobs in the back of his car to some big black gangster while he records everything on his phone. Lana cries, but she still swallows when she is told to, and that mix of humiliation and obedience is the whole drug of the story. One run I tried to keep her “pure” and it still ended with her kneeling in a bathroom stall, covered in bukkake from three guys who lock the door, with her phone buzzing in her bag because another girl is asking on Telegram where she is. The game loves that contrast: cute outfits, soft faces, then sudden anal on a cold metal desk, or a lesbian scene where the “comforting” roommate turns out to be working for the kingpin and fingers Lana until she squirts, just to capture her moans as blackmail. Sometimes you switch to other characters too, a male student who plays detective and also fucks half the cast while pretending he is helping, a mysterious watcher who enjoys the voyeurism like a Twitch mod with way too much power. Sex toys appear out of nowhere in a “psychology experiment”, a teacher uses a ruler to spread Lana’s pussy lips during “body language class”, and one of the nastiest scenes for me was in the girls’ bathroom where she is forced to pee on the floor in front of two bullies, then lick a boot clean while one of them grinds her big tits and calls her slave. The game acts like it is a mystery, and yeah, there is some plot with criminal networks, missing students and weird horror vibes in the dark corridors, but honestly the real investigation is just: how far will Lana fall, and how many creampies, gangbangs and humiliations does it take until she cannot even remember what she wanted in the first place.

This one hits that weird spot between horny soap opera and shady crime story, and somehow it works way better than it should. You’re playing this nice-on-surface Yamaguchi husband, but honestly he’s a total piece of shit in the best hentai way. Two families, both freaking out about babies, one guy shooting blanks, one woman with issues, and instead of just going to a clinic like normal people they cook up this “share the dick, share the kid” plan. It sounds dumb when you say it out loud, but inside the game it feels like those old VHS hentai plots where everyone is pretending to be noble while thinking only about who they want to fuck next. The whole “be the wife’s boyfriend” idea is pushed hard: you’re not just knocking up some random MILF, you’re creeping into her daily life, her bed, her phone, her head. One moment she’s a polite housewife pouring tea, next moment she’s choking on your cock, drool on those perfect fake-ahegao lips, and you realize, ah, ok, that’s why this is a mobile game and not on Google Play.

What I like is that the story actually tries. It’s not just click, boob, click, pussy. You get text messages, late-night calls, that slow corruption feeling. She starts off stiff and formal, then the outfits get tighter, the eye contact lasts longer, she “accidentally” brushes your thigh, and before you know it she’s riding you in the room next to her sleeping husband, whispering “don’t make noise” while clearly trying to make you blow in her raw. The 3D CG is that specific horny-asset-store style: big boobs with gravity that kinda makes sense but kinda doesn’t, thick asses tailor-made for doggystyle close-ups, and faces that go full ahegao in a way that would be cringe in anime but here just feels filthy. Scenes don’t stop at vanilla either. There’s a proper femdom mood sometimes, especially when she flips from shy to controlling, sits on your face, presses her foot on your chest, makes you lick her toes clean before even letting you touch her nipples. Footjobs, handjobs under the table, sloppy oral with deepthroat gag sounds, those “I’m married, this is wrong” lines while she’s begging you to cum inside, all that classic pixel-brain porn logic. You even get those interracial vibes when they throw in darker-skinned characters and treat you like the dangerous outsider, which fits the whole blackmail angle that quietly builds in the background. Netori fans will grin, because you’re not getting cucked here, you’re the one screwing up the other guy’s life, taking his wife, maybe his future child, and somehow the game still pretends there might be a happy ending. Plot keeps teasing thriller stuff, like people getting suspicious, doors almost opening during a blowjob, messages from unknown numbers, the kind of tension that makes you keep one hand on the mouse and one on your dick, then forget which one was supposed to be doing what. It’s messy, horny, sometimes stupid, sometimes weirdly emotional, and feels exactly like something you’d hide behind other apps on your phone and swear you only play “for the story” while her big tits bounce on screen for the tenth time in a row.

You start as this awkward newborn succubus who looks like she should already know how to ruin lives with a single blowjob, but actually she’s kind of a mess. That’s the fun part. The game doesn’t treat you like some overpowered goddess right away; you kind of stumble into your powers, tease them out of people, literally and emotionally. One moment you’re practicing a shy little handjob in a dark corner, next moment you’re learning how to twist someone’s mind with a half-whispered promise and a well-timed squeeze of your tits around their cock. The pacing is slower than many horny players want, but in a good way, like edging: long stretches of flirting, teasing, small talk, choices that feel harmless and then, ten clicks later, you realize you just corrupted a “good girl” into begging you to watch her masturbate against a toy you gave her. The sound helps a lot; there’s this soft, kind of hypnotic background track that hums under everything, and then tiny sharp sounds when you spank someone, or when skin rubs on sheets, or that slick wet noise when she slides down on you. It never screams for attention, it just drips into your brain until you’re way more invested than you thought. I played it with headphones on, Chrome full screen, Telegram blowing up in the background, didn’t answer a single message, because I was too busy making a “romance route” accidentally turn into blackmail and humiliation. And the game just quietly lets you do that without wagging its finger.

The whole thing looks like someone fed an AI a bunch of porn comics and fantasy posters, then a human with too much free time cleaned it up and decided, “Yeah, this milf gets a collar, and this busty schoolteacher also has a demonic tattoo under her skirt, nobody will notice until she’s naked.” The tits are huge in a very unapologetic way, like they’re their own characters, bouncing, getting fucked between, dripping cum from a sloppy titfuck POV while the camera stays just where it should: low, close, almost too intimate. Faces are expressive enough that when a girl pretends to be shy about exhibitionism, you see that tiny smirk that says she’s loving every second. Sometimes the AI CG shows weird little finger issues or strange shadows on hair and I kept staring at one girl’s ear that looked a bit like melted wax. Completely killed my vibe for half a scene. And then I forgot it two clicks later when she turned around and showed that big ass, cheeks red from spanking, needy for a creampie. It’s that kind of game. One moment you’re trying to play it “nice”, seducing slowly, picking romance options, kissing before sucking. Next moment your succubus side unlocks some darker path and you’re making her crawl naked across a living room, collar and leash, while her best friend watches and pretends she’s not turned on. The sandbox bits let you just wander, poke at characters, test different toys on them, watch them break piece by piece. Sometimes nothing happens and you get a boring chat scene that feels like filler, and you’re clicking annoyed, but then you hit a line where she admits she masturbated thinking about you dominating her and suddenly all those “wasted” clicks feel like foreplay. The game never rushes to the big group sex, to the harem piled around you, to the lesbian threesomes where you just sit back and enjoy the view while they lick each other for your approval. It just kind of slides there, one corrupted girl at a time, until you’re the quiet center of a storm of moans and obedience, and the only real question is who you’ll break next, softly or not at all.