This one starts like some drunk superhero origin story you tell your Discord buddies and they all go “yeah sure bro.” You’re this regular college dude who should be worried about exams and shitty cafeteria food, but instead you get yeeted by a car while trying to play hero. You expect game over, fade to white, maybe some angel with big tits welcoming you. Nah. You wake up in a hospital bed with zero scratches, a nurse who is way too hot and way too weird about it, and a voice in your head that doesn’t feel like a hangover. That first stretch, when you’re clicking through, trying to figure if you’re dead, dreaming, or just horny, that’s where the game quietly grabs your balls. And it never really gives them back, it just squeezes differently each time.

It plays out like one of those story-heavy visual novels on RenPy where you tell yourself “I’m here for the plot” and five minutes later you’re staring at some magical girl’s cleavage, pretending you care about monster lore. Your “powers” don’t drop all at once. At first it’s these tiny creepy things: you hear thoughts that aren’t yours, see flashes of things that haven’t happened yet, feel this pull toward certain people on campus, like they glow for you. One of the early scenes that stayed in my head: you walk across the quad, trying to act normal, and suddenly time just kind of… stretches. You look at a classmate, that shy girl who always sits in the back, and you see her in two versions: cute hoodie now, and then completely naked, straddling you, eyes rolled back because you’re using something more than just your dick on her. You blink, time snaps back, and she just walks past, no idea you basically saw her future orgasm. It’s horny and a little fucked up and that’s exactly why it works. The game leans hard into that “should I be doing this” feeling. And yeah, you will absolutely click “yes” more than you like to admit.

Sex scenes hit that sweet spot between trashy and bizarre. You’re not just fucking, you’re playing with power. Stopping a monster’s tentacle mid-air while you slam its summoner against a wall. Holding a girl in place with nothing but your mind while she begs you to keep going. Hearing every filthy thought in her head while she tries to act “pure” for you. My favorite bit is one dorm encounter where your powers glitch: you try to read her thoughts and accidentally broadcast yours. She realizes exactly how hard you want to ruin her, and instead of freaking out, she gets hotter, starts whispering back at you in her head. It feels dirty in that “I should clear my browser history after” kind of way. The funny thing, the romance actually lands sometimes, in between all the cum and monsters. One moment you’re balls deep in a girl you just saved from some shadow creature, the next she’s talking about feeling safe with you and suddenly it’s all tender and shit. Then the scene keeps going and you’re back to pounding her against a locker. I liked that switch. I hated that one of the UIs has this stupid tiny button placement that kept making me skip a line I wanted to read, and it annoyed the hell out of me every time, and I’m still pissed about it. Also, don’t expect every route to feel fair. Some choices look like “heroic” and still reward you with the most depraved outcome. Which, honestly, kind of matches the whole vibe of the game: you’re a walking miracle with superpowers, trying to pretend you’re a good guy while reality keeps offering you monster girls, kinky nurses, and classmates who moan when you touch their mind. And you keep saying yes.

Tainted Philter feels like one of those horny ideas somebody had in a Discord call and then actually followed through, in a good and kinda fucked up way. You’re this awkward, low self esteem guy dumped in a new city, stuck in a free room that sounds like a Craigslist scam, and then school hits you in the face. Whole thing looks like a pretty normal school life at first, except everybody’s a bit too hot and the camera really likes hips and thighs. Then this otherworldly woman shows up, like someone mixed a research assistant with a succubus and an RPG vendor, and just casually tells you magic is real and your new job is to corrupt people for her “research”. Totally normal conversation to have in a dark corner, right. She hands you a stash of potions with different colors and effects, and from there the game basically turns into “how far can you push this without everything collapsing on your head”. And you will push it. Even if you pretend you won’t.

The lewd stuff builds up nice and dirty. At first it’s small changes: a classmate who suddenly laughs at your lame jokes a bit too hard, a teacher who lowers her guard after a drink that’s just “a little stronger than usual”. The fun starts when you realize the game quietly tracks how twisted each girl is getting, and scenes start shifting tone. One route I spiked this quiet, ultra strict girl’s drink with something that boosted her confidence and lowered her shame; first time she just unbuttoned one more button on her blouse in the hallway, second time she was already flirting with me in the library like the place didn’t have cameras, third time I ended up with her grinding on my lap in an empty classroom while she kept insisting she was “still a good student”. The game doesn’t scream “you picked choice X so now Y happens”, it just lets the corruption stack and suddenly you’re in some filthy situation that started with a tiny decision three scenes ago. The MC goes from stuttering mess to smug manipulator way faster than feels healthy, but weirdly it fits, since the woman who gave you the powers clearly doesn’t care about your morals. You also get “extras” from her gift that she doesn’t know about, and the way the game lets you lie to her while you keep milking those perks is way more erotic than I expected; she talks about scientific progress while you secretly push girls past the line for your own fun. Some scenes get pretty intense, like harem setups where all the different corrupted personalities clash around you, and it still pretends to be a mystery story on top. The only thing that annoyed me is how the MC sometimes suddenly grows a spine in dialogue and then goes back to being awkward again right after a sex scene, like the game forgot which version of him was active, but by the time you’re juggling several girls in that school and mixing magic like a horny data scientist doing A/B tests on human lust, it really doesn’t matter anymore.