Banu lands in the West for “just one month”, opens her chat apps, and within a couple of in-game days she’s already juggling flirty texts, creepy stares on public transport, and her own hand under the blanket. The game doesn’t pretend she’s some innocent flower; she looks, she stares back, she gets wet, and sometimes she still pulls her hand away at the last second and just bites her lip in frustration. That tension is the whole charm. One moment she’s politely declining a drink, trying to hold on to the idea of being a “good girl”, and the next she’s grinding her ass on a stranger’s thigh in a crowded club scene while the camera lingers lovingly on her curves. Her ass is the real protagonist here, honestly. You get little choices that look harmless, like “stay a bit longer” or “answer his message later”, and suddenly you’ve pushed Banu into a very different night, with a cock pressing against her through his jeans or a lonely shower where she’s fingering herself while thinking about someone she “definitely shouldn’t want”. It’s not subtle at all, and somehow that makes it feel more honest.

The cheating angle doesn’t smack you in the face right away. It creeps in. First it’s Banu checking old messages from a guy back home while a handsome neighbor keeps “accidentally” bumping into her in the hallway, then before you know it she’s letting his hand rest on her hip for too long, then his palm is full on her ass, then he’s sliding his fingers between her legs over her underwear and she’s pretending she’s going to stop him. She never actually does. There’s a scene where she’s supposed to be on a video call, being all proper and polite, and her other hand is under the table stroking some guy’s cock, trading soft moans with his deep breathing while she says totally normal things into the mic. I liked that the teasing isn’t just for the male characters either; the game teases you. It makes you sit through her nervous chatter, the small talk, the “I really shouldn’t”, before finally letting you watch her spread her thighs and slide her fingers into her pussy. Then sometimes it just cuts away at the good part and jumps to the next morning, which made me want to throw my phone at the wall. I kept playing anyway, obviously.

When the violence hits, it’s not pretty or noble. Suddenly someone grabs her wrist too hard in an alley, and your “do I push him away or try to calm him down” choice can turn into a really rough scene where you’re not fully sure how consensual this shit is supposed to be. She moans, he chokes her a bit, she claws his back while he’s ramming into her, and the animation makes it look horny as hell. As an ethics nerd I sat here thinking, okay, am I enjoying this as fantasy, or is the game trying to blur the line a little too much? Hard to tell, and that’s kind of the point, I think. The game keeps pretending you’re in control, but most routes end with Banu’s boundaries getting pushed past what she originally wanted. Her saying “no” that suddenly becomes a whiny “wait… just slower” once he’s got her pinned and his fingers are already working her clit. It’s hot, and it’s also a bit messed up, and I wish the game cared more about that, but I also don’t, because the whole thing is built around that feeling of watching her give in. One scene has her jerking a guy off in the back of a car, cum all over her hand, while she still has a “loyal” status in the menu like nothing happened. That cracked me up more than it should. The game is horny, shameless, sometimes rough in a way that might make some players pause for a second, and then still tap the lewd option anyway.

Frank really picked the worst possible way to escape prison and the best possible place to wash up. Storm, wreck, boom, suddenly the dude is crawling out of the water into a familiar yellow square house that should not be this horny. He looks around, nobody home, nobody asking questions, so he just goes, “Yeah, sure, I’m SpongeBob now,” throws on the clothes and starts living this fake life under the sea. It sounds stupid as hell. It is stupid as hell. That’s kind of why it works. The game just leans into the parody thing completely, like a Newgrounds cartoon that got drunk, grew up and decided to stop pretending it’s for kids. One minute you’re wandering Bikini Bottom talking to cartoon weirdos, next minute you’re balls deep in someone with tits that would absolutely not pass broadcast standards. It’s all exaggerated, big tits, big asses, stretchy mouths, thick thighs, the whole hentai checklist but in this goofy aquatic world that used to run on Nickelodeon.

The tone is all over the place in a fun way. You’re this criminal hiding in plain sight, trying to remember you’re “SpongeBob” while also basically turning the town into your own personal sex playground. You can wander around, poke into houses you probably shouldn’t, get into some stupid mini-games, buy junk from shops, then somehow that leads to a blowjob behind a counter or a rough handjob in a back alley lit like a bad crime movie. The animated scenes are unapologetically dirty: sloppy oral with lots of spit, big cartoon cocks sliding between fat wet lips, pussy getting pounded while her huge chest bounces in that silly loop that looks wrong and right at same time. Sometimes it goes from silly to surprisingly graphic fast, like you’re laughing at a joke and suddenly there’s this intense vaginal close-up with her moaning like a full hentai OVA. The violence sneaks in too, not super serious but sharp enough you remember that Frank isn’t some innocent hero. He’s a fugitive who lies, pushes people around, fucks them, sometimes intimidates them. Definitely more male dom than soft romance here, even when the girls act all cutesy.

What surprised me most is how oddly cozy the sandbox feels even when everything on screen is nasty. You move across different Bikini Bottom spots, trigger crazy side events, stumble into lewd scenes you didn’t plan, then ten minutes later you’re grinding money again because you wasted it on some dumb store item that only unlocks one short sex loop. Some dialogues hit like shitposts from Reddit, other lines sound like the dev wrote them half asleep, but that gives it this raw energy. It’s not “polished narrative experience”, it’s “guy in a funny outfit lying to the whole town while shoving his dick where it doesn’t belong”. Sometimes the pacing goes weird and you’re stuck wandering around checking every door because the game refuses to tell you where the next scene is, and then out of nowhere you trigger a scene with a stacked character who rides you like she’s trying to break your spine. If there was a DLC where Bikini Bottom just leaned even harder into the corruption, with even more twisted hentai-style events and Frank losing the last bits of morality he has, I’d play that in a heartbeat. Even if I’d complain about some tiny bug in the shop UI and then completely forget I ever mentioned it once the next girl drops to her knees.

There’s this weird cozy-horny vibe to Growth Academy that kinda sneaks up on you. At first it feels like some chill school-life VN where you just arrived on this hidden island college, meet a couple of classmates with too-big sweaters and oddly shy teachers, and you think “ok, normal harem setup, I know this”. Then suddenly someone’s boobs are stretching her uniform day by day, another girl’s ass doesn’t fit in her chair anymore, and the game just treats it like it’s as normal as exchanging Line IDs. I liked that actually. Nobody is screaming “oh no I am a freak of nature”, it is more like “my tits grew two sizes again, can you help me carry my books” and then five minutes later you are face first in her cleavage. The whole place feels like a horny rehab center where the cure is more sex. Also the island lore is lowkey interesting even when you came only to see giant jiggling body parts crash into doorframes. I kept telling myself “okay one more scene then I close it and touch grass” and suddenly I’m trying to max out affection with a girl whose thighs could crush a small car, just because I wanted to see what happens if she really lets go during sex. Spoiler: she does not hold back.

The erotic part leans hard into growth, but it does not rush. Some routes are very slow burn, you watch a girl’s body change over many days, clothes getting tighter, camera angles getting more pervy, your MC pretending he is surprised even though you obviously keep choosing the horny dialogue. One of my favorite moments was sneaking into the dorm at night and the game casually drops a sleep sex scene like “oh yeah this is a thing here”. No drama, just you sliding under the covers, touching big warm flesh in the dark while the UI quietly pops up new corruption flags. Then later the same girl acts all innocent in class, except she can’t button her shirt anymore and the teacher keeps looking and you feel like everyone is lying to each other and it turns you on more. There’s futa stuff, lesbian scenes behind the gym, some dommy girls that use you like a toy, a succubus who basically blackmails you with your own dick, group sessions that feel like a school project gone very wrong, and a few “oh shit, did that just count as cheating” moments that made me pause for like two seconds before clicking “continue”. I wish they would stop teasing pregnancy and then not go full explicit with it, but I get it, I still hate it. Also there’s this whole persona-ish schedule and dungeon tone in the background where you manage days, build stats, poke at mysteries, but half the time I forgot about the big island secret and just chased bigger tits and thicker asses like some caveman with a smartphone. It’s messy, horny, kind of clumsy at times, some scenes hit like top tier hentai, some feel like they were written at 4% brain battery, but it has that “one more click” energy that makes you keep an incognito tab open way longer than you plan.

This one feels like someone smashed a horny occult comic, a school harem fantasy and a crunchy stat game together, then just left some of the screws loose on purpose. You play as Caleb, a magician who looks like he smells of cheap coffee and old paper, not glitter and fireballs. The vibe is more “burned-out grad student who sees ghosts” than superhero, which I kinda liked. He’s stuck in this weird school environment where half the people are hiding something nasty under their skin and the other half are pretending they don’t notice. Classes feel like a joke until you realize some of them actually change how you can twist people’s minds or how hard you can push monsters before they chew you up. One minute you’re flirting with a girl with absurdly huge tits over some nonsense assignment, the next you’re in a corridor that suddenly feels too long and too dark and you know there’s something in the corner of your eye that isn’t human at all.

The teasing is pretty much constant, sometimes in a good way, sometimes “ok, show a nipple already, I get it.” There’s a scene early on with a big-ass goth girl in a mostly empty classroom, legs up on the desk, playing with a pen in her mouth while she casually talks about possession and curses. The camera keeps following her lips when she slides the pen out, wet, and it is so obviously foreshadowing a deepthroat blowjob later that you almost want to laugh. When it finally happens, it’s actually animated, messy, noisy, with her choking a bit and trying to keep eye contact, and your choices during the build-up change if she treats it more like worship or like a power move. She acts like she’s the one in control at first, then your hand is suddenly on the back of her head and her eyes water and that little shift from smug to needy hits harder than any “high-quality animation” ever could. And then, right after that, the story drags you into a paranormal investigation scene where the mood is creepy as hell and you still kinda taste the blowjob on your brain. This contrast works... until it doesn’t, because sometimes the pacing just crashes. There was a hallway monster encounter with a tentacled shadow thing that had insane build-up, then it ended in like two clicks and no proper payoff, sexual or story-wise. Also, the stat system is a bit of a dick. I failed a check in what looked like a horny scene with a busty teacher and it just cut to black and skipped the lewd part entirely. No hint why, no “you needed X points,” just cold “fuck you.” I actually alt-tabbed to rant on Discord about it, then went back and grinded a bit like an idiot, because I wanted to see her wrap those enormous tits around the MC and use a tiny cleansing spell on his cock while she pretends it’s some “aura inspection.”

Where it gets interesting is how the magic and sex tie together. Caleb’s abilities are not just combat tricks. You can slightly nudge people’s emotions, twist their fear of the unknown, sharpen your senses until you hear heartbeats speed up when you touch them. There’s a scene in the school courtyard at night with this shy girl who’s obviously not fully human, something about her eyes, and if you spent points in the right branch, you can feel that thing moving inside her when you lean in. You press her up against a tree, her skirt riding up over a frankly stupidly round ass, and you can tell she’s scared of losing control of the monster in her, but also desperate to be used. The game lets you decide if you calm the beast down with subtle magic and make the sex soft and weirdly tender, or if you poke at it, teasing until her nails dig in your back and she growls in your ear while riding you. What annoyed me, though, is that sometimes the story acts like your choices are huge, then shoves you into the same corridor investigation anyway. There was this whole build of paranormal tension, a bathroom mirror that shows what you really are instead of your face, almost no clothing left, nipples hard, your hand between a girl’s thighs while something invisible taps on the glass from the other side, and just when it feels like it’s about to combine the horror and the sex properly, it cuts to a stat screen. Like, why right there? Who thought “yeah, this is a good moment to remind you about your Perception level”? Still, when it hits, it hits. The oral scenes feel wet and filthy, the big tits and big asses are not just “look, boobs,” they’re framed in ways that say a lot about power and shame. It’s messy in tone, half brilliant and half “what the hell are you doing,” but in this genre, that kind of broken energy sometimes feels more honest than a clean, polished fetish checklist.