Couples: Lustbound drops you into Katy and John’s bedroom at that weird point where everything looks fine on Instagram, but in the dark they’re just kind of… touching each other out of habit. They’re young, married, they still care, but the kisses feel a bit too polite and John keeps grabbing his phone after sex. The game leans hard into that slow, itchy tension. Katy starts catching herself staring a bit too long at other guys, especially when one of John’s friends cracks a dirty joke and she laughs a little too hard. John notices. Or maybe he pretends not to, depending on what you make him do. It’s not about instant filth from the first click. It’s more like watching a flame catch on something that should not burn and thinking, “Eh, it’s fine” until the curtains are already smoking.

The visual novel structure gives you both sides of the mess. One moment you are John, pretending you’re totally cool with Katy going out in that tight dress that shows way too much thigh while you’re “busy with work.” Next moment you’re Katy, drunk on the attention when some guy’s hands stay on her waist a bit longer during a dance, feeling his fingers press her ass in the crowd where everyone can see and kind of hoping someone is actually watching. There are scenes where you’re basically voyeuring your own marriage. Like when John sits in the car, screen lit up with a text asking “You okay with this?” while he imagines what’s happening inside the bar: Katy laughing, a big dark hand on her knee, her lips brushing someone’s ear when she whispers. The game loves that sick mixing of jealousy, arousal, and guilt that sits in the belly. It lets you push them toward swinging nights, sneaky handjobs under tables, hotel room oral that starts as “just trying something new” and slides into “there is another guy finishing in your wife and you are not stopping it.” Or you pull them back, but not really. Even the “safer” choices still feel loaded. A simple shower together can be cruel when Katy teases, strokes John just enough to get him hard, then walks out, wrapped in a towel, annoyed but horny, checking her messages.

What I liked a lot is how the corruption doesn’t just turn Katy into some brainless sex doll. She remembers what she’s doing. When she spreads her legs for a guy who is not her husband and lets him slide inside bare, knowing creampie will leave a sticky reminder, she has that tiny moment of “I am a terrible person” right under the moan. John too is messed up in his own way. Sometimes he stares from the sidelines, watching a live porn show that involves the woman he promised to protect, and his dick is rock hard while his heart punches his ribs. It feels wrong and hot and pathetic at the same time. There are scenes where he joins in, hands roaming, groping her in front of another man like he is trying to mark territory, only to end up sharing her mouth, her pussy, everything. And then there are the quiet shots: Katy alone on the balcony in panties, knowing the neighbor across can see her, fingers inside herself while she replays what happened that night. Or John “accidentally” opening a video he shouldn’t have, seeing her knees on a hotel carpet, lips wrapped around someone else’s cock, and he just sits there, watching the whole thing in silence, breathing heavy. The game is at its dirtiest when it hugs that line between love and pure selfish lust, and doesn’t say which side is winning. It just lets you poke, twist, and watch them both fall apart in a way that feels way too real.

So you're telling me someone made a Simpsons porn game where you're basically reliving high school but with all the MILF characters from Springfield? Yeah, that's... actually kind of brilliant in the most degenerate way possible. The setup is weird as hell - you're this college-aged dude who somehow ends up living with the Simpson family and attending adult education classes filled with women who couldn't finish school on time. Like, why is Marge there? Did she drop out to have Bart? The logic doesn't matter because honestly, who's playing this for the plot consistency?

The whole thing plays like someone's horny fever dream crossed with a life simulator. You've got your basic needs to manage - shower regularly or just spam deodorant like some kind of antisocial gremlin, get a job to afford gifts for the ladies, and navigate this bizarre social ecosystem where you're flirting with everyone from Lisa's teacher Ms. Krabappel to that country singer Lurleen who appeared in like three episodes. The corruption mechanics are pretty standard fare, you know the drill - start innocent, gradually push boundaries until you're balls deep in cartoon pussy. What gets me is how they included deep cuts like Janey Powell and the Mackleberry twins. Someone really did their homework on Springfield's female population.

But here's where it gets actually interesting - the sandbox nature means you can completely ignore half the cast and just focus on your favorites. Want to spend the entire game trying to bang Marge while Homer's at work? Go for it. More interested in the school setting with younger characters? They got you covered. The voyeurism elements add this creepy layer where you're basically stalking these women around town, which... look, it's fucked up but it works for what this is. The animated scenes aren't anything revolutionary but they do the job, and there's enough variety in the handjobs and vaginal scenes to keep things from getting too repetitive. Though honestly, the humor is hit or miss - sometimes it captures that Simpsons wit, other times it feels like bad fanfiction written by a horny teenager.

Jack is that smug asshole you would instantly block on Instagram, except here you’re stuck in the same shitty town with him and his dad owns basically every thug on the street. The girl you play as is doing the classic “good student with garbage salary jobs” thing, dragging herself from school to work, trying to keep food on the table for her brother and her useless father. Then she hears the wrong thing at the wrong alley behind the school gate. Suddenly this isn’t just about grades and rent, it’s about a rich crime prince deciding she’s a loose end that needs to be handled. Small problem for him: she isn’t some screaming victim who faints at the first punch. The first time he sends a guy to scare her, you can actually put that bastard on the ground, boot on his chest, and feel the game quietly saying: yeah, she hits back.

From that moment, everything starts dripping into sex and power stuff, and it sneaks up on you. At the start she is stiff, almost painfully “pure”. First scene in her cramped bathroom, she is doing this awkward fast masturbation, trying not to wake anybody, biting her lip, half guilty, half desperate. Camera stays too long on her fingers and that cheap plastic phone light, you can almost feel how cold the tiles are. Then school scenes bring the slow rot. A teacher “accidentally” presses against her chest when he helps her with homework, students bump into her in the corridor and use every excuse to grope her ass. It begins as these small touches she tries to ignore, then you get dialogue options like “stay quiet and endure it” or “threaten to scream” and both paths somehow drag her deeper. Jack figures out very fast that she has someone to protect, and the blackmail snowballs: one lewd photo in the storage room so he deletes a video, one humiliating blowjob in his car so a debt magically disappears. Sometimes she is trembling, sometimes she looks straight at him with that angry, wet-eyed stare while she is on her knees, spit and cum on her tongue, and it is honestly hotter than any fake moaning. There is a club arc later where she has to strip on stage for quick dirty cash, and if you corrupt her far enough she starts arching her back and grinding on the pole like she owns the place, but there is always this tiny dead look in her eyes that reminds you this is survival, not some happy porn audition.

The game loves crossing the line with control. One route turns her part-time job into this twisted BDSM playground for a rich client, where he uses ropes and toys on her while she pretends it is “just another gig”. She goes in as a virgin just trying to keep her body intact long enough to escape the city, and the first full sex scene is brutally intimate. Slow, a bit clumsy, condom “forgotten” on purpose, you can see the exact second she realizes he is going to finish inside and there is nothing she can do without ruining everything she sacrificed. The creampie is not fireworks, it is a trap locking in. Later, when she actually starts to want it, there are scenes where she rides him in some shady motel, hand over his mouth, whispering filthy things you would not expect from the shy girl from the intro. Oral, rough groping in stairwells, being shoved against the school lockers while pretending to resist because the hallway cameras are on, that kinda pervy tension. Since it is a mobile game, I kept playing on the train with brightness way too low, swiping through choices with one thumb and praying nobody behind me could see when Jack’s hand slid into her panties during a “normal” lunch break. There is this tiny chat popup that keeps asking to rate the game and it appears directly on top of her face sometimes during a sex scene, which pissed me off so much I almost dropped the phone, but then I still went back to check a different corruption branch right after. And I still have no idea why the loading tip keeps mentioning a mechanic that never actually shows up in any route I tried, but whatever.

Phone Story looks harmless when it loads, like one of those cheap mobile chat sims you open on Chrome while pretending to check Slack. It is not harmless. It is that slow, nasty itch in the back of your head if you like watching “what if my girl had someone else in her DMs” kind of stuff. You play the husband who goes away, but honestly the main character is Lisa’s damn phone. Half the game is you reading her messages and deciding how much rope you want to give her, then pulling it back too late. You don’t click through some porn slideshow and right into “she’s on a couch with a giant dick in her.” The game takes its time. First it’s just flirty texts, a photo with “is this too much?” kind of teasing, her asking your opinion, your “friend” dropping those little comments that sound harmless until you reread them in incognito at work and realize you’re basically writing your own cuck script.

The pacing is weirdly strong for a messy hentai VN. Sometimes one choice just makes her send a slightly spicier selfie, sometimes it jumps right into a scene where she’s on video call, touching herself, trying to convince you it’s “for you” while that friend’s name keeps popping at the top of the screen. Classic anime-wife look, soft face, kinda innocent expression, but you can watch the corruption slide in bit by bit. She starts dressing more revealing, talking about “just hanging out” with him, a little wine, harmless cuddling, totally not cheating, right? Sure. Then you get those AI-looking CGs where she’s on her knees, lips glossy, your friend’s bbc in front of her mouth, and she’s still typing some sweet romantic bullshit to you with the other hand. The game loves making you stare at chat bubbles while she’s getting filled somewhere offscreen or in a small mirrored reflection. Proper voyeurism energy. The actual sex scenes hit all the usual spots, vaginal, anal, her pinned to a table, riding, messy facials, the whole thing, but the part that sticks is when she looks happy and guilty at the same time and you know it’s half for you and half for herself. Sometimes the writing slips and a line sounds like it came out of Google Translate, but honestly that kinda fits the vibe. On Android Chrome the text boxes get too big and cover half the art, which annoys the hell out of me, and if you tap too fast you skip a good line and there’s no quick log button right in your face, you have to dig for it. Also one route feels like it jumps from “maybe I’ll flirt” to “raw creampie from your buddy” in like two clicks, like the dev got horny and forgot the slow burn. Still, if you’re into netorare or softer netorase stuff, that moment when you tell her “yeah, explore a bit, just don’t forget me” and later you’re literally watching her try anal for the first time with someone else because you told her it’s fine, that hits way harder than it has any right to. And yeah, sometimes you tell her to stay faithful and the game almost seems annoyed, like “are you sure you don’t want to watch?” but then it gives you these surprisingly sweet romantic scenes where she masturbates with the phone propped up, moaning your name while she’s already mentally halfway to the neighbor’s bedroom. Not subtle at all, but that’s kind of the point.