Trueclash feels like someone mixed a queer dating sim with sweaty MMA gym drama and then forgot to make it “nice” for parents. I opened it thinking, ok, maybe it is just romance with some punches in background, something like those tame otome mobile games on Google Play. No. Here you are a trainer in this crazy violent tournament world and everybody is half naked all the time, covered in bruises and horny mood. The story keeps asking you who you want to fuck and who you want to push to become champion, and sometimes it is honestly the same answer. One match you are helping this huge bara fighter stretch his legs and the camera just stays on his thighs way too long, like the game is winking at you. Then later you are sitting in a tiny locker room with a cocky girl fighter, she has ice on her ribs and suddenly she starts asking if you look at her ass when she trains. I mean, of course the game lets you answer yes. It almost feels offended if you say no.

What surprised me is that it is not just “click sex scene get reward”. The whole thing remembers your bullshit. I tried lying to one of the gay guys, told him I believed in his “pure technique” and not just his body, and then much later in another scene he literally threw my own words back at me while grinding on top of me after a victory. “You like my technique, right, coach?” and then the dialogue gives an option to beg him to go slower, which I clicked, then he ignored it completely and fucked harder. Honestly kinda hot, but also I felt called out like on Twitter. The lesbian routes felt different again, more emotional, but still explicit. There is this quiet girl who seems shy the whole time, then after a bloody match she pulls you into the showers, slams you against the tiles and tells you she is tired of pretending you are “just helping with training”. Water everywhere, her breathing in your ear, and the text really goes into detail with fingers and tongues. For a so-called “visual novel” it is weirdly physical, you almost smell the sweat. And the city outside the arena, Vibrant City or whatever, I thought it would be safe place, but even in the streets the flirting is aggressive, like everyone is two sentences away from dragging you into an alley.

Sometimes it annoyed me, I admit. There is one guy path, super built, totally my type, and the game keeps teasing him with soft scenes, sharing a protein shake, watching some stupid MMA meme clips on TikTok together, but then the actual first sex scene with him is locked behind some earlier choice where you had to be kind of an asshole to someone else. I only found that out because I reloaded a way older save and suddenly he shows up in my room, sweaty from late training, asking if I can “help him cool down” and I was like where was this before. So you really feel that “echo” thing. Also the writing can jump: one moment serious talk about trauma and abuse in the sport, next moment his dick is in your mouth and there is a bad joke about chokeholds. As a parent I should probably say this is bad influence and too adult and whatever, but honestly I kept clicking, muttering “just one more scene” like some horny teenager again. It is messy, queer in all directions, half romance and half porn, and it kind of crawled into my head in a way those more polished, safe LGBT games never do.

Emily is that kind of heroine who looks like she should be in some cute, holy church story, but the game clearly hates that idea and keeps throwing her into every dirty corner of this medieval shithole of a town. It starts pretty mild, you know, the usual “lost girl from small village” stuff, she’s nervous, shy, touching herself under the blankets like she’s scared the gods are watching. But the way the game plays with her curiosity is what got me. First time she sneaks a look at a guy getting jerked off behind the inn, the camera sits too long on her face, on her breathing, on her biting her lip. She pretends to look away, you can click somewhere else, but you don’t. You keep her watching. You make her watch. That’s the vibe. The corruption is not fast, it’s like someone slowly opening her shirt button by button in public and telling her it’s her idea.

What I really liked is how the sandbox thing works with her shame. You’re not forced into a straight line. You roam around this town that looks kind of cozy and rotten at same time, and every corner is some new way to push her. Maybe she just wanted to buy fruit and instead you end up with some drunk mercenary “accidentally” groping her ass near the stall, his hand staying way too long. You can back out, or you can have her freeze, not fight, feel that first hot spark between her legs. Then later she’s in her little rented room, pretending she’s just going to sleep, and you have that scene where she sits on the edge of the bed, lifts her dress, fingers shaking, and starts masturbating while replaying that touch in her head. It’s not glamorous porn, it’s messy, guilty, with her whispering “just a bit” and then going way past “just a bit” until she’s grinding on her own fingers like a needy slut. And then the game hits you with a choice the next day, like “do you avoid that guy” or “go the same route again, oops”, and you know exactly what you’re clicking and why.

The oral and lesbian stuff also doesn’t appear as “hey, here is the lesbian route now”, it feels more like her accidentally sliding into it. One time she’s just helping a “friend” wash in the bathhouse and suddenly there is this long, slow scene of soap, hands on tits that are obviously too big for that tiny shirt, two girls pressed against each other, one clearly more experienced, guiding Emily’s hand between her own legs. Emily’s first time going down on another girl is clumsy as hell, she’s trying to copy what she saw guys do through keyholes earlier. You can almost feel her confusion turning to hunger when the other girl moans and grabs her hair to push her deeper. Then like three scenes later she’s on her knees for some smug asshole with armor and bad haircut, licking his cock while trying to keep eye contact because he told her “good girls look up”, and you can decide if she does it like shy, hesitant little thing or like she already knows she likes the taste. Honestly I hated the fetchy “go here, click this icon again” loop sometimes, it gets grindy, but then you suddenly unlock a new animation with her big ass bouncing up and down on some guy in a dark alley and you forget you were annoyed five minutes before. It’s that kind of game where you tell yourself “ok, last event” and then you’re still there, making her sneak out at night just to find someone else to use her. Shame turns into habit, habit into hunger, and the town becomes one big stage where she keeps learning she was never as innocent as she thought.

Lydia feels like that quiet girl from your math class who never talked, then one night you see her at a party half drunk, lips on another girl, mascara ruined, and you realise you had no clue who she really was. That’s the whole vibe here. She walks into this fancy New York college with her planner, her high grades, her “good girl” brain, and then the game basically throws her into sex, pressure, weird relationships, and some very questionable choices that you, as the player, keep pushing her into because it’s impossible not to test how far she bends. One moment she’s blushing because someone saw her underwear under that too-short skirt, next moment you’ve got her deliberately “forgetting” to close the curtains in her dorm room, staring at her own reflection on the glass while knowing people in the next building can see everything. I liked how the game doesn’t scream at you “this is corruption now”, it just lets you nudge her a bit, then a bit more, and suddenly Lydia’s the one saying the filthy lines in dialog that would have made her faint in the intro.

The routes with the girls hit different than I expected. When Lydia ends up in those lesbian scenes, it’s not just “oh look, two girls, boobs, done”. You get soft, clumsy kisses on a dorm bed with a friend, the kind where they both stop and giggle because teeth bumped, and then twenty minutes later you might have her pinned against a bathroom stall, one hand over her mouth while some other student is washing their hands at the sink, clueless. Or maybe not totally clueless. The game is weird like that, it loves that almost-caught tension. The trans romances are actually where I felt the dev flexing a bit. There’s that moment when Lydia’s staring at a hard cock and pretty face at the same time, trying to process why she’s more turned on than confused, and the dialog actually leans into her brain spinning, not just her body reacting. Sex scenes go from sweet vanilla dates and handholding to Lydia on her knees taking it deep and letting someone use her hair as grip, then back to cuddles like nothing happened. Some scenes are kind of stiff and the pacing jumps around without warning, like a Ren’Py script got smashed with a hammer and taped back together, but in a weird way that matches how her college life feels. You think you’re going for wholesome romance, suddenly you’re choosing whether she agrees to wear a collar under her turtleneck to class. Or if she lets a girl tie her wrists to the headboard and take pictures, “just for us”, which of course is never just for them. I kept meaning to try the more normal path and then found myself pushing her into another risky exhibition stunt, like making her walk down the dorm hallway in nothing but an unbuttoned shirt and panties, praying no RA shows up. It’s messy, horny, sometimes awkward, sometimes really hot, and Lydia never fully stops feeling like that smart, slightly lost college girl who might either graduate with honors or end up skipping lectures because she’s too busy getting fucked in someone’s off-campus apartment.

Dragons, horny idiots, and way too many bad decisions, that’s kinda the tone here. You start out in this messy fantasy world where everyone either wants to stab you, fuck you, or make you solve some weird little puzzle before they tell you where the next dragon clue is. The game lets you pick who you are right away: guy, girl, or futa, and it actually matters because people react to you a bit different, and some scenes just hit different when you’re a shy virgin futa trying to act cool in front of a monster girl with more confidence than common sense. It’s not subtle. One moment you’re trying to think through a puzzle with glowing runes and pattern matching, next moment, you click the “wrong” symbol and suddenly you’re on your knees in first person, mouth full, and the camera just stays there a little too long while the animation loops. In a good way. Mostly.

The “visual novel plus sandbox” thing is a strange mix that kinda works and kinda annoys me. You’ve got this hub where you wander around to find your companions, poke at side quests, and sometimes you just want to jump directly into the next romance scene, but no, the game makes you trot across the area, poke some shiny object, do a small puzzle, listen to a bit of lore about dragons, then, boom, here’s the lesbian scene you were actually waiting for. There’s a moment where my female MC finally hooked up with this monster girl with claws and soft voice, and the build up was cute as hell, all tension and “is this really happening,” then it cuts to animated vaginal and oral, lots of wet sounds, POV angles that actually show what’s going on instead of hiding everything behind a single static shot. I liked that the creampie isn’t just a flash, it lingers, drips, the camera actually respects that people want to stare. But the accessibility side is honestly rough sometimes. The text box has decent font size, but there’s no real text-to-speech, no configurable high contrast mode, and some of the puzzle highlight colors blend into the background like it’s 2010 again. I had to squint more than once, and I’m already using Windows magnifier because devs keep pretending everyone sees fine. Keyboard navigation is half-baked too: you can tab through some choices, but not all, and some mini-games want mouse precision without any assist options. Makes me want to yell at my monitor a bit.

Still, the character stuff sticks with me. There’s this companion quest where my futa MC decided not to romance the guy, just help him deal with his dragon-related trauma, and the game actually respected that. No forced sex, no “secret” romance flag, just quiet scenes and then later I went for the soft, clingy romance with a female character instead, and that route spiraled into pregnancy talk that did not feel like an afterthought. Watching the belly show up later in a scene while she rides you, full on animated, is weirdly intimate and also kinda filthy, in a good way, because the story mentioned it earlier so it doesn’t appear out of nowhere. There are also handjob scenes where the camera goes very close to fingers and shaft, very deliberate strokes, cum shots that actually match the motion instead of the usual lazy splash. It’s horny, sure, but sometimes it slows down and lets the romance breathe, and then ruins the mood again by tossing in a puzzle with tiny icons that are absolute hell if you’re playing on a trackpad. I kept thinking “why is there no option to simplify this for people with shaky hands” while my character was getting railed from behind in another scene ten minutes later. Also, whoever mapped the skip and auto-advance buttons clearly never used a screen reader, because the clickable zones are tiny, and I almost clicked past a really good scene with a futa-on-futa blowjob followed by a messy double creampie that honestly deserved its own replay gallery filter. But no, you just scroll and scroll and scroll. Not fixing that, I guess.