Riveroaks looks like one of those nice West Coast towns from Instagram, but this game keeps poking the dirty meat under the skin. You play this broke guy who gets kicked out of home and suddenly finds out his estranged dad is a porn mogul with a new gay studio that needs a handler. Not in the fun BDSM sense. In the “sign contracts and worry about profits while staring at six packs” sense. Half the time you are trying to pretend you are a professional businessman, the other half you are trying not to get a visible boner during casting. The fun part is how casual the world treats sex. Everyone already knows you are Leonard King’s kid. Baristas flirt with you like they want a role, gym bros stretch way too close, and every conversation has this small chance to slide into filth. One second someone is talking about lighting, the next they are describing exactly how they want to be fucked on camera, and the game just goes “yeah this is normal”. As a horror nerd I like when a city feels like it has a pulse, and Riveroaks kind of hums like something alive and wet. Every location feels like a different fetish altar. The arcade with sticky neon, the gym with its sweaty muscle cult, the cute café where the “nice guy” director talks about art and then asks if you are comfortable filming a three-way with a choke scene. None of this is subtle. Sometimes it is hilarious and awkward and horny at the same time, like when you are reviewing test footage and realize the actor is staring straight into the camera, dirty talking you of all people, and the dialogue actually acknowledges your flustered silence instead of pretending you are a blank self insert.

What surprised me is how much the management part and the romance keep stepping on each other’s toes. You choose what kind of scenes to produce, who to cast together, what kinks to push, and later you have to sit with the people you just turned into “content” and maybe flirt with them, or listen when they tell you about their trauma, or both. There is this one moment where you schedule a shoot with a cocky twink and a quiet older guy, thinking “ok, this will sell, simple power play vibe”, and by the time you watch the preview cut you realize they actually clicked emotionally in between all the deepthroating. Then the game asks you, softly but not really gently, if you want to push them harder next time for profit or let them have a slower, sweeter scene. Of course I picked the darker option because I am weak and also curious. The aftermath hit harder than I expected, but then the next scene is just a stupidly funny argument in a bistro over whose ass looks better on camera, so your feelings never get to settle. It is messy, like real life, only with a lot more cum. The main character is weirdly relatable too. Not some porn god, just this slightly lost young dude who keeps flipping between horny, bitter, and accidentally caring. One route has you teasing a muscular cameraman in the locker room, trading nasty jokes until he corners you in the shower and asks if you are just playing or if you want him to ruin you for real. Another has you sharing late night drinks with an actor who looks like he walked out of a yaoi doujin, talking about family while his hand sits a little too high on your thigh. The sex scenes commit. They use the dirty words, they linger on bodies, they let you taste that feeling of being looked at like fresh meat. Sometimes the pacing goes weird and you jump from intense emotional build up to “ok, we are sucking dick now” with almost no breath, but honestly that clumsy cut has its own charm. Porn is rarely tidy. In my head I almost read Riveroaks like a cult story, only the cult is gay porn, and instead of summoning Cthulhu you are summoning audience engagement with horny thumbnails. There is something quietly corrupting about how normal it feels after a while to treat desire as a spreadsheet thing. And then a cute guy smiles at you from across the studio, half naked, and you stop caring where exactly your soul went.

This thing starts pretty harmless: you’re a dude dumped into a new town, new school, trying to act like you’ll focus on “normal life” and not on every giant ass that passes in the hallway. That lie lasts about five clicks. The game is basically you wandering around a school and house and a few spots in town, poking at stuff, poking at people, poking at yourself in the shower because the so-called “quiet life” turns into a horny soap opera really fast. It’s all point & click, so half the time you’re like “ok, I’ll check the kitchen” and suddenly there’s your mom turned into a thick, animated wet dream, tits threatening to escape her top while she bends over some random chore that clearly exists only so your view gets full screen cleavage. It looks 3D, but not that sterile AAA style, more like weirdly plastic and shiny in a way that actually fits the porn vibe. Faces are sometimes a bit stiff, but asses jiggle in a way that had me forget how expressions even work.

The rhythm is kinda messy, which I weirdly liked. One moment you just try to find your classroom and the next you end up hiding a hard-on behind your school bag because the teacher calls you to her desk and leans forward like she’s doing a charity event for thigh lovers. There’s that sandbox thing going on, so you pick where to go in your day and who to “bump into”. I clicked on the bathroom at home just to see if anything happens, and yeah, it does: you catch your “relative” stepping out of the shower, towel barely hanging, steam everywhere, nipples clearly visible through the fabric, and the game just lets you stare too long. The MC comments like a horny idiot, and you get the option to stay and jerk off, which of course I pretended I wouldn’t do and then did anyway. The masturbating scenes are actually animated, not just static pics, so you see that slow handjob motion, his dick glistening, and you can almost hear the “this is a bad idea” thought die in his brain. I wish the sound design had more filthy breathing or wet noises, but whatever, my browser stayed open anyway. At one point I was in the living room, clicking around like a fool, and the milf in the house sat down next to me in a tight tank top, boobs pressed together so hard it should be against school rules, and when she “innocently” adjusts her top, it slides low enough that the areola pops for a second. I swear I rewound that with a quicksave like three times and then complained to myself that the game didn’t let me motorboat her right away, which is stupid, because slow burn incest tension is clearly the point here. But still, let a man dream.

What surprised me is that they actually try a bit of romance too, not just pure porn. You flirt, send texts, click the wrong answer and suddenly the girl with the perfect huge tits is annoyed and doesn’t give you that handjob scene you know is hiding in the event list somewhere. I got locked out of one scene because I forgot to talk to her at school in the morning, and I was more mad about that than about some bugs I hit earlier, like a loop where the day would not progress unless I clicked some random door. The school corridors are a circus of eye candy: short skirt here, tight jeans there, that one girl whose ass is so big the camera basically zooms in by itself when she walks away. Sometimes the timing is off, you get a build up and then the scene ends just when the milf is finally stroking your cock under the table and you think “ok, now she’ll finish me” and nope, fade to black, you’re blueballed and thrown into the next morning. But then a different day, out of nowhere, there’s a full handjob animation in the bedroom, her sitting so close you can see every little jiggle of her tits as she moves her arm, and cum splashes all over her fingers. It’s inconsistent, messy, horny as hell, a little broken, kind of like browsing incognito mode on Chrome while pretending you’re doing emails. Honestly it deserves a fake award like “Best Use Of A Kitchen Accident To Show Sideboob” because the amount of times “oops I spilled something” leads to curves on display is ridiculous. And yeah, I’ll complain forever that the main menu music sounds like a cheap loop from some free app, but the second the mom bends over in those yoga pants again, I magically stop caring.

You wake up in this weird in‑between place that feels like someone smashed a porn studio, a nerd convention and a haunted house together and forgot to clean up the lore. Nobody is surprised you just popped in from some random reality. They’re more interested in your dick, your schedule, and whether you sign the consent forms. It’s all very casual. People wander around half-dressed, fully naked, or in outfits that probably break like three different labor laws, but everyone treats it like just another workday. You’re the new guy with way too much freedom and way too little supervision, which is exactly how the game likes it.

The whole thing plays like a lazy day on your phone when you should be answering emails but instead you’re switching between Pornhub, F95, and Telegram. One minute you’re flirting with a stacked milf who has that “I’ve ruined men before” vibe, next minute you accidentally wander into a horror-themed set where a monster girl is chained up for a scene and asks if you want to “rehearse” the tentacle bit. There’s this nice rhythm where you can just walk around, peek into rooms, catch people mid-blowjob or bent over a couch, and decide if you want to join, watch from the dark corner, or act like a professional and go buy coffee. Nobody forces you into anything, which is honestly kinda hot when some cocky actress rolls her eyes and goes “Then don’t, I’ve got five more guys on call.” The power fantasy is there, but it doesn’t hold your hand. You pick who you chase, who you ignore, who you keep as that one late-night regular you always come back to for a quick creampie before touching anything else.

What sells it for me is how filthy it goes without pretending to be classy. You’ve got big tits stuffed into outfits three sizes too small, big asses that just beg for a hard slap, anal scenes that start with teasing and end with “okay, that looked like it hurt but she’s smiling so fine.” There’s straight stuff, lesbian scenes where two girls forget the camera and just devour each other, some surprisingly tender gay content that makes the male MC feel more like a real perv than a porn robot, and then those group things where everyone is on everyone and you basically give up trying to label what’s happening and just enjoy the mess. The voyeur side is strong too; half of my early game was just me peeking through windows or pretending to look for props while people got railed in the background. There’s this old gilf studio manager who flirts so aggressively you kind of hope she finally drags you into her office and “negotiates your contract” on her desk, but she keeps getting interrupted by some stupid production issue and it drove me insane. And then you forget because a monster girl with horns and drool on her chin asks if you wanna try something “unsafe for YouTube but perfect for here,” and suddenly you’re on your knees, nobody’s talking about contracts anymore, and your only real problem is deciding which of these insane people you’re going to keep in your personal little harem ending once you’ve seen enough to know exactly how wrong this place can get in the best possible way.

There is something a bit fucked about walking into “your” apartment and your first real conversation is with a ghost that wants to blow you. Not in a fun, fluffy hentai way either. The game sets you up as this unlucky guy from the Devos bloodline, and the place already feels wrong before anything actually happens. Lights flicker, those cheap 3D shadows slide over the walls like they know your name, and then, boom, you look in the bathroom mirror and there’s a pale thing behind you that looks half depressed boy, half succubus. It smiles, and you’re thinking “ok, jumpscare?” but no. It kneels. That whole scene is animated with this weird slow hunger, and it’s honestly more uncomfortable than most horror movies on Netflix. In a good way, if you are into that mix of dread and dick worship.

The story pretends to be about solving a family curse, reading notes on your tablet, digging through old messages and voice memos your father left you, trying to understand who started all this paranormal shit. But the game keeps distracting you with horny ghosts and monster girls that do not respect personal space. You open a locked door with this simple puzzle and a ghost girl with empty eyes rushes up to you, sniffs your neck, then quietly asks if she can “taste living seed again.” That escalates fast into you pinned against the wall, her mouth deep on you, gagging and drooling, then suddenly she shifts on top and you are buried inside her while the UI is still pretending you’re investigating clues. At one point a femboi spirit in tattered underwear crawls out from under the bed, wraps your waist with this thin, shaky body, and just sinks down on you, riding in total silence while distant knocking sounds start in the hallway. Your MC is trying to ask “who cursed the Devos line?” while he is balls deep in a ghost that keeps tightening around him like it wants to drag his soul out through his cock. The game does not fade to black, it shows creampies in full detail, cum spilling from ghost holes that are not even supposed to be physically real. And then, after all that, the apartment goes quiet again, and you’re left scrolling through old diary pages on your phone, dripping, trying to pretend this is still about “mystery” and “romance” and not about how many times the dead can milk you before you finally understand why your whole bloodline is cursed.