Dorian is stuck in bed, leg in a cast, body useless, phone in his hand. That’s pretty much your whole world at the start. No heroic shit, no big fantasy prophecy, just a guy who can’t move from the waist down fast enough to stop his own life falling apart a few meters away. His wife Claire is supposed to be his angel in a maid outfit, the one bringing meds, food, and those soft tits he remembers fucking in the shower. Instead, she’s half dressed, skirt riding up, always bending over a little too slow when Shad is around. And Shad is always around now, “helping with bills”, staying over, walking around the apartment like he already owns the place. The game just lets you sit there and watch, phone lighting up with group chat messages while you hear them giggle in the next room. It feels like being pinned under a truck and forced to listen to your own sex life being auctioned off.

Most of the action is on that damn phone. Group chat first, the three of you trading jokes, dumb memes, horny teasing that you try to control but never really do. You can reply, stay cool and “mature”, or poke at them, or act needy, and the vibe shifts a little. But no matter what you pick, the tension keeps crawling up. Claire starts posting pics in that cheap maid uniform you picked as a joke during character creation, but somehow her cleavage gets lower every time. At first it’s “haha look I’m cosplaying as your nurse”, and Shad drops the classic “damn bro you’re lucky” line. Later it’s “I’m helping him relax” with a shot where you can clearly see her hand is not on your shoulder, it’s way under the blanket, and the expression on Shad’s reaction emoji tells you everything. There are animated bits where the phone screen shakes a little as you scroll through a chat log full of her pussy shots, her lips around his cock, your own wife riding a dick and sending you the proof like it’s just another funny sticker pack. It’s half voyeur game, half emotional torture device, and the math part of my brain started counting routes like they were failure states.

I kept tracking where the branches split: when you stay polite versus when you blow up, when you flirt back and pretend the whole situation is just some kinky roleplay, when you play the “I don’t care, fuck whoever you want” card and secretly hope she stops. The cheating is not hidden at all, it’s right in front of you, in your chat history, on your gallery, in the moans you hear through the wall when the door is “accidentally” left open. There are scenes where she gives you a lazy handjob while whispering messages to Shad on her phone, her thumb typing over your orgasm. There is a titfuck scene where you can hear through voice messages that she did the same thing to him ten minutes earlier, with more enthusiasm. Sometimes the game lets you choose if you watch the live cam she sends him when she’s on her knees sucking his cock, or if you mute it and stare at the ceiling like a broken robot. I tried both and still felt like shit. It tries to dress itself up as romance sometimes, like you can win her back, but every “maybe we can fix this” moment is followed by another clip of her bouncing on his lap, moaning his name louder than she ever said yours. And yeah, there is a bit of humor, some parody vibe of generic dating sims, like a cursed maid café route that turned into a full harem where you’re the only guy who never gets to actually own anything. But under the jokes, it’s still one long, messy porn chat log where your wife chooses someone else while you sit there, statistics in your head, counting every little choice and still losing her in almost every timeline.

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.

First time I booted this thing up, my laptop fan went absolutely nuts, like it knew what kind of filth I was about to witness. I laughed so hard I almost spilled my instant ramen, which would’ve been tragic because I was starving and broke back then. Anyway, this Ren’Py thing - honestly, I didn’t expect much. I thought it’d crash after the opening screen, but then Mitsuri showed up with that ridiculous pink-green hair and that voice that’s half sugar, half “I could ruin your life.” I swear I forgot this was fan-made for a sec. There’s this weird comfort in seeing familiar faces from Demon Slayer in a totally different vibe - like seeing your high school crush at a bar years later, drunk and suddenly way too friendly.

The writing’s uneven, but that’s kinda the charm. One moment you’re reading this sweet, shy dialogue with Aoi, and the next, she’s saying something that makes you check if your door is locked. I remember playing on my old ThinkPad, lights off, window open, the neighbor’s dog barking while Shinobu’s scene started - real mood killer, but I didn’t stop. The transitions are clunky sometimes; like, the story jumps without warning, but then, who cares when Nezuko’s sitting there giving you that look. The guy who coded the affection system probably gave up halfway through, but somehow it works better that way. It’s messy, human.

What I didn’t expect was how nostalgic it made me feel. Not just for the anime, but for those early days when I’d sit up late clicking through janky visual novels on Itch.io, hoping my antivirus wouldn’t freak out. It’s pervy, sure, but also weirdly sincere - like it’s not pretending to be anything more than horny fan service stitched together by someone who actually liked these characters once. I got annoyed at the save menu though, it freezes if you click too fast. Never fixed that. I guess I could’ve looked for a patch, but nah. There’s something honest about a game that stays broken in the same spot every time you play.

Therapist guy walks into his own office like it’s just another boring day, paperwork, polite small talk, all that “how does that make you feel” bullshit. Then this one patient shows up, blonde, stacked like the dev grew up on old Windows 98 porn folders, and everything just starts to slide off the rails in slow motion. Not sudden, not some instant porn logic. It’s more like watching an ice cube melting over your desk, except the ice cube is his professional ethics and it’s leaking straight into his dick. Game takes that whole “I’m a serious doctor” vibe and keeps poking holes in it every session. He’s trying to stay clinical, she’s talking about how horny she gets and how her husband doesn’t really pay attention, and you’re sitting there clicking like “yeah bro, that clipboard is not helping anymore.”

The fun part is how his buddy poisons his brain. That friend is like the demon on his shoulder who spent too many years on Pornhub comments. Texts and chats pop up where he’s all “why are you being a saint, man, she clearly wants it, what’s the worst that can happen” and you just watch the therapist start to believe his own bullshit excuses. Overnight, the way he looks at her changes. At first it’s “patient with marital issues,” then it’s “woman who probably masturbates in the shower thinking about random guys,” then it’s “if I ask the right questions, maybe she’ll tell me where and how she touches herself.” And the game actually lets you push him into that. You pick dialogue that sounds half respectable on paper, but under it there’s that dirty intention. You’re like, “this is for her emotional growth,” while the camera is taking its sweet time on her cleavage and you’re absolutely not thinking about emotional growth at all.

What it nails is that slow corruption vibe. Her clothes and makeup change over time, more lip gloss, boobs practically suffocating the neckline, little details that whisper “I’m not as innocent as when we started, doc.” She talks about being a good wife, then somehow she’s describing how she touches herself when the husband is passed out in front of the TV, and she says it in this shy way that is not really shy, more like she wants someone to drag the filth out of her. There is this one scene where you can “suggest” a relaxation technique and it turns into guided masturbation on the couch, very clinical words, very not clinical hand movement. You sit there like, yeah, Freud would absolutely high five you right now. The netori angle comes in not with drama at first, but with little betrayals. She still mentions her husband while she’s blushing and asking your character if he thinks she’s sexy, and that makes it dirtier, like cheating inside her head before it’s in the bed. The 3D style looks a little stiff in spots, like old school poser renders, but that kind of makes it nostalgic if you grew up collecting pixelated XXX gifs on limewire instead of having 4K right away. Sometimes the scenes animate just enough to make you wish there was one more camera angle they never give you, and yeah that annoys the hell out of me, but then the next session drops a line like “I dreamed about you last night, doctor” and suddenly you forget you were even mad five clicks ago.