Unity - Completed - Lust Is Stranger [v1.0] [The Architect]

3.5/5

So the plot is great, I like even the fact that basicailly any PC can handle this game so that's great from the dev to not make the game too heavy.
Back to the plot thing, so I liked how all the characters behaved realisitically and how talking to them felt like talking to someone irl, the characterization was really good and you can tell he spent some time trying to make it good and he accomplished it.

The H-scenes? Well it's The Architect we're talking about, he's always next level on these and here he made everything even better. I liked them but I'm a little disappointed there wasn't more NTR between Max and Warren, Kate, Taylor, voyeurism between Max and Warren and all that.
At first when I oepened the gallery, didn't even started the game at the time, I thought there were really many scenes but there are many only for few characters. Brooke and Juliet got barely nothing and I hoped there was more action between the MC and Victoria. Because of the lack of scenes I can't give 5. Last thing about scenes that just came up to my mind, the lack of different voices, it's the same sound.

As for the last 1/5 is the ending, the ending is criminal because you play 16 hours of your life, do all the things "correctly", so behave good, help everyone exc, and at the end if you didn't choose girl X but Y, as I did, you'll get a big dick up your ass. I really felt disappointed because I worked 16 hours for NOTHING.

Aside the amount of scenes and the ending choice, the game is just great. One of the best that you can find out there and since it is this great I have to be more critical because The Architect is someone that knows his stuff and seeing him "fail" to accomplish some things that I call errors is really bad.

One last thing, I didn't play Life is Strange so maybe there's a deeper meaning to why you can only stay home if you choose Max instead of the others, either way this is a parody and as much as it should resemble the game, novel or whatsoever, I believe there's nothing wrong, especially in a game where multi endings exists, to make one that would differ from the original work

Review for Lust Is Stranger [v1.0].
{Size : 1.51GB (After Extraction)}
{Time Spent: ~10hrs (On first play through, without skipping), ~15-20hrs (For 100% Completion)}

PROS:
+ Great Storyline & Characters (Obviously from good game)
+ Good Mechanics & Progression system
+ Consists of multiple Endings based on the choices
+ Personally liked the acheivement system which helps figuring out what scenes are left and additional contents
+ If you want to experience all the scenes no need to play the game from scratch, can select from gallery or chapter select
+ Overall, great parody game. Loved the original game, like this twist.

CONS:
- Sometimes animation feels a bit jancky, make sure to play at high graphics settings to enjoy the scenes to the full.
- Need to play the original game to understand some of the references.
- Consists of long dialouges. (good thing you can skip it, but still takes a bit of time.)

The game is very good, the animations, arts and music are really cool too.
It's cool to see that you have a lot of choices during the game, whether to be the devil on earth or a little angel to people.
The game's jokes are very funny, and it's cool to see this "alternative reality" of life is strange.
Overall, it's a great game, I had a lot of fun, it's 100% worth playing
For me, 5/5

I have never written a review before, but The Architect made another banger.
Multiple paths, wanna be a good guy? a bad guy? a really bad guy?
Its so rare to see actual good parody games, and its clear the dev cares alot about the original IP.

An excellent game.

Congrats to Architect again and again for delivering and completing high quality projects. I actually didn't play LiS from start to finish but still enjoyed this masterpiece nonetheless. I especially liked the endings and impact of choices we made. Just don't expect any extreme lewd content and go with the flow.

Great game! The best in its genre!
Nice picture, great animations, good story and very interesting tags, not a plain vanilla game)
I recommend to play who haven't played yet!
Hoping for a continuation of the story, or waiting for a new project from the developer.

An awsome parody game, a porn version of Life is Strange with all the characters you've come to like.
The game is beautiful and greatly animated, the sex scenes are hot, there's lot of choices and you can be a complete asshole or a nice loverboy, there's always multiple possibilities for each quests.
Apparently there's two main romance route, with Kate or Max (or both, or none), and a lot of secondary girls you can fuck or watch having sex.
A truly magnificent rule 34 execution of Life is Strange, but I'll still remove a star for exagerating the girls proportions. Max and Kate are skinny with small breasts and that's exactly my type, but the dev increased their breasts and ass size (and not just for Kate and Max). It is inconsistant, sometime the characters almost look canon and depending on the outfit, pose and camera angle they can change a lot. A good exemple is Kate's big breasts with the red dress, Max look canon with a front view and exagerated with a side view.
This is something that happen way too often in porn parodies and nude mods, but I want the canon characters, not exagerated versions.

The_Architect might be my favourite porn game creator now by virtue of actually finishing his games instead of keeping them in Patreon-milking hell forever.
But don't let that detract from the fact that his games are also really good if you enjoy classic Sierra style point and click adventures.

Lust is Stranger is a well written game with plenty of porn scene, and as such doesn't commit the sin of most well written porn games: forgetting that they are porn.

It captures perfectly the melancholic nostalgia a lot of people enjoy about Life is Strange, but twists and corrupts it into a power fantasy where you get to talk your way in the girls' lives.
There's plenty of choices to be made depending on where you want certain characters to end up (with some seriously fucked up endings for Chloe if you choose to do so). But it rarely feels gratuitous, everything is the result of some decision you made or that you influenced a character into making.

But if high levels of corruption and degeneracy isn't your thing, there is also a seriously sweet and healthy relationship to be had in this game ! I was stunned at how much I got attached to that character and even though I was setting up a harem ending, I decided to go the full love route.

The game also has a complete scene replay system, so that even if you picked a specific path you are not locked out of seeing the other versions of the scenes you had.

What this game has going for it:
- Writing that's fun to follow along
- Animations are detailed in a style very close to the game it parodies
- A sweet "vanilla" relationship with a nice, if naive, girl (or break her heart)
- Turn the school's Mean Girl into an actual prostitute without her knowing (for the most part)
- Manipulate someone into getting into a horrible relationship just so you can see her suffer (or save her)
- Make a character into a sex slave to someone she hates for probably the rest of her life (or don't, and let her have her good ending)
- Threesomes if you play your card right

What was unfortunate:
- Some parts are a bit long when you don't know what to do, but there's always the fast forward feature coming it clutch in those moments
- That's it honestly, if you enjoyed Goons Raid Her, don't hesitate

Yet another banger game by The Architect. I've been a die hard fan of LiS ever since the original game came out and so I was very excited to play this parody. But I decided to wait till it was completed. Oh man was the wait worth it. It is shorter than Goons Raid Her but has way more going on. Its crazy how faithful this is to the original game, the map, the details, the characters, the designs, all perfect. The game is also very replayable with all the different choices, scene variations and endings. I love the world of LiS and I had a blast seeing it such a different and erotic way. I do have one nitpick that some characters weren't very prominent or weren't utilized the way I would have hoped for, ah well it is what it is.
All in all, one of the best games on this website. The Architect once again proves that they r one of the best devs out there. Goons Raid Her is still their magnum opus but I am excited to see what they make next.

Better game than some AAA studios make. Would be a top seller on Steam. One of the best games on this site, the level of polish and quality is unmatched. Would recommend playing the authors other projects also.

this is a top quality game that everyone should play and many game creators should learn from it, i love how with every game we can see a more polished style, using the same formula but getting better and better every time

One of the best games in this place! Its obvious that was made with a lot of dedication, the animations are awesome and I'm sure that the final version its going to be perfect. Strongly recommended for everyone

This game is excellent, especailly Janitor guy cleaning toilets, pure gold.
It has good writing, good story, good gameplay.

I am not the biggest fan of this kind of artstyle though, looks quite a bit washed out. Each girls look like she has a square face and several rounds of of toilet paper on it.

Hopefully for next game author finds different artstyle/models.

All games from this author are good to play.
As of 0.23 the game is almost complete, with few endings missing, 0.24 or 0.25 will be final version it seems.

It would be nice to rate the game higher, but just like goon it's clunky, and consistently clunky, even in the H scenes which makes it a hassle, like imagine fucking your girlfriend and slowing down to push a button in mid air to continue. Scenes are hot i guess, but it's just again, a little too low poly for me and stiff. Even moving around is a little to slow. Can't really enjoy it, like dating a hot chick who chews with her mouth open.

Really good parody of lis, and one of the best corruption games on the site (the architect is really good at making games of this kind) it's really fun to see the lis characters being corrupted and acting depraved. But there's not much more to say, the gameplay follows the same path that Goons Raid Her left with a few changes, but it's still entertaining, the writing is still very good, maybe the only thing you can't like is that the architect always does the same type of mc but to be honest that kind of mc (smug and perverted) is very good for this type of games. and that would be all, it is a really entertaining game regardless of whether you are a lis fan or not. A must play.

One of the best games I played so far, I played straight through the game (10h). You have a bunch of quests for every day and develop the story of each character, depending on your choices. Sometimes you have to just help someone or side with a character against an other character, the game gives you the choice which side you take. I likes the fact that the choices weren't too significant (not in negative way ->), but I didn't had a feeling that I could ruin my game with my preferred choices, what you take is what you get, without unpredictable surprises, just use your logic and you will know possible outcomes. But still you may save the game before talking to someone, maybe want to choose other options afterwards. And it's unsure what effect your choices may have on future updates.

I also liked the dialogues and the fact that the game don't try to tease you till update 2077, you'll get the nice scenes in a proper speed when progressing the game. I mostly tried to play the "evil" way and loved the way the MC manipulatively intimate the girls. No blackmail (At least I can't remember, tag is there) or force, but rather manipulating, playing and corrupting them in a certain kind of way.

I'm broke moneywise at the moment, but I will definitely consider supporting the dev in the future.

Well, color me impressed. I never liked Life is Cringe, i think i finished 1 episode before uninstalling it years ago. But this game is really fun and messing with the characters is hilarious. It's not a low effort cartoonish parody, but a decent game with nice writing and smut and some simple but solid game mechanics.

Yet another great random find on F95.

I don't really like it. Mind boggling design choices like the persistently shaking camera, anti-fun mini-games, and not quite good English writing.

That being said, a lot of that is personal preference and this game, despite its flaws, has a lot of polish and hard work behind it.

I want to like The Architect because they always play into my tags with every game. I just really hate how they write their MC's. It's the same "nerdy but chad" smug dude every games. Sometimes the writing hits, and other times...you just feel like a weirdo incel.

4/5. Too well made of a game to rate any lower, just not for me.

I was surprised by how much I enjoy this game. The creator obviously understands the game it's based on and plays into that parody beautifully.

The characters are very good reproductions and it's very invigorating seeing these people you are familiar with in these odd, and often humorous, situations. Many chuckles have been had playing through this.

I'm left wanting more, and that's a great thing. I wish this developer well and hope they keep delivering the good stuff.

Simply the best game in this genre involving LiS characters. The developer tries to make the game consistent with the story from the original game and it's super immersive.
Each character has their own personality, very faithful to their personalities in the original game too, which is not so easy to do!
The animations are pretty well made along with fun mechanics that makes the game different from the others.

Highly recommended!
Keep up the good work!