A Tale of Love, Lust and Murder is an HTML VN in which you play as an ex-spy as he tries to live a normal life despite the losses he suffered on the job. Naturally, he fails immediately.
The gameplay consists of playing as the MC and the MC's wife and choosing whether each is cheating curious. While both of their stories are still progressing, it appears that no cheating on each side is the pure love route, cheating on both sides is the NTS route, and cheating on only one side will be NTR routes for the no cheating partner. It's the classic prisoner's dilemma of porn games.
I do kinda hate the story though. It bounces back and forth between different things happening with little rhyme or reason and way too many characters to keep track of. One moment you're doing home life with your wife and dead partner's daughters, the next you're doing spy thriller shit with the bros, then you're at a party with friends, and then suddenly we're in a flashback sequence. It's pretty incomprehensible and very overwhelming. I really can't stress enough how there's too many characters to keep track of at once, most with no personality to differentiate them.
The porn and actress choices are decent enough, but the presentation is pretty boring. Most scenes are porn vids cut into ten to fifteen second snapshots and labeled with the positions and a little captioning. As far as I'm concerned, finding the porn scene in question myself would offer the same experience.
Overall, I'm a little sad to rate this game so low. The game looks good and the story is too big and convoluted to call it low hanging fruit. Unfortunately, I don't like the story and the porn presentation is underwhelming, which is most of what an HTML game is. I just can't rate it any higher.