A collection of nice elements mashes together crudely and make for staccato gameplay.
There's a lot to like about this game, which only makes the way it fails to come together all that more disappointing.
The character models are good and rather unique, but the promise isn't followed up. The introduction suggests a level of customization to the MC (from age, their attitude towards women, and their level of machismo), but then this is largely discarded. There is an illusion of choice, with the game promising different routes and interactions, but then most of it is forgotten.
The graphics are, for the most part, good enough. The models are relative varied with distinct faces. There are some instances of animation, but they're simply not enough of them or done well enough to really earn praise for them. But the characters are appropriately beautiful, and the environments and assets are used well. There's not much to complain on a technical level, except perhaps for the game's total lack of sound.
To the writer's credit, there is a fair amount of content to this game. There's no shortage of actual scenes, tackling an abundance of topics, and all of it is written at least passably, without anything too jarring to immediately take you out of the moment.
The story is rather boilerplate for games of this genre. The MC is an executive who moves to Seattle from LA to start a new job at your great uncle's company. He's evidently very attractive, since all the good-looking women he encounters start lusting after him very quickly despite him barely needing to do anything. He's supposedly very wealthy, with over ten million dollars in an investment account, even though he lives off a much more modest salary (that never runs out regardless) and is forced into a homely two-bedroom, one-bathroom condo with the previous occupant already inside. And he's clearly well-connected, with him being promoted into CEO despite doing fuck all with his time all day long.
In other words, very little differentiates him from the myriad of wish-fulfillment MCs out there.
The story meanders for a long time, in part because the MC never really needs to struggle for anything save for the fact that, despite his millions, he has to sleep on the couch of the condo he apparently owns but lets a stranger stay in for free.
The women in the game are pretty bland and inoffensive. Though, outside of Lois who is reasonably interesting but blatantly a manic pixie dream girl, the other women are largely underdeveloped. There's potential there, though clearly hackneyed and wish-fulfillment-y, but as of 0.7.2, it's mostly unactualized.
The MC is supposed to be customizable, with you being able to play a wide range of ages, but clearly the story is designed for him to be right around the age the game suggests (30), as Mallory is supposed to be six years older and Kari a few years younger. Making the MC in his upper 40s makes no sense with the former, likewise making him close to 18 makes no sense with the latter. He's ostensibly customizable, but the women mostly treat him as if he's this remarkable gentleman, despite the fact that he apparently thinks spying on women showering is supposed to be normal. It's this inability to settle between more serious storytelling and generic porn tropes that plague the story. At times the game takes itself too seriously for the kind of brushed-under-the-rug porno tropes littered throughout.
Despite the promise of customization and choice, you spend most of the day sitting on the couch reviewing documents, while the women in your life compete for your attention without any real effort on the account of the MC.
Kari, the roommate, is an attractive redhead who is clearly too naive to be functioning. She apparently knows absolutely nothing about sex (yeah, right), yet is still able to dress provocatively and vigorously guard her virginity against anyone other than the MC who threatens to take it. With the MC, however, she offers (and then rescinds) to fuck on the first date. She doesn't really have much of a personality, other than as someone who makes the MC his daily coffee—yes, even if he says he prefers tea. She's this attractive prize that the MC can protect and control.
The other girls in the game are largely background filler:
Ashley the barista is attractive, and apparently studying law, but basically barely interacts with the MC before randomly deciding to hook up with him. You can evidently become her sugar daddy but the plot is dropped as soon as it comes up. You don't even get additional scenes with her after agreeing to that commitment.
Aria is apparently this free-spirited girl who is potentially a bad influence on Kari because she dares to teach her about her own sexuality (the horror! What would Kari's value even be if she's not an innocent, virginal conquest for the MC?). But even if you hire her for the primary receptionist, she just hangs around in her collared tee all day with no real scenes or interactions.
Mallory is a literal hucow, with drug-addled milk jugs and a little indoor barn complete with pumps and a fucking machine. She just drops this on the MC in the second scene she shares with the MC, and her character development essentially stops there. She exists for this one particular fetish and is largely otherwise disposable.
Cassie is ostensibly another love interest, who as of 0.7 you can make into a girlfriend, even going so far as opting to dump Lois and Kari for her, but I can't imagine that's a popular option because she's so painfully underdeveloped that I can't really list a single personality trait of hers. She apparently had an abusive ex-husband and served in the military. But these are facts about her background, not defining characteristics about her person.
Tilly and Marina exist as girls you can fuck. And that's really about the extent of their personalities.
Lois [Olivia Laine] is largely the highlight of the story, since she's the only woman with an ounce of personality even if she comes with a host of writing flaws. She teases and sasses the MC, challenges him, and basically runs his company so he can continue to pursue all the women in his life without any real responsibilities. But she's also painfully inexperienced despite her penchant for bralessness and plunging necklines. She's apparently "abused" (read, raped) so badly in her childhood that she needed a hysterectomy, which is why she's never bothered to pursue a relationship. But as soon as the MC comes along, she throws herself at him. Her trauma is treated as background information for the MC to earn by unlocking the story, rather than any part of her character that might, for even a moment, inconvenience the porn.
The storyline starts off relatively mundane, if a bit privileged and unrelatable, but then quickly spirals off into la la land. Apparently, the Great-Uncle in the story, that bequeaths his fortune and position to the MC, has a massive breast fetish and obsession that results in him abusing a bunch of well-endowed orphans and forcing them to take a highly addictive, experimental breast growth and lactation drug that basically turns them into cows, and then brushes all of this under the rug. Despite the fact that there are apparently thousands, if not tens of thousands, of women forced into mass-producing milk in underground facilities, he's still viewed as a "good guy who lost his way" (yeah, ok).
Now, as his heir, you the MC inherit all of these farms complete with thousands of offscreen big-tittied, brain-addled women. It's clearly done for the kink, but in the worst possible way. Most of the hucows are only referenced and not actually available for any fulfillment or pleasure, while there's this mood-killing sense of seriousness as the game understandably questions the morality of getting thousands of unsuspecting women addicted for life and reducing their entire existence to mere chattel.
And if unpacking all of that isn't bad enough, now the MC evidently has a rare but fatal genetic disorder that supposedly led to the deaths of his parents, with the only cure being embryonic stem cells from his own offspring with girls (including Kari) who were bred specifically for him. So now the MC is obligated to impregnate the roommate, who was born and manipulated to be in his life, along with a set of her sisters (inventively named Kara, Kira, and Kiri). It's as big of a mess as it sounds, and no less ridiculous when it unfolds in game.
All things considered, it becomes very difficult to give the game more than a 3-star rating. There's a lot of potential, if the developer can iron out some of the flaws, streamline the storytelling, flesh out the women, and add some real sense of player agency. As it stands, it's a poor balance between serious spy drama and gonzo porn, with dreams of grandeur from the former and girls from the latter.
