Kazoku Keikaku has the making of a great TV show: downtrodden of the society making a living by relying on each other. They call them a family knowing it won't last, but that doesn't stop them from forming trust and bondage. All characters have different background and personalities, and specifically, weaknesses that can only be covered by other members of the family, as well as traumas that can only be healed by the right man, you.

This game touches a part of Japanese society that very few games dare try. Persona 5 and Yakuza series like to present themselves as a gateway to Japan's dark side, but they can't deal with organized crime, drug, prostitution, human trafficking, fraud and the scariest of them all: economic crisis, in the same visceral way (partly due to age rating). Between the gags and lovey-dovey, they game lays bare the tragic pass of each character. It's so plausible, like things you'd heard from local news. It hits you like a truck when you realize there are people out there just like characters in this game, but they are not as lucky as they don't have a family, even a fake one, to fallback to.

The only problem I have with this game is perhaps the limitation of the genre: sexual relation has to be the end goal of each story path even when it feels out of place and far less suitable then a sibling or even parental relation.