One of the better western erotic indie rpgs I've played, though it seems like hardly anyone's heard of it. I even had to add it to IGDB myself, first time I've done that. This thing was made by one guy over two years and it's obvious he put a lot of love into it, especially regarding the retro aesthetic.

When you boot up the game, it shows a floppy disk being inserted and plays some vintage Amiga boot up sounds. You then hear this heavenly synthwave overture as the title screen steadily flies through space. As a first impression it made me go "Wow! I'm playing a video game someone actually cared about and put effort into!" which is unfortunately more than I can say for most of the shitty porn games I've played.

Most of the pixel art's just okay, but when I got to the sex scenes I was like "yo what that's hilarious," because it's this really fluid 3D Blender animation but put through a shit ton of filters to make it look like some kind of impossibly smooth, vibrantly colored Commodore 64 porn. All the while, this dreamy synth ballad plays and it's like, actually pretty good. Most of the music, even, is surprisingly great and it weirdly bums me out that the guy only released the first of the planned two volumes of the soundtrack.

As a game though, it's honestly a little rough around the edges. The controls are confusing and a little finicky, the interface is unclear and annoying to navigate, and I also experienced a fair amount of minor inventory bugs. The idea of the turn-based combat is kinda cool in that I think it's supposed to encourage you to improvise and use weapons you find around in the environment. But I don't think the combat design's quite there as most of the environmental weapons kind of suck and a lot of the battles just end up being repetitive and annoying with not that much strategy actually happening.

The writing's also not exactly up my alley, tbh. It tries really hard to be funny but a lot of the jokes just don't hit for me. The main character's supposed to be this captain-kirk type guy that all the ladies comedically all fall for, but the quality of writing just isn't enough to make the self-aware cheese that tasty for me. And the space orcs are all doing this Warhammer-esque bri'ish thing that I really wasn't fond of. I was also hoping it'd be more of a space adventure given the short prelude chapter, but no, it all mostly just takes place on a single space station, ah well.

I still think it's pretty neat, though. It's definitely one of the more unique porn games I've seen from a western developer.

Reviewed on Jan 04, 2023


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