When this game went viral a few years ago, everyone thought it would be a pioneer in the genre; the first adult game with the depth and polish of a AAA or at least AA game. Combine that with the fact that Studio FOW were known for high-quality mature animations, and you have a recipe for success. Well, it didn't quite turn out that way.

First of all, this is barely a porn game. It has adult animations in it, but 99% of them are tied to the "Pandora" system which is just a glorified gallery. There you can "create" your sex scenes, except that there's no right way to do it and those scenes don't tie to the story or the gameplay at all. You also have to earn points in order to unlock different positions, and those points can only be earned through the main quest. If you're like me and like to take your time with exploration and side content, it'll take a LONG time to unlock those positions. But if that wasn't bad enough, there's also zero reason to get those sex scenes in the first place. They don't give you any advantage, and they're not even arousing. They're just... raw animations with no dialogue. So no only do you have to grind A LOT to get different positions, but the "reward" isn't even worth it in the end. The game *tries* to add context to each adult animation by adding a short description to them, but it's absurdly mundane and uninteresting. And again, it doesn't tie to the characters in any way, as if it never happened.

Talking to the girls is also pretty pointless. They have very little to say, and they only get one or two new lines of dialogue when you eventually progress the main story. The ship feels incredibly dead and empty, giving you no reason to spend time in it at all. You just go from one mission to the next. There is no daily cycle or character routines. The girls are always in the same place doing nothing and with no new lines of dialogue. I've seen many Ren'Py games where the world felt more alive than this one, even some about space exploration. Maybe that's because every line is voiced, and VAs cost money. I guess 2 million dollars + game sales wasn't enough to give life to this dead spaceship.

When it comes to the gameplay itself, it's bad. Seriously, the space battles take so long and are so frustrating that I genuinely dreaded them. The game isn't even hard. It's just incredibly boring and repetitive, and losing a space battle means you have to start over. Grid combat is tolerable but also repetitive. And to top it all off, the sheer amount of battles you have to power through is INSANE for how little reward they give you. You literally just get credits, tech and bio, which are resources that you're forced to stockpile because the game's progression is tied to the main story. You literally can't upgrade your ship or get new Mantics until you progress the plot, which means you'll just immediately buy every upgrade when they do become available, making the progression incredibly slow, unrewarding and hostile towards the player. I assume it's for "balance," but why the ♥♥♥♥ would you need balance in a porn game? Other than those three resources, you get the occasional gift items that are just as boring as you can probably gather from the words "gift item."

Anyway, enough about the gameplay. What about the story? Well, the main story is decent and the dialogue flows well, but the plot overstays its welcome and the humor is a hit-or-miss. The writing is the usual "religion bad" trope that sounds straight out of r/Atheism, sprinkled with some tongue-in-cheek politics and outdated references. The obnoxious writing was charming at first, but at some point it just fatigues you. I began fast-reading and skipping a lot of stuff at some point. If you came here for the porn, the awful dialogue and repetitive gameplay feel like obstacles rather than additions.

I could go on, but you get the idea. This game didn't come even close to living up to expectations. I barely even scratched the surface of how underwhelming the sex scenes are. You'd have an objectively better experience just watching them on an R34 website. This game is wide as the ocean with the depth of a puddle. The sexual content itself takes a backseat to the garbage writing and time-consuming gameplay. The actual porn is MAYBE 2% of the experience, and they couldn't even make the rest of the game tolerable.

TL;DR for a specific kind of person and bought on sale, this is good fun. Otherwise hard skip.

It's funny and amusing but it's like the exemplar fake tits of gaming: what real content there is is not much to begin with, and by artificially bloating it, it just looks even worse. The game has no strong suit, because the gameplay is meh, the adult content is both vanilla and mostly a picture/webm collector, and the story requires a specific kind of sense of humour to be enjoyable. The only thing you could call a strong suit is the stellar voice acting but that's not really the devs' achievement, is it? It's like watching a gifted kid getting ruined in bad relationships and becoming an alcoholic. But I picked it up on a sale so I got my money's worth of laughs but for its original price, you could get an actually decent game or far better porn VNs.

This game ♥♥♥♥♥