10 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.2 hrs on record
Posted: Jan 1, 2022 @ 3:06pm
Updated: Jan 2, 2022 @ 7:41am

Picked this title up for the "lolwtf?" factor but found it entertaining and certainly more interesting than other games in its price range. Using a female perspective, you traverse your way through a variety of sexual situations using a tarot card format, picking between two options to get a result and open the next set of choices until you reach the end (typically climax). Despite the overall idea, it's not especially titillating or "naughty" but I did largely enjoy going through the scenarios. Most of the scenarios are presented in a largely positive way but there is at least one that is a bit disturbing, albeit accurate in its message. For the record, I have no idea what level of female input went into making this game; the lead dev on their website is a male and there's various women with notagamestudio but I don't know anything else.

My main criticism came with the ending. Throughout the game, there is a sort of phonetic-text cypher thing going on with letter replacement leading to statements like "YOO ARE CVMMINK" that are largely legible and understandable. The dev says it has something to do a statement about censorship but it doesn't get in the way. The final chapter though is a whole alphabet soup of illegible text. This is a shame since I enjoyed the narratives in the previous nine chapters and this turned into an exercise in just brute-forcing cards until I reached an unsatisfactory ending. A posting in the discussions has someone saying he completed all the achievements and still gets the same so it doesn't seem to be a matter of discovering some unlocking secret. In any event, if there was a "message" to it, it missed the mark and had me leaving the game disappointed. Overall though, I enjoyed it and found it worth playing so I still give it a thumbs up (though with an asterisk).
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