Almostly Spies

Review for 0.1 Writing I went in expecting the worst because the dev admitted to using AI MTL, but the writing is surprisingly decent and actually pretty funny in places. I did notice some spelling and grammatical issues throughout the intro, but after that I had no real issues with the writing in general. Plot The plot is just the standard "guy has to move in with girls because reasons", so don't go in expecting it to be deep and layered; the game is clearly going for a more comedic tone. Every character so far is written well for the most part. "Art" The character CGs are consistent throughout as far as I could tell, and visually the style is fine. I personally prefer more realistic anatomy, but that's just a me thing. H-content The closest to an actual H-scene we get is being interrupted just before fucking one of two side characters. The main LIs and some side characters only have teasing at best, but for a 0.1 release I'm glad the dev seems to have focused mainly on the core gameplay loop and a good base for the story moving forward. The writing in the scenes that do exist is pretty solid, as are the CGs. Gameplay The gameplay loop is fairly decent, although again, nothing groundbreaking. Go to your main job to do missions to either progress the story or unlock scenes/images, work at the cafe to get money, train one of three stats that unlock more scenes, sleep, repeat. My only issue with it was that the images you rarely get for doing non-story missions are so rare that I got bored before collecting the last one and gave up (there are 5 total). This is a really minor point and of course in the future there will be more story missions meaning you will get these images passively as you play the game rather than having to go out of your way to get them, but it might be a good idea to buff the rates. The peeping mechanic is also pretty good, just another way to passively get CGs as you play the game. Verdict I only decided to play this on a whim and was pleasantly surprised by it despite the lack of H content. I was considering giving it 3 stars, but I think it shows enough promise and the dev is active enough to warrant rounding up to 4. At the very least this game is much better than some other projects I've played that use AI. I will be updating this review with future versions.