Elena's Lewd Service

It’s a mediocre game. Just because there are so many bad and unfinished games on the site doesn’t mean we should praise anything that isn’t outright terrible. That’s why being merely "decent" isn’t enough.

For starter, this game is mid so it should only get 3 stars, but I bump up to 4 stars anyway. The art is great, the gameplay is not frustrating, the translation is decent, the girl is cute, and the game is complete. By all means it is better than at least 80% games of this site.

The game advertises itself as a sandbox where you gradually corrupt the heroine, in actuality it's much more scripted and less open than I would have liked. Your first couple of days are entirely on rails and serve as a "tutorial" of sorts, but despite the game insisting it has a deeper level of mechanics and sidequests all things really boil down to is viewing lewd scenes to raise the MC's lewd level. Ultimately you do so by either A) going around town hunting for scenes that unlock as your lewd level rises or B) grinding for experience doing your "job" if you're too lazy to wander around a fairly small town. Despite the "animated" tag, the "animations" are really just image variations that while they do give the scenes a bit more "interest" are still not actual animations at the end of the day, so it feels duplicitous to include that label. At the very least, there are some decent quality of life functions like variable movement speed and actually functional fast forwarding text. All in all it's a thoroughly mediocre game that fails to deliver on its promises but nonetheless has decent art that can all be unlocked in the gallery room after watching the prologue, so at least you have a convoluted CG viewer to enjoy.

This one COULD HAVE had a lot of potential based on art alone, but unfortunately it is not as advertised. Corruption is non-existent, the story is very on the rails, the scenes are mostly word vomit and the entire scenario is poorly written. The game feels like it's just trying to tick H-RPG boxes without having the actual experience.