Four Vice

Boring. Doesn't gel well, there is no sense of tension between the 'players' or when you steal game pieces from one another, it's just a delivery device for gifs of overcast pornstars and uninspired words you didn't even bother to write yourself. There's also no knowledge on display of what makes the kinks included interesting to those who enjoy the kink. There's just your garden variety 'you may struggle but through my power of being a man and also wearing perfume/showing you this powerpoint presentation on why you should be my slave, you will submit'. Disappointing. UX is poorly optimized in clicks and scrolling, watching 3 turns of the other players conquering a trophy every time and then you do one move and it can fail is just dull and poor game design. There's also no handholding, which would be a plus if the gameplay was actually intriguing but now it just adds to the befuddlement of having to click through AI approaching . This makes the exercise purely mechanical, and in that it fails as well. It's hard to grok what the point of the game is, how you win, how to strategize. There's elements of randomness not only in who targets what game piece, but also in who gets a random buff, and whether you succeed in the move you're making. This makes it so you can get triple or even quadruple fucked in a single round. The ultimate move concept is cute, but once again, no idea what they do before you click them and even then they can fail. How you get a chain pick is not explained so you can't strat for that either. In the end clicking through the NPC's moves and watching them get their dicks wet without acknowledging the game state is just... dull. (all references to male npcs are pre-scripted based on the relationship they started the game with, not updated as you gain levels in their sync). Also, 'there is no ethics in smut so I am allowed to use the unethical water evaporator and job-stealer 3000 for it' is the dumbest take this side of Iran. There are more ethics in smut (and, by extension, smut game creation) than we have bones in our body, but creator just decides to handwave that so they can excuse their laziness. If you want to make a lazy game for yourself, sure. But please keep it to yourself and don't subject us to it. Like, the dilf professor is an AI generated face when the dev could have used a portrait by a dilf porn actor. And one of them is a portrait of known abuser James Deen - turning him into the one based on 'protecting' and 'trust' icks me in a way I can't put into words. And that's just my two little toes worth of ethics. Absolutely L take. 2 stars because I acknowledge the effort of coming up with an actual game mechanic, so I can't give it a 1.