JustAFriend

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8 / 10 [ch4] A solid NTR/NTS phone game with a TON of content for only 4 releases (compared to other games in the genre). Good: - Mystery / contrast between scenes in the immediate vicinity. 10 / 10. Spoiler Author knows how to play with the phone aspect of the game - with different apps and restricted information - to construct a scene with great tension, mystery, and contrast. Here your sister is asking you for advice in one chat - but she's also taciturn about something. MC does not know what - whether she's being a tsundere again, or something is really bothering her. Is it her trying to cutely overcome her shyness with her brother, or she doesn't tell you everything? Maybe both - and maybe both of these connected? She's definitely being considering of her brother - but in what way? Then immediately you get a pop-up in another app - where is shown her other side, that have strong contrast with what you just saw. But even then you don't know everything. How did that happen? What is her feelings about the matter at the moment? Where does she want it to lead to in the future? Then you have a different pop-up, or chat in the middle of the action. Where there's a whiplash to another side of the girl - now with additional context, but still incomplete. And it's keep going back and forth - and sideways. You are not given every little bit of info, every bit of dialogue and "arrangement" between the girls and their lovers - which means there's always a mystery on what's going on. And additional tension. - Solid micro writing (from sentence to sentence). It's not clunky, it doesn't drag, and generally interesting to watch them talk. 8 / 10. - Characters are likable. And have modicum of personalities. It's overall pleasant to be around them. 8 / 10. - Ren'py engine. 9 / 10. Spoiler Among the sea of clunky Unity phone games, the QoL of the Ren'Py is a breath of fresh ait. I wish everyone would use it. The only thing missing is a rollback function. - There's much more content than in these 4 releases then in your average phone game. 10 / 10. Spoiler If you are on the fence whether to download it, because in other phone games 4 releases would be a nothing-burger - I can assure you there's enough content for a satisfying playthrough. Bad: - The character arcs for the girls are... not very solid. 5 / 10. Spoiler I wouldn't say it's rushed per se, or a total mess. They have enough time and story beats to develop. And there is direction. But there's definitely not enough "reasons" for girls to change their characters and behavior. And also practically no resistance to the change - not from a moral standpoint, but storytelling wise. You need both 'push' and 'pull' in every scene; Luke needs to refuse to go with Obi Wan, or refuse to listen to Yoda, Han needs to constantly talk about how "it's not his war". Even when it's "the right thing to do" - for storytelling’s sake, you need both 'push' and 'pull'. So the girl's actual decisions have weight. If the girls just fuck around - and are not given reasons not to - then the scenes lose tension. - The girls' escapades don't really have anything to do with each other. So the game just falls apart at 4-5 different stories. Interlockedness of the story canvas is 4 / 10. Spoiler You can take any girl - and delete her from the story. Nothing will change. There's some influence from the white-haired girl to the MC's girlfriend - but after the initial "she maybe kinda sorta bad influence", even their story arcs went in completely separate ways, that have nothing to do with each other. Everyone have their own lover(s), their own scenes, and proceed in their own pace. Shame. Overall: I'd recommend. It's a very solid phone game - with great tension and pacing. Not perfect, but way above average in the genre. Hope the author will keep at it and improve it in the future.

Good game, lots of content and pretty fun story telling. But this game has the same old trope every other game has. Even though the mc has all the apps sees all the pictures, likes them, he can't add 1+1 together and the game acts like he's oblivious to everything. Even if you go for the options where he tells his gf friend that he's into it he's still oblivious to it all and if you want to see any kind of action you always need to pic the action where you're not there it's just stupid. You can't both have him have the hacked app and him being oblivious to it all. And what is even the point in having the choice to say you're in to it when you're still somehow oblivious to it all. How i see it there is no nts route everything happens behind your back. It's such a huge plot hole that it ruins the entire game for me. tl:dr game good plot hole bad.

So, this is similar to other games in the genre, but damn is it good. The artwork (AI) is awesome and doesn't leave you high and dry for ages like some other games do. Lots of content already. Love the gametype and the story. Looking forward to seeing a lot more of this.

Definitely one of the best NTR/NTS games I've ever played! Multiple routes, lots of characters—highly recommended! The atmosphere is absolutely fantastic! I especially appreciate the immersive atmosphere and the clear plot—even after a long break, you quickly pick up where you left off.

I've played a of these but really think justafriend rises to the drop as far as the writing, situations, and ai artwork. Really great job and I look forward to the next installments and new features. One suggestion would be making it easier to see other paths and unlock the gallery after your first playthrough to view all content. I especially like keeping up the cheating girlfriend/oblivious boyfriend story lines instead of running straight into NTR/NTS. Definitely more of that - could be made better with some additional "justfriendsapp" features, like maybe getting to see dialogue/chats/DMs. The scenes where the girlfriend is cheating while the justfriendsapp updates with pictures from her dates is fire.

Just 3 stars? Hear me out! This review includes chapter 4. I played the NTR without MC doing anything with others. First I want to say it is just 3 stars but those are very good 3 stars and I am really looking forward to even increase it. I am so used to that AI phone games updates are just about 10 minutes if your are lucky that I was really surprised how much new content it was. But - and I am really sad to say this - a few things that I find way to annoying and that's why I can only give 3 stars for now. The story overall: There are so many unnecessary and boring extra stuff which feels so annoying. The whole sophia thing.. ok. I get it.. it's for people for want some action for MC but this whole Ires and Marcus + gaming tournament thing? And than Rina with her streaming career and the cosplay festival.. The game starts with MC's girlfriend finding a new friend on the "Just a friend" app and then it rolls headless around with so many bullshit. And this planing your work schedule does get annoying as hell because you have to do this every day. I don't understand why not making it weekly or automatically. I would remove it completely and if something is bound to it just implement it in another way. The characters: I am just talking about Lisa(GF) and Ires (GFs best friend) since.. like I said everyone else is unnecessary and just drags the game. Let's start with Ires. She is the same best friend that we have in any other NTR/NTS game which is nothing else than sex addicted and tries to turn us into a cuck. I don't get it.. You want a cuck route? Ok but then implement it in a good way and not because her best friend is trying to convince you that your gf should do things with others. Lisa: She is written very good and terrible at the same time. To the point where she starts cheating with her new online friend everything is good etc. but then she goes full slut mode get's randomly fucked "by a new friend who does massages" and she is like another person. Like a new writer took over. She acts totally unbelievable, like nothing happend and all. Then she meets her online friend again and she wants us to join them? With the guy she cheated with? And no matter what you do nothing happens between them. I just don't get. And last the images. First I think it's a very very very lame way that again the only way that we see our gf cheating is because pictures of that are posted and because of a small black line on her face he can't reconize his girlfriend. Seriously that is so dumb and lame. First of all.. if women do post things and don't want to be recognized they usually just crop the head out. Why does none of those NTR, phone Ai guys thought about doing it this way? The MC just looks like an idiot because of that. And second why should Lisa be fine with it - that so many pictures are taken of her while cheating? Ey maybe if this game would be the first of it's kind than maybe I wouldn't be bothered so much. But it's just the same shitty lazy coppied way that doesn't make sense. Yeah I know porn logic bla bla.. bug come on you do better. The images are okay but honestly I don't expect much from all AI games. Like with every other game some images doesn't make sense but they good looking and there no big mistakes like 6 fingers and stuff. It belongs to the better games on this point. But still it's a good game and I would recommend to give it a try. And I am looking forward to future updates.

It's very good in a few ways. The art is AI, but the author bothered to make the characters all look distinct, and the images are nice. The photos also track to the current state of the story and the dialogue, which is saying something for one of these phone games. The dialogue is also pretty good. It goes on a bit long in some cases (like the video game tournament which was novel and fun at first but went on way too long.) It uses a lot of the standard tropes in these games, but it does them well! Looking forward to future releases. The things that nearly knocked it down to three stars for me were: There's no rollback feature that I could find, and it's easy to accidentally click through choices without even seeing what your options were. It's also easy to click through the MC's thoughts, which don't stay on the screen like the text messages do. I'm not sure if the lack of rollback is due to design or tech difficulties, but I hate it. I have to save-scum my way through the whole game just in case I mess up and miss a choice. The "WASTED" images that sometimes pop up showing the GF in extreme sex situations feel very weird and almost like spoilers. I'm not sure what they're supposed to mean (I gather it might be that you've locked into a particular path, but I don't really need to know that, TBH...) I wish that was a feature that could be toggled off. The NTR is a little too obvious and happens a little too quickly for my taste. Or maybe it's not that it was too quick - it's more that there seemed to be utterly no internal conflict for the GF. Like... she doesn't seem to give a fuck at ALL, which makes it feel like there is no actual relationship with the MC. She's just a fairly generic, boring character that it's hard to give a damn about. Overall it's still very well done if you like NTR phone games. And a much better use of AI CGs than some of these abominations.

Excellent NTR phone game. It has a huge amount of content for a first (zone) release. The characters are well written and the images look hot. I think the writing really finds the sweet spot between too much and too little exposition. You learn about the characters enough to get a feel for how they tick and how their relationship with the protagonist is. But it's still kept short and entertaining enough, that it doesn't feel like reading through pages and pages of mundane everyday shit. It always feels like necessary steps to move to the next hot scene. The ntr is really hot and the JustAFriend app is a nice idea to view the ntr stuff. What I like most about it though, is that it doesn't feel like a misery simulator. You can be super loving and oblivious to your cheating gf. That makes the cheating even hotter while not leaving you sad after you're done with the game. The only character that I'm not really sure about, is the girl at work. For now, she's just a stranger to the protagonist, that likes to fuck. That's not really netorare and just feels a little random. I hope there's more to her in future updates. Like for example she becoming friends with the mc or your collagues humiliatingly using you to distract the boss while they fuck her or as a setup character for hot ntr scenes for when your gf visits your work or something like that

There are already many games with AI, but the story is quite good, I'm not complaining, and I hope the story keeps improving, unlike some other games. I hope it stays this way without them forcing in more characters for NTR.

I dig it. The writing is solid, without a ton of translation or grammatical errors. The AI gens are more unique than others in the sector. Too many games look like they're clearly using the exact same model and workflow (looking at all of you Mila clones). I haven't seen a ton of AI errors and the gens are pretty consistent. So, that covers many of the normal cons found in these phone-based NTR AI games. That would give it 3 stars. For the extra stars? It's just a fresh spin on the rinse & repeate NTR phone AI games out there. The JAF app is a new idea and it's well done. Having the various girls in game actually use social media is also appreciated. I, for one, love the obvious innuendo and innocent dog whistle talk. I know what she's doing. She knows that I know. She knows that I know that she knows. But we still pretend like this isn't happening. It's all a sexy game that we play. That's hot. Suggestions: I will agree with another poster that the 'job' needs to be fleshed out. It just seems like tedium for the sake of tedium. Busy work to make it feel like less of a VN and somewhat interactive. But unless there's a point to the clicking, all you're doing is giving us extra 'next, next, next' steps that add nothing. Hide something if you want. If I get 3 days in a row of extra earnings, I'm able to unlock some benefit or purchase some one-time perk. Maybe change up the days so that doing hard work too many days in a row, I'm extra exhausted and locked out of sexy time. Or if I slack off with light work too many times, I have different consequences. Otherwise there's no point to the 'job' and it might as well just be a sequence of 'go to work' clicks. The male best friend needs some love. Chapter 3 added a tiny bit, but he feels like an obligatory male friend; a token character without any real justification. Give us some real consequences. Right now he just feels like an observer to give extra weight to the 'dirty' things that you're up to. This game has real potential. It could be amazing. Right now it still feels like a solid 5 stars for me, but you have the foundation of a real standout in the NTR SmartPhone space. Keep it up.

Really liked the game , what I look for is willing corruption of the girlfriend and this one delivered. There's enough content in this initial version itself, pictures are lovely even if they are ai.hopevitvgets to completion

4 stars mostly just alone from how much content there already is available, with decent choice paths (NTS enjoyers will likely want to look elsewhere, its pretty heavy on the NTR). Not the biggest fan of the way the 'work' schedule system works its just a waste of time, as well as the mc interactions with his friend are a complete waste of time (chapter 3 starts to fix this problem a little bit but its still pretty meh) No animations here but im personally not even really a fan of animations for these ai cg phone games, used sparingly they can be nice but I dont see it as a must have.

Stupid, too stupid of a project, yet another MC who sees the slut's photos and doesn't recognize them, terrible graphics, one of the worst of its kind, few options, worse audio, comical story, with a comical MC, you're either NTR or double NTR. Everyone gets laid except one idiot, MC.

Quite a bit of content and some different choices available. Worth playing even in its early state. Paths could use a slight bit more transparency. Girlfriend should default to being more loyal until choices are made, with high likelihood of straying. Early game has her emotionally betraying MC for an extended period with little player choice. Work hours and Marcus texts seem like low purpose systems. Should be more interesting

Absolutely fantastic. My favorite mixture of optional deniability from the MC, slow corruption of likable girls, and solid pacing. I do admit I have a bias for redheads, doubly so for redheads with glasses, but even so, this is going on my list of favorites, a.i. or not. Oh, and it actually manages to make a functional phone-sim version of ren'py, instead of a lazy hackjob that results in minimum functionality. Genuinely had to double check to make sure it was actually a ren'py game, and not programmed from scratch.

v ch3-This dev keeps delivering on the content, great job. +1 star for that. This keeps up, and i'll be at 5 stars very soon. Good pacing, and good content on all paths. v ch3- Love that the fast text is actually fast text, no long periods to wait for the text to scroll. I like ai, but this anime style isn't one that's high on my list, but it does the job. During the massage the gf does have 6 toes a easy fix in photoshop. The fact the fmc only slept with the mc once doesn't seem like a strong bond to start with, and the fact i don't find her that cute might lend itself to doing ntr/nts sooner lol. Not to mention she seems lazy, unmotivated, and a slug at home. So of course she gets bored The office worker on the website seems the hottest, and Iris seems soo much cuter then the gf I think your gf is probably the most unattractive of all of them i have seen so far. lol Then your gf decides to spend time with this friend over talking to you her bf...yeah bad vibes from the start lol. Not to mention lonely in just a fews days, typical avn style. And ohh boy danger danger will robinson with sister and that manager. Your gf will not join you for online game but her new friend she does....then she finally says why don't we play when the update comes out. this gf of yours really doesn't sound like a good thing, and reading relationship advice from her new friends book...I see lots of trainwrecks here. So many red flags. The gf spends so much time with the guy, and if you miss any event, movie/game/etc you pretty much start ntr. You spend too much on one thing, or miscalculate it feels like you will lose the sister or the gf by not buying them what they need/want. And you can be in the middle of a conversation and you got have input work hours, breaking immersion. I don't like you only have 9 pages of save slots, should go on much further, i'm the kind to save at almost every choice. So for now i'll say 3 stars....i was pondering 4....but i think 3 is where it's at now and i'll reeval when the next update comes out. Most choices aren't too bad, but there are a few times when you need a 3rd option, or get rid of a stupid one. And the mc seems stupid at times. Since ai is in play the dev should work with wan2.2 and put some animations in the game at some point.

90% of the game is text on a phone. every "scene" is just a photo , not bad story line if corrupting and choice , the art work is good , the MC doesn't respond to seeing some of these pics that are shown to him . But apart from that i would like it more if it had animation and wasn't all on a phone.

A lot of work for low payoff. Images are nice but takes a while to get to them. I don't enjoy this type of NTR but don't really care to take points off for specifically that I HATE the "I can see pictures of my GF getting railed but her eyes are covered so... eh probably nothing" trope. NTR where the MC is a spineless idiot is always bad, but this is truly just stupid to me. If that's your thing you'll love this, if it's not you wont. There are VAGUE options for you to imply that the MC is fine with this, but a cheating girlfriend who lies to you aint my jam.