Kindred

This is an absolute gem of a game, with solid writing, a great interface, and, unusually for a phone game, you don't have to be a cuck to play it. There are is a nice range of characters, and the pacing is believable. I am a huge fan of cheating games and.. Watching this IMPATIENTLY for updates

These are my impressions from the first release and bear in mind, all of my prejudices/preconceived notions about the content (can't avoid that) The dev promises that this isn't like all the other phone games, and ..technically it's not. The big thing is it's split into two (i guess three) 'experiences' Spoiler: phone 1. the regular text message spam where people have way too drawn out conversations on the phone. No need to describe it, you know it. 2. The 'innovative' part: glasses the MC wears that let us see what he sees. So he can have sex, and we'll see it. No real difference to just regular non-phone games, but everything is in first person and there is a phone ui overlayed. 3. You can see other's experiences through their glasses, whether or not dev is going to use that as a "watch other people fuck" thing is ..unknown, but I would bet it's going to happen. So the dev promises no NTR/NTS and that is correct because the MC is involved in the sex scenes. Whether or not you'll see women get fucked by other men through the glasses is another story and will technically avoid NTR/NTS tags if the MC isn't involved with them at the time. On to the actual content/story. Spoiler: story Characters/Plot: 1. Hard to say too much due to how little there is, but the MC is frustrated because his girlfriend won't have sex with him. He tells all of this to his business partner/best friend. His best friend of course says that he needs to get laid, with anyone he can. MC basically starts to justify cheating, and trying to pressure his girlfriend that "sleeping with someone without your significant other not knowing isn't necessarily cheating". Right. my ideas aside, it's very forced and feels like porn logic. So the MC is immediately unlikable to me. The girlfriend: done dirty. She's a bit frigid to be fair, but really seems to love the MC. and is portrayed as any physical contact will send her screaming to the hills justifying MC cheating even more. (you see where this is going) tldr: magic glasses so the phone/real time thing works, nothing else needs to be said. Cheating is going to play a MASSIVE role here, meaning the MC will be cheating, so get used to that and it is forced. No choices other than to reject a rando who walks up to you on the street and wants to kiss you (wtf?) Render/graphics/models: The women are attractive, but nothing world changing, we've seen similar lots before. Nothing wrong here at all. UI: Not renpy, so skipping is very slow, you have to click through each text message response you make even though there are no choices for the most part in the texting sections. So if you're replaying it, it's a chore for sure. The skipping feature does act as an autoforward for other people's messages to you. That's about it. The cheating aspect being so prevalent is a shame, changes the vibe completely from possibly a nice experience to just MC being an asshole. I don't know, I guess it would be nice to have a heartwarming phone game for a change. That would be the REAL innovation for phone games lol. You might like it, I didn't. Was hoping for something different from the average phone game, but the trend of unlikable characters continues

v.05 love the qol adjustments. Love that the dev is listening to the community. Ok looks like i missed a few updates somehow lol. Story does advance. Socials app is pretty cool. Look forward to next update. v.01- There are no sounds or sound effects. The ui works well, and the speed up button works like it should. Love the advance time button, i've seen this interface before and that's a nice addition. Other avns you have to wait for the clock hands to move so slowly. No social interactions on the phone due to it being secure, umm ok. Journal and gallery on the phone work as they should. It have a nice save system, would be improved if we could name our saves. Also on a load if we already are in the game should warn you that you are about to lose unsaved data. Even better if we could delete old saves, i know we can overwrite them. When texting with mia it shows an arrow pointing down with more words, but i can't seem to get to them. I tried moving the bar on the right. Down arrow, mouse etc. I think it's because i did 150% text. Once i turned it down a notch all text fits. These are just minor things. Was kinetic at the start, and glad you finally had some choices. Spoiler: hmm was it? or was it not But you have no choices when it comes to cheating/sleeping with someone else, but is it cheating because the gf is unsure if you broke up, and also said that space was needed? If relationship is on hold then it's not cheating. Then you also had the whole conversation with the gf of what is cheating. You are forced on this stance using corn logic. The relationship with amy needs to be build a little stronger, just feels like you are long distance friends. With that said the pace picks up when you start Spoiler: scene in game the movie. The renders are nice, and use daz3d instead of ai. The animations are nice and smooth. Overall a very good start, and looks very promising. Looking forward to the next update.