A Wife's Phone

This game is just...AWFUL! No matter WHAT you do, the MC is always resistant. Choices mean absolutely nothing. You can just push "Skip" and cut out all the BS. It's a Virtual Novel that only pretends to be a "game with choices," Don't waste you're time. Player agency is not a serious concern for the developers. I can NOT believe I wasted so many hours on this farce.

This is an interesting game. Its format is unique, the layout is interesting, having all of the plot delivered via text messages after the fact or hacking into someone's phone camera to get (very few) real-time scenes is interesting.

I will echo the general agreement that this game is very grindy. It also has a lot of transparency on that particular grind. I think its a solid element of the UI that I can see all of my active branches, next steps, and whatnot on them. I wish it showed closed branches, and I wish there was a way to just skip until next event for some of these branches. I did a long playthrough once and wanted to try a different approach. There was a lot of overlap in the storylines, so I just wanted to see some of the major branches for the MC, but with no way to skip, you just have to manually skip days and days. That part can get tedious.

I do like the mix of younger and more mature models, though. The concept is good. The hypno stuff is good (though it gets repeative). Overall, I think this game is pretty good, just give yourself permission to close branches you aren't digging and skip until new content is available. 

tl;dr: This game has immense conceptual potential, but fumbles implementation in quite a few ways. I also didn't care for the BBC obsession, but I was able to enjoy the other themes in spite of that, and it's not like I didn't know what it would entail going in. That being said, I still enjoyed it for what it is, and will keep my eye on it moving forward.

Other reviews have expressed the problems with grind, and with contradictory messages coming in, which is true though only a problem later into the game. And I can somewhat excuse the contradictory messaging - there can be a lot of values and flags to keep track of and there seems to be an obvious attempt to address this at least in part via the story tree.

If I had to pick a primary issue it is that the story tree is, generally, horrible to understand. When making impactful choices, options may have notes explaining what content they lock out, though these are often inadequate leading me to unintentionally block off entire swaths of the game accidentally on my first playthrough. There is an app that nominally explains what story threads are still available, and how to progress them, but the UI is cluttered and in many cases it is not helpful in actually progressing story threads. Not adding people to the phone often leads to missing content entirely though the game often fails to explain that, even in decisions where the don't add choice seems like it should result in an NTR story line that was rarely the case - perhaps this is due to the game being unfinished but in that case don't make it a choice.

With updates, it can be annoying to retread the same threads even with the fast advance function to get to new content, particularly if that content is locked behind a certain choice that isn't clearly communicated.

The ability to spam contacts was a good idea that very quickly got old.

So many apps do nothing, or only do something in very specific circumstances, or just have outright bad UI and very buggy.

The game balance is poor, I had no problem getting enough money to pay off the debt consistently, only failing when I intentionally stopped trying to force a certain branch.

Onto personal preference: The game is clearly not written for me. I enjoyed it for the manipulation/corruption, NTR, and TF themes, not for the obession with BBC. I can't really fault the game for that - it is pretty obvious what you are getting yourself into, and I was able to largely ignore it for the parts I liked better.

I enjoyed the messaging-centric communication, which felt like a more natural window into characters' stream of consciousness. Unfortunately the writing is extremely hit or miss - there were several memorable high points, but the vast majority of the writing is mediocre at best. I'll reiterate that the concepts here have real potential, I just don't think they are executed successfully.

The intro period before you can really explore is long as others have said, but I also didn't find the game to substantially open up beyond that - it just stopped holding your hand. Every story line is still linear, your choices only seem to impact whether you actually get access to certain content. That combined with having to wait for no reason to advance story lines leads to a really boring late-game loop where you get a message, spam wait 21 times, and get another message to advance one step in a 100 step story line. I get the idea that some of these actions shouldn't be an instant thing but there simply wasn't enough content to keep me occupied while the character presumably mulls over their given task.

Full Review, I spent a lot of hours on this game to give it another shot so that you guys would not have to do it.

Disclaimer: My review is focused mainly on Female MC branch as it was only branch I liked. Wife BBC arc started good but gradually it became so slow that I didn't care about and since I didn't care for Cuck storylines and is not an expert to those type of content I can't review them.

Okay, first of all game is grindy. Second its too grindy that I deleted it because of the Grind as main reason. This may be the only game where I will be scared to replay because of grind Dev is forcing upon us.

Game has two main pathways, Alpha and Beta. Alpha involved Wife Romance, Incest, and other women where MC cheats on his wife. In Beta MC opens Cuck and NTR options. Most content is in Beta MC branch and in that branch BBC corruption of all female characters is set in stone. And BBC corruption is lame here and same for characters: Someone control them via app, MC tries to save them, MC fails and they fall for "Mighty" Black phallus and become new QOS. Its repeatiting as hell and becomes boring, Female MC had chance to do something else but its also bad.

I can write paras about how bad the different storylines are, but in essence all of them lacks player feedback and response. For example, if you choose to become Female and get fucked to save someone its not a small decision and such decision should be given proper respect. Scene should show MC's vulnerability in new role and new feelings and emotions but here it was just bland as hell, MC slept and woke up while being fucked and a screen flashed saying 1 hour went by and then that's it. We didn't see MC's female body, MC didn't use clothes he purchased, it was just bland.

Anyways, if you want to play this game, focus of one or two storylines you want to play and then skip days. Sometime gap is so much that you have to grind so much for just 1 text scene for example in Female MC branch in order to get to second sex you will have to grind for 30 or so ingame days and if you focus on all the storylines, forget about progressing in any of them at good pace.

Edit: Also, too much focus on black cocks in this game and it almost feels like racist because here black men can't stop creating snowbunnies and even destroying their whole established families for white women. Here blacks are more like sex toys for these white btches and honestly its quite unnerving. I have seen enough BBC QOS shit to say that this game has long breached the boundary for healthy representation of the fetish.

The gameplay issues with this game have already been heavily and accurately reviewed, so I'll mostly skim over that part, but it's worth reiterating that this game is a slog in all the worst ways.

Now that that's out of the way though, on to the main reason for writing this review: This game contains a prolific use of slurs, both for black people and to a lesser extent trans people. Putting your slurs into an acronym don't make it any less of a slur, but it does indicate to me that the author is likely aware that the word they're avoiding using is a slur. Every time it comes up, it's like a slap in the face. Similarly, the sissy story line constantly mixes trans and sissy terminology in a way that whether intentionally or not heavily conflates trans women with men in a really gross way. Further, women in this game world, even before mind control becomes a factor, are written as the shallowest misogynistic stereotypes I've seen in quite a while. I tried to give this game a fair shake, probably more than it deserved. But for anyone reading this, if you're bothered by racism, misogyny, or transphobia in your porn games, give this one a pass.