This game... says a lot about society. While I see some sort of critique aimed at the developer, the elephant in the room with an obnoxiously cliché story is still glossed over. I mean — what would I expect from a furry porn game? — but this one has almost 9k reviews at the moment, and as we all know, popular media (books, movies, blogs, etc.) frame life expectations and moral orientation — and porn, specifically in a culture obsessed with weird tokenization of self through virtual sexual/gender/romantic combos and material consumption of the body and soul, frames expectations of the other as well. So, what do we have here..?

1. More often than not, the character judges their feelings for the player by how their close friend views the player. It’s comically petty in the setting, but given how often you can’t get away from random so-called friends’ opinions, even in the context of mere friendships, it’s pretty realistic. Nudes get circulated, message history gets shared, people judge each other in their back... No coincidence that after a single date in the game, some rando shows up asking you interview questions and making your date advice on how prospective of a candidate you are. A variant includes a scene where the player’s presumed ♥♥♥♥♥♥ classmates serve as a plot device, which actually implies the player-controlled avatar had an actual life before becoming this unemployed brother-lusting YCH... Anyways,
2. Several times, the whole character arc revolves around them getting over their ex (each time the ex is portrayed as manipulative and abusive ♥♥♥♥♥ as they always are). Yet again, real life people will compare you to their exes, and more often than not these exes (be it past friends or past partners) really mean more to the person than yourself (and obsessively hating a person is even worse of a personality trait than entrusting your opinion of the other to whoever is in your friend list at the moment).
3. Most of the time, all the character needs for their arc to progress is for the player to... listen to their story? Yet again, real life people are so touch-starved and emotionally detached from each other due to the abundance of social network interactions plaguing society with simulacrum of affection that it seems... pretty reasonable.
4. More often than not, the character exhibits hobbies that are portrayed so shallow that it makes said character not even a stereotype but a caricature. Yet again, social media-infested hellscape of human interactions lets you qualify as a hobby enthusiast as soon as you put the associated hashtag/label in your bio and optionally make a channel, group, public page, or whatever, so... yeah.
5. Speaking of stereotypes, here we have: a trans girl openly fetishized via her obsession with sex, gay people flaneuring from a threesome to an orgy, a weird incest fantasy with a slutty brother shoved into you by how the game advances, etc. — which I guess is fine for a furry porn game if these stereotypes weren’t harmful for the communities portrayed (queer people in general and furries).
6. Fetishes and love concepts explored in the game are pretty mild by furry porn standards, but once again, lie completely in line with stereotypes about dating and sex in general. Both falling in love furever after a date or two, and sex scenes that are described so disconnected from how sexual intercourse goes in reality are an imprint of a stereotype about human relationships that idealizes or downplays love affairs to the point of it either being only sex (thus, the lover can be switched every day to spice it up) or being desirable only with a perfectly suitable partner (who is tossed in the bin once mutual disagreements eventually arise). It’s no wonder 4/5 marriages end up with divorce or a side affair (source: the voices).
7. In line with #6, it's pretty ironic that once you finish dating with one of the characters and skip the credits section, you're deposited back into the club so that you may find another victim for your partners collection. Implied promiscuity here is so subtle it feels natural for the setting, and the normalization of treating another human anthro being as an interchangeable object with market value is one of the sad consequences of industrial society all western cultures had to go through.

Also, I’m not judging art or writing quality per se (as I’m not an artist or a writer), but the game doesn’t seem to settle on whether it shows something or expects you to imagine it through reading text over a static (sometimes even black) image. I’m just saying that reused assets, 2-3 expressions per character (and sometimes even static character models), and heavily blurred backgrounds mix very poorly with walls of my-first-furry-rp text you have to consume whilst observing them, considering the text is sometimes inconsistent with what is shown explicitly. Oh well, I judged it anyways.

Overall the game deserves a thumbs-up just for the fact it makes the issues with the fragmented, infocratic, technofeudalist, consumerist, and morally blind culture we all live in all more obvious. I liked Seth and Lex the most.

Technical details: Proton Experimental, no bugs/glitches, all achievements can be completed.
Edit: fixed typos, added #7, made Lex a knot.

This game... says a lot about society. While I see some sort of critique aimed at the developer, the elephant in the room with an obnoxiously cliché story is still glossed over. I mean — what would I expect from a furry porn game? — but this one has almost 9k reviews at the moment, and as we all know, popular media (books, movies, blogs, etc.) frame life expectations and moral orientation — and porn, specifically in a culture obsessed with weird tokenization of self through virtual sexual/gender/romantic combos and material consumption of the body and soul, frames expectations of the other as well. So, what do we have here..? 1. More often than not, the character judges their feelings for the player by how their close friend views the player. It’s comically petty in the setting, but given how often you can’t get away from random so-called friends’ opinions, even in the context of mere friendships, it’s pretty realistic. Nudes get circulated, message history gets shared, people judge each other in their back... No coincidence that after a single date in the game, some rando shows up asking you interview questions and making your date advice on how prospective of a candidate you are. [strike]A variant includes a scene where the player’s presumed bitchy classmates serve as a plot device, which actually implies the player-controlled avatar had an actual life before becoming this unemployed brother-lusting YCH...[/strike] Anyways, 2. Several times, the whole character arc revolves around them getting over their ex (each time the ex is portrayed as manipulative and abusive bitch as they always are). Yet again, real life people will compare you to their exes, and more often than not these exes (be it past friends or past partners) really mean more to the person than yourself (and obsessively hating a person is even worse of a personality trait than entrusting your opinion of the other to whoever is in your friend list at the moment). 3. Most of the time, all the character needs for their arc to progress is for the player to... listen to their story? Yet again, real life people are so touch-starved and emotionally detached from each other due to the abundance of social network interactions plaguing society with simulacrum of affection that it seems... pretty reasonable. 4. More often than not, the character exhibits hobbies that are portrayed so shallow that it makes said character not even a stereotype but a caricature. Yet again, social media-infested hellscape of human interactions lets you qualify as a hobby enthusiast as soon as you put the associated hashtag/label in your bio and optionally make a channel, group, public page, or whatever, so... yeah. 5. Speaking of stereotypes, here we have: a trans girl openly fetishized via her obsession with sex, gay people flaneuring from a threesome to an orgy, a weird incest fantasy with a slutty brother shoved into you by how the game advances, etc. — which I guess is fine for a furry porn game if these stereotypes weren’t harmful for the communities portrayed (queer people in general and furries). 6. Fetishes and love concepts explored in the game are pretty mild by furry porn standards, but once again, lie completely in line with stereotypes about dating and sex in general. Both falling in love furever after a date or two, and sex scenes that are described so disconnected from how sexual intercourse goes in reality are an imprint of a stereotype about human relationships that idealizes or downplays love affairs to the point of it either being only sex (thus, the lover can be switched every day to spice it up) or being desirable only with a perfectly suitable partner (who is tossed in the bin once mutual disagreements eventually arise). It’s no wonder 4/5 marriages end up with divorce or a side affair (source: the voices). 7. In line with #6, it's pretty ironic that once you finish dating with one of the characters and skip the credits section, you're deposited back into the club so that you may find another victim for your partners collection. Implied promiscuity here is so subtle it feels natural for the setting, and the normalization of treating another [strike]human[/strike] anthro being as an interchangeable object with market value is one of the sad consequences of industrial society all western cultures had to go through. Also, I’m not judging art or writing quality per se (as I’m not an artist or a writer), but [spoiler]the game doesn’t seem to settle on whether it shows something or expects you to imagine it through reading text over a static (sometimes even black) image. I’m just saying that reused assets, 2-3 expressions per character (and sometimes even static character models), and heavily blurred backgrounds mix very poorly with walls of my-first-furry-rp text you have to consume whilst observing them, considering the text is sometimes inconsistent with what is shown explicitly[/spoiler]. Oh well, I judged it anyways. Overall the game deserves a thumbs-up just for the fact it makes the issues with the fragmented, infocratic, technofeudalist, consumerist, and morally blind culture we all live in all more obvious. [spoiler]I liked Seth and Lex the most.[/spoiler] Technical details: Proton Experimental, no bugs/glitches, all achievements can be completed. Edit: [spoiler]fixed typos, added #7, made Lex a knot.[/spoiler]