My Maid Dreams of Electric Sheep v0.8.6

The bucket list thing, right? This isn't your usual “touch here to make numbers go up” sandbox. Our guy wants to off himself in a world where feeling anything gets you flagged as sick. So he writes this list of horny tasks. I spent way too long on the first item, just a handjob in a grimy alley, because the animation loop is... oddly hypnotic. It's 3DCG, but deliberately rough around the edges, like someone rendered it on a phone from 2018. The skin textures sometimes glitch out and the female character's eyes go a bit dead, which honestly fits the dystopian vibe better than some polished triple-A smut. You tap around, unlocking new list items. The oral sex scene in the clinic is a highlight, mostly because of the sterile lighting and how awkwardly the male protagonist stands there, this stiff board of a man. There's no complex inventory or skill tree, just moving from one grey location to the next. The mobile game controls are basic, almost too basic, I fat-fingered the progress bar twice and had to restart a whole sequence. Why is there no undo for that? And the setting. This world where emotions are a malady. They don't explain it much, you just see these propaganda posters in the background and the characters talk in this flat, clinical way. It reminds me of that old flash game, "SimGirl," if SimGirl was directed by someone who watched Blade Runner once and then had a breakdown. The contrast between the dreary setting and the explicit animated scenes is jarring. You're getting a mechanical, detached handjob and then suddenly the text box drops some nihilistic line about human connection being a virus. I forgot to mention the sound design. It's mostly just ambient hums and wet noises, but a single, out-of-tune music box loop plays during one of the later scenes and it's stuck in my head. Not in a good way.

• handjob
• Mobile Game
• Sandbox
• dystopian setting
• oral sex