From Darkness

I got stuck on the way the wife, Lindsay, just exists. Like a piece of furniture that moans. Rashad is supposedly your best friend and he's fine with you fucking her, which, okay, I've seen that setup in a hundred hentai CGs before. But the game never does anything with it. She's just... there. A warm hole with a wedding ring. The first time you click on her it's basically a free use scenario in the kitchen, and the dialogue is so flat I started wondering if the writer was being held hostage. "Oh, you're here again. Rashad is out." Riveting stuff. The art is that specific kind of CG hentai where the bodies look traced from a mannequin and the faces have two expressions: bored and slightly less bored. I spent way too long staring at a single panel where her neck connected to her shoulder at an angle that would require immediate medical attention. The cheating wife tag is technically accurate but it feels wrong to call it cheating when there's zero tension. No sneaking around, no guilt, no thrill. Just clicking through static images like a PowerPoint presentation from a very sad office meeting. The family tag is there because of the inheritance from a dead relative, I guess? That's the entire setup for why you have a house. It's mentioned once and then forgotten, like the plot equivalent of a sneeze. Then Sarah shows up. New dynamic, the description says. She's a "sexy girl" who appears and you can either treat her like garbage or try to form something. The choices are so binary they might as well be labeled "Be A Dick" and "Be Slightly Less Of A Dick." I picked the nice route once and the dialogue didn't change tone at all. The same dead-eyed delivery. The same awkward pauses between text boxes. It's like the game is actively resisting any attempt to care about these people. I kept playing anyway, which says more about my own questionable decisions than the game's quality. Maybe that's the point. A visual novel about emptiness where the emptiness isn't intentional. Or maybe I'm just trying to justify why I clicked through every single scene while my phone buzzed with notifications from actual humans I was ignoring. The free use stuff is there if you want it. It's not hot. It's just... present. Like Lindsay.

• cheating
• free use
• cheating wife
• cg hentai
• family