Unity - Abandoned - Milky Tides [v0.20] [StudioMilkBowl]

i do wanna like it, but the game is just too god damn stupid,
it's just... i don't know anymore. my brain feels fried after playing this for an hour.

you play as some super rich guy it seems, with a frigging yacht who moves in with three girls on a superb island that has a beach house with everything you need. and apparently a deadly virus is killing many peeps on the main land. ...why dont i get a frigging beach with a house on top of it, pfff.
anyway, you arrive and only see one of ya girls, the other two are still stuck at the main land.
to generate money to help em out (why doesnt the mc have money when he has a yacht?) you grow food and
sell it to some abo girls for insane money. but hold on! you are also struck by the virus but instead of dying you become super horny! now you gotta breed to stay alive!

the game btw is split into two play styles. the 3d mapping style with cartoonish rendering where you move around the house and the lewd scenes that are probably heavily modded illusion soft animations and pics.

basically the game is a bit like lilia's blooming season... but good god the logic in this game is just bottom barrel for me.

you grow a frigging apple tree in a day.
when ya harvest wheat for the first time (wheat, mind you) dat redhead girl insta makes bread out of it. uuuh, huh. k.
your dick is capable of unzipping your pants.
of course, even though its supposed to be sandbox, you cant horndog around and maybe face the consequences of your actions,
instead you need to get more corrupt by progressing the extremely linear storyline. that includes exhausting all god damn
options when bathing (just why..., this doesn't belong in a sandbox game). of course you have the typical very embarassing moments
where you watch porn at night and she for some reason wakes up and decides to storm into your room to look at ya ding dong and scream.
and of course no doors have locks. we got money for a big house, but nah pal, no locks. sry. but we got money for sat internet ;D.
obviously you get the "im stuck, stepbro" washing machine scene and the shower or toilet peek. the whole palette. not to mention the
typical illusion soft tongue out pose.
unskippable animations that you will see a thousand times also add to the drag.
what irks me the most though is simply the fact, that this is not a sandbox game. no, i cant do whatever i want. im locked out behind everything
unless i do those extremely nonsensical and boring quests in order. characters dont really do anything during the day. they just stand there and the game basically just waits for you to progress the story to start some new code. time therefore is just a number and doesnt add anything to the simulation. and that in return makes the game feel extremely empty and bland and frankly, it also doesnt need to be "open world" at all. you can just have buttons for each location and call it a day. lets be frank here: you grind some linear quests to get a slideshow of animations. that's it.
a sandbox is, when i have multiple ways to reach what i want to achieve and no linear story to "unlock" further options. there is no logic behind making her able to bake some frigging bread and make an apple pie so the story can finally start to slowly progress further with her. why does she have to see the mc naked in the bathtub? if its really important for the dev to have her see mc naked yet wants it to be sandbox, then you need several options to do this and have
the player figure it out. sandbox is, when i have the freedom to do whatever i want within the options given to me and have npcs around me react to whatever action i do and i can choose if i want to do it or not. but the game is actively forcing me to do these quests to proceed. unlike e.g. games like jack o nine tails or masters of raana, where i can do whatever the fuck i want right form the start and pursue whatever goal i wanna do.

the game itself doesn't really have any bugs other than the clunky controls and a misfigured pussy image right at the start. and even though the tags tick for me i can't really give a high rating here. yes, i know, it's a super early version, but the foundation is already so wobbly that i don't see a proper game coming out of this one. but as always, time will tell.
bonus points for the quality of life options of being able to harvest all crops on your farm at once and being able to plant a whole line of farm land with seeds at once. that makes it much less of a chore.

anyway,

2/5

Pretty fun game, you have a great liberty to do a lot of things, the animations are incredible to, so as the art of the characters.

Only downside is the movement part, where as soon as the camera changes so does your direction... it take a while to get used to it... not a big problem but it should be taken into note.

I'll start of with the negative but don't get the wrong idea. The controls are a bit funky and could definitely use some mouse interface.

Tiny bit grindy but honestly not that bad for a sandbox game and instructions are semi clear. Maybe cut some of the numbers in half but the "gameplay" sort of works in this setting.

Few minor things like could use an autoplay function and hitting enter or space to advace text is often taken as a double input so some text gets skipped unintentionally.

Game itself is actually pretty good with a story that makes it kinky enough without being stupid or beating a dead horse with too many of the same overused tropes. In others words it's semi believable...it is porn after all.

Animations are pretty good, good models and very varied scenery for what's possible sex wise and of course a 1+ rating for animated orgasm scenes (mostly). Sure the animation could be better and have seen games with better renders but maybe given enough time and experience for this dev.

Overall a pretty solid game maybe a 3 star for some but giving it 4 because of the things mentioned and makes it belieavable and a good self insert experience and not just another pornhub video.