My Lovely Wife Reviews

玩三国杀吧，那里的妹纸比这好看

The premise is cool, but the execution is... shallow. Both in gameplay and story. The gameplay lacks a failure state, there is no goal to it, mostly just busywork that lets you unlock endings. That alone would be fine if the stories were interesting, but no, they are mostly disjointed, short, shallow. The game looks pretty but I cannot recommend this, both gameplay and stories are lacking.

A mix of dating sim and management sim that doesn't quite cohere. The management requires too much micro to be an idler, and doesn't have enough consequences to be interesting to manage. The dating sim has lots of succubi to date, with interesting character designs, but while the actual dialogue trees have some depth, they're gated behind multiple subsystems, and are deeply unintuitive (choices being unhelpfully vague). Crucially, the game is weirdly puritanical considering its premise - it's NSFW in that it has scanty outfits, jiggle physics, prostitution, and murder, but it's not going to show you any sex or full nudity. It also soft-pedals the domestic abuse angle, which, sure, I understand not wanting to alienate your audience, but also - that's the whole premise of the game? Baffling choices, all around.

Unfortunately, despite hoping that the game would have more after playing a bit, but it is a relatively simple and shallow game you summon a succubus using three materials, the type depending on the type of materials used (blood, wood, metal, animal iirc). although this might imply there are a lot of different types of succubi, (which is true), each and every one of them gets a minimal amount of screen time. they only differ in appearance and the short story, which are basically like cut scenes where you can choose one of three options, of which most require a skill to be chosen, after which she says a little bit and then it is over. this means that even a 2000 word short story on archive of our own contains more characterization and happenings compared to the succibi, as the only other thing you get are 2 endings if you choose to stay with the succubus instead of resurrecting your wife (the ending is literally just dependant on whatever last choice you made when you interacted with the succubus, with a bad and a good ending...talk about character development) and a single drawn image if you get the corresponding affection increasing affinity with the succubus (no, only one of the 4 options to increase affection will get you that image, so it is not like you can see the different ways you would spend time with the succubus) this leads to the chocies being as wide as an ocean and as shallow as a puddle. although talking to all does reveal a somewhat interesting picture of hell, cutting down on the amount of succubi to instead have each one retain more depth would be a lot better in my opinion, as the storytelling and art resoruces could be used to flesh each one out The management gameplay meanwhile is just a repetitive grind of increase stats at 2 locations, farm money for as long as you want/need and fill up their carnal essence meter, then sacrifice in one of two ways (one of which requires maxxing out their affection, which is just spending a lot of money to hang out together in the park) in order to get personal carnal essence which you can invest in skills (to boost your succubi and their activities as well as have more options available for their individual story and neccesary for the main quest line to progress and be finished) and higher quality materials (only boosts the initial stats of the succubus, if you use three low tier animal components to summon a succubus it will be the same type of succubus with the same story and simply some increased stats so you need to grind a bit less) This means you will just spend your time to farm up money for new bedrooms, for training succubi or for increasing their affection to sacrifice, to then sacrifice them, get a bit better and repeat, after you unlock the more expensive training or money making actions the succubi also have traits, but, who the hell cares - most of them are randomly generated and do not have a major impact besides making some grind a bit easier or harder. it is not like the brash succubus will refuse to learn skills or the meek and submissive ones will run into a type of client that they cannot defend themselves against due to your own actions, so their personalities practically do not matter in game and when I consider the fact that I have spent about 15 bucks to buy this game, I really would have expected something else. so, the last conclusion is: do not buy it. you will have fun with almost literally any other management game if you want management, including the NSFW brothel game where you assign your workers to clients based on preference and the like, and if you want a story or a visual novel get something like nekopara or whatever, this will not be it. after the mentioned 2 and almost a half hours I am already at the end game and just need to grind to either give enough carnal essence to one of the two factions (you only learn a bit of conflicting information about them) or to resurrect my wife myself (if that is possible and the game is not forcing me to choose a side) 3/10 could have been an interesting game but probably lacked the resources to become that