Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim Reviews

This review is actually a "I don't recommend". But because my reasoning is so niche, I'm putting yes just because I don't want to tank this game's algorithm as the only review. I'll change this over in a few weeks. Consider this a "maybe". I'm sure the series is great (there's multiple love interests with a stat based system and map, similar to "Long Live the Queen" and "Nicole"), but not for me. Full disclosure that I eventually bought this, after being on the fence about it anyway, because I wanted to write a guide for it, thinking some of the endings would be hilarious. Sadly refunded it after 5 minutes because there is a LOT of options and dialogue, and unfortunately NO skip button. On top of that, transitions and dialogue can't be clicked through very fast (like the animations are locked and have to play out). Anybody who's played otome games or dating sims knows the lack of skip button is frustrating at best, even in less complicated dating sims - but in a stat-based one (that DOESN'T let you save on choices, from what I could tell) it's plain irritating. Again, I'm not the absolute target audience as I wanted to make a guide, and I'm more into wooing hot men than creatures from another dimension. I also haven't seen everything this game has to offer because I didn't want to put up with the lack of skip button, and I couldn't brute force my way through a bunch of clicking. If you're a streamer, that's probably fine because you'll play it once with your community and that'll be it. But for an otome game, £4 isn't exactly "cheap" in the genre and I only took the plunge and bought it because I thought "23 achievements, that's a lot of content, I'll make a guide, it'll be worth the £4 because it'll be a little laugh for an afternoon". So yeah, make of that what you will. There's a lot of stuff here for £4. Just too much for my patience with no skip button and stat-based.