SPITE: Taking the Boss's Wife, Sister and Mother Reviews

Overall, I really enjoy the game. Probably my favorite one so far. The routine and repetition of the whole thin was enjoyable with always focusing on what I can do to progress the story today or even set myself up for tomorrow. -Joystick After Dark

I'm a fan of management games where you can the reach a point of no longer needing to do the chores. I took the minigames seriously, which might have saved me, but they offer a minigame-free option. The story lives up to the name 'spite', and as far as crossing lines it was quite mild, but still had a large impact. Some of the sweet whispers got real salty. I recommend peaking at scene requirements and I never used the Plaza Gamba for money. Might be easier with it, but you can beat without RNG.

congrats on making the first h game to make me quit and get a refund. absolute boring trash. your asking the player to actually complete challanges. lol

7/10. The netori themes are pretty strong with multiple routes that you're trying to pursue at once and there's some actual time management/mini-game aspects to it that separate this from being a pure visual novel. The writing is fine-- no egregious translation issues-- though I did find the overuse of the word ""absolute"" a bit comical at times. I was disappointed by the amount of things to 'do' with your time, unless I missed something, more than half of the hours in a given day are spent just hitting the Wait button, because the only thing you can do to pass the time otherwise is do the lottery in the town square which is more often than not a bad use of money. The art was very pretty, and the amount of H-scenes was pretty good for the value. I would suggest more options for things to do with time, as even with fully optimizing my activities by week 2 out of 4 to get the maximum amount of SP gain possible, I still only barely managed to get enough SP to finish the matriarch route and felt like I wasted a *lot* of timeslots with nothing productive to do.

The art is very good in this game and the story isn't bad, but some of the mechanics could be better. the tennis minigame isn't bad, but can easily end up wit you losing as you massively slow down when charging a shot(you are a circle hitting a smaller circle). the lock picking is pretty hard ngl, unlike Skyrim with a vibration sense (i played with low audio so idk if it gives an audible signal). Fetch is pretty simple and easy to beat. Weightlifting is a simple time interaction hitting spacebar for both with stamina draining slowly and continuously. The minigame i absolutely hate is the Mindfulness one. why use a mouse movement instead of arrows or A/D to rotate left or right. simple mouse movements to stay on the mouse pad can jurk you outta line and miss hitting the ball.

i do not regret buying this game, but i do regret not refunding it. dull, repetitive, linear, one-dimensional gameplay. + there's BGM / SE / moaning. + characters / plot. + progression, choice, and SP driven dialogues. + time and energy cost indications. + noun changes. - this is my first time getting motion sickness on a video game TITLE SCREEN. - every Steam in-game functions are disabled (SHIFT+TAB / screenshot / achievement notification / etc). - character menu revealing every name and portrait before meeting them. - main gameplay = WAIT -> see what's what -> skip mini-games -> buy lockpicks -> steal money from the rooms -> pay dept -> loop. - BUG? : first choice in Sia's footjob scene. \[sia.name\]. - no indication of applied item buffs. - hard to understand tutorials. - timetable only visible when you sleep. - tedious, unrewarding and visually aching mini-games. - time-wasting slow transition when opening the MAP. and also mini-game results. - frame-jittering H scene and janky loop seam. - multiple characters sharing the same H scene position, cheaping out by swapping body parts. - BUG? : unlike HELENA and SIA's room, need one extra click to proceed after searching SHANE's room.

This review (unofficially) brought to you in part by the 2026 Steam Summer Sale, AstroGlide, and a good day off. Unsure where to start with this game. The mechanics of the game are unique, in that I haven’t seen anything else like them before. Spite being a mechanic is humorous and, if you’re not bad at the mini games, a very easily managed resource. You’ll need 1000 saved up at some point so it pays dividends to get good at the minigames. Speaking of minigames; the tennis mini game was arguably the most fun part of the game for me. I had more fun doing that than most of the dialog choices. The story/characters and fleshed out enough to make sense. There’s a branching choice late in the game that you can just outright miss if you make the wrong selection, which I did apparently. It doesn’t affect achievement status, only dialog choices I’m sure. The visuals are the biggest area of contention that I have. Someone else in a review pointed out the use of AI and I’m inclined to agree. There’s lace that turns into absolute pixelated messes, folds in clothes that turn into skin, eyes that lose their entire shape during movements. For **** sake, there’s an H scene where the MC **** literally gets warped by the 8008s around it. Overall Rating: 3/10 Was fun for the two playthroughs I got out of it to 100% it but will never be touched again. The tennis minigame would be a better standalone game.

1. The price of the game is slightly too high. 2. +18 quality content. 3. There are a lot of dialogues. 4. It is almost impossible to open all H scenes with 1 pass. 5. I didn't understand how to develop a story with a store clerk. 6. The plot is average. 7. The drawing is good. 8. The game mechanics are simple but enjoyable. 9. There are few locations, most of them are mannequins. 10. Most of the consumables are useless. The game is not bad, but I want to refine it logically so that it would be possible to view all the content one way or another with 1 playthrough.

Just wander around by clicking locations and hope you have enough money to trigger events. The dog mini game sucks and the tennis mini game sucks.

Bought the game out of curiosity, Beat the game entirely, my impression is this game was someones first project , there IS direction in terms of story, dialogue, even minigames while bare and lacking assets , made an attempt at immersion. that being said Dont buy this game , 90% of this game is Ai assets including the stiff hscenes that just plays in a loop, If you Buy check your pc for malaware cause I did get a warning /;