ADULT GAME REVIEWED:

REVIEWED BY: NoxAeternea

Before we start discussing the game, I have to tell you something: If you hate futas, femboys and seeing more dicks than pussies, I’d advise you to leave the room, lock the door, throw away the key and never look back because that’s basically the whole game. Or don’t and give it a chance and you might be pleasantly surprised like I did.

I used to dislike futas a lot, it seemed like a bizarre fetish that could never appeal to me. As I played some really fun games and read some great hentai, it became something that I’m mildly interested in only when it’s done well.

You might be curious as to why I’m writing this review, after all this isn’t exactly my fetish. The reason is simple:

the game is just that good.

It is a world where everything and anything wants to fuck you senseless

The world of Tales of Androgyny is a porn world through and through. It is filled with extremely feminine boys as well as busty, thick women with unnaturally large appendages dangling between their legs. It is a world where everything and anything wants to fuck you senseless.

Not the most realistic I’ve seen in adult games and surprisingly not the most unrealistic as well. Instead, it feels like a world tailor-made to accommodate the extreme fetish content the game offers. I have no gripes with setting and the logic the world operates on, but to be perfectly honest, none of that is what makes this game special. What this game excels at is the gameplay.

Before we get to the nuts and bolts of the gameplay, I’d like to dive a little into game design. One of the hardest parts of game design is marrying the gameplay to the themes and the story. The Souls series is an interesting example, with its complicated and hard-to-navigate UI, the inability to pause, and the brutal unforgiving combat. The mechanics of the game reflect the brutal and unforgiving world

Adult games face a distinct problem in this regard: sex, the most important part of an adult game. How do you gamify the sex in a fun way and how do you do it in a way that is consistent with the themes of the game?
There are many, many ways to approach this problem but I’ve noticed certain trends in how adult games handle this. A big portion of games avoids it altogether by using sex scenes as either a reward or punishment. The latter almost never works. You know the kind of game I’m talking about, where you need to lose or make stupid decisions to get the steamy sex scenes. The players' natural instinct is to play well and try to win, but they are forced to lose to get the scenes they want to see so the result is often an awkward and annoying experience.

Rewarding the player with scenes works much better but all this does is make the sex something tacked onto the game instead of being a part of the game and the mechanics. Games that try to make sex a gameplay element are rarer and they usually go the route of simulation where the player is given control of how the sex event plays. They may let you control the pace, the positions, or any number of parameters. In my experience, these are rarely fun mechanics and lose their novelty rather quickly.

The reason why I took the time to dive into this subject is to illustrate how rare it is for games to do what Tales of Androgyny does.

Now that’s how you win a fight!

The combat system in the game is already interesting on its own. You manage all kinds of stuff like stances, stability, durability, and a bunch of interesting status effects. Add to that system the ability to use sexual acts in combat and you have something special. Sure, you can simply lose, and you’ll get a sex scene but if that was all, I wouldn’t be writing this review. Instead, you have the option to raise your opponent’s arousal, force them or be forced by them into sexual acts and either win or lose that way.

You can show off your body, get them aroused, give them a blowjob and they’ll be less likely to continue fighting you. Now that’s how you win a fight! This system is not only engaging and fun, but it also ties very well with the themes of the game. Besides futas and femboys, the game also makes use of sub/dom themes, and guess what? You can do both in sexual combat as well, there’s no right way to fight. You can be submissive and let them do what they want to you, and they will give up on fighting you, or you can dominate them, and again the enemies will be less likely to continue fighting.

Is the system perfect? Of course not. There is a lot of overlap between what different actions do, the variety of combat moves are limited, and it can be pretty confusing at first glance. There are many things that can be improved. But this is the first time I’ve seen this kind of mechanic implemented well in an adult game. That alone deserves respect.

Combine fun gameplay with competent writing and great art and you get a really fun game. Tales of Androgyny know how to be a game. So many adult games have very little “game” in them, a simple click of the mouse is usually all you need to finish them. Not Tales of Androgyny though, this is a game you play not “watch”. Even skills and stats which many games use only to lock content are made into something interesting. You get DnD-Esque stat checks and succeeding or failing allows you to get different events or a variety of bad ends. Although, some of these bad ends kind of come out of nowhere so saving often is a good idea.

It’s fun, it’s interesting and it’s unique

The game has a pretty decent amount of content, but it didn’t take me a long time to finish all the current content. Wanting more of a game is as much praise as it is a complaint. Luckily, updates happen regularly so you don’t need to wait a long time for new scenes.

I think it is pretty clear that I’m going to give this game a recommendation. It’s fun, it’s interesting and it’s unique. More than anything, it has a very solid core. With regular and high-quality updates, all it needs is more time to become something truly remarkable. If the kind of content it offers is your thing, you definitely HAVE TO check it out. And even if it’s not to your tastes, I’d still recommend giving it a try if only to experience the gameplay.

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