Carnal Contract

Name of the game: being as pervy as possible. Carnal Contract is an adult visual novel developled by Dotty Diaries, with focus on plot and sexual interactions (duh). This game looked very promising, with this perverse game, but it fell short of my expectations due to reasons I'll lay out in the following paragraphs. Let's begin with the audiovisual aspects of this game. The art direction looks average, with decently detailed environments. It doesn't stand out, but it's not entirely bad either. The character design is below average, though. The models look like wax dolls instead of people, and that's because their skins look plastic. It's up to you to decide if that kills your immersion or not. For me, it's distracting, especially when I played adult visual novels with far better fidelity. There are some sound effects, the music is generic and not always matches the context and the tone of the scenes, and there is limited voice acting in this game (only in sex scenes and limited to moans), and I think those were stock voices the devs found in some library. This is not a criticism, it's just an observation. Speaking of sex scenes, they are average, with clunky animations, but the devs at least made sure that they got the quasi-FMV effect down. One pet peeve I have with this game is that it has the visual novel equivalent of "unskippable" cutscenes/splashscreens. I put it in quotation marks because they can't be skipped during normal gameplay. They can only be omitted if the scenes are skippable from the engine perspective (when the lines have already been seen at least once). The gameplay is basically choice-driven. Not too much to say about this, because the choices do what they're supposed to do. There are several bad endings the player can get, and only one correct ending. There is also a optional minigame, which the game says it's RPG based, but it's just the visual novel equivalent of a fetch quest, where you must find a specific set of clothing for one of the characters. Doing the minigame unlocks some special scenes. There is also a peek-a-boo feature which allows the player to see female characters in sexier outfits of wearing nothing at all. This is me nitpicking, but I wish these feature doesn't appear in serious scenes, when this feature can ruin the tone of the scene. So far, this seems like a decent visual novel. Well, this is where the game collapses like a house of cards. The writing is an ungodly mess. There is a massive plothole three hours in into the game. The story is about the main character falling into some kind of game, where he needs to do increasingly more perverse challenges in exchange of money. At some point the main character finds out about how the game works, but the story explicitly contradicts the second rule, which forces the main character to bring someone else to the game, someone who is chosen by the organizers of the game, if he decides to use a second skip. Instead, the main character gets killed, which can only happen if he uses a third skip, or the player gets past a certain point in the story. My theory is that the writers didn't want to handle the eventuality that the main character is forced to bring someone else into the game, because that'd imply making the story more complex than they really wanted. If true, then they shouldn't have introduced that rule to the Dare Game, and find some other way to make the main character enter the game. But this isn't the only writing issue I found. The way the people responsible for the Dare Game have to spy on people is through a lens that has a camera attached, which is proven by the story itself to be unreliable, because Becky was able to remove it by rubbing her eyes a bit harder than normal. There are far more reliable methods of spying that the responsible of the Dare Game could use. There is also a theoretical plot twist, which I saw coming from the other side of the planet. The reason it's so weak is because is about the death of the main character's father, and I was never shown the main character mourning her father, I was never shown the main character seeing the body, nor attending his funeral. The writers wanted me to believe he was dead by omitting details that could make his death definitive, which did the opposite. This could be somewhat fixed by a very simple change: instead of pretending to kill the father, make him go missing. The writers could make a storyline about the search for him, the police finding clues intended to misdirect the police, and hence, the reader, and make the very nature of the challenges hint at the possibility that his father is behind it all. The characters also are uninispired, with very basic development, and they're there mostly for the sexual interactions. The main character suffers from inconsistent characterization. At the start of the story, is presented in one way, but after his father's "death", he acts like a completely different person, someone who is really smooth with ladies, when he should act more subdued, depressed and suffering flashbacks about the accident, but that rarely, if ever, is shown. The main antagonist is laughable. His motivations are weak, because he wanted his son to accept his sexual desires, regardless of societal restrictions, which he can do with just a heart to heart with his son, and not resort to a convoluted game which made him do all those questionable challenges. One more thing I almost forgot. If his father was behind the game, why refusing to do the challenges ends up with the MC dead? Is the death of his son preferable to him refusing to do the challenges? is their bloodline so important that he prefers his son to die rather than going his own way? All this is soil for potent character development, which sadly, the game doesn't explore, at all. In conclusion, this story has potential, and I believe that if the writers truly explored the possibilities this story has, I could have recommended it, hands down. But severe plot issues, characters that I didn't care about or are inconsistenly characterized, the refusal to fully explore the possibilities and limitations of the rules of the Dare Game, and a plot twist that can be spotted from the nearest galaxy, destroyed any potential this could have. I'm sure I sound like a broken record by now, but good storytelling and spicy, kinky scenes aren't mutualy exclusive, but most adult visual novel developers seem to think they are, which only damages this medium of storytelling. These games are called "visual novels" for a reason, they're supposed to be read. If reading is hard because of objective writing issues, then it's bad visual novel. Simple as that.

decent 8.5/10

Oyun hikaye açısından bence istenileni vermiyor, hikaye biraz daha iyileştirilebilirdi daha güzel bir son yapılabilirdi. Queen Nicole

Great game,good story ,nice graphcs worth the price.

👎 Not Recommended If you came here expecting animations, prepare to be disappointed. Most scenes look like the characters are just switching between two static poses. The animations are stiff, cheap, and sometimes practically nonexistent. The story is so painfully average that you'll probably start skipping dialogue long before the credits. Spoiler: it never gets better. The choices barely matter, the characters have almost no depth, and the dialogue is stretched far beyond what it deserves. It honestly feels like all the budget went into the Steam screenshots while the actual game was left unfinished. There are plenty of visual novels that cost less and do everything better. Carnal Contract is proof that attractive artwork alone can't save a mediocre game.

Начало было интригующее. Но разработчик не стал заморачиваться и выпустил что-то типа сюжетного порно 80-х годов, Секс сцены разбавлены зачатком сюжета. Даже концовка скомкана. Создалось ощущение обмана. Но ради Н-сцен можно глянуть.

Very good game love it.

年少不知阿姨好（戴拉繼母最棒了） 優點1.可以點眼睛👁️看透視變裝照片（收集） 優點2.除了四女，配角也都有瑟瑟劇情 優點3.動畫帶點語音好用 優點4.劇情算懸疑有趣又不失一路瑟到底 最後大團圓倍感溫腥🤣 結論：量多管飽，值得入手

Pretty good game overall, but animations need an upgrade. I also wish there was a more natural way to trigger sex scenes with the girl you want.

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