FLESHBREAK

This game is a certified cuck simulator. I was a big fan of the Author's work, like Anomalous Coffee Machine, but this is a glorified, hyper-niche visual novella about a husband (you) getting cheated on by his wife, Horu in a post-apocalyptic world, while getting patted on the back by the guy doing it. It's a project of the author's own issues and fantasies that, if you're not a fan of, would spoil your day as it did mine. I bought this game without thinking, confident that it'll be a simple visual novel with mystery, horror, and sidelined NSFW elements like his other games. But this? This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If you liked ANC 1 and 2, chances are you won't like this game, because it does a character assassination of Horu, turning her from a quirky, mysterious, and chaotic character into a two-sided slut that doesn't appreciate her husband for no apparent reason. I waited for new works and got this cuck bait junk FULL of this constant: Axton: "Why are you not mad at me? I sleep with your wife?" You: "I just want her to be happy, man, make her happier than i ever could" Verdict: If you look for a game similar to the original ACM but better, try the Interdimensional Vending Machine; it has no NSFW but at least it has a nice gameplay loop, rather than this half-baked, miserable cuck bait: 2/10 and refound

This thing is hilarious. Its also terrible. Literal Z-grade movie type-beat. I like this developer for the near ideas but I'm not sure what they were doing here at all. It is pretty clear this developer is not a writer by any stretch of the imagination. lets get this out of the way....its a bad VN. I can comfortably say its one of the worst of all time actually. Your choices do not matter in the slightest, its exceedingly poorly written (The guy behind Zombie Shark is capable of being more coherent), and if you aren't the type of person who likes laughing at bad horror movies? Its pretty boring. Its not sexy either so don't think the DLC will add any "at least sex" value. Its also like 40 minutes long at most assuming you read above a third grade level. Legit my playtime is only an hour because I was laughing. I'm just gonna spoil things here like I would a movie. Trust me...you won't mind. Its a pretty simple horror story with a very simple premise. The world is infected with a disease, and this disease turns everyone it infects in your standard not-zombie flavored zombie. Moving Flesh piles in this case. This basically has the same plot of I Am Legend or Omega Man but if it was written by an lsd-fueled circus escapee who also has like a mild interest in NTR. You play Lennox. Lennox is a good guy (tm) and thats his whole personality. He has a wife and a (potentially mentally disabled) sister who looks like she's in her 20s but acts like she's 10. Don't get attached to either of em. They are swiftly joined by Axton a random dude who's personality changes every 2 seconds between being the a Joker-esque Darwinist and Nice Guy (tm). They are also joined by Seira. A hot nurse whose personality is.......somewhere I'm sure. Anyway this rag-tag group of idiots basically leisurely stroll through the apocalypse cause whatever city this is pretty empty except at random points. Its not really properly explained why because by all indication the response to the disease was pretty bad and unless Axton legit went sicko mode with his 10 shot pistol the place should be swarming with the flesh monsters. It is not so don't worry about it. This group of idiots decides to stop over a small wooden cabin full of flesh monsters here you learn that they can be killed with a knife which you proceed to do. This will matter exactly once. This is also where the little sister gets infected....somehow? Its explained its because she took her suit off in that flesh monster infected cabin but the Flesh Monsters are hyper aggressive so how she got SECRETLY infected in a ONE ROOM WOODEN CABIN doesn't really make sense. Author fiat. Someone had to die to try and get you to care (you won't). Anyway you can lie and hide that she's infected which leads nowhere interesting because you die instantly or kill her. Technically you can just let her run off but she never appears again if you let her live so there is no difference between putting one between her eyes and not doing that. Your choices don't matter. You shoot her and get over it, or let her run off to Narnia. Same outcome...either way. You do get a cheesy emotional goodbye scene though despite the fact that...you will have no idea who the hell these people are because the game does not even try to endear these people to you really beyond mentioning tropes like dead parents. Anyway the now 4 person party of idiots makes it to a scientists house where Axton's boss lived or something. And then he sleeps with your wife. Between the world ending and the gang making it to this house its been like 1 day. It hasn't even been a week since the little sister potentially got domed and your wife is throwing it back. It'd be infuriating but the situation is stupid that I don't know how anyone can do anything but laugh. There isn't even any sign of martial problems or seduction on Axton's part. They don't even have scenes where they really talk to each other. This just happens with no explanation, no build-up, nothing. You make it to a wife and BOOM. Axton is giving your wife backshots. I was on the floor laughing for like 5 minutes. This things is not a parody. Now....I'm not someone who goes crazy over NTR and acts like its the end of the world. That being said...the way its done in this game is actually hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing and I don't think I'm meant to be laughing. I don't think even the most fervent and desperate NTR enjoyer would find this hot and frankly there is no way the most ardent NTR hater should be even remotely capable of getting mad at this. The whole situation is just funny AND it overrides the zombie plot. Lifetimes movies have more sense. Also Seira falls fully in love with Lennox somehow despite them not really talking. Who cares? Anyway Lennox has 1 scene where he's angry about it but Mr. Nice Guy then decides "Whatever its fine.",,.gets a little Morning Hello from his wife as any apology, and Mr Social Darwinist is super nice about it? Mr. Nice Guy won't even accept a handy from Seira. Honesty I was pretty sure the twist was gonna be that they're all aliens or something because they all act like aliens. Its so funny. Lennox is legit being treated like a goldstar kid after getting cheated on. Again...how do you do anything but laugh at this? Anyway a bunch a unimportant stuff happens (Something about a mall and a man who is SOMEHOW keeping a malleable flesh monster chained up, Lennox gets jumped, Axton fistfights a dude but the background to the fight is a normal crowd for some reason?), they end up in a lab where the scientist guy who caused all this is dead (doesn't matter) but Axton can make a vaccine.....and does! and then he sleeps with your wife again to celebrate. Mr. Nice Guy takes this well and just opts for divorce. (You can opt to have Mr. Nice Guy forgive his wife for cheating but 1. You won't. 2. They run off together anyway.) Anyway The vaccine worked! Does it matter? Nope. Nothing that happens matters but Axton pats you on the back for being cool about the fact he's sleeping with your wife. He also gets attacked by a flesh monster at some point but you can ignore that. Hot nurse also left but it doesn't matter. Anyway after Axton and The Wife elope Lennox finds the hot nurse who is in love with him for some reason and the game ends. Its quite and stupid. Your choices don't matter. The few sections of gameplay aren't literally anything. Mr. Nice Guy earns the 'Super cuck' title, gets a conciliatory nurse girlfriend (no sex scenes) and the story ends. This could have been an email. Pro tip? Don't buy this. Maybe buy the Anomalous Coffee Machine 1 and 1.5 (called 2) because those games are neat for the body-changing at least. This thing sucks and it sucks harder than Horu does as an 'apology. And to Horubrain? Mandatory creative writing classes for the next 10 years before you pick up the pen again. Please.

It's short, your choices don't matter, and the version of the game I had downloaded from the patreon page had more story after the outbreak. Why was it cut from the full game? I am so confused.

The only good thing about this game is the art which is, as always, amazing. The story was alright but your choices didn't really matter. The cheating and the mc just being okay with it was crazy. The main focus of the story was the virus obviously, but the other main focus which was almost as prevalent was the cheating. In my opinion the cheating felt like it was just as big of a plot point as the virus itself. Very disappointed but I hope the next game will have no NTR in it.

I have been looking forward to this game for awhile now, I love the Dev's previous work with ACM 1 and 2, and was super excited for a more story focused game this time around. I always feel like the universe surrounding ACM was interesting, and Horu's weird and creepy personality would benefit from being expanded on. Um, after playing this game I kind of realized why there wasn't more narrative in those games. As always, the art is very good. It was probably my favorite part. The characters use a limited color palette but still manage to look individual enough to be recognizable. I liked the sprites in the full hazmat gear, I liked the designs for Axton and Seira. I also loved the horror when it appeared in this game, the dev is always very good at drawing body horror and this game is no exception. The different gameplay sections were fun too! The quick time events were all a nice surprise to me. As much as I wanted to see this dev tackle a narrative story, I believe writing is possibly their greatest weakness. The dialogue had no voice or personality to it at all, and felt super flat and unnatural. Every. other. line. Horu and Lennox called each other 'hon' or 'honey' which got. so old. Married couples definitely use pet names, but every other line was exceedingly excessive and was a very amateur dialogue writer thing to do. The scenes never held much weight to them at all, I thought they were more like log lines / ideas for scenes that could have been GREAT if expanded on later. Like the dude with the infected girlfriend in the grocery store, the horror would have been more effective if the scene of him kissing her infected body lasted more than 2 seconds and we never got to know either of them. It kinda came off like a haunted house when a guy pops out from behind a curtain and goes "BOO!" for one second and then hides behind the curtain for the next guy. I wish that we had spent longer at home, starving and watching infected people and police crawl around the neighborhood instead of 1 sentence of Lennox saying they needed to leave to find food/safety. I wish we'd seen Alora be unaware of the situation and confused/scared. I wish the dialogue options actually changed the story beyond quickly ending your game. I wish there had been some build up to learning about the Doctor who created the disease, maybe a TV interview or something in the papers about him. His house and addition suddenly felt so out of place. I finally just. closed the game and requested a refund after a random NTR / cheating scene with the DLC. like. it made zero sense, and felt totally out of place amongst the world falling into an apocalypse. Make no mistake, I love NSFW scenes. I LOVE erotic horror especially, but the way it was implemented was like the set up to some cheap porn video. It was very, very bad. I know the dev has insane potential, the art and ideas and the horror is fantastic, but the writing was just so corny, so bad, it took away from everything else. There needs to be more care put into the narrative, good art and an idea can't hold everything up on it's own.

I'm actually really disappointed, and to me that's worse than a game just being boring or even outright bad. I love the developer's previous work. ACM and ACM2 are genuinely fantastic. The body horror, the drink descriptions, the transformations it's all incredibly interesting to read and imagine. I had no idea this game was even being made, so it essentially got shadow dropped for me, which made me even more excited. I can absolutely commend the developer for wanting to try something different. There's only so much you can do with the ACM formula, so experimenting with a new genre makes sense. Unfortunately, the ball they were trying to hit with this game is one they completely missed. As plenty of other reviews have already mentioned, the main "shock factor" seems to be that your loving wife of several years suddenly cucks you for seemingly no reason. Personally, I don't find that shocking in a good way I just find it gross. Not only does it happen once, but it happens twice. She openly admits she isn't going to stop, and the whole thing feels like such a massive left turn. The game begins by introducing you to your wife as someone who deeply loves and cares about you, and then, what feels like twenty minutes later, she's cheating on you with another guy. It doesn't feel like a natural progression or a believable character arc—it just feels like it exists purely for shock value. I think my biggest issue is that one of the main Protagonists is Horu, the same main character from both ACM games. If you've played those games, you've already spent hours with her, so there's an existing attachment to the character. Seeing her relationship suddenly fall apart in such an abrupt and, in my opinion, poorly written way doesn't feel tragic it just feels weird. It almost feels like the game expects the betrayal itself to carry the emotional weight, but because it happens so suddenly and with so little buildup, it just comes across as cheap rather than whatever it was trying to do. Another issue I had was with the characters. Outside of Lennox, Horu, and the younger sister (whose name I can't remember), almost everyone else feels incredibly lifeless. They're there to move the plot along rather than feeling like actual people, so it's difficult to become invested in anyone or care about what happens to them. The game also tries to lean into emotional moments, but they never really land because of how rushed everything is. Early on, it's established that Lennox promised his dying parents that he'd look after both Horu and his younger sister and make sure they lived happy lives. That's a genuinely solid emotional foundation, and I thought the game was going to build on it. Instead, it rushes through everything. Horu's betrayal comes almost immediately, and then your sister dies what feels like ten minutes after the game tells you how important she is to the main guy. It doesn't give either event enough time to breathe, It feels less like a natural tragedy and more like the game is rushing to get to the next plot point. My other major complaint is that your choices barely seem to matter. For a game that presents itself as choice driven, most decisions either lead to your death or eventually circle back to the same outcome anyway. It gives the illusion of your choice mattering when it dosen't, because at the end of the game none of the choices mattered at all as you still reach the same end.

Mind you I'm a big fan of ACM 1/2 and of the dev in general. This one just wasn't it Alot of potential, terrible execution. Really does feel rushed and unmotivated after a certain point. Choices are hollow, character decisions have no weight. It's really a letdown and unfortunate.

Not a fan of this one, i couldn't really get connected to the characters and everything was so rushed for this game, i usually never leave reviews on games unless they're amazing or just annoying and this one was annoying as hell, all the choices barely mattered and the wife cheating constantly is a big no no for me play the other games by this author but this one you can skip unless you enjoy cuck games.

way too short, main character was in the cuck seat the entire game, i wouldnt reccomend this to anyone

Game falls very short, and every 2 minutes hell falls upon you as you get cucked and women fight one another, a bit hard to follow the story... It's priced alright for how short it is, although it somewhat feels like the dev's motivation faded away since their last game, they got a lot of potential ahead with this style which I really appreciate. I'm honestly not too sure what to think of this one... I was hoping to be longer. Also, I hope we can get more of Seira if the game gets more updates.