TL;DR:
A clicker game where you play as the world's most difficult profession, performing various tasks that honestly quickly become inconveniences.
+ You get banned for being nude for too long
+ Character customization
+ Ease of play
+ Simulated Twitch chat is actually pretty accurate
- Swallows your GPU whole
- Activities quickly become useless
- Not many animations
- Not really any lewd content aside from a pair of boobs
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"Hot Tub Simulator" is what it says on the tin. It's a clicker game where you play as a streamer, "earn" donations to unlock new outfits, locale, and activities to perform for boosts in subs/viewers. You get to customize your character in terms of her hair, eyes, breast size, and name. You also get to play various mini-games, all very easily performed with just your mouse, although the osu game is definitely going to assume you have an auto-clicker active.
It's a humorous premise and honestly not the worst NSFW clicker game on Steam. I think that you earn rewards at a fairly reasonable pace, I think the simulated Twitch chat is fairly well represented, and the main complaint I have in terms of its mechanics and gameplay is that this game will actively seek to use 100% of your GPU and I can't figure out why, but I very much dislike that.
In terms of complaints, I think that the uncensored mode being in the Options menu is a little hidden away since I don't typically expect censors to be in Options, but that's a fairly small issue. The activities that you unlock such as Squats, Jumps, Drawing, Dancing, etc. are neat little games, but they are pretty quickly made obsolete. The amount of viewers/subs you get from them very quickly pales in comparison to the amount of viewers you'd get by just clicking during that time. Squats in particular is useless, Drawing is a connect-the-dots but gives a very small amount, Jumping gives a decent amount for what it asks you to do, Dancing becomes unreasonable unless you've got an auto-clicker in the later levels of it, and ASMR is just a memorization game, not even with ASMR audio incorporated into it. I think there's a decent amount of these little simple mini-games, but the reward they give just isn't worth it.
The model for the character is simple enough. You aren't exactly going to get your rocks off and it's not really erotic, but there are some simply-modeled boobs to look at while you click, just don't look for too long or else you'll get banned and lose subscribbers.
I feel like there's very little animations you can actually perform by the end of it. Once you get to a point where it's easier to just click than play the mini-games, you're staring at a person just standing in the tub. Can't rotate her, can't have her sit in the tub or move around really. She'll do an animation when you click on a bubble that pops up every now and again, but otherwise there's not much in terms of eye candy.
I get the parody and I chuckled at it, but I feel like there's somehow even less lewd content than in an actual hot tub stream despite having limitless possibilities here. I think the issue I come across is that I don't know who I'd recommend this to. The game hates GPUs, there's really limited animations, and the activities just become useless too quickly. I'd like to see a more refined version of this in the future, but for now I just can't say it's worth the money or time for the experience.
