Ladykiller in a Bind

Great story, even if the themes and archetypes wasn't really my usual cup of tea!

9/10

this was so good! disarmingly funny while still being heartfelt in the places where it matters, along with great h scenes.

the game was pretty fun! 10/10 will play again and make different choices to see what happens.

It's quite good & exciting. The mechanics of the choices alone are pretty unique and groundbreaking for a visual novel - hard to describe without playing it but in a sense, inaction is an action of itself, and branching off a conversation takes timing - but it's not so overwhelming with choice-results that there's dozens of different outcomes per scene, rather, the conversation will cover different topics depending on your statements & questions Also, the funniest part of this VN is the titular 'Ladykiller' is not, in fact, the second-generation rich boy we're impersonating, but rather our Protagonist, who has clearly spent her life learning how to flirt instead of, well, anything else :D

This is one of the best games I've ever played. The characters are all likeable in their own ways and their designs are fantastic. The writing had me laughing my ass off and I was invested in both the story and its characters. Full of nerdy references that made me squeal and I think I even had more fun on the second time around.

I can already tell this is going to take multiple playthroughs to fully enjoy and I'll keep coming back to it after the fact~ So great to find such a well-made piece of kinky sapphic media. The story is good and moves things along without feeling suffocating, the characters all have great distinct vibes, and the sex is hot af. What more could you ask for?

Turns out sex is pretty neat-o :3

Very nice

This is by far the best written romance game slash horny game I’ve ever played. It’s a pretty engaging visual novel with a relatively fun story. The actual dialogue mechanics with possible interjections are really well done — some choices veer off what they seem to sound like in the description but it’s no big deal, plus there’s always the backtrack stack. The game clearly telegraphs the immediate outcome of a choice most of the time, although my god the game also taunts me with locked choices in some cases and holy crap I’m a slut for that. Legitimately having 30 hours in a visual novel and I haven’t even seen _half_ of the dialogue options is insane to me, I’m so freaking impressed. Also ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, what an amazing, wonderful, at times heartbreaking queer romance. In one ending, I legitimately got a thousand mile stare going for an hour afterwards because it was SO SAD! But also ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the sex scenes, and _especially_ the kink scenes are just magnificent. A thousand hetslop “spicy” books couldn’t equate to the way the prose here is written and the feelings it evokes. The game is friendly enough to kink newcomers, explaining some of the finer concepts and risks without being preachy — but also will be rewarding for experienced kinksters I think. Also the premise is the perfect blend of fun and silly queer fantasy nonsense - it really makes me giggle thinking about the months preceding the events in the game in-universe :p I kinda love that no one in the story really gives a ♥♥♥♥ about lesbians being a thing - I don’t even think anyone calls anyone gay as a joke, which… unrealistic :p Admittedly, I’m _very_ sapphic, so this this game won’t hit the same notes with everyone as it did for me. Few other minor caveats — the setting kinda requires everyone to be basically 18, in the way a few dumb high school anime do — the social situation only really works for a schoolies type event, the existing social hierarchy only works in a school type setting… but as I get older the idea that someone’s been mentoring The Beauty in kink since before she was an adult is a bit insane and worrisome. But like… suspension of disbelief lol. Also I’ve noticed a few bugs as the game’s aged — typos, the game timeline sort of jumping around oddly if you do some sequences at an unexpected time, I think python flat out OOMed for me at one point and the game crashed which was odd. Also the stats server has been taken down and a couple of achievements haven’t fired I think? But it’s still more polished than 90% of games on this site, I can’t recommend it enough.