TL;DR:
My Dream Girl fails at being a clicker due to its lack of AFK utilities, deep grind for the slightest of upgrades, and ridiculously high GPU usage that makes it a difficult title to ever recommend. The lack of lewd content aside from a roster of skimpy or nude seemingly-identical 3D models is not nearly enough to make up for all of the shortcomings the game has as a clicker and as a game.
+ Many girls to see with a fully functioning gallery
+ Items, abilities, and upgrades give the game a sense of progression even if it takes forever to reach that point
- Ridiculously high GPU usage and file size for what is present, GPU hates this game
- You cannot efficiently AFK the game, only through items or spells, which do not last long at all
- Not enough content (lewd or otherwise) to warrant daily rewards or the attentive at-the-keyboard grind
- Environment is uninteresting, only offering different camera angles of the same environment
- The girls lack diversity from each other, having an identical body type and no facial expressions
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My Dream Girl is a soft "clicker"-style game where you click your screen in order to deplete the HP bar of the girl on the screen in order to transition to the next girl. As you progress, you earn a meager amount of money, progress through tasks, and earn experience points with which to upgrade your skills. The amount of upgrades are actually refreshing and the variety of items is neat as well as the spells that you can obtain, but the plethora of issues in the game make it challenging.
The first thing I noticed upon purchasing the game was a large file size that seemed concerning to me due to it simply being a clicker game. I imagine it is due to the engine used for high poly models. Along with this concern was the absurdly high amount of GPU usage from this game. So long as this game was open, my GPU was running at 99% capacity, which is absolutely the mark of a poorly optimized game if a simple clicker title uses up that much power for no good reason. It also used up a moderate amount of CPU usage as well.
The environments in the game look okay but uninteresting, not really much going on nor does it fit what type of girl is on the screen, they're just birch trees and some water, nothing exciting to look at. Every 10 girls you defeat, you transition to a different part of the landscape, eventually looping back around. There are plenty of models to look at, with new models being introduced up through Wave 200, but they all look fairly similar to each other with some notable exceptions of demons, green skin, or different hair/clothing. The body types are all the same. There's also some environmental sound effects such as birds chirping, but are at such a weird audio level that I legitimately thought a bird was trapped inside my house somewhere in real life.
If you're looking for lewds, this isn't the best game to get it from. While there is indeed nudity in the game and some of the positions the girls will be in indicate some self-pleasure going on, you can't really get a close look at them (even in the gallery mode) and there isn't much else going on. Speaking of which, the gallery allows you to pick a girl that you've unlocked, a place for her to be in, and the position that she will be in. You can hide the UI and zoom in a little closer, but that's about it. Some of the models work very well for the engine within the game, but I'd say that most do not. They all have the same face with only some minor changes, no differing facial expressions or anything like that. It's very softcore in its lewd content.
As a clicker, the game fails. The biggest gripe is that the game is not an idle game. While much farther into the game you can make it semi-automatic, it's on a timer and will run out after a short amount of time, meaning you can't just leave the game in the background to work, you have to actively be a part of the action. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the inability to AFK grind without the use of auto-clicker software combined with the high cost of upgrades/items means that you're going to be staring at the same bland scenery and rapidly-rotating roster of girls real often, making the game overstay its welcome and become irritating to watch.
The upgrades take way too long to be able to get and the increase in price makes it incredibly difficult. The game literally forces you to grind it, but doesn't give you any of the tools necessary to actually AFK grind the game. It isn't very well thought-out in the gameplay. There are daily login rewards that can give you some slight increases in your items or money, but this isn't particularly worth it as there just isn't enough content in the game to warrant coming back more than a day or two, as the game itself is maybe 3 hours long assuming you want to get through the 200 waves required to unlock every character model or just grind out some of the admittedly-annoying achievements.
(Note: I am Level 75 in the game as of writing this, on Wave 194, and I am pretty sure you need to be Level 100 to max your skills... at LEAST 100. So you'll need to go longer if you're achievement hunting)
Unlike a lot of clickers, this game fails at providing ample reasoning to want to continue, while making anything that seems remotely as progress take way too long to actually achieve. Clicker games need to give you a sense of progression during the grind and when you take away the ability to AFK grind the game, you're removing one of the core aspects of the clicker game. That being said, with the GPU usage being so high and unoptimized, I wouldn't recommend leaving the game open anyway. Avoid this title.
