I was scrolling through itch.io during my lunch break, you know how it is, pretending to check emails while actually looking for something with a bit more... texture. Found this NTR Phone Group thing. The art is that AI generated style, which normally makes me scroll right past, but something about Rachel's character design caught my eye. She's got this tired housewife look that's weirdly specific, like the artist fed the generator a hundred reference photos of stressed out moms from early 2000s anime. The backgrounds are whatever, but the character expressions during the corruption scenes? Actually decent.

So Eddie's got erectile dysfunction from work stress and loan sharks breathing down his neck. Relatable, honestly. I've been there, minus the loan sharks. The game is a kinetic novel so you just click through, no choices, which I actually appreciated because I was eating a sandwich with one hand. Rachel starts off all supportive and sweet, trying to find work, and then the phone group stuff starts. Voyeurism elements kick in through text messages and photos. There's this one scene where she's on the couch and Eddie's in the other room, and the tension is built entirely through message notifications. The sound design is just basic notification pings but somehow that made it worse. Better? Worse.

The netorare is unavoidable, like the description says. I kept clicking hoping maybe there'd be a secret path where things work out, but nope. The cheating escalates through these teasing exchanges that feel genuinely uncomfortable to read. Not in a bad way, just... I had to close the tab when my actual boss walked by. The masturbation scenes are described in text rather than shown explicitly, which is an interesting choice for something tagged as eroge. I wish there was more variety in the corruption progression, it goes from zero to sixty pretty fast. But maybe that's the point? When you're drowning in debt, everything accelerates. Anyway, my sandwich got cold.