Summer at a film studio sounds cute until you’re the only clueless guy dropped right in the middle of everyone’s dirty little secrets and fake smiles. In this VN you’re a young dude who thinks he’s just going to chill with his best friend, maybe flirt a bit, maybe finally figure out what the hell he wants. Instead, the whole place feels like a crime scene wrapped in a gossip column. One ugly incident happens early on and from there the story starts twisting: every actor, every director, every assistant with a perfect jawline suddenly has something to hide, and your dick and your moral compass are never really pointing in the same direction. It’s very “I want to trust you while you’re fucking me against the dressing-room mirror, but also did you ruin my life yesterday?”
What I liked first is how soft the game pretends to be. Colors, outfits, that glamorous showbiz vibe, all very pretty and romantic. The MC is this slightly confused but not dumb guy, and the cast is full of men who would look perfect on some Instagram Explore page. At the start I really thought it would stay in that sweet boy-love lane: tender kisses behind the trailers, shy confessions, a bit of hand-holding on the red carpet, that kind of thing. Then the corruption side slowly slides in and it changes the taste of everything. Suddenly that sweet producer who bought you coffee is pushing you to use your body for information, the golden-boy actor is happy to bend you over a script table if it helps keep his secrets safe, and a “romantic date” can easily turn into you being used as leverage in some nasty studio game. Sex scenes can be affectionate and slow, but some routes lean into power play and manipulation, where you feel yourself giving in, scene after scene, to guys who know exactly which button to press, both emotional and physical. I adore this, and I kind of hate it. Sometimes the writing hits really intimate and raw, and other times it feels like it is teasing something darker but stops just before getting truly messy. The corruption is strong on the emotional side, less so on the body-breaking side, and I’m greedy, I wanted more moral rot.
The dating sim part has that old Ren’Py brain feel where you start counting choices in your head while pretending you’re not. You’re juggling conversations, saying the “right” bullshit in interviews, choosing who you trust after some dramatic reveal, and half of the time you’re thinking with your cock, half with paranoia. I had one path where I tried to stay loyal to one guy and it still ended in this bittersweet, almost cruel way, and then another run where I was basically a slut with a notebook, fucking my way up and down the call sheet to squeeze clues out of people. That second run actually gave me one of the softer endings, which pissed me off but also made me weirdly happy. Some endings feel romantic and hopeful, some are just like “congrats, you survived and you’re a little broken now”, which, in a game about show business, feels just right. There is at least one moment where you’re fully naked in a dressing room, getting pinned to the wall by a guy you definitely should not trust, and the only thing between “good” and “bad” ending is whether you whisper what he wants to hear while he’s inside you. That tiny choice feels much bigger than all the dramatic speeches. If you want to squeeze everything out of this game, you kind of have to lean into that, replay scenes, deliberately pick the jealous, needy, or whorish option, even when you know it will hurt your nice-boy image. Let the MC be a little trash, let him be in love with the wrong man, let him say “yes” when any sane person would say “no”, and the story suddenly opens up in ways that feel uncomfortably real and very, very hot.