I remember when I first got isekai'd. Just kidding. That never happened. But this game, Hyoui, it puts you right in that white room headspace, the one where everything feels like it's humming and nothing makes sense yet. The protagonist, some regular dude, suddenly finds himself in this empty space with three objects floating around like they own the place. A dull grey cube that looks like it belongs in a forgotten office drawer. A bowl of water doing that thing where the surface moves without anyone touching it. And a shimmering bubble that catches light that doesn't exist.

I picked the cube first because I'm boring like that. The story that unfolded after touching it was... actually kind of intense. The game doesn't hold your hand. It throws you into these branching porn scenarios that feel genuinely weird and specific, like the writer was channeling some late night doujin energy. The choices matter more than I expected, each object leads to completely different encounters, different partners, different kinds of fucked up situations. One path had me in this weird power dynamic with a character who kept shifting forms, I think? Or maybe that was the water bowl route. Honestly I got them mixed up after a while because I kept restarting to see what the other objects did.

The text is rough around the edges. Deliberately so, I think. The English translation has that charming brokenness where you can tell someone was trying their best but also maybe getting off while writing it. Some lines hit different because of how awkward they are. Not complaining. Actually I am a little, because sometimes the prose gets so abstract during the sex scenes that I lost track of whose body parts were where. But then a sentence would land perfectly and I'd forget what I was annoyed about. The whole thing feels like finding a weird hentai game on a forgotten forum at 4 in the morning, you know the kind, where the jank is part of the appeal.