The whole thing kicks off with you failing to jerk off. That's the first choice. Your parole officer is banging on the door of your trash apartment and you're trying to rub one out to some hentai on your phone. The game asks if you finish or answer the door. I chose to finish, obviously, and got a game over. Right then I knew what kind of sad sack misery parade I was in for, and I was completely on board.

Jon's life is a total dumpster fire. His mom and sisters hate him, he's fresh out of prison, and the rent is due. The writing doesn't try to make him likeable, which is refreshing. He's a loser. Then a weird alien shows up talking about brain parasites and time loops, and suddenly you're rewinding moments to stop an invasion by basically being a creep with a purpose. The mind control scenes have that specific, uncomfortable cg hentai gloss where everyone's skin looks a little too shiny. The art for the sister, when she's infected, has this dead eyed stare that's honestly hotter than the actual sex scenes. The whole thing feels grimy in a way that fits. I wish the mom route had more branching though, it just kind of dead ends.

The time loop mechanic is just a fancy way to redo conversations until you find the perverted option that works. It's not complicated. You fail, you loop, you try a different flavor of being a degenerate. There's one bit where you use future knowledge to convince your sister you're not a total screw up, and the payoff is her "thanking" you. The dialogue is so blunt it circles back around to being funny. I kept thinking about that meme of the guy sweating over two buttons. That's the whole game. The alien plot is just an excuse, and honestly, I forgot about saving humanity halfway through. I was just trying to see how bad the endings got. And they get pretty bad, which is exactly what I wanted.