"FaithBound 2": Build Your Faith, Break the Rules
In "FaithBound 2", you take control of the decaying Temple of Aphrodite, an unconventional cult hiding behind the facade of a cathedral by day. Gather funds, grow your following, and invest your "harvest" into upgrading the temple, all while keeping the authorities off your scent. Expand your religion through weddings, baptisms, sermons, and other events that allow you to reach a wider audience. You’ll need to maintain appearances to avoid unwanted attention!
When night falls, the temple only gets more interesting... Participate in wicked ceremonies, summon creatures through dark rituals, or initiate new nuns into your faith. Only these activities will generate the profit needed to pull a forgotten religion out of ruin.
Once you’ve collected your (perfectly legal) hard-earned money, you can invest it in numerous temple renovations. As you progress, you’ll unlock new possibilities, such as tending to your own garden or sending missionaries to do the dirty work.​

Everyone keeps chasing the big polished porn games with a million updates, and then something like “My Ero Story” just sits here in the corner, looking like a shitpost that somehow grew arms and legs and a full harem route. It takes that hero school universe everyone already knows way too well, throws you in as this background extra who’s sick of being the guy in the third row, and goes: “Fine, you want to matter? Here, have three hot heroines, a pile of bad decisions, and an ego problem.” The whole thing feels like some horny fanfic that got upgraded into a visual novel after a long night of scrolling Pixiv and forgetting what shame is. It leans hard into parody, like it knows you’ve already seen the original show, the memes, the cosplay disasters, and just skips the polite foreplay. You’re given a simple role: play the nice guy who actually leads, or the smug bastard who uses his new position to bend these girls emotionally and physically. And it actually lets you be an asshole in a way a lot of games try to pretend they’re fine with, then quietly punish you for later. Here, the “Tyrant” side is not just a flavor. You can push, order, grab, make them earn your “guidance” in very throat grabbing, kneeling on the floor ways.

The AI art is hilarious in a good and bad way at once. Sometimes it hits that perfect horny sweet spot, like the blonde girl in a torn school uniform, flushed, hair stuck to her cheek, her thighs pressed together while she tries to keep a “heroic” pose and fails completely. Then you click one more line of dialogue and suddenly her hand has a weird extra finger or the background melts a bit. I actually laughed out loud once when her boobs looked slightly different between two CGs, like the AI forgot its own canon and just said “yeah whatever, more tits.” But when it works, it’s honestly hot. Short skirts that ride up too far when they sit, that classic tight uniform top that looks like one deep breath away from exploding, stockings cutting into soft thighs, hero costumes tweaked to be way more “fanservice accident waiting to happen” than anything practical. There is a shower scene where the water droplets cling on skin very nicely, then you notice the soap bottle looks haunted and you just accept it. The humor helps. The writing likes dirty jokes and dumb quips, like comparing your “quirk” to how fast you can make a girl forget her hero training and beg for more. It never takes itself serious for too long, but suddenly you get a scene where a heroine looks up at you, eyes wet, asking if she’s more than just a toy to you, and you kind of feel that little gut twist while still wanting to shove her back on the desk and pull her panties aside. Choices actually matter more than I thought. Being “Leader” opens softer scenes, like late-night talks in the dorm hallway where a heroine leans on your shoulder, then one thing leads to another, hand sliding under her skirt. Going Tyrant changes the vibe completely: you drag them into empty classrooms, make them swallow your orders, leave them walking back with shaky legs and a stupid satisfied smile. Some scenes are a bit rushed and a few lines read like the dev fought with Google Translate and lost, but somehow that just adds to the charm here. This game feels like someone horny, slightly unhinged, and very online decided: “Fine, if the show won’t give us this route, I will,” and stitched it together with AI pics, dirty jokes, and enough lewd schoolgirl uniform worship to keep you clicking way longer than you planned.

The whole thing is a single screen. One character, Cherry Bubblebelle Delphinium, standing there with this weirdly specific fusion look that somehow works. Pink hair, bubblegum princess crown, but also that Sakura forehead and the general vibe of someone who could either lecture you about candy biochemistry or punch through a wall. The game doesn't explain any of this. You just click on her.

And clicking is... the entire mechanic. Different spots trigger different reactions, some more obvious than others. The hitboxes feel deliberately sloppy, like you're supposed to fumble around finding the sweet spots. Her chest area gets the most animated response, obviously, but there's this one spot near her hip that makes her do a little shimmy thing that I kept going back to. The sounds are minimal, just these soft gasps and hums that loop a bit too perfectly. You can hear the seam if you're paying attention.

The crossover concept is doing some heavy lifting here. Princess Bubblegum's analytical sweetness mixed with Sakura's repressed intensity creates this character who feels like she's constantly about to either dissect you or kiss you, sometimes both. The dialogue snippets that pop up are mostly variations on "Oh my" and "Is that scientifically appropriate?" which is funny exactly three times. Then you start noticing the texture seams on her dress, how the lighting doesn't quite match between her hair and skin. These things shouldn't matter in a game where you're just clicking to see tits, but here we are.

I spent way too long trying to find hidden interactions. There aren't any. What you see is what you get, a single pose, a handful of reaction zones, no progression system, no unlockables. For something tagged as a dating sim and simulation, it's remarkably static. The cozy tag is doing a lot of work too, unless your definition of cozy is clicking the same shoulder seventeen times while a pink-haired science ninja princess makes the same soft noise. Still loaded it up three times this week. Something about the jank feels intentional, like a roguelike where the only RNG is whether you'll find a new reaction or just the same one again. The replayability is entirely in your own head.

Ok so the devil in this one. Not some edgy red guy with horns, more like a presence that knows exactly what you've been hiding. The whole thing starts with this dude who's basically been a ghost in his own life for 18 years, and then suddenly there's this... entity. Seductive. Patient. The kind that doesn't need to push because it already knows you're going to fall.

The writing is what got me. Not polished in the way you'd expect, some lines feel almost too raw, like someone's actual journal entry they forgot to edit. There's this one scene early on where the protagonist is just staring at himself and the internal monologue is so specific about the disconnect between what he sees and what he feels. Hit different than most VNs that just rush to the transformation stuff. The devil character doesn't even show up properly for a while, it's more like a voice, a warmth, something that makes the shame feel less heavy. And when the physical changes start, they're described in this almost religious way which is weirdly hot and uncomfortable at the same time.

Wish there was more actual interaction though. You're mostly reading, clicking through, watching this guy unravel. The choices feel limited, like you're steering a car that's already on rails. But maybe that's the point? The whole "sin or destiny" tagline makes more sense when you realize you can't really fight it. The sissy angle isn't played for humiliation which I appreciated, it's genuinely about becoming something softer, more aligned. Some of the dialogue with the devil gets repetitive though, same seductive whispers over and over. Still, there's this one moment where he finally sees himself in the mirror and it's not horror or shock, just quiet recognition. That stuck with me more than any of the explicit stuff.

The save system here is a joke, right? I lost like a whole afternoon’s choices because I clicked something wrong and there is no rollback. I was on Belle’s route, the whole laundry day scenario where you’re just trying to be a decent fucking roommate and not stare at her shorts riding up. I chose to just hand her the detergent, thinking I’m being slick, being normal. The game just dead ended me right there. She took her basket, said thanks for being a pal, and locked her door. The screen faded to black and that was it. I just sat there staring at the main menu again. This is an adult parody sim. I’ve seen cleaner interfaces on those dodgy pixel hentai games on itch.io. The jank is real.

I do keep thinking about that one weirdly specific moment with the goth girl, though. Kylie? I can’t remember her name. It’s a generic Disney parody but horny, whatever. You’re fixing a sink under her bathroom and she accidentally bumps her hip on your shoulder, and the whole screen does this slow zoom on the point of contact. The fabric of her fishnets is this grotesque, high-definition mess in an otherwise blurry game. Both of you just freeze. The dialogue box just shows “…”. You can literally hear a faucet drip in the background. I’ve played polished 3D simulators that can’t nail that charged-up silence. Here it feels like a total accident, a bug that looped perfectly.

My mind keeps drifting back to that because nothing else really lands. The dialogue options feel like they were run through google translate twice for the horny parts. You can interact with the characters using this mood wheel thing, but it’s pointless half the time. I spent way too long trying to get Belle’s other friend undressed by giving her a backhanded compliment. It didn’t work. The whole thing just made me feel a little grimy, but not in the fun way. That drippy faucet moment, though. I wish the whole game was just that glitch stretched out.

So I'm at this convention, right, and someone slides me a link to Farida's Beach Experiment. Not a booth, not a flyer, just a DM on Discord. The pixel art tag got me, I'll admit. I'm a sucker for that chunky sprite look, like I'm back on my old Game Boy but with way less clothes involved.

The whole premise is this girl Farida doing "social science" at the beach. Which is code for she's wearing a bikini that's working overtime and the camera really, really likes her. The pixel art here is something else. Not the smooth anime stuff you see everywhere, but proper chunky pixels. The way they handled the curves on her chest, the bounce animation when she moves. It's crude but in a way that works. There's this one frame where she adjusts her top and the sprite just... it's a lot. Spent way too long staring at that. The beach background is whatever, some sand, some water, but honestly who's looking at the water when Farida's assets are taking up half the screen.

The visual novel bits are where it gets weird. The dialogue is translated from something, probably Japanese, and it reads like someone ran it through Google Translate twice and called it a day. She talks about her experiment but the text boxes keep getting in the way of the good angles. There's a whole section about survey methodology that goes on forever and I'm sitting there clicking through like, show me the bikini again. The sound design is just ocean waves on a loop. No music. Just waves and clicking. Makes the whole thing feel oddly lonely, which I guess fits the "one girl on a beach" vibe but still.

The replay value is basically zero unless you really need to see the same three animations again. But that one sprite, the one where she's looking over her shoulder? That's going to stick with me. Not because it's artistic or whatever. Just because sometimes crude pixel art hits different than all the polished 3D stuff flooding the adult games space. It's a mess but it's my kind of mess.

I went in expecting, I dunno, some basic yaoi bait with a jungle backdrop. What I got was Amber having a full on crisis of identity while his buddy Gabriel watches him with these eyes that say way more than the dialogue. The game looks deliberately rough around the edges, like someone's sketchbook came to life, and honestly that makes the whole thing feel more intimate. Like finding someone's private drawings.

The Colorado River sequence dragged. Too much paddling talk, not enough of what I was actually there for. But then there's this moment in the tent where Mateo, who I thought was just the muscle, starts talking about the constellations and suddenly his hand is on Amber's thigh and I realized I'd been holding my breath. The CGs aren't polished. They're messy and hot in a way that feels almost too personal. One scene with Gabriel against some ruins had this rough pencil quality that somehow made everything more intense than any hyper rendered 3D thing I've seen. The achievements pop up at the weirdest times too. Got one called "First Contact" and nearly choked on my drink.

Wish there was more voice acting, or any really. The silence during the explicit scenes is strange at first but then you start filling in the sounds yourself and maybe that's worse. Or better. I can't decide. The 75k words thing sounds impressive but some of it is definitely padding about archaeology that I clicked through. Though weirdly I started caring about whether they'd find the stupid city. The bara elements are there if you squint, Mateo especially, but it's more about the tension between these three men who are supposedly just colleagues. Dare to play it alone, or invite company?

The whole thing kicks off with a bus ride and a guy who can't keep his eyes open. Not in a poetic way. In a "I just moved to a new city and I'm already failing at basic consciousness" way. You know the type. The kind of protagonist who stumbles into a fraternity not because he's ambitious but because the alternative is sleeping on a park bench. And this fraternity, man. It's not about keg stands or whatever. It's a camp. A weird, isolated, horny Olympics where the only sport is... well.

I spent way too long on the first real "challenge" scene. There's this girl, a rival from another house, and the whole thing is a staring contest. But not with eyes. The game describes her top as being practically painted on, and the dialogue is this perfect mix of dumb college bravado and genuine, sweaty tension. You pick a line, she fires back, and the screen just sits there, her sprite looking unimpressed. The writing doesn't try to be clever. It's blunt. "I want to see you lose." That kind of thing. And it works because the art, which is rough, like someone sketched it during a boring lecture, somehow makes it hotter. The jank is the point. A polished render would ruin the greasy, desperate vibe.

There's a moment with a student council president type that I kept reloading for. She's got this whole ice queen thing going on, but you catch her in the communal showers, and the game gives you this choice. Do you be a creep about it or do you just... stand there? I picked stand there. She didn't scream. She just talked. About the competition. About how she hates losing. The whole time, the steam effect is this low-rent, almost see-through filter that keeps glitching. I wish the sound had been more than just a looping ambient track. A single drip from a faucet would've killed me. But no. Just that one track. Anyway, the dialogue tree there branches into something genuinely surprising involving a bet about the next day's event. I won't spoil it, but let's just say the loser ends up as a very personal cheerleader. The fraternity humor is exactly as stupid as it should be, and the romance, if you can call it that, is more like a series of escalating dares. Don't go in expecting a love story. Go in expecting to see how many buttons you can push before someone calls your bluff. The top three screenshots you'll take? The shower standoff, the aftermath of a lost bet during a mud wrestling thing, and a late-night conversation on a dock that has no right being as sweet as it is, considering what happened five minutes prior.

The cemetery job is the first red flag, honestly. Who moves to a dead end town to dig graves when you had a hot girlfriend and a real career back in the city? Danger BLUE doesn't spoon feed you that answer, which I respect. It just drops you into this weird little atmospheric bubble where everyone's a bit too friendly and the fog never really lifts. The visual novel pacing is slow, almost meditative, and then some dialogue hits like a truck. There's this one scene with the ex, she shows up out of nowhere at the worst possible moment, and the writing actually made me feel like I was the asshole. Which, fair.

The adult content is there but it's not the main course, more like a side dish that occasionally slaps you across the face. The romance routes are messy in a good way. You can tell the devs wanted tension over titillation, though when the explicit scenes do land, they're written with this raw, almost uncomfortable honesty. No flowery bullshit. Just bodies and bad decisions. The comedy helps too, some genuinely funny moments between the drama, like the townies gossiping about the new gravekeeper's "city hands."

But here's the thing, the mystery angle sometimes forgets it exists. You'll go three scenes just vibing with slice of life stuff, buying coffee, fixing a fence, and then suddenly a phone call reminds you that you're supposedly running from something dangerous. The tonal whiplash is real. I don't hate it though. It feels like the protagonist is also trying to forget, so the game lets you forget with him. Then the past kicks the door in again.

The art style is simple but effective, character expressions do a lot of heavy lifting. Some CGs are genuinely gorgeous, others look like they were rushed. The sound design is sparse, which adds to the lonely small town mood. I keep thinking about that one track that plays during the night scenes, just a low hum and crickets. Creepy as hell.

Anyway, if you like visual novels where the horny is wrapped in existential dread and small town weirdness, this one's worth a look. Just don't expect a neat ending. Or maybe there is one, I haven't finished all the routes yet. The ex girlfriend thing is still bugging me. Why leave her if you're still obsessed? The game knows, I think. It just won't tell you until you've earned it.