Right so CheckedIn dropped and my first thought was who greenlit a hotel sim with AI generated art that looks like someone fed midjourney a bunch of half finished dating sim screenshots. The women have that glossy plastic quality where fingers sometimes become abstract concepts and backgrounds shimmer like a dream you're trying to forget. I spent twenty minutes just clicking through conversations because the protagonist has this deadpan internal monologue that accidentally becomes the best part. He'll be talking to the front desk manager, some stacked milf with a ring on her finger, and his thoughts are just the most basic observations like "she seems unhappy" while her sprite has these massive tits practically spilling onto the check-in counter.
The cheating angle is so aggressively telegraphed it loops back around to being charming. Every coworker mentions their boyfriend in the first three lines of dialogue but also leans against doorframes with their ass framed like a Renaissance painting gone wrong. There's this one bartender who asks you to grab bottles from the back room and the entire scene is just her bending over to adjust her stockings while talking about how her partner "doesn't appreciate her." The writing doesn't even pretend to be subtle and honestly that's refreshing.
The hotel setting works weirdly well for the whole forbidden romance thing. Supply closets, empty rooms, that weird hour between checkout and housekeeping when the halls are dead quiet. The oral scenes unlock way faster than you'd expect and the teasing minigames where you try to build tension during work hours have this stupid rhythm to them that got under my skin. I kept messing up the timing on purpose just to see the awkward dialogue branches. The AI backgrounds sometimes place doors in impossible locations and one time a character's hand phased through a wall during a stripping sequence. Didn't even care. The whole thing runs on vibes and the soundtrack is just some royalty free jazz that loops every ninety seconds but it drills into your brain until you're humming it while doing actual chores.
One of the later scenes involves the head of housekeeping and I'm pretty sure her body proportions changed between updates because suddenly she had this absolutely ridiculous ass that the game just expected me to accept was always there. No explanation, no patch notes, just thicker. The romance path with her ignores the fact that you're supposedly her subordinate and the game treats workplace hierarchy like a suggestion at best.