The whole body swap thing in Neuro/Splice, right, it's not played for laughs. Ryke, this NexaCorp cop, gets his brain shoved into Cassie, a Veilbreaker terrorist he's been chasing. And Cassie ends up in his body, free to walk around the police station. The game opens with Ryke, now in Cassie's body, being processed into a mixed gender maximum security prison. The strip search scene sets the tone immediately. It's clinical, invasive, and the guards take their time. You can feel the humiliation through the 3DCG models, even if the animations are a bit stiff, like action figures being posed by an impatient kid. The writing during that first pat down, where a guard's hand lingers a bit too long, is genuinely uncomfortable. Not in a hot way, at first. More like that sinking feeling when you realize you left your phone at a bar.

But then the game remembers it's an adult title. The spanking and groping tags aren't just for show. There's a scene early on where another inmate, a real piece of work named Brick or Brock or something, corners "Cassie" in the laundry. He's all about establishing dominance, and the game lets him. It's a straight up sexual harassment scenario that pivots into a spanking that feels less like BDSM play and more like a raw power move. The sound design is weirdly sparse here, just some wet slapping noises that don't quite sync up, which took me out of it for a second. I spent like five minutes trying to figure out if my headphones were broken. They weren't. It's just the game.

The dual protagonist thing is a trip though. One minute you're Ryke getting humiliated and teased with sex toys by a guard who's clearly getting off on the power trip, the next you're Cassie in Ryke's body, using her new male form to dominate a female subordinate. That netorare tag kicks in hard when Cassie, as Ryke, visits his wife. The scene is a masterclass in psychological fuckery, with Cassie using Ryke's knowledge and body to tease and humiliate the woman who has no idea her husband's consciousness is somewhere else getting felt up in a prison shower. The transformation isn't just physical, it's a complete dismantling of identity, and the game leans into the male domination angle from both sides of the coin. It's a messy, horny, sci-fi thriller that sometimes forgets to be thrilling but never forgets to be horny. The plot about the computer virus feels like a flimsy excuse to get to the next humiliation scene, and honestly, I'm not even mad about it.