Caligula as porn game sounds like a shitpost idea, but it kinda works here. You play this cocky little psychopath prince who climbs to emperor while his dick basically makes half the decisions. It is not subtle. The game throws you into old Rome where every corridor, bath, balcony feels like someone either just fucked there or is about to. You’re mostly in first person as a male MC, and it leans heavy into voyeur stuff: you watching, you being watched, you pretending you “accidentally” walked in on something even though you clearly followed them. There’s this scene early where you spy on a noble girl getting “examined” by a tutor, she’s still technically virgin so he’s using fingers and tongue, and instead of feeling romantic it’s like you’re watching a lamb get slowly trained for slaughter. That mix of history flavor and really dirty sex is the whole mood.

The game uses real model faces blended with AI art and it’s weirdly hot. Sometimes uncanny, sometimes perfect. One of the slave girls has this expression that looks like an OnlyFans selfie pasted into a Roman villa and I still liked it. It helps with the corruption stuff too, because you see the same girl going from shy, eyes down, clutching her sheet, to later on taking your cock between her tits while also jerking another guy with one hand and trying to keep a straight face for the “public ceremony”. Half the corruption is you pushing them, half is them realizing they like being treated as property. Oral scenes are constant, like the dev just really loves mouths. Short, messy blowjobs in side rooms, drawn out “serve your emperor” worship scenes in public baths, one priestess forced to suck you off on the temple steps while people pretend to not notice. I ranked that one pretty high on my own little spreadsheet, right next to some crazy challenge I did in HuniePop years ago where I tried to unlock every CG before checking Discord for a whole day. Yeah, I lost that challenge. I never learn.

Sex variety is honestly nicer than I expected from a historical setting. Vaginal is everywhere of course, but anal slips in when girls are still “saving” their virginity for some political marriage. There’s one wedding-night scene where you take the bride from behind in a dark side chamber while the official groom is busy drinking in the banquet hall, and the writing goes heavy on the power trip. You plug her ass so she can still technically go to her husband “pure” and she’s half crying, half pushing back. I liked that they didn’t pretend she was totally into it from the start. Same with the forced and male dom scenes: it doesn’t sugarcoat it; sometimes it’s clearly abuse, sometimes it slides into exhibitionism and she starts showing off her body to the crowd because that’s the only way she can feel in control. The game keeps shoving you into public humiliation bits: making girls stroke you under the table in Senate, commanding a handjob in front of a chained rival, walking a naked slave through a garden while senators stare. At one point you jerk off alone after an execution, watching the blood drip while you remember a previous titfuck scene with the victim, and I caught myself thinking “ok, that’s actually fucked” then clicked next anyway. The only thing that really annoyed me was a tiny UI sound on choice buttons, this stupid click that feels like some cheap mobile app from 2014, and now every time it plays I lose the mood for a second and mentally open Twitter. I still keep chasing the filthiest route like it’s a leaderboard and I’m trying to speedrun how fast I can ruin every “good” girl in Rome, but yeah, that little click noise lives rent free in my skull.

You know what I can't get past? The teeth. There's this one blonde, the first proper scene you unlock after the army discharge bit, and her smile has that AI sheen where the canines and incisors sort of blend together into one long white strip. It's not a dealbreaker but I stared at it for a solid minute instead of, you know, the advertised content. The game calls itself "very beautiful AI CG" and sure, the lighting on the corsets is doing something nice with the gaslamp glow, but the hands. Why is it always the hands. One moment you're reading about the debauchery of 1899 London, the next you're looking at a finger that bends at a mathematically impossible angle right before it's supposed to be inside someone.

The text adventure part is actually more engaging than the images, which feels backwards. You get these choice nodes where you can lean into specific fetishes, and the writing doesn't shy away from describing a messy blowjob with the kind of clinical detail that would make a Victorian doctor blush. It's filthy. Properly filthy. I picked a path that led to a back-alley encounter and the description of the wet sounds and the spit was more vivid than the static render that accompanied it. The historical setting is just wallpaper though, don't expect any real 1899 accuracy. Someone says something that sounds like it was run through a modern slang filter and I laughed out loud. Still, the roleplay elements where you decide how much of a degenerate you want to be are solid. The "dynamically developing city" is really just a menu screen with a sepia filter.

I wish the fetish introductions were less random. You'll be going through a standard scene and then suddenly it throws a very specific kink at you without much buildup, like the game got bored and shuffled its own deck. The constant updates promise more content but I bet that one weird finger joint never gets fixed. It's probably a feature now. The whole thing runs in browser so at least you don't have to explain an icon on your desktop. Just clear your history like a normal person.

The first thing that hits you is the ship. Not the pirate ship, the one you're on. Wood grain textures that look like they were smeared on with a thumb, rigging that clips through the mast if you turn the camera wrong. And then the horizon goes dark with sails and the father character starts panicking about hiding his daughters. Elisabeth and Sophie. Two names, two bodies, and the game wastes no time making it clear what the pirates want with them.

There's a moment after the boarding where you can choose to hide in a barrel or under some canvas. I picked the barrel. The camera jams itself inside with you, all splinters and shadow, and you hear the pirates stomping around above deck. The sound design is actually decent there, boots on wood, a cutlass dragging. Then a pirate finds Sophie and the animation that follows is... functional. Stiff. Like two mannequins being pressed together by someone who read about sex in a medical textbook but never tried it. The moaning loops after about four seconds and never changes pitch.

But here's the thing. The game has this weird, grimy charm. The historical setting is just window dressing, sure, but the lighting during the sunset raid is almost pretty. Orange and purple smeared across the water like a bruise. And the modding community has already started poking at it. Someone on a forum I lurk on replaced all the pirate models with deep ones from some Lovecraft asset pack. Tentacles clipping through the deck, the father's dialogue unchanged. It's stupid and broken and I laughed.

Replayability is thin. You can hide one daughter, both, or neither, and the scenes shuffle around a bit. After three runs you've seen everything. But I keep going back to that barrel moment. The cramped camera, the waiting. It's the only time the game feels like it understands dread instead of just horny.