I played the free version of the game, so I'll provide a critique accordingly. Firstly forget about any sexual content or fucking with any woman in the free version, that's out of the question. Secondly in the free version, the adult content is limited to just some rubbing and very basic stuff, even those with clothes on. From a storytelling perspective, there are way too many characters, a mistake I've seen in several other games. In my opinion this stems from the writer's desire to add excessive diversity and too many plans, leading to confusion. I've seen the same mistake in a few other games where the developer stuffed the game with 40 characters, each with their own corruption subplot and separate story. However each character only consisted of 3-4 scenes in a 1-hour game to fill it up with all of them and there was no adult content whatsoever. Typically these games end up exhausting the developer due to their magnitude, and the developer decides to move on to something else. We can't even talk about the characters or their stories because there are too many so we can't spend enough time with them in the game. Every 2 minutes, a new character is introduced. Additionally, there are phone and computer mechanics that you can interact with. It's a nice idea, but adding a phone and computer mechanics, money and job mechanics, difficulty mechanics, and affinity which is percentage-based point system on top of so many characters is overkill, even a team of 10 developers cannot come up with a quality product for this game without spending a considerable amount of time (at least 8-9 months of consistent work time maybe even more) and we have SINGLE developer in this game. From a story standpoint, I couldn't see one honestly. I played the free version of the game but I'm still not sure what the story is, I can't even remember. In short, if you're going to play the free version, don't bother, it's not worth it. You could try the paid version but the issues I mentioned does not seem fixable at all. I think the paid version goes up to the 5th day, so maybe some adult scenes have been added but I'm not sure if it's worth it. It's up to you.
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It's a common tactic because it throws a wide net for everyone to find "their girl." The dev wants to give you a lot of options, so you will get invested in at least one or more of the girls and keep playing. It doesn't matter if the storylines are completed, just that you come back for the next update.
You could also look at it as a positive if the dev is receptive to feedback. I like the idea of starting the game with a lot of girls, then finding out who the players like and going from there. It's like super smash brothers. There's a character for everyone. But, again, that's assuming the dev actually cares about player feedback.
Player feedback is always important.
There are many female characters because every mother needs a daughter, and every daughter needs a mother. In early story drafts, there were too many daughters whose mothers were professors at the college and had side jobs. Adding more mothers to separate those roles also meant more daughters. The characters who interest players the most will get more screen time outside the central story arc.
If we look at the game mechanics, there are essentially three. The Affinity and Persona systems are used to progress with characters, with difficulty used to raise or lower the levels needed. The phone allows the player to track that progression, and the computer is just a larger version of the phone.
Jobs are just another way for players to spend time with various characters. This is no different than agreeing to spend time with characters for other reasons, such as Kimberley's yoga class. Money was added because players simply didn't want to 'work' without a monetary reward, even though that wasn't the point. With money comes a need to spend it.
You can ignore all this and just focus on the girls. Like with modern FPS games, you don't need to gather resources, craft, or upgrade if that's not your play style.
Thank you for using paragraphs...unlike many of the commentators!
I've purchased the game and have played it, think its got the beginnings of a great game. Yes, there are binary choices - if you choose A, you miss out on B's scene/story development, etc. - but isn't that true in life as well?
Keep up the work Spin, its very much appreciated and I look forward to future updates!