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This review has been edited on 29/05/2024, removing one paragraph and adding another in its stead, along with some added details in the others.
TL;DR: Card game very good. AI art bad.

Would I recommend it for the actual card games? Yeah. I've only played a few variations other than Klondike, and they're quite interesting. There's some really wacky ones if you enable the Explicit-themed ones, and even more if you enable LGBT games.

The customization options are quite expansive, as you can produce your own card decks, card backs, backgrounds, and board elements (the "zones" on the board where the cards go). This option actually goes a bit deeper than you think, and as stated within the game and on the store page, there is a discord server where you can try out other people's decks, table styles, etc., and even sound effects!

I do wish it had a better check with the hint system, as it tends to just get stuck in loops quite often, just moving the same cards back and forth. I don't know if this is due to that specific card game being legitimately unwinnable or not.
In my limited testing, I've seen the CPU get stuck on games that are winnable because it doesn't know how to re-balance decks between columns and foundation piles. This is easily seen in the Multi-Deck Klondike variants.

My main gripe is that the majority of the card styles in the game are AI generated. There is traditional art (the first two styles on the card set list) in the game that I initially thought was also AI, but it was just that the artist's style was so consistent, that I erroneously assumed that it was just trained off of the same set. I do apologize to the illustrator for that one.

Also, the puzzles? It's like most are designed to just eat up the "action points" you get for winning games, not really any skill involved, just tedium. The sliding puzzle and "Pairs" (memory matching) are those closest to skill-based. This is also where you will end up seeing most of the generated art past the 62nd photo.
But hey, it adds an aspect of giving you something to win for, I guess.

Drive truck. Pick up cargo. Drive truck. Drop off cargo. Drive truck. Simply lovely.

Actually used this to learn how to drive. +Lessons? 100 on driving test.
10/10, would ram a car that decided to wait until the last second and not yield to me in an intersection again.

Drive truck. Pick up cargo. Drive truck. Drop off cargo. Drive truck.

The beauteous cycle that never gets old.
10/10, would do a "land train" convoy in tight hilly terrain again.

Recommended when at 50% sale. The tedium involved makes it somewhat ironically not worth it at $0.99. Pretty good art, tho, that's worth something.

I mean... you pull out the sword, ye? And then you're crowned King, ye? It'simple innit bruv

Very worth on sale. My go-to benchmarking suite for testing all levels of hardware. Shooting for the leaderboard is my passion, as I like to see big number go bigger. :)

10/10, would crash from an unstable OC again

It's Borderlands 2, what did you expect? Get some buds and strap in for a great time. If you've never played the genre, well, just don't get attached to your loot. Goes on sale with DLC often, although I can't speak much on the DLC as I've only done 1 or 2 so far.

My hate for Nermal exceeds the level at which humans thought was possible; it is that hate that drives me; it drives my kart; it drives me and my kart to victory. Squeak and I shall continue to march onward to rid the world of the EVIL that is Nermal.

oh, a review of the game?! whoops. Yeah, it's pretty good, and presents a nice challenge to get all the collectibles. Drifti- Skidding around corners and trying to chain them together, while racing side by side like a tandem drif- skid is one of the most satisfying things I've ever done in a racing game.

Not a lot of maps, but that's okay with me, as it lessens the load of learning a bunch of maps for Time Trials, which is my favorite mode by far.

The spiral is quite enticing, isn't it?


As for a real review, it's a pretty good time waster; nice art, no micro-transactions, it's simply lovely. I've unlocked less than half of all the CGs, so there's plenty of content, as well as "content." No animated scenes, at least as far as I've gotten.

Few bugs/crashes and typos here and there, unfortunately I didn't think of listing them as I played. Most often was scrolling to the end of the gallery would crash the game, and one of Anne's dialogue options is blank and unable to be skipped. Wish navigation was a tad bit more streamlined, as there's a lot of back-and-forth going on to change things here and there.

Loose Example: Add the Level Skip button to other areas where characters can be leveled up, so we don't have to back out to the main screen from somewhere else.
Prime Example: Add arrows to the characters profile screen or show Willpower generation without having to click each individual girl.

Edit 09 Dec, 2023: Well, there have been a lot more crashes, and I've also run into a softlock that has apparently been in the game for a few years now, where the game crashes when you click "Catch" in the Pok*mon area. I have not done a pearl reset since I unlocked it, so I don't know if that will fix it, but that's a bummer. I leave the positive review as I am still enjoying the game where I can

Edit 15 Dec, 2023: After a few more pearl resets, immediately going to the last area after a PR enabled me to get past the softlock, and I've now unlocked all CGs! It was a fun challenge, and I'm looking forward to absolutely destroying my save as I await the new CGs, like a degene- devoted player!

I was going to just go ahead and give this the benefit of the doubt, since I already 100%'ed LEWDAPOCALYPSE, but...man. TL;DR : Art kinda scuffed in placed, Survival Mode needs work and is also broken for me. Mostly easy achievements.
Usually I can dismiss body parts just growing and shrinking, or stretching, as a way to animate breathing and slight motion, but having it used so extensively on every character became an unwelcome distraction. This is seen very easily on the first two girls. Looking at the creator's Twitter, I know they can do better with the "static" poses, but hey, it was $0.99. The eyes seem like they're just a layer behind the face with how detached they look from everything else. GameStation Girl's H-Scene needs some work, in particular. Her right breast clips into itself as the animation suddenly repeats on the 6th segment. Her nose also looks more like a snout for some reason. Her, uh, who-ha also just looks pretty poor. It's also with her normal gameplay scenes that you most easily see the issue with the eyes that I mentioned before.
Killy Whilly's face also is a bit odd, with the decal-like teeth, but that's just my nitpicking.
The dong looks bad, same goes for LEWDAPOCALYPSE.
IMHO? The best art is Rebecca, the first girl.
There is some quite noticeable clipping in the H-Scenes for Candy, GameStation Girl, and Killy Whilly. It's not as bad for Candy, but worse for the other two.
Random crash to desktop, but I don't remember during which girl.
Sometimes, clicking HIT doesn't register, causing you to click it a second time, which, if you decided to click it once more after that, can result in an unwanted bust ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Survival mode is also broken for me after getting very far along. Even after all of this, I would have just rated it Positive just for the hell of it, but the straw that broke the camel's back... SURVIVAL MODE
The units get to the billions at just GSGirl. The highest chip you have is 1 Million. It took over a minute with an autoclicker, just to go all in. At KW, it took 2 minutes. Add an all-in button. Please. And to top it off, when I went to go make my clicker even faster, I could no longer get into Survival Mode. Yep. All the way to Killy Whilly's 3rd round/phase, and now I can't even complete it because the game crashes whenever I try to get into SM ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). The music continues to play, but nothing loads, and clicking makes the game cease to respond via Windows (brings up the Close the Program prompt). I spent almost 20 minutes of my 2 hour run time just inputting all the chips.
And I would have actually beat the game and Survival Mode in under 2 hours if, again, not for the same issue. Pretty short game. Oh, and the English translation's pretty scuffed, too. OK/10 minus issues