Hentai Shop Simulator is a lazy cynical piece of garbage trash game obviously trying to cash in on those streamer bait TCG Card Shop sim games that were popular a while back when they were the flavor of the month to feed the content machine on Twitch. But instead of selling packs of card to nerds, you sell hentai magazines!
You don't sell them to sweaty nerds here, however, because that would just be awkward and gross, instead you sell them to an endless stream of hot busty anime waifus who have all broken their backs in half so they can stick their boobs and butts out well past the limits of normal human women. They look like accident victims wearing school uniforms and virgin killer sweaters putting on a brave face so they can go out and buy smut.
Just as an aside, this developer also put out a straight up Sex Shop Simulator game on Playstation, but I know better than to even touch that one so don't expect to see it here any time soon.
Anyway, Hentai Shop Simulator. It's the absolute bare basics of the shop sim genre where you have to order stock, put it on the shelves, and then run the cash register while customers come in and buy stuff. The progression is extremely shallow where you slowly raise your shop level with every transaction, and when you reach certain levels you can order the next tier up of smutty hentai magazines.
Because they get more and more expensive with each tier, there is no reason to go back to the cheaper lower tiers because you make way more money selling the good stuff. Your customers have zero preferences or demands or anything - they come in in droves to buy literally anything and everything you put on the shelves like a swarm of horny locusts - so just stock the expensive stuff and sell out every day to maximize profits.
As you continue to level up you can expand the store and hire employees so you don't have to run the register or stock shelves anymore and can just watch the girls. And that's it. That's the whole game. It's as deep as a half-dried rain puddle.
It's clunky and janky and not especially fun. The controls are awkward. It's bad. It's just pure agony to actually play. And it only has 5 gold trophies and no platinum, if you care about PlayStation trophies at all (which I don't).
But, I will say the anime girls are actually kinda maybe okay looking. The artwork on the phony hentai magazines is halfway decent, even if it was probably slapped together with A.I.. There's no nudity at all, but some of the magazine covers are still kinda spicy. I dig it. The character models for your customers are pretty okay as well. Even if their butts and boobs are weirdly jutting out of their disgustingly curved spines at impossible angles, they look all right. There's only a handful of different models, though, and they have extremely limited animation (and definitely no jiggle) and their arms clip through their bodies and everything else constantly.
It is pretty funny running a shop like this, though, I have to say. Having hot girls come in and buy several smutty magazines at a time is hilarious. You're thinking "Wow, girl, five copies of the same magazine. You're going to have a fun night, huh?". And a lot of the time they put their stuff on the counter and then look down at the floor like they're ashamed, which had to be intentional, right?
Simply put, the game is just a total mess. I'm struggling to figure out who it's even meant for. It plays bad and is absolutely bare bones for any sort of shop simulator game. The girls are OK looking, but it isn't like there aren't hundreds of better sexy games out there, plus a little thing called the Internet, so what's the point of playing something like this if you just wanna look at anime girls. The novelty of being all "Tee hee, I'm selling smut to hot girls!" wears of basically immediately as well. Who is the audience for this piece of trash besides content creators who just want to cash in on yet another "naughty but not really that naughty" game?
Hentai Shop Simulator is a slight step up from a sliding block image puzzle game because it's a real game with actual gameplay, but it's still a huge waste of time and money because it just isn't any good. It could have maybe been okay, with deeper smoother gameplay and smarter progression and better quality sexifulness, but instead it's shallow and repetitive and awkward and bland and lame. Please don't buy it. It flat out sucks.
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