ok so this one is about linear erotic visual novel "slime feet" which is available on steam and itch.io.
put shortly. what hit me the most about the game wasn't the sloppy lesbian cybersex. instead, what has me obsessed with this game is just how close to home the long distance relationship stuff hit. ok and the sex was all great ok i'm not pretending i read it (twice!!) for just the emotionally obliterating lesbian love story. it's just that [today] i'm not writing about slimy foot worship and masochism. i'm writing about feelings and gay shit.
idk let me just start a pitch. it's free. you don't have to pay anything. it's also very short. it takes generally about an hour to finish the story. so there's not much to lose for trying it right. it's zero dollars and maybe an hour if you choose to read the whole thing. i'm not trying to sell you on something like the legend of heroes trails series which is multiple games, hundreds of hours, a big commitment of time and money. "slime feet" is a short yet powerful experience you can enjoy at home on your personal computer. and if you find out it's not for you, that's fine. i'm just confident that it would resonate with others.
i could talk about stuff like how interesting the setting of this weird research base is, how much i like the chat-log dialogue just as a presentation thing, the art. there's a lot i enjoyed. what hit the most for me is just the way these two women are putting as much of themselves as they can through these wires and screens so they can be "together" as much as possible through their shared ordeal. reading their conversations feels like how it'd feel if someone were to look through my own private messages. it's seeing intimate scenes between two people that have their own in-jokes, history, their own world really. whenever there's a moment i feel like "god i can't believe she said that" reading "slime feet" it's like looking at someone not that unlike myself. looking at a mirror through a fog, maybe. so it's easy to relate to abbi and estelle that way. we aren't the same kind of perverts, but i do feel a kinship.
the long distance / no contact relationship situation we get from the quarantine separating abbi and estelle really hits for me. which isn't really surprising. i'm a ldr veteran. i've yearned in the trenches with the best of them. i'm yearning now lol. but that's not really what this thing is about. just. when someone you care for is suffering you want to be there for them. and when you can't, you do as much as you can. in "slime feet", estelle is infected by some weird creature? thing? that is going to kill her in merely days. abbi cannot visit estelle during quarantine. they cannot hug and cry it out. despite this they do what they can to enjoy their last moments together. which in their case is text-chatting all day and, yes, lots of messy lesbian sex parentheses on the net.
in the middle of their chats, there's one exchange in "slime feet" that really just. pulverized me. on both of my playthroughs. it reads:
estelle: feels like were been talking for hours
abbi: It's been like the whole day
estelle: messaging
abbi: No, talking is right.
abbi: If we can hug and fuck we can talk.
i don't even know how to say why it struck me. just. declaring that all of it is real. if we take the act of typing and reading messages as an abstraction for an in-person conversation, then the abstraction doesn't diminish any legitimacy. it's about the way that you can be there for someone even when you can't physically be there. how sometimes you can feel a loved one with you no matter how far apart. through their words you know that they care for you. and they know the same from yours. it's not ideal but it's what we've got. it isn't ideal, but it is real. we can share our feelings through the internet pipes. we can spend time with each other. we can hug and fuck and we can talk.
to wrap things up. genuinely recommend you check out "slime feet". the review i left on itch just says "absolutely incredible i cried so much thank you." so maybe you'll feel similar. maybe not! interested to hear, genuinely. kind of dying to talk about it, so i wrote this. it has strong vibes. the story is amazing. captivating. the sex stuff is imo really good even if you're not a feet girl. just so raw and intense. i guess if you aren't into bdsm at all or lesbian sex there might not be anything for you there. but if you like dynamics you might enjoy it. i do realize it's not a for everyone treat and that's fine! obviously no judgment if it isn't your thing. and as mentioned earlier it's free and quite a short read. i'll note that there's no save feature, so try to set aside at least an hour so you can complete it in one sitting.
anyways~ see if the steam or itch pages sell you on it better than my rambling lol. ty for reading.