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Lewd Gym
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Synopsis
Planet Fitness, as in fittinis dong into a Frankenstein
Lewd Gym is a card based resource management game, but the primary resource is your cum. It was developed by 樹懶叫工作室, sloth gamer, and Maker製造機, and published by Mango Party, LewdLoco, and Mango Party News, who you may recognize from Orc Massage, and Robolife-Days With Aino.
You are a hot young stud who's recently joined a new gym. Little did you know it's a gym filled with monster girls who want to edge you for 5 days straight to optimize your testosterone levels! That's right! Cum retention is the name of the game. Nofap has finally made it into the world of lewd games. Ironic isn't it?
Story / Characters
Story
Day by day you come to the Lewd Gym in order to work out. But apparently the most important factor of exercise is making sure that you've been holding your cum in for 5 days. Only then will you be able to get the gains you so desire. The only problem is that 99% of the workouts they have you do at this gym involve doing SOMETHING to your dick. Lewd Gym really saw those ads that say "try not to cum" and said "bet".
After 5 days of having various types of sex without cumming you're finally granted an "Ejaculation Day", where you pick a trainer and a scene and get to work. The result of which is functionally identical to the scenes you get by accidentally cumming during your workout, but you get extra currency if you hold it til the end.
Fun fact but semen retention has actually been a hot topic of discussion in the gym community for decades now. Plenty of people out here writing hundreds of pages of text about how they never cum. I never subscribed to that line of thinking even at the height of my fitness journey. I simply refuse to believe that abs are stored in the balls.
Characters
Each girl is a different monster, with a different specialty, and a different personality.
Debby is a devil, or succubus, or something similar. She's the owner of the gym and your first trainer. She's the one who makes all the decisions around training, and seems to be the one most invested in making you hold in your cum. Her personality is spicy and a little domineering.
Nadia is the second trainer you meet, and is a tsundere pixie girl. In my opinion they take her tsundereness a little too far, but I guess that's kind of the point. It just always weirds me out when your MC is having sex with a character who outwardly hates everything about them.
Olivia is an Orc muscle mommy. She's one of my favorite characters because I love the trope of big strong characters being kind of soft once you get to know them. At the end of your arc with Olivia she talks about wanting to go out on dates with you outside of the gym. In her private thoughts she sees you as a powerful human warrior.
Zelda is a super stacked Frankenstein girl who you seems strangely sexy. She has the biggest boobs of all the trainers, and is kind of obsessed with the idea of cutting off your dick. Her body is dead but throughout the game you show her pleasure that she didn't think possible.
Alica is the gym massage therapist, and a furry werewolf. She doesn't train you directly, but she provides upgrades to your muscle groups. These upgrades increase the amount of "progress" in a workout, as well as increase your max testosterone level. At the end of the game you get to see her in human form.
Kurama is the gym yoga instructor. Like Alica, Kurama is used for managing upgrades. They call her the "androgynous" member of the gym but I believe the term they were looking for was intersex. Androgynous just means that your gender is ambiguous, but Kurama is unambiguously intersex. She's also got four arms!
Gameplay
The core gameplay revolves around managing meters. There's the progress meter which as to reach 100% to complete the workout, and there's the testosterone meter which must NOT reach 100%. If you reach 100% prematurely, you cum and lose all of your saved up jizz. This is apparently the worst thing in the world.
While this game is card based (sort of), it's not really a deck builder because you don't have any say in what goes in the deck. But you get dealt a hand of cards that are either a muscle group, or an energy drink. Each round you pick your moves, and the completion and cum meters increase and decrease accordingly.
For the first bit of the game you'll really be flying through the scenes, but there's a point after getting to level 2 for each trainer, that things become pretty difficult. This is when you'll really want to start spending money on upgrades from Kurama. There are some abilities you get from her that give you shield when rerolling your hand or activating fever (using your whole hand in one move) that start to snowball pretty hard, making the back half of the game easier than the first.
Each trainer has 3 levels, each of which corresponds to a sex scene. The part where this starts to get annoying, is that you have to complete each sex scene 4 times to get to the next level, and it's functionally the same every time. The gameplay loop for training involes picking your cards, watching a few seconds of animated fucking, hearing a voice line, and then picking your next hand. The problem is that it's the same voice line and same animation EVERY HAND. It starts to drag on pretty quickly, and I found myself skipping over the scenes more often than not.
In the second half of each level the trainer removes her clothes, but that's not really enough to make me want to go through the same scenes in the same battle over and over. It feels like padding for time because that's exactly what it is.
Overview
One thing you have to be ready for with Lewd Gym, is that it's another game with a pretty singular vision. The writer of this game LOVES muscley women with stinky feet. And that's kind of just something you'll have to accept if you want to play. There are multiple foot job scenes and plenty of dialog about your foot sweat covered dick. Even most of the scenes that don't involve feet at all have feet front and center in the art. I've said it thousands of times by this point but feet just really don't do it for me, but I was still able to get through it just fine.
After playing for a while the gameplay started to feel tedious. I have to assume a fair bit of that is because when I play a game to review I don't really play it in the way it was intended. Most lewd games are meant to be played just long enough to cum, and then you move on to playing League or whatever. But in a game that almost entirely revolves around orgasm denial and edging, you'd think that they'd want you to play it for a few hours straight. But the repitiion of the sex scenes and the padded out time of the "battles" started to make me focus more on just getting through it than enjoying the ride. As I said though, some of that fault is mine.
I loved the scenes and girls, and the voice actors knocked it out of the park. The caracters are varied both in looks and personality and all of their scenes are animated. The gameplay is pretty well thought out too. The difficulty curve requires you to actually think about your moves and plan out your upgrades. It never really felt unfair or too easy.
My favorite girl is Zelda because I simply cannot resist a stacked Frankenstein girl.
Horny Parts
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Sexts
As you advance levels with trainers, they'll send you saucy text messages
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Fullscreen Renders
Key moments in the game are accompanied by a nice fullscreen image!
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Training Animations
These are the scenes you'll spend the most time staring at!
Horniest Part
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Ejaculation Day!
All your hard work finally pays off on Ejaculation day. It's functionally a scene editor. You pick your girl, position, clothes on/off, and even what voice line she's saying. While the scenes themsevles are nothing new (you already saw them during training), you get to add your own spin to it.
Rating
Positive
Great girls, great voice acting, and a reasonably fun gameplay loop. What more could I ask for? Pretty much just less repitition, and also it'd be nice if the steam overlay worked with it so I wouldn't have to use OBS and Irfanview to get screenshots and recordings.
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