Wow, never did I picture being more invested in the writing of an NFSW than the actual NFSW aspects. From the very start of the way you introduced the story and the compelling scene set I understood this was more than just a porn game, but an author trying to tell a story through a unique form of media.
The author of this game is incredibly well spoken, it is easy to tell that they have some type of literacy background, whether they picked it up from their interest in theatre, is involved in literature, or like me, just enjoys picking up a good book from time to time, it really adds to the storytelling, or rather sets the stage.
This is also not me trying to insult other developers or say that they have poor writing, my honest opinion is that I enjoy most of them, they are capable of producing a good premise that makes you want to follow the story. IMO that is enough to garner attention and a decent player base, as it makes players want to reach the finale of the game and gets them invested. What I believe the author of this game is particularly good at is storytelling, by which I mean is, I don't just want to know how the game ends or to reach the conclusion, I want to read the story itself and witness everything develop. It's not just an interesting premise where I want to see everything resolved, I want to understand how and why. I have nothing but respect for pretty much all developers as it takes a lot of effort, skill and sacrifice to be able to produce any form of media.
Okay now that I have gotten my praise outta the way, SPOILERS from this point onwards. Because the author made a story where my brain had to participate, an unfortunate consequence that has occurred is that I actually have some nitpicks with regards to the writing as I was invested.
PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING I AM ABOUT TO SHARE IS SPECULATION AND MY OWN TAKEAWAY AND VIEWS OF THE STORY, I MIGHT BE WAY OFF MARK.
The scene with Lily and the MC, or rather the conversation right before, personally the dialogue didn't feel right to me. I think I understand with what you are trying to go for with the character of Abel (or rather Calm in this matter), I speak under correction, but it feels like what you (the author) are trying to portray is that Calm *believes* that he is incapable of loving Lily or any other character because that seems to be part of the aspects that was taken away from Abel, through Empathy. Perhaps my analysis of Calm might be completely wrong (very likely as the game is still new), but it does feel to me that he is capable of loving and just believes or chooses to think he can't because that is not the human consciousness, he is supposed to portray. He is supposed to be "Calm", and that is all he believes he is supposed to be, which is why he justifies certain actions by calling it rational or the best decision, when in the grand scheme of things he doesn't need to go as far as he does, or even in some cases I feel like the decisions he makes ain't even rational at all, he just thinks it is. He justifies so much by saying there is this benefit and this is for his goal, when in reality it's painstakingly obvious he cares about those around him. He spends all his time running away from affection, because why????? he is scared of hurting them!!! not because it's illogical or irrational.
But anyway, back to my point, I sidetracked a bit, but if this is how Calm is, and character analysis isn't wrong, I feel like the dialogue could have been executed a lot better. If my character analysis is wrong, then this whole point is null and avoid, and lowkey that would also be extremely embarrassing given how much I have written, but let's move on. So before we make the decision to "cross the line", the dialogue is essentially Lily and Calm going back and forth about how much she cares for him, and him trying to give her reasons as to why she shouldn't, a scene that emotions were very well portrayed, but my issue is when Calm says he feels something for them but he doesn't know what it is. I hated that, that singular addition to the conversation made me feel so confused and annoyed. Because he says something along the lines of, "I don't know what this feeling is, but I do know I see you than more than a friend" then follows that up with "I can't call it love because that would be lying", something along those lines, it was 4am so I am a bit iffy on what I recall. Flat out denying that it could be love was not the right call, because listen Calm might not be in love with her, but following her confession, every truly heterosexual individual would be, I know I am, she easily jumped to my favourite character after that. But my issue isn't that the story isn't depicting the way I feel about Lily, but rather how Calm basically fully denies it could be love. And just claims that he feels something, like duh as the readers we can tell that do you feel something. Like I know I'm overreacting, and that it is a small issue, but ruined the moment for me, because he basically rejects her and then tells her it's her choice to still love him. Like it feels like such a scumbag move especially if you choose to "cross the line" with Lily, given how he treats her and the dialogue is during the scene. It all starts to feel like a lie and I honestly couldn't enjoy the scene.
Honestly in the end I just ended up hurting myself with my character analysis, but given how the game is presented, I don't feel like I am the MC, but rather that I am viewing the world from his perspective, which as a book reader, I do not mind, but obviously in turn I am not going to agree with all his decisions or view of things. If the author/developer (called them author throughout this text, totally forgot I am reviewing a game and not a book) sees this, please do share your thoughts, and if like my view of everything was correct, minor request then, in that dialogue line where the MC says he can't call it love, instead of saying can't, better wording would be "can't confirm" that it is love.
But anyways, it's your story/game, you don't have to change anything if you don't want to, especially because like I am just a student who can't afford to pay for your patreon to support you financially, nonetheless good luck with the rest of the project, I sincerely look forward to watching the rest of story unfold. And for those of you who read my rant and me going off on a tangent, apologies for making it so long, I never felt the need to share my thoughts on a NSFW game before this one and just kept yapping. (Also check out Wildcats if you liked the writing of this, it's peak)