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I'm not sure how to best phrase this, and I'm worried about sounding too hostile or negative. But it does kinda take me out of it when every other line (roughly) is something along the lines of "I am consenting and we are merely roleplaying!". Like, that's not really roleplaying at that point, because there is no way to be immersed in the fantasy. It's the "constantly wink at the audience" equivalent for BDSM. And hey, fair enough, a lot of people like that. Sometimes I like things like that. Just maybe not in this particular flavor and context. I like the design of the main duo though.

Sorry for my very long comment. I struggle with being concise. Oh yeah and spoilers for anyone still wanting to try this game.

I played this game like a day or two ago, and it's still stuck to my mind a bit, as it goes with many of my temporary interests as of late. Some niche interests, like the one this game caters to, can be interesting in both a sexual and non-sexual way, at least to me. I find something oddly profound in it, honestly.

I agree with that one other commenter on the ending being a little less empathic than ideal. While I am definitely the target audience for this kind of thing, it is a little weird when the good guys are like "nope, you can't be a human again." The whole permanence aspect is fun, its just that the good-guy-faction being the one enforcing it feels a bit off, you know? Maybe if they didn't have the capacity to reverse it, but they couldn't have prevented your robotification to begin with, or that your fate would be even worse if left up to the corporations? I feel like the good-guy faction also setting it up in the first place kinda negates the whole "we are morally justified" thing, especially when they're the ones who remove your personality and try to punish you with spanking. I think I would have preferred it if the evil-corporate group was responsible for the robotification and what followed from there, but that the good-guy faction intervened in another way, maybe by replacing a part in the basement (maybe a part for the communication field thingy?) ensuring that you would be able to change things for the better.

Also, I feel it is a bit difficult to tell if the player character still has free will. Obviously they don't have total free will, but it seems to be present, to an extent... I think? The player character does seem to want to escape, but I'm not sure. Perhaps it is meant to be a gray area?

Sorry if that's a TL;DR, but yeah, I really enjoyed this and wanted to give some of my thoughts, and I'd definitely be interested in Reset Day. Oh yeah and now I wanna play these guys in stellaris as rogue servitors... yes i have read every comment