On a whim, I decided to try out Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle mobile game, based on the streaming service’s raunchy reality dating show. And now I can’t stop playing it. I’ve spent many late nights curled up in bed, watching my little character make terrible romantic choices, befriend people in the luxury villa, and cost the contestants a lot of money.
The game is filling a void in my heart that’s reserved for choice-heavy, romance-forward visual novel mobile games. And it’s probably one of the best ones I’ve played, especially in recent years. Romantic mobile visual novels were once some of my favorite games; but over time, the average writing quality in them has diminished, all while microtransactions and terrible ads ramped up to a distressing degree. I once played one where in order to do anything, I had to watch a janky minute-long ad first. It was exhausting,
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