A Totally Different Type of Isekai Adventure: A Welcome to a Sexy Open World Review

By Manuel

Players: 1
Platforms: PC (Steam)

The drought of A-to-J reviewing eroge titles has seemingly come to an end, as we're going to be looking at another recent release by our friends at MangaGamer. Welcome to a Sexy Open World is an 18+, isekai-themed visual novel that is available on PC via Steam and MangaGamer's site. We're going to be taking a deep dive into the game today, and see what exactly makes it tick. Is this an eroge worth your time? What kind of heroines does it offer? Do its sex scenes lean towards the vanilla? Hopefully we'll answer those questions and more within this review! Also, even though the game features plenty of 18+ scenes, there will be none of them featured here. You'll have to play the game yourself to see those!

Welcome to a Sexy Open World places you into the role of Sejima Seiya, a college student who hasn't had a lot of luck with women. He's on his way to a mixer set up by his friend when he suddenly finds himself involved in a horrible traffic accident. Thankfully he isn't dead, but he wakes up in a fantasy world. In other words, he's been isekai'd. The world he finds himself in is known as Laurentide, and it's a land that awaits the arrival of a legendary hero, there's also a huge, month-long festival that is only held once a century that is about to begin. Though confused as to what's going on, he quickly befriends Anna Heiritte, the daughter of a local restaurant owner. Anna not only resembles his childhood friend, but she also has the same name as her. Instantly falling in love with her, he finds himself working for her father's restaurant. That festival is about to take place after all, and they need all the help they can get. Since the arrival of a stranger from another world isn't exactly the norm, it doesn't take long for Seiya to draw the attention of many of the locals. This is an eroge though, so it makes sense that said locals seem to consist of beautiful women. That's not all though, as it's also revealed that he is the legendary hero that everyone has been waiting for. Well, he's not actually the hero himself, but he will be the father of the hero with the mother being someone from Laurentide. That little quirk of the prophecy means that all the women he's met up to that point now want to bear his children. He was on a way to a mixer before the entire isekai situation, so it makes sense that he's more than eager to oblige. Not only does this mean plenty of sex for our otherworldly protagonist, but it means plenty of hijinks too. Seiya actually wants to father a child too, since he hopes that it will allow him to stay in this new world permanently. Being isekai'd is a precarious situation after all, and it would suck if he had to go back to his former reality one day. There's also the matter of all the girls throwing themselves at him... It's a good thing that Laurentide is very accepting of polyamorous relationships!

In case it wasn't obvious by the plot details I just revealed, Welcome to a Sexy Open World is an eroge that places a strong emphasis on its sexual content. That may something too obvious to point out, but this is a game that literally gives you a sex scene every 10-15 minutes. I know that there is a specific term for games like this, but I still prefer using the generic "eroge" instead. Suffice it to say, this is a game that is made for those looking for such content, and could be a bit much for those who aren't used to hyper-sexualized hentai games. There are plenty of fantasy trope send-ups and thing like that scattered throughout, but everything circles back to the sex in the end. Part of me wishes the game leaned more into parodying the isekai genre in general, as it does a very good job when it tries, but I'm not exactly against what we do get in its stead. After all, who can be disappointed with a game that provides the player with seven beautiful heroines? Not only do we get the girl next door Anna, but we get her older sister Elda, Mystic Fox Yuuna, Elf Princess Ehlitte, Flower Girl Madri, Samurai Hikari, and Knight Alencia. It's a full cast of busty anime girls, and players will surely find one that becomes their favorite. Each of the girls also have their own motivations and backstories, and it's these that drive the game forward more than the core plot does. There really isn't much of a central plot to be had. I basically laid out all the important stuff earlier, and the only other things worth mentioning probably stray too far into spoiler territory to cover. Though the plot is a bit all over the place, I do think that it's strong enough to keep people interested. There's also the sexual content that'll string players along, but you sometimes need a bit more to keep things fresh.

I went into Welcome to a Sexy Open World thinking that it was going to be a standard visual novel that had branching paths depending on which girl you chose to focus on. I imagined that there would be single girl routes, harem routes, and everything in between. While that still technically is still the case here, there's far more to it than that. After the intro to the game, which essentially is the part of the game where you meet and have sex with all seven of the girls, you're moved into a time management simulation of sorts. It turns out that the goal of the game isn't necessarily to fall in love with the girls, but to get them pregnant. Since a big part of the plot focuses on the month-long, once-a-century festival, that is also the time frame which the game takes up. Your goal is to get someone pregnant before the festival is over. Seiya really has his work cut out for him! (Funnily enough, the game does warn you that you need a rest day each week to not die from too much sex!) There's still the standard visual novel bits like conversations and choices, but there's also light dating sim mechanics too. Each girl has a day when they're most likely to conceive, and you have to plan out your month accordingly to make sure you visit them during those specific days. Visit enough times, and you get them pregnant. You can then move on to the next girl, or choose to continue focusing on your favorites. I don't want to spoil how this all wraps up in the end, but I guess I should've realized that the game was going to be more open-ended than other visual novels based on the name alone.

One interesting aspect of Welcome to a Sexy Open World is that you're able to complete a "perfect run" if you schedule the dates with each girl in a very meticulous fashion. I'll admit that I took it as a challenge to do exactly this, and found that I immediately found myself mapping out the best way to go about getting all seven girls pregnant in the most efficient way possible. The game does try to throw a wrench into your plans here and there, but you can easily stay on course if you're as dedicated as I was. It's funny too, since prior to learning about the time management sim part of the game, I wasn't really having as much of a good time as I had hoped I would. Parody or not, the writing in this game doesn't really lend itself to any actual depth. If you're a fan of busty anime girls in various stages of undress, then you'll probably have a blast no matter what. Me on the other hand, I was hoping for a bit more, and I found that I was growing bored of the game only a couple hours in. I know I'm probably thinking about the plot of an eroge way too much, but the entire "everyone wants to have sex with the main character" trope started to feel like a reverse Mary Sue thing after a while. I needed something more, and the game thankfully delivered on that before too long. It was a surprisingly deep mechanic I could sink my teeth into, and I'm a sucker for life simulation gameplay in whatever form it appears in. I don't want to make it sound like this one aspect of the game will suddenly make it appeal to fans of dating sims, but that's the effect it had on me at the very least.

The main reason as to why I was getting bored of the game has to do with its visual style. I'm all for big-breasted anime girls, but the cast of Welcome to a Sexy Open World feels especially one note in that regard. Each of the girls' designs are unique in their own way, but they also feel like they all share a single template as far as their bodies go. This goes double when it comes to the sex scenes, as they all feel like they could belong to any of the girls. Obviously this is a matter of taste, but those looking for variety in their hentai games might want to look elsewhere. Every single girl is the very definition of "thicc" with several c’s, and there isn't really anything here for those who aren't fans of that one type of girl. This wouldn't necessarily be any big issue in and of itself, but there's also the aspect of the pregnancy kink that is present throughout the entire game. Not only is it a focus of the plot itself, but there's also a "Maternity Dress Patch" that's also included in this release of the game. I accidentally (No, really, it was an accident!) turned on this patch when I first started up the game, and was quite confused to find that all the girls I encountered were pregnant. Unless you're a fan of such things, be aware of that first choice you make in starting up the game is one that you can't undo. I don't want to judge anyone who would excitedly turn on the patch, but it definitely wasn't for me.

I don't want this review to go down the path of kink shaming, but the emphasis on pregnancy really rubbed me the wrong way. There are sure to be those who enjoy the game specifically for its emphasis on pregnancy, but I'm also positive that I can't be the only one who is put off by it. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it was only the time management part of the game that kept me around, because I probably would've quit otherwise. Instead of letting all the pregnancy stuff get to me, I was min/maxing each girl's stats, and clicking through the sex scenes as fast as I could to get back to the tight schedule I'd set for myself. Clearly the developers had a specific market in mind, but Welcome to a Sexy Open World fills a niche within a niche within a niche. Who is this game really for? I don't doubt for a second that there are plenty of eroge fans who want their games to only have busty heroines, but I wonder how many of them also want to see those same girls pregnant and in maternity clothes. Maybe I don't know the fandom very well, but that audience seems a bit too specific for this quality of release.

Even though I just critiqued the visual style a bit, I don't want to make it seem like I wasn't a fan for the most part. The designs are good once you look past the sameness of the body types, and the backgrounds and CGs are amazing. I was actually shocked by how many CGs there are that aren't strictly sexual in nature. Those hunting for all the CGs and their variants have their work ahead of them, as there are plenty to collect. I have yet to go down that rabbit hole, but maybe I will once I'm done with this review. While you won't see any of the 18+ CGs in this article, rest assured that they're quite impressive too. That said, those looking for animated sex scenes might be a bit disappointed. Though the sex-focused CGs are all great in their own ways, this is an eroge that only use static images to go along with the more intense descriptions of the text. I was a bit put off by this the few times I chose to read through the sex scenes, since the game often goes into details that fly in the face of the one or two CGs that you'll actually see. This is probably due to the fact that there are dozens of sex scenes in the game, but that's still little consolation when they don't feel as detailed as they could've been. I doubt anyone will hate what is here, but I personally would've preferred it if the game focused on fewer scenes that featured more detail in them. Outside of CGs, the 18+ scenes also feature a countdown timer, and a second "internal" view. I always wonder who actually enjoys the latter, but it is something you can turn off from the options menu. Oh, and I should also point out that the aforementioned Maternity Dress Patch doesn't change the CGs. The patch only affects the base character models, so be prepared for some visual whiplash if you're the type of person who is looking forward to playing with it turned on.

Those who are experienced with my reviews might be expecting me to once again talk about the genre of music I refer to as "visual novel music". I use that term to refer to music whose sole purpose seems to be to exist in the background. Soundtracks made up of visual novel music are rarely bad, but usually aren't very memorable either. Though Welcome to a Sexy Open World does have some music that falls into this category, it also has plenty of music that doesn't. I was extremely surprised to hear an upbeat vocal track in its opening movie, and that song also serves as the game's main theme via an instrumental version. That particular song stood out for rather obvious reasons, but there were plenty of others that I enjoyed too. I'm not sure if it's because I tend to prefer JRPG-styled soundtracks in general, but there were several tracks that grew on me over the course of the game. Parody elements aside, this game does capture the JRPG vibes surprisingly well. There are even several tracks that are stuck in my head even as I wrote this review. Welcome to a Sexy Open World has a soundtrack that feels far above its genre, and it's a rare example of an eroge OST that I'm considering looking into getting on its own. While the music is awesome on its own, it's not the only aspect of the game's sound design worth discussing.

It probably isn't any surprise that Welcome to a Sexy Open World is a fully-voiced game, and it features a cast that is puts in some stunning work. There's only a Japanese language track here, but I'm sure that's expected for a release of this size. One of the reasons why an English dub wouldn't be viable, is that just about every character is voiced. This not only includes the main cast, but also several side characters, and even those that don't have any on-screen representation. This level of detail is usually only reserved for higher-budgeted releases, and the quality of the acting is consistent throughout. The only character left unvoiced is Seiya himself, but this is standard practice in games like this. I also want to give quick praise to the sound effects too. I'm not at all a fan of some of the "sex sounds" that most eroge use, and I'm pleased to report that they're all but non-existent here. I actually checked several times to make sure I didn't turn them off at some point, or had somehow muted them by skipping the scenes so quickly, but they just seem pretty much absent. I guess that can be viewed as a negative to anyone who likes such things, but I was all for them being cut out. It's not often that I come into a full on hentai game and think that its strongest component is how it handles sound in general, but here we are.

I went into Welcome to a Sexy Open World thinking that I'd complete a few routes, write my review, and move on. I ended up spending far more time with the game than I intended, and I went so far as to attempt a perfect playthrough on my first go around. I'm happy to report that I succeeded in my endeavors, and I still feel that I haven't seen everything that it has to offer. This is a game that offers well over 20 hours of gameplay, and probably lots more if you go about it at a more leisurely pace than I did. It's also available on Steam in a completely uncensored form. There's no need to look up patches online, and it even comes with that Maternity Dress Patch included at no extra cost. It's quite the package all things considered, and it's available at a very reasonable $44.99 at the time of this writing. That price point may be on the higher end of things, but the content justifies that price point. It may not have state-of-the-art animated sex scenes, but this is as much of a AAA release as one sees in the world of eroge.

Even though this is the sort of game that will only appeal to a certain crowd due to its content, I still have to give Welcome to a Sexy Open World a strong recommendation. It's a fun, silly eroge that doesn't take itself too seriously. I may have been a bit hard on the game at times, but I had a lot of fun with it. The emphasis on pregnancy kinks might be a barrier to some, but those looking for an eroge chock full of 18+ plus content will probably be able to overlook that particular focus in light of everything else the game has to offer. This is a must-play for fans of the genre, and it's worth every penny. Grab it now, and thank me later. On that note, I think it's time I get back to my isekai world. See you in the next one!

Check Out Welcome To A Sexy Open World on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306310/Welcome_to_a_Sexy_Open_World/

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Story: A
Gameplay: A
Graphics: A
Music/Sound: A+
Value: A

Overall: A

Pros:
+ A fun, silly send-up of the isekai genre. Though the sexual content is the focus here, it can (almost) be played as a straight parody.
+ Though the main plot is a little thin, the characters are all fleshed out, and their backstories drive the game forward.
+ The inclusion of time management gameplay elements was a nice touch. It's those that kept me playing until the end.
+ If you're a fan of busty anime girls, this game has seven of them for you! There are also several sex scenes with each of them.
+ Though the character designs can have a same-y quality to them, the visuals are near perfect otherwise.
+ Features a great JRPG-inspired soundtrack, and a voice cast that gives stunning performances.
+ Is available on Steam completely uncensored, with a bonus DLC included. No patching is needed at all to play it in its intended form.

Cons:
- The strong emphasis on sexual content comes at the detriment to most everything else. This isn't really a game that you'll "play for the plot".
- Having every girl want to instantly have sex with the protagonist gives off strong Mary Sue vibes.
- May not be for those who don't have a pregnancy kink. There's not only a strong emphasis on pregnancy itself, but the free DLC mentioned earlier is one that puts the heroines in maternity clothes.
- There really isn't much variety when it comes to the girls themselves. There's pretty much nothing here for anyone not a fan of big-breasted anime girls.

A copy of this game was provided to us free-of-charge by the publisher for the purpose of this review. This did not affect our review in any way.

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I didn't even mention your talking dog sidekick!

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