Play Club Illusion

Today we are looking at a “classic” when it comes to porn games and that is Play Club Illusion. Brought to us by the famous or “infamous” lewd game studio, this was released for the first time all the way back in 2015, and I wanted to go back and see how it holds up and if it is as brutal as some of the other earlier stuff that this studio released. To be honest, this is very much a product of its time, and I think that the premise is done for shock value, but at the same time, this is going to be what turns a lot of people off.

Creating A Real Illusion

Before I jump into what Play Club Illusion is all about, I wanted to talk about Illusion, who made this game, it was one of, if not their first major release, and they are known these days for VR Kanojo were very infamous for their game RapeLay which was a game that was basically about sexual assault and that game really did get mainstream attention. I do think that to be fair to Illusion, their earlier games were done to get attention via shock value, but they have managed to turn it around to a degree.

A Club With An Exclusive Membership

While there is not some kind of massive story here in Play Club Illusion, the premise is more in line with something like RapeLay. We play the role of a guy who has been hired to have sex with these women, and let me just say that they are not exactly thrilled or on board with this happening. To be fair, you can just ignore this aspect of the game and see it all as a kind of sex simulator and not give the story a second thought. However, it is still something that is more on the gross side, and I can see why it would be a major turn-off for most people. At least they tell you in the description of the game what exactly you are getting into here, so if you do play it, it is not as if it is blindsiding you with it.

Making Her Your Own

A huge part of the charm with Illusion games is that they offer great character customization options, and Play Club Illusion is pretty interesting, as you can see the early days of where this studio started. There is a solid character creation suite here, but with this being an older game, it is fairly limited compared to what we have today. Still, it is easy enough to mess around with and create all kinds of cute looking characters. I would say that, as far as options go, it is more like WWF SmackDown 2: Know Your Role than it is a modern WWE 2K24. Yes, you can come up with some hot girls, but it is much more limited than if you were playing a modern game. Still, the game looks decent, but it is a little on the dated side.

Stealing Hearts

While there is “gameplay” here in Play Club Illusion that sees you have to pleasure the ladies so that you earn hearts, which, considering the sexual assault nature of the story, is pretty weird. This is something that I think is best described as a sex simulator, as most of what you are doing is putting the characters in various sex positions and then enjoying the show.

There are a solid number of sex positions to mess around with, but the animation here is a little bit on the robotic side, but to be fair, as of writing, this game is the better part of a decade old. You can see how far this studio has come with how smooth their newer games are, such as Koikatsu Party with its more modern anime style.

Pros:

• You can have fun with the character creation stuff
• There are many different sex scenes to play with
• To be fair, it all functions well
• The history of this game is pretty interesting

Cons:

• The sexual assault theme of the game is awful and very dated
• This is a very dated game

Should You Play Club By Illusion?

Play Club, from the Japanese video game company Illusion, is a Japanese eroge game only released in Japan in 2015. The Japanese developer, Illusion, is not without its fair share of controversy since its inception in 2001 out of Yokohama, Japan. Illusion is best known for the controversy surrounding one of its earlier games, RapeLay, that was sold on Amazon.

Play Club Is Entirely In Japanese

Play Club was one of the last titles released by the game developer, Illusion, before they started to develop games for their audience outside of Japan. One of their more popular and recent titles, Koikatsu Party is the third title released by the company since VR Kanojo.

However, if you want to look at one of the company’s last fully Japanese titles, then Play Club is one you should pick up if you’re a fan of the types of games Illusion puts out. Unfortunately, that also means you need to go through an extensive process of trying to translate Japanese when installing Play Club and finding a way to input Japanese when you’re typing in the game. The confusing installation process might put some off from playing Play Club.

Play Club Isn’t Very Long

There isn’t much of a story behind Play Club other than having sex with a mother and her of her daughters. Like RapeLay, the story involves non-consensual sex, so it’s not really a game to play for the easily offended. The sex scenes are very straightforward as you’re basically playing a male character who is having sex with one of the girls to try to fill her heart meter. Eventually, the girl will become “trained” by the player and they can move onto the next girl.

Play Club Has A Free Mode

Instead of taking on each girl as if she was a level that you could “clear,” there is a free mode where the hearts disappear and you can have the girl react to the main character in any way you want. You don’t need to worry about treating each girl as a challenge to overcome in the game.

Overall, if Play Club by Illusion is your type of game, then, by all means, it would be worth looking into the confusing installation process. However, it might be worth looking into some of the newer titles from Illusion released for its non-Japanese audience like Koikatsu.