Staff Pick of the Week - Heavy Five

Heavy Five is a comedy/adventure/thriller/sex game from the developer Nottravis.

Yesterday saw the release of Chapter 4 of this game, and this release is quite a big one.

3000+ renders in still images
30,000+ renders in over 200 animations (not looped animations either)
70,000+ words in the script

The game itself follows you (an engineer) as you are assigned the task of finding out what has happened at the outpost on the planet Ophion, they are having issues at the base, and it’s your job to find out what those issues are and potentially fix them, or not! You could spend your time doing all sorts of other stuff, like playing Strip Pool with the chief engineer, boxing with the pilot, playing VR with the ensign, or even playing with the ensign’s CoC!

You can play as a male or female MC with variations in the story based on the gender you choose.

Here is a trailer for CH4

There are many different routes in the game, with over 200 paths planned.

This is the official description of the game from the developer’s Patreon page.

In the not so distant future, mankind has finally cracked the secret of faster than light travel and, with the population of Earth reaching crisis levels, has set forth to explore, find and colonise new worlds for humanity by sending forth deep space vessels.
You are a engineering officer aboard one of these deep space vessels. The Intrepid, which is currently engaged on a series of resupply missions for those tenuous outposts humanity has so far been able to establish. Relaxing off duty, you find yourself hastily ordered as a last minute replacement for an injured crew member on a mission to resupply a science station on the planet Ophion which has been experiencing a series of unusual events…
Heavy Five includes a number of features to enhance your gameplay. Enjoy searching locations and mysteries? The free-roam section will allow you to indulge yourself as much as you wish. Don’t enjoy this type of thing? It can be skipped entirely.