Borrowed Lives

Editorial Don't bother

Borrowed Lives aspires to be an ambitious life-sim RPG with deep character customization, relationship mechanics, and responsive sexual content that adapts to player choices and body traits. However, the current build is effectively unplayable for most users. The most recent version (2.0.2) is plagued by cascading critical bugs: quests softlock the game, conversations fail to register, the cheat menu crashes with render errors, NPCs randomly change gender/identity on reload, and sex scenes display nonsensical text ("OBJECT OBJECT.NAME"). Multiple reviewers report being unable to progress past the tutorial or first quest board interaction. The dev has acknowledged the game shipped prematurely and recommends waiting for a stabler state. Beneath the bugs lies a game that attempted too much too fast—elaborate stat systems, multi-origin starts, freeform dialogue, and procedurally generated NPCs—without the engineering discipline to make the systems cohere. Reviewers who have seen earlier versions note incremental fixes, and the dev does respond to bug reports, suggesting genuine effort. For patient players willing to reload saves frequently and tolerate game-breaking issues, there is a skeleton of an interesting project here. For anyone else: wait.