Bubblegum Apartments

Name: Bubblegum Apartments
Author: BADevs

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Developer BADevs

Status in-development

Version 0.3.3

Released 2025-01-19

Price pay-what-you-want

Languages en

Platforms windowsandroidlinux

Editorial Meh

Bubblegum Apartments has attractive visuals and an ambitious premise—voyeuristic gameplay mixed with relationship progression—but the execution is severely hampered by poor design clarity and an unfinished build. Players consistently report being lost: camera placement is broken or unclear, progression systems are opaque (dates may or may not advance anything), and key mechanics like the streaming income don't work as intended. The game desperately needs an in-game guide or journal, intuitive UI feedback, and basic quality-of-life features like a skip-time button. Community feedback is dominated by confusion and frustration rather than enthusiasm for the content itself. While some appreciate the renders, most recent reviews focus on technical barriers and unclear design rather than recommending it. The roadmap suggests ongoing development, but the current state (v0.3.3) is too rough for casual play—players are resorting to rollback saves, save-scumming, and trial-and-error just to figure out what works. For a game this incomplete and confusing, you'll need either patience for patches or mastery of the F95 forums to find workarounds.

Description

Bubblegum Apartments is a sandbox visual novel where you play a young man who inherits an apartment building but finds his funds blocked by his scheming stepmother. Desperate for income, you turn to dark entrepreneurship: installing hidden cameras in your tenants' private spaces and selling their intimate moments to online audiences. The game combines voyeurism, manipulation, and financial desperation as core mechanics. Gameplay centers on relationship management and decision-making. You interact with tenants like Amber, Isabella, Pete, and Lucio, each with branching storylines influenced by your choices. A dating system with ten action-per-date mechanics lets you pursue different relationship paths—some faithful, others involving cheating or exploitation. Success on dates unlocks new sexual content and advances the relationship meter, while failure has consequences. You can purchase items through an in-game store, place cameras strategically, and monitor tenant activity and social media posts to track progress.