Naked Butlers

Editorial Worth it

Naked Butlers is a deliberately transgressive sadist BL visual novel from 2011 that knowingly doubles down on its extremity. The game casts you as a temporary "master" to five beautiful butlers, and the community consensus is stark: to achieve the "good" endings, you must play as monstrously as possible—abuse, humiliate, and dominate your love interests, or else you get the "bad" ending (which may feel kinder). This is by design, and the game leans hard into dark comedy to avoid drowning in its own depravity. Reviewers consistently praise the voice acting, character writing, and sheer brazenness of the premise, even as they describe scenes that disturbed them deeply. Many note genuine character depth beneath the shock value, and the generous branching (26+ endings) rewards replays. However, this is emphatically not a romance game—it's a power-fantasy simulator for players with extreme tastes, and the community is split between those who find it brilliantly absurd and those who find it gratuitously cruel. One thing reviewers agree on: do not go in blind, and do not expect to enjoy it unless you are comfortable with rape fantasy, graphic violence, and a protagonist who is meant to be despicable.