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Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire

2021

Should you play it?

Saimin Gakushū is a school adventure visual novel by popular Japanese developers Dark One! Soichi Akano acquires a sleep-learning machine through a dubious online shopping site, and plans to imprint his knowledge on the female students and teachers at his school.

What works
  • High quality japanese voice acting
  • Polished anime-style art and character design
  • Multiple endings and branching narrative
  • Niche hypnosis and adult themes well executed
  • Gallery feature for unlocked scenes
Things to keep in mind
  • Requires external 18+ patch and still contains censorship
  • Technical performance issues and lag reported
  • Short length and limited gameplay interaction
  • Translation quality and text can be poor
  • No achievements or steam trading cards

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Kuroinu Redux

  • The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence

  • My Lovely Wife

  • Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo

  • Nope Nope Nurses

  • Death Come True

  • The Scarlet Demonslayer

  • VR Secretary: Ailey Edition

  • Night Shift Nurses
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo

  • Death Come True

  • The Scarlet Demonslayer
If you liked…

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Domination, Violence.

Why this game works

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