Horrible Therapist (Extra Horrible Edition)

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Clearly I'm not the right audience for this game, so I don't fault it so much for being obscenely gross, lurid, unsettlingly explicit and outrageously graphic, as much as I do for what I think was a lack of fair warning about how broadly (and wildly) inappropriate this game is. Other games by this same company are conveniently and clearly enough labeled as NSFW, so whereas the base edition of this game is rated "17 and up," I don't think I was in any way prepared to expect it to be anything other than highly suggestive and thematically "adult," even cringe-worthy; this, I think is clearly how the game is marketed. Lest anyone dismiss this as prudish, I'd like to detail some of what's illustrated on *many* of these cards to give fair warning to consumers (such as genitalia and forced consumption of fecal matter), but I'm frankly concerned my review would get (ironically) flagged. Look: to each their own—I just wish I had gotten any kind of a reasonable head's up about what's actually contained in this game (not just the mild and arguably misleading preview cards shown), so I'm trying to offer as much to someone else.

What's a shame is that I think this could have been such a fun game I could have played with family and friends to whom I could in *no way* show this to—and there could have easily been a NSFW expansion for those into that sort of thing. My spouse and I even tried playing through and seeing if we could sort out the NSFW cards and still leave ourselves a more…