Revenge on Gold Diggers Review

In the first chapter you become a simp, literally. You play as Wu Yulun and meet a young woman streamer, Chen Xinxin, who needs donations. Despite Yulun’s financial struggles, he hands over big money and she vanishes. This forced acquiescence is annoying, but refusing will end the game, so consider it the price of admission. The game leaps forward 10 years and you meet her again, only now you must fall in love. This part also needed work, as tweaks to some fail endings would have let the story progress without interruption.

Chapter 4-7 is where the game becomes truly great. You must infiltrate an organization of women that have turned gold digging into a science. All you have to do is get close to three senior members. How? Fight fire with fire and seduce them. Maybe they will love you. Maybe you will love them back. Remember, they hate you for what you have done to their brethren.

The three gold diggers have amazing personalities, with apt strengths and weaknesses. Song Shiqi pushes a gender divide on social media but secretly yearns for love. He Yueying is a femme fatale who uses her sex appeal (and torture) to gain power, but for what purpose? And the last, Pan Mengna, is the toughest nut to crack as her business acumen taught her to hold her cards close.

Getting to know each woman and adjusting to their personalities is amazing. The conversations are riveting because every choice feels important. There are even traps, if you fall for their charms. The goal is to make them love you. So, not that different from a regular dating sim, albeit starting from a position of hate.

But dealing with unscrupulous individuals makes all the difference. Are you gaining their trust to scam them or is there something more? It is satisfying to use real love against money and power. You get to see the characters transform, from cold bodies into warm hearts, like when Yueying goes from making you kiss her feet to collapsing at your own.

Unfortunately the endings are cruelly abrupt, not befitting of the rest. There are also duplicate finales that cannot be skipped. The game takes about 6 hours to finish and about 11 to see everything. The English translation is exceptional but sadly it uses average ADR for voices. Video quality is underwhelming and even poor in a few scenes. However, if you like enemies-to-lovers arcs and meaningful conversations then Revenge on Gold Diggers will make you a simp, one way or another.