INTERNS Review Summary

Despite gorgeous art, funny humor, strong voice acting, and an engaging story, the game is undermined by widespread severe bugs and feels unfinished and untested.

High-quality art and visuals: Reviewers consistently praise the beautiful, stylish art and gorgeous visuals, with a Western comic-book aesthetic and detailed backgrounds. The visual presentation is a major strength of the game.

Funny humor and jokes: The game contains many funny jokes, gags, and dialogues that land without becoming tiresome. Humor is a recurring highlight, including vulgar, absurd, and pop-culture-referencing comedy.

Strong voice acting: Voice acting is frequently praised as excellent, enchanting, and full of emotion, especially the Russian dub and the protagonist's performance. It adds significant atmosphere to the experience.

Engaging story and plot: The narrative is described as interesting, entertaining, and funny, with a cohesive thread and engaging progression. Reviewers highlight the plot's humor and the satisfying character developments and arcs.

Overall enjoyable game experience: The game is generally described as good, fun, and pleasant, with a solid idea and cohesive team effort. It provides decent entertainment and plenty of content for the price.

Widespread severe bugs: Players repeatedly report many bugs that interfere with enjoyment and make the game feel fundamentally broken. Clusters describe bugs of all kinds at release and a huge number of issues.

Unfinished and untested release: Feedback states the game was released in an unfinished state and appears to have had no QA. It feels like a raw beta test rather than a finished product.

Annoying pointless mini-games: Mini-games are annoying and pointless, with rewards limited to skins and an unimportant 'DUTY' currency.

Wrong scene backgrounds: Incorrect background scenes frequently appear, and backgrounds sometimes fail to change when they should.

Voice and text desync: Voice lines frequently repeat and desync from displayed text, with the voice saying a different phrase. Text and voice lines do not match more often than they do.

Comedy visual novel core: The game is primarily a dialogue-driven comedy visual novel with life-sim elements. Players interact through dialogue choices and voiced scenes, following a linear narrative with character arcs.

Minigames integrated into story: The game includes various minigames such as cleaning teeth, patient treatment, stretcher operation, massage, item search, racing, sorting, and an X-ray minigame. These minigames are tied to plot scenes and designed to be simple, playable with one hand using only the mouse, though they lack increasing difficulty.

Adult content and erotic scenes: The game is an adult visual novel focused on erotic entertainment, featuring 18+ animated scenes, lewd content, and a gallery for viewing event images. It includes eleven animated adult scenes each with multiple sequences plus static images, and unlocked scenes can be rewatched from the Gallery.

Medical exam and progression system: The game spans four weeks with weekly anatomy exams and exams on medical subjects that require actual knowledge. Failing two exams results in expulsion, and there are mini-exams on diseases and medical facts, with rewards for paying attention to dialogues.

Sandbox exploration and tasks: The game features sandbox-style visual novel elements with a small map where players click locations to advance the story, play minigames, unlock scenes, or work. Objectives are displayed in a dropdown task list, and not all locations are available simultaneously.

Audio settings reset and mismatch: Sound settings reset each time, and audio sliders appear inconsistent between gameplay and the main menu. These issues make audio configuration unreliable.

General bugginess reported: Reviewers describe the game as having a lot of bugs overall. This broad complaint aligns with the specific crashes, audio glitches, and engine errors mentioned elsewhere.

Unity error menu with many errors: A Unity error menu appeared once listing 44 errors. This indicates underlying engine-level problems that could affect stability.

Mixed purchase recommendations: Reviews are split between strong buy recommendations and clear advice to avoid the game. Several reviewers explicitly say to buy, recommend, or give a thumbs-up, while others say do not buy or not worth it even at a low price.

Wait for fixes and discount: A recurring recommendation is to hold off on buying until the developers fix current bugs, or to only purchase at a steep discount such as 70 percent off. Some reviewers advise waiting rather than buying now.

Price value debated: Reviewers disagree on whether the price is justified. Some say it is worth it for a couple of evenings or just over ten dollars, while others say it is not worth it even at a low price.

Shallow narrative criticized: Some reviewers find the story light and entertaining for hospital chaos but not suitable for those expecting a deep narrative. Another notes previous works had more soul and less padding.

Animation DLC criticized: The animation DLC is recommended only if animated sex scenes are the main priority, and one reviewer strongly advises against purchasing the animation pack right now.

Community fair range: $2.99 - $5.99.

Session length: 4.0h.

Adult-Scene Priority Player: Seeks adult scenes and DLC content, treating the game as fetish entertainment rather than a progression challenge. Motivation: Viewing animated sex scenes and fetish-themed adult content. Stance: buy.

Refund-Minded DLC Skeptic: Tries the product, judges the value of the game or pack, and quickly returns or warns others against purchase. Motivation: Avoiding wasted money on a game or DLC pack that does not meet expectations. Stance: no buy.

Linear Rent-Grind Critic: Plays through the linear cash-grind loop while tracking its repetitiveness and limited structure. Motivation: Assessing whether the rent-quota progression loop and outfit unlocks justify the repeated grind. Stance: no buy.

Accusations of heavy AI use: The developer Tophouse and affiliates are accused of heavily using AI to make the game, with claims that they did not actually code or write it. One reviewer says AI game development is ruining good ideas and turning them into bad games.

Mixed English and Russian voice acting: The game features English voice acting while also offering full Russian language and voice acting, including for the protagonist and male characters. Some reviews note the Russian voice work as a notable feature.

Compared to sitcoms Scrubs and Interns: Reviewers compare the game's premise and characters to the TV series Scrubs and Interns, citing similarities in the intern-under-teasing dynamic. It is also described as a combination of elements from Interns and Clinic.

Pop culture parodies in characters: The game includes parodies and references such as a female Doc Brown, a bootleg Draco Malfoy, and a female version of Malfoy. These references are noted alongside comparisons to Back to the Future and a horny Scrubs parody.

Gallery for animated scenes: A gallery is available for viewing animated scenes and special CGs, but there is no option to unlock everything instantly. Animation DLC provides sexual scenes as standalone videos.