Femboy Bangers - Pub and Grill (Femboy Bangers) is, without a doubt in my mind, the greatest video game I have ever played. No, Femboy Bangers is *more* than that. Femboy Bangers changed my life. Let me set the stage:
From the very moment I laid eyes on this game's store page, I knew deep in my heart there was something special about it: the name. Many games are deceptively vague with their titles: Doom, Super Mario Bros, Pacman; these names tell you nothing about the game itself. What is Doom? What goes on in the world of Pacman? Who *are* the Super Mario Bros.? Yes, one common issue many games share is that their titles aren't descriptive in the slightest. Femboy Bangers - Pub & Grill usurps *all* of these titans, by providing a game title that *immediately* makes you aware of what this game is and what its world is like.
But, let's move on to the gameplay, shall we? Femboy Bangers is a "Visual Novel". Some may not like this decision or even this type of game but, I beg to differ. A good visual novel can immerse you into its world like no other. Showing you people, places, events, all from the perspective of how you'd see them if you were there. Now, you might ask at this point, "why not a first person shooter, then?". And to that, while I agree that being able to shoot your ♥♥♥ from your ♥♥♥♥ as if it were a gun would be more immersive, I feel that a more complicated gameplay style would take away from the sex appeal of this game. It's difficult for one to pleasure themselves while controlling cameras and player movement orplatforming and so on! With a visual novel, you need only one button to progress through the gameplay, keeping one hand free for any "activities" you might get up to with a game like this. A visual novel, truly, is the only form this game could've existed in, and allows it to be more immersive throughout than any other game I've ever played.
However, that says nothing of the astounding worldbuilding at play.
When you start the game, you're put in the shoes of an average Joe whom you can name after yourself (furthering the immersion). For the sake of simplicity, I'll refer to this man as "Joe" henceforth. Joe Henceforth starts the game on the way to his workplace, when you decides to visit a pub your old friend told you about. We never get to meet this friend sadly, so I'd love it if a sequel or potential prequel showed this unnamed friend's experience with the diner before you arrived there. Anyway, you head to the pub and meet the first femboy you'll meet on this adventure: Riley. Riley is a perfect introduction character. His chipper demeanor and welcoming attitude makes you excited to keep playing and, if you're one of the more dom-sided players of this game, excited to play with *him*. His silky, red hair shines elegantly off the morning sun the pub is so eloquently bathed in. His green eyes sparkle with delight, and a noticible bulge below his waist implies he's a bit more excited to see you than the average bartender. He playfully takes your coat, seats you at a table, and it develops from there.
I won't spoil the whole story, but it was important for me to establish just the kind of person Riley is: *everything* about him makes you eager, excited to keep playing and see what's in store. Worry not though, there's *plenty* in store for both you *and* Riley. I won't spoil them, but rest assured the sex scenes in this game trump those in any other game. They last for just long enough and, if you really wanna edge through it, you can go at your own pace advancing through the dialog. Yet another strength of the visual novel format! Now, I'm certain some of you are on the fence still. So far, the only Femboy in this game I've mentioned is submissive: is this truly a game only doms can enjoy? Nay, for there's hope, my friends; and it all comes together in the game's second chapter.
Shortly after meeting Riley, we are introduced to her manager, whose scowling eyes at the clumsy Riley establish a unique air of authority (one I found especially attractive). This is all we see of her in act 1 though. Our protagonist returns to the establishment later that day, kickstarting the second chapter of this game. We meet a new character here, Alex. Clearly, he knows about what happened with Riley the day before, and his appearance and demeanor only serve to accentuate his startling knowledge about your earlier musings: his fishnet stockings lend him a certain air of dominance which Riley simply lacked in all sorts, his smug pose gives the impression of looking down on you, the squint of his purple eyes suggest a hint more mischievousness than his peer. Yes, this Femboy is a dom. There is no doubting that. It'd be shameful of me to spoil what happens from here but, rest assured I think anyone would be incredibly enticed by it.
The game's third act is too good for me to go into, so I guess you'll have to figure that out for yourself. Rest assured though, it is by far the most memorable part of this game, and a section I'm always eager to get to on every playthrough of mine. I'll end this review off by reiterating what I said at the beginning:
Femboy Bangers - Pub and Grill (Femboy Bangers) is, without a doubt in my mind, the greatest video game I have ever played. No, Femboy Bangers is *more* than that. Femboy Bangers is a game with infinite appeal that everyone can get behind (or in front of!?). It's the most played game in my library; a fact I'm incredibly proud of. For good reason, too; Femboys, whether you like it or not, are a perfect vessel for an experience like this. If you like guys, femboys have ♥♥♥♥♥. If you like girls, femboys have curves. If you like doms, this game has them. If you like subs, this game has them, and for only a dollar? I can't think of a reason *not* to play this game. Femboy Bangers excels in immersion, character design, development of its themes, writing, and many many more fields. Femboy Bangers is an experience with the potential to unite all of humanity, and I wholeheartedly wish for a sequel where we can see more of these characters and their lives and relationships and dynamics with each other, as I was completely captivated by all of them the whole way through. I wholeheartedly recommend Femboy Bangers for everyone. 5/5.

(Recieved product as a gift from a friend)
I had high hopes for Femboy Bangers 2. In fact, I was midway through writing an extremely positive review for "My Stepbro is a Femboy" by the same developer before this one dropped, but seeing such a prolific title as Femboy Bangers 2 changed my priorities a bit, so I've put that review on hold. To give a bit of context, following my review of the original Femboy Bangers - Pub n' Grill, I began playing all of this developer's femboy-related games. I believe Femboys of the Phalanx has the most interesting story, characters, and worldbuilding, while I believe Femboy Besties was the most lacking, having only a single sex scene with two characters. The original Femboy Bangers - Pub n' Grill struck a nice balance out of the gate, with multiple fun characters with dynamic poses and expressions you meet throughout the game, and I hold My Stepbro is a Femboy in high regard for the amount of customizability it introduced, with a robust pronoun editor for both you and the titular step-sibling, and even a genital editor for yourself, for the first time in an Owlyboi game. All this to say: I am quite familiar with Owlyboi's work and what they have and have not gotten right, in terms of femboy-related content, in the past, and it pains me to say with that knowledge that, Femboy Bangers 2, is an unfortunate disappointment.
Now, to get the good out of the way, the art quality of the game is quite a bit better than Femboy Bangers - Pub 'n Grill, and though this is just a personal thing, i found the sex scene in this game extremely hot. That's about the best I can say though, and yes, I do mean sex *scene*. Unlike Femboy Bangers - Pub n' Grill, which sees you engaging in three sets of interesting intercourse with three different members of staff, this game is shorter than the original and contains only one sex scene, with two members of staff at once. Additionally, the quality of life improvements from My Stepbro is a Femboy are nowhere to be seen. I thought this was a wonderful innovation in that game which further pryed at the point I got at in my first review of universal appeal, and I'd wondered at the time what future innovations we might see. Femboy Bangers 2, though, has none of it, and no profound innovations of its own, either.
The game also abstains from showing any of the beloved characters from the first Femboy Bangers. To its credit, they do establish this Femboy Bangers as being a new location in the protagonist's hometown, so perhaps this is simply a different location than the first game, or even a prequel! But, I have numerous reasons to believe this is not the case: In addition to the lack of any improvements from the first game past the art direction (which had slowly been getting better over the course of this developer's games anyway, and can't really be credited specifically to FB2), there was one detail that caught my eye early on. On a few occasions in this game, the game references the waiters' skirts flipping up, revealing their pink panties. This would be fine, if not for the fact that the uniform for Femboy Bangers does *not* have a skirt, and neither of the referenced characters in this game have one either. The location doesn't even look similar to the previously established Femboy Bangers restaraunt. I can't know for certain, but it gives the impression that this game was written as a completely different Femboy restaraunt game, similar to Femboys & Fries, then quickly changed into a Femboy Bangers - Pub n' Grill "sequel" to make a little dough-- to ride off the back of a better, previous work. Furthermore, the designs of the game's waiters seem to be entirely... reused from previous titles. Paige resembles Blu from Femboy Besties and Ariel looks identical to the femboy from Femboys and Fries-- but these are *not* the same characters, I assure you. It's as though there simply wasn't enough care to make new characters-- or even have the guts to make it a proper sequel story and bring back old characters proper! It's just the old designs in new clothes with different names.
It doesn't stop there though, the characters all seem to emote *less* than any previous femboy from one of this developer's games. Instead they use emoticons in text rather than properly emoting on their portrait. I cannot properly communicate how jarring it is when a character says "See ;)" while their picture above the text box is *not* winking. The original game did not have this issue, and properly showed its characters reacting in the way they were. It seems cheap, and a likely result of a rushed job, more than anything, if you ask me. It's such a disappointing follow-up. If you're stuck between getting this game or its predecessor, just go with the original. It's clear that that's where the passion was. 0/10