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Most games frame the “lending” partner (Kaito) as the emotional masochist and the “lent” partner (Saki) as the object. Here, Saki gains agency. She can delete contacts. She can lie to Kaito about what happened. In v0.16.2, a new ending unlocks if Saki’s Desire hits 100: she smashes the Phone herself, looks into its cracked lens, and says, “I’m not yours to lend. Or his. I’m mine.” She walks out. Game over. No credits. The only ending where anyone wins is the one where the game itself is destroyed.

The “Phone” in the title is not a metaphor. It is the interface, the prison, and the key. Version 0.16.2, by its very numbering, announces itself as a work in progress — an early access psychological experiment more than a polished product. This is a game still finding its edges, and that rawness is precisely its power. You play as Kaito (default name), a mid-20s office worker in a long-term relationship with Saki , a college student and part-time café barista. The “Netorase Phone” is an old smartphone Saki finds in a lost-and-found bin — nondescript, running a mysterious, unremovable app called “ShareLink.” Once activated, the phone pairs with both Kaito’s and Saki’s devices, but with a sinister asymmetry. Netorase Phone -v0.16.2-

That scene is not in the game files. But they swear it happened. Most games frame the “lending” partner (Kaito) as

Introduction: The Device That Listens Too Much In the shadowy corners of adult visual novel development, where psychological realism meets erotic transgression, few titles have sparked as much whispered discussion as Netorase Phone -v0.16.2- . The very name is a confession: Netorase — a Japanese-derived term distinct from netorare (where a partner is stolen away) or netori (where one steals another’s partner). Netorase is the fetish of lending one’s partner to a third party, deriving arousal not from loss, but from the complex interplay of jealousy, voyeurism, and emotional masochism. It is the act of watching your beloved choose another, temporarily , while holding the power to say “stop.” She can lie to Kaito about what happened

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“The lack of a hard safeword is irresponsible.” “Encounter 5 (the bar bathroom) crosses into sexual assault territory — Saki is clearly drunk.” “The developer’s refusal to fix the blackout bug is lazy, not artistic.”

LurkerNo5 has responded only once, in a cryptic readme file hidden in v0.16.2’s assets: “Jealousy is not a game. But games are the only safe place for jealousy. If you are uncomfortable, you are playing correctly.” Netorase Phone -v0.16.2- is not a game for everyone. It is not even a game for most netorase enthusiasts. It is ugly, buggy, emotionally exhausting, and morally ambiguous. Its pornographic moments are few and often interrupted by buffering wheels or Saki’s quiet tears. Its horror is not jump scares but the slow realization that both protagonists are losing themselves — and that you, the player, are enjoying it.