Till death do us part
My Lovely Wife is a demon summoning simulator developed by GameChanger Studio and Toge Productions, and published by Neon Doctrine. It explores the depth of a husband’s grief and overcoming the loss of a loved one through forbidden rituals. It is also the sequel to My Lovely Daughter, by the same development and publishing team.You are Jake, a grieving widower who was madly in love with his wife Luna. So madly that, when he receives a letter in her handwriting with instructions on how to resurrect her, he decides to go through with it at any cost. With the help of a mysterious man named Phillip, he learns how to summon female demons from the underworld, who will help him harvest the essences he needs...and then be sacrificed in order to become vessels for Luna's soul.
A major base-game update that adds summonable male demons, Irresistible Incubus, was announced in May 2023 with a planned release for the following June. Its trailer
also teased that a third entry in the My Lovely series is currently in development.
Tropes:
- Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: Conversation with a Luzbel indicates that the glasses she wears are, in fact, corrective lenses for her eyesight, and that demonkind copied said technology directly from humans.
- Cruelty Is the Only Option: If you want to make progress towards Luna's resurrection, you have to kill the succubi.
- Evil Mentor: It's Phillip that presents Jake with the letter from his wife, and is the one that instructs him on how to harvest Carnal Essence from men and then sacrifice the succubi, because it aligns with his own research.
- False Friend: Jake can be nice to the succubi, either befriending or romancing them, but he will ultimately still have to betray them in order to further his original goal.
- Gender Flip: The only difference between the Incubi from the "Irresistible Incubus" update and the base-game sacrificial succubi are their appearances.
- High-Class Glass: Lord Willard, the owner of the local Hotel and richest businessman in town, is always seen with a monocle and a white suit with matching hat.
- Hotter and Sexier: With the gameplay involving romances with succubi, it's bound to be this compared to the grim prequel.
- Hourglass Plot: The game starts with Jake weeping as his wife, Luna, dies in his arms. The game ends with Luna crying as Jake dies in hers.
- Lighter and Softer: Downplayed. The succubi are still killed for Jake's quest to revive his wife. But compared to Daughter where each homunculus had various gory ways to die, Jake just stabs them in the heart.
- The Lost Lenore:
- The entire crux of the game is Luna being this for Jake, and Jake trying to bring her back.
- Jake in turn becomes this for Luna in the final ending, after becoming human and realizing she truly loved him after he already died at her hands.
- Love Redeems: Any succubus who experiences feelings of sincere romantic love will transform permanently into a human. Whether or not they adjust well to it is less certain...
- Multiple Endings: The game's store page states that there are 40 different endings, the majority of which involve Jake abandoning his quest for a Second Love, and at least two for following through his initial goal all the way to the end.
- No Mouth: Most of the human characters are depicted without mouths in their portraits, contrasting the succubi, who always have mouths. Jake is usually mouthless but gains one whenever his eyes are covered with bangs.
- The Oldest Profession: The majority of tasks succubi can perform to earn Gold and Carnal Essence are variations of this, from providing "Room Service" at Willard's Hotel to outright working at a local Brothel.
- Second Love: The majority of the Multiple Endings involves Jake leaving his work incomplete in order to be with one of the succubi he summons.
- Summon Binding: The succubi Jake summons in cannot harm him and cannot disobey directions he gives them regarding their work schedules, however much they may dislike it (e.g. the Ax-Crazy Enyo begging him to let her murder someone). They can make requests of him, even aggressive and forcefully-worded ones, but can't force him to comply.
