A masterclass in indie design, Being a DIK - Season 1 delivers an unforgettable experience from start to finish.
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Verdict
96%
Steam
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IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (96% positive from 12K reviews)
Standout indie gem
Limited professional critic coverage
A young man, from a low-income family, moves away from his widowed father and his summer love to attend college at Burgmeister & Royce. As he is cast into freshman life and persuaded to join the up-and-coming fraternity Delta Iota Kappa, he'll be exposed to a new world filled with conflicts, alcohol, drugs and sex. Being a DIK is a choice driven adult Visual Novel (VN). In this game you play as a young male attending college and the choices you make will affect the characters around you and shape your character and adventure. Will you choose to play as a nice, caring and romantic guy or as someone more straightforward and daring? The girls in the game like different and may or may not be attracted to you based on your choices. Can you resist the temptations along the way to get the girl of your dreams or will you relent and just...experiment? Hey, it's college after all! The game is a Visual Novel and it's made more interactive through optional mini-games and free-roam events where you can explore the current environment. You can purchase boosters, cheats and skills to make the mini-games easier to pass and find hidden items that unlock special lewd artwork and more. Being a DIK Season 1 includes Episodes 1-4: Episode 1 - The Initiation Episode 2 - Maggot Brothers Episode 3 - 100% Episode 4 - When worlds collide Season 1 is packed with more than 361 animated scenes and over 8000 images. You can expect an 8-12 hour game that can be replayed numerous times to experience different paths and girls. Being a DIK: Season 2, and future seasons, will be a continuation to the story and released and sold separately as DLC.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 2d ago
Story: A+ - This game has all the qualities of a good book, It is well written and thought out. Now you add in the enticing nsfw scenes that cover quite a few common kinks. Though there are a ton of scenes, this VN is more of a "I came for the scenes, but stayed for the story". Animation: B+ in season 1 - season 2: A - season 3: A+. These are done by the talent of the animator, not AI (as far as I can tell). Bravo! Gameplay: B+ - I enjoy the minigames and the free roam events. I also enjoy that you can bypass the minigames. It definitely makes it more than just a story. Replayability: A+ with extra credit - This game is choice driven in every sense of the words. What kind of person you are is driven by your choices. That will open up countless options as you do each playthrough. There are some very narrow paths that will lead to surprising new options that you may have missed on any number of play throughs. Final thoughts; I love this game/VN and look forward to the future of the story. I do not look forward to the length of time I suspect season 4 and beyond will take to come out. Hope I live to see the end.
The best description I saw for this game was 'Come for p*rn, stay for the story'. All three seasons are great.
Verdict: Recommended for Seasons 1 & 2; Steep decline in Season 3. Being a ♥♥♥ spent its first two seasons as the undisputed gold standard of the visual novel genre. It succeeded because it knew exactly what it was: an unhinged, fast-paced Blue Mountain State campus comedy full of sharp banter, great character dynamics, and an engaging romance sandbox that never took itself too seriously. Season 3 completely loses the plot. The Good (Seasons 1 & 2)Peak College Comedy: • The early seasons balance raunchy fraternity humor with surprisingly charming character writing. • Low-Friction Roleplay: Choices felt meaningful without being constantly hostile to the player. • Pacing: Storylines moved briskly without getting bogged down in feature creep or convoluted side plots. The Bad (Season 3 & Episode 12) • Tonal Whiplash: The story abandons lighthearted campus antics to chase gritty melodrama, complete with mafia subplots, corporate embezzlement, and brooding monologues. It trades comedic timing for self-serious soap opera angst. • Aggressive Minigame Bloat: Instead of reading a visual novel, you are forced to navigate spatial math deduction grids, timed chemistry lab timers, aquarium maintenance, and party budget spreadsheets. Development time clearly shifted toward complex mini-engines that almost everyone skips using guides or mods. • Invisible Trap Doors: Episode 12 introduces an invisible "Deviant Score" alongside cross-season dependencies that weaponize casual dialogue choices from four years ago to trigger untelegraphed, unavoidable breakups. • The "Walkthrough Requirement": When a visual novel requires a 360-page official manual or 3rd Party Mod just to navigate basic romance routes without bricking a 100-hour save file, the underlying design has stopped respecting the player's time. The Takeaway: Play Seasons 1 and 2—they represent some of the best interactive writing in the medium. But treat Season 3 with caution, keep a walkthrough open, and install community quality-of-life mods immediately. The series goes from Blue Mountain State to a Temu version of Euphoria without warning and with the bonus of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ minigames.
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