Love and Sex - Second Base - Shawn's Story
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What the game is
Shawn's Story is a Love and Sex: Second Base dating sim and visual novel from Andrealphus Games, sold DRM-free on GOG for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The GOG page describes it as a game in which "a nerdy guy (hopefully you)" gets to seduce 3 women who are beautiful but not easy to win over. It is a paid, single-player game with English text and audio, aimed at adults, and the page carries GOG's own notice that it contains mature content recommended only for ages 18+.
A reader who wants a story-led relationship game with stats, texting and dating, rather than a free phone game with timers, can stop here and have the gist.
How it plays
The premise is set out in a few lines on the store page. Shawn is a clerk in an electronics store. He is surrounded by attractive people, yet his love life is in disarray. His roommate, Palla, is mooching off him. Her best friend, Audrey, makes fun of him. His coworker, Amy, has no respect for him at all. The page asks whether the player can help Shawn find love and avoid the pitfalls of dating, or whether he ends up alone and unhappy, and it states that his life and love life are the player's to control.
The aim, in the page's words, is to get lucky with the partner of your choice, and also to meet them, date them and get intimate in as many places and situations as the player can imagine. The player can keep things casual or get serious, and the page says that includes asking a partner to marry you or start a family together. Faithfulness is a choice too. The page says you can stay a faithful partner or play away at the first chance, but that people talk and you could get caught out.
The mechanics behind this are stat-driven. The description says the game has you build your stats, get to know your conquests and rewards the player for the work put in to win their hearts. As you spend time playing, your character grows in experience. The calendar matters as well, since the page promises all four seasons of working and playing alongside the 3 potential love interests, each with a personality and a life of their own.
The feature list on the page fills in the daily routine. It is a free-roaming game, so the player moves between places rather than clicking through a fixed script. The player can call the women to find out where they are, have a booty call or just chat, send friendly, sexy or dirty texts, and talk about a dozen subjects or about nothing specific. Dates, gifts and compliments are the main levers, and the player can bring a date home. Clothes and accessories can be bought and equipped to be more charming, and the player goes to work to earn the money for them. There is a built-in hint system, which matters in a game that tracks several relationships at once.
The page also lists attitude options. You can play as a chad, a scumbag or a good guy, go vanilla or go kinky, and pursue polyamorous relationships or stay loyal to one person. Pregnancy and marriage are both named as possible outcomes, and the page mentions piercings as something you can have a partner get if you like it.
The GOG page does not state a chapter count, an ending count, a play-time estimate or a word count for this game.
Content and themes
The store tags are Adventure, Story Rich, Simulation, Casual, Female Protagonist, Visual Novel, Mature, Sexual Content, Nudity, Gore, NSFW, Narrative, Romance, Dating Sim and Hentai. In plain terms, this is a romance and relationship game with explicit sexual content and nudity, and the genre line on the page reads Simulation, Adventure, Narrative. The story is the spine, the relationship stats are the simulation layer, and the Hentai tag is the store's label for the art and content style.
The Gore tag is listed on the page even though the description says nothing about violence, so a reader who is sensitive to it can note the tag.
Platforms and where to get it
The GOG page says the game works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and its FAQ confirms that the game is officially supported on Windows, Linux and macOS. GOG is the store that the game's own page sits on.
The store's FAQ for this title says it has no DRM and can be played offline, and that GOG Galaxy is not required because a fully offline installer is offered. The page lists the features Achievements, Cloud saves, Controller support, Overlay and Single-player, and the language line shows English for both audio and text.
The listed minimum system requirements are Windows 10 or later, a 2.0 GHz 64-bit processor, 2 GB of RAM, OpenGL 3.0 or DirectX 11 graphics and 1 GB of available storage, and the page notes that a 64-bit processor and operating system are required.
Price and model
The model is a one-time purchase of a single-player game, bought once and kept as an offline installer. Inside the game, money is something the player character earns by going to work and spends on clothes, accessories and gifts, and the page describes no real-money spending beyond the purchase itself.
What the purchase costs is on the GOG page, and the store's currency options there are CHF, EUR and USD. Its buy box carries GOG's line about full refunds up to 30 days.
Development state and version
As of October 2026 the product details line of the GOG page names the year 2025 together with Andrealphus Games, and the company line repeats that name. The release date field is empty on the page, and no version number or changelog is given. The page also shows no user reviews yet, and the store invites a first rating.
Who it suits
This suits an adult who likes a long-form, choice-driven dating game where relationships are built through stats, texting, gifts and time, and who wants a DRM-free copy that runs offline on Windows, Linux or Mac without a launcher. The fixed trio of love interests and the single store-clerk setting give it a focused cast, which suits a player who prefers a small, contained story over a large roster.
It is less suited to anyone who wants a free game or something to play on a phone, since the page lists desktop systems only. Players who want a protagonist other than the nerdy clerk the description centers on should note that the description names Shawn as the lead, even though the tag list includes Female Protagonist.