The overarching story starts in Lust Epidemic continues in Treasure of Nadia and The Genesis Order of course is the latest (afaik not final) part so far. I would really recommend to play them in this order.

Hey thanks for taking the time to do that informative summary. I, and I'm sure others, appreciate it. I click on lots of games I know nothing about, so it's always helpful when someone pops in to give some context to what's going on in the thread.

I mean: it's not like this kind of inconsistent naming is something new...

Yeah I just started just that. I installed them in order (offline installers) so now I have the shortcuts on my desktop in order as well, easier to remember in which order to play them. :)
Do those books have anything else in common other than the protagonist and the catholic church? A bit like James Bond movies/books, or the Remo books (yay! They were the most bestest!)

Well it would be nice though if the game page mentioned that the game is part of an overarching Story/Universe. I would honestly have no clue just from the game info.
I think those books do at leas mentiont that in the info heh.

It's been a while, since I read them.
I think there may be a few back references to older books, but no - nothing like an "overarching story arc".

The books as such are simply always about the same guy (Robert Langdon), who stumbles into a new mystery (in a new city/country) with each book.

There's nothing really "connecting" the stories.

But if someone starts with, say, "Inferno", they may read a sentence that refers back to "Angels & Demons" or "The Da Vinci Code".

I don't know (or rather: haven't played) the three games mentioned above, so I don't know, whether their stories are more intertwined.
I read MarcoH01's post as "the three stories are independent from each other, but there's a story arc in the background, that unites them."

Without having played them, that could mean anything, as far as I'm concerned.

Could mean: "connected like the "Gabriel Knight" games are connected".
Those three games each have an independent story, the only "overarching connection" would be, that Gabriel Knight is the "Shadow Hunter", and as such involved in three different mysteries.

People who are interested in these games, probably bought the first two games in the series already:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_lust_epidemic_and_treasure_of_nadia_from_nlt_media_2f467
And they will (maybe?) get a clue at the end of the second game, that there's more to expect (in "The Genesis Order")?

There's also good reason to believe, that - if you played those first two games, and you liked what you saw, you'll remember (and maybe even follow?) the developer NLT Media.

So, you'd probably end up buying (and playing) this game anyway (at the right point in order).
And I would assume, that the connection is made clear somewhere within the games.

Since I can't access the games' pages here on GOG, I don't know, what they say (or don't say) about the connection.

Edit: added a screenshot from the developer's webpage

Models are pretty good, but lack personality. They also have a slightly plastic look to them.

Then there are those like me and that other guy who have no idea what these games are and that they are part of some series, and we don't honestly know if we are interested in them or not.

I've probably dismissed the earlier games as cheap sleazy skin games with no gameplay value whatsoever. That is why this release thread was a bit surprising, giving positive remarks of this game and/or its predecessors.

As I stated before: these games don't take themselves seriously. Even the whole background story is extremely ridiculous - same goes for most of the characters. I described another user the game as the pendant of a musical. Whenever there's a moment characters COULD have sex they probably will have sex (in a musical they would start to sing) ... not really realisic but sometimes quite funny IF you don't take the game too seriously yourself.

Regarding the plastic look: yes, I noticed this as well - especially when you see the character pictures. The animated scenes do look better imo. I think the look fits the unrealistic setting ... if you want realism you should not play this game at all.

1) It's Marko not Marco - sorry, but that is important to me even in real life :)
2) It's mostly as you said. You could play Lust Epidemic alone and you have one self contained story. It seems as if the mystery part of the story is over. When you play Treasure of Nadia you won't even think that it could have to do anything with Lust Epidemic because you have a different MC, different girls and a completely different location ... until some characters from LE reappear and until you realize that the story from LE obviously continues here as well and there's more to the whole background story as you expected from LE alone. Of course TON also adds more to the story. Same with The Genesis Order. Another location, another story and it takes a bit until you see that it's still the same story continued referencing Lust Epidemic AND Treasure of Nadia and using those references to continue to tell the actual story.


It's definitely not mentioned at all on the store page - same goes for Treasure of Nadia. Since most of us prefer to start playing a story from the beginning that's probably not the best idea from NLT. I have no idea if this is mentioned on Steam but I guess I will inform them ... maybe they'll change this and add this information.

Sorry about that. It wasn't intentionally.
With online nicknames it's always a hit-and-miss.
You have a quick look and then write something down.
I was kinda stuck with the "H01" part, since it made me think "H01 - must be a hobby rail roader".
Good to know.

No apologies needed, such things do happen - I just wanted to make sure that it does not happen again :)

Much more simple. Since I always found it weird to get adressed by a nickname (still do which is why most who know me simply call me Marko - which I have no problem with at all) I simply added the first leter of my last name and to make it "unique" I added a "01". No mystery at all :D

Ha. That's what I always assumed.