Horny Villa Review

Sex Games with Microtransactions, Permanent Online Connection and Analytics? Welcome to Nutaku Publishing.

What does the product do?

The game Horny Villa is representative of other Nutaku Publishing titles, relying on microtransactions, advertising, and extensive tracking through various mechanisms. These include services like Steam Data Suite, Amplitude Analytics, Unity Analytics, Unity Performance Reports, Network Error Logging and Steam Datagram Relay. The product requires a permanent internet connection, personal data is collected and users are constantly tracked.

This is interesting for two reasons. First, from the perspective that many people don’t care about what happens in a game. From another point of view, this particular title highlights what metadata really is and why users should be cautious about their data.

German and Chinese customers are also affected by geo-blocking. This also applies to the curation itself on Steam.

Who operates the product?

Developed by GreenT Games and distributed by Nutaku Publishing Limited

Which service providers are involved?

GreenT Games - Hungary, 2161 Csomád, Jozsef Attila utca 69
Nutaku Entertainment Ltd - Block 1, 195-197 Old Nicosia-Limassol Road, Dali Industrial Zone, 2540, Cyprus
Amplitude - 201 3rd St Ste 200, San Francisco, California, 94103, USA
Unity Technologies - San Francisco, 30 3rd Street, CA 94103, USA
Google, LLC - 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Building 43, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Newzoo International B.V. - Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Cloudflare, Inc. - San Francisco, California, USA
Valve Corporation - 10400 NE 4th St, Suite 1500, Bellevue, WA 98004 USA

Users should generally be cautious with companies based in Cyprus. The location is predominantly used by offshore and mailbox companies and it is not uncommon for numerous companies to operate under the same address in the middle of nowhere.

Which data is collected?

Everything. However, individual datasets can include up to 27,000 lines, so I will only mention a few examples here.

Data encryption
URL-Encoding, Base64-Encoding, .NET BinaryFormatter Serialization

Examples
Authentication, SteamID, E-Mail, Updated at, Ad Wheel, Current Version, Currency, Spend Currency, Timestamp, PlayerID, DeviceID, UserID, AppVersion, SessionID, InsertID, ChatMessage/State, Tasks, Objective Data, Character Skins, Bundle Offer/Data, Star Shop Items, Star Shop Analytics, Decorations, Periodic Calendar, Eventdata, PlayerChat, Saves, PlayerData, TutorialSteps, TutorialGroupSteps, BattlePass, RouletteData, Localization, unlocked Characters, Payment Stats, Game Start, Step Locker, Booster Storage, Summons, Gemshop, Sellouts, ModelShop, Avatar, Progress, SkinID, OwnedSkins, EnergyValue, Restorable EnergyValue, Collections, Mini Events, Analytics Tutorial, Pocket Event Items, Inventory, StipClub Extensions, RewardStats, Dialogue Progress, each Item by Name and much more.

Privacy Policy/Terms of Use and Opt-Out/In?

There is neither a terms of service nor a privacy policy. As is often the case, the customer is simply taken advantage of here.

Can the behavior be blocked?

No. Data collection and the forced online connection are closely intertwined. Users have to bite the bullet if they want to play. The users' horniness are exploited here to gather extensive data.

Nothing is free, as always.