I often keep saves of scenes I like and want to return to, so often I'll look at those. From that I can roughly piece together when the sequence so far was.
Yes, I love the ability to decide who I sleep with and when, it adds more each scene than if I played them from a gallery or they played in story order.
RPGM, I'll never play one of those games.
I'll only download if I like the look of the images, and then I'll just go into the game folder to access the images directly and ignore the game entirely.
My default is to skip through text, and I'll skim the story and context from what's flashing across the screen. I'll stop for a while if I'm interested in what's being said.