HTML - Abyss Diver Interactive [v1.3.1d] [FloricSpacer]

Based on a CYOA game, which is itself essentially an erotic fanfiction of Made in Abyss. Like all text-based games, you need a good imagination to appreciate it, but honestly, it's so well written that I was easily drown in.
Moreover, imagination is also required for the gameplay because the game more or less lets you make your own rules. The repercussions of your curses are often difficult to perceive in the gameplay, as are the powers granted by the relics (even if a good number of them are mentioned in unique interactions or inter-zone descriptions). A typical example is being overweight; I climbed the 9 levels of the abyss with a 30kg overload and then descended again while still being overweight, and I didn't experience any penalty.
The game is therefore primarily a management game, where a lack of knowledge forces you to start over several times, but also, and above all, a disturbing and captivating novel/fanfiction, much like the anime it is inspired by.
This is exactly the kind of "porn game" I'm looking for. A game that isn't just a simple visual novel and that truly explores fantasies of the impossible. One could criticize him for the use of AI, the use of illustrations for which I suspect he doesn't have permission, or the few bugs related to side quests, but the final experience surpasses these issues.
(And finally, I hope the cheat menu won't be removed because it allows for a sandbox-oriented use of the game, which I also enjoyed.)

I did not expect an HTML game to be this enjoyable to play, but I sure ain't complaining. It's not too grindy (ymmv, of course), and I like the cast of characters! They're pretty charming. But what I really like is the game mechanics.

This game suggests a lot of things, but even having finished a run, I'm a bit confused about what it's supposed to be.
At first, it seems like a corruption game, with much of the progression options nudging the player towards that, but embracing the fucktoy life leads to a quick game over.
Instead, the real objective seems to be min-max your money gains, recruiting a large party, creating OP relic combinations, become an immortal god, and conquer the abyss. It's not very sexy.
Obviously it's still a work in progress, and maybe both of these are supposed to be viable playstyles, but it does feel like the game has multiple competing identities that work to diminish each other.

This ai tech is simply awesome and totally offline. I wish in future there will be more games using this tech. For abyss diver the game is 4\10 in my opinion, please add auto-ai-generation with sliders or instances, where new image should be generated.

Very fun dungeon-diving CHOYA-ish style game. Continually being updated and improved.

Note that you have to use your imagination a fair amount - that isn't to say that there isn't interesting content in the game, but it's more DND than video game - that is to say you need to think about your character and how various things affect you, not just have the game tell you. It does on some things, but there isn't many written scenes reacting to all the different events that could occur - you need to imagine what it would be like.

TL;DR: Fun little text-based adventure game that is a bit lacking in content at the moment, but does provide a decent level of entertainment with some unique ideas that I really like

+ Interesting choice-and-consequence based gameplay system, difficult to understand at first but you get used to it relatively quickly
+ Using integrated AI to generate portraits to reflect the changes your character undergoes due to curses is quite the big brain move, and it honestly made the game much more fun for me
+ I like the writing and the atmosphere of it all, the companions feel interesting and have a lot to say regarding certain relics and curses
+ Devs are very helpful and have helped me get the AI up-and-running through a bit of trial-and-error

- I don't like the 'combat' encounters in this game, I hope they get reworked or adjusted in some way down the line
- An element of randomness to exploration and the like could go along way, as it stands, it's a bit linear and you will end up memorizing the best path to X or Y

Overall, I did enjoy my time with this game, and I'm going to look forward for future updates and how the game develops.

In terms of actual sex scenes this game is quite lacking, BUT if you find the transformation arousing/enjoyable by itself, this was one of the best HTML games out there. Now tho, the local-ai image generation and the new UI have really upped the game into a must-play of the genre. That being said, if you are not REALLY into TF this becomes a 3-star game, and 2-star if you are only here for lewds.

Respectfully not that much of a porn game. The actual gameplay of making choices and doing budget balance is very nice but there's too little sexy things in the game.

The unique scenes are few and far between while the normal scenes got repetitive quick. And the transformations have little to no effect on scenes which is a real shame.

Overall still a good game if you enjoy reading interactive adventures with spicy bits, just not that good for wanking or elaborate sex writings.

Are you the kind of man who enjoy porn games? Are you the kind man who didn't touch a pair of breasts in over four months? Are you the kind of man who's horny all the time but is also an introvert? Are you the kind of man who come here to seek sexual sustenance?

If you have answered yes to these questions then you should fuck off immediately. This is not a game this is a blueball simulator.

Reviewed at version V1.2.2

Honestly I like the game, I like the content, it's well written, but there isn't enough to engage the player gameplay-wise. If you like reading about the fantastical environments and journeys to get to the relics, this does it incredibly well, but that's just about all this game does. There's limited interaction with your party, what I have seen has been good, but I've also only seen 4 unique sex scenes from 3 characters, of which 3 were non-repeatable, 2 came from one character, and also only came because of getting 2 specific curses (one for each) and one came from getting a relic. Beyond that, I've barely let my character get caught in sex with the monsters, and while they are well described, there is only one variant per threat. So you aren't playing this game for the sex scenes, though if transformation content gets your jimmies off like it does for me, there is a TON of that, so + for that. But like I said, very little sex, very little gameplay, there's no quick time events, no minigames, no maps to traverse, no hard choices that affect your story, not even little random events that affect your party outside of threats/monster, but there's nothing like "Our path is filled with unstable rubble from a landslide, do we traverse it and probably get injured, or do we backtrack, and find another route costing us time?", nothing of that sort, which is kinda disappointing.

Next, the ONLY 3 goals I've found reaching as deep as floor 6 (though my visit was very brief), are finding relics to use as equipment, or to sell, to find some plants for a dryad on floor 2, who only asks for plants from the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors, and a guy on the second floor who asks you to steal some documents from the archive department on the surface. There is very little in the way of side objectives, honestly the game needs to add a system that rewards you for reaching each floor with money, something like "Here are 10 doubloons for your report on the first floor, here's 25 doubloons for your report on the second floor, here's 100 doubloons for your report on the third floor," so on, and so forth, because you will just see everyone saying to cheat in more resources. The game costs your corruption to go up towards the surface, the same resource you use to get relics, which you can only get 40 from the shop, 25/60/100 from a plant on the 4th floor depending on what you chose to do, some from wonders, a good portion of which usage of not only require you to have at least 1 party member, but most of them will piss off your party members, and lastly from taking on curse transformations, which as far as I can tell, most have no effect on gameplay, and really just affect what happens to you in your ending, and most curses can only be taken once, and your options to remove the curses are limited. And how do you make money? The only way I've found is to sell relics, which also serve as tools you may need.

So you will quickly run out of money, corruption, or both, with the only way to get more of either to be to go down further into the dungeon, which is terrible because food and water becomes an issue the further down you go. On most floors you can just eat and drink whatever is down there, but it will give you more curses, without giving corruption, which, again, as far as I can tell, doesn't affect you in gameplay, but I like to TRY to keep my character from turning into an undesirable freakish monster.

Really, I personally rate the game at 4/5 stars, but for people looking for a TF Sex-filled CYOA text based game this is entirely average if not below average game. The dev should work on adding more content to the game before adding new floors or anything (I haven't reached the bottom, maybe that part is done), especially quests, this game NEEEEEEEDS more resources, and more interactions, but I personally like it for what it is, I hope for more out of this as I have enjoyed my time with it.

The concept is great, but you have to do a lot of work to get much out of this. I don't mean grind, I mean you need to write the goddamn story yourself in your head to fill in all the gaps when nothing happens. You're given a whole bunch of set-up but not much action. I guess this would work best if you had someone to be a 'quest master' to interact with. Lol.

My favourite transformation game (playing since 0.9.8.1, reviewing 1.1.0, planning to play 1.2.0, but from changelog it doesn't look like gameplay changed dramatically).

If you are heavily into transformations games, then it's worth a try, otherwise there is not much of a content — sexual scenes are few and far between, gameplay is very tedious without cheating, there is little reactivity.
I'm not interested in sexual scenes, but if you are, there are very little amount of them. Companions have unique sex scenes, but enemies and companions, which are taken through relics or transformations, have few generic and repeatable scenes.

Gameplay is, essentially, you going down to pick few relics, take few transformations to offset it, going back up, selling them, preparing for the next dive, repeat. If you want to see all gameplay without grinding, then buy everything from a shop, get into a huge debt, and dive and go down, until you reach the bottom floor. If you want to check surface afterwards, just adjust your corruption. It's the easiest way to see all content without too much grinding.

About reactivity, you get some dialogues with your followers, but even then it's only some of transformation, and after one of later floors your followers stop reacting to changes at all.

Overall, I will rate it 4/5, purely subjective, because I really like how transformations are made in this game, but also gameplay is very boring and grindy, if you want to play fairly and other content is lackluster.

I didn't like it. Everything about this game is mediocre or just bad. gameplay is nonexistence, dialogues are very dry. The concept of curses and relics is very interesting but overall the game feels like a shallow mix of other good text based games.

Very good story based game with pictures. There are a lot of things to do, various themes to explore and to customize your experience. Would love a second version with even more stuff. Thanks for making this.

This review is directed towards v1.1.1, which is the latest version posted on the site.

To be honest, this game disappointed me a little as I was expecting a certain type of gameplay and came across something completely different.

The premise of the game being a CYOA and such was pretty cool, and that was what led me to expect that you'd be meeting different people along the different layers of the Abyss, even in the city itself before parting... but once you start playing this game and get to experience it a little, this is not happening in the slightest.

Interactions thus far seem very very limited.. you can't trigger an interaction with your party member if you wish to, interactions only happen as you find certain relics or go through different layers which isn't bad but in a general sense it just feels very lacking.

I understand that there are characters which are more of a priority than others, what I mean by this is that there are characters who play a more important role on the story you're trying to create than others.. but thus far, except for your party members.. none of the other characters from the amount of time I spent on the game have a background so to speak.

Writing isn't bad, but I would suggest spending some time into deciding which characters are going to play an important role on the story and which ones aren't... and giving them a story to them that you can get to know if you interact enough with them

Furthermore, it would enhance the CYOA aspect greatly if the choices your character makes influences their personality. Perhaps, if the character has a certain personality, it could have more of an affinity with Reeds which seems like a suspicious guy or others.. and your party members could react to the path you're taking, even choosing to leave you if they don't want to follow you on your journey anymore, which could lead to different endings besides dying or just deciding to stay on the surface or a specific layer

I like the fact that interactions seem to be based on how much affection you have with said person.. and it's realistic, as you would have to spend a moderate amount of time with someone so they trust you with their more personal things, so that's good.

The world itself, each layer, feels lackluster and boring. Nothing really happens besides you searching for relics, which have certain benefits, some of those could even help your party members.. you applying curses to yourself to be able to ascend back onto the surface layer if you wish to

Things to improve this would be to add dynamic events that could happen as you are exploring the layer, finding X threat at some point which you could engage on, sneak by if you don't have the means to fight them and continue onwards with your journey.. chances for that to fail and backfire you

Things like those could help give this game some life and make it more interesting and engaging to play. As the game stands though, it gets boring pretty quickly when everything you're ever doing is pretty much finding relics and surviving.

I saw that there are some events which involve you getting specific relics to be able to successfully get your objective, like Reed's mission, or Emily's fetch quest, which are cool.. but those characters could be a lot more meaningful to the story and impactful if given a bit of TLC (refer to my statement above about interactions)

Artwork seems pretty good thus far, for relics, background, etc. This is the strongest point of the game I'd say, it shows that a lot of effort has been put into it

I have to say, I was thinking that we would have longer sex scenes with artwork resembling them.. but the sex scenes are so few and far between that you honestly don't even bother about them until they happen (the only sex scene I experienced was Maru's one because I cheated the Sex Demon curse and his affection, which is why I can say they're not really all that descriptive.)

Also, about the gameplay loop, I didn't like how simply by gathering up relics or doing certain tasks your character underwent physical changes. In the original source material that this game took inspiration from, the "Curse" takes the form of you experiencing certain things like hallucinations or even worse things if you try to climb back up through the layers.

The relics themselves have certain powers that differ from relic to relic, but picking them up never really changed the person which seems like it does in this game. Hell, some relics are not even capable of being used unless you have a White Whistle which isn't a mechanic present in the game

So, perhaps one way to solve this would be that when you pick up relics, you don't instantly suffer bodily changes but you only suffer changes to your body when you pick the curses from the list. This could enhance even more the CYOA aspect if say, you were only capable of choosing a select couple of curses depending on how you want your character to be like

I saw that there is a submissive curse if you want your character to be more submissive and your party members to be more assertive, there were curses like the elfish ears which I liked, curses about being extremely sensitive and having no refractory period, etc.

Maybe the food itself can or can not be poisonous and can have transformative effects, if you want to play with that, in the source material not every animal that the characters eat are poisonous or have changing effects.. you see that the food or water they consume is mostly pretty safe, and cooked.

The game has potential really and I appreciate the effort put into making it, but a few aspects of the game could use improvements.

Might give it a try in the future and see if it has improved.

Cheers

Version: v0.9.8.2

Basically put, this game is a very complex CYOA (choose your own adventure), it doesnt have gameplay, the characters themselfs are basic, if you want you want to enjoy this game, you have to roleplay and immerse yourself in this blueprint of a world to expand it yourself. So if you are into that kind of thing, then this games is one of the best ones for singleplayer roleplay games on this site.

Bit niche, but has done great work in that niche.

Not a lot of actual, explicit sexual content yet aside from curse descriptions and images.
The curses and transformations you can get are all sexy and fun to think about, but they don't actually seem to affect much. Sometimes between floors your character will ruminate on their condition, or sometimes you get attacked by a monster that you don't have a way to deal with, but all the descriptions are very surface level.
There are some curses that I really like the idea of (and would heavily affect the way you play), that just don't appear to do anything, and I would love to see those developed. For example, the barter system curse that makes you only want to pay for things with your body.
I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes, but right now there's not actually a lot to get off on other than just the vibes of the setting and imagining what life for your character is like.

I'm a fan of MIA and it's nice to see a game about this world.

I'm testing out the features and am quite happy with them, the game is new but the content is quite large so there are still bugs, but the creator is very open to ideas and developing patches.

Thanks for reading and wish FloricSpacer can go to the end of this journey.

written at the time of version 0.9.7.1
very interesting, but too far from complete... some curses don't work correctly or have various bugs (for example, after removing some curses, you may not be able to take them again ... or remove the curse, but after which it will become "unremovable"), companions are not revealed enough, a huge number of bugs, there are cycles on some floors (for example, to go from 8 floors to 7 or 9 you need to have at least 500 food and water, otherwise you run the risk of dying... at the time of the exit you will have, at best, 150 food and water left... at worst 10...), and the curse mechanic itself is sometimes "consistent" , and in some places it becomes quite "chaotic" (for example, you can get three different tails, and it could well be one that combined the features of all three, or you could make them mutually exclusive ... or make it possible to increase the number of only identical tails)... one can only hope that the developers will have the strength and patience to bring such a project to the end and bring all their ideas to a good state... the game is really worth it...

love it, though i cant wait to see more content added! game has some issues to work out, but its not bad! game could use some added items like things for the submissive curse, making it so if you wear a collar of some sort it makes it so you have to have a master(this should only be limted to your companions and only if you reach 60+ relationship with them, and only your prefered gender)