HTML - Accidental Mind [v3.8 Alpha] [Myscra]

Awful UI and Clunky Mechanics Wrapped Around a Bloated Narrative

The first inescapable pain-in-the-ass is that the developer intentionally removed the navigation UI during the ENTIRE introduction. Twine games, simple as they are, have a native navigation system that allows you to move back and forth between the pages. It's only reasonable, after all, in an HTML game where you can accidentally click something just scrolling through. This usually comes in a side panel with your save options and information about your stats and stuff. You need to click through about 15 minutes of content before this even appears for the first time.

As for the game itself, it's decent, but completely unexceptional. The premise is your usual superhero origin. Wrong place, right time results in a freak occurrence where the MC gets supernatural gifts. In this case, you get to share a body with an internalized psychic supervillain/narrator/ingame tutorial. Yay!

I wish I could say more about the writing, because at times it's quite good. But the primary issue is that it's just a lot of word salad. Things are often more verbose than it needs to be. And in a text-only game, you really want to emphasize differences in characters (and subsequent character descriptions) in more than just differences in adjectives. Every character is described in roughly the same manner: a bit about their height, their hair color, their bust and butt size, and a bit about their clothing or style.

All the paragraphs are formatted roughly the same, the tone of writing is consistent throughout, and the descriptions all cover the same thing. It all feels like procedurally generated characters rather than distinct individuals.

When done this way, you end up drowning in a sea of adjectives and none of the characters feel distinct. In a text-only game, you really need to lean in on your descriptions. They should feel like visually distinct characters in description. Instead, they're all cookie cutouts with different color dialogue.

The actual gameplay is acceptable but ultimately uninspired. There's a surprising amount of random resource management and grinding to get anywhere. Most of the content is gated behind a fair bit of grinding, but the grind isn't interesting or done well. And when you get to what should be the proverbial carrot, it's once again, the same style of writing as the rest of the game. Adjective salad, a blocky couple of paragraphs, bright colored dialogue, and the scene's over.

Characters should be a bigger strong point. At times, the game delivers. You'll explore interesting personal relations or complicated situations. But in the end, there's too much reliance on the powers of the MC for the kind of drama the story tries to push. You can't really have complicated interpersonal issues when you can simply mind control the other party. This results in a weird limbo where the author is going for some earnest stories but the tension comes from narrative necessity rather than in-character reality. You kind of just have to shut off your brain and go with it.

There's nothing wrong with the game per se. But there's little to make it stand out either. In a text-only game, you need really strong and vivid writing to make it stand out. Instead, we have something dialogue heavy mess (and campy dialogue at that) with procedural descriptions. It's playable, but leaves you wanting. I've already forgotten some of the names of the characters even though I played the game thirty minutes ago.

AccidentalMind is a slow burn for a while, but when you get to it has some hot scenes with likeable characters who grow and progress through the story. The worldbuilding is quite good as well, there's quite a breadth of background material supporting the story with mechanics and scenery along with compelling vignettes of action the main character observes around the city. I often find myself involved with the story of the game for the story's sake and not as an, ahem, means to an end.

The game is certainly not without it's flaws and in truth, I should deduct some rating for the worst of them, the grindy time-of-day lifesim mechanic, and would were the standards of other games on this site higher. I do see the attraction of the lifesim system but constantly looking up where a particular character will be on one of 6 times of day for this particular day of the week is tiresome, moreso when you also need several clicks to navigate to their locale. There is some mitigation of this where newer characters have less variety of location and the phone system bypasses some of the guesswork, but it still takes a lot of clicking.

On the positive side the dreamscape navigation sequences are very enjoyable to play through. The occasional hint is required, but these are present in the games mechanics/navigation which are also quite well featured and developed compared to the your standard Twine based game.

Overall if you enjoy text based content (there are no visuals to be found here) I can still strongly recommend this game.

One of the best HTML games I’ve ever played. Accidental Mind is an incredibly well polished (at least until the very end of playable content as of now) and enjoyable experience. One thing to keep in mind is that there are game changing moments throughout the story, and I recommend creating an external save file (where it says save to disc) at or when you feel you are nearing one of these points.

This is excellent. The tone is light and fun, the characters are unique, and the game has many quality-of-life functions that keep it from being a grind. There's always enough to do to keep it interesting, and whenever I was concerned about getting stuck, the hint system put it back on track.

The writing is just fantastic (big surprise in a text-only game, right?). I feel like the artist put a lot of effort into figuring out how the world works, and gives the player enough of a glimpse to be intriguing, but not bogged down with useless lore. I've laughed out loud more than once at jokes or scenarios that bring the characters to life.

A warning: There's a lot more dating, slow progression type content that takes time to reach (not too much, but more than most sex games). The scenes are quite down-to-earth, and fit in well with the pace of the storytelling, but if you're looking to jump right into hardcore scenes, you won't find it here.

I absolutely love everything I've seen so far, and am looking forward to more from this creator.

Fantastic is what this boils down to. The premise is fun, incredibly well executed and a lot more in-depth then most mind-control/hypnosis stuff without falling for the issue of feeling bloated or like its nonsense jargon/padding.
Characters are enjoyable across the board, with fleshed out personalities and far more to them just being conquests with no long term substance.
Game possesses choices which will add some replay as well as letting you tune characters relations within limits.
My only gripe so far is moving around sometimes is tedious, ExcelDrive is nice however I find with my goldfish brain forgetting where people are at all the time, for the ones tracked in index having either a fast travel option or current locations listed on the ExcelDrive map would be nice. Perhaps tied to a construct upgrade, no idea how practical this is with the games systems.
The game is more then enough to justify the full 5 star and the travel is not enough to knock down the rating, excited to see more from Myscra.

Completely without any pictures of people anywhere, but the quality of the writing is so good, it will ruin you for the level of writing on 98% of all other works of eroticism. The dev is also really playing around with the HTML format to try to make the game flow better.

Love the writing of this game and the scenes are described to where you can visualize it with out the need of pictures I want to keep playing and the story and characters keep me engaged love this game and hope the developer keeps working on it.

10/10

Holy hell, I was not expecting this from any game on this site.
This is a well-written, cogent and thoughtful narrative.
It's also pretty fucking funny in places.
It is set in a world where every comic book story has already happened, and alien invasions are treated like celebrity breakups. Our hero winds up with mind-control powers, and doesn't turn the (oddly, disproportionately female) people in his life into varying levels of fuck-slaves. Instead, he mostly helps them work through their shit. Also, he has sex with them.
Note that this is text-only.

The writing in this game is simply phenomenal. Though I usually steer clear of games without images, the scenes are actually incredibly hot and rewarding, especially after you've had the chance to get to know the characters-- which are all extremely fleshed out and multifaceted. Even the worldbuilding is pretty interesting.

This is alright for a text only, browser-based game. It won't blow your mind, obviously, but it's good for a prolonged fap.

It's the usual assortment of mechanics for HTML games these days -- daily life and relationship management, slow paced build-up to sexual scenes, and a backdrop of superheroes failing to ensure that a rapist doesn't abuse their new psychic powers to woo girls with personalities that function just shy of literal chastity belts. Time increments and action economy, weekly character schedules, resource management, etc... The gameplay won't surprise you, but it's competently organized enough that no apparent bugs or typos kicked me out of the "what's next on my to-do list" mindset.

The writing is good, although it leans heavily into trying to explain everything. There's a student/mentor thing going on between our rapist protagonist and the supervillian who is involved in accidentally awakening his powers, but unfortunately this relationship results in about 6 or 7 pages worth of unnecessary explanation for our new protagonist's psychic arsenal before even starting the weekly grind. These first five days are totally skippable, and I have to ask myself why I didn't just go ahead and skip it -- was I scared of missing out on some poontang? Oh, how foolish I was. There's nothing happening in those first few days worth sitting through all that text, so unless you're the type who would read the Silmarillion in order to fill out the fan Wiki page, do yourself a favor and hit the skip button.

Still, you get to the game proper, and there's... well, it's what you'd expect. Again, the writing leans on the heavy side, and this can be annoying when you're just trying to get to the next wankable scene, but it's far more appreciable when you finally get to the naughty bits. Each scene is long and detailed enough to make up for the wait, and the character building up to those scenes gives each one some additional flavor that's obviously missing from the typical Johnny Sins romp. Some of the necessary main quest scene flags are a little obtuse, but your villain mentor is waiting every night to tell you where to go and what to do, so it's not like you don't have the help you need. Perhaps the only help you'll need is in cleaning the floor from how long the game will blue ball you between scenes.

All in all, this is good for a knob polishing, but if my review didn't get this across already, I don't have much enthusiasm for this style of game anymore -- the fatigue has set in from seeing this design so many times. The Company, Superpowered, Big Bad Principal, Bimbo Life Coach, A Song For All, Casting Director... there's no shortage of games in this style, and even a fairly good selection covering the "mind control" fetish camp. I'd say this is one of the best and most complete, sure, but it feels like giving the trophy out for a college golf varsity championship game -- there's probably something better or more fun you could be doing with your time.

7/10

Surprisingly purehearted for a supervillain porn game. Excellent writing, continuous work by the dev, would be easy to add basic art or take porn images and fit it into the game. I don't think I've ever bothered to go back to a text only game before.

It's more like reading a book than anything, hoping for more worldbuilding regarding the heroes, associations, politics/powers, the sorts of careers that exist in a superpowered world. Shit that's how I know it's a book i'm looking forward to the story more than I am the porn.

This game has more natural character development and personality than some books I've read. The people in this story really come alive. I love this enough to be one of the few games I support monetarily. The sex scenes are really great too. It's not that often that mind control goes hand in hand with wholesome, loving relationships.

Ya I know its a story and only a story but the Developer did write it so well that I strayed from the “good” path of just wanting my kink lit up, to “I really fucking give a dam” about what happens to the characters and I think this is awesome because no story here has managed this so far.

I acutely think the developers writing is good enough for the mainstream audience, good knows its a loot better then was some people sell as an “erotic novel” or “Interactive Game book” these days.

A great text only game with a well written story line and likable characters. It has an interesting spin on mind control and dream walking. All the updates have been meaningful continuations of the story, and I am exited for the next one already.

Excellent despite not having pictures, great story, some small bugs but they get fixed pretty regularly. Looking forward to future updates. Definitely recommend if superpowers are you thing! Keep up the great work!

A fun HTML game about corruption and super powers. I really enjoyed its unique take on corruption, slowly manipulating the girl's minds rather than dominating their bodies. It has a much lighter tone than a lot of these games do and I don't think that's a bad thing.

Flawless pacing, played for 5 hours straight on first brush. (I'm at level 1 connection with Kiara and level 3 with Blaire)

I really appreciate how there's only so much downtime between interesting events, and that said downtime has obvious and relevant benefits.
Also, that one paragraph where Kiara explains a bit about her sexual preferences is nearly word-for-word how a friend defined their understanding of being a switch, so you fucking NAILED that.
I appreciate your subtlety with the diversity, it'll help some of the conservative goons on this forum

Only criticism I can think of is the dry spell at the beginning of the game. I can't tell if I just misplayed, but there isn't much in the way of actually arousing content for a looooong time (3ish hours), which could obviously lead some players to drop the game prematurely.

Otherwise? The women in this game are actual people, so I'm gonna put this firmly in the category of "Fucking masterwork".
Phenomenal, bravo, synonyms!
(Version 1.7)

I wanted to rate this game higher. I love the concept, the characters are mostly likeable, the dialog and story are well written. Unfortunately, the grind is ridiculous. Perhaps it gets better as you go, but I have already put in way too much time with what feels like absolutely no progress. On top of that, certain actions no longer report progress. So, I have lost the ability to progress before I have seen any progress, if you see what I mean.
I suspect the current state of things is pretty integral to the way the game is built, so I would be surprised if it can be fixed without a complete rework of the code.
Honestly, I'd kinda like to see this in story form, so I could just read it, instead of having to grind my way through it.

This game is great!
Hypnotism/Corruption fetish where the main character *isn't* a sociopath and uses his powers to help people.
The author clearly cares about the characters, and even the minor ones are imbued with a sense of life. The main characters are all heaps of fun.
The sex scenes are excellent. It's a bit of a slow burn but the payoff is worth it.

At this stage (1.5a) there's a few hours of good gameplay before the limits of the available content begin to show.

This is a twine game: text only. The interface is clear and intuitive, but at this stage it's pretty ugly. Hopefully we'll see improvements to the UI as the game is developed.

In a vast expanse of so many offerings that feel like deja vu all over again, this little gem stands out like an oasis of originality and fun.
If you are looking for great artwork or pictures, this one really is not for you.
However, if you love a good story this one is a must see. The writing is beyond clean. Clever and witty, with very vibrant characters to interact with and learn more about. This is not just a novel to read, there is interaction and choices to be made.
I have played for about an hour and a half and am totally hooked.
Smashing good time. Hearty congratulations to the author/dev!