HTML - Become Someone [v1.40] [Volen]

I have admired the work put into this game for a long time. The pacing is solid, the story is solid, the options what you can do and where you can go are amazing. The scenes work well with the world they've built and the graphics to show off the world, even though animated, give you a sense of where you are and where things happen with more depth. You don't just talk about the place, you have it visually represented and I think that's really important when you're building a text based game.

This is one of the best HTML games out there. You can see how much work went into this, it has so much content and a decent story line. Of course, it is pretty unrealistic how the girls are acting - I imagine Aliens that only have seen porn movies would write in a similar way. But that is part of the fun.

However, as much as I would like to give it 5 stars, I must substract one star due to the fact that you cannot avoid the incest part. I can accept a half-ass cover ("land-lady"), but forcing me into this is annoying.

This game deserves much more credit, it's a real life sandbox with so many incredible gameplay mechanics. The scenes are great and it's updated very regularly. As others have mentioned, not having to download it is really helpful as well.

I don't write many reviews, but I have to give credit where credit is due on this one. The content more than makes up for the grinding. Literally dozens of characters and you don't have to look far for sexual content.

But in what other game can you:

build a harem;
start a home business in your bedroom and turn it into a national company;
join the mob and eventually take over as mob boss;
earn your college degree with help from your professors;
work as a teacher and end up as teacher of the year;
run for mayor and become mayor of the game town.

And you can do all of these things without having to restart the game and take different paths (though there are options to do so.).

If you don't want to download it, the online version is fine, just download your saves. I had fun playing it over the past two weeks. No, this is not a game that you can play in a few hours or an evening. It might start slow, with heavy grinding, but it will pick up.

While I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, I feel it strikes a good balance between grinding and giving you what you're really here for. The dev seems to update it pretty regularly, and it's loaded with content. Hoping to see more in the future.

Great game ; pretty rich, full of intricate stuff, and full of different paths to go ; it's pretty hard to achieve 100% of the game, but that makes it good. Also, the fact that the developer(s) take so much effort into this game is great.

I like the fact that we can play it online without having to download it, btw, which is always a nice + for HTML games.

If the dev can fix what the previous reviewer mentioned, this game could be very very good. But the critique is perfect: " You got girls giving you sexual favors in one scene and acting like they never met you in the next. You have girls talking about events you supposedly did the day before with them and you never did those even". This really scews up the game and happens especially with the mom. One update to fix these and it's golden!

It's a shame. The premise of the game seemed great. The execution is bad. You got girls giving you sexual favors in one scene and acting like they never met you in the next. You have girls talking about events you supposedly did the day before with them and you never did those event. The devs use the words "you have total freedom to decide what to do" to hide the fact that the game has no actual structure, which sounds great.-except that they stop you from doing anything you want to do at every turn. So you really can't do what you want to do. I can't recommend the game.

"You have total freedom, so it is up to you to decide what you want to do with your life!"

My main criticism of the game is that this is something of an overstatement in the game description. Maybe the only thing it promises but doesn't deliver.

There's something of a different path. You can dedicate to university, dedicate to the company, work at the restaurant, but ultimately what's the point of these games? It's to get all the women. And if you want all the women you'll need to spend time in the places where those women can be interacted with. That means you have freedom over the order in which you do things but not really freedom in the sense of the game going in a different direction.

In terms of plot, there's basically none. In terms of the characters, you go either a love route or a slave route. You're not building close relationships and shaping their lives, just choosing how you want to seduce them.

With that out of the way, everything the game actually does it does well. Good variety of women, plenty of them, plenty of sex. Some might complain about the grind but I didn't find it any worse than any other HTML game of this type. Build up two or three stats early on, grind for money a few times, talk to the women a few times. Standard stuff. There's enough women to choose from that you pretty much always have someone you could be progressing with, so it's all good to me.

Smooth interface, easy to get around, easy to figure out what to do (don't think I had any points where I was confused as to where to go or how to do something), plenty of great visuals.

If you go into it with the expectation that it's a "Get around town, build up a reputation, fuck everyone" game then you'll be in for a treat. If you're expecting to make choices that meaningfully shape the world around you...not so much.

One of the best games here. Good design. There are a good amount of characters to interact with, different places to go (although sandbox is not a must for me it is well implemented) and a good versatility in general. The images and porn are good. The character selection is also very good. I have encountered a few bugs but it might just be my bad luck.

The story is your usual male MC taking over the town and boning every girl in it. The content is amount is low, it's just hidden behind a ridiculous amount of grinding to give it the illusion of that not being the case. Gif choices are nice, except at least one of the characters gets inconsistent casting. The game is good if you have a lot of free time, but if not don't waste it on this.

I think this is an excellent game compared to other HTML games. Bit of grindy but overall this game is perfect, there is tons of content, a great selection of models, the storyline is good, lots of characters to explore, and lots of places to explore.
I would recommend playing atleast once, you won't regret it. I also like to appreciate the effort of the dev for frequent updates.
A solid 5 from my side.

Version Reviewed: v0.99

Overview
Get ahead in the world while getting every girl.

Story
You're a college student who has a penchant for dominating women but luckily you live in subsville and every woman you meet is just dying to have a strong man throw her to the ground and pound her pussy so hard that she can't stand up afterward. Overall the tone is very dominating, sometimes mysoginistic. Even though you can turn some of the girls into girlfriends, the default path for most is sex slavery to you.


Where this game really shines over the many many games with a similar premise is that the player does more than just expand his harem over time. He actually starts his own small business, moves on from his entry level job, and makes something of his life.


Gameplay
Run of the mill sandbox. Go to a location at a specific time and interact with the girl to advance her story one step.


This is where I would usually talk about the level of grind, but in this game it is a complicated subject. On one hand there is a fully functional quest tracker that eliminates the "hunt every location in every timeslot" grind. Most girls only have like 5 events before they are complete as well, so some can be pounded out (no pun intended) in no time. There is also a blessed lack of blatant time wasters like "wait 3 days before doing the next step in this event chain", although a few events are only available on wednesday or the weekend. HOWEVER, I would be lying to you if I said this game was light on grind. The money grind is absolutely abysmal, especially early on. There is also stat grinds that almost don't matter except for one event around the middle of the game. Trying to get all of the high school girls to pass their tests requires the patience of a saint. Even worse is if you don't know the game mechanics you can end up wasting literal hours grinding inefficiently when completing an event will eliminated much of that grind. Some of the paths are mutually exclusive as well, so you need to play around with saves to see everything, which means repeating grind in places. The final point I will make here is that this is a huge game. There are 2,304 different sex animations in the current version. You will end up scrolling up and down lists of girls all the time because they don't fit on the screen. A current playthrough without cheats is at least 10 hours.

Graphics
It's real porn but at least the devs have tried to match every character with a single porn star so the images at least match most of the time. The game is absolutely packed with porn animations. You'll be seeing 5-10 second clips with practically every event. Most are reasonably high quality. That said it's a bit hard to fap to this game because the sex scenes are so short. You get one or two animations, maybe a page of dialog, and it's over. All of the animations do at least loop and you won't be waiting long for the next one.

Tips
I have some hints for avoiding wasting quite so much time in pointless grind in this game.

1. Don't bother with the business until you have at least 20,000 bucks to spend on it. It's a waste of time and energy except for the story unlocks. Your waiter job pays much better per unit of time until you can upgrade the business a couple of times and hire a bunch of people.

2. Focus on romancing all of the teachers early on. This will let you get the graduation event (make sure you have done the stat grinds before this point) which multiplies your income by five times. Trying to grind out the business upgrades on a college student salary is madness, but the game doesn't tell you this, it just lets you waste your time.

3. If the game starts running slowly, sometimes reloading the page helps.

Conclusion
If you are into domination and submission this game has oceans of content for you. It is also very well constructed, making full use of the TWINE engine to feel like an actual game and not a bunch of webpages with porno gifs spattered on them. If however you like romancing the ladies and getting to really know them you should probably skip this. Every girl starts out horny and you have your dick in all of them by the second or third encounter, sometimes the first, sometimes with dubious consent.

Good at having a variety of depth without being too grindy. I haven't completed any of the paths yet, but I'm consistently impressed by the level of polish each girl is given. I sometimes wish it was more clear what you had to do to advance certain relationships, but that's purely a dev decision, and it is one I can respect.

A stupid box of garbage

Grinding like “only on Wednesday between 12:00 an 13:00 and only at location x” something like that. And on the other side there must be a lot of click-work be done to some bad quality video clips and much more to grow up your business if u want to meet the next girl.

I like these “click-to-progress” games but this is complete nonsense.

It is not worth a try

Excellent game, ( v0.9 ), I'm playing this game since long time, good gameplay and story. Also good walkthrough mode. And for this game you don't need to cheat, I think. File size getting bigger but ok for this real porn game.

Become Someone, a game with a great visual, freedom and premises. Although it was saddening some of great feature of this game made more complicated.

Gameplay, you play as you, you can be anything you want, although you might be clueless what you need to do to become someone you want. I recall there are hints about things that unrelated to relationship in past versions, it seems to be either currently reworked or deleted.

Girl progression are quick, last time I played, it was so much grind and I was so worked up by grinding to get my reward which are progress. Now, it felt easier and effortless.


User Interface, looks like developers are currently butchering their UI into new User Interface. I don't know how far they will do it, but so far it seems nicer. Some part still having redundant function, but it's to be expected if they are reworking on it.

Writing, since this game are text based, I think I might say one or two thing about this. Font choice are fine, Placeholder are perfectly fine, but I find myself hard to focus on the writing because of fancy UI, makes me kinda distracted, almost feels like the UI stolen text spot lights.

Mechanicsm, it so fluid, nothing feels clunky, of course with exception they are currently working on UI, if they do. So far, there weren't any in-game mechanism that would occupy your attention for longer than 30 seconds.

Overall, I really like this game especially their premises, compared to earliest they have been make humongous progress and effort into developing this game. And it looks like they also satisfied their fans too, it almost to good to be true.

P.S. Online version are quick as fuck, it almost feels like I am downloading the game. So little load time needed, good shit. (it does for me, if doesn't for you, well sucks to be you)

Version - 0.8.96

Decent amount of content, impressive for HTML game. But the progress with characters is way too fast and I don't like. Feel like you talk to girl twice and third time she'll fuck you. Basically no progression.

Also don't really understand the point of making it sandbox, it's like making 200 level game and putting final boss in first 5 levels. Would be better with longer quest.

An impressive HTML game with tons of content and many different women to seduce. The game mechanics, artwork, and choice of images and videos are excellent.
However, I felt that the escalation with each woman happens too quickly - you basically meet them and within a few interactions you are already getting laid. I would prefer a slow build-up to each situation.
There is also a bit of grind work involved in getting money and advancing through some parts of the game. The high school job, in particular, is tedious and it felt like the effort wasn't worth it in the end.
Other than that, the game certainly deserves to be played and there is plenty of content to work through.

overall it is a solid game but i dont feel like giving it 5 stars. it is a weird case when you want to like that game more than comparable ones but fail to do so.

lets start with good:
-sufficient amount of content
-visuals are consistent.
-good looking backgrounds and ui with solid qol.
-ingame tips and external walkthrough (wip?)
-bugs-free

...
so lets say im being subjective but it feels like the game:
[>] lacks build up with main npcs, that is, things are felt rushed.

[>] non-memorable arcs / quest-chains.
it is a comparative assessment as i do not read texts in any sandboxes but here:
(a)things were rather blurry for me. (and with many games i get a sufficient understanding of what is going on from quest tasks&tips, visuals, and glimps of dialogues)


(b)some tasks felt weird and repetitive (for example i remember just visiting some gials at the same time and get a progression. it was closer to RPsim type of game play. not necesserily bad as you need short routes as 'anti-blueball measures' as well.)

maybe (a,b) is the consequence of shorter-than-needed quest chains or maybe devs rely heavily on texts for some immersive narrative and background (though does it work for ppl playing sbxes? for me texts are like impediment before task completion. it is smth u skip in order to rush to your UI with locations n tips)

*also im not being picky as im fine with any banalities and common routes (which i believe most games are comprised of, it is not like someone can come up with something original and wow in a porn game. and for me that works better than any supernatural or pills element. i cannot remember if this game had such though i think it does have some magic shop with magic collars? even if not - that basement-slave gig felt bit unnatural)

definitely subjective:
i dont like that anorexic/false-juvenile sister . more like illness which is not hot.
(suggestion: substitution)