HTML - Become Someone [v1.56] [Volen]

I really enjoyed this game. It has a ton of content. There are a lot of things to do and a lot of plot paths that can be followed. The game is fairly easy so I never felt like I was getting frustrated when trying to move the game along. There is a little bit of grinding, but is wasn't a mind-numbing amount.

A real porn HTML male protagonist game.

You start off living with your mom and sister and attending university. Unlocking various female NPCs by completing character missions or a handful of events (classes, streaming, career). It has a significantly larger npc cast than a lot of the genre with a focus on clips for sex scenes. There's variety to the porn clips and the author seems to try to match race, hair, and body type to the characters.

Gameplay-wise, there's the loop of get up and do progress your morning routine of mission path (school, work, or just sex). Time isn't divided into blocks, but a number of events and activities are based around certain time windows. Quite a few of the teachers require the Wed morning class slot to advance their plot, for example. Regarding the missions, each character has 4-7 stages, generally requiring interacting with them at a certain place/time, or raising their stat or another character's stage to a certain level. The game includes a walkthrough, though I feel alphabetizing the characters would make it easier to navigate.

The NPCs progress/sex seem to be divided into Girlfriend or Slave routes, only a few let you select what those routes entail or the sex acts performed. A few characters have a group interaction, but most of the characters don't seem to acknowledge your harem or other activities.

Content-wise, as those routes imply, it varies between caring and rough treatment. Incest is available (mother, sister, cousin, aunt, grandmother). At least one character involves you unavoidably sharing her without much in the way of warning and another involves you being the netori(bull) in a lesbian couple and a het couple. Also contains various BDSM and degrading speech. Overall, I thought it was kind of average, but I was impressed with the number of characters.

Some parts of it are kinda cool, but the game is - and I never thought I'd say this about a sandbox game - extremely unbalanced. The internal economy makes no damn sense. I recognize that it's made to be easy, but it's almost easy enough that it's frustrating. There are way too many parallel paths thrown at the player without enough lead-in or commitment required: who the fuck are these people? Why do I care?

The porn is easy to get to. Yay! Here's the thing, I can get to porn much more easily without playing this game. I'm here for an experience, and what I get is a slog with way too much shitty porn thrown in my face that I don't ask for, while not feeling fulfilled in pursuing the porn I want to see.

So the Sandbox is well done. What I really dont like is that you randomly "corrupt" the Mother/Sister and from one day to the other you can invite them to your dungeon and fuck their brains out.

I substract 3 stars for that. There is literally NO buildup at all. Yes you pay the bills because your Mother needs money, but that is enough so you can have ballslapping BDSM sex with your mom? Okay, great writing


Aside from that, the use of actresses in the videos is consistent, and UI and gameplay itself is good.

But at this point it's just some porn videos thrown into with some lines of text that explain why everyone fucks you directly

One of the best works using real porn you can find in the Internet. You have multiple sotryline to progress while developing your business and physic status. In many of the storylines of the heroines you can chose the way you trade them (romantic or dominant) which gives you the opportunity to act as yourself in the game.
Plenty of females you can conquer, a solid main story, and most importantly, this game gets an regular update.

Gameplay:
Multiple stories with integrated walkthrough
So, you start with a University story with RPG elements, then you kinda have the choice to follow a "corporate boss" story, a "high school teacher" story, and anyway do both of them, you choose 2 different path (mafia boss or police officer), before ending up with the mayor story. So, it's not exactly a sandbox, and you just read the walkthrough to unlock the scenes.

Story:
TL;DR
Literally, I wasn't really reading all the text because I found it boring and useless. It's even quite cringe at some point. It's a town where there are only women (lot of) and one dick (the MC), and everybody is stupid.

Graphics/Animation:
Real porn images and videos. Clips are short, and it's really repetitive. Models are hot, that's a fact. But fast-food and tasteless porn.

Sound/Music
No music, and sound from the video clips. Nothing special.

Overall impression:
It's a huge collection of short porn-clips (5-20 seconds), consisting of "dick blowing", "fucking", "ass-fucking" and "facials". Oh, and also BDSM stuff. To give an idea, each clip is around 5-10 Mb, and you have 6Gb in size, so that makes around a thousand of them. And the game is a kind of interface to watch them. I know I'm quite harsh, but that's how this game felt for me.

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.