HTML - Boring Days [v0.34.1] [AntiMyx]

On the prowl for real-porn HTML games, I've stumbled across one I've seen a couple times. Perusing, I thought why not give it a shot considering that gems like this are hard to come by.

As always I try to be as honest as possible. I guess a bias from me is that even with mediocre HTML jank, I like them in a way. There's something about the scenarios and perhaps even schlocky writing that fulfills a mood. Maybe it's something just to break up the VN Honey Select romps that constantly pervade this site. Considering that when you do find one these games, and they're actually decent, it's an all-around pleasant experience. Especially if they have a decent scenario setup + good real-porn utilization. Also I'm mainly focusing on the dom/corruption side of the game.

Anyways, onto the game.

You can see from the get go that unlike some other HTML games on this site, or God forbid QSP games, that the UI is clean for the most part. You have easily accessible rooms (not that many of them lead anywhere), you can easily navigate through menus, very visible buttons, and a character guide with hints. I was going to mention that usually that's a good thing since it caters towards the game's direction, something a lot of real-porn games suffer from (ie easily getting lost), but this game has no direction. At least not yet, and I have no idea if it's future may hold that yet considering it's been a year and the game still feels rather barebones in what it's offering. Though it does tie up its real porn into contextualized parts of it's story & events, so no random pictures tied to a face that isn't being portrayed on screen. Yet as said, in comparison to other games that share it's genre (ie the real-porn HTML journey's), progress is slow.

For what direction we have, the game focuses that more so on characters and what you can do with them rather than some overarching goal you're trying to achieve. Which in turn means that a lot of things you're doing that aren't related to character-quests are arbitrary and meaningless. I mean hell, you work your job but the money's worthless since you play as an affluent rich jackass (which if you go down the dom paths, yes, you are a rich jackass), which then leads onto the oddities of the character-quests themselves.

The porn comes quick, but then it also comes slow to depending on what (available) characters there are. Such as your maid, you have to actually get build up (which is a good thing) with her to start finding the flavor text, the evolution and progression in relation to how you're going about it. Such as whether you chose to be a sub or dom to her. But on the other hand, sometimes you get nothing at all in terms of build up, your secretary(ies) as an example comes in and the sex is just already there, without much characterization from her.

It's strange, you have a more developed end on your maid, where you can glean a lot more details and substance in how she's portrayed (in what little we have) versus your secretary being as stagnant as a trope as ever. Why, in the dom path can you just immediately test out your secretary in a fuckfest scenario, literally 0-100 in the mere seconds you meet her, yet your maid, another porn cliche, has to instead be slowly seduced and corrupted? I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but I think that example shows that there's a certain disconnect on how the game approaches it's core concept. Hence, sometimes you actually play the gem part of what the creator is trying to accomplish, a build up on a sub/dom relationship, yet other points feel like boredom crept in with decisions to say fuck it and just give you porn.

I think if there was better focus on fleshing out characters, and maybe not flooding the gates that so many games suffer from (ie way too many chicks, not enough content for them), then it can be a great game. It's got a nice structure, it has neat paths, it has times where the writing and characters are good, but it suffers in the aspect of still being barebones. Also there is an issue of lag for whatever reason, I didn't get it much, but others suffer from it so keep that in mind.

Overall, I was going to rate this as a 2/5 but I thought better and that if this game gets further fleshed out and cleaned up within this year, maybe it can be 4 stars. In the end though, it's rather stagnant it what it is now (especially with the snails pace it's trotting at), and sits on the plain average shelf. I wouldn't really recommend playing this until the dev figures out what to do with it. 3/5

The game is good, porn is set up nicely and while there is some grind, it's pretty quick.
There are two major issues though:
1. There is not much content as of v0.28.
2. The game starts to run slow after a while, even hanging for some time when trying to save - delete old save slot>game freeze for something like 10s>save game on the now clear slot>another 10s freeze - and this is on a good, current gen hardware.
While i'm sure that the first issue will be resolved easily with time, the second issue might require major overhaul, if I had more content to go through when the game was running that bad I would rate it 3/5 at best.

Reviewed version 0.27

To the point:
Boring Days is a noticeably unfinished run of the mill porn pic sandbox HTML game with lots of inconvenient and unnecessary grinding for the sparse slow building D/S scenes in between.

Serious gripes:

• There's a lot of promised content with "End of current content" stated across many paths.
• Lots of the game is empty, many rooms unoccupied or useless independent of the time of day. Worse, many rooms offer further subrooms, adding to the click count to actually get from point A to B - most of which serve no purpose so far but lure the player in without rewarding their curiosity.
• Many stat gains and losses are only tied to specific, repeated events, that only trigger during certain time slots during certain days making amassing these points a chore.
• Content-wise the game focuses more on domination and submission aspects - though progression often comes to a screeching halt due to the lack of finished paths. Such roadblocks further dampen the enjoyment of the infrequent scenes, which are by writing standards, decent but short.
• The engine itself is slow to react and laggy.

Some positives:

• The chosen actresses and pictures offer a wide and high quality variety.
• The slow nature of the D/S themes have a nice, more authentic pace.
• A rudimentary guide that directs the player to achieve certain stats or goals to progress with the characters is provided.

Final ramblings:
If I was more subjective I'd given this game only a single star. Grindy HTML sandboxes with a laggy interface and terrible Click-to-do ratios are a personal bane of mine. But I acknowledge people's desire to explore the softer, slow building D/S themes portrayed in this game - hence the additional star.
I can only imagine many of my previous raters have given this game a rating based on the game's potential and their future expectations. Maybe a recent restructuring of the game's core lead to an even more rudimentary game.
Anyhow, the current overall rating of four and a half stars is deceptive and I firmly disagree with it.

Always happy to see new HTML games without sissification(but with it good too) and being upfront about NTR. Need more beautiful and dom girls in ur game. Also wish more femdom :3 Good luck @AntiMyx ! U are doing good job

[Ver 0.27] Great potential!
The game has the standard day-in-the-life format and there isn't much of a grind to get to the key events. All of the models are chosen well and I liked the gradual escalation of relationships.
I was hoping for more content as it seemed to reach the end just as things were getting good, but that's a good sign that the developer is on the right track.

The femdom route is amazing so far. It has the trope of the maid slowly taking over that I don't see enough of. Not much in the way of flatout sex in these routes but honestly, I find the slow corruption way hotter as she and several other women become bolder.

I like femdom route in this game, it has not much content, but unlike some other games it is not so "heavy". Many femdom games on this site have good start but end with something totally unreal. Because of that I mostly prefer only beginning of such games, and now this game is on beginning stage.
5 stars is too much regarding small amount of content, but I would like to support the author with his project.

Need lots of more content, most of the girls are just introduced and that's it. Some bugs still exist. Nice videos but need more and with more length. Generally solid idea, hope that in the future it will become a good real porn game!

I like it. There are very few femdom real porn games not involving sissification so this is great! I also like that MC has a choice between being dominant and submissive, and starts of in a position of power. It makes submission all the more delicious =)

5 star rating is a bit of a stretch at the moment as the game is quite short but I like the potential and am hopeful that the game will grow into the five-star game it can be.