HTML - Onhold - Corpo Life [v0.18b] [CorpoLife_dev]

It was good and then the dev opened his mouth. i Dont understand the 200 character requirement for the review but thats the gist of it. the game is serviceable but i wouldn't donate to this dev even if he was developing the cure for cancer.

I've been playing every update since about .4/.5 and i'm giving this game a 3/5 instead of 2/5 simply for what it was in the first 5 or so updates i played. The game was grindy but not in an obsessive manner. But now I can no longer support it on here. I might come back when IF it reaches its final version which is a lot to hope for a HTML game. The grind and constant paywall advert is just too much and this is from someone who enjoy games with a bit of grind. But when it starts getting to the point where its taking nearly an hour of grinding to get a new scene or to progress the story isn't much of anything anymore.
Well its been fun for a bit CorpoLife but maybe see you in 1.0

Just edited JAVs strung together by a nonsensical story. Not really a simulator, just various buckets to fill by grinding to unlock the next scene.
I recommend just watching the original JAVs instead.

Mindless bog of a grind with no thought put into it.
A myriad of bugs and dead ends, after years of "development".
Bad writing, nonsense "plot" and progression impossible without a guide.
Paywalled content
A "holier than thou" attitude from the dev, pretending he isn't just clipping pirated porn for his paywall.

No depth here. Just grinding and badly clipped porn.

It's a game that is so oddly obsessed with money and status. No character has personality, there is no stakes or purpose aside from just grinding. I don't get who this is trying to appeal to.

Doesn't deserve the 'simulator' tag.

v0.17b
I played it for few hours and worst part is that this "game" gives you impression that it is something that it isn't. You might think from reading first post that your decisions matters in this game, but... there is not really any decisions to make other than who will be a "girlfriend/wife" which you have 2 choices.
It is just "pick a girl whose scenes you want to watch and story to read" that's it, you don't make any decision other than to whose story you want to read and if you want to progress then you need to do what author wants you to do.

Sandbox is meaningless and grind doesn't feel rewarding because money is useless and interacting with girls is always the same. Let's start with money. You will need obscene amounts of money, maybe you will get extra cash while advancing "job story", but let's ignore that for now. So how you make money? You get salary once a week, but it's pennies (I think I got to part where it was 50k? reminder that mansion is 50 million), real money maker is cheat button and setting money to what you need , after that its stocks, just put some cash there and skip days till it get to where you need it.
You can buy some items to increase your life style/prestige which will help you with filling girl relationship bar faster, speaking of which.
Interacting with girls is just filling relationship bar till you unlock new actions. How do you fill it? By spamming whatever talking option gives most points (be it work talk, causal talk or flirt once unlocked) until you can watch sex scene and that's it. You can watch sex scene again if you want to or have to in order to progress story.
Oh yeah, you can buy houses too but it is a necessary expense to progress story of certain characters, so there is that. There is no real meaning to it.

Worst part about this whole thing is that I like sandbox games, but this is just done wrong. Feels like sandbox was thrown in as an obstacle for reading story which is rather linear.

Arguably one of the best real porn games on this site, generally good story telling with lots of humorous moments (e.g. MC's dad is you know who). The developer has a good taste for what scenes to include in the game, at least according my standards.

Story-Telling: 6/10 (very good for real porn game)
Scenes: 9/10 (well edited, great quality)

Suggestions:
1. There could be better choices for the celebrity deepfake scenes. Of course, one's with the right setting may be hard to find, but the movie scene with Margaret Robbie was great!
2. Jav Actresses Recommendations: Kana Momonogi, Lemon Tanaka, Eimi Fukada

All the luck on future developments!

Very good game, I usually don't like at all games with real porn and never play them, but this one is so different, I like a lot that is not a lot of text in it, it's grindy and I like it, I don't like playing visual novels that bombards me with wall of text, not in movies or real life you talk that much, I just hate those games, what I don't like about this game is that it could use more non japanese women. For me it's an amazing game with lots of choices grind and rewards. Been a long time since I had fun in a porn game.

This is one of the best HTML games available in this site. Great use of Japanese p*rn videos, many unique characters, story is good and pregnancy is available and from the looks, it will have more of it in future.

Amazing game, love the choices, the grind and the many rewards for it.
Never thought I'd get yellow fever but this game gave it to me for sure!
Some feedback, maybe lower the grind a little at certain points in the game. But over all it's a lot of fun.

Probably the best real porn game , exept if you don't like japanese porn, it's always more and more content, the story seems to be real interesting, so l'est see, but anyway thank for this game ! Continue like this i follow this game since the begining

good game great implementation of story. i think you are still working on the story. it has huge potential. i cant wait for future updates. amazing job, mate
karen story is great. Are you planning to implement some other Genre.

I decided to play this wonderful game again the other day.
After completing 2 paths, Karen and Remy. I remembered why I hated this game at the beginning. This is a stupid sex system, or rather its navigation.

As a result, during sex with the character, you see moments that the girl was wearing clothes. And then you watch a clip where she is without clothes or has taken them off, then again you see a clip where she is wearing clothes.

As for the size of text and video, everything is simple; this matter can be easily reduced directly in the engine. But for this you need the engine itself and a basic understanding of where to insert these things.

About the grind, navigation and censorship in clips.

There is, oddly enough, little grinding in the game, if you understand what to do and how to make money.
(If you find it difficult to farm money, go either to the engine or through the console, wind up the required amount and play. It’s better not to use the cheat menu; you’ll get tired of clicking.)

Navigation here is like in any game, you walk through a bunch of created passages in the game, which are filled with unnecessary or necessary code for events.

Regarding censorship, there is an interesting case here. Although the author is trying to reduce the size of the clips, this makes the censorship even more annoying.
If you watch the original clip in 1080p or 2160p, then there are no problems with censorship. And if you reduce the size, what can happen? That's right, ass!

Now about the advantages of the game, or more precisely, what awaits the player.
- If you are tired of ordinary real porn games with only actresses, then this game will surprise you.
- Two relationship routes, Karen or Remy.
- Regular characters and content with them are enough.

If you take these 3 pluses and compare how much time you will need to spend on the game. Believe me, leaving is enough. Yes, there is a pregnancy, but I don’t care about that. But they will make a cash cow out of this feature, that one is for sure.

And now, about the cash cow.
Although the game has a couple of impressive advantages, it also has the same disadvantages.

Remember one thing, if you don’t bring money to the author, then you are nothing to him. Do you need a patch fix for the versions that he had lying around for a month while he was making a new version for Patreon? Forget friend, either wait or pay.

Is the author active and always in touch? You always need to look from a different angle.
He just shows what a good manager he is, who is trying to sell you his product. Therefore, look at my message about the patch for the game and you will understand why it is so active.

Therefore, if the above problems do not bother you, play calmly.

One of the Top HTML games here. Can't wait to see this when it's done. Also like that the Developer is active in Thread and listens to all problems and whishes.

I think the grindy part is just right, when you want to push it a little, use cheat, but there are games much worser.

I appreciate the dev saying that if you don't like grind you won't like his game. We have different ideas of what grind means.
ex. 1
Needing to spend many days to work for higher promotions: okay!
ex. 2
Needing to do this at the end of your workday before you can start working again: wtffffff there's "grind" and there's "holy crap put some quick nav into your game dude the only thing this is grinding is my finger bones.""
-> Mouse wheel down
-> Go out
-> Mouse wheel down
-> Go out
-> Home
-> Mouse wheel down
-> My Apartment
-> Mouse wheel down
-> Bedroom
-> Sleep
-> Wake Up
-> Keep Sleeping
-> Mouse wheel down
-> Wake Up
-> Mouse wheel down
-> Hallway
-> Mouse wheel down
-> Commute
-> Mouse wheel down
-> Continue
-> Office
-> Mouse wheel down
-> My Office Room
-> Mouse wheel down
YOU MAY NOW WORK AGAIN

Even putting PageDown on Mouse 5 was wearing my hand out.
I'm in good shape, but I can honestly say the physical demands of this game were a bit too much for me to play it for more than 90 minutes.

Okay so let's do a pros and cons
PROS
• Lots of content
• Sexy Asian girls
• The tiered promotion/income system is pretty good.
• Replayability of sex scene chapters is pretty well done.
• Promotion events are a great addition.

CONS
• From a player-insert perspective, many of the scenes make you embarrassed to be the MC. Not in a femdom kind of way, but a "I was better at kissing and fucking the first time I did either" way. It's distracting how bad at fucking these guys are, and they kiss like they're spoonlessly eating a container of poop-flavored pudding. Sidenote: "I want to move to Japan and be a sex god among porn stars" is apparently a 100% REALISTIC GOAL.
• Not exclusive to this game, but
Directors, for some reason: "Girls, at no time should you behave remotely like a woman enjoying sex. And we're looking for noises that are a blend of a 1984 Oldsmobile that won't turn over, a 4 year old shreik-crying because they skinned their knee., and Pee Wee Herman laughing."
"I got this." -every JAV actress.
• "Bitch we went on ONE date - get the fuck out of my house." - MC, every morning after going on one date.
• "This is Karen. Apparently she's my girlfriend. She told me our boss was competent and out of courtesy I agreed with her. Naturally this made her fall deeply in love with me. We went out drinking one night - she sucked my dick in the bathroom and moved into my house."
Admittedly, I've had stranger relationships in my life - but if you were playing my life as a porn game you'd list them under "cons" too.

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If, like me, you think terrible navigation does not count as "grind" - the game isn't overly grindy.
On the plus side - just resizing many of the images would fix a huge amount of people's complaints. Yeah, I'd still want better navigation because 20 clicks to get from A to B is nonsense, but at least it wouldn't be 20 clicks with 15 mouse wheel downs - that shit is ridiculous.
Add navigation, resize the clutter Mouse-wheel images, fix the redundant clicks (commute click, yes really continue click), disallow people from moving into my house after one date and it's a 4/5.
2.5 / 5 as is so we'll round up.

The game has a lot of content, but it also has some fundamental problems.

The good:
Pretty models, and there's not a lot of good quality "real Porn" Asian content out there, so it serves a niche.
The story is better than many, and the ladies are reasonably well drawn narratively.

The Bad:
WTAF is wrong with devs that think they need video clips for EVERYTHING. This game is a massive 9+ gb of content. And it's not all for sex content. They have 10-30 sec video clips of getting on the train, walking to work, discussing work with colleagues, working at your desk. WHY!?

Do everyone a favor and trim the extraneous content. A simple still image for such content is JUST FINE. Not once did I watch the entire 10-30 secs of content in these cases. It was fucking pointless.

The Grind: it has some grind, but it's not so onerous if you go into it expecting it. Just know you do eventually get to the porn content, and it doesn't take forever, but it will deter those more interested in a quick fap.

I'm gonna give this a 3.5 and round down to a 3, but I'm penalizing heavily for all of the pointless video content. If the Dev moves to trim such pointless content I'll update the rating.

Boring as hell.

You start the game and the problem already starts... whats the story? You have a menu, can go out of the flat, can stock some money, but why? What now?
Minutes later you figure out you must go to work. Here is another problem, why? Whats the point in working? How to make money? Why to talk to the girls and raise the relationship?
Minutes later... you got your first promotion and can hire some girls. You raised again some relationship and fucked one girl.... but why? Whats the point in fucking her? You cannot build any sex stats or anything. You just click throught the choices and see always the same sex scenes...

It might be a good game with a bit content but I dont see it. You have no quest log, no way to see how much progress you done, cannot build any stats... you just dont have any target to play the game.
Fucking the girls is the whole story? That cannot be true.

I'm currently playing this game (ver. 0.15) on a low-spec laptop and it runs pretty well. The game has a well-written storyline and a decent amount of grind (and cheats to skip the grind). There are enough variety of sex scenes as well as variety of clips within the same scenes, which is a treat. The gameplay itself is easy to understand and are quite immersive.

There are still some bugs that may hinder your progress if you're trying to speedrun a completionist save, but there are sufficient warnings put both in-game and on the game's wiki page. So far, I haven't encountered any game or immersion breaking aspects in this game.

Overall, this is a pretty well thought out and well made game. It delivers more than what I'd expected out of this type of game in this stage of development.

Gameplay:
Quest sandbox (somehow)
It's an HTML-game. You have an infinite weekly schedule where you repeat actions to build up stats (money and progress bars), to trigger events. There is a schedule where events and scenes only happen on specific hours (but they are repeatable).
So, raise stats clicking on actions and unlock scenes. You don't actually have to choose a path, except the girl you will marry.

Story:
This is not the strong point of the game. Actually, you don't feel that there is a story. Dialogues feel meaningless. Characters have absolutely no depth. There is no consequence, whatever you do (except if you are lazy at work maybe? Didn't try).

Graphics/Animation:
This is essentially Japanese porn. It's the strong point of the "game", as the quality is good.

Overall impression:
First, why put the story in New-York when it should be in Tokyo? I was attracted by the videos. Like porn, it's nice for a good fap, but there is no interest outside of that.

My One Warning
There is ONE NTR scene, you don't witness it yourself and it is rape . Normally NTR is an instant turnoff for me but this one can be forgiven. Want to know why? Play it and see how it plays out, trust me. Also you can click through it or any other events you don't like very quickly.

Gameplay
First off, It can be grindy if you don't use the included "cheat" button, but it is possible and the grind nearly dissapears after a while and the sex comes quickly and a lot of it is repeatable. Other than the grind, everything else in the game is fairly simple. Thankfully most of the cheats are free if you want to skip the grind and ones that risk breaking the story warn you (If you cheat your job progress, make sure you work at the office atleast once per promotion)

Events are easy to trigger, some have specific days of the wee and times of day to trigger. If you have trouble getting certain events to trigger, follow the included guide, don't worry if your AV yells at you for clicking on it, most AVs just don't like the hooks it uses but it's completely safe.

Speaking of events, almost all of them are well put together and the video quality is some of the best I've seen in these real porn games. There are a few that feel rushed and don't make sense but there is talk of these relationships being more fleshed out after a few updates. I will make a note that all of the videos auto-play and are not muted, so make sure your volume is set how you want it.

Performance, Grammar, and Bugs
Performance has not been an issue with me while playing this. I have not personally come across any broken events (unless i abused the Job Cheat).

Grammar is pretty good, I've only noticed a few typos buy those get spotted quickly by the community and the Dev responds as soon as they see it.

In the end, I'd give this a 5/5 but I also have an infernal lust for Asian Women so to keep things fair this is a 4/5.

Corpo Life has a lot of promise and deserves every bit of support it gets. I know i can't mention pricing or update times so let me just say it is worth it.
If you love JAV, cute moments, and can get past how JAV censors their porn, this is the game for you.