HTML - Completed - Corpo Life [v0.19] [CorpoLife_dev]

• An UNGODLY amount of grind, you have no idea: when people mention that you will have to repeat the same actions THOUSANDS of times to progress - that is NOT an exaggeration. Sure there are built-in cheats, but only for money and promotion, and why make dogshit gameplay loop for such a band-aid solution in the first place?
• GUI/page layout is bloated, so not only you will be clicking non-stop, but also scrolling the page down while you're at it. You can zoom out but then the page just looks ugly.
• Progression is not intuitive AND you might accidentally solt-lock yourself.
• Game's not finished. It hasn't been 5 minutes since I've began playing and already stumbled upon one of many "WIP" signs.
• There are bugs like wrong page errors and missing buttons.
• Characters have minimal depth to them, there isn't much in the writing department in general.

You better not borrow from my experience and invest your time somewhere else.

Is this a truly one star grind game? No!
but I am giving a 1 star review? because it's not finished.
my guess is the dev got bored or jumped to better prospects, slapped the "good enough" button and send it away.
So many pages go to a "wip" or "to be added in future versions".

A week ago I played another HTLM game called "Star agent" it almost a carbon copy of this game, probably at the begging it was to get some of this game good reputation, but now I kind of want them to finish it, so we could see a completed version of this game.

(if the dev comes back to complete it maybe I will change it to 4-5)

Fun, somewhat varied but really too rough to be anything amazing.

There's a lot of content here, a lot of clips and you've got a number of different things you can do but despite it all the game feels unpolished. There's bugs all over the place, pages that go nowhere and it's so unintuitive that it's downright criminal. What's worse is that some content is obviously hidden behind a COLLOSSAL amount of grind to the point where you simply must use the cheat option. What's worse is there's no in game boons to help your grind. A good game would set it up so that you have to grind but if you maybe spend some money you can do the grind faster. Nope not here, click the do work button and sit back.

I ended up having to stop. It's interesting but I got to a point where I just didn't know how to progress with any of the characters. It's not fun. There is a guide it seems but the dev appears to have rage quit and removed the page so.... yeah...

Version 0.19 Completed? I had played this a few times over the years and kinda enjoyed it. Seeing it as completed I came in to give it a good go and see if it had been cleaned up and storylines made more sense.

Now I remember this game had many branches and different paths, and key timings and locations for events to happen - so I went over to the guide that is a GIANT button in the game - dead link. Checked patron, subscribstar and other websites - nope the guide is gone.

To be clear this game is playable, but you have no idea what you are doing without a guide or walkthrough ...like zero.

Otherwise, decent HTML game, with grind, and good use of images, BUT completely unplayable without the guide unless you like randomly walking everywhere for days attempting to find a storyline.

Guide and website come back and I will redo my review.

Game is pretty good. The scenes picked for this game are great and are trimmed perfectly. Sex scenes can go slow or fast, what I like is that you can choose. You're able to dictate pace by going straight to sex or by going through all the foreplay scenes. Grind wasn't a problem for me, but you can use cheats if needed. What makes this game different is the lack of text, I like this because story is shown through actions and scenes rather than shitpost. The bad side of this game is how pointless things are like building relationship and work. Work and relationships are done through clicking a button over and over for the same result.

I don't understand the negative comments who call this game grindy (l also don't like the too long grind but for us, cheats are provided which makes this criticism pointless). However, the criticism regarding poor navigation should be considered.

People have already mentioned that inclusion of JAV makes this game standout/better. What I liked the most about this game which other games don't do is inclusion of enough foreplay scenes! I loved that.
(And its funny that there are people who are hating on this game because of JAV and foreplay. Certainly a game will not cater to preferences of all the people. That's why there are preferences.)

BUT even after that, I still couldn't enjoy this game. And I had to abandon playing it after few hours because:
1. Dialogues especially during the sex scenes definitely could have been written much much better (like dialogues being longer, including talks of their relationship, adhering more to the clip etc.). Seriously where are the dialogues??
2. Similar to above, there should have been at least some depth in personality and some relationship buildup for each character. Absence of this makes the game just a compilation of low-res jav clips.

That said, I would still have given this game 3 stars easily (because how few/almost no real porn games dev include jav and foreplay) but deducting one more star as this one thing was deteriorating the experience ever more:
To see all the clips for an option, let's say there are 3 different clips for "cowgirl", I have to click the cowgirl button 8-9+ times (Because the clip to be played is selected randomly).
If you are reading this dev, then strongly consider to change that so the clips will be played in an order only like 1-2-3-1-2-3-1.. instead of 1-1-1-2-1-2-1-3-3-1..
I tried out your other game and it seems, the same issue persist there too...

Take my review constructively dev. Implementing all of these changes in your next game will improve the game drastically and make it the best game, at least for me.

It looks nice but it's hard to believe this game is "completed". It just feels so unpolished.

- No real explanations for a lot of the mechanics. Especially the "stonks" part.
- It said to start to investing in stocks, I'd need to buy a laptop and set up a workstation but I just went ahead and did it with the icon on the sidebar ... again, nothing's explained to a great extent so I have no idea what the deal is with that.
- No real indications of being "promoted" or any kind of achievement after maybe the first promotion.
- UI design just feels kind of awkward
- mediocre grammar

Maybe it improves later on but I just unfortunately don't have that kind of time right now. I'll hopefully come back to this later at some point. Overall, I'd say giving the player information and feedback through the game is just as important as making sure clicking a button does the intended thing within the game. Otherwise, it's not really a game. It's more like some kind of clicking simulation with sporadic scenes.

Unfortunately, this one is a complete miss for me too.

It's too bad. I like that it includes JAV actresses, but that's pretty much the only positive thing I can say about this.

I agree with everything the reviewer before me said.

Legit don't know why this game has such a hight rating, there is not a single good thing I can say about it:

The interface: Same old boring interface you see in every html, plus gigantic buttons that make you scroll down for no reason and constantly moving buttons because no html dev ever thinks about just fixing the damn buttons in place.

The story: What story? Interact with a new character 100000 times and then you can inmediately fuck them, incredible. Not to mention how many characters you can't bang.

The "sand box": too much box, too little sand. Why do devs keep making "sandbox" games when all they want to do is railroad you into a specific story? Just make a damn VN and be done with it.

The porn: Using real life porn is a challenge because it limits what you can do/write in your game, you have to somehow reach that scene. I can assure you this isn't one of those games.

The grind: Grind by itself is not terrible, but mindless grind where nothing interesting happens ever might as well be equivalent to a dev putting a 3 hour ad before letting you see a scene.

The paywall: for a game full of problems it sure doesn't seem to have one when it comes to paywalling QoL changes like guides.

Also, almost 20 GB for such little content.

Honestly the only good thing about this game is the real porn.

- Calling this game grindy would be misleading. I've played a lot of grindy games and while this one has a lot of unnecessary grinding, the real issue is that it has utterly garbage navigation.
- The sex system is most of the time just illusion of choice - in almost every case you have no real choice or max two "routes" through the scene and if you take too direct of a route, you need to repeat the same clip until you're allowed to end the scene.
- Since the game is cobbled together from mostly asian (office) porn there is very little consistency outside the MC using their status to rape his subordinates.

Finally, there's the thing about the dev putting their personal politics into the game, with the MC's father being fucking Trump...

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.