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

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.

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.

Rating updates from 08/13/2024.

I am updating my old rating for this game.
Because of the terrible attitude of the developer towards his game.


That's the end of the advantages, let's move on to the moments that were not fixed and will still infuriate the players.
We will also touch on the negative aspects that appeared during the development and updating of the game.


You probably ask what the developer was doing all the time?

1. And the answer is very simple, he carefully and gently hooked people on donation.
2. At first, he carefully showed everyone what a cool person he was, then when he saw the success of the game, he began to monetize.
3. You dear players are now going to tell me hey, calm down, all games have this stuff.
4. Yes, there is, but how do you like the lag of the game version in 2 or 3 updates for the donation versions?)
5. Plus, you get a version in which there are old errors and they have not been fixed for you, why? Yes, because the fixes are already in the donation version, is the hint clear?
6. 
   
7. But I think the last straw was his show with paid access and when the players finally realized what his policy towards the players was leading to.
8. And then his whining didn't work anymore when the version for his cows was leaked.

He tried to make a drama, but alas, it didn't work.
It's a shame for the game, if the author wasn't trying to make money, it could have turned out quite well.

Yes, any author wants to make money, but here it was the goal to make money and not to create a game, I hope you understand.

By the way, a useful tip, it applies to both this game and another game from this author.
The author will not correct anything here, because he is offended by the whole world.
And as for the second game, do not download the version that he gives to the players, he intentionally makes mistakes.

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.