Java - Corrupted Saviors [Release 63b] [CSDev]

Ugh, this game, honestly! Even reviewing it is frustrating in some ways. I'm giving Corrupted Saviors (r23) 4 stars, but it's way more complex than a simple reductive score. Truthfully, I could've given 3 and maybe even 2, and these would be proper scores, too.

At its core this text-based strategy, portrait packs notwithstanding, is about building combos, juggling turns and moves, all in order to inflict ludicrous amounts of damage to the opposition. TRULY LUDICROUS amounts of damage, as the game is built around exponentiation. It has a unique and complex stat system, an expansive tech and perk tree. All in all, it's a fairly complex strategy game. So far so good! In addition to that, it's a sex strategy game. Not a strategy game with sex scenes slapped onto it as an afterthought, no. Different ways of sex, humiliation, molestation etc etc, are the core gameplay. Satisfying combos, dishing out billions of sex-themed damage, it's kinda fun.

But holy shit, Corrupted Saviors is infuriatingly bad at providing the player all the info on mechanics, highlighting what info is most relevant, cutting out fluff, and overall it's a masterpiece of UX disaster. And it's even obvious why it is this way: once you commit the mechanics, the tech tree, and hotkeys to memory, it's all smooth sailing from there. This is undoubtedly how the Dev interacts with their own game. UI is simply a blind spot for them because they never have to learn it, they can play the game with their eyes closed. In truth, the strategy layer is basically a puzzle with no AI to oppose you, so the game does not have a really steep learning curve. But its UI surely does.

It would not be fatal, but Corrupted Saviors lacks one key feature that could redeem this flaw and push it well into masterpieces category. It's not rewarding the player for trying and failing. There are strategy games much harder than Corrupted Saviors, but to keep players engaged while learning the ropes, they manufacture a beautiful disaster that is fun to watch in its own right. “The rocket I built failed, but boy was the explosion fabulous. I want to blow up build an even bigger one!” Unfortunately, in Corrupted Saviors failure state is not a bang, only a whimper. You fail to make sufficient progress in X days, bam, final battle that is not mechanically different from a regular one, bam, a short game over screen. Laaame.

Overall, I feel Corrupted Saviors is a decent game IF you like its core genre and IF you are okay with reading a manual, a guide or two, ideally a wiki. But if you are —like me— hell-bent on figuring out games without relying on external aid... it's going to be rather frustrating. I had some fun compiling a list of simple UX improvements, and perhaps this little exercise prevented me from abandoning Corrupted Saviors half way through. If you think about it, I was manufacturing my own beautiful disaster experience using utter failure that is game's UI as a prop. But that's not the way games should be enjoyed.

TLDR: interesting game with a horrendous UI. Be prepared to have a bad time learning it. It can be fun but only once you master it and start making actual progress ingame. Is it worth it? I honestly can't tell. 4 star rating reflects personal experience and is not an endorsement or a recommendation.

Very strong title in text-based genre.
The most important point here is writing, and , boy, is it good. Plot itself is pretty simple cliche out of hentai - transforming magical girls VS demon spawn fueled by corruption of humanity, with grimdark tones, like in Taimanin universe. But writing is smutty and has attention to details that manage to incorporate complexities and variations of game's battle system with some creative use of java string arrays.

Speaking of the latter, it's well though-out and ties in into corruption theme closely, which makes it intriguing, if a bit hard to learn. Heroines all have their own personality , quirks, and relationships that need to be addressed properly if you want to exploit their vulnerabilities and gain enough strength before time limit runs out, and you have to kill or fully convert them to dark side or perish.

UI is minimalistic and non-obtrusive, though the amount of clicks you need to do is sometimes a drag, especially when you finally figured out good combat strategy and need to stick to it from battle to battle. Wouldn't mind some sort of auto-pilot that you can save your commands into. There's already some sort of comment writing system to share playthroughs between players, maybe it's a step towards QoL features?

This game can give you hours of fun already, but it has huge potential . You can already see it with addition of endless campaign where you go from city to city building up your ranks of fallen heroines and training them into proper minions, and heroine portraits that leaves me hopeful for more carefully selected illustrations in the future.

Wish the dev best of luck and tons of support!

Deep and interesting combat system, lots of really erotic situations, very complex and rewarding gameplay, this is the game for you if you don't mind text based games and want both a fun game AND a sexy game.

Seriously, the combat can be tough but it's so rewarding to figure it out and dominate the enemies. There's a lot of content in this and it just keeps growing.

A good and fun game with high playability, the normal difficulty isn't hard at all as long as you understand how the game works. The mental transformation is pretty well-written and the mechanics are genuinely fun. The personality system brings variables to the game and encourages replays. Though I do not understand how the forsaken system work.

Overall, I'd give what's on display here a 4/5 stars. It captures the fun of fighting and defeating a magical girl squad in such a creative and mechanically satisfying way. It's a little light on content so far, but development is ongoing and what's here already looks well done.

Only reason it's not 5/5 stars is because we could use more, and because there are some parts late game where fights can get a little press-next-to-skip-y since you know what new thing you're trying to reach and how to get there, and nothing unpredictable or new is going to happen on the way. That's not enough to take it down to 4/5 stars for me so I'll round up.

You will probably lose your first run, even after reading the guide, but once you get how everything interacts it's a straight train to rampage town.

If you're not aware, Corrupted Saviors puts you in the role of a demon lord attempting to take over a city who is being opposed by three Magical Girl/Sentai heroes or heroines named the Chosen. It's your job to spend 50 days slowly warping them to your whim by manipulating their morals and emotions before your final invasion.

It's a wonderfully written instance-based game with escalating scenarios, as you'd hope for a game that's completely text based, and it's also a very interesting number management game otherwise. There's just a few typos or bugs here or there in the text, but they're easily overlooked and don't interrupt the main gameplay loop.

The biggest problem with the game is that fundamentally there's only one proper strategy for success at the start of any run and thus very little incentive to vary a any run from day 1 to day 12 once you know it. None of the power ups seem to change the INJU/ANTI+HATE combo from being the strongest opener on the Chosen, and with the 50 day limit you feel punished if you're not optimizing your usage of time. Still, there's more that's yet to be added to the game, including implementation of the Forsaken mechanic into regular gameplay, which I suspect will add an absolute mountain of content to the game when finished.

All in all, this is an excellent idea whose concept is perfectly supported by the game's mechanics. Well done; I look forward to the expansion of this concept going forward!

Edit: I wrote this review probably 4 or 5 updates ago and have not had a chance to test the new game play. It's possible that my previous criticism has been addressed!

Edit 2/10/2022: The game is a good bit harder now, and the previous strategy no longer works. You have to be attentive to each Chosen's specific weaknesses and have a strong understanding of the game's unique mechanics to win now. It's difficult, but totally playable, very well written, and stilll very fun.

Edit 1/2/2023: Minor grammatical fix.

The reason I play porn games is to find games with sexy or esoteric frameworks around a porn focus. I'm constantly frustrated by the number of RPGs and Metroidvania games that masquerade as porn games for the simple fact that they just aren't by their very nature. Typically, they're just mediocre platformers or RPG battlers bootstrapped to a few sexy pictures when you win(or lose, even worse). There's a handful of those that can rise above the trash, but the vast majority seem like horrible cash grabs trying to capture an audience with a little T and A.

It's games like this that remind me why I bother looking through porn games at all.

This is a game about the porn. There's no pointless battle system that has nothing to do with the sexy, no platforming required to attain the ass, and the story orbits around sex and corruption all the way through. There's not a single picture of a tit or ass in the entire game, but it hits the mark where so many games miss it - a sexy fantasy with gameplay elements focused on the sex.

And the gameplay is pretty phenomenal as well. As a 4x player, I like a game that can force me to really consider its mechanics in order to master it, and Corrupted Saviors really delivers. The magical girls aren't your typical sex game protagonist, ready to lay down and take it as soon as you hit the kill yourself button. They're army destroying boss characters all to willing to rip you a new one with the power of love and friendship. You need to analyze their personalities, find their weaknesses and develop a battle strategy that can exploit them if you want to avoid becoming another lifeless husk in their wake (especially if you build up their rage!).

If you're into what this game offers, it's just phenomenal. It might lack pictures, but it captures the essence of what sex games are about. If you're the type willing to read for your metaphorical supper, I can't offer a better game as a recommendation. It's even got an option to change the absolutely brutal attacks in the game into tickling, just in case you're the squeamish type who doesn't like to read about broken bones, incineration, electrocution and large object insertion with their sexy (like me, thanks a ton by the way).

If I had to choose a weakness in the game, I suppose it would be the power curve. Your mindless horde isn't too effective against the magical girls in the early game and generating evil energy to field a strong commander to help is expensive. However, smart gameplay will quickly see your horde molesting increasingly willing corrupted saviors on the daily. In fact, you can find yourself setting up 20+ turn surrounds, which frankly can become a little tedious. There are a few mechanics that shorten that duration, assuming your magical girl opponents are corrupted enough to utilize them (read EXTREME MURDER), but there's a bit of an awkward timing window where you might find yourself reading a lot of the same text boxes as one magical girl is molested and the other two... cheer her on? Nevertheless, it's pretty minor in the scheme of things and frankly it just felt like sweet success to me through most of it.

In any case, great game, I loved it.

As others have mentioned, the learning curve for Corrupted Saviors is steep - even with the in-game tutorial and the much more detailed text file included, it takes a while to really grasp the mechanics. I've played about a dozen hours and still don't really understand how most things work. But underneath the complicity is one of the best slowburn corruption stories I've come across. The game technically concludes after day 50 but cheats & endless mode gets enabled afterwards, allowing you to really explore the possibilities for each character and how their interactions with each other shape their downfall. Excellent combination of strategy and text-based deviancy.

Probably the best corruption game I've played once I finally figured out what I needed to do. The only issue is the really steep learning curve in order to do anything as the game does a poor job telling you all its complexities outside of a text file bundled in the game.

Three things you need to know.

One - It's Java.
Two - It's a Text game.
Three - Sometimes great things come in shitty packages.

It's a corruption game, of breaking the will of heroes by a demon (player) through combat encounters. This game has the polish ingredients, and the writing skill to knock it out of the park.

There are plenty amount of contents already. And the game-play demands at least a bit of planning and understanding of the game-mechanics. Is it fun? Not for everybody. Is it rewarding? Very.

The tutorial might be lacking compared to the curve of the game-play. And for a game that is supposed to be played for hours, UI is terrible for the eyes.

Four stars. Because despite many drawbacks, this is, no doubt, a gem.

Try it if you enjoy corruption-focus games. Might be one of the best in a while.

It takes a bit of doing to figure things out but once you do this is a fun and unique short game.
This text based game doesn't beat around the bush and doesn't ramble on like many of adult games. The corruption is fun and I recommend the tickling option.

Don't let the outward appearance fool you, despite lacking any art this game has a surprising degree of mechanical depth, with solid writing overall. The gameplay, while seemingly simple at a glance leaves a lot of room for clever strategy (Incidentally I strongly suggest reading the manual included, the tutorial misses certain important elements). I will note that the writing does get a little repetitive once you get to the later stages, but overall it remains pretty strong throughout. I strongly suggest this to anyone looking for more "game" in their porn game as this one is a cut above the norm mechanically

Theres a concept here for sure but its drowned beneath a mass of unnecesarily complicated gameplay. Not really worth it in the end. Neither the guide included with the game nor the tutorial explain anything, making it a grindy, repetitive experience. While the flavor text is good, from what ive seen the events and such are varied, but ultimately it is too grindy for its own good.

edit for version 32 i think? It got a bit better but the dev keeps adding new features instead of fleshing out the existing ones, making it even more complicated and tedious

another edit for version 37: i appreciate the fact theres an atual hint system within the game about aversions so i bump the rating up to 3. Still barely understandable mess of a mechanics but at least one thing is now explained a little bit.

edit for version 43: bugs, previous saves dont work, still no cheat option from the get go which is equally retarded and cunty. We are back at one star boys.

Found the Gameplay entertaining and yet with a good bit of reasonable difficulty. Once you figure out the gameplay mechanics (and there is an extremely detatiled tutorial note in the files) it can be very entertaining. Additionially the Dev seems to have the right mindset of properly completing the main gameplay mechanics and setting a rock solid foundation before becoming overwhelmed with side additions like so many other Devs. I am looking very much towards the future developments of the game and eagerly await further updates.

A very promising strategy game with DIY corruption of 3 procedurally-generated (or customized) heroes/heroines. The idea is great and the implementation is... good where it is possible for it to be good, considering the shaky foundation that is the gameplay.

Pros:

- The game is about corrupting characters through internalized physical, mental and sexual abuse, and it does that well. There are quite a few different personalities the heroes can have, and you can see how each vulnerability break affects their personality in a way that is consistent with how the character is described. E.g. if you have a heroine who uses a cool public image to cover up her deep insecurities, you can tell how much it hurts her to lose that due to a public humiliation.

- An insane amount of scenes, and permutations to each scene, based on broken vulnerabilities, personality types and relationships between the characters.

- Rewarding strategic gameplay, at least in that window between figuring it out and completely breaking the game.

- The writing is appropriately grim; whoever is narrating knows the futility of resisting the player's efforts, and you get the feeling that the Chosen are like lab rats being observed in a sadistic experiment.

- No RNG. The combat is 100% (or almost) deterministic, so you can savescum and try out different tactics without RNGsus muddying up your results.

Cons:

- The learning cliff. The gameplay is unconventional, with a lot of mechanics to take in all at once. Some of which really aren't that important or worth agonizing over, like the pitiful amount of Angst the Chosen burn off with their extracurricular activities. It doesn't help that many of the ingame tips are use flavor text (e.g. "she's come to associate sexual pleasure with defeat in combat") rather than game terms (she's had her Pleasure vulnerability broken). To be fair, there is a tutorial and pretty detailed manual.

- Pacing. Once you're good at the game, you can destroy it within a few ingame days after around day 10, when you've got your basic upgrades. This is because snowballing in the form of exponentially-increasing damage is at the game's core. The more vulnerabilities you break, the easier it is to rack up more circumstance levels, which have a multiplicative effect on how much damage you're doing. The combat is all about racking up multipliers, and it very quickly gets out of hand if you know what you're doing. It's not even that there's one broken strategy that can be patched out, it feels like the problem is fundamental and you need to purposely play poorly if you want to have control over the corruption arc. I'd say there needs to be more stuff pushing against the exponential damage increase, though ideally a game should not be designed around snowballing in the first place, especially in a subgenre where you want to savor every step of the process.

Nitpicks:

- While you can play male Chosen, it largely seems to be M/M / sissy-themed, as well as some pegging and such. Would be nice to have hetero corruption as well.

Its a weird game to rate, as I'd say the strongest aspect is the writing, but at the same time, that is its weakest aspect. Because what is there is well written. It presents an interesting (if overly grimdark) world and gives insight on the minds of people who are being judged harshly by the overly selfish public for daring to try and hide from the literal monsters trying to fuck their ass so hard they'd literally die if they weren't immortals. Monsters that casually break their arms for giggles while raping them.
I find the violence kind off-putting myself, because its so over the top sometimes, but you can turn that off. And be left with the lewd stuff. Which is similarly well written (if extreme) and hot.

But this is speaking purely of the quality of the writing. What about the quanity?

Quantity is... lacking. You can and will, once you get a hang of how the game works, see every scene within a day, very easily. You will see most during fight sex scenes within the first 2-4 actually good rounds you have v the heroes.

The girls seem like they'd have a lot of personality variance since there's this little quiz you can do to make a team, but they really only seem to come in 3-4 flavors of identical girl.

But that brings us to the next point. How does the game work? Is it fun?

Its... a game that presents many options, overloading the player in choice, while ultimately coming down to doing the same thing over and over again, for the same few reactions, to get to the acts you actually want to see.

How it it works is, to simplify, like this:
You choose to attack a girl
You win that first fight and do shit
You buy the ability to scan her weaknesses
Do that

OKAY
Now you can actually play the game without wasting half your actions probing weaknesses. This scan feature should be baseline. It being 1 point means the first fight fucking sucks and is a terrible first impression.

Now that you have the scan, you use it and see some bars. One side corrosponds to shit you can do now, the other to shit you can do later. So pick the action with the biggest line on the side you can do now.

Once that stat says 'level 1', do it to another. And repeat. Until the girls evac/extermination is nearing max or you feel like it.

Now surround, check the bars, do the same thing again but looking at the stuff on the other side.

At some point other girls will arrive, and surrounding their allies debuffs them in a way the game doesn't even attempt to explain that doesn't matter. Just know it does this. So do the same thing to the next girl and she'll go down faster. And then a third one joins.

So you just do this. You look at bars, you hit the biggest one, then the next.

Why do you do this? For EVIL ENERGY. What is EVIL ENERGY. Its grind. Mindless grind for the completely game-breaking I-win tools that are commanders, which not only consistently 1 shot surround girls, but actually SUPER SURROUND them, which does vastly higher damage, making all other girls get destroyed faster while its happening.
It gives other shit, but 90% of the tree otherwise is stat padding. Only commander adds actual new dialogue, sex and the like.
This means until you unlock commanders, and their higher forms, and their (to go EVEN FURTHER BEYOND!!) combined or super combined forms, you won't see most scenes. You are stuck with just the basic shit. And the basic shit is itself harder to see without commanders.

But summoning commanders costs evil energy. So does using their best forms. And extending duration. And extra summons per match. You pay to unlock these options, then again to use them.

I don't understand why this is. It just means the game is more boring and repetitive if you don't use them, but you are paying your progress if you do. And repetition, because of the aforementioned lack of writing, and extremely simple gameplay loop, is the games core issue to begin with.
It doesn't need to feel more repetitive.

And even when you are at max rank, with a super duper commander, can consistently gain enough EVIL ENERGY to use it every match, it can be a struggle to see the scenes you want, such as making your commander actually fuck a girl. Because eventually they'll just fly off and effectively be invul regardless of what you do. So you may see it once, then the round ends, and you go back in. To go through every step again. To see it once more on the same enemy.

At that point the rounds ending feels entirely arbitary.
There is no functional difference between rounds beyond a certain point.
All them ending does is reset progress towards the scenes we are playing the game to see.

There is a cheat option for evil energy at least, although I played it without using that, but no option to prevent matches ending arbitarily or being able to use commander infinite times to truly enjoy their scenes without having to wait 30 turns for your guys to stop anal probing hero number 15235

Oh yea, that's another issue with the game. Succesful matches last VERY long. But as mentioned, text is very samey. So you just start skipping everything, as you can't just end the round when you want, only when they do. And it won't end if anyone is being molested.

So in summary;
The game is well written, but there is little to read
Its mechanics are poorly explained, but so absusable you don't need to understand them to break the game
The games progression loop incentivizes playing the game in a less fun way to progress faster
The core gameplay loop feels completely meaningless once you get to a certain level of strength, as you are so overpowering the girls actions lose all meaning (not that they meant much to begin with) and you are just racing against an arbitary number to see the scenes you want before it closes


I originally gave this a 4 when I was going to write this, but after writing it, honestly, its just too fundementally flawed to rate it higher.

The gameplay is... not the best. But its kind of fine for what it is. Could use the aforementioned options for inf commander/ending round early/preventing them from running away. Its not technically a well balanced system or anything, but as a method for the writing to be presented, it functions well.

The problem here is the writing. Its just not there enough. So the writing this gameplay loop presents to us grows stale very fast. Within a day or two.

Imma drop it a star. Most of the focus of updates for like a year has been on the 'forsaken' system and its a complete mess. Without cheats you basically need to beat the game to get these, which you then train to act like commanders. But the way they work makes no sense.
To even have a forsaken, without cheats, you'll have already repeatedly brutalized, raped, live broadcasted etc cruelty to the girls. They're used to it. And when like this they'd still fight you every single day.
As a forsaken? You can make them, after spending an entire game to unlock them, completely worthless and only able to gain 1% stamina (of 20 needed to act) per day in 2 actions. 2. 2 actions comparable to any given turn in a fight when they're the 'good' guys.
The only reason this system is useable at all right now is because everyone just cheats it to spawn fresh ones. And even then its just completely nonsensical and bad. A mindless repetittive grind of the same scenes and skipping days to find the special number where you can make the girls do anything without having to wait multiple days between use (whereas commanders have their full suite unlocked via the simple ee system and can be used every day)

Was a little dubious at first as am usually not a huge fan of text based games, but I have to say this game is fantastic! The writining is excellent and the combat system keeps things interesting by making you think about how best to attack each Chosen's weakness.
I cannot wait to see how the game develops in the future.

This game is good. Despite steep learning curve and slow start it gets really good when you start understanding mechanics. Corruption is made well and description are really good and varied. It's fun to watch heroines get corrupted more and more.

The only problem I found is snowballing at endgame - if you manage to get good combo and break heroines game gets really easy, but maybe it was intended.

TLDR: Quite a good game with much potential. But vanilla-lovers beware.

Very rich in mechanics to the point of actual strategy. Good H-games tend to be good games first and H-games second, and this ticks the boxes. Helps that I'm quite a fan of text-based simulators and this game certainly is that. More systemic and involved than your pages of paragraphs Choose Your Own Adventure.

However, the corruption themes are not only of sexual nature, but also that of the degeneration of your three heroine's mental, physical, and social health. You'll rape them, beat them within an inch of their lives, and watch them turn from pure-hearted and well-meaning to abusive, self-destructive, and suicidal. You'll watch as their friends abandon them and their social lives crumble, and as the optimism and hope drain from their eyes as you break them.

So unless you're a fan of ryona or are otherwise a sadist, you might be turned off. I know I was.

Fantastic game. Most fun I've had actually playing the game and exploring the mechanics on this site. Fantastic theme as well. I think this is a unique method of corruption and it really appealed to me.