Unity - Completed - Corruption Ranch [v1.0.2] [Stormtasty]

This "game" is more likely a pre-alpha than a complete game. No meaningful dialogues, empty scenes, little to no story, broken scripts, weird visuals that were drawn by 6yo kids. Cool idea of that game is completely ruined by development in any aspect.

THIS IS NOT A COMPLETED GAME. This game was abandoned. There are literally placeholders and an incomplete quest.

The Good:
1. Decent breeding mechanics. Randomized trait and stat boosts keep you guessing.
2. Very simple gameplay loop.
3. Somewhat decent artwork here and there.

The Bad:
1. Corruption system seems counter-intuitive.
2. Game is not optimized by any stretch of the imagination. Prepare to play with your GPU to keep the framerate under control.
3. There are two "quests" in the game. One is incomplete and the other breaks at random.
4. Little in the way of actual content, and no actual way to "win" the game.
5. Monsters that you can't get rid of (shamblers).

This game appears to have had some promise, but due to its incomplete nature it ends up being very unsatisfying.

The premise of the game is managing monsters and doing many varying things with them, to grow your farm like other farming indie games. This idea really got my interest, but sadly the game is not very good.

Inside of the game there is only around 5 monsters to breed and harvest produce from too sell, and while theyre able to breed with one another, it feels very disappointing, especially so when in regards to the art but I will get to that. Another aspect with the gameplay is with the little amount that there is, I ran into multiple glitches and these are not small glitches but of the 3 quests in the game I ran into glitches in 2 of the 3. This 2 of 3 glitches is a big deal when the game only has around an hour of content if you really are into the breeding system.

Onto the art, the art is very mediocre and there's an ok amount of scenes (maybe 20-30 if high balling). My biggest gripe with the design of the game is sound. I think there is only a single sound inside of the game, when you click on things, everywhere else be ready for dead silence. I was listening to music while playing, showcasing how silent the game is.

The game has good premise but sadly does not execute any of them well and the game itself is very short and the only ok system in the game is the breeding system and even this system is ok at best. Hopefully they keep working on the game.

Played it an hour or two. Did not finish.

The premice isn't that bad, it's basically the same thing as breeding/Farm games like Breeding Season or Cloud Meadow : You inherit a monster farm and you need to breed monsters, sell them, earn money, breed better monsters, etc.

You can see the dev either A) was an inexperienced dev when he made this game, or B) he was bored/burned out of it and quickly pushed this project out the door to start a new one. You can still see some of the default Unity UI elements for some of the menus, there's no sound whatsoever, and as for the sex scenes, they're either crudely animated or are just still images or unfinished sketches, sometimes with only 1 still, bland image.

The artstyle itself is nothing to write home about, you'll forget those sex scenes in the next hour after you play this game. Although, I really want to complain about the monsters' designs, because there are only 4 or 5 of them, but they are as uninspired and bland as you can imagine.

I don't even know why this game is marked as completed. Just 'Abandoned' would have been enough, because it's clear the dev has given up early.

Premise isn't awful and the art styles not that bad compared to some other games
But the fact the game is so small and brings my PC to temperatures well above any other game I've run triple AAA or otherwise makes me wary of it at best and raises red flags at worst

[Rev @ Corruption Ranch v1.0.2]

At time of review this game is tagged as complete. I dissent.

Art's subjectively alright; I couldn't do any better, but I wouldn't be commissioning anybody for mad cash.

Writing's virtually nonexistant, and still manages to come across as halting (and possibly poorly translated).

Porn's alright. Any anal is too much anal in a breeding game.

Gameplay has issues and is the source of the missing stars. Corruption = gameover irritates me almost as much as pregnancy = gameover. Makes about as much sense in this particular setting. The UI is roughshod, tooltips are needed but absent, early game tuning is hosed and tutorial is nigh useless. I appreciate the tentacles and feel that they are sorely lacking in other breeding games, but that's about all the innovation on display here.

TLDR: Going 0-complete in one post seems a bit premature.