HTML - Course of Temptation [v0.6.3b] [Anthaum]

Still very barebone, but I already like it. HTML game without bloated size due to abusive usage of real porn images instead of plot is rare, and it's refreshing to see.

1. Speaking of barebone, the gameplay gets repetitive quite fast even without tweaking the system to your favor and cheating your way. There's still no real consequence of your choice (maybe except for removing class bully), certain event triggered by your appeal rarely happened I actually have to edit part of the game just to experience them more often.
2. Content wise still a lot left to be desired, from activities to clothing and world, and NPC interaction still lacking other than hook up and hang-out, not enough depth beside that for now.
3. Story and originality? Definitely not original, you still need to get money every week just like many games (HTML or not) mechanic, story still at prelude level for now to allow current repetition flow.

Personal note: Playing as slut isn't that punishing so far, might be back when there is punishment of some kind.

Course of Temptation is obviously trying to ape off Degrees of Lewdity(it's in the name), and distinguishes itself by frontloading development with a billion different cosmetic options. Unfortunately, there is no in-game sprite, so all these purely cosmetic options don't matter at all. There is also no challenge to this game aside from the grind and having to manage needs, which tends to boil down to being in a certain place at a certain time. Overall, I'd say this is less DoL clone, and far more text-based Sims if your Sim had zero autonomy.

You might be turned off from the lack of images but the content and the writing heavily makes up for it. Everyone's already saying it but it's basically like DoL. But it's a DoL where you're allowed to have some power instead of just being the eternal victim. (nothing wrong with those games but sometimes I wanna be the bully)

Been having a great time with this game. It's pretty much DOL college edition. I have experience the last few versions of this game and I am very hopeful. Really solid foundation and I am looking forward to future updates. I initially felt that it's lack of visuals when compared to DOL was a bad thing. But the more I played the less it mattered. If the game's future development was focused solely on gameplay like story, activities, world building and not visuals. I feel like there would be no issue. Though I usually look for visuals in games, I was still entertained despite the lack of them. I truly hope that this game continues to be developed and that there will be a lot more things to do. Like maybe relationships since they feel somewhat lacking. You could have sex, go on dates. But the dialogue and text are pretty repetitive and boring or maybe empty. Great game so far 10/10.

Haven't played a lot but this is promising. It's giving me Degrees of Lewdity vibes, except a lot less extreme and giving the player a lot more agency. It's held back a bit by the lack of images, unfortunately.

Waiting impatiently for updates!

Fun College sim. Customization of main character is detailed and I like the amount of things we can do as a student. That being said, I wished there was more ... deviant things to do. For example, bondage or bdsm..

really good game, not without any flaws but the 4,5 rating is not possible so ...

well written,a tiny bit grindy at first then it is totally ok. nice customisation of the character and the world you play in

Great game, 100% one of the best on the market. Clean, well thought out and properly implemented systems, great writing.

Unlike most text-based games - very good understanding of volume and pace.
Unlike most sandbox games - actually stimulating after first ever scene due to, again, great systems in place.

The only thing I personally could wish for - more options for character to be scumbag rather than solely experiencing actions of scumbags.

+ Fun Setting/Premise
+ Global NPC Gender/Orientation Settings
+ Shows Promise

= Decent Characters, best friend had the most content by far, but its not fleshed out enough atm to be anything special
= Decent skill/perk system, with perks being inclinations

- Grindy Hell, and this is with using cheats and an xp multiplier

One thing this desperately needs is the ability to turn off needs

Maybe implement a system where an '!' will identify events you haven't seen so you actually bother to visit facilities that are just super repetitive, ex: bathroom and food being the worst as its only extra clicks

Or maybe add an automation feature for certain needs?

- The Global NPC Gender/Genital/Orientation Settings cannot be set to lower than 5% so you can't completely avoid combinations you don't want, but they will be rather uncommon as a result. Why?

- The milkshake quest is terrible in just about every way imaginable.
Its grindy rng? It took ages to finish for me.
It locks you out of progressing with the best friend until you complete it.
It also lacks an actual ending of you recording the guilty party in this and reporting them.
I'd argue against locking characters to grindy content that only takes place once a week!

It is still a work in progress but it still manages to entertain a lot, the story is fun and it is not difficult to understand.
There are still things to add, fix some bugs but for now it is a good game

Good game with a nice start going to play more to see what to think about it

-As for what I think the game can add is more character job options would be nice with the character going slowly through the semester some thing the character is studying can lead to them getting a job in field they study which would be a good addition.

- also more clothes options would be nice and maybe events that start up about the clothes you wear.

-maybe add an option to add more than one childhood friend

-maybe a martial arts class our character can take with tournaments and events

That's most I can think more now.

v0.4.26
A clone of a popular game, but without everything that makes that game good.

It features way too many stats, including things like food, which makes it feel like you're playing The Sims, if having a snack required a dozen clicks.

The very first scene is a man cumming on your face in a crowded public school bus, and it doesn't give you any options to fight back or ask for help. This is literally the aftermath of the scene:

"Wow," says Juliette. "That happened." Her shirt is spattered with dark wet spots. You're sure it's all over your shirt too... probably in your hair... frankly, you're a little afraid to find out.

"It sure did," you say. "I feel like a lot of things just happened."

Juliette laughs. "I bet."

Since the game doesn't have any pictures, you would expect the writing to make up for that, but as you can see, it's far from decent.

It also includes some of the gender terminology used by modern kids, so half of the time you don't know what the game is talking about unless you go out of your way to research. For example, this is one of the first choices in the game:
"Your best friend Arely (nonbinary AFAB)"
All friends are bad?

The travelling system is identical to that of the other game, same for the options during class.
Character descriptions are exceedingly bad. This is an actual example, and far from the worst one I've seen: "a thick-bodied eye-catchingly dressed blue-haired college boy".

You get 1-2 sentence screens with descriptions like that all the time, and they don't seem to do anything: they'll increase stats that vanish by the next screen.

After 1 hour I didn't see anything that resembled sexual content, besides some mentions of somebody making sex noises inside of a room as you walked by. That's fine for a VN with a great story. For a text-only sandbox without a story or art? No, thank you.

In the end, this game managed to remove all of the mechanics that characterize the other game and only kept the least user-friendly features: the bloated menus, ridiculous descriptions, poorly generated repetitive scenes, and clickfesty elements.

A shame, because making a game like this takes work - if only that effort had been focused on better and more interesting mechanics, this could've been enjoyable. Instead what it offers is tedium, grind, and boredom.

A very nice game, essentially a casual clone of DoL (not in a bad sense!) By casual I mean being more.... normal? Instead of paranormal-ish town teeming with rapists and horny beasts you get a regular college campus, and you're less of a victim, but mechanics are basically the same.

One notable difference is that all characters are permanent and pre-generated at the start of the game, not unlike HHS+ or Influencing. That makes encounters more engaging since you know you can meet this person later.

It's still somewhat repetitive and sparse in terms of content, and some things need rebalancing, but even in its current state it's worth spending a couple of hours.

Extremely promising game, you won't get lost anywhere looking for certain passages. Characters are well-written and the entirety of the game is fun to explore, became one of my favorite projects around in no time !

Hope the dev keeps up with the work they're doing right now because it's beyond amazing.

Usually I avoid text only games but for some reason i tried this one.
And I didnt regret it.
Its a bit repetive but its okay and somehow even part of the fun here.

Overall I had and still have much fun with this game.
Though I would love a few Ai generated pics here and there, would really add much flavour.
Looking forward to the next updates.

game got a lot of potential but is already pretty great, waiting for even more content to be added; like gloryholes.
also adding a way to find people on elkbook and go meet them would be great because doing the "fuck all football team member" quest is hard if your not in the cheerleader team
and on the phone it would be good if you could have the contacts in alphabetical order so it's easier to find the right one

Amazing game, I find myself playing it for hours, but the biggest flaw of the game is that events/content is heavily tied to RNG. You can go multiple days without anything interesting happening, for example. I wanted to progress The Classroom Harasser content, but the bully rarely ever shows up. Compare that to the bully in Degrees of Lewdity where you can actively pursue being bullied or avoid it.

A change in triggering events is needed to really make this game something special, otherwise this game is great and should be played.

A lot of effort was put into this game, but it needs a rebalance.
Welcome to the grindfest of your life, where to learn a person's name you need to successfully interact with him five or more times. But at the same time, a girl with whom you only talked once, can casually ask you to lick her cunt, because it was a very stressful day. However, you can't ask anyone the same, despite your day being full of stress, like manually doing homework, or manually going to work in another city for 9$ an hour, while your own mother takes 100 each week and you local gangsters take the rest, regularly robbing you on your campus territory. Well, at least you can smoke pot for free all day in a front lawn of your college administration.
Oh, and this is a porn game, so on top of money and grades, you need to grind your other parameters, like sluttines: if you will let people on the bus grab your genitals for several game weeks, you will reach lever 3, and you will get the ability to pee in a shower.
But, surprisingly, all of this goofiness started to bother me only at the 6th hour of playing. Because it's an effortful project, and there is a lot of staff to do.
Now, about wokeness. Like all american games, this one has it. The first flag for me was the un-optional presence of binary-nonbinary and all of that, but in the game itself there are relatively small amount of these people', so I just ignored them. Much worse is the situation with races: every character is prosidurally generated, and skin colors are distributed randomly, but there are only 2 white variations and 8 brown ones. So this collage is pretty much in India, except everyone is dying their hair the most ridiculous color.
Anyway, it was fun for some time, but the amount of flaws at some point will start to wear you down.

This game is a blast! Some of the kinks are a bit hard to get unlocked without save editing, but otherwise I love it!!

Also rememer, it is fairly early in the roadmap. This can only get better as more of the planned content gets added!

By the by, I strongly recommend ignoring and/or blocking the people whining about current social issues in the forums. This is a porn game. And, yes, this is coming from a LONG-TIME member of the LGBTQ+ community.

Not gonna lie but this the best textbased real life sim out there in my honest opinion apart from the JAVA NewLife. This game can potentially be on par with Degrees of Lewdity and COC. Although igenerally feel there could be a bit more fleshing out the social interactions side including forming hard relationships and not just date but also there should be a general ability to talk to the people present in an area in a natural manner apart from certain social situations or socialize actions. Also there could be a small turnbased brawling skill system based on rnd in certain situations like bar fights, sport rivalry, bullying and fighting back etc.