HTML - Crucial Investigation [v1.89n] [root]

This is an incredibly frustrating, overly grindy, and needlessly convoluted game. And even though it claims to have a "walkthrough" included in the UI, it's more of a collection of hints, which may or may not be valid, depending on how far you've gotten.
The main issue is that the actual story progress is locked behind vague parameters, which require you to spend hours upon hours clicking and repeating events just to move the story forward. And even when it does, all you have to look forward to is more grind.
Does the game have lots of content? Yes. There are lots of random events, paths and secrets to uncover if you want to develop carpal tunnel syndrome with all the repetitive clicking. And even then, the game often forces you to watch the same events over and over again.
Is the game fun? It can be - if you're a masochist or if you enjoy wasting hours of your life making sure your MC showers, puts on makeup, and goes to school every single day without any tangible sense of progress. At some point all of this should be automatic.
Are the visuals okay? Not really. It's just a collection of hazily thrown together porn pics and videos, without any care for in-scene continuity. Like most games in this genre, the MC morphs into multiple porn actresses in the same scene in order to deliver sexual content.
Furthermore, even if you do everything right, and put in 30 hours or so to make sure every single story thread is properly developed, the game can suddenly lock you into a dead end, for no apparent reason, which happened to me more than twice already. So I deleted it.
In my humble opinion, this game is the definition of bloat - a poorly optimized, badly coded, and physically painful game to play, with a story that's loaded with clichés and porn logic. Although this is not a quick cash grab from the developer, it's quite honestly a terrible game.
It's also strange that it's got real porn, mixed in with Daz3D renders (for the character portrait). If all the visuals were exclusively Daz3D, rendered by the developer himself, then the level of sexual content and variety alone would have been a massive achievement.
Unfortunately, there's no way to untangle the game from its convoluted code, or to streamline the story into steps that are easy to follow (for the sake of progression). So the game will continue, relatively broken and grindy, until the developer decides to end it or abandon it.
This is a shame, because I see that a lot of effort has been put into the game and all its variables. Imagine what a developer with this level of commitment could do in RenPy or in Unity. Instead, it's wasted on an HTML game with stolen porn assets, and locked paywall content.
If you're looking for a quick fap, just watch porn. Your hand (and your sanity) will thank you.

This "game" is terrible. There is no story. It's super repetitive. If you don't choose the "sex path" choice on your first choice, you get a bad end at the end of the first day, regardless of the other choices you make.

I dont feel to reward this author with a positive review.
His/her/(or whatever self-identifies) works are a grindfest with repetitive and monotonous content. 4 years minimum without any real improvement.

The game is nothing but grind. Developer is lazy bastard who does not want to add automatic routines for shower and makeup. There is no skip button. Progress is slow as dead turtle, and god damn it the the flying F... Why there is old safe you can't access. Patreon content Patreons must be either verry rich or verry stupid to pay money for this garbadge. Just for pure curiosity how long it will take to reach end I played for 6 hours of repeatedly same pictures and text. Basicaly game is taking about 50 minutes and after that is non stop same thing. Tottlay not worth time and money game

TLDR: The two side stories are ok, but the main one ... Take a low quality linear visual novel with inconsistent story, add ton of farm and bugs, lock the content behind random gameovers (with no sex, it's just a text telling you to restart) and you have crucial investigation.

Now a bit longer, I won't talk about the two side stories that are pure visual novels and look nice with much more efforts put in, but are not really my cup of tea and not the reason I played ... Damn it ...

Now for the main story, it should be a visual novel too, but is in fact a lot worst. A visual novel let's you enjoy a story seamlessly with only your choice mattering on what would happen, here forget about that. First the story is hell of shitty, nothing makes sense at all, sometime your character obeys orders that weren't given to her, sometime she answers when nobody was speaking to her it feels like part of the script was cut down without any care, but well, you have a video to fap on, you won't read the text right?

Now let's talk about choices and mechanics, simply you would have none the game would be better. Let's talk about the start of the game, you are a cop sent undercover to investigate in a university with your boss planning to turn you into a whore (but you don't know yet). Ok sounds fun. Yet when you start the game you are in your boss office and are asked two choice, one is labelled "sex path" and the second nothing. If you choose sexpath your heroine will make a little tease ... Ok ... and earn 1 slut point. If you chose the other she behaves like a cop is supposed and you go on your day.

Now this looks almost natural in a porn game, the issue is, at this point you are already gameover if you chose not the sex patch, because at the end of the day you will have a check on your slut points and if you don't have 3, it's game over. The text is some random bullshit about telling you that you aren't efficient enough and voila. And that's the issue, you can do anything you want, you have to follow EXACTLY the path decided or you will have at best a gameover, at worst won't see any content and be locked in the same stupid loop forever with no content added.
In many games I enjoy game overs, I even collect them, but here there is absolutely no point, they are just punishing you for not following the linear walkthrough exactly. What's the point?
And the gameover mentioned above tells you, you did not made any progress in your investigation, in one day LOL. Really efficient police in the US. But don't worry, if you teased the first day and start to fuck anybody in school past day 3 you can stay there forever, no need to make progress anymore, no so efficient finally.

Now about the content, I read there is a lot of content (if you can access it) and that's true, the issue is it's quality. I'm pretty sure how the author add more content is simply browsing youporn he sees a video he fapped on, download it and stuff it inside with no care. Your character is blond with long hairs, don't worry she will swap to brunette half of the time, hairs going short to long, coupled with the bad writing and story that makes no sense, most of the time I'm wondering who is supposed to be the girl on the video that is displayed ...

No just no ... It's nice to make a game for free, but here I feel insulted. The only two nice things about this game is how some pics shifts when your stats rise and you become corrupted and the fact you can throw the game and keep the pics and vids for local fapping if you wish. All the rest is for trash.

That's too bad cause I remember playing it a long time ago, when it wasn't yet version 1.xx and it was pretty promising and it looked like choice had more consequences back then. Might be my memories not being accurate or i was more forgiving cause in development, but it really feels like one fo those games getting worst with each update.

The painfully linear style of this game is too much to bear. This game needs to either have fast forwarding/skipping options that can make an average person want to play it. As nice as the gifs and clips are that are used in the game, they don't make up for the lack of an objectives menu (the walkthrough is sub par) and the intermittent progress in a quest by only have for example 2 out of 7 days be available to process the quest with the additional necessity to take at least 5 weeks to make substantial progress is mindbogglingly boring and frustrating. I highly discourage people from playing this game.

I would likely rate this game higher if it were playable. As is, you either pick all of the lewdest choices immediately, or you get game over. Illusion of choice is worse than no choice. That said, I give this game 2 stars for not wasting my time. The dev quickly lets you know it wasn't designed for players who prefer corrupting someone fairly pure.

So, this is a storied dev, and a long-term project, and some people clearly enjoy it.

What I kinda dislike about it is how it obfuscates being entirely a linear experience with the presentation and "stats" that imply some kind of modularity, or sandboxyness.
Instead this is a linear VN with poor character-writing, with some weak life-sim trappings to simulate a self-insert angle to it. This sums up to making the game very easy to dismiss, which just sucks all around for everyone involved.
However, there is a clear theme and a story, simple and restrictive as it may be, and that will probably still appeal to some. There's nothing inherently bad here.

The worst grind possible, because of how progression works you can't even skip days or cheat to somewhat fix that.

Let me give you an example:
At one point you need one guy trust, you can get a single point per day on weekends, so 3 points per week.
You need 24 points, it's segmented into stages so you can't just set it to 24 without possibly breaking something. 8 weeks of grinding and there is nothing else to do in the game at this time: only one similarly structured event chain at school during the week.
Every single day require you to shower, make up, click through a few small random events that you have already seen 50-100 times at this point, go to school, class, deal with repeated scenes again, go back, shower again and finally sleep. on weekends replace school with a meeting.

Every event in this 24 events chain that takes 30-60 minutes to complete adds a single sentence to the base event or a short gif, in practice you get a single event in 24 parts.

After that You unlock tthe apartament of that dude and go through another event, this time split in 23 parts, after that you unlock a gym with another "repeat 20-30 times that event with an hour of chores in between".

^these numbers are taken from the game code when at this stage I gave up on this garbage and checked how could I make this shit playable

The end result:
talk scene x2>talk scene + teasing x3> talk scene, teasing, touching x2> talk scene+ teasing + touching + bjx3 etc. for 30-60 minutes

Probably worst grind in a porn game . mc gets randomly fucked without any context. No skip button? Seriously? The game is like 1st go tease a guy--> after 1 week of everyday -hectic same school bs grind if u did complete prerequisite u get to oral sex--> another 1 week fucking--> after another week sex. If u have patience to play this mindbogglingly grind set u get to anal / other stuffs. I got my finger become cplete numb after continuous clicking through before even serving me own jam. Deleted after blueballed ,downloaded again gave it a second chance-- deleted again.

for v1.35n

yep this is a porn game and i love it. updates are regular and incremental, choices are clearly laid out. The 3D graphics are good too. Storyline is enjoyable and I love it. Although I would love to see more visuals or even a choice in the outfits the MC can pick. I mean, the club outfit, would love to see that be the basic option over the school uniform.

anyways, the downside is the grindy nature of the game. I think the game is supposed to be a slow to medium path to corruption but the daily tasks can get tedious.

as for this version, there is plenty to do yet also not enough to do once you start seeing repeats.

real picture based game and nice story.
pros:
1.developer is active both ways in development and on forum
2. nice story. worth playing
3 . THREE differnt games in same game with different style
cons
1. story is slow burn means developer is actively building but there is 3 different stories so you wont see any difference much change or story progress

FIrst game of this "type". I have nothing against the type, but why are those images not connected? it's like someone draw a comic book by taking pictures from all existing volumes... it has no identity, nothing. The story is unexisting at best.

You press button to upgrade some stats... why? I don't get it at all. If the text was good, it could have only text like some games have, and those can be good. But here, the unappealing images (they are not bad : it's real porn extracts) unrelated to the characters and all destroy the interest.

this game is good for the first 30-60 mins, then the infinite grind sets in and it just becomes a chore beyond belief. the premise is excellent, but the execution is dogshit. the dev has clearly never played their own game.

Extremely repetitive,hardly any dialogue or story. Storyline lacks any imagination and creativity. The grinding is way too much as well. Overall - very very poor. Not sure why the dev is even trying to be quite frank. I would not recommend to waste your time or support this so called game.

A whole lot of grind with not a whole lot of content.

The entire plot is a bad parody of porn logic taken to 11. Your character just randomly decides to get fucked, then nothing comes of it afterwards.

There's no indication of what you do mattering until suddenly it does. Most options do nothing, and you have to repeatedly try each of the same options out each day and pray you meet the requirement for some new event.

The vids used feature different girls. Not sure how that would ever be mistaken as your character, but at least the video themselves, if taken separately is decent. And since it takes forever to grind out a new scene, by the time it came up you'll forget what your girl would look like so it doesn't matter.

v1.08n

This game is a mess... An absolute mess. Which really sucked because I was excited for the 21 Jump Street premise.

If you "choose" to not sleep with your boss and the principal, it is game over. The game gives no hint of this whatsoever. So why even bother offering the choice, if we're just going to be railroaded anyway? Most of the other choices seem to be broken.

I go to the Beach. None of the options do anything.
I go to the Park. None of the options do anything.
I go to the Mall. Guess what? Again, none of the options actually do anything. Clicking on the buttons is completely unresponsive.

As far as graphics: I don't mind pure text. I enjoy artwork. I don't care for real porn images, but I won't rate a game down for it. This game chose to go for a weird mixture of animation, still images, and real porn gifs. However, they couldn't even be consistent between images. Usually the MC is a blonde porn actress. Sometimes she's randomly a brunette. Clearly not the same woman. If you're going to violate copyright of real porn, at least put a little effort in to make it match between images.

On the positive side... A web version was available, so I didn't have to waste time and bandwidth downloading this schlock. Yay?

love the game . lots of gifs and vids( which i love ), good plot easy to follow .
no unnecessary writing . not a lot of literature ( which i also like ) u can understand whats happening just by the visuals . some activities have a long period like the weekly events of if there is option to skip days or add an automated makeup n shower system it will be faster and will not disconnect the player . overall i like it i would give a four star but m giving five for encouragement to the developer. hope u keep the consistent updates coming i wish u the best of luck .

The game is fairly straightforward and has a decent walkthrough. There are plenty of good scenes and a good variety with a nice storyline.
The only problems may be that theres no sound, the game is a bit too grindy in terms of money especially with a recurring scene where you lose almost all of it, and lastly it is not clear when we have exhausted all the current content for most cases. Definitely worth playing.
It is also worth mentioning I am yet to encounter any bugs which is really good

The game has a poor UI, has been riddled with typos for a very long time, and plays more like scrolling through a subreddit full of loosely similar gifs with poor titles. Choice is next to non-existent and the requirements to unlock certain scenes are so hidden that it's impossible to figure out without hints. The story has a decent base, but hasn't really gone anywhere nor is it paced out like some of the better games on this site. My recommendation to the creator would be to focus on refining the earlier elements before adding even more content to the mess. Too many creators have their game fail from adding content forever without ever refining any of it.