Ren'Py - Completed - Cure My Addiction [Ch.5 Ep.1 C] [TheGary]

This game is a collectible for sure. Great job dev... looking forward to more games from you! maybe dive into something 3d with more options during sex. However worth playing ... had lots of fun I would recommend this one for lonely night in!

The grind in this game is so boring somtimes it feels i unlocked new things but then the same scenes playing again hints are usless And that was only chapter 1 Should just have added a cheat button or mod for this game

I do not mind tedious or grindy sandbox games, but this particular culprit is too much for me. You will find yourself clicking hundreds of times just to progress one step since the hints are awful. You might be studying at 2 instead of 3 or maybe you cleaned at the wrong time of day. All that coupled with the fact that there IS a way to game over if you don't complete certain weekly thresholds, just adds a layer of stress that does not make the grind enjoyable at all. Needs WAY better hints and icons showing you were ppl are at certain times. Maybe even a color showing that progression can or cannot take place at a certain location. I really wanted to like this game. The overarching story is fine and the characters are decent and it could have worked to being a great game.

TLDR: Game ruined by more grind than I have every played through. how to progress is confusing.

This game really deserves a 3 star but because of Emily it gets 4.
I'm addicted to Emily, that's why I keep coming back. Sexy redhead, saucy minx, and Anal Slut. Perfect Waifu.
Honestly the game has some problems.
The grind is real, it gets pretty severe in chapter 3, and will test a lot of players patience to get through.
Dialogue is a bit wooden.
Not sure if English is the Devs first language, and there is nothing wrong with the translation, if it isn't, but there is something a little off about the character interactions.
Almost seems like since the MC is a Dom, he can't be affectionate in his speech to any of the girls. They also seem to emotionally keep him at a distance, so real intimacy seems a bit lacking at times.
Emily seems to be almost in love, but it's frustrating cause there is not much real emotional connection shown by the way they speak to each other. They have been together for a very long time, and no one has said the "L" word in a meaningful way yet. Wait...Amy did, but she took it back.
If you are not into spanking, and Femdom, some of the scenes will be pretty boring, or downright offensive.
Borderline abusive sometimes. Spanking and Femdom aren't my kink, I'm just here for Emily.
Severe lack of meaningful choice.
Pretty much just grinding the time to unlock all the content. Would have been nice to be able to close off some of the romance paths and focus on a single girl (Emily) by chapter 3. Also would have cut out a lot of the grind, to not have to see every scene with every girl.
Finally, Please Dev, for the love of God, give me a solo Emily ending.
Would break my heart to have come all this way, and be forced into some silly harem. Rachel ending would be nice also, she's a lovely Sub.
So that's pretty much it. If you love sexy redheads as much as I do, Emily is one of the best I've seen. And if you aren't afraid of some real grinding, she is worth it.

I'm following this game since chapter 1 and this is my first review. I normally don't write it but i wanted to write this time.

- Story isn't mindblowing yet not so cheap. I enjoyed the development of the story especially in chapter 3.
- Design of the girls is really hot, i really enjoyed just seeing the girls without sex scenes
- Unfortunately grinding is really bad and getting worse in every chapter. Not animation on sex scene not helping either. So i deleted 1 star from there.

I really enjoy this game even with the grinding because girls really worth it. Especially Rachel and Emily. If you have spanking and bdsm stuff you'll love Chloe more. Even Susan growed in me with her femdom stuff.

4/5

A porn-addicted young adult gets sent to his uncle's luxury yacht to be disciplined, aka spanked by his (in law) aunt for not clicking on little buttons on your monitor at the right in-game time of day, or not clicking them enough times. Eventually, if he clicks a lot of little buttons everyday, he is promoted to spanking lieutenant and gets to spank his (in law? step? natural? must have skipped that part, oh well) cousins. Then he gets to spank them more freely and finally at will. Oh and btw the uncle owns a procurement and distribution firm that services the military and our hero eventually starts managing contracts for them from a penthouse he apparently never leaves. Credit where due, the setting/plot is pretty unique. Writing is fine for a porno gaem - technically ok and doesn't try too hard to be edgy/cool/deep/funny.

The renders are nothing special either on aesthetics or quality terms, decent for models and textures and above average for lighting and environments. I've seen maybe 5 animations in the game files, none of which are anything special either. The sex scenes are mostly still images which is usually a big minus for me unless there are other redeeming features like an interesting fetish/story setup or superb gfx. In this game they are mediocrely -rendered and -lit, and generic as all fuck. And, of course, spanking. Spanning hours of in-game time, and likely actual time as well if you complete all the quests. Good god damn that's a lot of spanking scenes. Sometimes you stick things into their holes but not without some spanking to spice things up. Yeah maybe not so much when you're doing it to every chick around every hour and the premise is that it's punishment for not doing your homework/chores.

Still, a few of the scenes with bondage equipment are good, so if that's your fix you may rate this higher than me.

The sandbox grind is physically painful. Like for real, clicking this many buttons all over a screen hurts my eyes. That pain is amplified manifold by the fact that none of it leads to a satisfying reward. I'll get to spank a girl, she will respond blandly and we'll both act like nothing's happened afterwards (guess that's part of the 'maintain discipline' fetish). Sometimes I'll have sex, but the h-scenes are so trite and indistinguishable from each other they might as well be the same one over and over.

Ultimately this game seems tailored to the sort of person for whom arousal is primarily about affirmation of the concept that one needs to methodically complete a series of tasks, including orderly spanking sessions on both sides of the power dynamic, in order to achieve coitus. I somewhat get the psychology behind that. It's a very specific type of bdsm fetish but does nothing for me.

About 90% less spanking, 200% more animated scenes (given the available content) and -999999x more sandbox tedium would make this a 4 star for me. As it is, and also due to the lack of a walkthrough/gallery/cheat mod, it merits one star and more than one tedious spanking session.

One of the best games to play if you are a fan of femdom and anal. Very comprehensive (spans 4 chapters). Has trainer elements to it (you teach someone to become your servant/slave over time) and a decent plot to boot.

This isn't one of those games where the girls just willingly submits to the MC's requests immediately but builds up over these four chapters.


Semi-spoilers:

My complaint is chapter 3 is a bit redundant given you have to repeat events in chapter 2. In fact, I would suggest that chapters 1-2 could be combined into 1 longer game with emphasis on the yacht while 3-4 are merged into 1 game, but that's trivial. The tracker in Chapter 3 is ugly AF and should be reworked.

The grind system in chapter 4 takes too many clicks. The hours should be reduced from 16-21 hours to like 10-15 IMO.

My ranking:
Chapter 2 -> Chapter 4 -> Chapter 1 -> Chapter 3

I highly recommend starting from chapter 1, don't jump straight to chapter 4 without learning the family's dynamics and inclinations to their preferential fetishes.

This is worth your time. Start with Chapter 1; it's worth it. If you jump in later you'll have no idea what is going on, and you'll miss crucial context and character development.

Would you start playing Mass Effect with the Shadow Broker DLC? Would you start watching Star Wars at TRoTJ?

Seriously there are like 3-4 games that have held my attention consistently over the last 3 years and this is one of them.

Also, some of the best scenes are in CH.1. There are plenty of kinks for everyone especially if you like anal play.

Played Chapter 4 only. Often games improve with time but this gave me such a bad impression it put me off trying previous chapters.

Some of the girls are pretty cute and the menus have some keyboard shortcuts. Those are the only positive.
Scenes are weak, with huge emphasis on spanking.
None of the characters is likable.
Worst is the boring repetitive grind and tasks that even with the hint system are hard to get (still often have to mindlessly click in every room to find someone) and certainly not fun nor satisfying.

solid sandbox game.
polished, enough content, no grind, examplary ingame tips system
4 star for me (though looks like most games i review are 4 st :] )

i added 5th star just to try mitigate ridiculous comments&rates of novel readers.
look, CMA is a rare example with zero grind. (excluding some choruses in ch1, or studing in ch2)
what bright minded VNers call grind is typical quest system of some sandboxes. (some comparable games may require you to, indeed, grind some relationship scores, mood, love-lust ... if you for some reason dont use cheats)
and "repetition" is also a part of how the things work in such sandboxes if you get into location during a wrong time.
and "fake choices" is because you dont get here dick/chick scores like you do in your VNs. you progress by other means.
and no walls of text or poetic char development is also due to it being not a book. play, not read.
it is not minuses and cons, you, 1-star geniouses.
really why would you leave such useless whine about it not being a VN or your frustation with actual games UI and gameplay. just go read your books.

so why 4 stars.
renders. half of gials faces are kinda so-so at best. granny is even scary. doc and mom are somewhat weird (eyes as usual).
progression. i played up to 50% of chapter 2 and kinda became bored:
- content started to be perceived as something recycled;
- lewdness became rather omnipresent so any "reward" didnot give any satisfaction (moral or otherwise)
- too many minor quests (often short and with similar actions) which didnot contribute to any immersion; such just lost their 'value' and became forgettable.

Unfortunately, I must qualify my 5 star ratings, since I averaged the quality of each chapter, I ended up with around 4.5, which I then rounded up.

Chapter 1 - 5 stars
Chapter 2 - 5 stars
Chapter 3 - 4.5 Stars
Chapter 4 - 3.5 Stars
Average - 4.5 Stars

I opted to round up because truly I think this is one of the highest quality games of its kind out there, and I will go through each chapter to qualify them.

Chapter 1 - A solid game, lots of content, the art wasn't the best in the world, but it was fun to play, the even tracker was easy to use, and it just kept getting more and more interesting as the game went one. There were of course some problems, but nothing that I would be willing to complain about.

Chapter 2 - Probably the best chapter in this game, the art is the same in this chapter as the next 2 chapters, meaning its high quality, a solid upgrade, the event tracker is easier to use, and the game was definitely building up. I like that the events are now sticky so that you can put them on the main screen and thus make them easier to follow. This game is massive so the walkthrough its a godsend.

Chapter 3 - I was kind of mad from the start that the first thing I had to do was to redo everything that I did in chapter 2, but it was nice that they started to sort the event lists. Unfortunately there is a big error in the bottom of the event screen right from the start that no one seems to want to bother to take care of, but moving past that it is still a really fun game, just not exactly an improvement over the last one. I would say they took a slight step back on this one, but nothing too major.

Chapter 4 - A huge step backwards, maybe that's just because it is still in development, or maybe they just decided on a different vision, but this games quality is much lower than its prequels. These games are kind of grindy by nature, just due to the massive amount of content, but I would have to say this chapter brought that to a new level. The amount of contracts you have to do to get all of the content is just ridiculous, if you spent a full 4 or 5 in game days per contract, it would take you about 95 in game days to get all of the content to Sophie, and that's if you do nothing else, and to be honest I think that is a low estimate. The Pole Position quest is bugged, I tried probably 15 times to get the 3rd star, different times, days, waited, different levels of affection, no luck, which is really disappointing because it leads into another event that I will now just never get to unlock. The event tracker is no longer sorted by person, its sorted by incomplete, not started, and complete, which I think was a poor decision on their part because one of the easiest ways to get through each girl was to focus on their events, now there is a little more work involved. There is still a lot of content, and I am sure they will add more, but without some major changes I would say this is easily the worst one in the series.

On a whole I really do enjoy this series, the art is really good, the progression is exciting, I would recommend it to anyone who is into these types of games. Chapter 4 is the only one that I don't like, but the issues I have with it are not issues that cannot be fixed, I think there needs to be some rebalancing done with the amount of grinding required, and some of the events need to be fixed so that they aren't ruined by RNG, I did run into this issue multiple times, but all of the other ones I was able to eventually get through them, the Pole Progression is just completely bugged and impassible.

I wanted to give this game 5 stars because if you played 40 hours of a game, and the last 5 weren't that good I would say the game was good enough to entertain you for at least 35 hours, which is far and above what most other games manage to do.

Awesome game, Chapter 2 is the best, I think chapter 4 can be fixed, I look forward to trying it again after a couple of updates.

This is a review of versions - CH1, CH2, CH3, and CH 4 Ep.2B

A four with flaws that drop it to a two. Most glaringly, it requires so many downloads to play it all and it could really use a walkthrough which would have to cross all those versions. The renders and some of the scenes are nice. No question there's good adult material. Mainly the issues that have me drop it are that it just isn't convenient to play and if I find myself passing on a game because I didn't like dealing with it, well that's not an above average game. Your mileage may vary.

Overall, I love this game.

I like the well rendered scenes and the story. All chapters have the same theme. I like this. Not a perfect story, but surely high quality.

Especially the role play scenes (with texts).

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(Someone may say there are too many texts, but I found this is part of the fun.)

There are some repeated events, which is bad. But can be avoided with the help of walkthrough, which BTW is the best ever seen.

Some parts can be better, such as story line etc. But overall, a game worth playing.

This is a legit review. No false flagging please!

Boring, repetitive gameplay, the whole layout is a mess, from the objective menu to the ship itself, I could barely get through Day 3 all the other people on the boat are unlikable & mean towards the protag, maybe some beta males out there will like the sound of this but as it stands this game is just bad. I can't believe there are 4 Chapters & I struggled to play through the first 1 to even write this review. The conversations are boring & lead nowhere interesting, you repeat the same mindless tasks over & over grind is what this game excels at & its just not worth it.

Pros
-Nicely rendered characters & backdrop

Cons
-Awful personalities on EVERY character in game
-Grindy as hell to play
-Poor dialogue options
-Not much in the way of action in the game
-The day system is needlessly complex considering you are given tasks daily & its a chore to even do said tasks

What was once a decent story line with content, has turned into tiny updates with next to nothing in them. It updates fairly regularly, but nothing really interesting or new has come out. Pretty much when you leave the yacht and go to the office, is when the whole story stalled. Why it is on the most liked list i have no idea. Wether the dev is milking, or is in a rut idea wise i don't know. As it is now, this story/game went from interesting and worthwhile, to not worth the download because i know it's going to disappointing. Three years this has been going, while the story has barely advanced in any way. Three years is way to long to be supporting a story/game that has really not advanced.

I don't understand why these devs keep making grindy games. They aren't fun and bore us out. That being said, the renders are decent and there some good scenes but too bad it's a friggin nightmare to have access to the content.

The characters are completely stock and are not changed even a little. The story is almost non-existent and the grind… omg the grind is nightmarish. This game is more of a sandbox than VN which is not a bad thing but the thing is… there are no meaningful choices. The renders look great tho. I will update rating when improved.

I say average for these reasons

Good:
-Good rendering
-Lots of different scenes
-Many different characters but none of them really will be remembered like DOD's or Milfy city, or MP

Bad:
-Grind grind and grind again, you will spend countless hours just trying to find a few scenes, skipping time & changing locations
-No gallery in the menue
-Very slow progress and a lot of it is repeatable, so while grinding dont expect to reveal everything quickly
-Very weak plot, its more of a sandbox

If you want to be drawn into a bunch of grind with very little story content then this is the game for you. If not then steer clear. The developer tries very hard to tick a lot of boxes but fails due to the grind.

This Game has its good parts and its bad. Ulitimitly I'd say its down to a bit of an identity crisis in its design. It's my belife that most adult games can be split three ways.

The stroke game (where porn and hotness are king and everything else doesn't matter, The arcade (grindy content with a satisfying reward), and Romance (where charicterisation is the main focus). This game trys to do all three and not that well.

I'll take a example from one of the newer builds .
This is just an example but it seems that the creator has tried to change his development stratergies from a game focused on its porn content to a much more story and character driven one but also try and keep the porn content. The result is sex scenes with little to no warning and characters who don't make sense as thier actions, disagree with the porn logic they have been thrown to.

The game is grindy as well but I expect a lot of people expect that.

In a quick conclusion. The game doesn't have enough sex to be a purely porn game. Too little fetish content to be focused on that. Too litle character depth to revolve around that.

It's a jack of all trades, so I can't say its bad. Just in my opinion unsatisfying and needing to pick a direction.