HTML - Dark Times [v0.7] [Sorg]

This is on version 0.7.

Dark Times is a collection of extremely short porn sequences, with absolutely no effort put forth to develop any form of character, corruption, or story.

Visuals are awful. There's very nearly zero attempt to keep the AI generated images consistent, and the real porn usage contrasts with the AI severely.

Pages have large spacing issues, sometimes having entire gaps in text going off-screen and requiring the player to scroll down to see their options.

Menus are missing stat information, the inventory doesn't account for items.

All-in-all, there's little salvageable here. It's just very clear the author does not know what they're doing.

Assuming the author reads this, here are some suggestions I have for them:
- Learn a bit more about the system you're using. The use of Twine is extremely basic, and while it doesn't have to be complex, it currently isn't working for you.
- Decide on whether you want to use exclusively real porn or exclusively AI. Given it's a fantasy setting, I really recommend the latter.
- Revise your image system. You need to learn about image formats, image compression, and should ditch the gifs as they're part of why the size of your game is ballooning and they're causing pages to load slowly. Yes, I recognize you want some "animated" visuals, no it's not working.
- Focus first on a few specific storylines you want to develop. As an example, the shady merchant hypnotizing you not progressing to anything makes the whole thing a tad silly. That's the biggest issue, nothing here leads into anything, you need depth over breadth.
- You have a lot of female characters you're not doing anything with. While it's clear you've intended them more as set pieces and bimbos, you may want to actually flesh a couple of them out to make it feel less absurd.

This is my first ever review on this site -

Dark Times is probably the best HTML game of its type (with kinks that I'm into!) that I've played so far and I've played a buuuunch.

The writing is great, the grind isn't TOO horrible (for sex stuff at least) and the images and captions along with them are fantastic. I can't wait for this to be fleshed out more and I hope the creator decides to make more after finishing this (or just expand this one even further with different female main characters please please please)

Rev @ Dark Times [v0.7]

Bit of a gassed-up mid situation. Not worth the hype, download time, or disk space.

Art's a blend of realporn and AI. I don't have any bias against AI, so I found it fine.

Scenario's been done, narrative is weak (normal for a sandbox), characterization is flat. Some continuity nods are neat, but most of what I found was a nothingburger. The writing fluency and the voice reminds me of many of the Russian QSP games and does grate a bit.

Porn's pretty rote. Looks good, glad there isn't a ton of toilet porn, wish the preg & milking mattered more.

Gameplay is also like every other one of these. There's no innovation or unique selling points. Definitely not worth 27gb of diskspace overhead.

TLDR: I reserve the right to hope the next versions improve.

Very good game in general, it rings some nostalgia bells for me of some other sandbox games.

I like the almost singular focus on the effect the orcs of the setting have.
The grind for levels and for events is pretty good.
There is just enough story and background to make the setting believable.
My only negative is that the combat is rather shallow, it seems like there are only the skills you start with.

Overall I think the game is really good and with community help is well put together, compression really helps, with a little more work and story it'll make for a good game.

Remarkably competent html that does what it should. Rating is based on compressed version, 25gb for oversize gifs would rate lower, but the game itself is fun and generally free of annoyances, and its pretty good.

+ gameplay is pretty fun
+ art and pick of images is not bad
- size (even compressed), thing is huge for bunch of images, sounds and text files...
- not much to do
overall better than normal visual novel, but is too big for how little it offers

I believe this is a good game with great gifs, pictures and what not. AI did not hurt the eye or have any blaring problems. Here is good and bad thing this game do.
GOOD:
1-) Pregnancy. This game got this with a whole system and what not. It could be flourished but It is there.
2-) RPG and Quest Systems. It is easy to navigate and understand. While RPG part was a bit basic, I like it. Why make it complicated am I right?
3-) Consistency. There is no blaring problem with the visuals. MC was blonde and every gif and what not honor that. Other characters and gifs mostly obey this rule as well.
4-) Content. There is a decent corruption and sexual aspects in the game. You don't became a whore right away but there is a methodical climb to it.

BAD:
1-) There is no short cuts. There is many HTML / Twine games that makes use of short cuts that speed up the clicking. You can press 1 and 2 and 3 to make choices which is necessary. Degress of Lewdity and Course of Temptation use this system. You can check em out.
2-) There is not many Persistent NPC's that we can have a real relationship with. Sure you can persistently have a thing with one of the NPC's but it is always limited and without your control. Innkeeper? Only when you need room or he visit you. Bazaar? If you get brainwash. Any orcs? Coarse and deception. I want to have a relationship with romance and what not.
3-) There is not many Quest to go around and the one you make force you to do specific things without any other way. Like Alchemist Quest. You force to be pregnant. Or Jewelers Quest make you brainwashed to Bazaar guy. No other options to reseolve. Even if there is alternatives, this leads to our 4th Bad.
4-) No Wiki or Walkthough. I mean sure exploration is good and all but some people wants to know specific routes. I believe there should a detailed wiki or walkthrough to show us the way.
5-) EXP gain ways is too limited. You want to level up? The 'only' way for you to do that is hunting. But you want to be or force to be a Bimbo? Tough luck you will get Dom Points for hunting. If you can hunt. There should be more ways to get EXP IMHO.
6-) For the love of the god add SELL ALL button. I hate to sell the Apples and what not.

What Can Be Added?
1-) More intricate relations with NPC. I expect the Farmer get close to me after thirtied time I worked there. I expect that Pig to share more and do more for me after two months of my stay. The old lady from Slum should be seen again.
2-) More than 1 way to solve quests.
3-) Walkthrough.
4-)Romance and story continuation.
5-) Sell All Button
6-) And Compression. I'm not saying it's bad but it's not really good too.

actually quite a good start of a corruption game quite a lot of content and some interesting endings. there is a lot of Pregnancy in this game you basically cannot avoid it but there are was to speed it up to make it more or less instant.

The choice of gif for the massive number of animations is a bit unfortunate since the creator seems to have fallen in a sunk cost fallacy there but you can use the compressed version.

Content is great and quite enjoyable, but you may want to look into compressing some of the images to get the game size down. I was surprised on how much there was for a first release. AI images are used for world building but not the scenes. Scenes are well done for an early version. Hope to see more!

Its not special but its very nice, if you ignore the size of the file there is nothing wrong with it.
Not a ton of content but quite some and fun to play,
I gues its not going anywhere as so many of these games but it should...
and the size should get reduced by a lot - there is no good reason its so big

Review of 0.7

tl;dr - Average html 'sandbox' style female-protag game that is let down primarily by the enormous size of the install.

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Pros :
Pregnancy with at least some progression/featuring in scenes
A few different character models
A few different 'love interest' options (a lot of rape/non-con)
A vague storyline/quest system
Combat system is okay

Cons :
Most of the scenes are extremely similar
Heavily focused around breaking you into a bimbo/submission for most content
A few incomplete passages/parts to the game
Limited actual content

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It's fine, reminiscent of Battle Quest that I played long ago but, in my opinion, distinctly less interesting and compelling to play. I don't care about the MC at all (not a requirement for a porn game but it helps) and I don't care about any of the other characters either.

The adult content is okay but very repetitive after a while. There's a few 'endings' although I could only find one. There's pregnancy with humans/orcs/pigman + eggpreg but it's pretty limited in scope. The sex is oral/vaginal/anal with humans/orcs/pig/tentacles (didn't find anything else).

Overall an average game massively let down by the enormous download size. Until that's rectified it's hard to recommend, but worth a look if you like sandbox style html fprotag games.

Pretty interesting game so far, some of the routes aren't that long but I ended up finding more features I didn't expect. Some characters you interact with once then can crop up later and specific moments which surprised me.

Pros - Hot scenes - Fun quests - Interesting premise

Con - Sheer Size - Some routes feel drastically to short but this is only at 0.7 -Unbalanced combat