HTML - Debasing Grounds [v0.5.5] [Rax Lorax]

There is a lot of potential.

Unfortunately, this is a mess, currently.
Bugs, Bugs, Bugs.The gamebreaking type.

-Items just vanish.
-Npcs just vanish.
-Quests just break.
-Options just.. Break?
-Oh you have not the right amount of stats for a quest?
Well f*cko, you're locked into a single path that is bugged. Nice!
-I saved and closed my game, only to not being able to load my saved game.

Again, lots of potential. But in it's current state? Hard pass.

Sorry to not being able to go into more detail but i wasted enough time in trying to get past the problems with the saves. I'll try and figure it out another day, if i succeed, this post is subject to change.

I did not. - Turnes out that PROBABLY some settings are/were the culprit? I don't know and i spent more than enough timeon this.

Giving a 5 because the dev actually updates very frequently, as in every two weeks or so. I think this game has a lot of potential but feels shallow atm. Would like if scenes were expanded a lot more. Sexual descriptions/choices feel very basic and make the game feel bland. Would also be nice to have more options for people into domming NPCs and for there to be storylines related to that. Also more features to make the game feel fun in general too.

I think the version number is a bit high. Feel like this game shouldn't be counted as being halfway through. To me this game still feels like it should be somewhere between 0.1-0.2. So much more stuff it needs and feels too barebones to be half done.

The game was pretty alright for a few hours. Not great mind you, but there was a lot of potential. Unfortunately, what seems like an ocean of content to unlock turns out to just be a smokescreen for shallow paths that end way sooner than they have any right to.

The final nail in the coffin for me was getting softlocked because my stats weren't high enough to take all but one path for the main quest, with the remaining path being broken because I had failed a previous side quest that (unknowing to me) had broken that branch of the main quest.

This game needs a serious QA pass before it becomes anything good. For what it's worth, it's pretty alright for a few hours before the glaring issues pile up.

As other people have said, it's your average bare bones text game with loads of choices that lead to dead ends two clicks later in terms of content. As someone who's tried most of these games at this point I'm always confused why they always try to do *everything*.

Because it's inevitably leads to the game having legitimately zero depth. The only thing this game does somewhat okay is being a victim simulator but that's something all these kinds of games do well anyways.

Personally I'm not into that so my usual playthrough consists of immediately cheating and making my character as OP as possible and 30 minutes later I close the game because I realized the game is devoid of any real content (player maledom) that I'm into.

Unless you're into being victimized in all kinds of brutal ways, stay away. If you're into anything else other than that just look somewhere else, or wait until 2028 and check if the changelog has anything to offer besides new system mechanics or ways the player gets raped lol.

Man this game is fantastic. If you enjoy txt only you should try it. Even in this early version there is a ton of content good customisability and I encountered no significant bugs or glitches.

The advert/pornstar sidequests are great. Love how npc's actually recognise you .

The one criticism I have is that it gets pretty hard to avoid getting grabbed and dominated early. You're wandering around with low stats and there's no sort of 'starting area' or safe tutorial NPC. My first playthrough was unsalvageable had to restart once I learned the game.

The stats and character customization seem great but... chances are you wont be able to figure out what is going on before you are randomly imprisoned or raped.

Follow your quest journal, cops imprison you.
Talk to someone at a party and try to walk away, they bind your hands and molest you.
Walk outside a building, random group of men on a major road, you guessed it, rape.

I understand it's gonna be tough, but come on. If you thought DoL was too forgiving this game is for you! At least in that game you have the Bite option when someone sticks a dick in your mouth.

Still, the systems for a text based lewd 'immersive sim' style game are present and as it can be played in browser. Hope it does well and gets developed.

My advise to the dev is have a simple opening advice and danger system. (Example; have more dangerous encounters be in back roads and/or at night and start you at dawn on a 'safe' tile. At least on normal start.)

I would say the game in it's current state (V0.4.8) has a lot of potential, and the dev makes very active updates. And while there's a lot of ways to get yourself fucked both literally and figuratively, there's not actually a whole lot of content to actually do right now.

To be more specific, if you're thinking more than with your dick in terms of where you want your character to be violated, then there's not a whole lot to do, and the game doesn't make you feel very compelled to do it. There's a couple of very small storylines but they don't lead anywhere really. And most of the updates seem focused on just adding more ways to get yourself captured in some way or another. I mean, it is a victim simulator and I like those... But so far, doesn't seem to be a whole lot of updates on adding more things to do or reasons to do them outside of getting fucked.

To give an example of what I mean, if you've played degrees of lewdity, you generally want more money for various things within the game, whether that's better or specific clothing, furniture, dick pills, or to pay your bitch of a landlord, you actually have things to invest into and improve at...In this game, once you get yourself a comfortable place to sleep and a source of easy income which isn't hard to do...why do anything more? You've basically beaten the game at that point.

To summarize, I think the game has potential, updates very frequently, and the writer is clearly pretty good at writing, something very important for a text based game...But, he seems more focused on adding ways to get captured than adding more meaningful gameplay, at least at the moment.

I dont find the text scenes particularly engaging. They are somewhat well written but lacks detail, for example a whole branding scene is maybe 2 lines. Just not worth the time. Its a shame since the game is somewhat intresting with a good character building. Ethos of Darkness still needs a worthy sequel. This game is not it.

Overall it's more like a 4/5 tbh, I am adding the extra point because it is really being updated and improved quite frequently. When I first played it this game was extremely buggy, but this has been improved a lot - although I haven't run into any bugs recently, I can't exactly claim it is bug-free, but certainly nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

It also has constantly added new features. This game is a true sandbox game, even if there are self-contained stories and events you can run into or aim for. This isn't a bad thing in itself, but I do feel like it could do a little better at getting the player into these pockets of story. A lot of the various factions and places that have more to them than they seem can be somewhat opaque to interact with, and can take a while to pay off. The list of important NPCs in-game helps with this but is hardly foolproof.

Hopefully the game continues to be refined and expanded going forward, and the sex mechanics are polished some more - the bugs I do run into are often with interactions during sex, and more variation in sex positions and descriptive text/NPC dialogue is I feel the most natural and obvious way to expand the game for a majority of your audience. I am not gonna complain about adding specific fetish-scenes, some of which are to my tastes and some not, in a vacuum. But I feel like beefing up the random encounters should be priority number one for games like this - I have the same complaint about e.g. Course of Temptation or Degrees of Lewdity, and this game feels a bit worse at it than either of those.

In my opinion it is a good game but never ever be a great one(unless something drastic changes)
Here is why.
It is a text game so the smut text carries the main content... it is barely ok quality.
The dept of story lines are not that deep.
The rest is fine.

A solid roleplaying sandbox / BDSM game with some nice unique touches. No visuals and many NPCs feeling samey, as well as a slightly limited number of places to go and do currently, prevent it being amazing but it's a very, very strong foundation and if it reaches V1 (currently 0.42 public/0.43 backer) gaining as many features and improvements per update as it has so far it'll be a beast.

Very ambitious project, a great setting with tons of interactivity and a nice reputation and social systems. It's constant release of interesting updates is a nice fresh breath of air amidst it's counterparts.

Fun game but it is a buggy mess with a lot of bad coding on it. Played as far as I could with the game breaking or putting me in unescapable loops during it. Solid foundation so far but not worth a play

one of my favorite text base games even with the limited content rn, has massive potential if the creator keeps working on it like they've been doing so far. I'll be checking every update with great interest. loving it

Once again a game where the phrase “It has a lot of potential” is true. What does this sentence even mean?
There is already a lot of content, but it still needs a lot of adjustments or improvements. So in theory there's a lot on offer, but when you delve deeper you notice a lot of loose ends or it plays in such a way that you think: "Hmm, is that it? I kind of expected more."

It actually starts with the start of the game. MC has nothing and knows nothing. So hiking around is the order of the day. You could find a job, you could look for an apartment, you could even be kidnapped and kept as a slave. Each one is possible within the first 5-6 steps of the game.

You don't have an ID, but it takes a long time to find out about it, but you don't find out how to get it.

You have no money, can't rent a room and waste a lot of time trying to find a job. Since you are often not qualified enough, have no ID or find the job too suspicious to accept it, it becomes even more difficult.
Especially since chance encounters don't make things any easier.

You rent a room, but are attacked in it and, in my case, enslaved for 17 days before the 1% chance of escape suddenly became 90% on the seventeenth game day. (Sounds like a mistake to me).

And I could go on like this for a long time.
Yes, the game offers a lot of character customization options, which allows for a completely different gaming experience with each new playthrough, but I personally think that at the moment the point has been reached where new content should not be the developer's goal, but one thing Revision, improvement and logical continuation of the existing content would benefit the game much more.

I therefore fluctuate between 3 and 4 stars. In the end it will be 4 stars because with only 3 stars I feel like I am rating the game too poorly in its category.

Still needs work however is quite fun.

As of v0.36 there are several different jobs you can do each with different activities to do, encounters could use more flavor but they're still okay right now, exhibition is super fun because you can literally walk around with no clothes and shock a few npcs.

This game also has a lot of character customization which is always fun but I really love how the devs put in specific NPC lines based on your characters design, for example I picked ginger hair and my character is referred to "carrot" and "carrot top" by several NPCs and it was just funny and made the game feel more favorful.

It has a lot of kink stuff, stuff most games don't have like verbal degrading kinks and getting beat up in fights kinks so thats pretty different and nice

I'm giving it five stars because it has a ton of potential while still being pretty fun this early in development.

God... There are no words, only emotions. The game is a masterpiece, but too stuffy. Please do something about the stuffy part. The project is excellent, but after three days of trying to play normally, I don’t fall into slavery with any asshole.

It's a solid game similar to DoL, BDCC Course of Temptation etc. It just needs more content, some QoL tweaks and mechanics. Some encounters get rather tedious and you are barely in control of the outcome (example the gang capturing you - you can't really resist or choose how to please them etc., and the event repeats a lot). Or you can play the sub and please others during story parts, thinking you can keep your virginity by just servicing them, but suddenly, they just rape you and your only option is to load because you have no control over the event at all, you can't "fight" or struggle using gameplay options like resisting position switch etc., because there is no gameplay, it's literally just a noninteractive event. Not having control is realistic, but it's not a fun gameplay. I think it would be great to expand the encounters in terms of your choices, giving you the power to struggle and keep playing however you want and not be hard forced into stuff.

Same for sexual gameplay. The foreplay options are fine, but the sex would really benefit from some sort of arousal/lust buildup that leads to orgasm, cause choosing just one of the options that immediately makes them cum is not really a fun interactive gameplay. The games I mentioned work really well thanks to being engaging and the participants being responsive to your actions.

Other than that, the game is really good and one to look forward to if you like these games!

v0.27

An interesting game that seems to aim to be similar to DoL: everyone in town is a rapist and danger lurks around each corner. Tons of stats, a few quests, and repetitive random encounters.

Right now there is very little content, so the initial excitement quickly fades away as you start getting the same scenarios repeated over and over.

The game is text-only, which is one of the main downsides.

The dev is also using some program to turn the code into gibberish - it doesn't prevent cheating, but it makes modding unnecessarily difficult, and unfortunately, with no base art nor the option to make mods to include it, it fails its purpose as an adult game, seeing how you're left with text descriptions that don't give enough for the imagination to compensate for the missing visuals.

TL;DR: Your average unfinished text-based game with a few good ideas, plenty of unfinished aspects, and a general feeling of "Could be better."

+ I like the idea of a game that's -so far- locked entirely within one city where you could explore every nook and cranny.

+ The quests are interesting despite how short and simplistic they are, requiring you to use clues to figure out the next location/step of the quest, feels nice even if it is very easy.

+ Plenty of locations within the city to explore, though plenty seem to be placeholders for future content.

- Boring / Lackluster description of NPCs' physical forms beyond skin color, hair color, eye color, and whether they are skinny, chubby, or fit.

- You get accosted constantly by random groups of thugs, failing to get away leads to a bunch of nonsense that, while interesting at first, gets tedious very quickly since it happens every ~5 or so actions even in the main streets which should be guarded by police (The police will also accost you)

- Sexual encounters are boring and not that fun to engage in.

- A lot of stats and progress bars are not explained, leaving the player lost for the a big portion of the game.

- All NPCs act in the same manner, it grows old very quickly.

- Writing is average at best.

I did enjoy myself a little, but the moment things started to get repetitive is when I closed the game and moved on, there's no point in talking to more than 2-3 NPCs since they all use the same lines and the same mannerisms, maybe one every 5 NPCs will be 'rude', but ultimately doesn't change too much from what I've seen.