I'm not sure this game is British enough...
Degrees of Lewdity (DoL to it's friends) is a text based web game. Normally, these are middling to poor, given how easily they can be pumped out. DoL says screw that noise, I'm going to be needlessly complicated. You take on the role of a freshly minted 18-year old orphan, whose attempts to move out are stymied by two things: First, your guardian has taken your documents and is demanding back rent, and secondly, the town is unbearably sexual.
The gameplay loop moves through weeks; Mon-Fri you have school, and you're expected to pay an increasing amount of money at the start of each week. The game gives you plenty of ways to earn that money, from simple low paying tasks, to high risk, high reward tasks. Schoolwork ties into the real meat of the game: the stat and status system. The stat system here can rival professionally made games, with the game tracking everything from how good you are at math to how good your grip on reality is to how popular you are as a prostitute, and giving you plenty of skill rolls to use those stats on.
The entire time, you're running the risk of being sexually harassed. The vast, vast majority of sexual encounters in DOL are non or dubcon, and pretty much everyone in town wants you sexually. Some of the encounters/storylines can get extremely dark fast, and deal with themes of abuse and psychological damage (another stat the game keeps track of). Suffice to say, this is not a game for light hearted sexual fun, and it's not a game you're dominant in.
Outside of that, the character customization can be pretty decently robust; one of the main things to do with your money is to purchase new outfits (that, naturally, have gameplay and social effects), and crossdressing is a non-minor part of the game. On top of that, there's several transformations you can undergo, by meeting certain requirements; DOL straddles the line between fantasy and reality with expert precision.
The combat system here is actually pretty interesting, for a text game. You can move your various body parts in response to your sexual partner (or partners! Many encounters contain more than one assailant), and what you do and how you hold yourself affects how the encounter goes for you. The more you fight, the more it hurts, for example. As you get more practiced in using each of your body parts, your ability to do so well increases.
If the game has a shortcoming, it's that it is a text game; while it does provide generic animations for various sexual acts, most of the content comes in the form of descriptions. Don't let that turn you off of this game, though, as what is there is done well.
What should turn you off of this game is if you're not comfortable with the dark themes that it embodies. It's possible to turn some of them off, but DOL is a game that thrives in exploring the darker aspects of kink. Not that there's not plenty of good and wholesome involved, as some of the storylines can be sweet, but you'll be going through plenty of suffering to get there.
It's a game I highly recommend, and it's one of the few slower burning games that can hold my attention for a long time, just because of how detailed the worldbuilding here is, but that should come with the caveat that I really enjoy dark themes in my kinks, so it bears repeating to be mindful of that going in; pretty much any hard kink you can imagine is here.
Degrees of Lewdity (DoL to it's friends) is a text based web game. Normally, these are middling to poor, given how easily they can be pumped out. DoL says screw that noise, I'm going to be needlessly complicated. You take on the role of a freshly minted 18-year old orphan, whose attempts to move out are stymied by two things: First, your guardian has taken your documents and is demanding back rent, and secondly, the town is unbearably sexual.
The gameplay loop moves through weeks; Mon-Fri you have school, and you're expected to pay an increasing amount of money at the start of each week. The game gives you plenty of ways to earn that money, from simple low paying tasks, to high risk, high reward tasks. Schoolwork ties into the real meat of the game: the stat and status system. The stat system here can rival professionally made games, with the game tracking everything from how good you are at math to how good your grip on reality is to how popular you are as a prostitute, and giving you plenty of skill rolls to use those stats on.
The entire time, you're running the risk of being sexually harassed. The vast, vast majority of sexual encounters in DOL are non or dubcon, and pretty much everyone in town wants you sexually. Some of the encounters/storylines can get extremely dark fast, and deal with themes of abuse and psychological damage (another stat the game keeps track of). Suffice to say, this is not a game for light hearted sexual fun, and it's not a game you're dominant in.
Outside of that, the character customization can be pretty decently robust; one of the main things to do with your money is to purchase new outfits (that, naturally, have gameplay and social effects), and crossdressing is a non-minor part of the game. On top of that, there's several transformations you can undergo, by meeting certain requirements; DOL straddles the line between fantasy and reality with expert precision.
The combat system here is actually pretty interesting, for a text game. You can move your various body parts in response to your sexual partner (or partners! Many encounters contain more than one assailant), and what you do and how you hold yourself affects how the encounter goes for you. The more you fight, the more it hurts, for example. As you get more practiced in using each of your body parts, your ability to do so well increases.
If the game has a shortcoming, it's that it is a text game; while it does provide generic animations for various sexual acts, most of the content comes in the form of descriptions. Don't let that turn you off of this game, though, as what is there is done well.
What should turn you off of this game is if you're not comfortable with the dark themes that it embodies. It's possible to turn some of them off, but DOL is a game that thrives in exploring the darker aspects of kink. Not that there's not plenty of good and wholesome involved, as some of the storylines can be sweet, but you'll be going through plenty of suffering to get there.
It's a game I highly recommend, and it's one of the few slower burning games that can hold my attention for a long time, just because of how detailed the worldbuilding here is, but that should come with the caveat that I really enjoy dark themes in my kinks, so it bears repeating to be mindful of that going in; pretty much any hard kink you can imagine is here.
