HTML - Demonic Desire [v0.4] [averagehtmlenjoyer]

Standard HTML real porn grind with minuscule updates. The hook on this one is that the FMC is a succubus and has a skill tree to unlock powers. But it's a serious grind and there's very few scripted uses of any of the powers, they are more of a barrier than an actual gameplay mechanic---think the various useless HMs in Pokemon that gate your progress.

It's possible that every year or two you'll have enough content to play through for a satisfying update. But considering the dev's track record, it's more likely this thing just gets abandoned.

Version v0.4
Endless grind to unlock things that did little to no difference to the game play. After seeing the exact same scene/image/animation 30 or so more times you just get bored.
Very few scenes as well for the amount of badly written text and possible things to do.
Also some scenes/images/animations wasn't shown unless you clicked a secondary action. That is just poor planning.
Most animations were very short and low quality and or small size.

I played the lesbian route and I've seen less dicks in games without the lesbian tag.

The only positive thing was the Sorority but it also lacked content.
Perhaps in a few years the actual content will get added but until then I can't recommend this game. Check the download size and make an estimation and read the update log

v0.4

Pros
+ Interesting concept up until v0.3 because you are trying to farm essense to unlock an assortment of powers, and discover this conflict and world between angels and demons. But then v0.4 drops and adds about 5 minutes of main quest (if you can call it that). There's basically nothing new you can do with your powers and there's nothing new to discover about the major conflict

Cons
- Currently there's almost nothing going on with the main quest, so a lot of the game is the extensively grindy sorority side quest. It's a pain to get Blake's signature to even start it. Once you open the sorority, you need an insane amount of money (literally thousands of dollars) relative to how little money you can make (roughly $50 a day, and a few hundred from sorority weeklies). Then there's the Relations requirements so that you can meet the depravity requirements to unlock Riley's succubus transformation. This is gated by a weekly sorority event, limiting the pace of leveling up Relations by +1 per week. So a lot of the game just feels like: wake up, work at diner, school, swim at pool, sleep, until we can get to the next sorority weekly events. It would have been nice if you can just skip days, but unfortunately your grades and your attractiveness depreciates, and you have to work at the diner because it's the only source of income for much of the grind. Only when you've built the rooms, recruit 20 members, and reached max fame, can you then utilize the members to passively farm money to support sorority activities.
- There's an essence limit of 500. It's relatively quick to reach this limit compared to how long the grind is to get the sorority stuff done
- the game has no hint system and does not ever tell you the requirements to unlock certain things (like how do you find Blake's boyfriend to get her signature? How do you unlock Riley's succubus transformation?)
- there's no gallery to replay H-scenes

Conclusion
The amount of content added from v0.3 to v0.4 is pitiful. Game needs to focus lot more on the main story, developing the conflict between the angels and the demons, the agendas of each faction, as well as agendas of individuals within each faction. Otherwise, this game can only tease at having the potential for something interesting, but falls short of delivering on that potential

The Good:
- Writing is decent
- The ability tree looks cool along with the premise.

The Bad:
- Lack of content
- The content that's there is extremely minimal.

The Ugly:
- The grind to unlock abilities can be a chore, which artificially locks you out of a ton of the already limited content.

For v0.3, I think this game is pretty decent. There is obviously many areas that feel lacking. But with it being so early, isn't bad at all. The foundation or where the game is starting at is very promising. Sure, it isn't the most original concept or story. But if things continue to improve from this point. It's looking to be a pretty fun game. Reminds me of those Succubus Dreams, Incubus Dreams, etc. Dreams. With the potential to be much better. Took me a minute to figure out the whole essence/perk things. I was expecting to get a notification when the character would sleep if I had enough to get a perk. But that turned out to be a waste of time and essence since you are supposed to open the perks using the option on the left side. Also, think the whole murder part is cool, hoping to see more stuff like that. Can't think of another game like this where you have that option in that situation(tryna be vague).

Looks great so far. I like the flow of the game the activities dont feel like a grind and boring like alot of games. well see how the story plays out no complaints there. But I would like to see more options wit the characters in the game.

My initial impression was that this isn't flushed out. There's very few places to go. It felt grindy to me. I wish there was more description of this ominous succubus character I'm piloting around. I wish there were more corruption elements, like how can I get a dude at the gym to be an orgasm slave, or whatever?

Anyway, I guess what I want to say to the author is that the pieces are all here. This is going to be a great thing. It needs work in its current form, but you are absolutely on the right track. I 'd advise everybody to give this a look and anxiously await updates

Definitely recommend this one, especially to put on your watch list. There is a lot of meat here. A very solid foundation, that has some decent systems that nothing else is doing. It's not your basic corruption gain, different powers are needed to progress. But nothing confusing, it works well. I am greatly looking forward to more updates and further manipulation.

Scenes are basic, but not bad. Story is decent. Watch this one.

I have played the other games the Dev has made, all of which are pretty solid games. But I have to be annoyed by his half baked release.

The burn out from HTML games being release with 40 locations all with 4 different time of the day effects AND a total of 5 porn videos slapped on to one random encounter is going to be the death of me. If a location is under developed don't make it accessible to the players. No one wants to play weenie hunt junior for the very few porn encounters you bothered to add. It boggles the mind to think a competent Dev would make this choice, whats the logic? For everyone to stop and clap for the vaguely interesting progression system you coded? It forces a reviewers hand to review what is there and there's not much.

The main step family/ family has 3 basic non sex related seance. Aside from that there are a few one off gif scenes that you need to hunt for. The kicker is the progression system requires you to get points from a scene in order to unlock powers to see other scenes but there's no scenes??? If you bother playing it right now make sure you know how to adjust twine variables in F12 because the "grind" is just silly with one scene that might not even RNG for you that day.

Its also not lost on me that this is a wide spread problem and this review takes it out on just one dev but this game in particualr has got to be one of the worst offenders. A quick scim through the resource file shows theres videos enough for maybe 8 or 9 encounters over a span of over 30 names locations all with 4-5 different visitable times of the day. This includes the 3 encounters in your house. And no ones actaully counts the insanely lazy pron on laptop trope or glory hole trope.

Depending on the next release I will adjust this review accordingly but we as consumers need to hold Devs to a higher standard.

I mostly agree with freaky, its a good game, good content, not so much grind and it is a type of game I generally kinda like (Html female protag corruption).
Could use some sort of early game tutorial or at least a bit more description.
Here is to hoping that dev continues working on the game and more content comes out!

As it is rn Its a 4 Star.
Content is hot and not to much grind.

1 Star less because you dont really know what to do in the beginning.

Its a really early release so dont expect to much content as it is for now.

Concept really appeals to me, gameplay is straightforward and isn't as janky as some twine games. Interesting take on succubus games allowing for femdom, lezdom, sleep-play, and a little non-con. Keen for more content.