It's a choose your own adventure with pretty decent writing.
The main complaint I've seen is that there are a lot of dead links. The reason for that is because Devious World is more of a hobby. A playground for the author, if you will. Devious World has no set goals (aside from monthly release) and no true completion in mind. It's just a collection of branching stories that often contain ideas for how a branch might continue (for the author's own reference). Hence there's an abundance of red links for ideas which the author may never pursue, and is released for free every month. The author does not write because she's paid (pretty sure they've confirmed on a post they're female), people pay her because she writes.
Don't expect a "game". There is no project or deadlines. It's set up as a choose your own adventure because it's a convenient format for the ADHD author's purpose of writing a metric tonne of smut. You're being invited to read the twisted, meandering, and very horny imaginations of another depraved individual that is sometimes like your own. Sometimes also their regular fiction and fanfiction.
If there's one 'complaint' I have, it would be that any fetish you initially encounter on a branch does not mean that everything on that branch is the same. More than a few times, a choice will take a sharp left into something completely different. This made my first read many years ago a bit of a slog, skipping through every single choice on a path I found squick just to see if it might suddenly transform into gold. Now, I only need to check the changelog.
What is there is can make for dozens of hours of reading. A lot of which any one person won't be interested in. If you're willing to spend some time, you'll likely find something you enjoy. And given the tangential nature of a lot of the choices, a good amount of what you prefer may likely be hidden behind something you don't. If you're not willing to sit down and read, don't expect to find anything fast. Everyone has specific tastes, and unfortunately Devious World has no signposts.
PS: read the review by y33tthem34t. It's a pretty accurate summary of reader experience.
The main complaint I've seen is that there are a lot of dead links. The reason for that is because Devious World is more of a hobby. A playground for the author, if you will. Devious World has no set goals (aside from monthly release) and no true completion in mind. It's just a collection of branching stories that often contain ideas for how a branch might continue (for the author's own reference). Hence there's an abundance of red links for ideas which the author may never pursue, and is released for free every month. The author does not write because she's paid (pretty sure they've confirmed on a post they're female), people pay her because she writes.
Don't expect a "game". There is no project or deadlines. It's set up as a choose your own adventure because it's a convenient format for the ADHD author's purpose of writing a metric tonne of smut. You're being invited to read the twisted, meandering, and very horny imaginations of another depraved individual that is sometimes like your own. Sometimes also their regular fiction and fanfiction.
If there's one 'complaint' I have, it would be that any fetish you initially encounter on a branch does not mean that everything on that branch is the same. More than a few times, a choice will take a sharp left into something completely different. This made my first read many years ago a bit of a slog, skipping through every single choice on a path I found squick just to see if it might suddenly transform into gold. Now, I only need to check the changelog.
What is there is can make for dozens of hours of reading. A lot of which any one person won't be interested in. If you're willing to spend some time, you'll likely find something you enjoy. And given the tangential nature of a lot of the choices, a good amount of what you prefer may likely be hidden behind something you don't. If you're not willing to sit down and read, don't expect to find anything fast. Everyone has specific tastes, and unfortunately Devious World has no signposts.
PS: read the review by y33tthem34t. It's a pretty accurate summary of reader experience.