HTML - Abandoned - Ethos of Darkness: A Post-Apocalyptic Erotic RPG [v1.3.11] [Rayxelm]

A diffrent take on the rgp genre with a lot of unpolished potential. Shame it got abandonded. Things that are missing are: abit more story, more interactivenes and alot of bug fixes... but other than that like I said alot of potential.

The game had an interesting premise and the gameplay it presented could've been rather good or even great, but it contained a plethora of issues making it fall short of meeting its full potential.

Firstly, it's too harsh at the immediate beginning and laughably easy once you've collected jara to sell for the money required to buy top-tier gear. You savescum for about 10 minutes and very little can challenge you.

Secondly, I recall that every time the game updated, something new and vital turned up broken; I remember one update having combat start to softlock the game, the next update fixed that but broke sex, and that stayed broken for more than one update. I stopped regularly updating after that, so I can't say for sure what other features may have been broken by updates, but it was very clear that little to no testing was ever done before new releases.

The game itself ran via some baffling server system instead of being an isolated program, and was very prone to crashing or just not working for no particular reason, which could and would make it difficult to play at the best of times.

The art also looked rather crude and very off-putting for anything that wasn't human, with non-humancy being represented seemingly only by the being in question being a different color and having a warped face

All in all, this game managed to disappoint [me] regularly while it was being updated and now seems to have been totally abandoned by its creator, so as I see it, there's virtually no chance of it being refined over time into something more deserving of a positive review.

An Unfortunate tale of a Dev biting off more than he could chew. This game started as a simple text based game and evolved into having art. I highly suspect the art is why the Dev quit, but I have no proof of it.

The game was promising in its infancy and showed good progress for a first time dev. The Challenge of the game was an extreme curve, at its highest early and then free-falling if you get items like a spear and some armor. Balancing would have needed some work.

This was a project I was watching with extreme interest, everything considered. I think if the dev ironed out the kinks this would have been a wonderful game. I still come back to it to see some of the things he did.

As it is now I can't recommend it.

TL;DR
Okayish gameplay, terrible art, Okayish Porn. Not Recommended.

Nothing more fun than getting beat up by mobs and the rape or enslavement that comes after. Thanks for ALL those choices you give us that HELPS against this happening. PLEASE keep up the GOOD work, why don't you make it more unfair in every aspect. Give us even LESS money when we sell scrap and working in the field. PLEASE don't let use create make shift weapons, I mean you can't give us some kind of hope in this shitty world you've created?

(review based on v. 1.3.8)
QUICK SUM UP:
EASY TO NAVIGATE
NO CODING/LAGGING ISSUES WHEN PLAYING (at least, when I was playing)
DECENT CUSTOMIZATION
CONTROLS EASY TO UNDERSTAND
UNAPPEALING CHARACTERS
LIMITED AND BLAND CUSTOMIZATION
NO STORY
HALLOW GAMEPLAY
BORING SEX SCENES

Since this game isn't detailed, I'll keep my review the same. Just looking at the preview pictures show you the bland, and sometimes just down-right ugly characters (the back-view is the worst). When playing you'll be scavenging for sticks and planks because that's all is out in the world I guess. Like everyone with every subpar game on this site, it has "potential" and I agree with that. However, unfortunately, every game has potential but doesn't mean it'll meet it. If this improves beyond what it is, then I'll gladly cheer it on. Now, it's just a hallow shell of html codes.

This game seems to have a lot of potential and look forward to more of it. The only issue I have is that thanks to it being HTML I constantly get unloadable screens. Please continue to work on this game I may even join your patrion when i am more financially stable after the 1st of the year.

A solid text game with some post-apocalyptic elements. Writing is good and modular system in the game is easy to mod. Easy-to-change game files allow for any desirable adjustments. While not big right now, it has a lot of potential. Besides that, author is implementing some graphics, which is always appreciated. The only bad thing is its need to connect to the server, which sometimes gets an error, ruining the save. Though that problem has lessenes significantly lately.

One of the worst text based adventures I've ever played. First I had problems to get the game started, just do discover that it's an quite unfair game with boring repetitive sex. At least the download size isn't big.