HTML - Abandoned - Fairytale [v0.20] [GrimmGames]

3/5 - Average

Average for the genre, average experience, average everything. The writing is forgettable (especially dialogue) and any story is almost nonexistent. The sex content is fine but lacks meaningful context to really make it interesting or erotic.

While Fairytale is a mind-control focused game, the first comparison I found myself drawing was Love and Vice. I think a lot of what's done right should be taken as a lesson for the developer of Fairytale. There is a grind in Love and Vice, but progress checkpoints are rapid and there are multiple ways to grind the same stats so that you're not seeing the same interactions and scenes over and over by necessity. Mind-control absolutely changes the flavor of the erotic content and the path from mundanity to fantasy, but including the hesitation, conflict, and closeted lust in dialogue that Love and Vice does so well would do great things for Fairytale. Honestly, it's almost a necessity in HTML games that are very much tuned for dialogue-heavy experiences.

Credit where credit is due, though - the Quest system is great and helps avoid mindless spamming of events. The game functioned perfectly and navigation was fantastic. No click-on-seven-different-buttons-to-go-to-sleep nonsense that pervades HTML games. As a first foray into making an HTML game, I think grimm has done very well for themselves.

It's really good for A RP VN, the characters have good storylines and the scenes are put together well, new characters get added every update and the theme of the story is interesting, even though it's a RP I'd say give it a go if you like harems and no ntr/sharing stuff like a lot of other rp VN's

One of the better html realporn games. Story is crap but its good for just going through quickly. Reminds me of Paradise Found but not as long and less repetative. If you are like me and want higher quality porn rather than a story then this is what you want.

Review of [v0.7]
One of if not the best real porn game on this site.

Good story, a lot of content, beautiful models
Getting updates "fairly" quickly.
Every update I've seen so far have been better than the one before. The story keeps progressing and we keep getting new girls to "control".

Looking forward to more content in the future.

Review of [v0.6]

For a a game called fairytale, I thought there would have been much more fables or fantastic elements instead of an only magic phone that makes people slaves or lovers or both.

It’s the same HTML sandbox genre game, with grinding features to get points, no plot happening, bland characters, some incests sidekicks and a little bit of supernatural,
It’s nothing original of course, but it could be still well made, even with these generic characteristics, but sadly it’s what you would expect with just more content.

The writing is weird, it’s fluid but also incomplete, phrases and expressions appear as they were cut off suddenly or mashed together awkwardly, it does not feel natural.
Same goes for the characters, every trope you can expect is there.

My biggest complaint is the linearity, I thought the game could have different paths or choices since you have a magic phone, but no, every path is the same, and every line of dialogue is chosen for you, so it just a kinetic linear sandbox with also railroad paths.

Sex clips are good, dialogues during it, not so much.

If HTML generic porn games like this are for you, perfect, you are going to have fun, but even if you like them, I bet you will feel disappointed or just off that this is too plain and predictable.

It is not the perfect game. But it is clear, with very good choice of scenes, and you got more and more stuff to watch.
No choices but it's ok i guess. I enjoyed the ride and if you want to chill it's a very pleasant game. Very long too.

The reason I'm giving this 4 stars may sound shitty but it really detracts from the experience: the game just doesn't stop lol. There are so many girls and so many scenes and so much story... it's good... and bad... good in that there is a lot to enjoy... bad in that there is a lot to slog through...

I really just wish the game had half as many of everything, and an ending. With the amount of development that has gone into it, dev could have made two games lol... anyways, it's good, it's just a lot, and it can get somewhat grindy at points but not really because you're constantly getting content... constantly... forever... lol

For a version 0.2 this has an awful lot of content. Almost on that basis alone this game is worth a good review. A good cast, plenty of porn, plenty of dialogue, and something of a story going on along with a number of locations with their own little sub-events to find.

About the porn: it's very vanilla. Maybe I'm too jaded given it's about mind control in which you bang your sisters. The taboo nature of incest isn't really played into. It's more like the occasional mention that they're sisters not housemates after you begin to have sex with them. And the mind control? It's not really about bending people to your will so much as making them like you enough that you can nudge them in the right direction. In terms of visuals, it's a game with natural models (not a fake boob in sight, a true rarity) and the sex is either oral or vaginal. To be honest, this maybe lightened my aforementioned jaded heart a little. It was quite nice to run a game that didn't go hard on every fetish out there. At the same time, what's mind control if you don't go anal now and then?

As for criticisms, there's some spelling errors in the writing and a few clumsy lines. The plot is pretty thin in terms of any overarching narrative. We're progressing with the women in the game, but we aren't really progressing any story to speak of. I imagine for some people that will take some of the fun out of it. I don't know where the plot is really going, or if there even is one, but personally I was entertained enough by wandering round seducing what was there.

In terms of choices to be made? There aren't any. Resources to manage? There aren't any. I mean, there's money but you gain it passively and the only items to buy are plot items which cost less than you have at any given time. Your choices are really "which girl am I working on right now", but given the way people move around and where you need them to be to interact with then you kind of progress them all somewhat evenly anyway. These would normally be major negatives to me, but all I can say is I found there was plenty to just sit back and enjoy.

As it stands the major issue for Fairytale is deciding what it wants to be. It's much more free roaming than a visual novel, but the player influence is much less than other games of this type.

Why the score I gave it? Because it's just very easy going and enjoyable right now. I don't have rigid criteria here to justify a mark out of five. All I can say is that there's plenty of good porn, the plain nature of which actually makes this game stand out right now, and enough fun in the writing to carry it through.

There's really nothing new or innovative to sink your teeth into. There's no crazy fetish to pursue (in spite of the mind altering magic), but there is a perfectly functioning porn game behind it with more than enough content to fill some time with.

As others mention, it might be a good start to a story but so far there is no substance to it. You just click and go. There are no 'choices' and you're just along for the ride. There's no drama, no build up to anything. Hopefully that will change with the introduction of an antagonist of some sort or something.

As it stands now, the MC goes around sneaking pics of girls with his phone. He has a magical app that makes some of them drop their clothes immediately while others don't do that but slowly come to love him.

What it also is so far is just a bunch of advertisements for commercial porn sites. It's difficult to go from scene to scene and not see some different porn site advertised on all of the short scenes. Maybe the Dev gets a commission off that?

Also there's the distraction of the MC changing appearance multiple times depending on where you are in the game. Sometimes he appears young and fit but other times such as during the massage scene, he is a fat, bald, old guy with tattoos. A couple of times the MC is really creepy and gross looking for the scene he is in.

Also has the usual large amount of spelling and grammar errors.
Things like "I bet you want something of this" or "Please cum into my mouth".

On the other hand, at least the Dev tried, and while this attempt, so far, hasn't been very good I bet the next will be much better.

It's nicely build, but there's no game element. It's a linear story.
Basically you just follow (stalk) the NPC's around in the world and talk to them in different locations to raise stats and if you keep it up long enough, you'll get scenes.
The scenes themself feel incomplete most of the time. For example, you get a bj and suddenly it's over. No signal that it is finished, not by scene or text.
Then the sandbox element has no function. Apart from one or two trips to the store and twice to the office you only need it because you need to follow around your sisters to raise stats.
This game is basically a VN, but with more clicking.
Pro's are that it looks good, the scenes used are short but clear.

A big surprise. It has a LOT of content for a first release and the story and characters are great. I especially love the lack of ''MILFS'', because those ruin other games for me a lot of the time. The way this story worked around is was easy, but good. The teacher and dean don't really look too young to me either. So it's still pretty realistic.

Insane amount of content for a first release. Also, quality is great!
Aside from a couple of typos I didn't hit any bugs.

Looking to the future, the story does feel a bit linear, so the replay value will go down with time. However, any game developer will encounter that challenge - either set different storylines per character or finalize one first.

Anyway, keep it up - hope to see more updates!

As of v0.1 hotfix 2:

Good:

• Good amount of porn content.
• Hot actresses. Some of the characters would make more sense as MILFs, though.
• Natural breasts. I hate fake boobs, and here there's almost none of that crap here.
• Hair. No full grown bush, but there are at least some well trimmed carpets, which I appreciate.

Bad:

• No game. There's no choice, no resource management, no puzzles, no exploration, no interactivity, there's just some mild grind, and that's it.
• Poorly written story and dialogues, with continuity errors and stuff that makes no sense, and generally pretty lame.
• Incest (or "step" incest). Why is it so popular? Do you guys all dream to fuck your sisters and moms? Nah, whatever, I don't want to know.
• Poor English. Lots of German (?) leftovers, spelling errors, typos, and just wrong words ("learn" instead of "study", for example, again and again).

Other considerations:

• Linear story, no player choice whatsoever. I had initially put this in the "bad" list, but then I realized that a lot (most?) of my favourite games (not just porn ones) have linear stories. So, why does it bother me? Because here there's no game. No engagement is required to drive the story forward, there's no illusion that the player is doing something. It's basically a visual novel, but with awkward repetitions and continuity errors.
• Girls have two stats that you need to raise: "love" and "trust". Interactions in each location raise one of them (with very little story-related logic, by the way). This means that I often found myself thinking "I need to rise her love, where do I need to meet her, again? Was it the kitchen or the bedroom?" Mildly annoying. At least the grind is quick.

3/5 because at least it isn't too annoying to "play", and the porn is enjoyable.

(Edit: typos)

Pretty good game. Lots of content for a version 0.1 hotfix2, like, really a lot of content. Little grinding, you just have to repeat some scenes. It's kinda like a VN with extra steps. You don't have any choice to make.
Good images/videos, a lot of them from Primal Fetish - which is good, some variation from other games.
It has little story, altough it sets the foundation for a good story, considering it's a first release, it's fine.
The only real problem it's that all girls (except Savanah I think) feel exactly the same, everything from level 2 on-wards it's kinda like the same scenes, same progression, no fetishes.

Definetly coming back to see how the game progresses.

After I played the game in v0.1 and 0.1hotfix1, the game is one of the besst in its first relise. With a big first cast of girls and a good story, not to mush grinding and a big potential for more girls and probaply the biggest harem ever. I can only recommend playing it to all the others that lovs harem games.

Great first release, lots of content (photos and small videos), story with a lot of characters (especially for this stage of development), perfect choise of actresses, the story is build-up gradually and not all at once which personally find hot

Surprising amount of work put into what is, really, a pretty shallow experience.

Synopsis is MC gets a fairy that helps him take control of the women around him via an app on his phone. (Side note: which is kind of mixing plots, as you generally see the "Get a supernatural girl who helps you corrupt people" and "Get a magical/bullshit sciencey app/device that lets you corrupt people" as different stories. So its kind of weird to see the two plot devices sharing space here).

So from that set up I was expecting something along the lines of Wife Trainer Files, where you pick different actions and they have varying effects.

I was actually looking for a way to access the phone for a couple minutes before realizing there isn't one.

The game is strictly linear with all girls (or at least the ones I encountered in about an hour or so). The only real input the player has is choosing when to go where.

I appreciate there's not much grind, but there really isn't much of anything. The scenes all seem shallow for two reasons. First being that you don't really have to do anything to get them. There's no sense of accomplishment if the game is just leading you from one sex scene to another.

Second reason is the corruption is just too damn abrupt. For the Karlee plot you literally get a button on your phone saying "Turn her into your personal slut". And BOOM. She sucks your dick. There's no real tension or build up. Events just happen if you go to certain areas enough times.

That being said, there's a surprising number of scenes, and the girls are definitely sexy.

Its just.... sort of vacuous. Strictly linear, without even the excuse of good writing. Not horrible writing. I just got bored of it.