HTML - Female Agent [v1.20.1p] [Crushstation]

I just don't really get this one to be honest, the writing can be nice but nothing special, honestly the best thing I can say is that the author doesn't overdue it on text, and keeps things moving pretty briskly. A lot of text games I see splurge out floods of purposeless words but this actually seems to have some respect for my time. But that's basically all the good here, the character creation is a joke, it feels like a very very early draft of a game, like there are 3 kinks you can choose and genuinely not much else, its just very flat as it is and while some of the sex scenes were fun they were just kinda boring without much in the way of side characters or gameplay to zhuzh it up. Not atrocious by any means but just lacking all over the place, though you can tell effort was put in here. It gives me the vibe of a dev who has ambition and drive but perhaps lacks confidence in committing to something or the skill to execute all their desires.

No game to speak of currently because the dev is now reformulating the long "lifepath" intro for the 3rd time and there is no ETA on when that will be completed, if ever.

However, in previous versions- and despite over 7 years of dev time- our heroine never fought terrorists or "navigated" the Bangkok sex-fueled urban underbelly, unless you want to count taking the skytrain to handle a few shifts as a bartender. In short, previous drafts never made any serious attempt to realize the promise of the game.

The dev struggles with plot and writing erotic scenes, which is a serious handicap for an adult game developer. Hence the constant rewrites over the years, but there were very few hot scenes in previous releases and the plot never advanced. Coding doesn't seem to be a strength either based on the limited non-functional RPG mechanics in previous iterations or lack of meaningful branching. Finally, the art consists of one avatar in a side panel & some facial expressions.

When you follow development for any length of time, you start to suspect that more effort goes into Patreon posts than developing the actual game. Overpromising and not delivering at all seems to be the mantra here.

At the end of the day, FA is nothing more than a case study of a cool idea for a game completely squandered by repeated poor dev decisions, years-long delays and an inability to deliver.

I love the writing - it has some of the BEST writing in an erotic game, extremely realistic. Appealing UI but unfortunately heavy on text and not much visuals at all - won't be seeing any PIV anytime or actual sex scenes - it's just a paper doll with different outfits. After 8 years of development, there's less than 10 sex scenes in the game. About 4-6hrs of content depending on your reading speed.

This was billed as an espionage sandbox RPG with lots of mechanics, but honestly it's just become a click your way through VN without the V, and without many branches - it's very very linear. I want to support Crush and his team, but it's extremely difficult to because of the infrequent update schedule, it's been out since 2017 and up to now, there's only about 3-4hrs of content for a HTML game!!!! I can't help but compare it to the text-based games that came out around then - Degrees of Lewdity / Secretary / Girl Life QSP etc and the amount of content that has been pumped out for those games vs Female agent...

This makes it feel like a Star Citizen, but without the amount of content Star Citizen has delivered. It feels like a Patreon scam. In fact the amount of content that Crush has published about their workflow, the excuses they've made about why the updates have been delayed, the mental blocks / creative blocks "i'm redoing this scene because it's not sexy enough" - if they applied that same creativity and effort in actual game making, there would be double the amount of content in the game.

I guess I'm frustrated because of the promise and the writing. Evidently there is a potential amazing game waiting at the end. But 8 years on, with what's on offer... it doesn't seem like there will be an end.

The storytelling is good, but it feels like there isn't a tone of different routes to go down. The art of the character looks good and you can customize her which is nice. There isn't much in the way of sex animations, or art for any other character which would be nice for important ones.

Great concept, disappointing art. Fantastic writing, but the art kinda takes me out of it.

Wish they would remake to a AVN or something similar. To call them sex "scenes" implies some sort of scene, rather than a static image of a cartoon lady with her mouth open.

The game itself is very good. I like the writing, the character, the storyline, and the sex scenes

The UI has needed more polish for a long time and is finally getting that, but that gets us to the elephant in the room

I support this game and would like it to succeed. But the update process has been awful, for a while now. Crush spends an ungodly amount of time pushing back updates, delaying releases, to the point where a proper release has not yet happened this calendar year, and this for a game that so far is mostly linear in content. Right now they are backfilling UI polish and content that they cut, are putting it back, and reconfiguring into a new guidance method for beta testers, but evidently farming out some of the work on the product itself is too much to ask for. This is frustrating to see as a supporter.

But other than that, its a good product right up my alley and I hope they succeed in the long run, hopefully before Half Life 3 comes out

A very well-put-together game

A slightly different experience from the usual html games I'm used to, but the quality is also higher, so my comments are going to be proportionately strict.

1. Gameplay/session length
The amount of content/gameplay hours is significantly higher. E.g. I was expecting a html game I could blitz through in <1-2 hours (and maybe a few more to go over and unlock any remaining scenes) but was surprised this turned out to be a lot more lengthy and more like a 10+ hours experience. Not a bad point at all, just an unexpected one since this work stood itself out from among its peers.

2. Placeholders
I don't know how the engine works in the backend, but there seem to be some missed placeholders in the middle of the story. 2 types iirc:

• author notes/comments (like "TK description of this character having this impression")
• placeholder texts (like "thai thai Sawatdee khaa thai")

I've yet to get into twine/sugarcube myself (or any html game engine for that matter) so I don't know how this would work, but I'd imagine we'd benefit from separating/delimiting them from actual texts in some way for easier processing later on.

3. Language consistency
source: I'm thai

• The Thai conversations started ok, and even nailing casual speech quite well. But it gets more jarring and awkward later on in the game, making technically correct/understandable sentences, but not something that a native speaker would ever say (e.g. Peron A: "are you ready?" Person B: "roger", or saying "I'm arriving" when cumming).
• The speech also switched from casual karaoke (sawatdee khaa) to some kind of academic/phonetic form (sà′wàt′deekâ) and back at some points in the story. I don't know how either of these appears to non-speakers, but the karaoke Thai is a lot easier to read for me. Either one is fine at the end of the day, so I'd just stick to one.

I found myself just ignoring them at some point and hovering over them to see what was meant to be said in English instead.

4. Story/experience consistency
In some paths, the character will have already experienced X, but later on, the story is written as if the character is experiencing X for the first time.
E.g. I already blew the dealer dude to thank him for bringing in the goods in the middle of the night, but then hesitated and made a big deal out of blowing the bartending coach later on.
A lot of the html games I've seen also had this so I never expected it in the first place, but I feel like it's something that could be touched on to bring the quality of this game even higher.

Overall very well done

This game grabbed my attention in a way that most text-based games don't. I've gone all the way through the available content multiple times and I keep wanting more. Thankfully development is ongoing and from the dev posts, good changes are coming.

I think what elevates this game for me is a couple of factors. The simplest one is that each page's text is short. When a page is full of text it's hard to skim quickly and I end up getting bored and missing much of what's written. With this game, I can read a whole page in a few seconds and move on without missing details. Secondly, the writing is very good IMO. It has consistently kept me interested in the situations and characters. The depictions of the sex acts are hot and the animated avatar on the side combined with the descriptions gets my imagination going. Better so than in other games that use clips of real porn to fill in for sex scenes.

Ladies and gentlemen, I just seduced a Swedish man and acquired 2.4 billion dollars for the United States government. No need to thank me, drinks are on me.
This is an amazing game, and I'll definitely be supporting.

I hope you like clicking multiple times, to get two lines of dialogues. Rolling dice, to see if you can unscrew a panel. Yes that is one of the checks. Make choices that in no way impact the story. I am giving it 2 stars only, because I like the premise and what story there is.

I was skeptical in the begin cause many stories try to be realistic but fail in the narrative, for my pleasant surprise is not the case here.
The VN is very interesting and have one of the best pacing i've seen.
Maybe my only critic is lack of CG's, but the high customization of the character, change of clothes, make up and etc compensates for this in part. Is one of rare games i dont want to reach its end cause i love the story.

This game has pretty good writing with a believable corruption progression. The characters feel pretty real, the story is adequate, and I think it has a fairly accurate portrayal of the included kinks.

Actually joined the patreon on this one. Female agent has absolutely stellar writing. Between that and the small yet important visual details like those expressions & state of your clothing etc. of your protagonist's paperdoll, the immersion really is on a whole other level here. As a huge fan of groping, light corruption & maledom, this is one of my favorites of the genre!

this "game" has been in development for 7 years and still has no content to speak of. the dev refuses to changes his ways and the writing it had on release is honestly miles ahead of what it has now. I'd give it 0 stars if I could.

Despite all the hate around this game, it is still one of my favorite porn games.

Review for v1.20.1p:

Good:
1)One of the best and rare game idea about heroine being a secret agent, forced to become a part of lewd industry with a lot of sexy situations and corruption progression (corruption progression is a bit awkward at this moment)
2)One of the main focus on the game is emotions, reaction and personality changes which is really well written and described
3)Game has a really beautiful avatar that is supported through the whole game, it changes face emotions during scenes and outfits
4)There are a variety of different outfits combinations, makeup, body shapes, face shapes and others which makes you really enjoy your character, should be enough for most of the tastes
5)Interface is really convenient, not a lot of text on page, pictures of most of the places and people you see during scenes, this all makes experience much better than other only (or mostly) text games.
6)There are 3 game versions, in total they more than 8-10 hr of gameplay

Bad:
1)Development speed is not really fast, but for the game you can play for free this is not really a topic for discussion
2)By the end of the v1.20.1p game needs some changes, heroine already fucked several men through the game on the job, but still feel deep and controversial emotions from doing blowjob to another one, it looks like developer overmilking this idea. Maybe this game need to move in another direction or get some progression on the main job. At least I hope it will not be abandoned, 4th rework to milk same idea is still better than being abandoned

This "game" has no RPG or simulator elements to it, it's just a kinetic novel. That would be fine if the story were compelling, but the writing is slow and meandering and the corruption is non-existent. Worst of all, the espionage elements of this story are utterly amateurish. I'm not saying you have to be an expert in spy fiction to write a story for a porn game, but at least pick up a Tom Clancy novel or something.

First of all, let me say that I don't pay attention to what is written here, in Discord or on Patreon, or what the upgrade cycle is.
I usually find games by accident, play them and then forget about them for a few years until I happen to find them again to see what's new.

Same here. The last time I played it was a few years ago and even then I thought it had a hell of a lot of potential. It's a text-based game, so there's not much to see, but I really like the premise.

This "new" version basically starts where the old version I played a few years ago ended. And I'm a little confused as to why the developers seem to have scrapped the whole "building up the entire background" thing, because at the time I thought it was a brilliant idea.

But I can't deny that I really, really enjoy playing this game. There are perhaps a few inconsistencies in some of the actions our protagonist takes or reactions to previous situations. And the game is full of rather pointless decisions. It's also clearly not an RPG.

But man, I love the idea and I'm really having a fantastic time with it.

There's a lot of drama with this one. So much drama, in fact, that it would appear to has taken a life of its own. I will try to avoid it and judge the game solely on its merits, as much as I can.

What we are dealing here is a simple kinetic novel about a rookie female spy who is supposed to go undercover as a topless waitress/prostitute in Bangkok, Thailand which would hopefully lead to a removal of a dangerous international criminal.
You may be given a lot of false choices at various points in the game, but it doesn't really affect the story, almost at all.

Graphics are almost non existent. You have a rudimentary paper doll for the MC that reacts to whatever clothes or makeup you put on the MC, but nothing of that has any influence on the plot.

The writing is good. The sex scenes, although few a far between, are well written and hot. The game puts you in a proper vibe for a spy thriller and appears to be very well researched. All the "spy stuff" feels quite realistic and doesn't require a lot of suspension of disbelief.

The game has been stuck in development hell and the progress is slow, but the worse part is that there have been constant revisions and reimaginings, so even when an update appears, you never know whether to expect new contact or just changes to existing content.

I feel 3/5 is realistic for that reason. If you like well written kinetic novels with female protagonist, don't mind lack of visuals, meaningful choices and can accept extremely slow development pace, you should try it out.

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Text based erotic novel lacking good visuals (other than 3d models of the MC) and with frankly terrible writing. It has a railroaded plot but uses false choices to give the impression that it was something you had chosen. The MC reacts to events extremely arbitrarily as well, almost like it was written by different authors each with a different view of how the character works.