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

The writing and world building are excellent, developer obviously spent a lot of time reading up on subject matter material. Makes you really feel like you're in a bond film.

The prologue was great. It's refreshing to see a game where the protagonist has agency, however the game railroads you down the oft-trodden path of becoming a sex object. Perhaps it would have been a poor allocation of work to add a path that would have been only been enjoyed by a minority of players, but it seems a shame to reduce such a well written character to the misogynistic dribble prevalent on this site.

In terms of immersion, an ambient spy music audio track would perhaps be a worthwhile inclusion to double down on the bond cliche.

Decent game, art has improved over time and story is pretty spicy. Very linear however with most of the choices just changing the dialogue outcome slightly and not effecting the main story. Fun to play as a total whore character, but if you want anything else then its basically just Unavoidable Rape tag. Seems to be like dislike values based on choices but they don't seem to affect anything much like the decisions themselves.

Although Female Agent is really a slow burner, it is one of the best text novels I know. The main reason for this is that the dialogue is well written, the spy language blends in well and you even learn a bit about how intelligence agencies operate and what it might feel like for an intelligence agent to go undercover. Even though it is of course dramatised for entertainment purposes, you just feel like you are really experiencing a spy story.

What this game perhaps doesn't do so well is make decisions seem really significant. Many decisions seem more like flavour and not really as if they change the plot. That's okay, but it's text games that could really shine here.
Many of the secondary characters are also not sufficiently illuminated for me. Interesting characters seem rather superficial, their motives, backgrounds and motivations are hardly taken into account.

I give it five stars because I see the potential of Female Agent. There are not many text games that build up a plot so convincingly, and now the only question is whether the arc of suspense and the depth of the individual characters really come about. The ingredients for a near-perfect text adventure are definitely there.

Here's my review for v1.16.1

I'd give this 5 stars if only there are more visual accompaniment for each scenes especially the sex scenes aside from just a standing avatar of my character having different facial expressions. Aside from that, it has a great story which is very interesting, engaging and enlightening. It is also well written and feels realistic.

I remember playing this years ago and I've always really liked this one a lot for an HTML game. Fairly deep character customization with a ton of choices to be made, and a true slow-burn corruption path. I have a soft spot for HTML games and Female Agent is in the top-tier of those, for sure.

4* could be 5 if I had a bit more content to work with.

After a night of trying to keep my interest in this only to fail to fucking cum by the end, I felt I should write this.

Despite it fucking up the main damned reason I'm here, I initially wanted to give 4 stars for the quality writing. Care is put into the setting and the characters feel like actual people.
But there are 2 major problems. One, for a text-based game years in development, it's lacking in all areas. You'll be scrolling, searching, and pointlessly rolling dice to find the next inconsistent bit of linked text to move on with only to reach an abrupt end. Two, and this one's far more damning, it's straight not sexy enough.

The realistic setting does not lend well to text alone. You got 2 somewhat customizable images of your avatar to work with and a single good pic of some random stripper if you bother clicking around. Otherwise the most stimulation you'll get is imagining a sexy spy slutting it up for clubbers and for that, lots of boring intermission that's a pain to click through.

A lot of love and effort has been put into the game and it shows. It's very linear, the choices are mostly for immersion and I'm perfectly fine with that. Avatar and clothing system is also great. Definitely worth playing and looking forward to future updates.

Engaging and surprisingly well researched story with lots of well written sexual content. Really got me going despite it being fairly vanilla compared to some other games on this site. I think it's the great setting that really spices it up through proper context.
The relatively simple avatar system looks great and the UI is pretty simple, without a need for excessive and repetitive clicking.
One of the best HTML games on the site. Well done, looking forward to the updates.

There are strong advantages about this game, such as good concepts and excellent writing, but the extremely slow update tarnishes all of those things.

Fortunately, the dev seems to have regained his motivation recently, so I will watch the game with more expectations.

Version 1.16

Wasn't a fan of the original story for the game. It was "Fine" but a bit vacuous. In it you were recruited to be a whore in brothel. You started having sex on camera immediately.

With the new engine the writer made small, but important rewrites. Now your original cover is a bartender (topless). It makes the gradual corruption and the way you sink further into the underworld more impactful.


Its perfect. Its the sort of change that takes the game from a 3 star experience to 5 and is a perfect example of how important context is for story focused games.


Edit:
Have taken a star off, simply because subsequent playthroughs kind of proved 2 things:

1. Most of your choices are an illusion (at least at this stage).
2. The game is not friendly for playing through again where you've already seen most of the scenes. *Click**Click*Click* etc. This could be alleviated a lot of the maker could bind a key for "Next" as 90%+ of screens, that's the only option you have. It'd make is a lot easier for subsequent playthroughs.

The author is not concentrating on the story but I hope he keeps going with it instead of concentrating on vast mechanics that he will probably not get to implement because it's too much work. It's really story driven and the story is pretty good now, really keeps the reader interested. You do need to be into the tags, I imagine not everyone will enjoy this.
The art always felt a little off with this one, even with the changes, but it's so minor and not worth time to divert efforts to it unless it's being done by someone that has nothing to do with the working on story.

Honestly one of the best games on this site.
Ignore the haters who act like they have all made AAA quality games with no budget in record time when they've all likely never done anything creative in their whole lives.
This developer did in fact restart the game which stalled forward progress with the story, but they did that with consultation with their patrons and have consistently communicated their roadmap and production plans.
If this upsets you, by all means, don't support them and play one of the millions of other games on this site.
If you can understand a creator needing to restart because they want to create a product that they are proud of then I strongly urge you support this dev-- if you can afford it of course.

This version of FA takes you through a somewhat linear story so far that is filled with little details and flavor that make sex scenes incredibly hot. There are plans to eventually have your choices lead to bigger variety in the story and and eventual open world but I'm not reviewing that because that hasn't been done yet.
What I am reviewing is the existing story in version 1.16.1, which is superbly written and one of the hottest on this site, especially if you're into submissive/exhibition/masochism kinks in a fantasy written from the female POV.

An Outstanding Game!
The game mechanics are refreshing, the story is simple yet terribly exciting, the graphics are gorgerous, the paperdoll system is on point... And I spent an entire game wanking on it.
You, creator, deserve a round of admirative aplause!

Love this game. The story is great and I love the setting. The updates take a while but when they come they are very dense with content. I'm always looking for new updates to arrive, probably one of my favorite games on f95.

Honestly, this is one of the best games I've discovered here by a long shot, both for the sexual content and otherwise.

Sexual content:
Visuals:
The art for the MC is great, and so are the portraits of the NPCs. It's a realistic artstyle that really lends to the setting, as well as the eroticism. Sure, all you see is the MC as far as the sex scenes go, but the way that she is shown to blush, sweat, and even have an afterglow meshes is a great effort. The fact that you can view her from behind to really appreciate the myriad customizable dresses and makeup options is also a big plus.

Actual sex:

So far it seems pretty vanilla. The MC can get with several guys for 1 on 1 action. The MC, however, always cums (sometimes multiple times), which is a big turn-on for me.

The MC also gets groped A LOT (Though I think you can minimize it through gameplay choices) and it looks like there will be some SERIOUSLY juicy content as the updates continue to roll along.

The corruption content is fantastic and, as mentioned, looks like it will lead into some seriously intense sex scenes.

Non-sexual content:

Holy fuck, what can I say. I've yet to see a game on this site where the creator so clearly loves to do their research, both on secret services/spec ops and the setting. It's incredibly in-depth, but also presented in a very digestible way.

The fact that the MC exudes so much professionalism (At least for now) while slowly going down the route of corruption is so fucking hot - and this is all due to great writing for her line on work and thinking by the creator.

Overall, so far so great! I know some people have rated this poorly because of how long it's been worked on/restarted, but just having jumped in and witnessed the content presented thus far I am seriously impressed.

Don't know if the writer/dev will read this but bro you're doing something very right for subconscious exibit/humiliation fans xD
If you're into a female MC having to recognize her lewd side and descending into debauchery the is a game for you.

This game has the most potential out of any game I've played here; however the weird structure of the game and lack of new content brings it to a 4 star for now. I seriously want to give it 5 stars but I can't.

PROS:
- Great writing and hot scenes
- I love the text based nature of the game / avatar system and how they interact. I find it better and less distracting than full pictures or real porn.
- Amazing theme where you play as an undercover agent in Thailand.
- Good world building. Everything feels like it's realistic enough to actually happen in real life. This is one of my biggest pet peeves with other games, where they throw logic out the window. Everything makes sense here.

CONS:
- The game is broken up into a backstory where you're in school but it doesn't connect with the rest of the game... it's very odd.
- The above problem is compounded by the main game having little content currently.
- Decisions are rarely significantly impactful.

Overall this is a fantastic base for it to be one of the best games, if not, the best game on this site.

This is based on the latest version at the time (v.14.1)
What is there, is not bad at all. It is a linear visual novel with illusion of choice (as of now it only affects some minor flavor text), but a very engaging one. However, the pace of development can only be described as "glacial".

This project took almost 4 years to get past the intro, and into the first section of the "main" game

All in all, do play it and enjoy it, but don't expect it to receive updates quickly.

It has incredible potential, with great writing and clean UI. However, it has unfortunately been *plagued by slow development due to indecision and late revampes of the engine, story and art. As good as it looks, feels and reads right now, its just not good enough to justify four years of *development.

Update to 4 stars: Honestly, I really like the story so far in Bangkok. I can easily tell that the writer is someone that likes researching locations and exploring the emotions of his characters.

If this game was released just at the 4th quarter last year, I would have given it a clear 5 star review.

If there was some critique, its that a few situations I would have liked if it was possible for the character to go through darker scenes in her upbringing. Because it feels lacking in that regard. Example; The scare in the motel in Africa of an intruder not being just a scare, and it escalated instead due to her indecision.

Or the flirting with the old guys in that bar in Switzerland escalating, or maybe have a choice to actually get it on with them instead.

There needs to be real consequences to these type of indecisions when the dire situation calls for it, you know? Its a minor thing in general, and its just in my fantasy files, but I would like my character to go through such a trauma and have it strengthen her resolve later in the story when she becomes an agent.

Two things in life I've been waiting for: the end of the COVID pandemic and Crushstation finally taking the Female Agent to Bangkok. Glad to see one of those things has come about. My life is still not getting any more interesting, but at least the recent update of this outrageously half-baked game shows some promise.

I actually think scrapping it all and returning to the original structure is the best direction given the previous cumbersome backstory system that chips the focus away from the game's main theme—its sexual Orientalism—where the player gets to customize their (white) female intelligence officer on an undercover mission to infiltrate the Hard Cock Cafe in Bangkok. (Fun fact: there is a joke poster in real life depicting a Hard Cock Cafe in Patpong, Bangkok's red light district.) To prepare for the mission the agent has to pose as a tourist, a farang woman, and get hired as a sex worker. This story idea of course plays on Thailand's disrepute for sex tourism and the trope of sexpionage.

It's a fascinating mixture having the agent participate in what's clearly a dehumanizing experience where colonial and imperial history in developing countries has made the seedy scenery like Thailand what it is today—an industry that caters largely to foreign men coming from the developed world. And so within this context that the agent takes her trip. What this game has done better than most is its fixation on locations. This update goes out of its way to emphasize every place the agent sets her foot on, even what food she eats. This strange obsession, which is read like a piece of travel writing, of course is the result of seeing the Orient as an exotic other. The agent's first-person perspective gradually "discovers" cultural peculiarities that stand to divide the world she visits and the world she belongs. The racialized foreign, uncanny and unsafe setting is used to generate an atmosphere of thrill, emanating possibilities for sexual adventures.

Much more can still be said about a game that lets you play as the CIA going after a Middle Eastern terrorist. Will it end at a torture site in Thailand? My bet's on Guantanamo Bay. But the point is, even in a fun sexy game, ideology is still inescapable.

I really hope from this moment onward Crushstation doesn't overhaul the game again. This is perhaps Female Agent's last chance to progress and become something. One more undoing and this project may lose the modicum of support it has left. But if it can be completed this time perhaps little will be remembered of its haphazard development, but instead, a raunchy spy tale that can stand with the likes of Misadventures of Agent Romanov in the hall of adult gaming.