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Gene Therapy [v0.09]

How should one rate this game? It definitely has potential, but at the moment it’s nothing more than a boring grindfest.

Right now, it’s little more than an HTML-based kinetic novel that aims to become a sandbox corruption game in the future. To get this out right away: I’m generally skeptical about sandbox systems since they’re usually poorly executed.

The main fetishes at this point seem to be transformation, sissification, BBC, and netorare.

The images are solid, and there are a few nice animations. What I liked most was how the developer combines rendered scenes with real porn footage in the videos - even though I normally dislike real porn in AVNs or adult games. Here, it’s done tastefully and actually supports the underlying themes of mind control and mental transformation.

There are no sound effects, and aside from a short intro track, there’s no background music at all.

I’m giving one star for the visuals and another for the potential, which makes three stars in total - at least one more than it really deserves, but meant as motivation for the developer to keep going. For everyone else, don’t get me wrong: In its current state, this VN is mostly about clicking through the same daily routine with very little eye-candy as a reward.

This is nothing but a linear, incredibly dull grind to zero real content. I wouldn't even call this a game. The characters have no agency, there's no real choice, you have to click the same crap every day over and over, rinse and repeat. Maybe in a year there will be enough content to waste several hours of continuous clicking to get to any sort of story evolution.

A dull grind, a poor storyline, a lack of choice, awkward gameplay, and unoptimized graphics contribute to the game's enormous size.

Overall, I highly recommend not wasting your time with this parody of games in general (the gameplay is unengaging) and porn games in particular (everything is so slow and dull that it's unstimulating).

Wow. Decent-ish renders, but that's about all this "game" has going for it. Endless clicking to advance tiny little increments of "stats" that don't amount to anything. The dialogue sounds like a 10-year-old's fever dream after discovering his first fap magazine. This game's format is sandbox which makes no sense, as the "story" (such as it is) is strictly linear. In other words, you gotta do A->B->C->D->E->F and then repeat it every single day. And none of the characters seem to have any agency whatsoever. Hard pass.

Lots of clicking for very little content. Renders aren't bad which is the best thing I can say about the "game." What few choices you are given seem to have zero impact on game play and most of the game is just clicking through the same chores (shower, work, therapy, evening with wife, sleep). The only part of the game that advances is the therapy sessions and that ends long before anything exciting happens.

A truly insane amount of useless clicking. For 80% of your playtime you'll be experiencing zero new content, and the stuff that it presents you with barely even counts. The characters aren't characters as much as they are templates. The wife you're drugging says LITERALLY nothing to you besides "thanks" for at least a week into the games runtime. The MC is barely a person as well, I'm not even complaining about the fact that he's weak willed, I'm complaining that he isn't willed whatsoever. He has no real desires, no motivators besides "I need my wife to sex me" which isn't reinforced by anything besides him saying it.

It drove me insane in maybe 20 minutes, which should tell you just how bad it really is. In it's current state there's really only one piece of actual content per day the rest is just waiting and clicking and waiting and clicking and getting flashed by the insane effects on every single room and clicking and waiting.

If it's improved in the future then consider this review null, but currently it is complete ass.

Very smooth HTML without bloat and crisp little animated clips where usually still images are used or ripped porn that bloats a game to unnecessary memory waste. Nice renders of the 3D models. In 0.2 the skeleton of gameplay (daily routine) is already solid although a bit repetitive at the moment. But events and more characters are coming. Genetherapy features my fave fetishes, invol & corruption and these are delivered in small chunks resulting in a slow burn game. Will be watching this game progress!

Looks very promising.

Pro:

Nice mix of Videos and Pictures. Not too much to read, just the right balance for me. I am curious where the story goes.

Cons:

Maybe make the mother "older" I can´t tell the difference between the wife and the mother
Maybe a bit less clicking would be nice.