Others - Abandoned - Glamour [v0.57] [Dark Silver]

The game has 2.5 starts ratings and everyone knows why. The dev should really look into making the game better and not grindy. I like sandbox too, but the grind is so fking*****, makes you hate it.
The dev adds a few renders (like 50 or even less) per update and makes it feel huge by repeating the scenes over and over again. A game's main purpose is to make you feel at ease and entertain you but this game would make you angry and lose patience.
The game has no animations and no sound design which is very disappointing even with so many patrons, a proper office and many employers to I guess.
I know no one is gonna read this nor the dev, but it is what it is. Only the patrons have this power and I am not one cause it's not the type of game I would like to pay for.

Good:

• Really good renders.
• Realistic interesting writing
• Beautiful female characters
• Simple game design and UI
• Feels like a game instead of a VN

Bad:

• No music
• Some bugs

Overall the game feels well structured. The grind is a double edge sword but to me it makes the story progression feel rewarding.

I really don't think a 1 or 2 star review is justified considering the horrendous crap you can find on this website.

A very disappointing game after Big Brother ... the dev gave up on a male protagonist and didn't learn anything from the the previous game: lose some of the grinding and hidden event triggers that break the story, forcing the player to skip days and days ...

v0.38

Just a pointless grindfest disguised as a game.

Mediocre daz studio renders with out of the box daz store assets.

Uninteresting and ridiculous story.

Absolutey no game mechanics, just a pointless implementation of open world just to make the users waste time doing nothing and cover the absolute lack of content and fun elements.

Better to stay away from this, it's just a hollow shell with some pointess scene thrown once once in a while to keep milking patrons.

So far I like what I see. I like that it has a quest log and is the only reason why i tried this to begin with. unfortunate it doesn't tel where to go sometimes. the renders are class but no animations are a bummer. I you enjoy sandbox games you should give this a try otherwise maybe not. the story is kinda lame but does have some good twists imo.

overall i think that this is an average game but a pretty solid sandbox. i feel that having no animations hurts this game.

Well, the game finally got excellent. I would ever have believed it? The end so far (I played Kate to 0.37) was brilliant. I really enjoyed the play. I did played the game now after 2 years complete from the start. The game does improve much towards the end, however in the middle part it has much flaws and it was really hard and sometimes outright boring to play, but it all payed off to keep playing.

First I was skeptical that I ever would like the female character Kate, because in the beginning she just appears stupid and naïve, but her character changes, and that’s actually the point of the game. Kate is definitely the character to play in this game. (Keep in mind that Max route was only implemented as fan service to keep paying customers). And after so long skepticism I must admit the story is actually excellent.

Negatives: The game is very long to play, because its not well programmed and it sometimes takes forever to progress, because the trigger points of events are hidden and unclear. The game progresses in waves (resulting from development history of monthly updates). The effect is coming to an end of a certain update, you are actually forced to hunt the last trigger points of one single storyline till you can unlock the next wave of content. It kills the fun imho. So to progress with the story you must several times finish all running quests and than often enough you have such stupid situations, where you must wait several days in the game to get each one trigger point of one quest which blocks any progress and you need 10 of these trigger points in a row to progress, causing you to skip and skip, killing all immersion. These hunting for the last trigger points really brakes the fun, especially when you can not logically find the trigger points without a walkthrough. I recommend the developer should play his own game once from the start and measure how much time he needs to progress when and if the game gets suddenly boring for a while. Maybe some triggerpoints could be softened up or the waiting time reduced or maybe some of the triggers could be better described.

All in all Dark Silver finally managed to write a decent game. It has a great story and beautiful renders. However it needs still some polishing. But the game is good. Its very underrated on this side, I really recommend to play it.

i rated it as a 4-star game +1 star to bit counterbalance all non-objective rates (average rating being 2,5 is just ... wrong)

i play only Kate's part [0.38v rn] knowing that Max part will be a rework of wellknown BB content.

good .
polished ui
no bugs
enough content (as far as i can judge by a walkthrough and the amount i already played)
external walkthrough (as ingame tips are often of not much use)
comfy presentation of larger texts (comfy = u can skip)

qol issues (had this been resolved - id go for 5 star)
no timetweaks
no rollback option. that could be useful (at some sex scenes i tend to quickly click on a wrong choice... alternatively ,changing button positions can prevent some unintended clicks)
unskippable routines and repeatables (i could use for lessons and PE sequences with lockeroom/class/shower ..as well as for seen sex4cash scenes)
small (4-line) dialogues font is too small (settings didnot help)

disturbing
quest chains' "logistics" is not well thought through . it starts well but later on you will find yourself with 1 active quest requiring some one per week interaction (and that is a lot of skipping. and that engine and game are not skipping friendly) though i think such notably uneventful period existed only once...mostly there are some other things to do.

If you loved to play the game big brother from this dev you will definitelly love it too.

pro : beautyfull high quality renders , sex scenes and the story .

cons: the laging is really annoying but ale to the griniding you will ge t used to it .

all in one it is a great game .

0.37

This review is a small bit premature.

This is the 4th time i decided i would give this a go and this time, out of the past 3 attempts i found it is finally going in a good direction.
100% i still prefer big brother, but this is starting to finally make shape.

The Dev has a huge backing which comes to show of his history and not to mind the amount of big brother clones that are around.

I have yet to try Kates Route properly, but maxs route is what i expected. Still seems like a bit needs to be added (but have enjoyed this game at least 3 times since starting it )

The last 3 times i tried i played it was a buggy mess with muddled up content.. now thre is a bit of proper pacing to fix it.

Pros:
+Lovely character models we remeber from big brother
+Grind gets better once you setup all the cameras
+much welcomed added characters/content
+Helpful quest direction walthrough
+skipping diagloue in options

Cons:
-More grinding
-Much more diaglouge (a pro for some people im sure)
-Still a few bugs, have to try alternative naviagtions to avoid

I had almost given up on tyring this again. I hope my review helps people to give it another try.. i wasnt dissappointed this time around.

TLDR: Has gotten back the flavour we were looking for from big brother, with the awful grind. Options to skip the enourmous diagloue helps alot.
Defintely worth a try now (still has minor bugs).

Giving 5 Stars as it deserves it, will lower it if the dev somehow gose on a decline after this update.

fantastic games, the girls are perfect, very satisfying game
it's been so long since the last update, please finish this game, and please add more content about alice and max
i really enjoy the game.
Kate is so pretty

I tried it for the first time. I was a big fan of original BB but after all those beatiful games in years I just couldn't stand this grindfest. game's progression system is so old and boring compared to new high quality games from likes Stiglet, Lewdlab, ICCreations etc.

I'm giving this two stars instead of one just because of the old memories and beatiful(but not special anymore) renders.

Excellent sleep simulator.
Jokes aside, this game is really time-consuming.
One scene max at each update that are cut in hours of play.
I've droped the Kate part, but the Max part is boring.
Why 2 stars ? The renders are really good for the girls, and there is sex content.
But i don't really understand who would pay for a game like this.

Really enjoy this game. Fantastic graphics. As some have mentioned, it requires quite a bit of grind to get anywhere, but it is simple to skip forward in time if needed to get to the right day. Lots of interesting characters even if some are not yet developed. BTW, I have only played the female PC part, so I cannot comment on the male one.

This game has several issues.

First, it is two games bundled as one. One is a school corruption story, the other a family one. If you're interested in primarily one of the two, a chunk of the updates won't be for you. And due to this, neither game has managed to really progress past the point where their earlier, separate games were at (Glamour was a QSP game with RL porn prior to this, while Max's story is the Big Brother game).

Second, the game, unless you download a modded version, is online mode. This is completely unnecessary for gameplay, but means that if you don't have a nice connection speed, your every action lags. When you combine that with gameplay that can be a bit grindy, well, it is not a good thing.

And it's a shame. I do like the idea of the games, but, well, these are games that will be much better when later a fan or fans make remakes of them, each as standalone games, without needing to wait for minor updates, and without the server connection slowdown.

One of my favorite games.
Pros: Really great art, an easy to use and nice looking UI, and an honestly pretty engaging story.

Cons: Can sometimes feel slightly grindy or like its hard to figure out what has to happen next to trigger advancement, but I have found these moments to be few and far between.

I'll be honest, this one keeps me engaged for hours. Super fun

0.36 version.

Glamour disappoints me a bit, except for the CGs I think Big Brother is a better game. BB was already unconvincing storywise, but the situations in Glamour really don't make sense. So yes in BB there is too much grind, but at least the characters evolution is more realistic than in Glamour. In my opinion.

In Glamour, there is no feeling of accomplishment at all. And just like in BB, the sex scenes are short and sincerely lack emotion.

High-quality, juicy picture, well-thought-out characters, good gameplay, which was borrowed by many other projects, but all this is covered by very slow development and a small amount of content in each update

The Bad:
Slow updates
Another Big Brother clone (depends on how you look at it whether or not its a positive or a negative.)
The dialogue is a bit clunky mechanically.

The Good:
A decent amount of content at the moment.
The in game guide does a good job to keep things on track, you won't be mindlessly looking for the next step to set things in motion again like the original game.
Renders are good enough.

Pros:

+ Render is good.
+ Update frequently.

Cons:

+ Remake of BB for one path.
+ grinding !

I understand that such games require certain process for MC and others to build the relationship. But grinding in this game just goes beyond what I can take despite its good part.

4 stars for Kate's story. It's indeed an another ''innocent girl turning into slut'' story, but however I kinda liked it. The render is an improvement from the previous game and exactly what we can expect from Dark Silver. The gameplay is a little bit grindy, but personally I'm not really bothered by that. And the part i liked the most is the game is updated monthly which is awesome! The problem is Max's story, I'm not really a huge fan of his in BB, and I think I'm still not in this game.

So if you guys want to play this game, i recommend to play as Kate, because the Max's story is just an another remake of BB.