HTML - Completed - H-ERO - The Maverick Manor [v1.1] [Pyksies]

The Maverick Manor's story is short, but complete. The writing does what it sets out to well, and while I certainly wish there were more of the content I like most, it is easy to engage with the adult content that you like and filter the content you don't want to see. The game side of things is similarly well designed in that you don't need to lose to see the defeat content, so you get to just play to win and enjoy the loss if it happens at all.

Loved Mercanoid, and this is an improvement in many ways. Swapping to a variety of boss encounters fought with two characters feels more fun and modern than the old constant RPG random monster fight barrage, and it means that battles take more planning and careful reading to beat rather than just spamming attack and glow/flow moves. Great variety of scenes, cleverly written, and the new visual update is very impressive.

LOVE THIS! And i love the new UI update. Ive been a fan of Pyksies writing for over a year now and cant wait for new games to come out! All the scenes except the mandrake one are right up my alley, so if u like futa, tentacle, mimic(esque) you will like it aswell!

Loved the content from them before, been enjoying this so far! I hope to see more from Pyksies. I've enjoyed seeing them work with artists to support their projects as well, instead of yoinking others art for their HTML game or deciding to leave their HTML games bare with barely any visuals.

Pyksies releases another excellent text-based game stuffed with well-written prose as well as titillating and various erotic game overs centered around our protagonists being overcome by evil forces, putting marvelous emphasis on the corruption.

It's a short but sweet horror-themed experience, well worth your time.

Can now say definitively that Pyksies is my favorite porn game writer/dev. More good queer games! I would really enjoy a trans/adjacent focused game for obvious reasons, but cant wait for more from her regardless, especially in this new universe.

The game design and characters are on-point and I'm a big fan of the world being built here, the concepts are good. But it's a text based game and the writing just isn't there yet.

- Paragraphs longer than five lines are harder to read. More line breaks of simpler ideas would flow a lot better. 10 line paragraphs are gnarly.

- The text constantly double-talks and doubles back over itself. "Her hand - or rather, her lips." It's emulating coy speech patterns , I get that, but it's called 'correcting yourself' because you got it wrong the first time, and I'd rather a lot more descriptive lines correctly described things the first time. Too much garnish, not enough steak.

- Extremely guilty of trying to write 'how writers sound', when the truth is writers who can sound like this can talk like this naturally. If you can't nail talking like this in a casual manner, then it's like hearing an American attempt an Australian accent. Author, if you're reading this; your words and your ideas are good. If you put less effort into writing this at a line-by-line level, it'd take a lot less effort to read it and be way hotter and more enjoyable.

I'm putting this as a 3, but I'm also going to be following this series. This feels like an inexperience problem, which means I'm excited to be giving a future installment a 5 one day.

I played their previous game MERCANOID, and while it takes place in a completely different setting with equally different characters, the quality hasn't dropped at all! In fact it seems to have improved!

My only complaint (if it could be called that) is in the fact that it's much shorter than their previous title, though it makes sense seeing as how this is a Halloween special. about 1-3 hours of content, depending on if you read everything that is presented to you.

5/5!