Others - Hard Times in Hornstown [v8.42] [Unlikely]

Lots and lots of path to explore, lot of kinks, with a dark urban tone. Pimping self out , prison experience, slave to shemales...
The dating by phone is funny
To be played.
Alas some path are bugged and game gets blocked. Do save very often.

I've played a few versions so I was able to see how the project came along. The version reviewed is 2.61 (or 2.62 - not 100% sure about that).

Obviously a lot of work went to both graphical assets and PHP engine but there are a few quirks. Even though the graphics style is quite distinctive, I don't personally like it that much although it got slightly better in recent versions. Personally I like bigger boobed and bigger dicked avatars, especialy on uglier NPCs (hey, it's a porn game).

The meat of the game is interactions and developing your character and here is -IMHO - the biggest missed opportunity of the game. There is a lot of things to do but what the game is missing is giving the feedback to the player. There are little meaningful consequences of how your character is treated based on his/her looks, stats, achievements. A short sentence describing how people see you while you walk down the street is too little to be rewarding. A few examples of what is wrong with the game:

1) While working as a maid you have to clean the house of the guy. In one of scenes he can take advantage of you and fuck you in your ass. The scene is written in such a way that even if the PC was an anal virgin, there was no text to acknowledge for that. The NPC even performed ass to mouth on the PC which is a very degrading act in itself. However, there is no feedback of PC's thoughts , how he/she feels being taken advantage of, if the epxerience is humilating/arousing/painful for the PC, how he/she feels afterwards or wants to deal with it. Was it painful, did the NPC use lube to make the experience better for the PC, was the PC experienced enough to take the NPC without a lot of pain? We don't know that.

2) There is little feel of progression in repeating scenes - the scene basically plays the same which gets boring soon (e.g prostitution scenes)

Imgaine how great would it be if the PC is pleasing an NPC orally and NPC is very well endowed. In a few first meetings the PC struggles to deliver a proper blowjob but after a few meetings gets a hang of it. The NPC praises the PC for making an improvement and tries more demanding actions like deepthroating which the PC struggles with once again etc. However, after being trained by the NPC the PC with the newfound knowledge can make extra entertaining camshows.

3) There's low feedback when the PC checks himself/herself out in the mirror or through selfie app. Apart from physical attributes there should be more descriptions of PC achievements - be it through perks or actions, e.g. "Due to your submissive nature you can only have an orgasm while being dominated or during anal intercourse."

4) Tattoos and piercings introduced is the latest version is a step in good direction to express your PC but once again it feels like a missed opportunity at the moment. I understand it's currently for bimbos only and in very early stage but even the bimbo shouldn't be allowed to get a "butt slut" tattoo if she didn't have enough anal experience.

5) You can buy outfits in the sex-shop and it doesn't really matter if you are dominant or submissive - you can wear what you want! You can be an alpha-male dominating with just your gaze but it doesn't forbid you from putting a humiliating outfit on which is suitable for someone with a submissive attitude only. Or you can be that 100% alpha male and still have an option to ask a sex shop owner to try that big black dildo on your ass which should be available only for bottom bitches (or switches).

To summarize, I feel the game went in a wrong direction by introducing a lot of new content and new NPCs and locations but providing not a lot of substance with that. Sometimes less is more and in my opinion the game would gain a lot if the content was restricted and the game would abandon a free-for-all opportunities which have little impact on the game world or the PC. Another issue is the game doesn't provide enough feedback to the player - there's little characterization, the PC motivation to do some things or refuse doing some things is mostly non-existent.

Instead of providing patreon polls with new locations I feel author(s) should be taking a look back and see if they could improve the whole system. With the huge quantity of NPCs and siutations it won't be an easy task - see bimbo content which is restricted to a few scenes with Shane and doesn't impact other scenes (way of talking or behaving by the PC) at all.

This game is a lot better than what he was 5-6 month ago. I still think the launcher is useless but everything else is okay now.

Lots of efforts spend on quality, most of the storylines are well made and the game give you a huge load of possibility for each fetish.

Game looks good and the premise too.
The beginning is annoying, but the story evolves nice. At some point you find some breaking bugs that kick you out of the game. Have to constantly save your progress, if you forget it, you will lose a lot of time.
I will wait for a better version.

While the content is good for the most part, the character representing the player is fugly, even when feminized, and there are issues with stuff like hair removal, which doesn't have an option to keep the hair o top of your head, so when you get it done, you look like a fugly Lex Luthor. The hair growth has no option for just the top of the head, making you into a hairy Bigfoot. The prostitution selector has no selection for futanari/shemales, despite the character's ability to be one. The long term experimentation doesn't have a shorter version, and so it can last for a long time. Finally, the female avatar isn't much better than the male, and the futanari is just the male with tits and pussy added on. This game is suppose to be text based, yet it also adds images that show it has the capability to be better, but fails to do so for the avatar.
Basically, the designer needs to work on options for graphics, and then work more on the content.

This game is a hot mess. Don't waste your time with it now. I get it that the dev wants it to be a hard time, but it really is an impossible time. You can't play this unless you know how to crack it and then it is still a giant mess of missed timings, bad quests, unrelated but required tasks and overall P.I.T.A.
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OLD REVIEW:
I really like this game. There are many different paths you can take for different endings. There are "quests" and all sorts of interesting things to do.

There are still a few bugs and typographical issues, but they can be fixed.

Great Game! Keep improving it

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.91...


For being a mostly text based game it's not too bad...

The visuals are super simple, showing characters either clothed or not clothed... This isn't a visual novel, or your typical visual based game...

The script looked pretty spot on, as I didn't really run into any spelling/grammar errors... The plot involves a male protagonist at first, but you can choose to change everything physical and mental about the character... That includes sex changing, proportions, transgender option, feminine personality or masculine personality, sexual orientation, etc, by using in game money or a special quest chain... There are several story lines you can play through, a few give you Bad Endings, the main story just completes the game, and most other story lines involve various results... The over all goal is performing tasks for the main story line, but you don't have to play the game in a particular order, you can even play multiple story lines at the same time... Just be forewarned, the main story line requires some good skill levels and sex experience levels... And if you fail at certain moments in the main story line too many times, you could get an end game...

This game is a bit grindy, with the biggest downside being that you need to make enough money to pay your daily expenses... There are many different fetishes (none of which include Family Sex, tis a miracle)... Plus you gain sexual experience levels for all the basic sex types (i.e. oral, vaginal, anal, etc) what may be required for certain tasks... Be careful you have enough skills high enough, as you can totally fail certain tasks and end the game... There is a save game option, but it will be specific to the browser you used...

Overall, it's not a bad game, and is primarily text based via a website, but it's an interesting game none the less... It's not something I plan to play again, but it was alright the first time through... Nothing spectacular, and nothing horrible... It was definitely different than other games I've played...

Best game and Good luck with dev.

There nice economic system and with active quest for player. May be good added more sex scene and added more quest with non-linear romanc / relationship with characters.