HTML - Onhold - In Her Own Hands [v0.7.0] [Surprise & Delight Media]

This game is truly impressive in the way it combines an immersive and captivating narrative. It is sensual and provides a respectful experience. I had a deep immersion in the story and the characters' relationships. It left me wanting to meet a “Mr. Jones” and explore BDSM in real life.

An erotic novel masquerading as a game, filled to the brim with advertisement and endorsements.

While the writing quality is superb and a testament to a high bar often not aimed for by other games, it's severely hindered by it's complete lack of fun and the sheer frustration you experience in progression .

Qiality of life does not exist.
Game design does not exist.
Hell even guides don't officially exist in any meaningful capacity.

Tldr, if you have a lot and i mean a lot of time on your hands and want to try your hand at a game that would do well in an era of complete information quagmire then go ahead, the writing quality is truely good but for most modern audiences who expect an enjoyable experience then this most likely is not your ideal cup of tea.

If it were a visual novel, it would be better and more tidy than this. All this content and categories with text based makes the game a bit unorganized and incomprehensible plus it needs an available walkthrough.... It has a decent potential but it still needs a lot of work

v0.7.0:
A pretty okay game as far as HTML games go. The dev makes a great use of the images they have chosen along with text that's pretty decently written.

Unfortunately, the game does devolve into a grind fest pretty quickly. I could've just been playing it wrong, but it's hard to tell, as the built in tips page doesn't really give you and idea of what you should do next; most of the tips on the "Just For Tips" page just say "This hint is locked until you have completed another task."

If you're into HTML/real porn games as I am, give it a try, it's probably one of the better html games. The dev still has some work to do however if they want to make it something great. I'll personally be following the game's development in the future.

Review is for v0.7.0
A pretty good game so far.
Characters are all pretty normal, but that not a bad thing.
Story is your typical 'Girl going out into the world and starting her life' story.
A very minor complaint, I feel like the game is split into two 'worlds'. One is what goes on inside her home, and then another for everything outside her home. This isn't really a major issue, but it does make a lot of the content outside her home feel irrelevant. Another complaint is the journal system. I do like the design of it, but it needs more info. One example is that I need to talk to one of my roommates when he gets home from the club, but I don't know what day or what time that is. This wouldn't be such a big issue if it happened every night, but since it doesn't, it'll just lead to a week of grinding nothing to get the event to pop again.
And as always with any game still in development, there needs to be more content. There's a lot of down time everyday, where you can just sit around watching TV.

This is a well written game with some excellent sex scenes. It doesn't take too long from the beginning of game play to get steamy, and the main character is well designed as someone who is inexperienced but actively looking to expand their sphere of activities.

What holds this game back is two things:

1. The rate of various random events occurring that progress the story is really, really low. Want to have your job turn kinky? Well, the odds seem to be a couple percent. What this means is that you either scum for these events, or else you may not even realize that they're out there because the incidence rate is so slow that it might be fifty in-game days before the first event in a chain procs, and there might be several such events needed before you can move forward.

2. The game requires an incredible amount of pointless clicking to get through your average day. Thankfully there is a wardrobe system that lets you put on outfits, but unfortunately you still have to manually change clothes each time. This includes being required to change clothes to go to bed, and then change clothes again to wake up and go to work. In the average day cycle there's dozens of unnecessary clicks, which make the game more or less unplayable.

The combination of those two things makes the game sadly not worth playing, even though there's good ideas and good writing.

Having played games like Girl Life, I enjoyed the routine stuff for a while and didn't find it too tedious. The writing is good and the jobs are fun for a while. But the content quickly runs out. Or rather, it becomes very hard to discover what there is available by simply playing the game. Following some kind of walkthrough is absolutely required to know at what time to message the right people, what actions to take etc etc.

As others have noted, the in game hints are useless. It's frustrating because I know there's probably a ton of content I haven't found yet, but I've lost interest in trying to figure out what those things are.

There isn't a lot of balancing either. Making enough money to pay rent etc is super easy, barely an inconvenience. And there isn't much to spend the money on. So that whole mechanic becomes rather pointless very fast.

The sex system is pretty cool, as are the options to watch different kinds of porn to corrupt the MC. But I've only been able to have sex a couple of times lol. I think one of the guys you date is supposed to be repeatable but I don't know how to progress that.

After an hour without much progress i give up, this is the worst game of this type i've seen so far.
To put it simply:
- the grind is unreal
- even cheating is a pain
- there are basically no random events - the random events rate is so low that in an hour of walking back and forth from work I have seen only 3 random events on the way, they were all variation of the same event and they were equally dissapointing
- progress is hilariously slow
- in-game guide is almost useless with how slow the progress is

Don't waste your time, this one is a failure.

Why play this game? Consistently curated imagery for a good storyline that shines once you learn how to find them. The theme (broke girl new in town) is strongly executed, while remaining realistic

Mechanically similar to other SugarCube HTML games. There are a few systems involved that don't make themselves obvious. I would recommend taking time to read the code and understand the triggers in order to avoid grinding

• Active sex system is neat, but not present in all scenes
• Under the covers your character develops preferences based on what and who she consumes. I'm not sure how obvious this is, but it shows promise for future content

When I play any game HTML engine I want to not only read what the developer wrote in this game. Story, character development, etc. But I also want to see in these projects the real interest of the developer himself in his game. The game is similar to other games in this genre. There are choices in this game and they affect the plot and the ending. This is not a simple linear game where there is a main character and you have to corrupt him in order to move forward in the story. Yes, this game has a lot of similar content from many games. An example of the same LIFE CHOICES. Lots, lots, lots and lots of text in this game. It is interesting to read the first 5 minutes of the plot. GIFs, pictures are not annoying and have a normal size. Unlike the game FRIENDS OF MINE
This game has its own charm, as they say, but it is very small, which does not attract the average player. I didn't like this game much. And judging by the reviews here, other people too. I think a century and an epoch HTML games long gone. It's not 2010 now.

I can see why some might not rate this highly, as it is somewhat grindy, but it's also well made with quite a bit of content. There are very few bugs and it's clear that a lot of care and polish went in.

Definitely what you should play if you want to get carpal tunnel syndrome. Honestly just feels like a bad life choices clone. Annoying as hell gameplay, each day you have to dress and undress for no reason at all. Grindy as hell to gain required stats and job scenes are boring and not sexy. Images used are also too random so you cannot enter into character at all. My advice is don't waste your time or try when completed if you enjoy painful grindfest gameplay.

I just spend half a day on this game, that's a good sign. Really High quality game.
The only annoying thing is maybe the controls. There is little to no shortcut to change yourself or going directly to your bedroom, for example..

The positive:
The main model is nice.

The negative:
Everything else. This is a typical “sandbox” grindfest - read a sexy book to lower inhibitions, masturbate to raise depravity, rinse and repeat ad nauseam. Hunt around 20+ screens until you’ll stumble upon the right combination of time, location and stats to unlock the next step, and begin stat grinding again. Check the hint system only to discover that most of them are outdated and have nothing to do with the current quests.
There seem to be 4 or 5 love interests, but I’ve only managed to get the guy from the coffee shop.

Tried really hard to like this but its very average. The hints are terrible and the gameplay monotonous.

Shame, has a makings of a good game. The UI is decent, the porn used better than most, but the gameplay and lack of places and content really let it down.

I finished playing some parts of it was wow exciting.
I felt you need add more music into game like for phone and ring tones customize so you be creative.
I liked it it felt unique girl's life, Heartbreak and finding that one quest.

Finding your dude? Its perfect game like that I like for have Pregnancy perk and Room mate first time possible.

It was interesting I plan on continue playing it wasn't boring. It only got boring when public sex isn't optional, and It just crazy how far I wonder how long this game goes?

I wonder:
Never finding a job gets you game over.
Finding job earns you celebration sex with a room mate.

Good: the game has unique characters there is ton of sex in this game but limited to known positions everyone knows but there isn't Pile driver, or Yoga doggy maybe she could read some books learn new moves? Or research from porn videos.

Bad: there some interactions and missing fancy place to eat at. or street vendor. I noted if your in park there be one or you find one walking on street.

Ugly: you can't grow your hair out, what now. I noticed there no hospital where you Modify your boobs or customize it so you appeal to others.

Other: are there other tools besides vibrator she can purchase. I was think camera vibrator, or sperm loaded vibrator?

@Surprise & Delight. Really enjoying this game. Excellent gameplay and system. I like that nothing is coerced and the payer is able to choose the paths they want and ignore others. The graphics are good and the sex scene system is excellent! The only reason I rated it as a 4 and not a 5 is that it's still being developed but it can only get better as proved by the last couple of updates with more content added etc. Looking forward to how the relationship with Cassidy can develop...

Great game, nice and steady progress. Allows for a solid number of choices and has a pretty good story going thus far. Its nice to see more games with a female MC. Storyline is pretty straight forward and you are allowed to pursue the routes that interest you.

While I gave this game a long time to adjust their QOL features, the devs have decided simply not to care and leave this game as a blind puzzle.

The game has a hint system, that is simply terrible and not representative of the state of the game. Countless times you'll read on these forums that "Oh yeah, the hint that you're given doesn't work because we changed it." You're literally hinted to do things that are meaningless, and you somehow have to figure it out randomly.

A lot of events happens at specific times that you'll have no clue about unless you actually look it up.

The game has some merits, it balances the "RP" part nicely, there's no stat grinding, although there is relation grinding, but for the most part, it's alright.

But no amount of alright will not give a game that amounts to be simply impossible to play at times unless you go look a guide that you need to be up at 3AM in the Kitchen on a Saturday.

This is one of those games that could be spectacular...

First the good:
What absolutely kills this game is the pacing and the sheer insane amount of clicks and nonsense you have to go through to get to actual content. You can click your mind into total numbness trying to advance any plots. Its insane. Also - Without editing a single variable the MC was fine with walking around naked in the house. She is a knockout - walks around the apartment naked and walks into her roommates rooms. They don't notice - dont take a hint - NADA. Makes no sense.