HTML - In Their Own Hands [v0.1.4] [Surprise & Delight Media]

The main reason is that you spend most of the game as a pathetic male lead. He’s weak, ineffective, and stuck in a toxic relationship with a woman who has zero respect for him. Honestly, they both seem awful and probably deserve each other.
The writer, clearly female, seems to cater to a female audience with this style of erotica, which is fine—it’s nice that women have games catered to their tastes. But why make it from the male perspective? The wife has minimal agency; she’s mostly just reacting to her husband’s poor choices.
One more suggestion: the title should reflect the content better—something like “The Black Cock in Her Hands: The Cuckening.” There’s nothing inherently wrong with interracial themes, but if 95% of the focus is on the wife’s encounters with black men while only 5% involves “romantic” scenes with her weak husband, that should be clear from the title.
Lastly, could we get some audio in the videos? Since this aims to be a real-porn game, hearing the wife as she disrespects her husband would make the experience much more immersive. Audio is half of the appeal in this type of content.

This needs a lot of work, it's still early on but it's horrible to play right now.

The good

. The scenes used are hot

. Male and female perspective though the latter is limited

. The actual approach to a dissatisfied partner and approaching new kinks is handled well.

Bad

. The wife is close to unbearable. If you've ever had a partner that think the world revolves around him/her and any chore they do means they bear the weight of the world she's that. Except the male MC can eat her out to orgasm 10 times in a row and she still isn't remotely satisfied. If the wife is a toxic self absorbed asshole that can never be satisfied there's not much incentive for me to care to pursue either a loyal or cuck route because she's not interesting and she's the core of both routes.

. The stats barely seem to move and seem to go down easier than it is to increase.

. The male MC apparently forgot his spine. His just a pathetic guy.

. I've played for 50 minutes and have not seen a single scene that is not the wife and MC or MC and a bartender despite going for the fuck others route. Scenes seem to be random. Games with sandbox need to stop doing this just have most scenes be directly triggerable. I don't know why devs do this it makes players actively hate playing the game. You have the benefit of a sandbox use it and tell me to go to y at x to cause z.

. There's little guidance.

. The gameplay loop after kinks are researched is basically wake up, work, hope scene triggers and then go to sleep.

Essentially it does everything you really don't want a sandbox game to do. The sandbox needs to be far less obtuse and random and the wife needs to be a compelling character to interact with. Ultimately I was bored.

It's still early enough that the game can be improved drastically I just hope it is.

Sadly this game turns out to be really boring. At some point you are just klicking the MC through the day and hope for some interesting things to happen. What they don't. Even the Tips give you no real hints in several cases because they are just things like "it will happen automaticly" what it doesn't. There are some nice scenes but most of the sex scenes are just klicking through different positions, with the same clips over and over again. Without the scene with his best friend, nearly none of the sex scenes try to build up some tension, via dialog for example. It's boring and frustraiting.

The title is misleading, it says "In THEIR own hands" but it should be renamed to "In His hands 2 : the cuckening"

The reason i say that is because you mostly play as the male lead in this who is utterly pathetic. Hes weak and limp-dicked and lives in a pretty toxic relationship with a woman who cares absolutely nothing for him. In my opinion they both suck and they deserve each other.

The writer is obviously female and its pretty clear she writes erotica intended for other females/herself. I dont mind that, most games on here are made by men, so its fine for the ladies to have some games just for them. But WHY in the sam hell did you create this from the perspective of the male??? The wife has little to no agency, she basically just reacts to the decisions of the pathetic hubby.

One other thing, The Title should be re-worked again, it should be re-named "The Black cock in her hands: The Cuckening" Now theres nothing wrong with interracial, but if 95% of the content is the wife cucking you with black dicks, and 5% sweet vanilla boring romantic sex in the missionary position with the weak limp-dicked cuck, then it should reflect that in the title.

Lastly, would it kill ya to put some videos with audio? If youre gonna do a real-porn game you might as well HEAR the heartless wife as she cucks her worthless husband, seriously audio is half of porn

Really liking what's here so far. I'm optimistic that most of my gripes with the game (RNG, lack of content during certain times of the day, repetition) are due to it still being early in development and will be ironed out as it goes on. Definitely looking forward to seeing where else this one goes.

Wanted to bump this up since it deserves to be higher. Still a very new game with sparse content and a lot of paths to fill in, but it handles extramarital relationships in a unique, more realistic way than the majority of NTR tinted games I've seen. Hope dev works on that loving cheating path next, which is pretty bare bones as of now.

And no, I'm not a follower or fan of author's previous game. Wasn't even aware of it until coming across this one first.

Do keep in mind before playing, this game is still in very early development. But I like where it's going so far.

TL;DR = new game really early in development. Low amount of content.

Story: 1/5
- This is sandbox without any story.
- You can visit rooms and do some activity. You dont have many choices, because majority of stuff is unfinished and they end up in placeholders.

Art and Sex stuff: 3/5
+ Sex scenes are nice.
- There is a considerable amount of events hidden in this game, but they are REALLY HARD TO FIND. You have to roam around in sandbox randomly and hope you trigger something. Not very entertaining.

Gameplay: 1/5
- This is annoying sandbox. Typical style: visit places and hope you trigger some event.
- There is no advice, that might help you find new events. Very frustrating.
- Or perhaps you have to grind some stats to certain numbers for events to trigger. But you dont know, because the game doesnt give any advices.
- No soundtrack.

To sum it up:
I didnt enjoy playing this game. But this game is really early in development. Maybe it will be more entertaining, when there is more content.
Check the game later, after there is more content.

I also advice you to mostly ignore previous reviews. They are from the fans of author's previous game and they are hyping up new game.

Pretty good writing, amazing scenes and clips that were used. Overall if you are in to non-monogamy you will almost certainly enjoy this. This developers previous game was one of the best out there for the engine and its good to see they are still alive and producing some awesome work.

Enjoyed this demo! im always a fan of games that have clear paths that you can chose early in the game. Writing is really good, one of the most important aspects on a html game imo, ofc the content is hot, but if the writing is weak, game is doomed. Not the case here atm, and it seems to be the dev has some good ideas for the future. 4/5 for me on a very early stage ofc

Okay, I LOVE the concept. I really liked the first game. I like this one better, however mostly cause it's from the male perspective (but, you do get to see what she is doing when you're not around)

The play gets a B, cause it's HTML based.
The story gets an A. The writing is really good.

The continuity seems to be lacking just a hair. Like after she goes for a massage, she never brings it up. Even after going twice. Obviously there is no way for the MC to bring it up, he has no idea it even happened. Also, after having the serious conversation about spicing up their sex life, and after deciding how they were going to attempt to do this... It's never brought up again.

I do understand this is VERY early in the development, but I do have high hopes for this one. I do hope the dev keeps at it and really hope that more is added.

Great work! 4 stars from me!