HTML - Completed - Incubus City [v1.15.0] [Wape]

This game is a fun little gem, with a lot of hidden depth.

In your first few play throughs, things will be pretty simple. You'll experiment, try different choices, find the optimal solutions to helping you land the girls you want to sleep with.

And then, once you unlock New Game +, things get more interesting. Access to bonuses when you start lets you accomplish things you couldn't on a vanilla run, and you realize the game has a lot of little bonuses and details that are hidden away, waiting for you to discover it.

The sweet spot of the game is probably somewhere between the fifth and tenth run, where you have enough knowledge of how the game works, and enough bonuses, to really enjoy experimenting and discovering what other hidden scenes are around.

Eventually though it starts to falter. Once you have about 2/3rd of the different endings you notice that the remaining endings are very unforgiving. The effort it takes to obtain them can feel disproportionate to the reward, which is often just one short ending paragraph.

Some of the unique beginnings are very intriguing but unfortunately it does little to change the gameplay of your next run. At most it adds some extra stats and money. It would have been nice to see some unique material for different starting origins.

Overall, a good game, but people who aren't completionists will likely tire of it in a dozen runs.

If you like the fetishes in the tags, you will get some enjoyment out of this one. The pictures and gifs are well selected for the scenes and all the girls look good. The scenes themselves are on the shorter side with not a whole lot of buildup, so it might not be enough to fap to, but its pretty hot nonetheless. The writing is pretty good overall with a nice blend of male dom flavor and a tinge of humor.

The one glaring flaw is that this game is very short. Your first couple runs will last somewhere around 20 minutes. And every run after that will take less and less time as you skip over everything you've seen already. There are a huge amount of endings and most of them give some kind of perk in the NG+ that can add a few things here and there. Most of the endings, however, are not very satisfying. This short gameplay, coupled with the number of endings, means that you will find no enjoyment from the meat of the game after the first 3-4 runs. It becomes a repeating cycle of reading the guide, achieving the requirements for a new ending, and then skipping to the end.

I'd say its worth your time to play it at least a few times. For completionists, the silver lining is that you can breeze through the game to unlock all the endings without much difficulty.

Update for v1.4.2

Since 1.3.1, Wape has polished the game a good deal. Gone are some of the bugs I'd encountered. Most importantly, though, he implemented my suggestion of prioritizing undiscovered endings over discovered ones. This has a tremendous impact on the fun of trying to "collect them all". He also added an enhancement to that allowing one to choose an ending after reaching a certain attainment.

Additionally, he added some fun new content. Well done, all round.

Review of v1.3.1

I've been tempted to try this game many a time over the years it's been in development. As far as I can tell the author pops up every once in a while with an update. But his own warnings about the content always scared me off. But even without having played it, it was evident that it contained several of my preferences: Male MC, dominant MC, supernatural MC, harem, impregnation, real porn. I finally decided to try it expecting to pretty much close it right away.

And while I suspect the non-con aspects of this game are probably it's primary focus, I'm really happy and surprised to report that it's quite playable purely seducing your targets! I wouldn't dream of saying you can play a nice guy, but at least you can get endings purely from seduction and without violence.

The writing is quite good and definitely hot. English errors are present but infrequent and not distracting. The game mechanics are actually pretty fun. You gain powers according to how you play which can be used to give more options with other conquests. I'd say this part is done very well. However, the game is definitely designed around multiple playthroughs.

You probably have to like or at least tolerate AIF, of course, to enjoy this. It is almost completely text via Twine/Sugarcube and the little vids do little more than spark your imagination. Even though I like AIF, I'd suggest that a few more images for each scene would be welcome.

It would also be nice if you could back out of routes when it becomes evident that you cannot succeed using seduction. Save scumming does the job for now, though.

Obviously, because of my preference, I'm hoping the author will continue to add girls and have seduction or at least hypno routes for as many as possible.

I'm sure there will be plenty of reviews covering the non-seduction routes, so I'll leave that to those who enjoy them. However, I suspect they are at least as well written.

Overall, a fine effort by the author.