Unity - Joker's Trip [v0.1.0] [Clown Control]

It is literally just Blackjack but you have less control because you are forced to draw cards until you hit 17, even if everyone else already lost, leading to you busting and having to spam click through another round.

The taunting mechanic sounds good on paper, but you have no control over it, so most of the time the person you are trying to taunt will just ignore you and do whatever play is best for them anyway which just leads to more pointless clicking.

The art is good, but the main gameplay loop is so monotonous that it is not worth it to play though the game a minimum of 9 times to get all the scenes.

Giving it a 3 stars instead of the 2 I think it deserves because this is a first release and there is room for improvement.

The main issue to me is the gameplay loop. You play blackjack as the dealer against 3 ladies and all the cards are revealed to you (yours and theirs) and you get to use your powers to influence one of the girls decision to hit or stand. This is an interesting and new idea but in reality you end up having to click through a bunch of dialogue every round with only having agency over the results of one of the girls (your influence power sometimes doesn't work). Your turn as the dealer is simply automatically hitting until you reach 17 in card score which means this influence power is really the only thing you do other than click (too) numerous dialogue boxes.

Once you win enough rounds the gamblers will start stripping and once one of the characters is entirely naked you can finish the current blackjack game and unlock a H-scene. There seems to be several H-scenes for all characters but I couldn't be bothered getting more than 2 unlocked on one of the girls as the process is tedious and boring. Also stripping all 3 of the characters in a single game doesn't currently do anything which was disappointing.

That being said I think this can be a good game if the gameplay is improved.