The Good:
- It's not just porn. There is gameplay.
The Bad:
- Game is intentionally cryptic and forces a lot of trial and error on the player to figure out how to play and not suck, and then more trial and error to figure out how to play well/efficiently.
- If you are losing the game and you're new to the game, you won't realize you've hit a point of no return/you've been softlocked as Karryn gets gradually sluttier.
- Slutty Karryn is unrealistic. Granted, it's a game, but still, you can reach a point where in a single turn Karryn can go from 0 Pleasure -> 100 Pleasure and cum from giving footjobs or handjobs. And she can cum 20-30+ times in a single combat/sex session. The ramp-up to slutty is too quick. And extreme slut Karryn is so unrealistic it's a turn-off rather than a turn-on because you're focused on the absurdity of it.
- Once you figure out how to play efficiently (which doesn't take much skill, just a lot of trial and error), the game is boring, easy, and repetitive and you can see how it lacks replayability. There's essentially two ways to play regardless of what stats you focus on. You're either focusing on combat or on sex. There are achievements and titles you can grind for which requires multiple playthroughs of the game and there will be slight differences in how you proceed, but not significantly different enough to be interesting.
- Too grindy and slow gameplay in regards to grinding out titles, doing sidejobs, doing sex combat, and gaining sex passives (even with boosting titles).
- Too much RNG for this type of game. There's RNG in office invasions, in when riots occur, in how well Karryn sleeps each day (which determines how much stats +/- you get on that day), in what enemies you encounter, in combat (graze, evasion, critical hits, what actions the enemies take, which body part gains desire per turn, which enemies your Skewer skill will hit), etc. Which would be fine if the player had more ways to mitigate or control what happens when bad RNG happens, but that's not the case.
- There's a few bad quirks/nonsense in the combat system regarding priority of skills and context in which you can use skills. For example, Karryn can only use Cock Stare (literally staring at an enemy's cock) if she's standing up.
- There's also some inconsistencies regarding in-combat vs. out-of-combat. Karryn doesn't know how to clothe herself properly outside of combat, but if you get into a fight, you can have her fix her clothes. Same thing for toys. She doesn't know how to remove toys unless she's in combat.
- The Edict system (basically perks that you buy with gold with a limit of 1-2 that you can buy per day) would be good if it weren't an illusion of choice. There is a best set of edicts to buy, and once you figure it out, just like with the gameplay, subsequent playthroughs are boring.
- Accessories that Karryn can wear are not well balanced. Most of them are just way too expensive and come with huge downsides. Just like with the gameplay of the game and with the rest of the Edict system, once you figure out which accessories are good, you will never buy the others. Illusion of choice.
- There's no way to filter or sort titles in-game, so it's tedious to title-switch to optimal title depending on the situation.
- You can't Free Play (i.e. no post-game) if you got the best ending (i.e. Empress Ending).
- A lot of content is lacking/unfinished and each floor is pretty barebones. The dev spent the last 2 years or so on insignificant stuff like the gym DLC which wasn't well received. And on visual updates/"refreshing" CGs and adding two different boob sizes. But no real gameplay updates or adding content to the floors. Unfortunately, there's no sign that this will ever happen and it seems the dev is already focused on their next product.
- Aside from the gym DLC and visual updates, most recently the dev added Descension DLC to the game. The purpose of this DLC was to add difficulty to the game and I guess make the player play differently than normal. But in reality the player pretty much plays the same way as non-DLC just with more frustration from RNG and from being limited in playstyle.
- I'm not a furry or beastiality kind of guy, so Karryn having sex with goblins, orcs, werewolves, lizards, gorillas isn't really much of a turn-on
- Rimjobs also are nasty. Why are they tied to default content?
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Note: This review was based on v1.3.0.61 + DLCs. I have beaten Prisoner Mode (the "hard" mode) many times. Maybe 20+ times by now when accounting for older versions of KP and I've also completed a Descension Run from the v1.3.0.61 Descension DLC . I've also grinded most of the titles.