Karryn's Prison [v1.1.0c Full + Gym DLC] Review
This game is so very weird. In a brilliant kind of way.
TLDR review:
Karryn's prison is an equal parts battlefuck RPG and base management game about a turboslut-in-denial in a prison filled with horny bastards.
The game's mechanics are
extremely complex and may take some time getting used to, but once you're past the initial hurdle and understand the general concepts it suddenly becomes very rewarding to play.
The game allows for a wide variety of strategies and has an extremely high skill ceiling and replayability. In fact, it's
meant to be played multiple times using trial-and-error.
You will fail, Karryn will slut it up and it will all be
glorious and you'll want to do it again, but
differently next time.
The voice actress for Karryn is really amazing and does an oscar-worthy performance.
On the negaitve side, I think the art could be better. Karryn's proportions are a bit too fantasy-sized for my tastes. There's some "floating cock"-scenes where the artist didn't bother to draw the rest of the body of the male, and there's a distinct lack of sex animations.
Another pretty severe drawback of this game are the "side jobs" which just plain aren't fun and a real chore to play. The UI and mechanics for these side games is just a frustrating mess. You can skip them, but then you'll miss out on some much-needed gameplay advantages and a few pretty nice H-scenes and mechanics.
Longer version review:
This game deserves the long-format review too because it's just
that good.
Story time.
About a year ago I played this game for like an hour or so but didn't like it very much and just gave up on it.
Then fast forward to a week ago, when I saw it with the [completed] tag. I was was very bored so I decided to give it another shot, when suddenly WHAM!
It all clicked in a big way and now I'm completely hooked. At the time of writing this I've got at least 30 hours played and I've got some 25 different saves for different builds, and I've even installed some mods!
How is this even possible?
Karryn's Prison is definitely one of those
acquired taste games where at first you're like "
The fuck is this garbage?" and then suddenly you've spent some 20 hours on it.
The key to understanding this game and getting full enjoyment from it is to
actually try to beat it without having Karryn becoming a turbo slut. Fair warning:
You can't, and
you won't. Not on your first try at least.
This is what I didn't understand the first time I tried it. I "came for the fap", as they say, and that's definitely the wrong way to approach this game.
It's not that you can't fap to it, you most definitely can, it's just that
you can't rush the H content and actively seek it out, thinking it's some kind of reward like in "normal" H-games. It's not.
Its a trap! A very very clever trap. Karryn decides when it's time to go full semen demon, not you!
The H scenes are kinda like the "bad end" H-scenes in your standard lewd RPG, but in a slow, creeping way. Everything lewd Karryn does or has done to her will corrupt her in some way and make the game harder to beat. Before you know it she'll be too preoccupied slurping cocks and taking it up the ass to bother about saving the prison. Once she's been dragged into the bathroom and been gangbanged till her brain melts, you're fucked. Literally
and figuratively. You can still play on and discover new content, and maybe stay for that long awaited fap as you watch her descend into cock madness, but every new step becomes harder and harder until Karryn's nothing but a quivering heap of flesh cum machine with nothing but cock on her mind.
It's funny, clever and hot.
There are viable "turboslut" builds, but trying that on your first playthrough without a
deep understanding of the game's very complicated mechanics will pretty much instantly make the game unplayable for you. (You'll get stuck in a loop with the same handjob/blowjob scenes and no sex, followed by progress being softlocked, followed by a very frustrating game over.)
This is all intended, and it's
fucking brilliant!
The longer you can keep Karryn from succumbing to her desires the juicier the content gets, too. So it's really a game about patience if you want the really good bits.
Now you just have to figure out how to get there. Godspeed!
I've added a list of common pitfalls/misunderstandings/traps to save you some time, in case you feel the frustration building up:
(Cool cats dont read this as it could be considered a spoiler!)