HTML - Abandoned - Life at University [v1.41] [Bluey]

A surprisingly engaging HTML sandbox.
There’s a lot to explore, solid corruption mechanics and consequences, which kept me invested for hours.
It can be slow, grindy and sometimes unclear without a guide, also a few bugs still slip through.
Still, the fine enough UI, consistent visuals and challenging progression make it worth a while.

Game is plagued with unnecessary mechanics that don't really add depth or actual content to the game, leading to bloat and overall time wasting.

Stuff seems to get unlocked by days passing rather than through character action (like I randomly got a popup saying I could visit my uncle, you're supposed to get an email about it but I didn't have a computer at the time), which is weird considering that at the start of the game I kinda had nothing to do on the weekends other than grinding stats.

Rollback is very limited so I suggest messing with the code to fix it.

In the end, I feel there's too little porn relative to the hassle of getting to it.

As of 1.40, this is def one of the best HTML games I ever play. There are tons of content to play around and a pretty in-depth sandbox to explore around the city. Here are some pros and cons.

Pros
-UI is great and presentable
-story is engaging and sexy and have creative use of the image provided
-porn actress is hot and sexy plus very consistent with the image
-tons to explore and to discover new content and storyline
-solid sandbox to explore
-have tons of consequences if the player is not careful
-very hot and sex scenes if you are into female corruption and bdsm
-back button is finally added in case you make mistakes.

Con
-Money system is slightly slanted to being broke. Need to find more ways to make more money that does not consist of blackjack save scumming

-need a walkthrough or a pointer guide/quest guide. Don't want to keep pestering the dev all the time where to go

-Still some bugs in the game like after the drug deal and giving back the money to the loan shark, the debt payment is still active even if you paid it off.

-might be grindy and repetitive to some people and the game can be slow.

Overall, hope the game continues to grow and evolve to be one of the best html games ever played.

1.31
One of the Top Tiers of HTML Real Porn games on this site.
Spent many hours on this game and had a blast.
And it's one of the few games that is actually challenging and not just "handing over" events and the corruption mechanic is also great.
And because of the tight time management, money and energy management, you have to plan ahead before you go do tasks (or in some cases take drugs, which makes the corruption even more organic)

Overall good UI and the consistent use of Nappi as the character makes it a 10/10 for me.

Looking forward, what the future brings

Cool concept, but marred by some major flaws:
- UI is super slow, and saves are especially slow to save or clear old slots
- UX is pretty bad with certain events interrupting what you're currently doing and hiding important text
- Economy is unbalanced
- Travelling around or performing any action takes a very long time, and events have strict cut off times, meaning it is very easy to be late to work because you misjudged how long it takes to walk there
- many sex events don't give you options to avoid them, or even see the consequences of certain actions, so you can end up getting fucked simply for flashing your tits to someone

On the plus side:
- the corruption mechanics are pretty cool
- the events are fairly well written with good English
- the porn images are consistent and relevant

Overall, some potential here but not worth spending much time on until the dev can sort out the slowness.

The game has a nice porn actress as the protagonist
I liked the stats tracking system, such as sex addiction and liberty
Hot dialogs - in this game I actually wanted to read them sometimes
Nice plot

I'd add cheat system to make it less grindy for scenes
Maybe more tips, how to discover all scenes
Add ability to work again if you quit, or other things, so you don't miss scenes

[1.30]
Imo, the definition of "3 stars real porn slut-sim". Best thing about this game - is the consistancy with which Valentina Nappi's videos are used. This girl is as hot as it gets, and you get to see a whole barrage of her scenes.

But in other aspects - this game is uninventive (with rare exceptions), has a ton of stats (with little influence) and has awkard "by the numbers" progression. You know the deal. It's 3 stars real porn slut-sim.

I love this game. I spent hours playing and forgot that i have to develop my own game. It reminds me of Girl Life (QSP) but with more refined structure and consistent model (Vale Nappi). I might make a JAV mod for this game in the future if you're willing dev

Review is for v1.10
A slut sim that is really coming along.
There's a lot of areas to explore and things to do. main complaint is that everything needs more fleshed out.
Jobs are shallow, the university has very little content, the mall has things to buy, but there isn't that much and a lot of it is just to unlock other minor activities. For a game that apparently is trying to get 303 days of in game content, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done.
Long story short, another open world sim game that is coming along nicely, but really needs a lot more content.
Edit for v1.30
Honestly, not a lot of changes. Pretty much everything has gotten some updates, which is good, but it's started to feel really inflated. A couple minor things to do everyday, and then just sit at the beach or prostitute yourself at the hotel the rest of the day. I'd really like to see some "jobs" with events that don't have set time's to fill in the gaps.

[v1.10] This game is for the most part good, even very good sometimes. But, there are some severe problems with it as well. In general,

• there is much content
• the images are well chosen
• the general plot is good
• the game is made with care

The really bad thing is that in some cases, you have to make a decision which can lead to a game over many days later. You will waste a couple of cycles in the game-loop only to restart.

It is not possible to tell in advance that it will be so. Even if a character in the game tells you that some action will have bad consequences, we cannot trust them: they could be lying, or incorrect, MC and player cannot know that. What if I, think that the consequences cannot be so bad, or I want to take the consequences (whatever they are) and try to dig myself out of it later. Furthermore, any problem can/could turn out to be an opportunity for something sexy to happen, so it is good to get into trouble, sometimes. The game is sending very mixed messages there.

The only solution is to know what will happen in the game, in advance, and that is bad design.

Another thing that bothered me is the sex addiction meter. My character had no regular sex yet, or almost no sex (in fact I got the dialogue about abstinence making her feel bad in the morning), and yet, the addiction was at extreme already (I maxed it only through showing people tits and some other mostly non-penetrative things).

Even though my view of this game is mixed, I would recommend it.

Just save very often and prepare to repeat a week of content. Maybe have a save slot strategy so that you can go far enough back (e.g. slot 1 is the beginning of the month, slot 2 is the beginning of the week, slot 3 = beginning of each day).

Edit: I think I was needlessly harsh with 3 stars, compared to other HTML games this is above average, despite all of the minor gripes above.

I spent many hours playing this game and I like this game.

There is something in this game that causes you to say: "it is what i like to do with this character".

Everything in this game is done with love.

Definitely recommend it!

Very in depth game and something different than the other HTML based games out there. Great scenes as well, would be nice if there was the option of turning on sound which is limited to only a few scenes currently.

A bit of a grind but definitely worth the try.

Also actually being actively developed.

Great start with a hot (for me anyway) model. Not too grindy and lots of fun stuff already together with numerous pitfalls... Currently, in my view it needs the addition of friends to hang out with and potential boyfriend/girlfriend relationships but the designer advised that's on the way. Also the plan is to expand to further years which will be most welcome as it's a shame it currently ends after year 1 at uni. In my view I'd like it to continue to full graduation then into a 'full life sim' sandbox game. That being said, as mentioned it's fun already! Hope you enjoy...

I think this is a third or fourth game of this type I've played; HTML games which have you following a girl around on her daily activities. There's nothing magical or unusual about the worlds in question , and there's nothing magical and unusual about the girls the players follow. I guess it's the slice of life of porn games?

Unfortunately, these types of games lack what slice of life style TV shows and anime have in spades: personality. I find it really hard to get into these games because there's just nothing to get into. There's no characters to like, no story to enjoy, no mechanics to sink my teeth into just... a hum-drum day to day game where I click a lot and very little happens.

I suppose Life at University is a good example? You follow a girl around as she goes to classes and tries to make ends meet in the big city. She attends class, gets a job, and generally exists. It's mind numbingly boring.

There are events that break up the monotony, but they're such a dramatic exception to the rule that you just can't depend on them to keep things interesting. I spent three or four hours on this game and I wish I had them all back. I kept waiting for something - ANYTHING - to happen and just... nothing. Class, work, bed, relentlessly for over a month in game. Random and story events consisted of less than one-percent of my play time.

Reviewing Version 0.9

Overall I think the structure is promising. The idea of the "game" seeing how long you can last in college by being a good student and not getting into trouble is kind of interesting. It's an actual objective that adds a little flavor to the standard life sim. I also appreciate the effort to having consistent imagery for most of the content. It's quite nice and makes it feel consistent from scene to scene.

The experience for me though felt conflicted. The tedium of clicking through classes, then work, the general health care is just relatively bland and uneventful, while helping you avoid the content you really want to see. I feel like since there's so many avenues for you to fail, you're discouraged from really diving deep into any of them in order to "win."

To me, flunking out of college should be just it; that's your game over. What I'd like to see is the player actively dealing with running out of money, ending up a prostitute, or ending up pregnant. Then, at the end of the year if your grades are intact, you get a conclusion as to how well you handled everything (eg. maybe if you'll look forward to go next year, or you say screw college you'd rather have tons of sex).

What drew me to this was the pregnancy tag, and I have to say, game over pregnancy feels bad. There's a certain thrill of uncertainty in games like these where you juggle fun and responsibility, and ending it before you have to deal with the consequences feels like part of the game is missing. No one is going to know you're pregnant after 30 days if you even know yourself at that point (it'd be months before anyone might even guess that you were). I was very sad to just hit the end like that without even any content behind it.

Now, the game isn't full finished from my understanding and is going through revisions still, so future changes could bring great improvements. My feedback is prescriptive only, just what I'd like to see. However Bluey decides to proceed I'm sure it'll make the game even better.

I like this game, normally not into grinders but this games has been able to hold my attention. To me, it is worth the effort you will need to put into it. Love the nude beach activities and a good uncle to help her out along the way.

[v0.8] The roleplay aspect and different scenarios were promising, but the execution is poor.

Mostly the problem is a formulaic design: almost every scenario was "mistake, yelling, blackmail, sexual favours". Little to no player control beyond "fail task to progress y/n" (except sometimes it's a Game Over, oof). The characters' dialogue similarly lacks variety in tone and vocabulary. Finding a writer or writers to punch up the dialogue and vary the scenarios would do a lot for the game, and to correct the many, many mistakes in language.

Aside from the language, the puerile humour was an obstacle to arousal, comedy shots and all. I did have a good laugh seeing Mr White, but even though his scenario was my favourite (because it's different, the player actively chooses whether to take a risk or not), I could not take him seriously as a sex predator controlling me. That's a problem with using A-list faces.

The basic mechanics are too rigid as well. Simply going about one's day takes too many meaningless steps and requires constant vigilance about trivial things because the game lacks good options (missing a critical day at work because I can't buy deodorant? come on). The menus are full of basic nagivating options with actual actions like "go to school/work" ("have a coffee and go to work" is good, just put it in the main tree!) missing. Because only inconsequential or game-ending events (all money stolen → kicked out of flat) happened during travel, navigating street by street started to chafe, and no indication of the actions' time cost led to repeated frustration. The player experience would benefit from more meaningful choices and information and less rigid adherence to supposed realism.

Streamline the menu system, replace passive clicking with meaningful actions, add variety to the content and polish the language, and this could be a great game. The main plot is a tried and trusted one, and roleplaying games in general can offer a lot of experiences and value. It's all about giving the player options and control (and sometimes taking it away~).

I like the game's ideas (even some of the well-worn porn scenarios), I just wish it was not frustrating and stressful but interesting and arousing.

OK, I ended up spending many hours playing this game. It is very addictive and a blast to play. I really have control over the type of lifestyle she lives, and I appreciate that. Deinitely looking forward to more updates and content.

3 stars with the option of more

There is already a lot of content in this game, however there is also a lot of repetition. These make sense though, that the game simulates 1 year in the life of Vale (name changeable).
Going to university, studying, working, partying, relaxing on the beach, ect.
You theoretically have the possibility to get through the game without corruption, though there are some random encounters (possible rape) that still drive up the questionable scores.
One can also consciously choose to live a life of sin (though I have yet to experience voluntarily joining prostitution, having been forced into a brothel in my attempt).
It would even be possible to reconcile the two.

What I lack so far are possibilities to pursue one's own dream goal. There is no modelling agency yet, no amateur theatre, no acting classes. But all that can still be added.
I would also like to have friends and girlfriends with whom I can go out and experience something.

Another positive aspect is that 90% of the avatars in a real-porn game are the same model. A rarity in the genre. Unfortunately, this means that body transformations are not represented accordingly. In my eyes, however, this is the lesser evil than having to constantly look at pictures that have nothing to do with the actual character. (sometimes blond, sometimes brunette, sometimes 25 years old, sometimes 45 years old).

As I am not a native speaker of English myself, I cannot comment on the quality of the texts, but my translation programme manages very well. So it can't be that bad.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)