HTML - Life Choices [v0.8.8.73] [Burningsun]

I find this game rather mediocre.

The grind is really tedious and the UI is simply not comfortable - you just need too many clicks... Don`t get me wrong, I am a big fan of well-made HTML games and the selection of pics and gifs on the other hand are well-chosen.

What could make this game much more enjoyable for me would be a back button; for example the trial and error with the job interviews is just plain annoying. The choices you get there add nothing to the experience, but if you fail to pick the right one and did not save before the choice you are in a world of grind (or pick otherwise but hey, you already chose to go the interview in the 1st place).

I had a look on this game from the start of it's development and tried it dozens of times and it could not hook me once for more then 10 mins.

It is girl life with a better english and a bit less grind, but personally it is still too tedious.

3 (2.5) stars.

Great game with multiple choices, I really like it. Some options to lose dignity faster would be nice. Or from some drug or from something the players dignity temporarily should drop down significantly.

Overall, an excellent game with so much content. The game is absolutely worth hours of time spent getting to all the good stuff.

The video clips and images are varied and interesting, and even if your character encounters the same situation multiple times, there are different videos and images that will load, making the grind far more bearable.

Now, for some criticism.

The game is grindy grindy grindy. As an example, to get through all of the Photoshoot content, you need to spend 150 in-game days to get it done. And, that is just one of 4 main jobs.

Also, the start of the game can be a little tricky, and good stuff does not really start happening until you are 50 days or so into it. If you don't read the game thread and all the hints, and be careful with your money, you can spend a lot of time on that early game only to end up with a soso ending, and the need to start over, and do that 40-50 day grind again. This happened during my first play through, and it killed the game for me (came back a month later after reading the thread, with a better plan).

If I had dev-deity powers, I think the following would make sense:

1) Turn the current first 40-50 days into an intro, to introduce you to the city, the characters, the jobs, the game mechanics, etc. When starting over, allow people to skip that, and just pick up at a good logical starting point where things can be pretty interesting right from the start.

2) Balance the post-prostitution money a little better. Once your character can whore herself out, money stops mattering. Example - in my current play-through, I finished the photoshoot, and have about 35k euros. My character would be able to not work for 2 years and still make bills - it makes the money pointless.

If me, I would make finding tricks much much harder, and more taxing energy-wise. Money, I think, should always be an issue that requires the character to make tough choices.

3) Amp up the negative effects of reputation. With 100 Rep, people should be, eh, taking plenty of liberties with your character's body. However, I may be missing something - my luck has been consistently high until I lowered it later in the game, but still bad events were extremely rare. Maybe I need another play-through where I minimize luck and self defense to see more of this.

4) Storylines should progress faster. The Photoshoot story should not take 38 game weeks to complete (4 shoots per week x 38 weeks is what's needed to get the 150 points required to finish the photoshoot story). I'm 10 weeks into the maid story, and it's just starting to get good. Anyway, the grinding needs some balance tweaks in my opinion.

Overall, great game, and the grind is worth it, but save yourself some angst and read the game thread before starting, and good luck finding all there is to find in the game - there's a ton of buried treasure to find.

Layers and layers of content. So much to enjoy. You may get addicted and play over and over again.
The dev is active and responds. this is not a one shot game. You have to play many times to get the many outcomes. Many jobs, many kinks.

There is so many naughty things to do in this game, and while there is a small amount of grinding, the story keeps progressing while you are making money to buy that fancy new toster or whatever you are currently aiming to buy

This is a good game, but it could be a great game.

There is a lot of content, but there is also a lot of grind. The money situation is really annoying, especially if you change jobs. (There's a nice 'gameover' for not being able to get rent time after time, but you don't want to get stuck with it) I also found myself save-scumming like crazy to get my stats going in the direction I wanted.

If you don't have the patience luckily it is really easy to cheat with SugarCube games. Open the browser console with F12 and write SugarCube.state.active.variables to see the variables click 'more' to see the whole list edit them (press enter after making changes). 'cash' is one you'll probably want to mess with.

Suggestion to author: Player needs to be able to make more choices that affect liberty/dignity/luck/morale. Also, the requirement to get into the club is too high!

One of the best games within its particular genre. The author is a great guy who constantly updates the game with new content. It's already rich in content even in its incomplete state. I highly recommend it to anyone who is even remotely into these sorts of games.

been following the game for a while and it gives you ample choices and opportunities to play the way you want instead of forcing a path on you.Overall the game play mechanics are great even at the state it's in and can be both expanded upon and leave room for possible side stories or mods to add more of an experience.

Usually i fon't give much of attention of html+real photo games, but this is actually sweet.
There is no actual story, it' just a managment game and with the cheats i could enjoy the trip with the fake challange of the game.