Unity - Loser [v0.11.00] [Night City Productions]

Good cgs, good models, mediocre story, absolutely horrendous grind combined with annoyingly slow UI destroys it. 4 stars with cheats, 2 without.

To put it into perspective, depending on start, you'll need ~2 hours to see a titty and (extrapolating based on my experience) ~8 or more hours to see any sexual content. You need ~50 of the same, repetitive interaction to change a girl's archetype (basically stage of corruption). The game would feel ok at 20 times increased xp gain, but as it is just use cheats instead and play it like a visual novel.

[v10.00]

Though the "too grindy" comments are understandable (It *is* a grindy game) and there are some bugs, this still is a 5/5 game for me. This game actually wants to be a game and once everything clicks I find it incredibly rewarding to min-max everything and try the different ATs of everyone. Renders are nice too and all of the characters are visually appealing.

It's definitely not for everyone, though

Grindy, but the character models and general idea of the slow corruption is cool. When I try to influence Diana while she is in her room as Immediagram Mother, the UI disappears and I'm unable to advance her AT. Any help would be great.

I mean the game is good, there is a lot of grind, and it's not for everyone, but my problem is not with the grind is with the lack of a guide, is ridiculous like I was searching for the topic to level up younger sister forever and it was the first level, if there was no guide in the forum to tell me you need to level fashion I think I was not going to be able to figure it out by myself and now im stuck with mother dancing topic. I mean the game is good but if the developer made a better guide, like you need to find that topic to level up, you can do stuff in these hours or maybe just hint something that makes you progress without thinking wtf im doing.

Mh... Actually, I don't know how to rate this game. Renders are awesome and there's a lot of scenes to go for but... Can a game be good if you have to play it with cheat to enjoy its content ? It's already been said countless time, without cheating, it's a grindfest and the first hours are pretty boring. But fast forward to content and then yes, quality is definitely there.

So I'm torn for the rating. I'll go with good as cheats make it enjoyable and in hope that the game will continue.

Insane grind, like too much. Too many combos and things to track, and a slow UI. The game tries to explain itself, but it's very hard to progress without cheating. and even with cheating it's slow.

Good art and characters, though.

One of the best games on this Site. Yes you have a bunch of grind to do. But If you make it this game has one of the best Character development, it has a bunch fetish and huge potential. After a some time the game becomes easier, if you understand the mechanic. But it is worth it. I love it.

First of all, take my review with a pinch of salt... What I like may not be what you like.
This project is for you IF you like slow paced games, developing your character before you can slowly corrupt your family. As such, it does it amazingly well. I seem to remember reading the developer defining the project as a game with porn... importance in the game.
If you want to jump directly into the smut, leave this project now. It took me nearly 4 or 5 hours slowly developing skills until I managed to get the first sex scene (other than peeking on your parents than can be done straight away).
The mechanics of the game are not straightforward, so it takes trial and error until you find how to progress, and progress is SLOW... but at least for me the rewards are quite good. If you persevere, the progress is considerably faster once you have the right skills, as changing archetypes is done considerably faster later in the game.
Scenes are well written, the slow path into corruption is "believable" (as much as you can believe the MC banging his family and half of the neighbourhood) and the models are quite nice.
To sum up. If you want just porn and a quick wank, go somewhere else. If you like to spend a decent amount of time playing a game and getting some well written scenes, give it a try.

Very unusual mechanic of the game, interesting characters. I also appreciate author's sense of humor. And it contains a lot of surprises. Minuses: maybe it's too grindy sometimes. So, I hope the author will continue his work on this outstanding project

Although the plot develops slowly, it is an excellent work.
The character modeling and game system are innovative and have great playability...

Different branches of the plot, but also affect the character of each NPC, the more fun to play, recommend 5 stars, like to play a slow pace of the game can try....

I tried this for quite a few hours but other then gaining and maxing out skills i dident really get anywhere with the girls, and the grind is the worst ive seen in any game, i dont mind a decent grind but this goes so far past that line that its not even funny.

The interface is also so damn annoying that it just makes game even worse.

There are what feels like a million diffrent skills and it takes forever to max out just a one of them, same for the LIs to get anywhere you need to grind forever and find just the right things to use when you talk with them, do this without a walkthrough would take months to complete or even see a sex scene.

As for story i dont know if there is one since there is so little dialogs so all you really do is grind and try to find the right items constantly.

For this game to be any good it would have to get a in-game walkthrough or hint system that shows what it is you need to use with the diffrent LIs and maybe even were to get them, it wouldent even make game to easy since the grind would still be crazy.

This game could be good and maybe the next updates will make it so (in a few years, if you take into account the frequency of updates), but at the moment it's just a torment. The game forces you to fight not only with an incredible amount of dull grind, but also with the interface. The developer seems to be deliberately making the player's life more miserable. It doesn't matter how much content there is in the game, if you need to go through hell to get to it

"gameplay" is a mess. a ridiculous amount of grinding for very little reward. releases are fairly slow as well. this game could actually be an ok game, like 3 stars or so, with a decent mod, but there seems to be an aversion to improving this game by the author and also the community, so i don't see this game being playable anytime soon.

the required amount of grinding to access anything is insane. there are simply too many skills and they all level up WAY too slowly. the premise of this game looked promising, but the result is not good. if there were cheats or something for the casual player that didn't want to grind for 16+ hrs, that would be cool, but there isn't...

NOT RECCOMENDED, unless you have infinite time to waste leveling up at snail pace.

This game is not a lot of peoples cup of tea and I understand why, but I love the whole premise of the game from the grinding to the AT system. Its a HUGE accomplishment feeling when you get to the next AT and see the change that happens.... My only complaint is the sleeping system, most of my time was doing that; the max I could only go was 6 hours (I would like to see a longer sleep or a custom sleep time up to 12 hours). The bugs that I had noticed were how the game seemed to slow down the longer you play so restarting the game would fix it but annoying, the other was some scenes skipping lines so I would be left confused and have to load a previous save. Other than a few minor bugs that has been talked about, I can play this game for hours I'm pretty sure I clocked 40+ maybe 50+ hours... i need to touch some grass after that ahahahaha. Great Game I look forward for more content<3

The renders and models are great but the game itself is straight up unplayable without unlocking everything from the get go. This is ON TOP of every EVERYfuckingmove and interaction taking seconds to do. Hotbar is dogshit and takes forever. Saving while being a unity thing I swear somehow take even longer in this.

There is a good game here foundation wise. Game needs a lot LOT of trimming for the exp nonsense shit. Like you can tell from all other reviews there is an insulting amount of it. A measure of direction and notice on where you are for what little there is outside of raising points. Clear indicators for what if there is supposed to be any order of doing things. I will just hope that it will become playable in due time if the dev continues to actually work and update this

I would have loved to give this game 4 stars, but it's just nonsense.

Every 10 minutes played, it makes the game slow down, moving from one place to another, at the beginning is instantaneous, but then you take 1 second, then 2... when you want to realize it's 5 seconds to change location, AND THE GAME IS DESIGNED FOR YOU TO CHANGE LOCATION ALL THE TIME.

The grinding is INSANE, added to the time it takes to go from one place to another, and the 2 hours and 34 minutes it takes every time you want to save the game, leads you to the irremediable fate that happened to me, crashing without saving after 3 hours of play.

Although I don't dislike the grind in these games, I wouldn't play it again even with your time. Oh by the way, I played about 10 hours and I only saw one boob.

NOT RECOMMENDED
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edited after 7 months:

Ok, now that the save system, and most bugs are fixed I must say that I like the game.

I STRONGLY recommend people who don't like grinding not to play it because they will hate it, but if you don't mind hardcore grinding, it's a very good game.

I would give it 5 stars but it's going to stay at 3 for a reason:

The game needs a lot of QOL, so as not to frustrate the player. If you add to the insane grinding that the player sometimes doesn't know why he can't get what he's trying to do, it leads to a lot of frustration.

i love the game! Its detailed and requires thought. Its not just "click click click sex!". You actually have tactical decisions that greatly impact progress. You can fail actions and be rewarded for planning.
I suspect the designer is a little ocd (like me!) and a game design genius.
The family are also wonderful!
When you move forward and change them it feels very rewarding.

Recommend: for people who enjoy a porn game and not just a kinetic novel.

An absolute slog.

I've played and finished plenty of grindy games, but this one is in it's own league. Characters are upgraded via talking mini-game where you mix a topic you need to increase with topics they like to make total impression positive. Click an icon, wait three seconds of their response. Click another icon, wait 3 seconds. Click another, waits 3 seconds. Since each mini-game gives you 10% progress at best, repeat the whole thing at least 10 times.

Then it all is multiplied by an abysmal UI, where you go through three sub-menus, click something, then see "I'm doing something", then click "continue" button, then return to home screen.

UX naturally isn't any better. Each topic expires after use and you need to go back to restore them.

If you are playing without cheats to unlock permanent topics, you need to grind one-use topics which may or may not drop from related activity. At this point you realize that the dev just hates humanity and his patrons in particular.

Then there are focus and stamina which you need replenish every day. More than once if you are actually doing something instead of waiting for the right time.

Then there is performance, which makes all this useless clicking even longer. It's kind of incredible actually. What kind of Lovecraftian code-horror one needs to create to make moving items from storage to use-panel lag?

Then there is this trollish hint system, which tells you that some item is needed for character upgrade, but forgets to mention that you need to use it on Monday at 11pm, so having actual walkthrough at hand is mandatory.

To summarize - ReeEeEaewasdjasid

One star for the amount of renders. One star for the amount of effort.

Grinding through this game is rewarded with excellent renders and diverse paths to explore. I can only imagine if the animations were as many as the "h-scenes" present, this game would easily be anyone's top 3 (provided they don't mind a bit of grinding . I am wishing the dev all the best. Your game is very interesting I am looking forward to the end version of this game and perhaps your other projects.