HTML - Abandoned - Mayor of Mount Pleasant [v0.4.1] [Hugo Games]

Mayor of Mount Pleasant is one the best examples of this genre done right.

Good writing, formatting, scene selection, grind workaround, gameplay, guiding, corruption, everything.

It's a shame to see it abandoned but it's still worth playing in the abandoned state. Even the couple of issues you could complain about are pretty minor (playing a character rather than a self-insert and having to progress some storylines to start others).

It's perverse, sexy, well-structured, and to top it all off well-written. Top marks.

It has a really good setting with a good story. There's also enough sex scenes for the players. It's just a shame that is get's abandoned. The number of characters and it's development is actually very appealing.

One of the best if no the best html games i have played. The machanics of the game is fun and the story is excellent. I just hope the dev continuous to work on this title or at least let someone take over so the game keeps expanding.

please continue - very pleasant game!

In my opinion very well though-out game with much potential... Beautiful to see how to corrupt a hole village. Good characters, good storyline!

Would be a shame if it is really abandoned. One of my favourite html-adult-games I have played till now.

At first I didn't expect much, but the images used became more my taste over time, and the addition of a system of quicklinks to save you from clicking 100 times to get through a terribly designed interface really makes this game stand out, and ruins so many other games compared to it.

Rather hot once it got rolling. A bit short and ended just as things started to get really interesting, but all in all looking forward to seeing more. My favorite questline was Jessie, and looking forward to hopefully furthering her porn career in future updates.

The screenshots make this look like a sandbox game, but it's actually a linear VN. There's zero reason to explore the map, and while you can advance time by 1hr increments, there's really only one event in the morning and one in the evening throughout the whole game, really. The questlines must be done strictly in the order the game mandates, or you can't progress. Basically: Just click the green location and do the thing. If ain't highlighted, there's nothing there (except maybe a repeatable event). Based on the comments, some people find this confusing enough they think it's a progress bug. As to that, I encountered no bugs at all except for some later Luna steps where the house gets highlighted when you really needed to go to the office, or vice versa.

I'm not sure if the plan is to flesh out the earlier parts of the game at some point, or just continue the story, but right now it feels kinda weird to have house with all those bedrooms but inhabitants/family members you maybe see 0 to 1 times for the whole playthrough. All those locations with nothing to do makes the whole game feel a bit unfinished and empty.

Other than that, I liked the content. But would like to see more freedom and a reason to explore, optional scenes and side content and so on in future updates. Also it feels like the mayoral management part is mostly pointless right now. Would enjoy some improvements there as well, like a reason to grind some cash, have to decide which project to do first and so on (I like my porn games when they have actual gameplay).

Overall a good, enjoyable game.

The story is good and interesting and I like that the dev put the effort to make it seem more realistic with all the law stuff and whatnot, though sometimes the amount of text and characters to consider can make it a bit overwhelming.
The scenes are good, there is a lot of anal and petite which isnt too much my taste but it is good nonetheless.
I like that there is corruption of your own family and that you get to be lewd with your daughters. I also like the corruption in general of the entire town and that the public places become more lewd. The corruption feels quite natural, at least more than some other games.
The scenes are pretty easy to obtain, i dont think you really get penalised too hard if you choose the wrong path sometimes. There is also a good frequency of scenes, so its not too boring at times.
The navigation in general is a bit annoying as most of the places dont really have anything to do, you pretty much just click on the green highlighted places and sleep the rest of the time.
Another thing is that it is a bit grindy with how many actions you have to do to each character and to make money and stuff, though i guess it does add a bit to the realism, so im not too concerned about this mecahnic.

Overall a good game, B-tier, 7.3/10

This game does a lot of things well - relationship management and growth with the residents of Mount Pleasant makes sense and is enjoyable. There are a variety of different women to receive your sexual attention - from simple prostitutes to powerful local figures, blood related daughter to your ex wife (presumably, no content today that I came across in my play through). There is a decent amount of unlinked progression to be made, but as with many games, at a certain point the stories of different characters start to become linked and you cannot progress the one you want without progressing others. Also, some characters seem to be gated completely until you get quite far with others - Ex: you don't seem to be able to access your step daughter until you've had some pretty sexual experiences with your blood daughter. And your next step daughters until the same is true for the first. Sort of odd, since I'm supposed to believe you live in the same house.

The city map is acceptable, it's not too large, there aren't too many different locations, but it's definitely on the excessive side of the bell curve. This is lessened by the game providing you quick-links to locations of interest that adapt to help you get to areas of interest, but that system is not flawless in my experience.

Stat grind is a bit on the unforgiving side if you ask me. Thankfully your relationships or fitness don't degrade over time I guess, but they're still a ball ache to raise. Game messages along the lines of "you made INCREDIBLE PROGRESS corrupting Bitch#1" give you laughably insignificant progress imo. You will be repeating actions a number of times. Money and city relationship are probably the worst but this may be because the game poorly conveys them. It basically tells you that if you drop below $500,000 and 50% favorability, there will be consequences. Any logical gamer would fear a game over due to how shitty H game devs usually are. If this is not true, the dev really needs to make these mechanics crystal clear.

TLDR is that it just took too much time to get what I wanted from this game. What I wanted was there, but it was buried in way to much clicking and reading. The story and dialog is good, and so is the H content, but weighting of each is unbalanced imo.

Edit: if I wasn't able to find that the cheat code used at your home office in v0.4.1 is "Christmas", my experience would have been much worse, so I am dropping this from 3 starts to 2 stars. If dev removes the secret code I'll update back to 3, or of course if other improvements are made it could go even higher.

Great game, well put together. Improvements over time have been solid, looking forward to continued development. Pictures and story well suited, and the maker has great taste in the porn stars chosen. Lots of variable without being too complicated, and does not feel like the player is always grinding.

Secretly a kinetic novel with an annoying UI (I respect what the dev is trying to do with it but it could use a lot less meaningless clicking and a lot more QoL) masquerading as a very grind-intensive management game, of sorts.

Also commits the cardinal sin (IMHO) of having absolutely no player agency in sex scenes and having unavoidable scenes.

Writing is decent though, dev obviously has skills, and the real porn is nicely enough curated but it's basically just a "keep finding the hidden object" game in text form

I have played much worse. The story is actually well written. It's just too much of a grind fest for me to enjoy. Grind is fine, but there is a fine line you gotta walk when deciding too much or not enough. This game missed that balance in my opinion. It's an okay game for AVN's and one of the better "real porn" games I have played.

Great amount of content, nice progression. Simply well made. Only negative points for me are the accessibility of the journal and not knowing beforehand where certain characters are to be found. Also the scenes with Peta, who comes to the office at a fixed time end quite abruptly unfortunately.

Very excited to see the future of this. Finding people is occasionally confusing and could be drastically improved by showing the current locations of people. But overall content was a lot of fun. Really hopeful for this and hope development goes smoothly so we don't end up with another HTML abandoned

Characters feel like real people, the story is reasonably engaging, the smut is excellent.
As others have said, sometimes it is hard to find what parts of the game you are meant to go to, and sometimes the clicking is a bit tedious. That's not really a downside in any meaningful sense, and I'm unwilling to bring the average rating down by voting for a 4. A lot more content than I was expecting. Definitely worth playing and monitoring.

Great game and love the concept. Currently the html game im looking forward to the most.
Gameplay is fun and the logic behind decisions and events arent completly bonkers like a lot of other porn games.

Loads of potential. This game has a ton going for it as other reviewers describe.

But the triggering system is super annoying. It's basically a linear game but in a sandbox environment. You can normally only be pursuing one girl at a time. Makes the game way more annoying than it needs to be

Mayor of Mount Pleasant [v0.3b] review

This game could have been so much better with a decent UI and some more thought put into the general gameplay loop.

Most of the time I'm just hitting the "sleep" button to skip time, or clicking through all the available locations looking for event triggers.
AKA, the 2 worst sins of lewd gaming design today. It's the opposite of fun. There's long stretches of time where there's only something to do on the weekends, making the entire week cycle of skipping time completely idiotic.

The rest of the game is pretty allright. The scenes are quite nice and the writing seems okay.

It's just that it's such a complete chore getting to the content that it's just not worth it at all.

I hope that get fixed at some point because these flaws are definitely fixable. With some competent coding, I can maybe see this becoming a decent game in the future.

There's so much here to like, but several quality of life issues and a confusing layout stop this from being one of the best RP games on this site.

The good: The story is fantastic and the characters feel like real people rather than stock images of pornstars with a bit of text. The dev has done a really good job of making the plot interesting and unpredictable. The writing is very good. It actually does feel like a small mountain town gradually being corrupted. In terms of character and story this game is looking great.

The bad: The UI is clunky at best and confusing at worst. The lack of a character locator means that the game will tell me to find someone but not how to find someone. This is made worse by the fact that the journal is a terrible guide, offering only vague hints as to what you need to do. The overall UI could be really streamlined. I would suggest the dev look at Real Porn games like Love & Vice, Casting Director, and Become Someone for good examples of UI done well. The central problem is that the absence of a guide makes it REALLY hard to tell where content ends of begins, and if you're even making progress. This issue is made worse by the fact that there is not a scene gallery. Galleries are great because you can replay scenes you've already watched but also thy tell you which characters have content you haven't unlocked yet.

Thins that would be just nice additions: I think it would be good if the assistant character Adriana Chechik was always in the office and easy to fuck. It's kind of weird how's she's sort of just not in the plot. It might also be a good idea to use sex scenes made up of composite gifs and images rather than just all from one brazzers/bangbros/realitykings scene so that the dev has more control of how scenes play out.

This probaly sounds like the bad outweighs the good, but this game is really good. Considering that it's only in 0.3 I think this is going to go very well. With a few QoL changes it would be fantastic.

reviewed against v0.3a.

Delightful game. There's not a HUGE deal in terms of originality but the execution is first rate and the scope is pleasing.

So you're a mayor and you're basically going to dick your way around the town you run. It may sound run of the mill but the developers seems to have put the time in to give the body of the game a bit of weight. There's actually large parts of dialogue explaining the scenes as opposed to simply jumping straight to the webm of someone getting a dicking. And although I've not seen it be utilised to a great extent, there's a game mechanic where you need to get allies on board to pass rulings which is quite nice. It gives the game some structure and allows you to actually play a game as opposed to "click until you see tits".

The cast is varied but not all of the characters have been fleshed out yet but then again it's version 0.3, what do you expect? The important thing is the characters which are there are actually quite good. The game drops off a cliff a bit as you get near the end but that's quite common with these games. Eventually you'll hit a "this path is complete for this update". Be glad they at least took the effort to tell you that.

Early doors naturally but definitely one worth following, it could turn out to be great.

Great game, with good mechanics and huge time of gameplay. Questlog/Journal could be a bit better, as you sometimes just have to wait a couple of days without knowing what to do until something new pops up, but as soon as you understand that it's not a bother.