i've been in the market for a town corruption game, and even though this is only a super early release i'm super on board with this as long as it doesn't fall into the heavy maledom/sex-slave trap i notice a lot of other free use-esque stories tend to fall into
If you are looking for a town corruption game, you could also try Sluttown U.S.A. It may be a bit of a challenge to install the game and the updates, but if you got the right files in the right place, then that game is fairly good, with nice sex scenes and humor. The story of Sluttown U.S.A. is about a mind control app, while Mayor of Mount Pleasant is more about soft influence and politics, but both games are about a guy slowly corrupting his friends, family and eventually the whole town. (Disclaimer: I am a bit biased as I have been helping the author of Sluttown U.S.A. with proofreading, bug fixes, etc.)
a surprising amount of content for a 0.1, although it does just kind of... abruptly stop
while unimmersive, even something as simple as a general "that's all the content for now" would be appreciated, after spending a few weeks of repeatedly going to sleep i figured i had seen everything
Yes, there is a lot of content for a 0.1 release, and it is not easy to know when you reach the end of it. There are multiple characters with stories that can evolve partially in parallel, so it looks like the only way to know that you have reached the end of the current content is to check the Journal regularly and see if you have reached the end of the storyline for all characters that have a story.
I thought for a while that I had reached the end of the content when I was not making much more progress with Luna and with the members of the city council. But then I found out that I had not maxed out my fitness at the gym yet and I had not double-checked all rooms during the weekend... And then I unlocked a lot of new scenes with Gia, Jessie, Peta, Romi and others, plus new features in the office about campaigns, executive decisions, etc. Later, I realized that I would have missed half of the content in the current version if I had stopped there.
Actually, I was stuck for a while due to some unhelpful hint in the Journal. When Jessie is considering a boob job, the hint in the Journal says:
If you cannot progress further, you need to fuck Luna more and look for options
This hint for Jessie is misleading and should be improved. I had reached the "fuck" stage with Luna several weeks before reaching the boob job question with Jessie, and no matter how much I fucked Luna I always got the same message saying that I could not make Luna more corrupt by repeating this action. The hint for Luna had been stuck for many weeks, always saying the same thing:
You feel a distance between you and Luna, perhaps this can be narrowed in the bedroom?
That hint is also misleading, because the only way to increase Luna's corruption further had nothing to do with the bedroom. The missing trigger was that I had to meet Luna and Jessie at the gym. After that, I was able to proceed further with Luna's corruption and Jessie's story.
EDIT: I just had a quick look at the code that displays the hints: as long as $luna is stuck at 2, the same hint about the bedroom is displayed, and then if $luna is 3 the hint changes to mention Jessie. If $luna is 2, then there should be an additional test for Luna's corruption level or for the progress in Jessie's story, so that a different hint can be displayed when the actions in the bedroom cannot improve Luna's corruption anymore.