HTML - MindWare: Infected Identity [v0.3.3 Hotfix] [Subjunctive Games]

This appeals to my particular kinks so I really enjoy what is here so far and look forward to future updates. It does seem to have choices that affect your progress through the story, but I haven't tried all of the various choices. I also generally like the interface aesthetics, the graphics, and the images.

In its current form (v0.3.1), this isn't a game, but a poorly executed collection of minigames.

If you consider it a collection of minigames, it would be a three-star rating.
I took off one star because some minigames are only available once.
I took off another star because replaying other minigames is only possible after a lot of wasted clicks (like rewinding a week).

But if you judge THIS as a game, then the rating is negative.
The menu and character design are decent, the game world is interesting. But despite all this, the game is unplayable. And deliberately ruined by the developer.

A catastrophic amount of grinding (useless clicks between bits of content).
Mandatory minigames.
Delays... between... phrases.

Total buggy mess, loads of content tanks the game. There are some workarounds done by members if you hunt the thread, but for what it is really not worth it.

Then coming back to it a few days later, two exported saves bugged and won't load. Not playing it again to catch back up because content wasn't the best anyway.

The story isn't bad, in fact pretty good in parts. The general art is pretty good, porn pretty average, all let down by the terrible implementation.

MindWare: Infected Identity
review as of v0.3.0 Public

While there is not a lot of content, I enjoyed what was there. I am giving this 4/5 because I feel like there is a lot of good put into this on a fundamental level, and the things I will be critical of in my review are all things that are fixable.

From the positives I have to point out the UI. This is a HTML game when it comes to the base of UI, but it uses a semi-permanent styled navigation bar, which both makes it feel a lot more like a game compared to most HTML based titles and makes navigation quicker, which can often be a pain point.

Though the text and image delay can be extremely slow in some scenes (there is an option to adjust this, but it is in the cheat menu, the base speed should be faster and the option should definitely be moved to the normal options menu). I also do not understant the decision of not putting the numbers behind displayed stats up front, or at least the option to have these available without digging into the character overview (which is not always accessible).

While the story is competently written, I think that it would benefit from being slowed down a fair bit.

For graphics, the game uses a combination of real porn and AI generated art. I think this currently is the part of the game that could benefit from improvment the most. I think the game doesn't have to abandon genAI, as we have seen it used to great effect for backgrounds and assets in other HTML game, but the consistency is not there quite yet. The real porn consistency could also be better (except for the AVA segments, those are very good)

The game has bugs, nothing major, not unusual for an early version an there is an integrated bug report system.

Will start out by saying this game Mindware has one of the best user interfaces I have every played on f95zone. All the menus for everything you need are neatly displayed on the sides and top of the screen for the player to navigate. With so many other games with this kind of style, can often feel like the real challenge is hunting through menus rather than the minigames or reading the text to enjoy the story. Here, that is not a problem. The game lets you know why you can't fall asleep as you need to check your inbox which the game helpfully reminds you if you try to sleep without doing a quest.

The story is also interesting. You have no clue if the A.I. in your head is malicious or not. If she is truly transforming you into what she thinks is a better person or simply following her programming, or just wants revenge.

Did run into a few bugs. For example, when doing the taxi hacking, the game froze me out of using the bed but I was out of action points so could not hack the next taxi. But for those who like a good story and sexy artwork, this game is for you.

Interesting game that is brutally crippled by the delay for text/images. You can read the whole paragraphs a few times until it continues.

Dev might consider tuning them down or allowing users to disable them entirely.

I got so fed up with the text delay I decided to try and see if I can leave a negative review faster than the text takes to load. The images, for being AI, are actually pretty decent and the interface is very clean, and thank god for the option to disable the button sound, it's like the dev had a good idea but decided to implement it in the most annoying way possible.

its really a very good game, never seen another game like this, If you change the AI cover for something more attractive with the game's characters or something like that, it would definitely get much more attention and wouldn't turn people off from trying it, or maybe was me, anyway, love it

The vibe, ancient sounds and general visual appeal is really high with this game. The mix of AI with overlayed and filtered 2d porn also fits really well into the whole. The amount of content isn't yet great, but I'll be looking for more .

I can only assume that the autor uses 90s router for internet connection. Because I don't see any other reasonable explanation for why the dev believes that it's normal or enjoyable to have every picture, video and often even text load after 5-15 seconds delay.
I can understand having this effect in dreams. But no, every single scene besides chatting with coworkers and your hacker-friends is done this way. You can play some other game in the second window while the scene here goes through all its "cinematic" timers.

The thing is I kept playing a boring working thing slowly to get 500 cash every time I even played the doing the dishes stuff and all but it's simply not worth it this would be more fun if not for the boring grind other than that it's nice to give porn gallery to players but the hell man I got the whole internet already played this for 2 hours half of it was working to skip weeks and time. cool fetishes and all but unfinished. for now without cheats (so I can skip the whole working stuff) this game is nothing but a waste of time
OF COURSE I have no idea what content game shows after hours of grind without actual game play. That's why I'm giving this 3 stars xd 1 is for first 10 min 1 for visuals and 1 for oh it seems there is content but I can't reach it goodluck!

What's there right now is very good, It seems the development speed is actually reflective of a lot of effort being put into this. I personally find the minigames a little tedious (the dishwashing minigame is basically impossible for me unless it's 2 dishes required) but it's not a dealbreaker here as the rest of the game is great.

The pacing of the transformation is great too, the early parts of the TF are always the best IMO, things are less impactful when the MC is already a total bimbo. I personally hope for chastity to come into play soon-ish (unmanaged arousal affecting the user's mental stability and forcing them to find pleasure elsewhere would be top tier IMO)

There are some great characters in this game too, Trix and AVA are the best IMO. Trix supporting your transformation looks like it's going to be very hot, and having pervy options colored pink and framed as AVA's influence also makes them more exciting and sexy.

Anyway,this game is great and very polished so far and I commend the dev for remaining consistent even when people were complaining about slow development

Gameplay: An HTML-based text game. It's not bad at all, but there are many other amazing text games out there. 4/5.

Story: A typical sissification story with cyberpunk elements. I loved the concept of a hacker's brain being hijacked by a malevolent virus, but the rest of the execution felt somewhat ordinary. 4/5.

Art: Good graphics and design for an HTML game, though there are limitations due to the use of AI-generated images and real porn. 4/5.

Development: The development is slow but ongoing. Considering the survivability of most HTML games, that’s definitely a positive. 4/5.

Kinks: Sissification is the main kink. A niche fetish, but the developer knows their audience well. However, the 3-minute hypnosis sequence in the bad end route felt a bit boring to me. 4/5.

In Conclusion: I liked the game, but it doesn't particularly stand out.

I enjoyed this game due to its simple interface and nice art. The minigames aren't too tedious and the game isn't overly grindy. Overall the narrative itself is pretty interesting and it doesn't feel like I'm incredibly rushed, but the only con so far is the lack of content. Aside from the MCs best friend and confidant Cypher, others don't comment on the MC looking dishevelled, and the localities the player can visit are limited to just event content. Simply things like a supermarket, taxi driving, or the gym would be welcome additions, with possible side gigs and later lewd escapades. Maybe that'll come later.

As the game stands, I really love it as is, and I hope to see more soon.

This is a really promising game, with about 2 hours of engaging content.

I'd give it five stars if it weren't for the only thing I dislike about early versions in games: there's still no chance for the MC to get laid. My favour goes to games that implement at least the casual opportunities from the start, if there will ever be any.

Having said that, there's plenty of porn here. From voyeuristic secret cam streams, to no less voyeuristic door peeking, to hentai porn pics, to porn in your "virtual PC".

The game seems to be geared towards gay and submissive content - don't get me wrong, I don't have an issue with either and will gladly play through all sorts of content, but I hope this won't be where the game will focus exclusively. Hope the player will always have agency to pursue relationships with at least some female characters as a leading male, while keeping gay sex, crossdressing, working gloryholes, femdom, sph, ntr as options to spice things up!

Minigames are fun and add to the roleplay experience. I'm glad about my tough cherry MX keyboard as the fast typing simulation rewards treating it with some "violence"...

The atmosphere of the game is fabulous and location images are top notch,. Each location seems to have a lot of potential for more events to be added in the future, which makes me believe the author will be focusing on adding story content and scenes to an already solid backbone. Will keep an eye on, and hope to come back to a great game soon, and add that missing star.

Hi there.
It is a well made demo/concept with style.
Little to no xxx content.
The dev turned a mindfuck game into transition story.
So... aside from interested parties to any one else its meh
For now that is...

Review is for v0.14
A really, really gindy game with little to no pay off right now.
I have a hard time reviewing this game because I'm on week three and so far, I really think the game should take place in weeks instead of days. There's just so much down time with nothing to do right now. I'm usually going to sleep with 2+ energy left everyday because the only thing to do most days is go to work, and that only takes 3 energy (max). The setting, characters, and interface are all really good, it just takes way too much time to get from one event to the next I can't really recommend playing the game as is.

TL;DR = very grindy game with little sex content. Boring.

Story: 1/5
- There is barely any plot here. You just work (grind) , sometimes you do some minigames and then bam, MC suddenly gets transformed into sissy who likes black cocks.
- There no gradual progression, no build up. (I dont consider GRINDING as progression).
- MC can also chat with some people. But apart from chatting with 1 hacker friend, every other conversation with characters feel like very light and random bullshit. Inconsequential. Very low effort.

Art and Sex stuff: 2/5
- AI CG is okayish.
- Sadly there is barely any sex in this game. I think there were are only 3 sex events so far.
- Author is trying to mask low amount of sex content by filling the game with random porn images. It feels really artificial and stupid.
Imagine chatting with your co-worker and they randomly send you some sex images and ask you for oppinion. Awkward.

Gameplay: 2/5
- This game feels like Kinetic Novel. It is trying to mask as a game, but you have to continue in a linear progression in order to get somewhere.
- The game gives you an illusion of choice. You can accept feminisation or you can reject it and try to keep masculinity. But second option is useless, because game doesnt have any normal straight content, where MC could fuck some girl. This is serious disappointment.
- Some minigames are nice, but some are really stupid. Minigames, where you have to smash random keyboard buttons as fast as possible, are not very fun.
- Sadly this game has a lot grinding. There is this Task Box, that is supposed to help you with progressing the game. But when this help box is directly telling you to "CONTINUE THE GRIND" then something is seriously wrong with the game.

To sum it up:
Are you a SIMP? Do you enjoy slaving away for long time for a little reward? Then you might enjoy this.
An advice for normal players? Stay away.

While it had an interesting start and interesting story it has a lot of things dragging it down.

+Interesting idea for story

+Good UI

+/- uses real porn which I personally dislike

-A bit grindy as these games tend to be

-Smashing my keyboard to make money isn't fun, though I will admit most of the other mini games aren't bad.

-The corruption from what I've seen is way to fast the first corruption is sucking someone off, the second and third jumps straight to Blacked fetishism and and imaging a chick pissing on you.

-There is very little sexual content and what little there is that I found has a heavy focus on interracial unfortunately.

a very interesting plot and, in general, the world in which the events take place - the scenes themselves are also very fascinating. definitely 5 stars. the atmosphere is conveyed simply wonderful, the presence of grind is not annoying, in general it makes the games richer