HTML - New Lust [v0.5.5] [Goch]

Games with 100-energy systems are usually annoying, but this game adds in extra tedium by making sure you can rarely if ever spend all your energy before having to go back home and spam a bunch of showers to recover. The number of clicks to go to work/the park/the university and back home after spending your energy, just adds to the tedium of playing. The only porn you'll see for most of your short playthrough before you give up is the scene with the girl from the bar, and one of three dream sequence porn clips that are boring and get repetitive fast.

The above is weird when you can clearly tell the dev put more thought into other, admittedly minor, details. The UI is pretty good and working at the bar for income is perfectly viable (I waited until the weekend to make 2x money, and used the weekdays to work out and study). But the overall game loop feels lazy and is boring to play.

I gave this game 2 stars instead of 1 because I want to believe that the effort put into this game is higher than the output, and that the dev will take this review as encouragement to improve rather than a reason to give up.

Pro-tip: The +strength start is probably the least grindy one.

Genuinely one of the worst I've seen and I've been here for many years.

Positives:
Decent UI, more simple than a lot of HTML, although that's not saying much considering there is literally no content in this "sandbox."

Negatives:
Abysmal writing, very likely a GPT sourced script considering the concise, yet nonsensical dialogue paired with the stolen or otherwise royalty-free demo images of "real porn" that no studio even bothers with striking. The worst in my opinion is the cartoonish grind content followed by literally NO reward.

In summary; I genuinely hate that I wasted my time writing this review but hopefully this saves someone else from bothering with it.

Grind Grind Grind

This game gets old fast. So many characters have no content or one meh scene. And the grind is annoying. You have to grind your schooling three subjects this gets old. You have to grind affection/love from characters. You have to grind for money to pay rent. Grind your stats which seem to have zero impact in the game. max strength and you still get bitch slapped by a roomie's boyfriend as if you had no strength at all.

The sex scenes are typical real porn but the dialogue in the game is meh at best very poor.

I don't understand this obsession with grind that developers have. Are they idiots or mosaicists? Who enjoys grinding the same thing over and over again in a game? Why develop a game with such mechanics especially when you can't even be bothered to attach the narrative to the stats?

I wouldn't even know that the Bf of one of your housemate's ignores your strength if i didn't decide to work on strength after school and work so I always arrived in the "safe" time of the gym. Till I got 100 strength and stamina.

The game has poor time to pay off ratio. The narrative doesn't justify the time investment and the real porn sex scenes are meh at best. The porn stars are not the best either some of them i swear use face filters because there is an uncanny valley in their appearance.

maybe others enjoy grinding but to me it is an almost 100% guarantee the dev is a hack and doesn't have a creative bone in their body.

Your standard HTML clicker game but with above average grind. Gameplay loop is a seemingly endless amount of grinding up your stats to unlock new scenes. UI is decent but getting around to places takes many clicks. Energy is a constant problem too. You're constantly having to go back home to do actions to raise energy. Many events are time gated but you have no easy way to pass time so you end up clicking a whole bunch more to waste time until the event.

To the dev, if you want this much grinding, please give us some quality of life improvements.