I am trying really hard to love this game but with the current randomness of gameplay it's really difficult. While not a casino roulette or national lottery, this really is a game of chance, with a set of rules a bit too complex for what basically should be a sexual corruption fapper.
The initial odds are stacked sky high against the player and it will take a newcomer some time to grasp all the stats/points and scoring system (influence, work, energy, money, glory and blackmail). Yes, there are six of those and you need to balance them all in order not to lose first of all and then maybe, if RNG gods permit, start winning. And you do this by playing cards against your opponent, but to make it even more arcane your deck of cards is completely different from hers, with you having 5 dealt each time and her only 3. Are you with me still?
While you can upgrade your cards to make them more efficient in the post-battle stage of the game when you wander around town visiting various districts, you still need to get some extra cards if you're ever going to undermine your opponent's influence and work and stop her from gaining glory (if she collects 1000 glory points, it's game over). And you have to chance upon these cards in the town and then pay for them with money or energy or blackmail. This can become so frustrating as you lose energy every time you look around an area in hope of finding badly needed goodies and the outcomes may vary, from meeting a beggar asking for money through replenishing energy, finding money or work to actually finding what you were looking for. With such heave reliance on good luck, it's not easy to strategize and progress further from the early stage of losing your battles but still gaining work/money to actually winning and stripping your foe off her achievements, one piece of garment, pride and inhibition at a time. Yes, the game is grindy and you probably need hundreds of card battles to get what you really came for (or want to come from).
The reward is the same as in any other corruption game, the perverted spectacle of controlled fall from grace down to whore gutters. And the game and its author really deliver in this department, with story writing at a deliciously debauched level, as in their previous games (which were, though still grindy, much easier to play). There's not a lot of graphic content, so you'll have to read through cum-stained walls of text to get your blood flowing and the fact that you're unable to change the game's resolution or font size does not help. Hence the (reluctant) four stars, though I'd give it 3 and a half if it was possible. If the final version balances out the odds or reduces randomness of bonuses, then I will reconsider my review.