Unity - Completed - News Desk [v1.01] [Pyorgara]

This is one of the best games on F95, no doubt. I have my problems with it, but they don't detract from the otherwise stellar effort put forward by Pyorgara.

The game is fairly simple. Every day you play a game against your rival Cassandra. You're dealt 5 cards every round while she's dealt 3 cards every round. Each of the cards have costs and benefits, which you'll have to juggle in order to win the game.

One of the things I like most about this game is the shifting goals as the game progresses. Early in the game, your primary goal is to just lose gracefully. Minimize her work/glory gains, maximize your energy/money/blackmail gains. It works very well to provide the player with a feeling of being the underdog, trying to fight back against a behemoth threatening to overwhelm you. Mid game, your goals change. Now you're starting to win, so you need to get rid of your "lose gracefully" deck and start preparing your "win totally" deck. This means making sure you have enough influence to survive her attacks while also having enough attacks to hurt her influence. Then you change to the late game, your goals change to not caring about her work/glory, but instead focus on really hording your money and blackmail to absolutely destroy Cassandra. You might also find yourself in the same position I was in where I was trying to properly control my own glory gains so that I could complete my corruption of Cassandra and her daughter. It really is fun, even if some of the cards are pretty worthless(you mean I can spend 15 blackmail to get rid of 10 of her influence or I can spend 10 blackmail to get rid of 10 of her influence? Where do I sign up?). Ultimately, most have purpose in your deck and really give you a sense of accomplishment.

As for the porn content, there's a lot of it. In fact, there might actually be too much porn for the gameplay. The card game, though very well designed, does get boring after your 100th match, especially when you're able to blow through all her defenses with ease and stop caring entirely about special events. I was at the point where I was considering myself "poor" when I had less than $1,000. I was able to easily get over 200 work in a single day, but still had to hold back because I wasn't done corrupting everyone. It got kind of annoying to continue with the charade.

Still, phenominal game.

Another great game by pyorgara. The writing is superb. I liked the setting even more than the one in corrupting the princess. Also more characters to corrupt is always nice. I wished the harem ending was a bit longer though

I like the game a lot. And by that I mean both the card game and the porn game aspect.

The card game is quite well balanced and thought out for an ero-game. I also like the fetishes covered (mostly the corruption and dom/sub theme), and the dialogue and other text is written well enough. The art, especially in the CGs, is good as well.

There are a few things I dont like, but those did not prevent me from having several hours of fun with the game. Negative points in no particular order:
- Card games can be lenghty, and you always have "porn scene > card game > porn scene > card game", which is confusing my body. My blood has to switch from being in my dick to going up to my brain all the time.
- While the art is good, it can be quite sparse. Many scenes only have character sprites. This might be due to the game being still in development and the large number of scenes with only one artist, so there is still some hope on my end.
- Some aspects of the programming/UI design are less than ideal. There is no scroll back for dialogue, large parts of the game dont give access to the save/load function (forcing you restart the game instead to load) and I have overwritten many a savegame I wanted to load.

Still, I like the game a lot and it offers a ton of playtime. It also actually feels like a "game" and not just like a digital book/cartoon hybrid.

Still in development, the card system in battles are alright. While you cannot win in the beginning, there is a nice sense of progression as you gradually are able to do more are more during the battles, what with the card unlocks and upgrades.
The progression with your antagonistic coworker is really nice, with the progression from powerful individual to helpless slut represented well with a corresponding decrease in the power of her cards.
There is a cheat system, though I think its still for patrons only. Personally never felt the game needed cheats, though an option to skip the card game would be appreciated.

Love this unique stile, and unlike the previous 2 games, this actually have more of a "game" in it. It's interesting trying to figure out cards mtchnics (not every time "downgreading" a card actually makes it worse for your opponent) and also there is a strategy to when to stop stockpiling resourses and start actually winning rounds

Dunno how I should put it, but the game is just beyond boring. The gameplay sucks and is so braindead easy after just 1-2 matches with no way to skip it.

The other game of the developer I played called "soldiers life" had also not really engaging(but fun in the early stages) gameplay but at least you could just skip(keep pressing 1) it if you where at a point where the ai had no chance.

Not here you have to play the same sutpid cards again and again knowing that the ai can't do anything against it.

This takes the majority of the time. On top of it you're forced into NTR lines in at least 3 trees repeating over and over. And those are not well done NTR lines which are set up for the MC.(like in Solderis Life) It's just lazy, plain stupid NTR.

Yay ty for no tag...

It is just not enjoyable at all atm. The MC is kinda a wimp which is somehow(?) in control. It's not believeable at any point at all that he has the highground. Except for plot armor. This game needs a heavy rewrite in kinda every way for the main female character.

EXCEPT if that's intended from the developer and he did want to make a NTR game with a wimpy male as MC. If that's the case please escuse myself but a tag for that would be kinda nice just to not give false hope to other ppl who liked the previous game like myself.

The concept was promising, but the gameplay is needlessly punishing and drags things out beyond reason. The game still feels like a prototype now, more than a year after I first played it. A bad experience every time.

This game shows you do not need to have amazing art to have a game that is both fun and sexy. Very fun if you like corruption. I highly recommend everyone to check it out.

The only downside is that the content is a bit extreme towards the end. There should be more choices to be made.

Overall quite good and balanced game.
It is a story of corrupting and degrading a strong mature woman into a super slut. You do it slowly and other people are also included in taking advantage on her in advanced stages

The basic features are
- Mostly text based with only a few images even if more are added with updates
- There is a lot of strategy included
- If you do not enjoy the strategical concept then it is quite grindy otherwise it is ok
- The text isn't too much and reduced down to necessary descriptions and dialogs which I found very good as I wasn't lost in pages after pages of useless text

With a bit of refinement at the strategical concept and the addition of many more pictures it would defenetely take 5 stars

PS: if you do not play well and mainly if you increase your starting influence (you shouldn't through out the entire game) you can make the game extremely grindy which is a reason of many bad reviews. If was the developer I would completely remove the possibility to increase the influence

Based on V0.18
Didn't expect much and was very positively surprised by this game to the point I finished it. As long as you understand that blackmail is your main resource and are ok with taking a beating at first you should enjoy this as we all know revenge is a dish best served cold. Especially in corruption games which are by far my fav
Pros:
- Writing. really good, i usually tend to skip most of it in pron games after a few hours. But not in this one as it does wonders at supporting the corruption story without drowning it in useless sentences.
- Art may not be the best out there but does it's job. Retro akabur is the way i'd describe it.
- gameplay. As said in previous comments, I like the way even the card reflect the corruption level. IMO this is not a grind fest as every battle is different and there is a good balance between the events opportunities and the battles. Quick save still helps but didn't have to cheat nor did I feel like it was needed
- kink is perfect in my opinion. Nothing mild but nothing too extreme either

Cons:
- Some of her cards (interns, wallet) need a rework as once she's been tamed it doesn't make sens that she would start fighting back. breaks the immersion.
- not completed yet
- No replay value

Nice to have:
- It would be nice to have more live tv events, like the sex toy and cam depicted in the main screen. More dept in the current ones would also be nice.
- It would also be nice if corruption events would not end the day if enough energy and blackmail is left
- Yanet Garcia as a meteo girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29rDb3UJMVk

With a few tweaks this could well be a 5 star once all the art and cards have been added. Keep up the good work devs

Hook:

Corrupt a hot MILF and her daughter in this intriguing but majorly flawed card game / corruption sim.



Best:

+ The Writing is great (if you like corruption, male dom, humiliation, and BDSM).

+ The Art is good and has a decent variety.



Meh:

+- The card game itself isn’t too bad. But it needs A LOT more balance refinement. Even after grinding and upgrading your cards, you can still only barely win a match with cheats. And there is exactly only 1 deck that is a winning comp. No room for experimentation or alternative winning deck comps. If you like porn-card games, play TF Card Battle.



Worst:

- - - I cannot possibly understate how fucking grindy this game is. I’ve played well over 500 hours of various porn games, and this game takes the cake. I beat the game in about ~ten hours or so. WITH CHEATS. I have no idea how any human is supposed to sit down and grind away as the dev intended. What in the world was the dev thinking?

- No sound whatsoever.

- The UI is ugly.

- [Opinion]: Some of the male dom scenes approach rape, torture, and satanism. I’ve payed other games with these themes with no problem. It feels extra icky here because the people being abused are well-developed characters that feel like real humans. So, kudos to the writing for making good characters. But it makes me feel bad when I ‘get to’ completely ruin their lives.



Score: 6.7 / 10

Ver: 0.18

Date: 4.10.20

I thought this was another trash. But omg this is a super amazing game, i love everything about this game. I don't know why other people don't like it. This is a real gem. I love how we can tame a strong women and make her our sub. I highly recommend this game. Story is so perfect and i really really love the gameplay. This is a must play game.

The game is great it resembles a lot of a TCG (Trading Card Game) like Yugioh. This game is very grindy not suited for people that just want instant H-stuff.
The game is very RNG heavy:
During the "duels" the cards you draw are random. and also the cards your oponents draw are random.
While exploring the city there are some events that are locked to a certain region, the exploring events are also RNG Heavy, there is even a gamble event shared in 2 regions.

There is no limit for the ammount of cards you can play during a turn so you can OTK (one turn kill) your oponent
There is also no limit for the actions you can perform while exploring the city as long as you have energy you can explore the city, this allows you to farm so much and snowball the game hard.

The story of the game is not the best but is kinda funny (perhaps add a bit of background to the MC), also the H-events are good, perhaps add some animations and not just pictures.
I give this game a solid 7/10 in its current state and can climb easily into a 9/10 once finished.

This game is not bad. I actually found it pretty entertaining to play through, and at least it's an original concept too. The card game makes sense to play. The RNG is a little tough but manageable.

My main gripe is that it needs A LOT more art than what it currently has. When it has double the art or so, I'd really consider this a strong game, but for the time being, the writing is not enough for me to consider this better than average.

This game is excellent.

Its main allure is the gradual downfall of your co-host as the main character slowly gains full control over her sexual life and corrupts her into a mindless fuckbunny.

The most genious thing about this game though, is that it is one of the only games in which the gameplay actually joins hands with the porn and the story. For most other porn games, the gameplay consists of decision trees or non-related puzzles.

In News Desk, the main gameplay consists of a cardgame you play each day. You play against your co-host, who starts off with an incredibly overpowered deck against which you have no chance of winning. At the end of each bout of cards, one of the stats is turned into another meta-game stat called honor. Whoever reaches 1000 honor wins the game as a whole, not just the card game, and gets to keep their job as anchor at the news station.

The ingenious twist here though, is that the remaining gameplay besides collecting cards, upgrading cards or training different stats, consists of gathering enough of the blackmail stat after each card bout to trigger a scripted scene once a day.

In these scenes, the MC uses his blackmail to his advantage to corrupt his co-host. This is significant because the cards she uses in the card-game which represents their battle to keep their job at the news station, are cards like "spotless reputation", "good connections" and "brilliant daughter". Through your corruption in these scenes, you can start to undermine all of those categories.

Once you've gone through enough scenes in one category or "card", her card downgrades and becomes worse. This spirals until the point her cards actually help you win rather than her. (the card art also becomes lewder and lewder which is a nice touch)

This feels amazingly satisfying if you're even a little bit interested in powerplay, bdsm, domination or similar things.

In this way, the porn and the story aren't the only arousing things about the game, but the gameplay as well. Far more creators should approach erotic games in the same manner, imo.

The problems of course are the same as they always are with porn games. The game takes far too long.

There's about two pages of fifty each of these events, nearing a 100, not to count future events that could possibly be added. You only get to play one of these events each day. You see where this is going.

In the beginning you naturally get stomped. For probably half the game you continue to get stomped, and the AI continues racking up honor points, acting as a ticking clock. This is actually fine, since you don't really care about the honor at that point, what you want is to get enough blackmail to trigger the scenes each day.

But maybe you haven't caught onto that, and you continue trying to win the card game each day, which is impossible. But lets say you do catch on, and you do go for blackmail each day.

You still have to watch yourself get stomped 20-30 times in a row. And you have to play the card game a 100+ times to complete the game.

The card game is not complex enough to facilitate this many replays. The gameplay is repetitive, the options too limited, the cards too few and the opponent the same each time bar the slight changes as you progress the scenes.

This makes the card game tiring, and feel like busywork. It feels like the game is intentionally keeping the next scene from you. Rather than act as amazing porn gameplay of its first kind.

The drearyness is so bad that the developer could probably allow you to complete three of these scenes each day, effectively trippling the speed of your progress, and the card game would STILL feel tiresome and repetitive in the end.

That does not mean the game isn't worth playing and that there isn't a lot of entertainment to be had here. Simply go to your house, go to the cheat console, and type in the cheat found in the changelog here on the forumpost. Start cheating once the grind sets in, and start cheating early. Turn on skipping the cardgame. Give yourself some blackmail, complete one scene each day. The game is amazing then. Then once you've made some progress, turn the card game back on and play one match. Rince repeat.

The UI is not good. Some of the art is missing. The writing is excellent. Plenty of fetishes, not too vanilla. The interplay between gameplay, porn and writing is unparalleled. The grind is unbearable, luckily, there's cheats.

I wish the developer(s) all the best and look forward to many amazing updates. Thank you for the game!

nice work... hard to grind, but awesome backgournd, the creator has made other works, all of them moving in grind the levels and some luck, the point is the way he made the fall of the enemy, impressive.

UPDATE: I retried it and was wondering why I hated this game.
I now remember clearly. The main thing is this, the AI has infinite resources, namely energy. Even IF you start to improve your stats it actually just ends up making it worse. Since the more influence you get the longer she can play cards. Its insane. Unless you cheese the game by stacking stuff that destroys her influence (HP) there is no way to win since attrition is purely one sided. Fuck this game. Mainly cause it has everything I hate about RTS games and their AI stacked on top of a time limit (glory system).

RNG grindfest timesink, no thanks.
Like the concept and execution, but the balance is terrible.

Got max energy.
150 influence.
11...glory, after what? 2+ hours of gameplay? No sex scenes either.

Oh and the computer? 500 fucking glory.

Glory BTW are "win points" 1000 and you win the game, or if the computer gets 1000 you lose.

This is one of those games where you need certain amount of grind and "tools" to beat the unfair computer.
You think you are improving by grinding up your energy and influence. But you realize like I did, and maybe an hour later.
"This is just a war of attrition, and the computer has infinite energy...this is stupid".

Now I am sure if you had the right cards upgraded properly, you could win ez pz. Here's the thing. Card acquisition is pure RNG. Fuck, that. Not to mention you are on a ticking time clock, unless there is a way to diminish computer glory (which if there isn't it sure as shit isn't apparent).

So even after sinking time and grinding, unless you RNG your ass some cards that win the influence battle, you are fucked.

So ya, overall its not terrible, just as it currently is, not touching it.

The best writing and scenes anywhere.
Good art as well. Not too grindy, but you do have to finish the first half to get to the interesting stuff. There's a build-up which makes the rest of it much better.

Tough game to review, the art is top notch unique I'll say that, going with 3 stars for now. Could see it getting better and better though.
Right now, it suffers from 2 flaws I just can't ignore.

The game play, the card game, isn't fun. Not only is it not fun but it's designed so losing over and over is a part of it. Bold design choice I don't think works here. It seemed just grind with little reward for the effort. Thankfully the cheat code offers a way around that but anytime I think of a cheat as necessary in a game I've got to dock a star.

Many of the rewards you get for playing it don't have unique art yet. That might/will come with time hopefully but reviewing it now, it's an issue that the work involved often leads to short text based rewards.

Will keep an eye on it though and, with the code which you enter in your house, the game is playable now and I'd say yeah give it a quick try it's not bad.

Pretty weird game, actually. Not weird as in bad, but... weird. It has promise, though.

There's two aspects to the game, the card bit and the "roam" part. The card game is just a card game where you try and manage resources or whatever. The "roam" part isn't really roaming, but it allows you to spend the resources you gained in the card game. Maybe you'll blackmail your co-host into doing stuff, maybe you'll invest your resources so you can get more.

Roaming isn't very well explained so there's a lot of trial and error and clicking about at random finding things, but once you've kinda got it going it's pretty good. Though no animations the pictures are decent. The UI is pretty bare bones.