HTML - Completed - Paradise Inc [v3.1] [Sinspirational Games]

Demonic corruption VN with time and economic management elements. It's overall quite a light experience with some humour and it's realtively easy and forgiving to play through. It features a number of D/S elements but nothing very extreme.

Basically you run a mall on behalf of a demon and are tasked with corrupting a wide and various cast of characters within it. The cast list will surely provide you with somebody/something you like. A neat mechanic that a necklace you can flip at will allows you to approach all characters from either a dominant or submissive vibe, which allows for flexibility as far as D/S is concerned.

Mainly text based, not that much art, but that's more than fine by me - a warning to others though, I guess!

So yeah, it's a fun time for a few hours. Personally I would have liked some slighly edgier content over a longer game (maybe an extended edition or their next game??..) but whatever.

PS - Contains something I have come to realise is a fave of mine after finding it in a few games - submitting to your secretary, personal assistant, head maid or whatever, and the implication that they rule through you. Hot!

Despite it saying complete, I don't think it technically reached that point, but what is here is enjoyable. I had a good time with it. I even played all the way through twice, so it gets a solid 5/5 rating from me.

As much as I wanted to like this, and as excited as I was when the first versions came out...I don't.
The story isn't bad, but isn't interesting enough to play just for the sake of it
The art is drawn well but it doesn't look sexy.
Gameplay isn't a typical grindfest that Twine games often are, but it's not interesting either.
Scenes aren't bad, but they aren't exciting enough for me to look forward to.

In the end, it's just...boring.

+ Fun Characters

= Limited Character Development
= Decent Setting/MC

- Wall of Text
- No keybindings to speed up repeated Wall of Texts
- Grindy by Design ( lots of repeated scenes required )
- Rushed Plot
- Bad logic regarding deals and following them to the spirit or the letter since everyone can cheat except you
- Forced Fetishes/Sex ( if you want the soul gems anyways, no option to not engage which is a shame considering your 'role' and what that respresents )
- Limited transformation options ( don't expect more than changing your sex and general cosemetics for your MC despite having some non humans around )
- All characters sleep around
- Underwhelming Ending

i realy liked that game , the best part is how relatable the main character was
the other character are well written and offer a lot of possibility for the transformation sistem with all them having two possible way to transform
the gameplay is not a revolution but is still enjoyable and the difficulty of the game is well balanced so it's possible to have the best ending if you play your card right but it still is an achievment that you can be proud of

This game has a great concept with absolutely dreadful execution, along with the typical flaws you can expect from these "sandbox" management games.
Grinding is required and resource management and tight deadlines for the checkpoints involve micromanagement and constantly clicking through the same three menus to check your management efficiency for each location. The management lacks the depth (and therefore fun, rather than mindless tedium) of something like Free Cities but is also demanding enough you can't just ignore it without either running into bad ends or being mocked as incompetent. Which upgrades enable access to souls and which are essentially filler is not well signposted, if a new player is unlucky enough to assume Club Inferno will give them a soul they need instead of rushing the Casino, well better luck next time. Given that the management and budgeting portion of the game exists almost purely as a timewaster and filler to make you mash the same couple options before sleeping and unlocking sex scenes, surely they must be good at least, right?
Well, No.
Most characters follow a formulaic pattern to their scenes and how to unlock them, this is very clearly a transformation fetish game given that what few illustrations exist focus almost exclusively on showing the stages of transformation, but these transformations are treated as almost entirely minor cosmetic differences you can easily forget if you don't remember what they're "supposed" to be.
The game is also missing the "swinging/sharing" and "NTR" tags, since a significant portion of content consists of entirely unavoidable cuckold scenes, even in cases where the player chooses an option that would imply otherwise. ("Absolute Loyalty" being the sluttier option that turns a character into a bimbo fucking everything that moves besides the player, apparently, and WINNING the life-or-death poker match and enslaving the opponent results in them being gangbanged in front of you, and, ironically, no actual option to have sex with them yourselves, just cheer them on from the sidelines or give some encouragement.)

As far as the "main plot" and worldbuilding are concerned, it's a typically frustrating affair where despite being the nominal leader and manager, your character lacks any agency whatsoever and is instead bounced from one know-it-all author insert to another, being sent on errands and told you simply wouldn't understand why things are the way they are. You are simultaneously too stupid and incompetent to be allowed to judge for yourself or understand what's going on, but are also the only one able to do all these tasks being forced on you with strict deadlines and great expectations. It's boring, and railroady, and despite some attempts at increasing replayability (several sections have randomly generated outcomes so you can't always get it right after doing it once) it's simply not worth the effort to click through the same menus and choices hundreds of times just to see a few paragraphs of different text.

In terms of positives, well-made drawn 2d artwork is in increasingly scarce supply these days and, while this is a text-based game, make no mistake, the illustrations are nice and seeing what each chosen transformation for the various characters LOOKS like is the primary reason to keep playing, since you're not likely to be aroused by the scenes themselves.

Final Score 3/10, but f95 doesn't have rounding and the kitsune spirit's dialogue and forced use of honorifics was cringe enough I don't feel bad rounding down. GOMENESAI, AUTHOR-KUN.

Honestly one of my favorite games. The devs know what they want it to be, and they absolutely nail it. The little management required is quite fun, and it's not over bearing as to make it a slog. In the process you progress the story and get to learn about and shape the characters you meet. I'd love to see more from my favorite interests, and it looks like the devs are adding the ability to date some of the characters! One other perk of the game is inclusion/exclusion of content. You never need to see content you dislike thanks to optional spoiler tags for scene content, and I'm a sucker for not seeing stuff I dislike. It's also nice to see a game go through a few years of development and continue to produce quality expansions of content. Overall it's not a hugely expansive game, but what it does it does right

Very well written with an engaging story a good variety of hot scenes that really enhance and play into the transformation element. Every character has two options for their transformation and sometimes can have additional interactions with other characters based on their transformation giving a lot of replayability. Its good for both a quick wank and actually good and interesting storytelling.

(Review version v1.14.0)

I really, really enjoy this game. The writing is great and each of the characters have realistic desires and stories. The overall plot I found extremely compelling, so much so that I found myself playing the game on my tablet until 5 AM just because the story and writing was so interesting.

The PC customization is limited at first, but eventually you get to freely transform yourself and change your gender and appearance. I didn't play with that much as it's not really my cup of tea, but it's there for those who want it.

There's content for pretty much everyone. There's a decent spread of male, female, and futa characters, and they all have variations for dom/sub scenes. The game does fall a little into the common theme of "dominant females don't get much dick," instead relying on pegging and oral sex mostly, but it's not a big enough deal to affect my rating honestly.

The art is quite good for a text game as well. Sara's magician facial expression feels slightly off to me, she looks kind of bored/soulless or upset, but that's hardly a real issue.

There is a time limit meant to keep you progressing forward and not just sit around fucking everyone, but it's very forgiving and even running totally blind on my first playthrough I managed to get everything done with time to spare.

A word of warning, however: This game does feature forced gay content with no warning or option to avoid it if you're playing a male character. Some of the male NPC transformation scenes involve your character engaging in sexual activities with them without having an option to avoid the scene. Just something to be aware of if you were hoping to play a straight male character.

[Rev @ Paradise Inc v1.12.0 Public]

Art's nice if light; it's pretty much limited to the visual novel portraits.

Writing is lovely. I'm a huge fan of the character work. Scenario is novel and handled well from the writing standpoint. Like other reviewers have said I too am overly fond of willing corruption, succubi, and hedonistic piles of debauchery so your results may vary.

Gameplay is a bit of a letdown and is the reason I'm not rating at 5/5. Playing with my usual sensibilities made the early game feel like an overly-simple Rule of 3 visual novel, and what is currently the midgame (as of v1.12) seems like a repetitive grind of Player vs Ticking Clock. I got hit with a mandatory plot event at what seemed to be a calculated Just the Wrong Moment and got a bad end outside of my control: couldn't tell if that's just how this version is supposed to end or if I screwed up somewhere but the subjective feeling of irritation killed any replay desire I would need in order to find out.

TLDR: Love the voice, will check again in another couple versions. God...?speed.~

As someone's who's a sucker for both succubi and poly romances, I'm loving this game. It helps that you also don't have to play a complete asshole or mindless thot just to find the fun scenes.
The writing is well done and the characters are enjoyable, both before and after their transformations, whatever they may be. And the art, while being as sparse as you might imagine for an html game, is good too. My only qualm with the art so far is how cold and unnatural the darker skin palette looks on your character.

I'm gonna be honest I generally avoid text based games but this one is quite decent. Basic premise is you apply for a job, said job is basically managing a tower that feeds on fulfilling peoples deepest desires, your boss is the sin: Sloth, in this game basically a hot purple demon that sleeps all the time. Best boss ever!

To help she transforms you into a demon like herself and you have to gather resources for her to devour by fulfilling said desires, which means you have to manage the tower by constructing things and poking out a persons subconcious desires.

There generally tends to be 2 choices per character you encounter, often wildly divergent, for one example you can turn a person (whose deepest desire is to be freed from a secret terminal illness) into either embracing life itself and becoming a nature dryad in the forest, or embracing death itself and becoming a vampire.

All in all a decent game with the occasional picture which is of high quality. My only criticisms are the game needs a few more pictures and choices for me but more IS being added each new version so, pretty good.

Worth a download and play at the minimum.

Review of v1.2

This is a very solid start. The game has a clear objective, good mechanics, just enough visuals (which look custom) to bring the world alive, and lots of personality in the characters.

I like being able to direct characters on different paths by choosing specific focus items. I just wish there was a little more control during the sex scenes, they tend to be very linear after picking what mode your necklace is in.

On the other hand, the writing is quite good, though a professional proofreader going through everything would help, as there are a lot of wrong words that a computer will have trouble catching. Actually, grammarly might be able to catch it.

I'm excited to see where the game goes and am probably going to begin supporting them on Patreon.

i enjoy the game it is rather fun well made i wish there where more random encounter sex scenes when you work but other then that i can't complain at all good game i recommend this game. I like how the objectives are achievable within the time that is given the writing of the scenes is very nice as well.

Good writing and fun scenarios, though currently lacking in content. The worst to say about it is for some reason it has a failure chance associated with it just to put pressure on the player, which is both irrelevant and unnecessary in the first place.