HTML - Completed - Patriarch [v1.2.2] [Oranos]

Domimance is not my jam but I'm willing to look past it for a good nut, so I don't take that into consideration for the review.

The idea is great, it's like a large scale dating sim/rpg.

Writing is awful, the dialogue reads like someone's first fanfic.

But we're all really here for visual content (girls), which are fine, but there's ZERO coherency for the girls. There's a few pictures of the same girl, but pretty much everything else is just a random girl, I've had more consistency just looking at random gifs at redgifs. For example on a one boat scene, you're taking a busty blonde with you, she changes body shape and hair color multiple times. The worst offender is that in one of the gifs she's now flat chested and has a light brown curl hair, while generally she's a platinum blonde with double Ds.

With some prepwork for the girls this could be a great game, but currently I'd recommend just watching gifs in your favourite genre in redgifs.

The story was rushed and some plotlines were never developed, but there is a lot of content and the game managed to finish itself, which is sadly a big plus for porn games. Gameplay progression also made sense - getting resources was slow but not too much which was balanced by available content.

All in all, playing Patriarch was fun and looking back it is one of the better html games on the site so it gets an easy 5/5 from me.

Pros:
There are quite a lot of systems in place, many areas that continuously open up during game play, with a huge amount of image/video content. It is quite impressive in scope & size, especially for something that 'lives' in HTML.

Cons:
Hard to keep track of which areas have been fully explored, which people still need to be talked to (or not), and to track achievements (who still needs to unlock or not).

Could be a bit of a clicker towards the end when you need to accumulate some resources.

Overall: Highly recommend to try it out and see if it fits your style.

In my opinion, this game exemplifies what I want from an HTML game, it's practically the gold standard. Relationships are rather shallow, but how deep did you want a domination game that plays more like a Pokemon gotta-catch-them-all than anything? There's a little bit of a grind, but it's not that bad, and you're only ever punished for going in to something without preparing beforehand. Scenes don't repeat during the grind, you always get a new scene so there's always progression. Feels good to progress and is a fun rags to riches story.

Only issue is that it's a little inconsistent. In the beginning you could have some random girls caught as slaves, which sort of peters out the closer you get to the end of the story. Some girls become girlfriends, while others just become slaves without rhyme or reason. Not too much of a problem, though.

Amazing for a quick fap and a rags-to-riches progression. Not good if you wanted anything more than a shallow emotional connection.

great game cant wait for the final update and am hopeful that oranos will release a modding guide! the possibilities for modding are endless and could become the gold standard for this type of game if done faithfully! this deserves more eyes and support!

Really dives head first into quantity over quality. Feels like endless girls, that you meet, seduce, screw a couple of times and then move on. Even the girls the MC is related to have barely any character development or even character. It's all wham, bam, thank you ma'am, except there's no ma'am, as he treats them all uniformly as disposable sluts.

Which nicely segues into the MC. An entirely talentless wanker, with no redeeming features, and a huge ego, an entirely too common MC in porn games. Another Marty Sue?

The story is about as deep as a puddle, and as credible as a certain US politician's personal history.

The quality of the images and video is hit and miss, but they generally trend towards gravity defying breasts and far too much cosmetic surgery, but that's a matter of personal taste.

If all you are looking for is a quick fap, then I guess this could serve your purpose, but then it begs the question, why not just use any of the thousands of hours of porn freely available on the web?

The only redeeming feature I can think of, is that some of the fetishes and kinks in the story, when associated with appropriate images, may become greater than the sum of their parts.

Review for 1.6 with "Fan pack" installed.

I've played a lot of HTML + Real porn games on this site, and this is one of the best. The mass of unfinished, 0.1 patreon link games on this site has lowered the bar, but this game raises it up again.

Content: 5/5
This game touches on a very heavy theme of Sadism.
I typically don't enjoy this high level of domination, but the quality of the images won me over.
Image choice for scenes is done really well, with images reflecting both what's happening in the scene, and the models you're interacting with.
Most women get multiple scenes, each getting more extreme as you corrupt them further.
There is currently multiple hours worth of content.

Story 3/5
The story is compelling enough even though it hasn't been fleshed out yet as it's a work in progress. You're the son of a crime lord looking to take over the family business. Your family name instantly opens doors for you and people are too scared of your father to say no. This enables the MC to get away with treating people as badly as he does while still getting what he wants. You quickly win a powerful position in city hall, able to write laws which makes the town sluttier and lewder. A position in the local college, able to influence and transform students into sluts. And the favour of local crime people who can sell you slaves.

Gameplay 4/5
Pretty standard HTML gameplay, no strange minigames or puzzles.
The UI is nice and clear, sandbox locations are only visible after you unlock them, a pet peeve of mine is sandbox games having a long list of locations with nothing to do there and this game avoids that.
The grind starts off a little steep. You need to earn a letter of introduction before certain NPCs will work with you, the walkthrough hints that these are awarded for certain actions in game but doesn't tell you what. They're basically stat checks.
But after you've overcome this initial hurdle the entire game opens up, you start to passively gain wealth and stats and you'll never have to grid resources again.


A previous review states that you have to monitor your girlfriends moods daily and well... you really dont. If you just ignore your girlfriends completely nothing happens. After a few days you get a skippable scene where that girlfriend says she misses you, you have sex, and all is forgiven and she's happy again. You can carry on ignoring her until she does it again in a few weeks.

Not the most unusual kind of story but still unusually well written with a nice amount of depth. The images and gifs are a bit mixed some are nice others very generic. All in all the game is the most fun the first time you play it as it has very few points of decission and is generally just an interactive book with pictures and lacks any kind of gameplay loop.

v0.16
Avoid this game

- TLDR: you're stuck playing an asshat with a huge ego, who believes they have a license to treat everyone like trash because of who their father is (like a certain boy king from Game of Thrones). Unlike Game of Thrones, the writing is bad & doesn't make any sense. It's like you're playing a delusional character who expects people to respect them when all they do is abuse people and enslave them.

- Grindy game made even grindier after the newest "feature": Relationship regression. Not only are you limited to roughly 3-4 actions per day. You have to spend one of those actions with a girlfriend or wife as upkeep to prevent regression. That doesn't sound so bad, until you realize that you're going to have 10 girlfriends and wives (and counting) and each of them require you to spend time with them one on one. If you don't spend time with them, they'll get desperate and have a chance to force themselves on you, wasting one of your 3-4 daily actions. And no, their mood does not get sated when this happens. So you can effectively get soft-locked and get 0 actions a day if you ignore them. I did report this to the dev, but this won't get changed
- Plays like a kinetic novel with sandbox elements. There are no meaningful choices, just cosmetic ones
- No idea where the story going, if there is one at all
- No gallery
+ Some of the models are hot
+ The sandbox progression is decent and there's an in-game walkthrough. The walkthrough isn't perfect containing gaps

Adding Relationship regression takes a grindy game and adds more pointless grind. Without it, the game would be a 3/5 if I'm being generous. Now it's a 2/5

One of the better HTML games out there. The game plays like a better-polished version of EVIL 2. There's not a lot of nuance in terms of management, but cosmetic choices make up for a decent amount of what's lacking. In my opinion, these two aspects are what makes the game unique and should be expanded on.

Its ok, you got to install the fan patches to actually have images and such. Game is pretty grindy for a textbase game, more so then usual. The scenarios that the game creates are nice and it does go the extra mile to push for sexy bimbos/sluts.

It's a real porn HTML game - you know what to expect on the picture department: random gifs, inconsistent dimensions, bodies changing from one picture to the next.

The plot doesn't exist - you're the heir of some criminal. There are no choices other than picking where you go, as all scenes are pre-scripted and there is no control over the MC: you basically choose between a couple of different scenes with each girl, and all of them play the same.

The dialogue is plain terrible, and there's plenty of grammar and syntax mistakes.

A typical scene consists of the MC calling everybody a slut and referring to the blandest sex animations as "rape", while the girls themselves are all braindead sluts with no personality - I honestly can't remember the name of a single one, nor a single trait other than which ones have the best pictures.

Navigation is terrible: way too many links where a map is needed.
The game is absurdly grindy, as others of this kind, and there's no sense of development nor accomplishment: the "quests" come down to grinding random stats or buying random items, as opposed to developing the MC in any way: you'll have sex because your stats are high enough for it or because you bought a bottle of sun lotion.

I'm giving it 3 stars because it has more pictures than most other games of this type. Other than that, it's just the same as any other HTML real porn "game".

Ridiculous plot - you're the heir of a super mega god gangster who everyone knows and submits to. The game is relatively wide and relatively flat. Find a pretty girl, repeat actions with her until she strips for you, blows you, fucks you, gives up every aspiration in her life to be a gif gallery you sometimes click on. I couldn't tell you the name of a single character, they're all insignificant and pointless. Click click click ooo boobies click click click click click. There's so much to click on, tons of gifs and flat plot and repetitive dates and "have the sex" options. Who cares.

After a few years of lurking, I've finally decided to make a review for the game that has interested me the most - Patriarch.

The bread and butter of this game are its kinks, it has everything I like - from male domination to humiliation, and even more. As for the grind - it is not oppressive and the systems are designed well enough.

But what do we grind for you might ask? It's all for the porn, of course. And man it is good. Give this game a try.

This game puts a lot of effort where it matters and less effort where it doesn't. The choice of visuals is excellent. There are tons and tons of GIFs for each scene and tons of scenes. As a fellow Discerning Coomer who has previously seen many of the GIFs used by Oranos, I can say with some authority that he has good taste. So it's a 5 star no brainer.

There's an obvious lack of polish which detracts not at all from the fappability of the game. Can Oranos spell? No, no he cannot. But Oranos can and does WRITE, and actually made this effing game while I sit here on my ass jacking off to it.

Many people are complaining about navigability and that's just silly. The game can be played 1 handed so just shut up and click a whole 4 times to get to the next scene.

This game has by far the best use of amateur real porn -- my favorite -- of any H game I've seen to date. It has tons of content despite being only 2 years old. We should be applauding that and not getting caught up in the weeds.

Everything about this is just so... lazy. The image and GIF sizes are all over the place. Navigation is horrendously bad, there are only basic text links, while some kind of map / hub screen would be necessary. The game also fails at communicating goals clearly, some parts of the progression are guesswork, especially the Amber arc is as obtuse as it gets. The phone messages are annoying as hell, because there's no way to know if you haven't already seen it before you click on it.

The premise is paper thin, you're the heir of a crime clan and your job is to reinstate the family name to former glory. You fuck a lot of girls and turn most of them into "slaves", which boils down to repeating events until the girl "submits" to you. You also can date multiple girls, which boils down to repeating events until the girl becomes your "girlfriend". There's also a side story with your sisters, which boils down to... you get the idea.

I do like some of the models chosen, especially the college girls are interesting, as they're not used that often in porn games. On the other hand, image consistency is a huge problem. For some girls, there are multiple models which ruins any semblance of immersion.

The most recent update introduced bimbofication and breeding, but as of now, there's not much to talk about. From what is there, it is to be assumed that the dev sticks to his guns, for the better or worse.

There are almost no choices in this game, your only goal is to hunt down all the triggers to fill your harem. If you're looking for something to fap to, this game might be something for you, because some images/gifs are quite hot. Stay away if you're looking for something with meaningful progression and choice driven narrative.

I'm biased, I HAVE to give this game 5 stars because it ticks all of my boxes. The premise alone zeroes in on pretty much all my key fetishes.

An adequate review though for those wanting to know if this game is worth playing:

I usually avoid HTML games and similar like the plague because of the clunky, overcomplicated interfaces and stats management, crude text delivery and stock photos as in-game images. But maybe I've been missing out, because the developer of this game has tweaked the aforementioned factors enough so that the rewards far outweigh the grind to get them.

The writing isn't perfect, but dialogue conveys exactly what I personally want to hear from a written sex scene, and the chosen images and gifs complement the writing surprisingly well. Character progression is layered enough that reading about growing relationships between you and the women is enjoyable - admittedly, some more than others. The writing is even broken up in to very fappable scenes - The delivery in the form of full pages of text rather than VN screen by screen passages is as of now my preferred means of reading/playing.

In terms of gripes:

• No sound to speak of - some stock music would be nice to better set the scene and convey tone. I usually have my own playing in a separate tab, so not a deal breaker
• Some characters feel more fleshed out than others - sad if your favourite character receives less story-time than your least favourite character
• The overall progression system is quite grindy, and tricky to wrap your head around for the uninitiated - that being said, if you're conservative enough with your tasks and choices, it's hard to fuck up any scene in particular (and the back button is helpful too).

I could probably provide more in the way of critique, and maybe I will at a later date when my head is clearer. For now, however, if you're a fan of maledom power fantasies involving bringing women to heel and dialogue heavy written smut - DON'T SLEEP ON THIS.

It's been a while since I've been made to genuinely look forward to the next installment - can't wait for the next update!

[v0.9.1]
Nice HTML game, but a lot of grind.

-Story, Originality
You are a son of a cool rich dude.
You want to get it all, but he tells you to get your ownd riches/"bichas" first.

-Renders
Good photoes and videos.

-Sound
I think there was music.

-Playability
It takes a lot of time to progress, because you need to buy/interract with a lot of stuff, but have 5 energy and most of stuff can be done with the first 2 points of your energy.

-Performance
Runs like an average HTML game.

-Bugs
Didn't see any.

-Animations
Videos or pictures.

-Voice Acting
No voices.

-Grammar
Didn't see any mistakes.

-Amount of content
A lot to do, a lot to see, good potential.

First off the porn in this one is absolutely amazing an highly fappable imo so kudos for that.

Edit: I raised my rating by 1 star because I was thinking of the grind. There is grind, that's true, BUT 95% of the grind has new content, which I just haven't seen anywhere else before. And that 5% (I'm looking at you Gym) can be done in a few in-game days quite fast.

Original review:
I would really like to rate this game higher because around release 0.5 I loved it, and it still has great content, but I think overall it's held back by the extremely painful navigation system, which doesn't just include the map navigation, but the different type of interactions you can do at home as well. Multiple levels deep, the links are not at the same places on the pages etc. I feel like one map page with all places at the same locations on the page would be a step in the right direction.

Disclaimer: It's time for me to mention that I mostly skimmed through the text so the next critique may be biased. The other factor holding this game back imo is the hint system which others have mentioned as well. Sometimes I felt like I was stuck and had to go all over the different options in different menus or travel through town in that convoluted navigation system just to progress something which I didn't even know needed progressing.

The achievement system is nice. At least it gives an indication where one's at in the overall progress.

One of the few text type games that I liked... but not the best.
I must say that its interface, its history, seem excellent to me and the fact that they do not use porn actresses for this type of game already makes it unique, that is, they use at least characters that do not belong to adult cinema.

The amount of things you can do and with whom to interact seems good to me, developing the opportunities is the best thing that can be in any type of +18 game. So if it is for content, this has enough and its lines of text are not meaningless things.

For my part, I saw a detail that seemed very important and bad at the same time and several small details that could be improved. The first, the guidance system, if there is a hints section, but it is not enough, it simply tells you where an event can take place and to see it, a screen is loaded that can spoil a dialog scene that you are currently having. I feel like this could be improved to having it as a mini-window within the game or something.

on the other hand, when we have our "slaves" it already has 3 scenes programmed Bj Aj and SexJ. From here the only thing that bothers me is that if you have already interacted with the 3 scenes, the gifs of these are the same, I say that there should not be thousands for a single third character, but at least a minimum variety.

anyway the game is entertaining, its story is interesting. The personality of the protagonist is unique compared to other games that I have played, some details can be improved but it is a game that is enjoyable

Summary:

Character´s (quantity ): 4.5/5
Background music/sound: 0/5
Plot: 5/5 (entertaining and almost unique story)
Map: 3.5/5
Animation: 4/5 (they are gifs... but they are good xd)
+18 Scenes: 3.5/5 (Yes there are scenes, but I don't feel like such a wide variety)
Gameplay: 4/5 (It is a clicker game, You can do several actions per day.)
Interface: 3.7/5 (it can be better)

3.6/5