HTML - Realm of Corruption [v0.26.04] [Paxton/CWS]

A sort of fresh take on a good genre. As far as I've played, this is a good game. I especially liked the first 'level', as it were, but rather disliked the points system in hell and the quests. Rather than giving points for that, you could have given an achievements system, but either way... it's still a good game. Love to see some updates though.

One extra star just for the premise, which is great. Love the idea!

The implemetation, however, is a train wreck on top of a train wreck.

Many people here already mentioned the grind, but that is subjective, right? Let's look at some objective data regarding grind.

You pick the college kid and want to score with a schoolmate. No biggie, just need to unlock the "Receive Head" Perk. That in itself is a grind, but let's assume you already have it. So, off to College we go!

You need to click 5 times to get to College.
You need to click 7 times to get to the Interaction page with the Schoolmate.
Now, if you've unlocked the Flirt Interaction, you get +2 Opinion with just two clicks. If you haven't, you need 3 clicks to get it through Chatting.

You have to repeat this until you have 40 Opinion. That's 20 times going through the Chatting or Flirting interaction.

But remember! You only get to do this three times a day, because time flies!

Now that it's late you have to return home and go to sleep - that's going to be 3 more clicks.

You need to repeat the whole process for 7 days. That's at least 147 clicks (and that's ignoring the selection screen after every day) if you've already unlocked Flirting or 168 if you haven't.

The award? A 3 second gif.

This game is deadly boring WITH the Cheat Mode that allows you to rewind and re-try certain ineractions (to get a Perk). I just cannot imagine the mind numbing tediousness if "playing" normally.

Oh, and you're not even rewarded with any good, spicy writing! For example, you can download an incest game on a computer which MIGHT unlock the "Family Lovin'" chat topic. Sounds spicy? Well, you go and talk to the "Totally Not Dad", character select Chat,, select "Family Lovin'" and you get this:

Robert
Hey Natasha , did you want something? I'm a little busy here...

Natasha
Do you want to talk about family lovin?

Robert
family lovin? - Heh, sure thing. I love family lovin!

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That's it. That's literally all there is, regardless of characters. All interactions look like that.

There's an old line about movies where someone asks "How long can you show a couple in bed together?" and the reply is "As long as you want as long as there's a bomb under it".

Now imagine there's only a 20% chance of the couple being in bed. A 10% chance there's a bomb. And a 5% chance the bomb is active if it is there. Oh, and you had to grind half an hour to get their stats high enough for them to interact in bed. And if the bomb does go off it turns out it's not strong enough to blow the sheets off.

The game has a really interesting premise; one I'd love to see explored well. The player character is a kind of spectre, silently manipulating the characters in order to see just how far they can be corrupted. The promised progress is increasingly perverted scenarios and a range of households to corrupt and move between. The reality is something more akin to what I laid out before. And if you do make it far enough to get some action you find out that there's not much reward.

If you just cut the stat requirements by a stretch, dropped the RNG (or at least made things much more likely), and added some more porn, then there might be a game here. As it is...I just can't.

I mean, what can I say about the grinding aspect that hasn't been said before? It's abyssmal. It's horrible. It makes you question the existence of a merciful god. The problem with this is that there's some fun concepts hidden in here, they're just buried beneath shit ass game design and programming.
It's crazy how often scenes introducing me to a concept or a place activated long after that thing had already become commonplace and I had figured out on my own what it does.
I don't wanna drag this review out too long, but let's just say:
- Do NOT play this game without the Cheat Code. The tedium will drive you nuts
- There's some interesting ideas for sandboxing
- The random nature of aquiring perks and such is fun, just horribly implemented
- The game is straight up broken in a lot of places

There is too much randomness and blind grinding in the game. Most tasks and goals are completely unobvious. Receiving perks is random, some have an extremely low chance of dropping. The idea is not bad, but the implementation leaves much to be desired. In addition, most porn scenes are quite short and have no alternative, many don’t even have a logical ending with ejaculation or it also doesn’t have a 100% chance of being displayed. Аdding several optional videos for each character interactions would be a good idea. So:
1- add journal. goals list for each char just must have
2- add more porn videos. x5-10 would be good. We here to watch. We here to fap.
3- remove a most situations with stupid grind. Repeating the same again and again doesnt fun, this is not an Korean grinding MMO.
4- perks quantity limitation. WHY???! Player always want to see ALL. I understand when one choise restricts other, male-female for example. But why chars cant have more than 5? Most pointless mechanics.

This game's mechanics is just ridiculous and waaay too much RNG-based.
For example: to get the perverted perk, you need to watch channel 69 on the TV. But the chance to get the perk is always 10% no matter if I have watched it 1 time or 50 times.
I would think someone watching the playboy channel 24/7 or watching it once would have different chances.

Then another perk can only be obtained on Saturday night if you are lucky enough for the character to appear. So it is RNG for the character to appear in the first place and then more RNG on top to get the perk.
If I want to have no chance of scoring, I would just go out and talk to real women at the bars/clubs instead of playing this game

i like the idea of this game. instead of only RNG, i'd add 5% increased accumulating chance for every miss. hm.. 2% is too low. should be like 10% chance as start. also, unlimited perks or option to choose which perk to delete after accumulating over 5. i hope you keep working on this thing. cheers

This game is worse than bad. It's not enough for it to be grindy they then add RNG into the mix to somehow take it to a different level. You have random gifs that don't even match the conversation. Things like 2 girls masturbating, but the pucture shows a guy and girl. Same with kissing interactions. You have 1 of the perks that can only be gotten once a week on Saturday with a person who is random to find in the nightclub. If you do manage to get lucky and find him you still only have a 20% chance to get the perk. I did it 5 weeks in a row and never got it and I was so mad I immediately deleted the game and threw in the trash bin. I tried my best to find a redeeming quality for this devs work and time spent on development but I really can't find much good to say about it.

As many have already indicated the grind in this game is really, really bad.

Most of the content is controlled by a random probability system that simply doesn't work the way actual random probability works. 20% chance doesn't mean you'll succeed in 5 tries, it means every time you try there's a 20% chance, which means it sometimes takes 10-20 tries to get a perk w/a 20% chance. And that's on the high end of some perks. Just try to get the gay perk for the mom. You can get some lesbian content w/o it, but not much. Even though the mom was eventually able to trigger it for the daughter, it wasn't a two-way street. I was never able to trigger it for the mom.

Furthermore, randomization doesn't change w/lust. So, events that happen randomly occur regardless of your lust statistic. Get caught nude in the shower, the person that catches you hides their eyes whether their lust is 0 or 100.

The promised prostitution path for the sister? I could never get it to happen, In over a 100 tries of working in the café, not once did I see the photographer. I simply gave up. The wiki is some help, but sorely lacking on a lot of content.

The concept behind this game is interesting but the execution is abysmal. You can get some porn, but it never delivers on its promise, so I wouldn't waste your time.

The sheer amount of grinding in this game is quite literally disgusting.
The Perk system is utter trash not only are some perks close to impossible to get the moment you get 5 it´s just done.
The rewards you get for wasting hours and hours in grinding and hoping are so meager it just hurts plus and maybe thats just me I hardly even understand what the game even wants to achive.

shows good promise, needs to do a bit more on the gay stuff as its lacking behind the straight. easy to play although some bits are tricky to work out as the task aren't intuitive.

hasnt been updated in a month but hope there is one soon

0.17.02

- Grindy as hell. Consider it written in capital, bold, and big sized font.

- Content should be polilshed and expanded.

- Lust essences should be obtaining by doing... lustful things.

Besides that, considering it should be enough for some people to just avoid this game, I found it to be a pretty solid project; It should be taken as a game still in an early stage, with a good base and a lot of potential.

Takes WAY too long to get anywhere. I have seen games that require a grind, but this is a GRIND! Too much work for not enough. It isn't playable unless you know how to edit the settings and then there really isn't much there.

Needs more of an overall direction. If the MC is a demon that can possess humans, why is it so weak?

God, this game is so incredibly grindy for incredibly shallow content as a reward. The desert island game linked in the game is even worse. Also, it doesn't seem to be possible to buy perks for people anymore with lust points? I certainly couldn't find the shop for it that used to be there. Just way too tedious an experience.

It is really a fun game, the only downsides I have are that ther are only 5 perks anyone can have and the kind of grind it takes. Other than that I realy like to know where the developer is taking this game down the line. Definitely something to keep my eye on.

It seems like it could be really good, but the game is far too grindy, with unlocking new elements being entirely based on RNG, the images are reused constantly with no variation (even having the scene where the father walks in on the male kid having a gif of a woman walking in), and theres no confirm when loading a save and no autosave, which is frustrating as the save button turns into a load button and muscle memory could lose you all 'progress'

A great concept hampered by a very confusing and frustrating gameplay loop. You wander around clicking on random things and then when you find something that works you repeat it 30 times hoping for a good result. Even when you are able to unlock things it's often buggy. Disappointing considering the interesting set up.

damn good game by all standards so far, gameplay is good with a refined UI and a lot of room for a lot of content , i expect and hope to see it go far, hopefully ending up with the completed tag. now I just need to fill in the full 200 because for some reason that dumb rule is in place

I really want to like this but the grindy and repetitive nature completely kills it for me. Being generous and giving it an average rating because it does have potential but due to the endless slog of doing the same things over and over and over again for little to no pay-off, I'm unsure if the game actually has content or is just a weak engine design overlaying nothing worthwhile