HTML - Secretary [v1.1.0.1] [Deedee]

I'm not sure why I've reviewed other games before this. It's my favourite so far. I tend to try not to wax lyrical about games and instead focus on what I think would appeal or not appeal to players, so with that in mind...

What's not to like? Well, if you don't want heavy, almost entirely unavoidable sissification then read no further. It's going to happen.

There's also something of a lack of visuals, at least porn visuals. There's not none, but this isn't a slideshow of a wide variety of porn gifs either. And the artwork might not be to everyone's taste. It had a certain feel to it that personally I think adds a lot to the immersion into the world but not so much to the eroticism. It fits thematically, but it's not necessarily making the characters look attractive.

Instead, what carries this game through is a mix of quality writing and extreme perversion. A lot of the kinks can be opted out of but honestly I would push this game much more to people who wouldn't want to. This is the kind of game where your character makes some interesting decisions about their relationship with stray dogs and occasionally serves as a human urinal to earn a living. As I said, you can turn off that content in the settings but I doubt I'd be writing this if I were the type of person that would. No, Secretary is about embracing depravity and that's the way it should be played.

Aside from the taboo nature of much of the content, Secretary is a game about characters and the scenarios they get you into, and it does this brilliantly. There's a very familiar set up of a character who works for an overbearing female boss intent on sissifying them. That's nothing special. But there is a real sense in which the boss, Ms Antlers, is more than that. As the game progresses we learn about her motivations, her own problems, her mix of professional and personal interest, and we get a real reason to have our own vested interest in pleasing her. Sometimes it's fear or repercussion, and sometimes it's because we really want to help her. She's torn between wanting to create the perfect secretary, the corporate politics, and that she genuinely cares about you (in a rather warped way).

The game has a strong humour to it, and it is set in a dystopian future so perhaps some of the sci-fi elements won't work for some, but to me the balance is right and it provides the perfect world for exploring just how far someone can go in the name of perversion.

The text is written professionally, it is pleasant to read. The story itself is for an amateur, but the events are spelled out in great detail . I was surprised how much attention the author paid to the thoughts and experiences of the main character. I hope the author will finish the game.

This is one of the more original games in this genre. Love the pixel font, the writing is top notch.
If you’re a fan of forced feminization this is the game for you.
The clothing system is fantastic, and the game provides a little bit of point and click, corruption, slow progression, and feels very well thought out. The dev is quick to reply to any bugs (if you support him on his patreon), and the game has a ton of content for hours of gameplay.
It isn’t a “choices matter” type of html game, but it does offer some varying ways to accomplish the same thing we all want to see—the MC being feminized.

Fun/hot mtf game. Want more! Makes me want to take androgen blockers.
They're missing a number of videos that are being replaced, but otherwise there's a lot of stuff to do. It's a bit repetitive/slow though. Could use more tf or events.
Could do without the slave and foot stuff, but that personal pref and can filter some of it out.

More tedious clicking than most life sims. Except those games have a lot of pictures to make clicking semi-rewarding. Here most of the clicking is pointless grind. I think its to hide that there's maybe an hour of actual content in the game.

The theemes are good but the gameplay quite monotomous and the updates really lacking

Pro's
- Great Themes
- Nice Femdom Content
- Can bypass content you might not like

Con's
-Monotomous gameplay
- sometimes hard to hit certain events
- running day after day of tediousness to hit a stat check is annoying

Conclusion

OK to play for free, would not pay

Sissification as a fetish doesn't do much for me. This game is well-written enough for me to enjoy it anyway. The sex scenes are hot, the characters are fun, and the mechanics are interesting enough to keep you playing.

By no means is the game perfect. It can be extremely grindy to the point of becoming tedious. It has issues of scope and feature creep as well as slow development. Nevertheless, it is the hottest game of its genre on f95zone.

This is a great game. I look forward to the start in stage 4
In addition, please set the psychiatrist to refuse, and the task tips are a little more specific. After all, this game is not very friendly to new players.

Disclaimer that i didn't play too far into the game because i got sick of the nonsense early on.

This game suffers from a fundamental problem in that you, the human playing this game, know what you're getting into but the in-game character you play as has no idea. For me, this is a fatal flaw in the game design because you have to pretend to be oblivious just like your in-game character. Secretary makes that difficult to do because everything i've encountered so far is obvious and predictable. It was my first time playing and i know what's in that contract without my character being able to read it. I know the real purpose of the "therapy" sessions before going to the first visit. I already know the storyline with the apartment manager after the introductory interactions. I haven't read any spoilers, it's just that it's so obvious what the intentions are. The game depends on you going along with it and pretending to be dumb, but i don't find that enjoyable because there's no feeling of discovery. Repeated playthroughs are a different story but the first one shouldn't be so obvious.

I also found Secretary to be unnecessarily tedious. Is it really necessary for your apartment to have five separate locations instead of just making the apartment a single location and giving you all the interactions at once? I don't know, maybe there's something in the story later on that needs the separation but it's really annoying early on. What's the point of the wardrobe when it's far more convenient to just keep everything in your inventory? Why can my character only masturbate in the living room? Why are the video games separate from the computer as if slightly old computers can't play games? There's just so many unnecessary extra clicks going on for what seems to be no good reason. On top of this, there's too much reading relative to interactions. I feel like the writing is too bloated, detailing things that don't really matter and making dialog too wordy.

I felt that Secretary didn't give me enough control over my character and was even inconsistent with behavior. My character was in the lingerie shop and he refused to buy anything despite already wearing the ex-girlfriend's underwear. The game randomly made my character forget what the boss wanted to eat for lunch--if you're going to do things like this, at least tell me why my character forgot (too much arousal/stress or whatever), don't just do it randomly when my character isn't a dumb forgetful bimbo. I got to the first weekend after becoming a SISSI and there was nothing to do except have my character sleep or play video games. It just feels so limited and restrictive because it wants you to play at a predetermined pace and i don't have the freedom to play how i want.

I actually have more complaints but they're not my main criticisms and i've probably written enough already. The biggest complement i want to mention is that it lets you play online instead of requiring a download. I wish all HTML-based games would do that.

I thought Degrees of Lewdity was the best HTML text based CYOA game online, until I found Secretary. They are entirely different games, with Secretary very "Vanilla" in the sense that there are no non-consensual scenes. Even though everything is coerced, you retain your degree of agency. There are no bad ending / nasty outcomes. However, the writing is the 2nd best i've seen in many HTMLs, excellent writing. Almost 100% bug free. Very free form and sandbox-ish, despite having quite a linear plot.

All these criticisms aside, Secretary is super duper polished and wonderfully crafted. A wonderful game for people who enjoy this genre.

The graphics and the interface are very well designed. The story might be somewhat interesting, if not falling in a very cliché forced sissification narrative where all the odds are against the MC. I know this game is very popular among its genre. But it has too much text for me. I might say that I'm not against text based fantasy games, they can be really sexy, but man... they need to be well writen. I feel that here are tons of paragraphs that doesn't add a bit to the interest of the events, a bunch of text that could be synthesized in two or three phrases, and after like two hours of reading overexplained Mojojos like narrative I started to get tired of it, and of course it doesn't turns me on. I give, 3 starts because it looks like theres a lot of work invested in the developement, but its boring for me.

Very good game, I started following it a few updates ago.
The game gives you various choices about how to get on with the story, even a fair bit of freedom(even though you have litte choice other than becoming a sub, one way or the other).
What struck me as cool is that it also has a lot of personality and style, which makes it unique and immersive.
I really like it, I didn't left any reviews before because the game was fairly short.
Try it yourself, it's worth the time.

The best html and text based game on this site in my opinion. I'd list pros and cons but it would just look silly having almost no cons, biggest one being how you have to click for some things that could be a bit more automated? But there are many games that handle it way worse so its not a deal breaker.

My writing skills sucks, so I can't explain how good the writing is without sounding like a pretentious prick, so just trust me. Scenes are pretty hot, its not cringe sonic fanfiction writing and it goes into enough details (there is a surprising amount of text games that drop stuff like 'she does handjob, he cums, sex ends lol' none of that shit here).

The graphics that accompany the game are a very welcome addition, just putting in photos is not the worst thing in the world, but nothing beats custom graphics that all follow the same art style. The avatar system is honestly really well done. But keep in mind it is still a text game, expect a lot of text.

There is a wide selection of fetishes, and you can actually opt-out of the ones you do not like, but it is still a sub based game, if you expect dom content, there is barely any, turn around for now.

The story actually avoids usual staples of the genre (abusive GF, cuckolding from said GF, rapey bosses etc) and even makes fun them in a clever way, which is pretty refreshing, even for me who actually doesn't mind some of those tropes. And for the first time in forever I am actually interested in a porn game story, it's not just means to an end.

Choices actually matter yay, you can pick your love interest, reasons for your character to participate in the whole story (which influences scenes and clothing you get). Characters aren't just fetish flags either, you can change their behavior which will impact the scenes you get.

Feminization and Humiliation is not really my cup of tea. However, I really enjoyed my time playing Secretary (which rely heavily on the two, espacially in the relation between the MC and his boss).


While the story has no big flaws (I just regret the randomness of certain events when it comes to characters), the gameplay is grindy (like in many porn games), the inventory management is a mess and finding the various threshold of your skills a pain in the ass.


But do not despair : you will find cheats in this forum, and if you open the .html file with notepad+ you will find informations about the thresholds (and if i can do something like that with a computer, anybody can). So all in all, a good game about sissyfication and various fetish.

The game has a fairly sizeable amount of content, with well written scenes and an interesting setting. It covers a decent range of fetishes, which just so happens to fit perfectly into my own personal taste. To me, the only downside is the admittedly large amount of clicking required throughout each in-game day.
Five stars from me for my favorite HTML game on this site.

Really like the vibe off this game! Well written and fresh. Some actions are a bit tidious but nothing major. If you like sissification games you must give this a try. Would me nice with a bit more images/animations as the game is a bit textheavy.

I really love this game, i like style, characters, but i think there is need to add videos or animation during sexual activities, it would make this game perfect, if this will be added then i rate this game 5 star, but now only 4

I like a lot about this game but it's so incredibly tedious it drives me insane. The boss character should get run over and Isekai'd into Minecraft or some shit. Really? I keep some clothes in my house you visit and I have to throw them out because you feel like it? Bitch what? Maybe I wanna crossdress, ignore my tits I don't care it's my property. It's aggravating how insipidly she says everything, I get the whole appeal of this game is to be a subby bitch but it's so clumsily handled on her end even when you take the "voluntary" route she's just forcing herself on you. I get the whole backstory with her last secretary getting taken by someone above and she wants to rekindle that but she's the type of person you stop engaging entirely if they get that annoying.
If this game would open up and just let you do the whole transition thing on your own without her forcing shit on you and instead rewarding you as you come along on your own without her inconsistent garbage rules that'd be coo' and I'd be giving this game a 5/5. As it is, because she's such a major annoyance it's at best a 3 and yeah yeah the whole game is meant to be a sissy fantasy but if that's the case then remove the "voluntary" route instead of falsely advertising that you could just do things on your own. Honestly, you could genuinely remove 90% of her interactions and it'd be a better game for it. I like every other character, even the bimbo maid and I usually don't like the whole bimbo thing, they're far more interesting and a lot less abrasive. A lot more supportive too, as opposed to twisting your wrist at every turn like she is and hovering around constantly.
So yeah. 3/5 because the boss is so badly written and annoying, every other interaction, stuff at work, stuff at the gym, things with side characters like Alex and the shrink, all nice. The boss needs a rewrite to account for more playstyles and because of how sparsely the content is spaced out there should be more options to skip time. It takes 7 weeks for you to get anywhere with Alex only for there to be nothing at the end, which would be fine because the game's unfinished but holy crap why would you write an entire DnD campaign and end it with literally nothing? That's crazy to me.

It's a game I guess? Given the release schedule, I'm glad I'm not a patron, though. Really grindy too. I mean REALLY grindy. Way more than I can take, anyway. Seems like the grind gets worse the further in you get, too. It's all kinda trite and contrived, too. With good porn games, you come for the porn and stay for the story. This one is just porn. There's no narrative or character development here. Just a bunch of cardboard supporting cast and a protagonist that's nothing more than a vehicle for the same ol' fetishization over and over again. Gets really boring really fast.

There are many better games out there than this one. The community surrounding the game is super toxic, too, which is a huge turn-off. If you enjoy the game in spite of its flaws, stay away from the game's discord and author, or they will be spoil it for you.

Secretary is an odd one for me. It's mostly well done with interesting character sprites, verbose writing that doesn't waste much of the reader's time (a problem that many of these titles fall into), and a somewhat interesting premise. I've started playing this game years ago and have indulged countless hours into it yet despite all these things I hate it immensely. It's so frustrating watching something with potential fall into the same pitfalls that all of these feminization porn stories fall into.

I have many problems with it but let's start with the big one. This is not an involuntary game and there is no path to redemption. Forget the forced route. It's the worst offender of not being involuntary. Seriously, how do you go from somewhat normal prudish man to cock loving slut that will love wearing the sissy underwear after a light spanking session without chemicals or brainwashing? It's a pure fetish game that seems like it's going to go the way of a noire story in which by the end of this TF journey, the secretly always receptive character will have fallen into the clutches of an all powerful evil corporation. It's a linear progression that is hidden in plain sight towards a game over. It literally stops hiding it once you leave probation as all four paths filter into the same stream. It may have stopped hiding it earlier if you started the cafe job and noticed that you were earning more in a day than you do per week than working at the main job. At that point my enjoyment completely craters. There is no winning condition - just look at the achievements. Not one of them involve fighting back. No, you can't quit and work at the cafe. Your choices lead to either a quick game over (you get fired, you quit, etc.) or your character becomes the perfect sissy secretary who falls in love with their tormentors regardless of your wishes. Another Candy. Another Bambi. How heckin wholesome!

All of these games feature the same protagonist. It's always a mentally handicapped/oblivious person that was, unbeknownst to them, in the closet but with a subtle or not so subtle prod (through blackmail usually) will turn from an ugly duckling (read "man") into a beautiful bimbo swan. Forget the blackmail and abuse, it was for the character's own good, they just didn't know better. They will always have the best orgasm of their life from their first anal stimulation... or having their nipples played with... or getting spanked... or smelling/touching/tasting a cock. You get it already.

I understand the writer's perspective, if the character was reasonable then you would actually have to be creative to get to the porn and telling a reasonable story isn't the goal. The porn is the goal and everything else around it is at a far lower priority and the sad thing is that this can be done well. It just isn't. If the character didn't start out enjoying it then the story would be too dark and turn into full on rape. Nevermind that the game has rape in the physical sense and the mental sense (the all powerful hypno that ignores willpower (an underused and under baked mechanic)). This trope is so tired and so lazy considering that even I can come up with reasons why a character would do things they don't enjoy to reach a goal/fight against their oppressors and I'm your average idiot on the internet. I could have even tied in the willpower mechanic. If the character enjoys it like I stated, which they do, then they don't need to be forced and if they don't need to be forced the story doesn't work. But like I said, the story is just an excuse to get to the porn but if the porn is the only reason to boot up the game then it doesn't need to be interactive.

The stat progression is a perfect example of the dev's goals for the game. If you want to raise stats like strength or stamina then you must engage in cock lust with gym bros or do bimbo classes. Grinding is not enough, it's all gated by how degenerate the character is which is great for a story where the porn is the priority above a story or gameplay even though it really stretches the bounds of credulity. No one and nothing in the world is remotely realistic which is my other problem with the game. Everything revolves around sex and the player character's coming out as a sissy (even to their friends who see nothing unusual about all these changes going on with the protagonist occurring in less than a month after starting a new job).

My last problem with it is that the mysteries that are peppered around the game all serve to further drive the fetish. For example, the psychologist drops various hints that she is being paid to corrupt the player by the company. This all leads nowhere and the player character will never have a chance to think about or rebut the nonsense advice that the psychologist gives him. He always agrees with the psychiatrist's obviously slanted diagnosis. The secondary characters that undergo transformation at the same time as the player character illicit no response from the player character. Not even a raised eyebrow as he watches a woman turn into a hucow and a man turn into a woman like himself. I feel like I'm playing Chaz from No Man's Sky.
The update that introduced the black box (0.7.6.2) didn't improve my outlook.

I suppose the fault was on me. I was looking for a game with a cyberpunk story. A game where the player character walks into the lion's den and through their kinky tribulations may come out changed but still solve the mystery or come out on top like Johnny Mnemonic or, Tales of the Drunken Cowboy or, any other cyberpunk story. As it stands it looks like you'll just end up playing yet another victim of the dystopia. But it's okay. After all, the character enjoys being a brainless bimbo.

Still, it's a moderately good porn experience. The style is amazing even if the world building and characters are extremely weak (I'm sitll not sure what the company even sells and all the characters are just walking billboards for various fetishes). It's just not for me. Play it if you're into gender dysphoria, fetishizing the mentally disabled (if I'm in a bad mood) or the oblivious (if I'm feeling better about the game), and cock lust but don't if you're into good endings, smart reasonable characters, or mystery. For now, I'm done with it. 4/5 because style goes a long way.