Ren'Py - SlutCraft: Heat of the Sperm [v0.40] [Shadow Portal]

A simple gameplay that allows you to spectate the corruption of the mind of our female protagonist. Point and click loop with changing results and increasing extremes of sexual acts. I haven't finished episode 1 yet, so I can't say that 'loop' is the theme in this game.
Art is excellent
Story is excellent. From what I can tell, it is a linear progression process.
Appeal to moral degradation and other fetish excellent
Gameplay is very good if you have the patience

Version: v0.30.1

There are plenty of slave training games on this website, but game where you are the slave being trained, well now that is exceptionally rare. This reverse slave trainer game managed to pull off the concept relatively well.
The art is made with love, the characters and their interactions are entertaining and the sexual scenes are great.
Yet the only reason im not giving this game 5/5 is the gameplay. There is no gameplay, just point and clicking. But if that was not bad enough, its the type ero game where you only can count clicking the screen as gameplay AND need to heavily grind. The grind is entirely pointless in this type of game.

Despite the shit "gameplay", this game is amazing.

Disclaimer, I haven't finished the game yet, but I'm a few hours in so I have a pretty good idea of how it works. Has a high potential imo but was disappointing nonetheless.

Art: 9/10
looks kinda gross but that's pretty lore-friendly, really high quality overall, even the UI elements have art, even a few animations

Music: 7/10
Nothing crazy but it creates a nice atmosphere.

Story: 8/10
Pretty generic Sci+fi story, not going to spoil anything but it's solid overall, no typos or anything like that as far as I'm aware.

Gameplay: 3/10
Kinda ruins everything, it's super grindy and boring because even with the skip function you still have to go through every single "event" to unlock the rest of the content even if you don't like the events, and it gets absolutely horrendous when you get to the "masturbation week" thing because you're just forced to sit there and click sleep-eat-skip scene-train-repeat for like 30 minutes for no reason, just remove that from the game ffs.

Conclusion: I'm going to finish the game anyway because of sunk cost fallacy but if you were interested in the game honestly I'd recommend you don't play it and just look through the gallery, you'll see a lot of the good stuff without wasting your time.

Edit: I got to "part 2" or whatever it's called and it actually gets a lot better, less grindy and the art is really gorgeous, some of the best I've ever seen in a game. But I don't think I'll be changing my rating, I'm still mad about the beginning part. Really unfortunate to hide good content underneath a pile of repetitive grindy garbage.

Lots of grinding. Many hours sunk into just doing the same thing over and over.
That's fairly common though.
The main reason I'm giving this such a mediocre rating is because of the mandatory content I'm not interested in, that is implied is not mandatory.

Stukov goes on about how you don't have to do anything sexual with him if you don't want to. How he doesn't want to rape you, he wants you to enjoy it. But you do. You do have to do stuff with him. And part of the reason I sunk so many hours into this game is because I was trying to find a way to progress but couldn't figure it out. If you don't do ALL the GROSS DIRTY OLD MAN shit with Stukov, you can't progress. I was stuck forever, not realizing that the whole "you don't have to do stuff with Stukov" thing the game hammers in at the beginning was entirely a lie. I dunno if that's changed since. It's been updated since then. But this might be a 3 or 4 star review if not for those lies.

very unintuitive sandbox grindfest.
while the corruption is intruiging and the scenes keep you invested in playing further, you seem to always hit a dead end whereas it seems that there is no progress available/developed.
BUT definitely recommendable if grinding "boring stuff" doesn't bother you.

Decent Art
Decent Concept ( Sarah + Zergs + Multiple choices ? much yes ! )

- Really Questionable Delivery ( Lack of choice predominantly )

I sometimes swear that Stukov is the main protagonist of this adventure. The player cannot skip his content, it must be done to progress. You cannot truly defy him short of one 'bad' ending where you bite his dick off at which point his content is like 90% of ch1+2.

Stukov is so obnoxious that he should have a skip toggle. I genuinely think the game would be better for it despite how little content would be left of ch1+2.

Now onto the other issue. Sarah has her own kinks and desires so don't expect a chance to shape her in any meaningful way. You are just a viewer watching one slide after the next. You will not get to chose your kinks, they are chosen for you.

Great polish, art, and dialogue.

However, I came for Zerg x Kerrigan corruption, and was mostly disappointed.

Instead, most of the content is Stukov X Kerrigan, which wasn't what I was hoping for.

I can respect a slow burn corruption, but I felt pretty teased by the end with the lack of true Zerg content.

Unfortunately, not what I expected from it, but a good game nonetheless

+ Great art
+ Animations are a bit simple, but make all the difference
+ Gets into the porn pretty fast
+ Has a gallery

~ Corruption is a bit of a slow burn, so that might be a nuisance for some
~ Music is alright, but I missed sound effects the most

- Scenes have way too much text between each step (as in a lot of text before the scene makes the next significant change)
- Other interactions also go very heavy on the text

I don't even know this game before yesterday and I need to say that it's a nice find. Excellent and exciting game, with nice ideas and good animations. I hope new contents will be up very soon. Keep going like that

First things first:

This game features some nice artwork and some well throught-through situations.. For a porn-game, that is. I like that the MC doesn't get corrupted straight away but has to undergow some corruption.

And here is the first problem.
Most of the content is pure grind. Repeat stuff over and over and over again to advance a single, tiny stage. That's boring. Next problem, there is basically no Zerg content. 9 out of 10 scenes are with Stukov. Why bothering making a Starcraft game centering around the heroine being captured by aliens.. When basically all of your content is malexfemale? And not even good content, at that, it's just Stukov being an asshole, teasing and annoying you. No penetration.. At all... There are some Zergmistress and zerg scenes but they are short and very rare. And to top it off, none of your choices matter. Like no difference at all. This is something i really came to hate after games like cp2077 that try and hook you with "choices matter" just for the sake of getting you to buy it.

Overall, i can't recommend this, it's just a boring malexfemale grind with the alien 'touch' to it.

I would have given the game a 2 star rating, but the lack of actual choices and the grind really put me off.

So like, the tags and art are decent, but your choices do not matter at all. It is a perfectly linear virtual novel with little to no choices if you want to progress. You have stats that you can grind, but they don't mean anything and don't affect anything. I think they need to add virtual novel to the tags because that's what this is. It sucks because their are paths that you could have taken to make it more realistic, but sadly the author didn't do any of them.

There are not many 18+ game in Starcraft universe. And this one is quite interesting. The developers do not forget about the game and are constantly working on it. I hope there will be more cruelty in the future.

This game has too many under developed paths. Many paths have only 1 or 2 sex scenes in them.

For the most part this is utterly grotesque and gross rather than sexy. The art makes the zerg even more gross then they were in canon starcraft. There are moment of sex appeal but they are buried deep.

The most developed path is a reverse trainer. It is like a normal trainer game only you play as the girl being trained, while the Trainer role is handled by an NPC, namely Alexei Stukov.

Grindy and too much pointless verbiage during the sex scenes. (I normally like it when they talk more but even I have a limit and this game exceeds it)

This is one of good examples showing that making a sandbox game with unnecessary grinding ruined a beautiful art and possibly stories of the game.

I admit I wouldn't have touched this game if the 2D arts hadn't looked excellent. But having to click same things 1,000 times made me regret the decision. Those clicking obligations kept breaking my immersion into the story. At the end, I was not sure if the story itself was good or bad because I lost my interest at that point. But I felt its story of an imprisoned girl was inconsistent - possible reason for dev to make this sandbox. Bugs were everywhere in the game, even at the end.

It's just surprising to me that dev with sound experience and support created a game with this kind of quality.

4/5 great game
i remember when the game was first made and now it have gone a long way even though it is slow to update some time but it art quality out weight the down side
the game play is good and using renpy engine is a great way to tell the story it is simple and easy to use for both pc and iphone user so that is a plus
i know that many people complain about the mini game and i can see the down side but i think it as a small part of the play and to make the game play less dull but it is a porn game so i don't know how to see into this
if anyone have never played this game before you should give it a try

I fell in love with this game back in 2018. Since then, not a little time has passed, but the game is still not abandoned and the developers are loyal fans. The game is not without problems, but unfortunately there are no perfect games. In fact, I'm ready to forgive the long wait for patches, because this game really surprises me: with each patch more and more interesting. I really like chapter two, the third is also okay, but I like more traditional sex, I have some disgust for the Zerg, sorry.

Really like the art and dialogues, very refreshing. I like Saimon and Lizzara, they have an unusual setting and that makes it more interesting to watch the story. I must admit that in the last patch (0.25) there was a boring minigame, but Shadow Portal has already responded and know about it - I can not help but praise, I like this attitude towards the fans. The game is good as it is, in some places it sags, but still I think: if the developers are warm to the advice of their players, listen to them and change the game for the better, not just to make money, such a project is worth its attention.

Slutcraft still needs to work and work, but it's even more interesting. It's tempting to watch a game that grows before your eyes and you experience all the events along with it, find yourself in the circle of fans and waiting for the scenes that glimpses of the raboaters showed. It's an unusual game, but it's worth trying to play, I'm not the only one who is enticed by this game as much. I recommend at least giving it a try.

V 0.25
5/5
There is more than10 hours worth of sexy content
Lots of hot scenes, the story by itself is also interesting, not generic at all,
some of the game mechanics could be frustrating but I still find the quality of the overall game to be great

[v0.25]

Good game that turns into a disappointment.

Why add the obnoxious mini-games without an option to skip them?
Whose idea of 'fun' consist of navigating a maze while being almost blind?
Why make the half-man's quests a necessity?
Why force to farm all of the corruption options, instead of escalating routes?
Bonus about routes: they don't matter, at all all content paths end up the same and for the allegiances only Zergs have content.

In Short: Unnecessary (and way too long) mini-games, the grind, player option removal (you need every option to progress) and the hellish development cycle turned this from 'eagerly waiting' to 'ruined potential' for me.

Shame, since the art's good

This Game (now in v0.25) is very frustrating to follow (in its development that is). Very often, maybe always, the updates break save states. Loading a saved game from an earlier version may work, but usually doesn't. My impression is that work on the game happens in sweeps through all of it, not in chronological order (so next patch may re-write -say- the mid-section, or the beginning of the game).

You usually won't find out that your loaded game is broken until you cannot progress suddenly, even though you didn't reach the end of content yet. You get a warning about that, but what are you supposed to do, always start a new game with every patch? That's .....quite a pain.... sorry.

Because I have replayed it at least a few times, I get bored with the text very easily and try to skip through dialogue as much as possible, missing details about my tasks (that I should remember, but don't), and thus I keep getting stuck for a bit.

There is no Quest tracker really, except for the tree of scenes you have unlocked, and it's not useful enough (but better than nothing).

The dialogue is sometimes buggy and will often mislead you about what to do next.

The art is really good, I find and holds up throughout the game.

I wish Stukov was even half as charismatic as he is in the real starcraft (he is a bit buffoonish in this game). And his main dialogue drawing is not great, let's say.

The Zerg porn on the other hand is actually pretty good. I was pleasantly surprised by that. They don't look very appealing in the original games. Well done. Didn't know I wanted to see that.

The game-play mechanics are (for the most part) annoying mini-games. There are hints of exploration (where you may think that you'll get to wander around and visit different locations) and also hints of upgrading things and resource management, but those are pretty much fake-outs and you have an extremely linear plot-path where choices are meaningless. You probably won't quite understand the mini-games if your experience turns out similar to mine, you will wonder how to progress and try clicking random things and re-read the same dialogues many times, you may be playing broken save-states and you will be re-playing the same stuff a lot if you want to support this game. (I have been a patron for a short while, because I find this game quite unique, it's ambitious and may very well turn out well in the end.)

There is a big event in there, where that game changes quite a bit, from there on the mini-games are torture (they are not hard, just drain your will to care about any of this). I still have no idea what the drone-essence mini game is and what the bar means. There is also a maze mini-game from the realm of nightmares where you are chased (by the scary thing), try to run, and your body won't move. Ever wanted that as a game? Now you have it, but less scary and more not-movingly.

I want this to succeed, but it's too frustrating to play right now.

I love this game so far! Very interesting premise with lots of good scenes and artwork. Big fan. Hopefully it'll continue to be just as good! Developers seem to know what they're doing and the functionality/UI is solid as well.