HTML - Society [v1.20] [mr.EDGE]

No screenshots of the UI in the preview, just some porn pics / gifs. Yeah, it's one of those.

The game starts with character creation. There's no real buildup, no narrative framing, you just pick some character traits and are then dropped into the main menu. There you see links to well-known locations like "Kitchen" or "Sister's room". You click on some links and run into semi-randomized encounters. Some come with images, some with stat checks. Stat checks are linked - you guessed it - to stats which can be raised by doing random things repeatedly. Riveting.

I cannot stress this enough: The game gives you almost NO background on what you're actually doing. There are locations, there are people, sure - but most of them don't really have a lot to say.

Here's a "gameplay" example.
1. You go to the strip club
2. You "throw money"
3. player lust +25 - THE PEOPLE NOW ARE MORE LUSTFUL!

Amazing stuff, really.

The game is also littered with spelling errors, e.g. "Restaraunt", and grammatical issues - the latter wouldn't really matter if there was some incentive to actually DO something.

Here's another example of the game's excellent storytelling:

It's impressive how her massive rack is able to maintain a perfectly round shape without any bra support - oh, the wonders of modern plastic surgery. She walks past you but you can barely remember her face, unable to look away from her gorgeous tits. Things are getting out of hand in this town, what is up with the women these days?
player lust +25
[CORRUPTION 25] Cat-call her
[CHARISMA 25] Flirt with her

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I know it's just a porn game and maybe I'm too old for this shit - but that's a level of misogyny that actually disgusts me. And I'm a degenerate.

Reviewed v1.16 (Note to self: don't play again unless v1.26)
Ignoring the grind, this game deserves 3 stars.
It's amusing seeing the ridiculous amounts of money we deal with in this game.
So, I'll mention some things that can make the experience better for you.
First when you build the coffee shop, it will be your main source of money before you make the apartments.
Working there, you eventually unlock hiring security, then with higher levels you unlock more actions, each with each unique scenes.
BTW, almost every scene in the game has unique description.
You later build the apartment compound, and here is where things get tricky, I tested and the best rent I can get is 2000, but to get 2000, you will sacrifice all your tenants, and then slowly build 3% daily, even if you make the rent cheaper, changing the rent up or down, makes all tenants leave and then they build up slowly day by day.
After that the best obscure money source is the mall, you buy for 35m, and then increase the prosperity of the mall (which will help you with a sis quest, and meet red one of the characters) at the end of each month you get 1m per 1 point of mall prosperity.
After that you buy the startup and after working there, you will unlock the data mining, which is the best money source in the game, just rigs getting you data that you sell for millions, without doing anything.
Each action with most girls has different scenes, and different writing for each scene.
And some when repeated unlock more actions with the same girl.
some scenes are unlockable only when you do them when your lust is full.
nearly everywhere in the game there are new scenes.
The only scenes I didn't manage to find are the father scenes.
To unlock cousin you need 100 strength.
To unlock Rae (Code name Rich) you need to donate to the school.
To unlock Emily (Code name Poor) you need charisma and go on a date when she works at the coffee shop.
To Unlock Naomi purchase startup and work there to advance do her morning yoga scenes.
To Unlock Eva (Code name Red) you need to buy the mall and do her underwear store quest.
To Unlock VIP Charity Have sex with Rae and 100 intelligence.
The DLC isn't in this game, not a single scene, but I saw people say its available in the online version.
Restaurant scenes tip them for some scenes, and insult them for other scenes.
Beach Black girl is a single scene and it needs 200 Charisma.
Police scenes you need to buy a fast car and race people by using the car in your garage, bribe doesn't get you scenes, so seduce for cop scenes, win races for car sex scenes, and get arrested and bribe prison with 1m for prison scenes.
Masturbation in your room unlocks creampie scenes for mom and sis when you are in relationship with them.
Also streams and sex app have 10 unique scenes each
During Medteck mission for father, it will actually warn you when the guards are about to catch you, so get out, this mission is important for early cash, you get it from father's home office.
I know I probably said some stuff that is self-explanatory, but hopefully this helps someone.

Only played through the first part...

Pros: Good videos.
Pros: At least the stat raising and lowering makes sense.

Booo: Random scenes are all over the place.
Boooo: You can have sex with people before leveling them up... huh?
Boooooo: Sex is WAAAAY too fast.

This is probably already coded wrong, so this game is toast. He can add more quests, but that is not going to fix the poorly implemented progression

As other reviews have mentioned.

Yuck. Can't Spell stats correctly, but a three paragraph jargon about crypto. Random no setup sex-scenes, and grindy "leveling" mechanisms.

The Twine code is a mess. The only thing I was impressed with was the small size of the download compared to most HTML games around here.

Worth the download just to laugh at how terrible it is. Don't understand how anyone could actually 'play' it though.

I was wondering why this game got such poor reviews. Well, I could barely stomach 20 minutes of playing it, so I think it probably earned its score.

Pros
Decent amounts of content (though you can do better yourself by just looking up your fetishes and playing other games)

Cons
Terrible user interface
Nonsensical writing (the creator does know how to write a coherent paragraph right?)
Grindy

Again, I could only stomach this game for a very short time before dropping it, so the review isn't that in-depth, but at the end of the day looking at the game's image files was better than playing it, which is never a good sign. It would probably be better if the writer understood basic literary techniques and game design, and learned to string together a single coherent thought in their writing before trying to drop in a sex scene.

To address another comment, hints for quests are now (as of v0.2) available on the sidebar.

As for my review:

pros:
1. Good models and scenes
2. intuitive interface
3. simple systems
4. lots of content early on

cons:
1. LOTS of bugs, some save breaking
2. VERY grindy

I'd probably recommend waiting for a couple more releases and let the dev flesh this out. It has a lot of potential as a sandbox and could be saved, but it's in a rough place right now.

Not really a bad game, it's definitely been done before and better. But it's still playable with some nice models and the grinding is pretty reasonable,

It would be better if there were some basic spellchecks. When you make Intelligence and Strength your basic stats you really should make sure they are spelled correctly. I can excuse misspellings further in the game but when you keep seeing them over and over it gets irritating.

Otherwise this could become a good game if the storytelling levels up a bit.

You are a young guy tasked with earning money, the only thing you can't in this game is earning money.
So after the beginning where you open a coffee shop, you are left with only an endless grind of three stats that doesn't unlock anything.

It is impossible to do the quests, there are no hints and nothing happens as you raise your stats.

You have an office, where you can make "deals", tried it 30 times in a row.
4 ended in earning money, 10 ended in nothing, 16 ended in losing money.

This is a hard pass for anyone unless you enjoy being frustrated and wasting your time.