Unity - Spooky Milk Life [v0.65.4] [MangoMango & Studio Gingko]

Spooky Milk Life [v0.32.4] is a game I sadly regret playing. I like the concept of dolls, the renders are great, and the same with animations. But the game seems to be done very poorly, it's very repetitive with some buggy stuff that can ruin combat and travel. Traveling around can be a confusing mess with quests sometimes being the same as well, the writing is fine but nothing that will be memorable. From other reviewers, it seems they changed a lot for Patreon and moved to another engine that messed stuff up, so take that as you will. I wouldn't recommend this one for a long while at the very least.

excellent game
pros
+All character images are animated, scenes
+ Great sex scenes
+ I love all the dolls in the game, I should add more in the next updates like Chuck (Female) that we defeated but we didn't get one to play with (Sad), Anabelle and many based on movies, drawings etc.
+I like the System, Weapons, Manufacturing, Box to keep the dolls
+ Excellent milfs around the city

cons
- Combat system leaves a lot to be desired
- A bit confusing tutorial
Needs Improvement in Navigation, I lost count of so many times I got lost in Mc's house
- Could add the furry girls from Spooky milk farm, so the MC has more to play with and the player has more to do

Spooky Milk Life [v0.22.8] review
Time played: 2 hours

It took me 2 hours to realize I'm not getting anywhere in this game. And then I realized the game is also shit. Here are the reasons for why I think it's shit:

- It's unintuitive as all fucking hell. When you walk around the house, sometimes the camera "rotates". Enter a door east-to-west and suddenly you're exiting from the north. Enter downwards, exit upwards. Which way is up? Fucked if I knew. You can't click objects if you're standing on top of them. You use right click to move. Left click seemingly does nothing. Whyyy?
- Main gameplay loop consist of a "skillshot" where you try to time your click and a spam-click minigame if you get wrestled. It's fucking impossible to hit the bullseye and to escape the hold you need to click at like 60hz. I've got cold fingers, I can't click that fast. Which of course means I have to grind more than the regular player. I read somewhere that you need to grind up your stats to make it easier to hit and escape, but I'm not going to because this really sucks! I unlocked the gym but I can't use it because it requires "upgrade tokens". Then why the fuck did I spend $100 for a gym membership!?! How do I get upgrade tokens? No clue.
- Every day I lose money for some reason. Why? No clue.
- It's fucking grindy. Both the "main gameplay loop" and relationship stat grinding is cranked up to 11. You can interact with a character to get a small relationship boost. This uses up the timeslot you're in so you can't just keep grinding, even if you just give her a gift. You'll need to find the character again (walking around simulator) and keep on doing this for god knows how many times.
- It's buggy. I got softlocked out of progression because apparently I need to finish another quest first.
- You'll need to "sleep to progress" some quest, despite this not being clear in the quest description. Passing time to advance is a 100 % shit mechanic. Especially if it isn't clear that's what you need to do.
- You'll need a walkthrough. I got stuck on the very first quest multiple times. The in-game quest system is of no help at all. But wait there's more: There isn't a walkthrough available! So you'll be stuck here scouring through the thread trying to figure out what to do next half of the time playing.
- You'll need cheats. Losing 50 % of all earned money every day just feels like a slap in the face. You'll need to cheat yourself some money.
- It's open world but the progression is mostly linear. Again: "walking around simulator".
- Art is sub par, with placeholder black/white art everywhere.

All in all, this was a terrible experience and I don't recommend anyone to subject themselves to it.

Terrible game. Grindy, non-intuitive and repetitive. Art is good but it is just not worth it to go through it for the 2-3 scenes there are (even if there are more as of now, I don't even care enough to get them).

The MC is a fucking child. Stupid and borderline disgusting situations happen to get the scenes.

ofc there are a lot of things to improve (backgrounds and visuals), but the path chosen is pretty good.
I was looking for a game with a bit of atwt scenes, and looks like i ve found it, Hopefully they will add that even on human characters lol

Game looks great, is animated well, but the story is cliche, the gameplay has potential to be good, but the controls f*ck the game's chances of being an above average game.

For constructive criticism's sake, the movement feels weird and jiterry when you clash with objects, the developer says use A to attack, but instead of attacking, you just go left. Like wtf is that ? X and Z do nothing.

as of fall 2021:
Art is superb

That's really about it.
This game was on gray areas on some topic but it seemed the developer caved into pateron's rule. So what it was originally supposed to be made is now completely altered, The original game is no longer in development and I now assume the game will head to a different direction (which it already has considering they switched game engine this year). So anyone who was interested in this game pre-summer update will no longer like where it will head. As for the "dungeon" mechanic it's alright had a bug a few here and there, I prefer the other version, the current one takes longer imo.

Oh right, forgot to mention they just removed their discord to avoid the reaction to their change so yknow.

BTW if you are curious what it was before: https://f95zone.to/threads/spooky-milk-life-v0-40-13-mangomango-studio-gingko.68318/post-6756794

I'm gonna go ahead and give version 0.7 4/5 stars because I genuinely enjoyed it. The last version I played was either 0.1 or 0.2, I don't remember, and it looks like they've made plenty of changes since then. The game is still unfinished, after over a year do legal issues, or something, but appears to still be on track to be finished sometime next year.

Pros
+ High quality art style & Big Fat Anime Tiddies. All the character images are animated. Tits bounce, gals smile and wink and all that good stuff.
+ There's more milfs now. Which is fucking based. Also there's at least 12 characters total, I didn't count closely, who you can romance which is pretty rad. Most don't have dialogue options yet though.
+They removed the cringy incest and lolicon shit, because they're men of culture, I assume.
+ The gameplay is much improved. The game is basically designed to be played with a mouse now. Characters move like paper Mario, and enter into turn based combat, with a timed minigame that determines whether you hit and how much damage you deal. There are also RPG elements included where completing a dungeon gives you a skill point with a trainer that'l let you boost your stats.
+ The interface is easy to use. You can fast travel at any time, even to specific rooms so there's less wasted time.

Cons
- The plot. It might as well not have one. You live with your not step family. Your dad was murdered. Now the mc's gotta find out who dunnit. You can in fact make pron vidya ganes that don't revolve around that trope. No one will object.
- There's a few minor bugs in the demo. I hope they'll be fixed but my expectations are very low.
- I feel like they're maybe trying to do too much. The game is pretty good, there's alot you can do in game, but I worry that they may leave some more unfinished than others in order to rush the game out to sale.

The devs said they'd release the Beta 1.0 in January of next year. The main dev said he'd work on the game if he got 2k patreon supporters. I wasn't supporting development before but after seeing how much they've already accomplished I'll probably start.

0.7 review

When this project was first shown off I was excited to finally have an H game with timing based RPG with random dungeons, quality animations and some more "niche" fetishes (shouts out to the lactation nation) However after these past few months the game is now soon being SOLD and has degraded and abandoned nearly everything shown off originally. Now prepare for a long ass review

The art is unique and that's really important considering a majority of the games posted all have that same rough 3D. I enjoyed the older designs of the characters and I am miffed at the changes, but that's not the reason for the low score. My reason for the low score is that they still haven't properly explained the reasoning as to why they had to change things and whenever it comes up on their Patreon they just go radio silent. Miscommunication and not considering ANY alternatives like Subscribestar which are more lenient when it comes to adult content.

I do not understand wanting to have the game on steam. It does not help adult games in the long run for various reasons.
A: Nobody wants other people to know that they play sex games on their steam profile.
B: When putting things on Steam there are a lot of restrictions you have to abide by in order to have it there.
C: Unless your game is a smash hit it will never hit the front of Steam recommended.

TLDR: Miscommunication with devs to their supporters about changes to their game, and complete refusal of any alternatives. If the art wasn't good I'd give this 1 star.

At this time there is fuck all. Can't up with anyone or more like those few you can it does fuck all and nothing comes of it. Even says get closer to linda do everything and.... nothing. The fighting ain't worth it either

Mango and Gingko did surely one of the worst mistakes on game development and that is releasing the game on steam and turning their heads down just to follow steam standards of shitty Adults Only filters which is the complete overhaul change of the characters relationship with MC, model changes, NPC changes and finally CENSORSHIP 100% like there's no tomorrow because steam never is going to allow AO in their true nature.

Glad i just supported them 2 months after this damn fiasco happened, because i would feel real salty if i be supporting at this very moment a game that got one of the worst changes in the game to simply not having any interest in playing it!

I'm done with this game but the only i do have to give to mango is his amazing artstyle and animation skills which i be sure to follow, but when comes to support spooky milk life at its current state? Not in a million years i wont be supporting such a massacred game with altered censored garbage content i will only consider to support it again if they fully revert all the changes and be available to be purchasable on dl-site because at least there they do respect creator's genres of their game

Fun game

Unlike other games where the grinding is almost unbearable, the grinding here is rather fun and creative, so kudos for that

Art is wonderful, and most girls look like a piece of cake, the only thing that bothers me is that they alllll have big boobs, like literally all of them, and a little variation wouldn't have been any bad

The other thing that bothers me, but this is purely subjective, is seeing yet again a toddler/teenage with a cock with the size of an electric post.. I really can't understand that mania around here, I hope someone does an edit of the toy selling bitch playing around with a shota since well.. she's a twisted fuck and I love that

the art is some of the best I have seen thus far altho the content is quite lacking. I find the gameplay to be enjoyable and way above your average game posted here. As soon as the game gets more content added I will bump it up to five stars cause its one of the most promising adult games out there imo.

This game could be 4-stars one day but it is just lacking so much content and polish. I have no fucking idea how this has nothing but 4 and 5 star reviews right now. Maybe it looked good at the start and people did the typical "this game is complete shit right now but it looks like it could be good so I will give it 5 stars!" routine?? Idk. I'm not fond of the gameplay which is what will cap it at 4 stars for me (click on map to tell your character where to move, over and over and over and over, when you're in a dungeon you sometimes collide with an enemy and play a minigame to beat them).

There is only H content with two secondary characters (a blowjob, another blowjob, and cowgirl - confirmed by an in-game "Thats all folks!" message after the last scene). There are just two "quests" (how this game contains progression with characters), and the one with the sister hits a content wall fast, with no H content (so don't bother with it after you get your BJ from the toy store clerk, just focus on the other girl in the store).

The upgrade token thing is the biggest and most annoying bug. First off, any upgrade tokens you get (dungeons cleared) before you have a means of spending them go into a black hole. You know they exist but can't spend them. Secondly, any time you decide to clear more than just the first dungeon (to farm upgrade tokens), any tokens after your first one also go into a black hole. You know they exist, but can't spend them.

If that bug plus a couple minor bugs were fixed, this might approach 3 stars right now. But as it stands it appears to just be a grind fest with very little to show. It's a shame as the art is very hot. The scenes are acceptable. The dialog could stand to be improved (everyone acts like a child, but identifies as adults, except the MC and his mom... it's weird).

[Written After v1.0.0p Unity Port]
The game overall is very good, with quality art, "blossoming" character design, amazing animations, and a vigorous world full of women! ...also other things, for you to explore.

The whole game center around the toystore (as of now), you fight the malfunctioning toys to obtain their parts for you to sell since this is your only source of income, and the MC's really desperate to appeal to everybody he meets by doing chores and giving them what they want.

The writing isn't that good, especially with the translation at first. But overtime, with each updates, the team improve on their writing and translation.
Besides, there's also specific QnA channels for both English and Korean speaking audience. So it's pretty neat.

Before the game's Unity port, you utilize keyboard control to walk around and to fuc- I mean fight stuff with your fist and what-not. You get to upgrade your weapons, there's also a less risky projectile weapon. Most enemies' only way of attacking is through grappling you at close range and rape you until you cum and lose quite a lot of health.
Now it wasn't perfect, it could use some polish as it gets boring after a while, perhaps changing the enemy's attack so that you don't just cheese it with the water gun.

Comes the Unity port with a different programmer, everything turns into a point-and-click game with "no keyboard control coming in foreseeable future", as the team says. I'm not aware of others' reaction to this new change, but I sure hate it.
A bird-eye view sandbox game just isn't meant to be a P-a-C, I had trouble getting through areas sometimes just because I have to specifically click on tiny rectangle where the exit is, sometimes it outright doesn't let me click anywhere just because I got stuck on an object near me.

The toystore factory dungeon has been overhaul to look more like your typical RPG to compensate the mouse control, with special transitions as if it were a Persona game, I do like the transitions even if they don't really fit.

But when we get to the combat... hoo boy, it's one of those "time your attack thingy", and it's way too fast for you to reliably hit the middle for double damage, which by the way you do meekly 3 base damage without any weapons, 5 base damage if you have the bat, but it cost 100$ and run out after about ten battles.
The enemies, however, have 10 health, and either hit you for 7~10 damage if time your guard well, or 14~20 if you fucked it up, and you have base 50 heal points, good fucking luck. They may also 100% accurately rape you to fill up your cum meter, which instantly kills you when you fill it completely, yeah no kidding.

Which would've made the combat even more annoying, tedious, and more time consuming than the last, since you're constantly fighting for your life to get enough parts to sell. Though thankfully they bump the selling price of parts you collected a bit higher, 10 for each material, and 25 for toy's chips that they drop after battle.

But still, the current combat system really needs a revamp, but I certain hope for keyboard's return.

[Edit: Upon increasing my intelligence the bar slows down, but then again the tokens used for upgrading your stat is through clearing shitloads of dungeons anyway, so my point stands. Strength and dexterity still current does nothing as of v1.1.1p btw]

Artstyle is really nice. character design is also great. gameplay is awesome, really like it. but storyline is kinda meh, dialogue as well so after few scenes i just skipp most of it. hoewver, my biggest problems are the loli character. based on the dialogue & character design, the "loli" are underage character specifically childrens. it definitely bother me A LOT considering this is a porn game. would love to see options to turn off loli scenes in the future.

Played this on it's 1.0.16p release.
Already looks very promising, the art is already quite the feast for the eyes even if the animated CGs may looks a little bit clunky. The characters design is god tier (Big tits lovers, this game is for you) and if the developper intend to please a wider variety of preferences this can only get better.
The gameplay for now is actually pretty fun, the dungeon crawler and rogue-like aspect is kind of breathtaking when you're so used to boring RPGM games with no depth in gameplay. I can't wait to see where this is going and how it can improve.
The combat system in itself is okay-ish, kind of slow and not that rewarding but then again this is a very early state of developpement.
Playing this game with a mouse is pretty ergonomic believe it or not and I would even go as far as to recommend it over keyboard, and good one-handed games are what we need.
The biggest problem I have is the broken english, that definitely needs work.
Overall this game is definitely worth trying out even in it's early version, it's a nice change from your typical VN or RPGM game .

Really great game so far. even only after playing the demo. I would love to see more!
The only thing bugging me a bit is the english... It's also not my native language, but there are a ton of writing/grammar mistakes sadly.

a cool demo version with great potential, I'm looking forward to continuing!
At the moment, there are two scenes, a full-fledged dungeon and a prologue.
As it seemed to me, this is some mixture of gameplay solutions from different good games. It remains to hope that the developer will not abandon it.