Stranded Dick [v.0.7] seems like a fun game with an interesting plot. The game wants to simulate survival aspects like in other popular games, f.e. "Stranded Deep".
But in reality players are mostly in it for the chicks not the survival, right?
Hence the survival aspects should be a flavor, not the main dish!
The survival unfortunately is very grindy, because you end up doing the same tasks over and over again during the day. Hence it's boring to do so and click on the very same screens and items repeatedly.
Looking for food and crafting items might be fun the first three times, but then it gets tedious and annoying. Therefore the gameplay is very redundant.
Seems like the incest got completely removed from the game recently due to new patreon rules.
This is unfortunate, although I can understand that move by the dev, because he most likely feared to get banned on patreon and losing his income.
Rachel never looked like the mc’s mother anyway (looks way too young as "mother" for an adult mc, so she never was a believable mother to begin with). The daz3d model used for Rachel looks way too young to represent a milf with an adult son (mc).
The tension curve / pacing in this game between the mc and Rachel is very slow. It tries to be realistic and therefore relationship building takes some time, while it's the player's job to push the limit further and further with her. This game mechanic can be fun, BUT since the incest was removed, the slow sexual progress doesn't make that much sense any more.
After all there is no big taboo as obstacle any more like being closely related, but just Rachel being in a relationship with someone who might be dead by now.
Apart from that, I'm not a fan of the Lara Croft outfit, which Rachel is wearing on the island, because it simply doesn't make sense in this unrelated stranded scenario, other than adding a rather cheap pop culture reference.
The new blonde girl, Jessica, is fun and acts surprisingly different, compared to reluctant Rachel. So characters seem to have different personalities.
I'm anticipating further updates in order to see where this game is going and I'm especially curious about the rest of the cast.
It's still quite early in development considering the limited amount of content.
Keep in mind that the update frequency is quite low, the dev clearly takes his time to make new updates (half a year and more).
Unfortunately some releases tend to be buggy. Considering the update frequency (~half a year), it's a real shame, that new releases don't seem to be play tested at all. Certain bugs can prevent in-game progress and therefore might be game-breaking bugs.
Despite the 3 stars rating for the time being, I think it's a promising game with a lot of room to improve with emphasis on the latter (like removing much of the grind, adding more sexual content, polishing everything some more and bug-free releases)
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Edit: Stranded Dick [v.012]
Unfortunately the dev decided to ruin his game by adding cuckold content to this harem game. The game could have really picked up speed now by meeting more female survivors.
But unfortunately the dev decided to cuck his fanbase. This new contoversial content is anavoidable and right in the player's face.
With the introduction of Steve all progress with Rachel so far is gone and the main character Rick is cockblocked. The mc is reduced to an observing role.
My interest in this game is quickly fading. It's a big negative surprise, because this game started as a harem game and didn't have any ntr tags.
All the grind during a playthrough is really not worth it to be suddenly cucked in the end.
I'm really disappointed and will reduce the rating to 1 star.
