Others - Completed - Strive for Power [v1.0d] [Maverik]

This game is impressively done in a highly customized game engine (it uses GODOT and had to build a lot of their own systems rather than just plug and play). You can tell that a lot of work went into it… which is unfortunate because the gameplay is terrible. This is one of those brothel / slave trainer sims… except you do not have to be a cuck because whoring your slavegirls out pays less than having them do a real job. You can be a slaver… but you actually lose money trying to do that because you must carry heavy and expensive rope to capture slaves and there is 50% chance of losing your expensive rope when you get back to town and autosell all captured slaves. (edit: actually X*20% chance to break. with X being number of times that specific rope was used.)

The plot is decent enough. It really helps to consult the wiki.
Anyways, combat magic is shit and completely nonviable. you want everyone to be warriors, the only spell you ever want to cast in combat is healing spell. And even then it should be a rarity. Focus all stat points on dex, dex is completely broken stat in combat. Once dex is maxed start spreading out to other stats.

Most early and midgame cash you will make is by being a contractor slave "trainer" who fulfils easy and medium special slave training missions with purchased slaves. you ignore most special orders until you find one easily done, take it, buy a suitable slave in one of the guilds you can teleport to and then instantly finish it without doing any actual work.

To upgrade your mansion you need money and resource points. The only effective way to make resource points is to fulfil special training missions from the slavers guild. This is an artificial "mechanic" meant to force you to actually train slaves, except it fails at doing so.

Simping is bad, you should not be abusive but you should not white knight either.
Innocent urchin girl recruited? raping her is really bad and will be heavily penalized by the game. White knight and you will just fail as she leaves you.

But you can stealthily dose her with an aphrodisiac and absolutely should to jumpstart your relationship and ensure she decides to stay with you when her sister comes to save her. If you have locked her down well you can let her go with her sister back for a few days so she can calm her sister and she will return to you as your happy and loyal voluntary slavegirl.
This is extra important because your starting slave is not in a sexual relationship with you and you must have at least 1 slave in a sexual relationship to farm mana.

saving a cute little gnome girl from a rape monster? she is now super horney from the aphrodesiac? fuck her hard and deep, any other choice will get suboptimal results.
You are a slaver not a hero of justice and being a simp will be punished by the game. Although being unnecessarily cruel will also be punished.

Generating mana is super tedious because you do it via sex and sex is extremely tedious in this game.
Some races when fucked will produce both mana and Essence, which is used as magical crafting ingredient. I think it is maybe ~50% chance? whenever you fuck a girl of the appropriate species:
Fairy = Magical Essence
Dragon = Magical Essence
Demon = Tainted Essence & half cost laboratory.
Dryad = Nature Essence
Beastkin (any) = Bestial Essence

economy is fucked:
make your slaves get a real job (research assistant) = 2nd best way to make money
whore your slaves = pays less than sending them to work a real job
hunt slaves = you literally lose money
train slaves = extremely unprofitable
true method = travel around once to unlock quick travel to all the slaving guilds. Take easy and medium difficulty slave training contracts then use quick travel to buy a suitable slave to immediately fulfill the contract. This pays the most money, can be done immediately, is the least effort, and even provides you with resource points.

The actual waifus are cute. the game has about 20 girls with a picture in it and countless literally faceless NPCs. The game crowdsources the actual art to the players. The art packs are the result of said crowdsourcing... they are stolen random furry art ripped from various sources compiled by players which give actual faces to the various nameless NPCs. Needless to say it is utter shit, do not use an art pack. For one thing having an art pack will mean that you won't be able to identify real characters at a glance. Without an art pack I can immediately tell who is a literally faceless NPC and who is a person

Play through it once if you have the spare time. Temper your expecations

Oh one small correction. I said to only go after the named waifu characters, but you should infact keep 1 faceless NPC you are unattached to and primarily farm mana and essence from her so that she is the slave you have had the most sex with in the game.

You know, I'm extremely partial to management games. I don't, there's just something about small incremental progress that gets me going.

Story 6/10

Your uncle dies and you come to the city to inherit his mansion and his position in the mage's order. What is the mage's order? Good question. There's a surprising amount of lore in this game. It's not extremely deep, but enough that you know a lot of effort went into the story. There's a reason why slaves are everywhere and why individuals sell themselves into slavery.

Back on track, you quest through the mage's order advancing your mage rank and visiting the various cities in the game. You meet semi-interesting characters along the way but the story lacks a certain depth.

Don't want to spoil the ending but the ending comes with an... interesting choice. It essentially boils down to, gain a new slave or lose your favorite slave.

Gameplay 8/10

Management is fun. It's my jam. There's a lot of manage in this game, but also not a lot at all. The reason I say that is because the part which I would find interesting is not difficult at all. Even the most rebellious slave can be trained into full loyalty and full obedience within 2-3 days.

However, combat is the main substance of this game. You can train your slaves to go into combat with you and that does take an extremely long period of time.

I would have preferred if the obedience/loyalty grind took longer really because 2-3 days is just unrealistic.

Oh yeah, and there's pregnancy in this game. And after your slave gives birth, if you have a nursery, you have the option to send the baby off to be raised in another dimension and come back fully grown. So yeah, I definitely made an extremely long chain of mother/sisters.

Art 3/10

With management games, the art is almost always secondary focus. This game even needed an art pack to make it somewhat viewable. There are main/side characters who do have original art but both the scenes and art are sparse.

But the art isn't why you play a management game.

Overall 7/10

I know the numbers don't quite add up. Dun worry about it. This game is 4 stars out of 5 for the sheer quality. I had fun and that's what matters.

A pretty wholesome game that really feels fun. It could have had so much more potential, and stuff added into it. Luckly there is now a sequal and i can only hope more mechanics will be added into it! (oddly enough, the sex part was the most boring part inn this one)

honestly the best management game, the only letdown is combat is lacking. but managing slaves and breeding them is very addicting but i would recommend modding it. ralphs mod adds more into the breeding and extends the farm

An incredibly addicting game that has changed my opinion of text based games. This one has the perfect balance between imagery and text.

The management aspects are awesome but it requires a tiny bit too much micromanagement. If you play like me you might not finish a turn for hours. The combat does the job adequately but it's pretty basic, although there are interesting places to explore, nice loot to find and most importantly rare slaves to catch. The sex scenes are in text and they are pretty nice but there could be more variety and responses to some activities. The good thing is you can act as dominant or submissive as you like.

The game has much room for quality of life improvements, bugfixes and general polish but it has something that trumps those issues and that is mod compatibility.

The mods elevate the game a great deal especially with the customizability they offer. For example there are countless portraits which you can spend hours upon hours, if you so desire, to add for all races, genders and ages. Not that the art of the game is bad, it's actually fantastic but you are going to need a ton of variety. Even the biggest portrait packs were inadequate for me, so i just found my own character art to include and it's really exciting to explore and find creatures with the amazing art that you added according to your tastes.

The version of the game here is outdated. There is a 1.0d version and in my opinion the bare minimum you need to play the game close to its true potential, is to apply the v3 bugfix mod as well as the expanded sex mod to that version. I do recommend the chastity belt mod as well if you want to be a slave yourself to one of your servants.

I can't give this more than 3/5.
It's true that this is technically a completed game, but it just barely reaches that status. There is a lot of content that needs polishing, there is a lot that can be added, and there is much that could use some adjusting.
Strive for Power is quite fun, I spent a couple of days messing around with it, but to think that it will not receive any further updates is pretty baffling.
I don't know much about this supposed sequel or what ever it's supposed to be, but I think abandoning this one was a mistake.

Fun gameplay! Combat is simple but fun, and I enjoyed assembling the best crew possible. Can even be played like a "breeder" game if you turn down the pregnancy duration.

Fairly well balanced, characters have intriguing stories, no major gameplay holes.

Probably the best brothel game out right now. Has tons of unique characters and cg, also with a great battle system. There are many quests to do, and you can collect rare items, brew potions, and even start a "cattle farm." Easily can put days into this game without getting bored.

Abandoned not completed as the developer is remaking the game from scratch but still a good prototype that make me look forward to the remake.

A trainer game with good system, recommand trying it out to get hyped for the remake !

I know this game since (I think it was) 5.12 and did support it on patreon for some time (sorry but I am a poor part-time working student and it isn't an AAA game).

1. The game is slave management based. It offers a decent story based campaign, which after you end are free to continue playing it as a sandbox. You can also start a sandbox campaign.
2. While there are other slave management games this is imo the best one, since it has the most polished gameplay.
3. There is a ton of mods/picture packs on itch.io so the game doesn't get that repetitive. Every slave has passive traits and other stats and including the pictures it gives a good replay value.
4. It isn't machine translated.

Cons:
1. There are NO Animations. Which can be a minus for some players. It is purely text based.
2. There is NO Voice Acting.



Verdict: The modding and all the ways you can interact with the slaves definitely outweigh the cons, but I'm sure some players won't find a text-based game appealing.
I would have liked a way to get more quests or reset them. Since I keep mostly female slaves having 3-4 quests for male really slows me down. The start feels a little slow since bandits are strong and you have to cherry pick weaker ones.

i rated four star since i know this game is both orginal,detailed and amazing but i had encountered a few problems such as surviving since there was no way to change the difficulty it made it really exicting but it was so intense and fustrating to survive longer than a week tbh if not for the pic upload thing i wouldve rated 2 but even i admire you for your diverse game it made me realize just how difficult it can probably be to manage people under you i look forward to more games ( im sure im getting another warning for this message but oh well )

Most of the game is about management, and the management just SUCKS.

You need to tread an extremely specific line or you will find yourself with no money, no food, and slaves who hate you and who you can't discipline AT ALL or they just run away.

Just go play something else.

Really overall well made and interesting game. The gameplay isn't tedious and allows you to explore your options, plus there is story progression to keep you moving forward with a clear objective. It isn't overall punishing and allows you to take your time doing things. There's no time limit or anything. It's overall really well made and I look forward to seeing what else the developer does.

Reviewing v.0.5.25 (which seems to be the final version)

I found it pretty lacking as far as management aspect is concerned. Slave training process is pretty much a cookie cutter, and you can't screw it up. This is mostly because training methods can be spammed, and permanent psychological damage is non-existent. Spam fear to reduce rebelliousness to zero, then be nice to them for a couple of "dates", fuck them consensually, ta-daa! Training is basically complete. The upside, though, is that you don't have to grind too much and the game is very forgiving, unlike many others from this genre. Suitable for beginners.

The game has some interesting ideas like perk system, alchemy system, sex scene system and others, but they aren't integrated or balanced with each other and slave training too much.

The same goes for the story mode, it's kinda disconnected from the management aspect. The story revolves mostly around navigating the map and fighting. It features 9 recruit-able characters with unique art, and some CGs (1-2 per character), which is nice, but not really groundbreaking.

As for the plot itself... To be honest, it's quite bland. Act as a goody two shoes and you'll get the best reward (unique slaves and spells) 8 out of 9 times. So... you're a lawful good slaver? Makes no sense to me, but that's the 'optimal' way to play the game.

Another flaw of the story mode is that you get a lot of girls at the end of the story line, so these acquisitions aren't really meaningful to you. As it is common with this type of games, the start is the hardest point of the game. The story does offer you 3 characters basically 'for free' and these 3 characters will be more than enough to form a combat party for the rest of the game, even though they don't have the best stats or perks.

And the worst offense, there seems to be no meaningful difference between characters that have joined you willfully and those who have not. I would expect that 'free' characters would not allow you to sell or brand them, but apparently they don't care. Not that selling a unique character is a good idea, but still.

6/10, mostly for the story mode, if it wasn't for that it'd be lower.

Awesome training game!

- Much better combat mechanics than Slave Maker. You can fight as a team with your girls. Some combat areas of the game are actually quite challenging if you don't know what you're doing.
- There is actually a plot.
- Grinding at certain points in the game but not annoying.
- Beautiful custom art.
- Option to customize images.
- Randomized client requirements for selling slaves making it not as tedious as other games that require you to do the same thing over and over and over.
- Fantastically small saved game files. You can save as many times as you want. You can even edit them.
- You will find violence and NSFW stuff but this is nowhere near some of the stuff in other games that can make you puke.
- I rate it 9/10 because it can still be improved.

Had a ton of fun with this!
Excellent management with plenty of customizations to tailor to your kinks.
The story and gameplay is pretty solid, combat is decent and makes for a fun distraction from managing your slaves.

Rewiev of v0.5.23c

This game is one of my most favored management games. It is text based with option to add images to slaves through imagepacks along with a mod that randomly assigns images based on tags in names.

Gameplay is the meat and focus of this game. You start with creating your character and have a big array of different races to choose from.
A few different backgrounds that add small gameplay changes or boost your start. You also create your first slave along this process and you can customise detailed things as what eye color, tail shape, size of body parts etc. There is a sandbox and story mode for you to choose aswell. Once in the game you are free to do as you please. You could go outside and try your luck in the wilds and hope to find good loot or a good captive. You could also go to the slave guild and take a special contract where you must deliver a slave with certain stats, gender or look. Go to the mage guild and learn spells which can help both in and out of combat.

The way to train you slaves is done by pressing interaction and you can choose two modes meet and sex. Meet is where most of the training will occur to increase obedience, loyalty and/or fear. Sex is important because the only way you gain mana is if you or your slave orgasm. You could if you are impatien force yourself on your slaves and gain a bit of mana or try and improve loyalty and obedience to the point of where they are willing and i believe gain more mana through more total orgasms. Your slaves also get desires during sex you can fulfill to increase their lewdness.

Once a slave get enough experience through combat or work you need to talk to them and fulfill their request. Their request is randomly chosen and can therefore in the early game screw you a bit when your resources are scarce. When a level is completed you are rewarded with 2 attribute points to put into different attributes until they have reach their max. There is also secondary stats on your slaves which require learning points to increase and this is gained by training them during a meet interaction or having them spend their time in the library.

Final note on gameplay is that to upgrade your mansion you require gold and uppgrade points which can be aquired on different ways. You can spend a slaves attribute points to get 2 for 1, sell a captured slave and get a certain amount based on grade. Lastly you can get them by completing quests too.

There are also a good amount of keyboard shortcuts which makes this game much less click heavy and is worth a mention. I would have liked to see more shortcuts so it could be played with only keyboard.

The story is interesting enough to keep wanting to explore but nothing special, if you play story mode that is. There are also a decent amount of side quests to find and complete. All of the side quests have one girl which depending on your choices can become your slave.

I like the art one the few characters that have their own art in the base game. Most of these characters also have their own special sex scenes that you can achieve.

Biggest downside for me when playing this is peformance during combat. After a few or more hours the combat get low fps which makes it frustrating but not gamebreaking. This could be on the games side or mine but something to be aware of going in. There may also be bugs here and there but none that come to mind.

I recommend this game wholeheartedly because it is a good game in the current state.

EDIT: one thing i forgot to mention is that if you dont like futa, furry or wish to have only men or only futa you can change it in option on the main menu.

Strive for Power is text-based RPG with pictures in which you play slaver in fantasy world.
You play in sandbox world, but there is a main quest which you can do at your own pace. There are also some side & repeatable quests.
There is lot of things you can do, you can play to finish story, build harem, train & sell slaves or fight bandits for example.
Game comes with some graphics, but for better experience, I recommend portrait pack.
Game is quite complex, there are many races, but writing in game is often a bit uninspired in my opinion.
Sex is text-based, but becomes very repeating & boring quite soon, especially when you have many slaves. Slave taming is quite undeveloped at the moment in my opinion and slaves often behave like spoiled brats.
Fighting is the worst part of game in my opinion (like console RPGs, so some might like it), there is ton of it, and it is extremely repeating.
There is wiki & ingame tutorial/help, but game mechanics are not explained in many cases.
Although this is early version (v0.5.23c in my play-through), game can offer many hours of play (depending how much you like it).
Game is also not too difficult to cheat in CE (but I couldn't find pointers) or save edit, which is always plus for those with little time/patience.

At moment, I would say that this is a good game with potential to become really excellent.
I would recommend this game to anyone who can read and like fantasy and is not turned down with slavery genre (it's not quite grim, most slaves behave more like quests than slaves anyway).

This game...

basically it is a honeypot. It promotes itself on its own homepage and here on F95 with nice western graphics. The background of the slavor guild and the start-menu screen... and that is everything. Everything else is pure Anime and Hentai style.

As a person like me, that hates everything that has to do with Anime/Manga/Hentai etc.. it was a pretty hefty slap in the face when I met the first NPC .. especially when she drops her clothes.

But i got a catch on this game. It is by far one of the best in this sector while we speak about Technics, Complexity and HUD/GUI graphics.

Anime/Hentai is a pure matter of taste. So, not my taste.. which means it wont affect my rating.

The Sex.. aside from the sex-pictures that you can unlock with certain NPC in this game. And we talk about ONE picture for each.. ok, two on some.
Everything else is text based. But you have a lot of options and whatever is your taste, you'll find it in here.

At the current state (0.5.23c) there has not much balancing being done by the developers. Sometimes a slave require an item to hop from level 1 to level 2, that is impossible to aquire before going level 4 with a full equipped battle group. Just sell this slave then (your bad if he/she is your starting slave, just start a new game then ^^). Most battles are waaay to easy, you NEVER need to use the "Block" function if you have a hammer and a chainmail. Some of the good stuff just pop in in the very end of the game.
And some NPC as well show at the far end of the game. An entire City, a very anticipated alchemist is so far away in the game, that it becomes useless on aquire. (for example, there is an Elf NPC wich can join your household. She is level 1 if you get her. But you just can get her, so far in the endgame, that even your worst slave is already level 7-12. What makes the NPC useless and just one mouth more to feed. Same for other NPC.. if you not run down the main story like mad, you will enconter them when it is useless.). But as far as I know, the devs working on the game balance. So I am happy if they are done and I can try it out.

All in all, this game has some very addictive style to me. I really enjoy playing it. Even with my stance against hentai stuff. The mechanics, the GUI graphics, the music/sound, the freedom to do what I want catches me.

So from my point: This is what i call a very good slave-simulator game where I wish more of. ... and maybe. ... with the graphic style that they advertise.. not a hughe honey pot.

Game has pretty good amount of content and is story-rich. Location styling is good. Combat is actually not so good and i find it being either too challenging (at he beginning with no cheats) or boring to the late game (I would suggest more fast forward for enemy turns).
Modding option is great. Hope the game will be updating =)