RPGM - The Office Wife [v0.93] [J. S. Deacon]

Why this game is great?

1. The scenes are great. (+1)
2. Story is great. I would still play if this was a non sex game. I am still unsatisfied that there is no mention how the story progresses. (+1, -1, =0)
3. Great anatomy. Not just female, but male aswell. No super melons or horse ding-dongs. (+2)
4. Characters are true to their nature. (counts in story so no points.)
5. Corruption done right. Slow and gradual. (+1)
6. Exhibitionism and Voyeurism done okay (since it was only okay, no extra points.)


What I hated.
1. The game is long, but not because it has a lot of content but because it is repetitive. It feels like playing a ren'py instead of a RPGM since there aren't really choices for you to choose from. The story progresses linearly. (-1)
2. Clothing. While anatomy in the game was awesome, the clothing was messed up. clothes don't stick to the sternum when someone has boobs that big and is wearing a bra. (0, won't pick off points for something like this.)
3. The options are messed, like I am forced into the NTR route even if I choose the non NTR one. (-2)

Suggestions for improvement:
1. Options in the clothing, Since the game is being published out as a RPGM, there is no reason to not add choices to dressing. more colors, more undergarments would be great.
2. Repetitiveness is okay and part of RPGM, but there should be a button to speed/skip it. (I am not aware of the coding behind it so i am not sure if this can be implemented)
3. This seriously needs a recap room.

CHEERS FOR DEVELOPER FOR MAKING THIS GAME FREE AND DONATION BASED!

Excelent game! Tha way the author leads the development of each character is amazing! Stacey day by day, even struggling, more and more wants to discover herself as a woman. Jason by his side, wants her to give in to her inner passion and Nate is willing to share this moments with them. Needless to say, one of the best games in this genre i ever played!

Review v0.26

Hopefully I will update this review on a later version and it becomes a 4 or a 5. But for now . . .

Good:
- Attractive MC.
- Physical attributes and appearances are fairly normal. Thankfully, this game avoids the "boyfriend has a tiny dick and everyone else has a baseball bat" syndrome, as well as the "the bigger the breasts the better" affectation. Also, all of the characters have appealing attributes - so far haven't seen the fat rapist, the old rapist, or the Freddy Kreuger character that pops up in many RPGM corruption games.
- Dev does a GREAT job with facial expressions (possibly the best I've seen).
- Story has some mystery to it (e.g. - Decent pacing on MC's corruption
- Lots of characters with varied personalities
- Lots of foreshadowing of future events
- There were at least 25 unique scenes (the game tracks "enchantment points" and at the end of v0.26 you have 25 of them).
- Appears to be written by someone for which English is their native tongue (i.e. few to no spelling / grammatical errors).

What's missing / "Meh" elements:
- No gallery
- No way to hide the text bar
- Virtually no sound (e.g. there isn't even a sound when you save, let alone background music or gasping during sex scenes). Kinda weird to play a "game" in nearly total silence.
- No hints / quests. You can use the walkthrough provided (and you absolutely should). Would have been better if the MC had an internal dialogue suggesting what you should do next, or even better use the quest function within RPGM.
- Only the Mega link (as of this version ) is complete. The NOPY version is missing a file.
- If you get too hasty accelerating through dialogue and accidentally click during an animation the game will freeze. So save often.
- Without a gallery, would be nice to see a "repeat / continue" feature added to animations. I've seen this in other games. Without it, after grinding through repetitive content, it is disappointing that the "good stuff" is over so quickly.
- Not sure the dev has decided on the nature of this - that is, it isn't really a game (there aren't any puzzles or other game-like elements), but there's enough walking around that it isn't really a virtual novel, either. And the only decision that maybe impacted the story was to NTR or to not NTR. And by all means, you should pick NTR, because that leads to the hottest scenes.

The bad:
- Groundhog Day* - except you don't end up knowing how to play piano or sculpt ice. Many (MANY!) scenes repeat. Over and over and over. This isn't an RPGM game problem - this is built in by the dev and only serves to pad the game time. And to be clear, this isn't like some grind games where you have to walk all over the place or take a 1-2 click shower each morning. Virtually EVERY DAY you have a multi-click shower, getting dressed, drinking coffee, driving to work, talking to the guard, talking to the boss, doing a part of your job in the morning, doing a part of your job in the afternoon -- all with renders and dialog that you've seen several if not dozens of times before. And just when you think it is safe to speed through this dialog ("W"), a slightly new piece of dialog slides in with no warning. This did improve between v0.25 and v.26, so hopefully the dev has created enough new content to leave this HORRIBLE aspect behind.
- Lack of quests / guidance / complete walkthrough -- I just happened to see an easter egg event in the forum. Are there others? With so much (SO MUCH) grinding each day, does the dev really expect us to explore and find easter eggs outside of the normal course of the day?

*I stole the "Groundhog Day" idea from a post within the forum, but it does a great job describing this "game." The other descriptor I thought of was "The Daily Grind."

Rating for: (v0.25)

...PROS:
-Good story, well implemented and progressive.
-Grinding its fine
-Good ntr and voyeur kink game.

...CONS:
-A bit repetetive, needs more variation on our day a day.
-Maybe more desisions to take different paths

In general the game need to be improved, but have much potential. For me its a fresh game in NTR category. Four stars.

- Story is interresting
- Main character is hot
- Animations are pretty good

I am not sure if i played it right, but i think the choices arent really choices (you dont have the scene i think).
I dont think there is a grinding problem, more a problem that you have to do every enchantment one after another (not two or three parallel) so you have to do one per day i think.

Overall the game looks pretty good but i think a RenPy version would be better than a RPGM version because you dont do much, just running to every point for the next story step.

Great story and renders

the bad part is that there is little update (0.25) , I will wait about 3 updates to play again


Very good game for those who like progressive ntr in which she starts being holy and gets more dirty over time and shows off more and more, I hate the part with Jason (husband), I prefer her with the others, it is much better;

The game just needs to be lighter and with fewer bugs, it is difficult to walk at night, the game is too slow and even more if it is the night with some background

Nice, good game I think that the game is on the right track, love the animation, and the view angle, love the story too. Keep it up bro, honestly the game is satisfying, reduced bugs and added walkthrough so the game now is much easier to progress.

Fun premise, prospect of expanding into something good but plagued by endless, pointless wandering about. Feels like I need to go to lunch every day just to open up dialogue. Pointless and is really offputting. I know it's a staple of RPGM games but by god it's tedious. I don't mind walking from point A to point B if it drives the story but to go from point A to point B simple so that I have to go back to point A to progress the story is poor writing.

This is my new NTR RPG favorite game. Slow development of depravity, well-set plot. I look forward to continuing the development of history. I recommend to all fans of the genre. Who said routine should be boring?

UPDATE: Version 0.75

Good game undermined by a lot of mindless repetition.

The Good:
-IMHO one of the hottest female protags on this site
-The story is hot and reasonably well scripted
- graphics are OK -- good at times -- but not great
-Update: the graphics of Stacy have improved dramatically and she is now one of the hottest rendered models on the site.

The Bad:
- RPGM --> The point behind all the travel just seems to be a waste of time. I guess it allows you to do or not do things, but it got tedious.
- way too repetitious. I ended up fast-forwarding through a lot of grind.

Concerns: A lot of mindless repetition. The story never really evolves with the doctor, so the repeated scenes felt pointless even though you were encouraged to visit. (The doctor scenes have been pared back considerably). Some of the repetition also repeated intro dialogue that made it appear like they were just now having a conversation about something new when it was the 10th time they were having the same conversation. For instance, Michael asks Stacey about the "pains" but the dialogue kept acting like he was seeing her in pain for the first time. Annoying and easy to correct in the game logic.

Upd: Lastly, as much as many are cheering the NTR, from my perspective it simply doesn't exist. The NTR is coming into sharper focus. I opposed this being called NTR initially, bc Jason was not demonstrating jealousy; instead he was encouraging her to tease other men and didn't care when she fucked them. So, it felt more like cuckolding than NTR to me. But that is starting to change, and it is well done. It's starting to feel more like "be careful what you wish for."

In the updated version there are more scenes of him second-guessing sharing her, but for the most part, I really don't see this as NTR. It's games like this where I believe there is a sincere need for a cuckold tag, b/c this feels more like cuckolding than NTR.

Updated final thoughts: Some of the repetition has been pared down considerably, but there is still a lot of grind early in the game and a lot of the travel is unnecessary and sometimes confusing. As a consequence of the changes made, I'm upping my review to a 3.5 and rounding up to a 4 because the main female model is simply one of the hottest rendered models on this site.

I think there's potential here, but for now, I'm rating this a 3.

My Rating for v0.1 is:

Pros:
+ Graphics O.K
+ Active Play
+ Nice few Scenes
+ Ntr Game

Cons:
- Some Grinding
- Few Scenes
- No Hint if task completed

Conclusion:
The Game was pretty good at the beginning,but after some time you start running around all over the Place not really knowing what to do.
There should be a hint system built in to tell you what you need to do next or a little hint would be nice.
also if you have reached the end would help.
Hope that changes will come in the future.
For a Version 0.1 it was pretty Interesting.

The game has a good amount of content for a first release, renders and animations are great.
The gameplay is a bit repetitive, in order to progress you have to repeat some tasks several times with little differences in dialogues, this could be fixed by removing the need to do some of the tasks every single day but considering most of the events happens at MC's job (and jobs are monotonous) this is probably not to bad, also the game is pretty straight forward with some minor bugs and interesting story.
Overall I really enjoyed the game so I recommend it.

Version 0.4-Update:
I do not really know what to say... The writing is still good and the pictures are decent. However, while they grind was negligible in v0.1 because of the games other qualities, progressing or should I say grinding further into the story makes it worse, even with skipping. You just crawl through the days, suffering through the tenth gate or lunch scene with the exact the same dialogue, doing the same "events" with the exact same dialogue, in the hope to find that scene that has 2 new sentences at the end. You never know what to do progress and if there is any choice at all. And all the time you wonder, "do I have to repeat the scene a number of times" or "is there any progression in another work event and I simply did not find it?". It just always feels out of reach (carrot) and it is really frustrating. And of course you have to your noon-work at floor 1, get your stuff in 2, workout in the basement and get back to 1 to leave the building. If there was a game in need of a renpy conversion - it is this one!

Score changed to 2*

Version 0.1:
Good start to a hopefully succesful NTR game, that atm suffers avoidable common RPGM problems.

In Detail:
Good art and well-build RPGM world, that seems to be just the right size. The story seems ok (what there is) and the writing is good. There are no serious bugs and the game is stable and performant.

However the game is VERY repetetive - you grind the days (shower->clothing-> breakfast->work->lunch->repeat) with only minor alterations to dialogue/scene - if any at all! The daily stuff and conversations is 90% literally the same, with even the same thoughts and stuff and after clicking through the same scene for the tenth time - hello Einstein and his definition of insanity...
Do not get me wrong there are some new dialogue snippets after some repetitions and I don't mind a slow pace (if there is interesting content) but if you cut out "daily stuff/scenes" there is maybe 25% game and 75% bloat through grind/repetition.

3* (average) for a promising but tedious start.

Best ntr game i have played in a long while, hands down the most interesting background story.

It could have a bit more decision making experience, but overall you should totally give it a try.

Hoping for future updates to have as much new content as v0.1

Keep up the good work!