RAGS - Completed - The Sinner Game [v1.02] [Larry_Dreamer]

Though the game is fair but the worst part about the game i found is that its next to impossible to play the game without 'guide' or 'walkthrough'. Any sandbox game is played where the 'player' is supposed to enact as mc and can take their own decisions.. now here.. its impossible without help of detailed guide and walkthrough.. its neither very straight forward or clear on how what can be achieved.. also at first few hours of game (with walkthrough), you would have achieved nothing.. nada..

I've played HTML Version. Game is worth giving a try. Alot of content, decent story, playthrough is not that grindy. It's not the best game around for sure but that's most likely what I expected from a solid HTML game. I sincerelly recommend it, unless you're looking for fanciest thing around. It's decent, good, solid position worth trying. Cheers.

Extremely poor sandbox that necessitates a walkthrough. Unfortunately following the walkthrough takes away some enjoyment, oh well.

The prose is horrible.

But there is plenty of porn and content and different girls, and the complicated triggers do add some immersion though it's utterly not worth it due to making the gameplay impossible.

playable sandbox.
i cannot say anything "truly" bad. it has sufficient content, consistent visuals, ingame hints and external w/t with jumping through pages; havenot spot any bugs preventing me from advancing the story n quests (except 1 in the end)
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initially it felt like 3,5 score but the more i played the lesser score was on my mind. so lets say 2,5 (rounded up to 3 stars)


some things simply drag it down.
--engine. rags is not so comfy thing. it is more like tricky point n click with so-so map navigation.
ofc you will get used to it but imo it requires more attention from a player which is not that good for arousal (if any) ;
-mostly w/t covers actions needed until it doesnot (in several situations)
-i got quora error when saving. had to delete older saves. but there are some ingame events with roaming and rng so you may want to preserve those.
--gameplay&w/t. no idea what is the most efficient way to play it, but for me it feels like there are more interrelated things than needed
say, you want to perform some simple action (related just to 1 npc of your choosing) and next thing you know - you sit with other 5 npcs pages opened trying to figure out who needs what and in what order (mostly it would be 2-3 npcs. i used notepad.txt to arrange info the way i wanted in order to see active quests and prereqs clearly)
-also progress and skill differences may lead to continuity and immersion issues as your memories start fading before you return back to certain npc quest chain . (i guess that is what you naturally get when you have two dozen npcs with gradually delayed progression.)
--no vids. (that thing alone cost about -1star)
in sandboxes porn is a reward. pics are not rewarding enough (if at all. especially given the above two points. and i did feel like i worked for it . harder than usual)
-sometimes it feels like visuals are missing. (like you reasonably expect such but none of such are shown. not necesserily lewd ones)
--minigames are not skippable.
some are easy, some are tolerable/managable, several are kinda annoying and time consuming. (caz of ui, rng, w/t descriptions)
--some vn approaches (some forks) including gameovers. not that detrimental (usually it is known when to save)

the game is very good. Just needed more effective walkthroughs or clearer hints within the game, initially the story unfolding is extremely slow as it is more connected to several different characters, but the choice of characters was a big hit!

Nice game, lots of gameplay, nice images and story line. Needs a better walkthrough though, too much grinding.
Although it has in game hints. Can make a bit more interesting with more characters. Of course this is still under development. Can't wait for the nun content.

This game has been out for over a year with lots of content and yet no reviews exist on it yet. It's time someone gives "The Sinner" a proper review (v.0.6 bugfix01)

Story 5/5 -> The story is interesting if you are into the whole Mind Control fetish. You are a regular boy who does a "deal with the devil" to get some power to corrupt women. After that you have an open world and can basically do everything in any order you want. Which brings us to the "Dialog choices"

Dialog choices 2/5 -> I really love that this game is an open world so you can do alot of stuff whenever you want in what order you want. HOWEVER, there is a huge flaw in the system where you NEED a walk-through. There are so many times that you cannot figure out what to do next because you need to talk to a specific character at a specific time on a specific place. The in-game story and help system is useless at helping you in finding those spots. Since you need an walk-through to get the correct outcome, it becomes just as bad as an "Game over" after a wrong dialog choice.

Sexual Content+spelling 5/5 -> The spelling is good enough to fool me and you have so much sexual content to satisfy you for a long time. One could argue that there could be more sex scenes though, but you have to work to get to them so I don't find that to be too much of an issue.

Domination/bdsm 5/5 -> This is a mind control game so naturally you are going to dominate your victims sooner or later. There are also some bdsm scenes in the game to spice it even further.

Pregnancy 1/5 -> I haven't found yet if there is a pregnancy in the game. Based on the unprotected sex you are having it should happen, but for every version released it becomes more of a concern that pregnancy will ever be implemented at all. I will give it some benefit of doubt but I'm very skeptic about it ever being there.

Overall this means that this game gets 18 points out of 25, resulting in 72% or 4 stars.

I find this game to be enjoyable but it can be frustrating if you cannot find your way unless using a walk-through. Especially since this is an Rags game so with every new release you need to start over. This is nothing the developer can do though except he chooses to switch engine for some reason.

My star rating system:
0-20% -> 1 star
20-40% -> 2 star
40-60% -> 3 star
60-80% -> 4 star
80-100% -> 5 star