HTML - The Zeta Sector [v1.6.3] [Primal356]

I should not be lukewarm on this game. It's got so much of the shit that usually makes me go wild in games like this- but it's just so shallow and poorly designed. The interface is clunky and unimersive, the sex scenes feel slow and generic, and the gameplay loop is insultingly slow. Twine is barely being pushed or utilized here- the dev needs more technical knowledge to make the game compelling.

It's not like they compensate by wrtiting well. For such a kinky game, it has remarkably dry prose, that keeps repeating itself even after you've heard it a hundred times. I can't think of a single character I found interesting or hot in this game- they have the personalities of pieces of cardboard.

I'll give this game an 3/5, and that's entirely an act of mercy on my part. In theory, it's hot as fuck- in practice, it reads more like the lead-eating cousin of a much better game that doesn't exist. What a shame.

It's a solid start to a new game. The core ideas (latex and submission) are there. But I wonder if the game would benefit from just having one expansive planet versus multiple planets. Travelling to another planet imo just changes the environmental theme, with no real cost of fuel meaning its the same as just walking out of your ship.

solid game so far. the latex & ballet boots fetish genres are so underserved nowadays. it would be nice to be able to continue to the other planets/missions after the first one especially when the crash story arc isn't finished yet anyway.
also while the text descriptions are well done, some other images besides just the landscapes and profiles would be nice to help break it up.

[0.0.5] It's hard to rate this game so early; I'll try my best,

There is the big problem -- it is a game that attempts to do a very difficult thing: many story branches, with continuations. We, collectively, know from experience that this seldom works out.

The number of branches grows geometrically with story progression, unless counter-measures are taken. Large teams can use methods like procedural content generation from pseudo random numbers (or heck, even LLN/ai NPCs). But a small team will struggle -- the game experiences a kind of heat death, where the efforts are spread thin across dozens of branches.

In the version that I played, there was a choice with three options in the beginning section. As far as I could see, no hints were provided about what may work or not. It was not a riddle to get right. One option just was aritrarily correct and the others bad ends; pick a pipe. The bad ends were not interesting and contained no images. This is an unpleasant but common thing for games that try to do frequent branching.

Some games use a point system for personality traits, and every interaction molds your character. This changes how the events play out. In some cases branching of the story becomes necessary, but the number must stay very low (e.g. 2) for it to be workable. They create scene variations.

Some games have a main loop, which makes the world seem richer, as you can reuse lots of scenery, but have slightly different things happen there.

Games that have early diverging paths create so much work that most branches become stale at some point. The danger is that your play-through resembles a maze-solving task: your objective is to find the longest path that the dev(s) has/have worked on. The decisions are not "what would I do?", nor "what would this character do?" it becomes: "what did the devs work on?"

Hopefully, this game succeeds and the number of branches remains low. But, the early dead ends are worrying (or even the existence of dead/bad ends). This is not at all mandatory, bad ends are not required to exist. They only contribute to the plot if there is suspense and if there is skill involved in making the right decisions.

I can see this go either way.