HTML - Time Shifter [v0.9.9.2] [HotLoad]

Really saddens me to give this a 3/5, but it is what it is worth.

The game itself has a solid framework; great interface and great flow between scenes. A bit of work needs to be done on the js and css to make it properly responsive, but other than that, that alone is 5/5.

But the game suffers from the quick and off-tempo stories. Characters go from 0 to 100 real quick. The sister's story is actually decent, but the mother's story goes from "You're my son, what are you doing!?" to "Let's fuck because you said 3 nice things about me." This defeats the point of a porn game where immersion is key. Certain characters are just "Repeat this action to gain X points and then we fuck".

Tl;dr; Solid framework, but game is a cheap quick and to the sex game with no depth.

3.5 stars, rounding down.

Played version 0.2.0.1.

Pros:
Slick interface the looks slightly different to the others.
Genuinely hot girls - all of them would be "the hot one" in other games. Great diversity among a number of attributes.

Cons:
No story so far. The titular time shift device comes in in the intro and then basically hasn't reappeared. You could have exactly the same game in the present and skip the intro.
Sex scenes are really bad. You go on a date with a super hot girl. And then you click "sex scene 1" and it shows you a bunch of gifs. I think there needs to be a bit more buildup and more writing during the scenes. Right now it really just doesn't feel hot. Maybe also some other scenes before full sex?

Overall I want to rate this game higher, and will come back in a few months to see how it has progressed. But it's so generic right now that I just can't give it more stars.

Version v0.2.0.1 offline

The good :

UI is really good beside two small issues I have (Will talk about them in con)
Haven't had any bugs in any of the version I played
Grinding is minimal (unless if you want to max stats, but that's a given)
Decent amount of content for a recent game
Can change character names.

Cons :
Main character has no portrait and is called "You"
The writing is a bit shallow, characters are two dimensional.
When you finish a girl's story line and get access to dates, the first scene is usually just the scene you got right before you're able to date them ( Pointless to do them since there's barely any content there, probably because the game is in early stage)
Character locations are annoying, you need to enter a location to see who is where, some locations also have two floors so it's a bit annoying
When you grind, you have to click a lot, adding an option to read again/train again until you have to sleep would be nice, right now, you have to click back to reading, select the book, continue.


What I recommend :

Letting player change the name of the character and use a picture for the portrait in text boxes ( Can easily be modified if the person doesn't like it with an URL or simply replacing the file)
Adding a fast travel on the sidebar (making it an option would be better, the current map is fine, but it just brings you outside of the location, a quick way to go to certain locations with a single click would make it better)
Girls location on the side bar (The game might be bigger later on, adding this early on and having it working would make it easier in the future, it's also a good QoL change)
Re writing some of the story, I'm not a writer or anything, but this game is shallow so far, the characters all act the same, they're all peppy, there's 2-3 occasion where they're sad. There also isn't much text, adding more would be better, from my understanding, this is a light hearted game right now so this might be why, but while reading everything and checking out the videos, you can finish the game under an hour, again, I know this is an early stage for the game but that's why adding more now would be better than later since ideas would be fresh.

Final note : 4/5

The only reason I removed a point is simply because of the writing, when it changes in the future/the game gets bigger, I'll update my review.
Even if I talk badly about the writing, the game is still good in it's current state, there isn't any issues I've noticed and there isn't much to change to make it better.
I hope you don't take this review poorly, if you have some questions about what I exactly mean, feel free to message me.

Hey there people or other existences of this coom cave of a forum,

honestly, you should try this game, it's interesting game with fairly fresh plot to our perverted scene.

DESIGN:
The design of this game is nice and smooth, honestly this type of design is seen only in games that have prolonged development and as such, I'm goint to support this game with all I have, even tho I can't give the developer any money, since I'm just a "Poor fucking student" (reference to "Poor fucking infatry" from Witcher). I honetly encourage you to try this piece and hopefully you'll be intigued enough to support the dev with more then just me (hey, stop looking at me, I'm really just a poor fucker of a student)

STORY:
Well as for story, there is not much of it as of now. Albeit, I like the premise of what I saw thus far and hopefully the Dev will expand the range of kinks that will be availible in the game (such as trans/trap, pregnency, bdsm and such, but we must remember, that this is devs story, we are just his followers and we can only hope, that he'll drop us some crumbs of our fetishes)

Programming:
Dear reader, as of now I saw no dead end bugs and stuff like that, so that is honestly a huge plus, telling us (hopefully) that this lovely dev of ours is not lacking in controling the stuff he puts out.

So again, thank you for your addition to this forum and hopefully you'll be able to bring this beuty of a work to some satisfying end.

To the Dev:
Hopefully you'll recive all the love you deserve from this community and hopefully you'll not end up ghosting us as a dev of "Blacked and white" that went no comms after few updates (Yes, I know there might be a reason behind it, but I'm still bitter about it, since he was the first and thus so farlast one I ever supported with my own money).

To others, GL and have fun by beautiful perverts.

An interesting idea. user-friendly and beautiful interface. A good prologue and a story (But there's not much of it right now) Also, there is no annoying grind in the game. But the game needs to evolve and developers need to constantly release new updates (Locations, characters, etc.) It will be interesting to see what happens to the game after a few major updates.

This games a little tough to rate for me.

On one hand, the game is technically proficient. It plays smoothly, the UI look good , moving from area to area feels good. It's a good looking game. With good looking girls, and good looking scenes.

But it's standard, it's vanilla, it feels normal. t doesn't feel hot, or exciting. Which is odd, because the girls are hot and the porn scenes are hot but the game isn't. It may be the writing?

I'm not sure, but I found myself boosting my stats clicking through scenes feeling nothing.

I feel kinda bad giving it a 3 because it is a good, proficient game. But ultimately I just didn't feel anything playing it.

2.5 stars... The dialog and "story flow" is just really poor. I apologize if English is not the Dev's first language, but the characters talk like robots. You can fuck your step sister 2 days in, no real build up. Quite a bit of grinding, the ol "make the number bigger so that this girl will talk to me" routine...

The only real pros are that the sex scenes have optional audio, AND you get multiple clips on the same screen. Also there are a number of girls, but there is not a lot of content. However, I see frequent updates on this game.

Really, for me, it's the writing. I don't care about these characters or desire them in the slightest. Luckily you can try the game out on itch.io (linked in OP) without needing to download anything, so, investment cost to try it out is low.