Unity - Venus's Club [v9.5.0.1] [Disgruntler]

Venus's Club [v9.5.0.1] [Disgruntler]
I recommend the game only for those who have a lot of time to waste. The structure of the game works and despite being repetitive it's repetitive that doesn't get boring.
Obviously all this is only valid if once you have downloaded the packs you modify them yourself, since most are not done well.
Just think of the "strip" category and then the saved video does something else.
The game is very customizable, you can easily change the videos, the cost, the dialogues in your language or create everything from scratch with your favorite actresses/characters, the only thing to spend is time.
I don't recommend the base game with some packs.

Excellent management game, runs perfectly even with >30 gigas of girlpacks, of which there are hundreds.
Gameplay is simple but fun, I just hope it gets more developped with further updates.
One of the best real porn games since the integration of real porn makes perfect sense in this context, unlike many where there isn't any consistency between the game and it's visuals.

A brilliant mix of a porn game with an actual management simulator. It's hot and surprisingly, absorbing and well balanced, although there's still some space for development.
Nicole's "storyline" and the dating mechanic are fun and make a nice addition to the management part.

Really rought to rate this properly. I love the concept and many of the things it offers so far but I also feel like there are so many things to fix.

The concept is executed well. Hiring girls that earn you money, buying upgrades for more "private" forms of entertainment and more girls. Rinse and repeat.

The game tries to implement a lot of mechanics that just don't really integrate well into the game. Ressources like influence and popularity feel like they do not matter at all. Teaching girls takes forever because their openness rises very slow, even when training. The date mechanic is pretty cool and unique, but I do not like how the scenes are implemented.

Another big issue are the girl pacs. In theory, they are a great Idea and allow the game to have so many more girls available, but the fact that the creators can set every stat, even the price, makes the game insanely rough to balance, since the dev has no idea how good your girls are gonna be and the game progress can get very out of hand. A fix for this would be to calculate the price(s) based on the stats, but not let the creator set it manually. Bring a bit of randomness into it and it should be good to go.

Also, you can't really lose in this game. The fixed expenses are very low and after a few days, there money stops being a problem.
There are also no deadlines, meaning that you could theoretically just repeat days until you have the ressources you want. You don't have to assign staff or buy 90% of the upgrades because of the same reason.

Oh, there are also a lot of things that don't make sense. For example you can assign girls that are out for training as staff, same for the brokers. Also UI is very big and the qol could be better.

It's more a loose concept than an actual game. I feel like there is no challenge. For roleplaying purposes it works very well, but gameplay wise it sucks.

Still, I feel like this has huge potential and I am positive the dev can deliver.

It's dissappointing, but only because of the effort it takes to get a game going. This game can easily take +20GB if you get carried away.

The game has potential. It is interesting to see another one of these management-type games in the style of, say, Slave Maker, and the technical implementation of the porn is kinda novel, but the gameplay here is still really lackluster.

I'm going to be mostly negative, but also try to be constructive, because this is not a lost cause. Yes, this game feels unfinished, but it doesn't feel unsalvageable. I feel like if the core gameplay-issues here could be addressed before the rest of the game gets fleshed out, there could be something really great here (it's already 'special')

Okay gameplay problems:
- All the girls feel the same. I'm sorry, but that's how it is. There is just too little inherent differentiation between girls, between top- and bottom-earners.

- It's just difficult to do "well" at the moment, because there is too little fail-state beyond choosing bad upgrades. Too little difference between a successful club and a failed one.

- The game is only a grind. The only way is up, and the game only consists of playing more. You are just about guaranteed to make a profit because just playing normally makes the girls earn more.

- The only way to interact with girls beyond the shift is to put them in positions where they're in the background, effectively removing them from the game. This is boring, and should be made into something more visible, or alternatively, every job backstage should have a easily visible impact on the stage-screen, the way the "hostess"-position has. Turn the passive bonuses into active procs or events

- Reputation doesn't go down. This is probably a known problem, and I imagine there was a version of the game where it could go down, but it's still worth saying: rep should not be a static bar that only goes up. Even with the brokers-mechanic, it's too easy and unrealistic to go into servicing millionares in a few weeks, when that should be something for the very endgame.

Solutions:

+ Put an opportunity-cost on improving the girls. The current system where every girl learns quickly just by working isn't interesting, and provides no interesting choices. When revising training, it would be smart to put diminishing returns on how much and how quickly a girl can learn each skill, with each becoming increasingly harder to max-out everything for everyone. Give learning different skills an opportunity-cost, that would ideally be mostly directed outside the shift, in the management-section. You might need to introduce a resource to spend on training the girls, increasing the girl's skill-caps increasing openness past a point etc. Give the player the opportunity to min-max. and specialize girls.

Update: Showerthought I had was, that maybe this game would benefit from something like a Fire Emblem-style level-up system, where you gain XP, and your stats level up randomly at each level-up according to a template. One good feature FE also has is the "bonus XP"-concept, where you accumulate XP you can distribute to your party as you want, in addition to the XP you earn in combat. FE also has a class-up system, where you can collect and spend "seals" to improve characters into more specialized, powerful classes. Now, I'm not saying the game needs "classes", and certainly not a lot of them, but maybe just one base-template, and 3-4 "advanced" templates that take resources to upgrade the girls into? I'm also aware of the weaknesses of this system, like how currently the skill-based levelups don't make much sense to level up without engaging in the skill, but I still really like this idea.

+ Put in the possibility of failure in the club-minigame. Having the option for patrons to leave if they are unhappy would provide an interesting fix for a lot of issues with the gameplay. You can make it reduce reputation, slow down the progression into millionaires, punish you for using completely fresh girls for tasks and punish poor energy-management (in other words, the girl running out of energy would cause the client to get upset and leave).

+ As was mentioned, change the backstage-jobs into visible procs in different parts of the game. maybe even cut one, or transform it into a regular upgrade. I don't want to download 2GB of a girl just to plonk them in accounting.

+ This one is kind a personal preference, but I think the girl-traits are a good system for differentiating the girls, and I wish you use them more in the future. The newest one, "Bratty", is a good example of a trait that causes me to make an action based on the girl 's trait, and I wish more traits were like that. I definately endorse including traits that introduce skill-caps, skill-boosts, unique ways to build openness, and other factors that prompt the player to make an action that's visible.

+ A minor point, but if the game is going to be easier to "fail" in, there might be cause to make the finances just slightly more complex. Not a full simulation or anything, just something that provides you with a low, constant source of income no matter how your night goes, to balance out the running costs from running a more complex club. Maybe like a baseline-investment-system, or a reworking of the camshow-upgrade? The goal is to prevent frustration from losing earnings. (update: just played a game with the current version of the investment-perk. as it is, it feels pretty overtuned, giving you something like 10% returns per-day. 2-5% would be more than enough, and even then there should be a cost in influence, for example.

Overall, the game is currently a high barrier-to-entry for a mediocre payoff. The technical implementation is pretty good, though.

V 9.5.0.1

A game that I was looking forward to playing, I must say that imagining being able to "play" with the +18 stars, which many of us like, seemed like a fascinating idea, so I had high expectations about the game... and yes , I must say that when I played it I liked it. It is a game based on running a brothel, where you hire, upgrade your place, buy upgrades, etc, etc.
Although there are other games with similar themes, this seemed to me to be one of the best, if not the number one, that I have ever played. Coupled with the directory of number of npc you can add, it could be said that you have a lot of content to play. With the 4 game modes, you can either play casually or something a little more where you have to use your head up.

Points against:
I don't know if because I had very high expectations, there is something that left a bad taste. It is the null interaction of the girls you hire (npc). I mean, you only hire them and that's it, there is no interaction or dialogue between you and them, or how to develop any kind of relationship with them (removing the ones that already have dialogues in the game, they are like 2 only). I did not like this aspect very much.

Now if you get very technical and analyze the game well, what you find is basically a different way to watch +18 videos of your favorite actresses, in essence that's the game. Yes, the creator is working on creating a main story, which as far as it goes, is fine, however something I would like them to add; which I don't think they will do, because of how advanced the game is and other details; is that hopefully there is some kind of dialogue with the girls you hire, I say so that it is not just to watch the videos, because in that case, I can simply search for them in the browser and that's it.

In summary, it is not a bad game, it is well built in aspects such as: interface, addition of characters, improvements within the game, among others. I would recommend it because it's a different way to watch porn, whether it's easy or strategic. I will be on the lookout for more updates, congratulations to the creator.

3.9/5

The dev created a solid structure for a management game, but it's nothing more than that. If you want content you have to download packs made by others or make them yourself. It's nothing more than porn clips and the more you add the bigger the game. You can easily end up with over a 100gb, adding all your favorite porn stars.
Still, I like the concept and the option to add your own music, playing in the club and during the performances is a nice touch.
It's not overly grindy if you know what you're doing, but in these types of games, the game is the grind.
A bloated game to store away on an external drive and to revisit when the mood for it is there.

Watching Random Porn Playlist Simulator (Review) [v9.5.0.0] **UPDATE: 11/29/2023**

Total playtime: 8 hours **50+ hours now**
Number of faps: 1 **Too many to count now**
Finished the game?: Yes

**UPDATE** (1 Bonus Star)
I am updating my score by one star because I ended up spending weeks if not months creating Girlpacks for this game. This game became my personal porn player.

Game-play (3/5)
This is a strip-club management simulator. You upgrade your establishment and your girls. With each upgrade more options open up. The gameplay is very simple. The UI and game assets are either from paint or just stock images. It has an artificial depth to the gameplay which only matters for the first few hours, after that you are just clicking upgrade buttons because you have too much money to spent. It gets very grindy after a few hours as well. Some features work properly and are meaningful, the rest is just filler.

Sex (0/5)
You watch the strippers while they work and jerk off to it. BUT, the game has no built-in assets for that. You either have to create your own H-assets following a template for EACH stripper you want (this takes usually around 2-3 hours per stripper). Or, you can download a stripper someone else created. Best case scenario, you spend around a week or two creating your dream team. Worst case scenario, you download others' strippers and play with them. In either scenario, you're just watching short porn clips.

Verdict (1,5/5)

After spending 8 hours in game and around 8 hours outside the game (creating my own pack and downloading others'), I cannot recommend this game I'm afraid. The core gameplay is simple and engaging for the first few hours; however, after that nothing really matters. You are just clicking buttons for the sake of it. Playing this game is like downloading an H-game without any H-assets in it. You either have to create them on your own or use someone else's. Essentially, you are either creating porn playlist for yourself that's incomplete and subpar or trying to jerk off to a random porn playlist.

Why only 2 categories (game-play and sex) for the review?
I only care about how good and entertaining the game-play (mechanics, replay-ability, enjoyment, etc.) and whether I can fap to the h-scenes. The rest doesn't matter to me.

It's good for what it is. Progression is kept fairly simple and linear, management is also never too tedious. There's a solid core loop, my only gripe with this game is the rather dull babysitting of your girls when they're working. But of course, it's also the part where you get to watch all the glorious porn snippets you've tediously downloaded from MEGA. The interface is bright and colorful, it gets the job done nicely, but could be a bit cleaner. It did get better after the ownership change. Don't play this if you hate pink, though. I like the game's modularity, this could prove very helpful in its future as it allows the devs to add new features without too much hassle.

In summary, it's the perfect game if you want to watch porn of your favourite stars while clicking on stuff.

VC is a solid management game with lots of options and room for growth with regard to all the upgrades. It can have a little bit of a learning curve for first time players of this genre but I would saw once I got the hang of it I enjoyed the game more. My criticism would be that the game crashed a few times but I imagine it’s because the code calls for certain upgrades to be purchased in a correct order and that may be due to the variability of the girlpacks which skewed my stats. It’s pretty good for a few hours of play but it is pretty repetitive unless you download the packs which can easily get up to 5+ GBs so ymmy. Solid game and worth a try if you like management games I highly recommend

Pretty solid game - would like for a bit more complexity in the management but having played it a few months apart there's quite a lot to enjoy and the growth has been very encouraging. Worth a try for sure.

Far beyond excellent!
The game starts with an introduction and a tutorial which shows you want you need to understand in a very stream lined fashion.
The dev made me struggle to train women to be part of more and more daring poses. Buying upgrades for the club to make this progress easier. making the women work in shift to maximize the money output to be able to purchase the upgrades and to hire new performers.
During the performance you have to chose the correct woman to perform(not all of them accept the requirements) Do some actions such as providing the customer with drinks and etc, and also where the performance should end if the customer could chose (e.g. cum on tits, face etc)
The engine choosing the clips to play is quite intricate too, they start with awkward dancing and end up being as agile as a reptile.
Multi tasking watching and interacting to these performances isn't easy either!

The poses are from porn clips taken from Internet which I could've watched without effort and also full length! xD

There are some odd strategic choices with the upgrades that didn't make much sense but the description of all of them was detailed letting the player know which to concentrate on.
Some upgrades were basically redundant as when you got the money needed the phase where you should've benefited from the upgrade has long passed.

There were a lot of lewd and hot images of women for the upgrades and of course your club performers.
There are a lot of these performers too, (see separate topic) the Mega limit was gone pretty fast haha! (some are made by community members and varies in quality both in the clips and otherwise)
My only issue with the performers was that some of them are wielding bad boob jobs. It's a real turn of for me to see the scars...

All in all this game has more content than any under development game I've tried so far!

Unfortunately the dev. has put the game on hold which is a shame because it still needed some love but I respect his decision.
Hopefully he have rested and get the spark back soon to continue with this game!

Rated: 5/5
Based on: v8

Sorry for the somewhat unstructured rating, I didn't have any initial thought of it just wanting to mention the good and bad stuff

The base gameplay is... Okay. It's a perfectly fine loop, albeit a little lifeless since it's just numbers going up.
As an engine for real porn, its fantastic. It supports "girlpacks", so you can install more girls than what the game comes with. The base lineup is a little sparse, but I can forgive that seeing as there's a girlpack for pretty much every prominent pornstar at this point.

Frankly, I don't really see what the point of this game is.

As a management game, it's simple enough that more complex gameplay could have been implemented on a 8-bit console. The early flash games way back when browsergames were in their infancy already put this game to shame, so that can't be it, can it?

So what remains is the "adult" part.
And there's hardly anything there, either.
Yes, it's some measure of work to assemble suitable footage and compile them into the format the game calls "girlpack", but the game itself comes with an embarrasingly low number of those, the rest has been provided by the community.

And at that point what it comes down to is you have the barebone gameplay loop where little adult video clips scoured from the interwebs are played in tiny windows repeating the same small number of short clips (you can maximize, but what for?), until you invest money in some sort of upgrade or the "openness" of the employed girls increases enough for a new set of videos to unlock.

And that's it. The game is extremely formulaic and, in my opinion, not "sexy" at all, arguably even worse than those grind games, because since there's hardly any "story" in this game, all you do is crunch numbers for other numbers to increase.

Looking at the score of Venus' Club, there seams to be SOME sort of audience for this type of game, but a review is about ones' personal opinion, and I can only repeat: I don't really see the point.

The fun of a management game is being faced with challenges, and deciding how to approach those challenges among the options provided. This game doesn't have interesting challenges, nor does it have any meaningful options for the player. It basically makes your choices for you from a limited selection, then has you babysit a screen: Click and drag a person onto the space when the icon pops up, then click the right button when a different icon comes up.

So this game isn't interesting, it isn't fun, and it didn't feel sexy. It feels like it could have potential from the tools provided, but it doesn't feel like a game yet.

A fun lighthearted game with all the pieces fitting in well together!

One of the best real porn games on this site.

The game is a complete package with all the different elements working well together.

The community came together supporting this game and created numerous girl packs for players to download.

Friendly author who listens to player feedback.

You can choose which girls you want to work for you and improve them as well as every aspect of the business.

The progression and grind pace are about perfect.

Game could benefit from additional events and ways to grow a connection with the girls you have working for you.

Too many of the default girls and assistant have fake breast which I don't care for. This is solved by downloading girl packs made by fans.

Good strip club/brothel management game!

If you like real porn games I highly recommend giving this game a try!

Good game to pass the time to or just fap along. One of the better real life porn star games out there with a little bit of a challenge in running a club. Only thing missing is the catfights and jealousy of the day to day operations

Very enjoyable game for anyone who likes somewhat grindy trainer-type games. If you don't, needless to say, stay FAR, FAR AWAY.

I generally stay clear of any porn game that uses real scenes instead of drawings and renders because it's so limiting and immersion breaking for story-driven games, and in terms of the acts that can happen with the characters, but it works great here with the videowall format. And the addition of girlpacks is genius too. I recommend doing a quick search for "girlpack" in this thread for new players, by the way. You'll need a few more girls than the game includes to be able to keep all booths running after a few upgrades. Make sure you mostly get packs that are up to date with the current game version. I may make some of my own for later versions as it's simply a fun way to watch porn on its own.

The game does feel a little bit light on mechanics right now, but seems to be headed in the right direction. For example, early on you need to hand out drinks, stims and condoms manually but you eventually get an upgrade that does this for you automatically. I hope to see this trend continue in future versions.

Towards the end of the playtime, the videowall gameplay gets a bit stale and you don't get enough hands free time if you want to keep all the rooms going, if you know what I mean Still, enjoyed my time here and looking forward to more.

Once you get the girlpacks, its one of the best real porn games on here. Once you have all the upgrades I don't really understand the point though. Still - 5 stars.

There are posts in the thread here that have lots of girls to choose from.

By far the best "real porn" game I've played on the site. Pretty standard brothel management simulator, but the way the scenes are integrated into the game is fantastic. Grinding is there but not too much, and you get plenty of great scenes to look at while grinding for the rest.

While the base game itself is great and worthy of a 5* rating, you also have the ability to easily add new girls through girl packs. This essentially adds an infinite amount of sexual content of whatever girls you want.

I only have a couple issues with the current version. One is that there seems to be a bug which can cause your audio to mess up for scenes that usually have working audio and I'm unsure what causes it. Second is that it's a bit tedious to grind openness (which is required for sex scenes) as the lounge gives barely any even fully upgraded. This is especially an issue when you recruit new girls and have to grind them from 0 again, but its somewhat mitigated by a feature that lets you bypass the stat requirement.