HTML - X-Change™ Life [v0.22.2] [Aphrodite]

Lots of fun: it has gameplay for those who want actually play, it has ways to skip these little games for those who wants a quick fap...

What made me like it so much:
- Pregnancy Danger: Every creampie can lead to consquences, and you can track the percentageto know if it's a dangerous day or not. Besides, pregnancy is actually something you should avoid since it will drain stats and your masculinity for a long time!
- Pregnancy Minigame: If you buy an item, you get to defend your egg in case you would be impregnated. The game is actually challenging, with all sorts of different sperms. I came to losing this minigame more than once
- Side effects: Most pills come with a downside, and it's explored with characters trying to mess you up. Like breeder being not able to cum, or resistance. And I like things like swallowing a load and having to deal with 'cum breath' and things like that.
- Games reacts to you: It mentions the name of the characters you fucked, it tracks things like respect and attraction to decide how the character would act towards you. Your coworkers have personalities...
- Unfairness: It offers a bunch of unlucky (or lucky) situations of kinky downfall!

What could improve:
- The main loop gets repetitive after a while, but I think it would get better as we get more scenes to balance.
- So... We have futa, straight and lesbian content but no gay? I say that because I'm gay and I would enjoy it, but I feel like every MtF game has space for a little bit of it.
- More of Bruce, please?
- Swallowing cum seems safe most of the time, compared to 'The Goblin's Pet'. Maybe a pill or scene where swallowing can be dangerous?

Amazing sandbox with great potential. All these games that are based on real porn actresses... why can't they be consistent in scenes like here?

There are plenty of character creation options, and you'll be presented with very consistent and varied content to choose from. There are almost no randomly inserted scenes with random characters with random body types/faces, etc., as is common in similar games.. This is the kind of game you should take as an example of how to use real-life AV shots/porn actress.

The downsides are the excessive grinding, repetitive, and overcomplicated minigames.

They waste your time. Many minigames literally require you to hold out for 25-30 seconds.
The masculinity status test with cards is also poorly designed: you sit and stare at a character card for 10-15 seconds, waiting for the right answer to appear for 0.5 seconds, and you need to do this 5-10 times! All for the sake of increasing your status by +2-3. This is simply bad game design.
Such highly repetitive minigames that take so much time should not be in the game.

Guessing a word at a secretary's job is just ridiculous. Besides Blackjack, there aren't any decent minigame. But it's not that bad, since thankfully the developer thought to add other alternative options based on dice system as an alternative to the minigames.

This is a fantastic game with a quite daunting start.

I started playing this a couple of years back and couldn't get into the sales mini-game, I wasn't sure what was going on and I thought I didn't want to waste time learning it. I was wrong.

I downloaded it again on a whim the other day and I have been playing it non-stop for the last 4 days.

The main issue with the game is that there are a lot of mini-games and they are not well explained however..... if you manage to push through, what awaits is a great game.

You can play as a man and try to fuck as many women as possible, or lean into the transformation part and become a woman that gets fucked by everyone... or something in between.

There are a lot of mini-games, with different sets of rules, how much noise you make during sex, do you satisfy your partner, do you manage to hold your orgasm, do you say the right things during sex, the sales mini-games, the different pills and their own games: stripping, lemonade stand.... etc, the dance game, the whole secretary game (one of my favourites)....

You can of course play this as a porn game and not give enough attention to these minigames, but you would be doing yourself a disservice.... as you won't gain as much XP, as much money and therefore won't unlock more pills, more scenes, more characters... etc.

But once you play the game for a while and focus on the mini-games and build some skills.... damn, this is super hot and has a lot of sexy scenes, well written, with appropriate videos to go with them, nice situations.....

You can also go for a bit of incest, there are issues with the government, a whole storyline with AI, hidden rooms in certain places, loads of clothes to collect, plus purses, watches, movies you can watch, cars....

It is definitely on the top 3 of HTML games I have played (maybe it is even #1 of the list) and a fantastic game to play both as FMC or Male MC. Definitely recommend 5/5

Excellent game design and execution but definitely vast rooms for additional ideas.

The game could be a lot more better if the author disregard the narrative of the day but thoroughly explore her wildest fantasies to the fullest without a care or worry.

Other than that, it it is good perhaps? Just cant scratch that itch and makes my nose bleed.

I love this game. Dunno how many hours I have sunk into this, but it's a lot, to many, and still going!

If you don't like mini-games don't bother, but the ones in this game are pretty good. Best I have seen anyway.

Sex scenes are pretty varied and decent, with only a few bad ones and the models are varied. Its real porn.

There is loads of content, but some of it is pretty tedious to get to. That is why it lost a star.

The best real porn game I have played by far. The 80's aesthetic and vibe is also really cool. Very incredible attention to detail with this game and the modding scene is half the fun. Cannot say enough good things about this game.

One of the best games here. Great replay-ability. If you love games without scrolling through tons of text, this will be your fav. And another thing - the modding community, for this game is very proactive, that's another big bonus.

Surely one of the best games out there. There's plenty of content, something for almost every taste, and the game allows you to choose how you want to play and to set the pace you prefer.

Being still in development, it means that there's plenty of content still to come. And each update always adds something interesting to the already big amount of content available.

On top of that, all the mods available add a lot of fun to this already amazing game.

An excellent game, and only getting better as it gets updated! The base game is really quite excellent, and there's a thriving mod community that is expanding the game into areas outside what the dev is pushing for with the very good and popular mods being subsumed into the base game.

Constantly updated and getting better, the quality of this game keeps increasing with more content added. The minigames are actually interesting and it fulfills the fantasy quite well.

Player has various options of which look to have, and ends up in fun situations. Some of them are a bit too 'easy' to get into, making resisting only brief before hotness begins. It will depends on everyone's taste to pick which one they want to go with.

Really well written, very unique and lots of fun minigames and scenes. Also gets lots of really awesome updates and the dev adds a lot of community suggested ideas or makes mods into official content etc.

constantly updated, massive modding scene at Lovers lab.
Humongous game with custom engine now and dedicated devs.
You play as a lad going to a city where sexand body changes happen with just a pill... working for an amoral company selling said pills. Get dates, have drinks, go to the beach.. try not to seduce your half sister or be seduced by your step dad...

My biggest issue are the minigames that get repetitive very quickly if you have to do them every single day for almost every single action. You get better at skills but leveling up is slow and I don't even know if you can get 100% chance of your skill succeeding. There is also no undo/go back button, so whenever the game bugs and you get stuck somewhere, sometimes you have to replay the whole day.

v0.22.0
the only game on here that i keep coming back to

what makes this game different from most others on here is that it is an actual sandbox with real porn that is consistent with the characters.

pros:
+ skill checks (as dice rolls and minigames)
+ skill advancement and loss through normal activity and gameplay. (Basically anything you do gives you experience in a fitting skill, similiar to games like elder scrolls, but you can also lose skill levels through certain events, which keeps you from getting overpowered)
+ real porn with consistent actresses (and most of them are a good choice)
+ consistency with male characters (no face in scenes, skin colour matches)
+ multiple characters (you are technically the same person, but your appearance and gender can change)
+ debuffs and buffs which change the repeating interactions
+ optional minigames
+ exploration without empty areas
+ consistent developement. New things are fleshed out before additional areas are added
+ mods

cons:
- you may get railroaded into some things if you get unlucky. There is a safeword option that can be activated to prevent this, but i can cause bugs.
- some parts can feel repetitive, though you can often skip things with a minigame.
- not all features are naturally integrated yet. For example the new-u dice roll is something that i wish could happen without me specifically choosing it. The curiosities are a good step towards this. I realize that others might prefer it as is.
- some mods got integrated into the base game. While this is speeding up developement and introduced some very good features, it can change the vibe a little bit and sometimes doesn't feel as fleshed out as the rest of the game. This might get better with further developement.

also i should mention that this game obviously leans on transformation as a main fetish. I really enjoy the game even though i don't feel interest in that fetish. This game offers you to play as a reluctant women in a world full of perverts, while actually giving you incentives to give in to pleasure. This is the best corruption game out there, while not even aiming for it since it lets the player control the actions, but gives him incentives to choose different outcomes or forces him to adapt.

tldr: if you like sandboxes, rpgs and corruption, you should try it. If you don't like choices and consequences, this is not for you.

I'm going to give this a 4 for now since it's still in progress. There's so much opportunity to make this one of the best games out there, but development has slowed way down. Nothing of real significance has really be added. There's a new event being worked on, which is...ok, I guess. I've paid to support this game almost every month since it first came out; though, I'm taking a break for now.

The game could use a move from real porn to custom stuff, even if it was AI-based. The creator is already using AI, which has improved a lot of things on the art side. But the actual sex scenes still use real porn which is meh to me. It also means it can never be a "serious" game, which is a shame because this could be a really good, unique game.

I really enjoyed XCL, but I wanted to share some problems I've had with recent development that I just ended up dropping it a while ago even though it's probably the best transformation game out right now using real life porn. It has been a while since I played, so take with a grain of salt.

Aphrodite has some insane work ethic, but she is only one person. There has been some integration of the community members' mods as of recent which I feel has turned off my interest in the game.

Integrating mods has worked well for some such as Achievements, outfit packs, and the Bar Girls, but I believe the most recent mods, Office Babes and NPC pregnancy felt off. I can't say anything about NPC pregnancy since I mostly played with pregnancy disabled, but Office Babes was just bad. Aphrodite tries to rewrite mods to fit with the style of XCL, but this one just felt so out of place:

1. The gameplay and writing didn't feel like it fit with her own work. Just a D20 to seduce and that's it. No minigame to accompany or different dialogue options to choose from.
2. You can buy a book from the mall to keep track of your female workers stats, relationships, etc., instead of just naturally getting familiar with them and their names/faces over time like the male coworkers.
3. I don't know if the problems have been fixed, but you could successfully charm a female coworker and be rewarded with a screen that basically shows nothing and a notification of not finding the proper video file. I think that there wasn't even a video file in the first place, yet the mod was integrated anyway.

With that last point, the playtesting just seems subpar. There have been a significant number of releases where the public version would be released with softlocks, failure to retrieve content for specific scenes and scenarios, achievements wouldn't unlock, and overall gameplay issues. One example is that the Tetris minigame would work just fine for the Milk-Maid demo, but would flip out when working as a secretary at the office; the blocks would just randomly drop. A hotfix would normally come out anywhere between the same day or the next, but if the problem wasn't significant it would just be ignored until the next update which would take a couple months or more.

Another problem I had with XCL is that some quality of life changes or new content wouldn't be noticeable until you start a new save file. I liked going for the achievements in the game as it added a way to fully explore the game in ways I normally wouldn't, but you couldn't see that you unlocked it if the file was old. You would have to manually check in the main menu+achievements screen to see if you got it instead of the achievement popping up at the end of the day. (The achievement sometimes would not register as unlocked for other saves which was its own problem, resulting in having to close out of the game and reopening to unlock in other saves. That's probably an engine problem though, and not really fixable through normal means).

In terms of new content not showing up, one example is that if you already had a level 10 desk at the office job, you would be locked out of being able to play the Tetris minigame. Other people probably don't care about starting new saves, but I'm one of those people that likes keeping old saves. I like to grind them out and explore new content immediately because then it isn't a chore to see the new content.

I really did enjoy XCL when I was basically addicted to it, however the recent mods that have been added are questionable in quality, relative to Aphrodite's own work, and I feel that the playtesters could be doing much better at finding problems before Aphrodite releases the public version for download. I would still recommend XCL for people to try as the content Aphrodite personally writes/creates is fantastic (e.g. Gym scenes, Secretary Wordle minigame, Alexia/Stepdad scenes). There is a lot to enjoy, but I just can't enjoy it myself anymore due to some flaws showing throughout XCL's recent/future development.

Absolutely amazing, can't wait for the next update and new content one of the best games I've played in a long time now I literally couldn't put it down. I only wish it was a little easier to maintain reputation but otherwise really fun.

Good game, great community modding scene. Would love to see more of the author's good writing in the game. I also wish there were more variety in the things your character can do during each of the time slots.

Love the style it's going for, but that's basically it for the positives.

-What little dialogue there is is horrendous.
-The vast amount of procedurally generated dialogue exhausts its vastness by changing "ass" to "badonkadonk" in an otherwise identical sentence the next time you see it.
-Repretitive gameplay.
-Very little to do after you played for an hour.
-Restrictive gameplay = Many choices when selected gives a "nope. try another one."
-I found the minigames /skill checks/dice rolls really annoying, but thankfully you can disable them via cheats.
-Can only save and load at the start of days or in specific locations. Why?