HTML - Abandoned - Young Maria [v2.2.7.0] [MilkyNail]

I really like this game and where it is going, looking forward to seeing it develop. The whole open world and sandbox elements are done really well and the writing is great. Good selection of images and vids so it doesn't get stale and the constant new addition of features and story lines keeps it fresh.

I can hardly recommend this game. The major disappointment is the lack of characters, including MC. They all bleak and empty and nothing more than a corruption number. It's quite important, as the corruption of the main protagonist and her surrounding is the main element of the game, but it has no reason behind it, no transformation from nice to naughty. That's not how corruption games work.
And there's merciless grind, of course.
The only thing that works good, I guess, is a complicated system of time+money+activities, that make the game feel open-wordly enough to believe it for the first hour before you begin to notice a lack of life behind the mechanics.
Overall, there are games with better corruption and games with an easier way to get porn, and this is not close to them.

Great game. Plenty of content. Has a way of keeping you coming back for more with plenty of characters and locations to explore. Very customizable and there's a little bit of everything in this game no matter your tastes.

Great html game witch I can even play online on my old iPad 4, there are some annoying bugs, but all in all it is a very nice game with al lot of potential.
Almost 90% of the html games are gay or about gender bender, males turning in to females, and although I think everyone should be free to like and love what he/she wants, it's not my cup of tea.
But not this game this game is about a girl in a corrupted world in wich she will change from a model-student into a lewd whore. After more than a year

Apr 22 2022 I'm back to retry this game of wich I thought it was very promising , oh boy what a disappointment, instead of progression this game is a hollow shell from what it once was.
The five star rating can't stay, I give this game three stars, in hope on some real progression, but even three stars are way to much for the hollow shell this game now is.

This had a lot of potential. it was the first html game i played and I enjoyed the simple interactions between the family as you slowly corrupted them. However, after the year that i've been following this game, they have not only not added much but managed to even remove content that a lot of followers enjoyed. If there isn't a Major content update in the next two updates I'm dropping this.

The game has its strengths, especially that it is one of the few that does not follow sissyfication like 80% of HTML, but is so long that it ended up getting lost in the way.
It's very sad that with each new update it seems to be getting more and more forced and ends up losing the initial brightness. Maybe it would be better to Dev. finish the game and start a new project.(better to finish at the peak than continue and ruined what was good)

A new project with all this knowledge that you already have can be an alternative in my opinion.

I played this when it first came out and thought although basic it had some promise. i think i've played it a couple of times since.

I'm now back over year a later and its hard to see whats been done. It's a terrible UX and doesn't offer anything different or any improvements to the hundreds of other html games of this ilk. The Dev would do well to step away for a few months and then come back and play it themselves from the beginning, so they can see for themselves what the UX is.

Its relies heavily on repetitive stats grinding and RNG. The variables are easy enough to hack though. Removing the grind leaves an empty game.

Maybe there is some content further into the game that gets good but I played for around 40 mins before deciding i'd had enough of just doing the same things over an over again and hoping something new would trigger. Bare in mind that was 40 minutes with cheats...

The game did not stray too far from what was described in other reviews: too much grind for too little reward, little to no option when deciding to get Maria to "open up" and not enough content overall.
What bugs me the most is that you have to build a relationship and then build the corruption level with the family members. This is only as far as relationship and corruption scores go. There is a dialogue here and there that changes but you can easily go up to 60+ corruption with either family member and then out of the blue they join you in the shower and the fun begins like there is nothing wrong in the world. No build-up, no conflicting feelings, no nothing! It just happens when your score is high enough. To get there you grind the days away repeating the same actions over and over.

One other thing that bugs the hell out of me is the energy system: some actions take way too much energy (reading comes to mind) so there is need to either introduce a mechanic to increase max energy or rebalance the whole energy thing. Combined with the grind it just sux.

Also, Young Maria trivialises so many sexual activities (other than the ones involving the family), get lost in the city either suck/fuck or waste time and energy to find your way back. She has a smartphone but not smart enough to have maps/GPS on it?! She goes to the park and after watching some porn and reading some erotica she decides to masturbate. She will be caught and the choice is to run away or suck/fuck some random guy. You don't even need max corruption for it.

There are a lot of other flawed mechanics in the game that basically do little or nothing at all to justify their existence at the moment. Hopefully these will be addressed in the future and will make more sense

This game needs a lot of work to become a satisfying experience and I will recommend waiting for at least 6 months before trying it and maybe, just maybe this will become something more, with more options and more story to follow Maria's transformation closer.

It's just too slow and there doesn't seem to be any way to detect progress. Even if I go into the console and cheat all the values for relationships and corruption, nothing ever seems to happen. I don't want a grind fest if I can't even tell I'm working towards something, and apparently even if I cheat, discover that the values that I'm working for don't matter anyway. Why would I grind if the result is nothing?

95% grinding, 4% sexy shots, 1% actual sex.

There just isn't anywhere near enough content to justify the massive grind.

You need to see about 100+ scenes to get to the first sex scene, and most of it is a short loop of 5 or so pages of you waking up, going to school, going to work, and then sleeping with maybe 200 words of flavor text.

Overall i give this game a thumbs down why you may ask 1. Very little lesbian sex and as a lesbian the only reason I tried this game was for lesbian content 2.All of the major sex and story is about black guys fucking a white girl the only time i have seen a white guy was in the park. not all white girls want to have sex with black guys, not all black guys what to have sex with white girls. 3. The only incest I have seen is a late night blow-job to the dad a mother-daughter in the kitchen before school (if you go for you miss school) as for the brother you might get lucky once in a blue moon. If there is any hope for this game the developer will make some much needed changes if not then this game will die

Great Game. Would be better with more random events while exploring the city. Also more Events in the School would be great.
Also when you have sex it would be nice if you can choose between to cum inside or outside.

At the moment (v4.4.0) the game is completely unplayable, both online and offline.

Any action that takes you to the phone gets you stuck in a loop returning you constantly to "Double-click this text to edit".

The only way to make it work is to roll the game back, but then you're stuck.

I'm not sure how you can release a game that is this broken.

FYI: I've started a new game online and offline and get the same result.

There are other small bugs and lots of typos/spelling mistakes, I mean I get it, you're not a native English speaker, but most editors include a spell checker, so there really isn't any excuse.

This game has way to low of a score its genuinely a good porn game.

text: great for a porn game its not eingrsh but actual English not to mention a good amount of text between the action

images: great especially if you need a break from 3d and like real titties

HTML: i PREFER games in this engine. yes you hear me right i prefer it as a guy who has done some programming i love see how people get better and better at the trade and this games no different the author is always trying to try something new and improve.

one of my personal favorites and is consistently updated, its well worth a play through

I like it very much. Kinda into this genre where the text drives the story and the action gives it visuals...

I like the frequency of the updates too, seems to be in touch with his fanbase. Keep at it!

I had a pretty good time playing, excited to see where it goes. It seems like every update something breaks but the author is pretty on the ball and an update comes out pretty quickly which is nice. Kinda hoping we get an update to the office job as right now it's pretty bland and I feel like it has a lot of potential

Just to be clear that smartphone bug is not been fixed. You may need to test it figure out what is wrong on online version get back to many of us might been fixed with download version which is 1 Gig I can't for life of get something like that. I tried but no cigar, it infringes on ability test lot of games I wish to test. But I can't do anything if I want something I have go out there in world and get another job that doesn't suck and bite bullet.

I chose to be 21 years old she can't for one choose to go get car and have deadline from her parents or help pay rent which no dose of reality.
Other is there not much interactive story choices, she can't be against her mother, and love her daddy? what heck who makes a game that has mom and daughter friends your falling in twilight zone time warp. I don't like buddy system its weird.

In settings you modify character as guy I like what heck? What if you want make character have dick and she was still girl would I be tranny? That would work only in high-school I can see that workable. But currently she works and stays at home not good concept work at it. I like see stripper if that possible, if not thug has nice ring to it, I like shake down dude for money she got gun she should utilize it for worth and put people in state of terror. There no good or evil in this game which baffles me.

It starts alright and steadly gets worse in terms of writing and event design. The framework has potential, and the author's taste for visuals is above average (dear god, some gifs I've seen in otherwise reputable lifesims ), but they'd need to rewrite something like the entire latter half of the game to salvage it.

I like games like this. Simple idea, explore, unlock scenes. Yeah, some people don't like the whole "real porn" thing, but I dig it.

One star off for some intermittent bugs.

Oh my god... the first time I did the entire grind without the cell phone thinking, "HOW DO YOU GET MONEY??" Next playthrough I noticed the button to sell pics and it made quality of life so much easier to progress.

This is a review of Young Maria version 2.3.0.

The Quick Gist: The game is bare-bones and shallow, and contains a game-breaking bug that is surprisingly easy to encounter. Save your time and skip this game (or this version).

• Writing: (2) -- Superficial plot. Grammatically imperfect, but readable. My assumption is that the author is not a native speaker so I must applaud the effort taken to make the text as comprehensible as it is.
• Images: (2) -- Mostly typical fare which was taken from around the web (and often times includes text and watermarks). All of it is immediately viewable in the handy "Pics" folder that comes with the game. Easily identifiable preferences from the creator, Maria.
• Sounds: (N/A) -- Nonexistent; thankfully.
• Fun Factor / Gameplay: (2) -- Lackluster, but the navigation is fairly easy with the exception of the game-breaking bug with the smartphone. In addition, several users have commented negatively about the grind, the lack of any real choices (or forced choices), and the inadequate payoff.
• Personal Tilt: (-1) -- This game was no fun at all, but it can potentially be if given more TLC by the author. I won't bother with it however.

Detailed Summary (slightly modified from Post 7):
According to the author, Maria, this version of the self-titled game is perplexingly considered both "Complete" (but not final) and "pre-alpha" [1]. The game is also based on someone else's work which remains unknown [2]. It's also quite evident the author is unsure whether to continue to develop the game or abandon it to begin work on a new game according to several posts made on her Patreon.

In regards to Young Maria, there's not much content or direction to the game, and it has a long way to go before it can stand on its own. As it is, the game is shallow. The plot is weak and nonsensical at times; hence, forcing players to make irrational choices. The writing is passable, but requires some cleanup. Also, there's this game-breaking bug around the smartphone which is a core component for the game and absolutely necessary to advance. This was supposedly fixed in the second version 2.2.0 [3]. I'm honestly not sure if the game is a passion project for Maria, or a cash-grab--there's literally a link in there where a player can "purchase" cheats. That's a razor-thin distinction for a game that can never be sold in any professional sense due to having material not owned by the creator. Regardless, I gave up (or rather, forced to give due to the game-breaking bug) before even getting to any sexual scenes within the game. As anything else, the game can shape up with time and effort put into it; however, in its current state this game is a solid pass.

That said, I don't want to discourage the author as we all would like more creators out there, but this game needs more work put into it.

Sidenote: It's unfortunate that the first image in the OP displays Maria's avatar from her Patreon (which in turn also gets displayed in the Updates section of F95) as it is quite misleading to what the game is actually about.

References
[1]. Completed (according to TFGames' DB);
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