HTML - Zara's School Life [v0.77] [NeoSpectre]

[v0.76]

Basically this is a game about a girl who wakes up one morning and decides to be a slut. That's pretty much it.

It's competently made and there are some nice sex scenes (though with inconsistent models throughout), but to me the game feels pretty shallow and hollow both in story and gameplay. There isn't a whole lot of story content, and characters are almost devoid of personality even in custom scenes: NPCs in every sense of the word. (It doesn't help that they don't have faces.) And so progressing with them feels mechanical and meaningless. Like, to seduce your family members you just have to flash them your tits X number of times until they want to do stuff with you; it never feels like you have any real family relationship with them.

As for gameplay, it's very unbalanced. Early on there is nothing to do, you just have to go through the daily loop and grind stats until you get slutty enough (and if you don't buy a camera or drawing pad early on, you can't earn money apart from your weekly allowance), and then it very quickly flips to an "anything goes" slut-sim where you're sucking dick for cash in the boys' bathroom and having sex with strangers on the street in front of a crowd. There are a lot of scenes like this (and you can use the back button to re-roll the RNG to get the results you want), and it's moderately entertaining to discover them, but it doesn't feel like it's going anywhere. (After a couple of references in the intro, the game completely forgets about the whole prom queen thing.)

If you're just looking for an open-world sandbox where you can act as the world's biggest slut, this game offers that. But not really anything else.

review is for v0.2.5
A pretty good game that just needs more things to do.
As open as the game appears, the game play ends up being very railroaded due to the inconsistence of events. Most activities have a chance of an event happening, that will increase corruption, but reading on the computer gives you guaranteed corruption, so doing other events feels not as optimal. Once you have enough corruption to do the family events, you can then just migrate over to the events that happen in their room so any other events can be completely ignored. Lastly, there isn't enough to do outside of the home and school right now. There's a lot of areas that can be explored, but other than the couple Zara does something bad and has to suck a cops dick and the couple of park scenes, there isn't anything else going on. At least let us get a part time job somewhere and have some sort of event there. Make it a weekend only job or something since there's a lot of free time on the weekends and nothing really to do besides sit on the bench to get your energy back and read books on your computer. I almost think that the books on the computer should just be removed, or at least the one that increases corruption, because it feels like a crutch the more I think about it.
I dunno, maybe I'm missing something because I see things about quests and events, but my quest log is always empty so maybe I'm just missing something and don't know it.
I digress, the game as a corruption game, is actually still really good. I love the events during class and how they break up the monotony of school. The interface update took some getting used to, but I'm really starting to like it.
Overall, a pretty good experience with a pretty satisfying game play look a decent fappability.

v0.2.3
Very grindy, so it will take a long time to unlock the little content available.

The game mechanics are inconsistent: for example, you, and adult, are unable to masturbate, because apparently that requires corruption. "Okay, I'll play along" - you say to yourself.
Two screens later your character flashes her tits to the bus driver, which I guess doesn't require any corruption?

This game gives you "corruption" by sleeping, by the way. I don't know what the game thinks corruption means, but it's clearly got its definition wrong.

As many other HTML real porn games, you'll meet arbitrary restrictions -such as being unable to sleep during the day, and instead having to spam-click "nap" until it's night time.

It lacks basic functionalities such as auto equipping the appropriate clothes, or being able to carry them in a backpack, so you'll need to return home to wear your school clothes, then your gym clothes, and so on.

There is no map, so travelling requires clicking multiple links that don't offer any content to justify their existence.

As an example, if you're jogging at the park and want to go to school, that will take 9 clicks with absolutely no content whatsoever, and all of that just for yet another day of nothing happening at school.

Overall, about the same as every other stolen porn HTML game in early access: grindy mechanics to attempt to hide the lack of content, and a very poorly designed user interface.

Not worth playing in its current state.

Since the save issue has been fixed, I'll say that the game is a bit of a grind, but overall okay and worth playing for the pics and gifs. Story line is pretty simple, but that's fine if that's what you're expecting.

Zara's School Life is an HTML game in which you follow the slutty escapades of a girl going to school.

The game has a solid HTML framework. It's your typical time management style game where moving around and taking actions burn time and certain actions are only available at given times. Information is communicated clearly and is easy to find if you need it.

Unfortunately, that's close to the only good thing I have to say. I just don't know what the point of this game is. It's technically a corruption game, but there's no milestones to mark Zara's journey into sluttery. There's no story. Zara and her family have no personality to speak of. Relationships don't grow or develop as you play the game. There's no quests or objectives to achieve.

There's been several patches at this point (0.54) and they've added a lot of events, but this still hasn't addressed the lack of story and characters. You'll find a lot of porn in the game, but no real reason to play the game over just looking up some porn. The whole point of a game like this is to add some sort of continuity or overarching plot to otherwise unrelated porn. Zara's School Life hasn't got that.

It's unacceptable. If the dev is coming back to add stories, personalities, quests and relationships later, he's doing it backwards. If he's not adding them, he's wasting all of our time. Maybe this game can become something worthwhile someday, but right now it's lacking

The game has potential and isnt too bad for a 0.2 version. But there isnt not a lot of content or stuff to do so far. Can only have sexy times with brother, mum and dad randomly when corruption gets high enough and this takes a lot of grind.

Will look out for future updates

An HTML game with decent potential, but as of version 0.1.9, it's regressed since the first release version imo...

Pros:
Consistent, sexy GIFs
Decent UI
<- -> Buttons present
Content present satisfies most common "fetishes"
Consistent update schedule (hallelujah)

Cons
Suuuper grindy since v0.1.8.... more than twice as grindy as the first release version. You'll probably get 1-2 H scenes every 10 refreshes.

This game is quick, easy, fun, enjoyable, has great gif selection, and isn't written terribly. You can't ask for much more from IRL porn games and the updates are frequent and have decent content to them. I hope the creator keeps this game going because I am enjoying it a lot and it's worth trying if you like IRL HTML type games.

Below is my original review. I have since gone back to this game and there have been some good changes. The interface is better and there are more scenes. However I still have to say that it is still too much of a grind. It's definitely on the right track, but what is there is not enough to satisfy how grindy it is, but I have played worse games so there is that. The game would benefit by pulling back on how much you have to grind for literally everything. I'd like to give it 2 and a half stars, but I can't so I will round up I guess.



*The game is all grind no payoff! This is my first review on here it's that bad. You work hard to get corruption high enough for there to be scenes that are worth a damn, and then it's just the same 3 scenes over and over again. It has potential, but is unplayable in its current state.