HTML - A Succubus Is Born [v0.3.16] [DrunkSuccubus]

Really dig the game. It’s cool to see a game highlighting the fact that succubi drain their victims and rewarding players for playing that role. The battle mechanics are great and I dig the tone…mostly.
I do think the litRPG style of writing is kind of dumb honestly. I personally don’t like it in general, but especially in the context of an actual game it just doesn’t make sense to me. It’s immersion-breaking by design. In a book or show you have to explain it, but it’s a game. Why can’t we just hand coins over to a merchant instead of having to imagine our inventory?

Also, I do find the virginity loss scene really tactless. It’s major tonal whiplash for a game that‘s (up until that point) fairly lighthearted and playful. I get that the dev wants to establish stakes somehow, and it’s nice that the scene is skippable, but to gate the story and major mechanics behind a scene where the PC’s control is completely taken away like that is really odd. I’m not against noncon/rape scenes in sex games, I’ve played plenty where it’s involved, but it doesn’t seem fitting for where the game gets to up to that point.

Someone earlier in the thread mentioned the PC auctioning off her virginity at the brothel, which seems way more fitting in terms of tone. I get that it would be a LOT of rewriting for the dev so I doubt it’ll happen. It was just annoying to get engrossed in an HTML game that has unique mechanics and a fun perspective, and then have to deal with a jarring scene followed by a haphazard/clumsily handled “heal from your trauma” quest.

That said, excited for future updates and more options for combat sex. It’s handled really well and even though IRL porn can be a little silly, you can tell the dev thought out all the context-specific clips when it comes to your character’s stance/clothing status/sex act.

I like it a lot. The videos are amazing, the quality is of them is high (which justify how big the game in kb is). The history could have a better writing, i think sometimes it gets too dense in words. But most of the times is straightforward, which i like it.

wanted to say pretty great but too short so:
Not a great fan of female pov game but respect where respect is due quite a lot of content which is enjoyable. sometimes a bit wordy but if your eyes glaze over in the medhiv sections you won't get too lost.

One of the best games here in terms of the gameplay loop. There's tons of things to discover and progress - you never feel that you're wasting time grinding except maybe at the start (hint: go to the lake to unlock progression).

The story is also quite nice and coherent, although lacking a bit of progress.

Review for v0.3.13:
Love the game so far. Just finished all the available content. Probably took about 8-10 hours but I didn't skip any scenes and read through everything.

Great setting for the story. Like the original premise. The writing is above average. Not the best I've seen, but definitely better than most of the many HTML games out here.

I prefer the real images/videos even if it's a fantasy setting. Considering the lore established the succubus as having minor shapeshifting powers, I simply headcanon that my succubus is constantly shimmering between hair colors, eye colors, etc during battle since it's harder to maintain a consistent appearance while distracted by fighting.

The battle system is fun and there's a good variety of skills/perks to unlock and discover. Yes, it can be a bit grindy in the beginning, but once you get your first few skills and perks, you can really start to snowball. I didn't have any trouble except in the first few battles. And I never really felt stuck in my progression either.

As for the UI, it's a pretty standard HTML game. Nothing fancy here. I will say that the addition of keyboard shortcuts is a great improvement over trying to click the blue links instead.

Overall, I hope the dev keeps up the good work. And would recommend anyone who doesn't mind a little grindy HTML game to try it out.

[v.0.3.13]
At it's core, this is a fairly linear novel-style game, with a somewhat fleshed out battlefuck-system attached to it, with it's visuals conveyed mostly by repurposing porn-clips. Well selected porn-clips, but just porn-clips nevertheless.

It's an original way of doing things, with some potential, but the limitations of the format seem to have kind of led the game a bit astray.

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The people who are picking this up are probably going to be interested in the experience of playing as a succubus. And you do get to do that, eventually. However, the bulk of the early-game is taken up by the blank-slate protagonist going through an isekai-plot in a generic fantasy-world that progresses at a snail's pace, and makes the mistake of going through every mundane step of getting you situated in the game-world. The pacing of the game and it's content, takes a long, long time in throwing anything at you to get invested in, or letting you actually "play" against anything. It fails to either give you anything to care about or give you any tools to work with, making the first impressions of the game pretty boring.

Eventually, you do start to get tools but the game isn't exactly geared toward letting you "build" your own succubus either though you do have a limited amount of roleplay-potential through your character-build. Advanced concepts like "having sex" are drip-fed hours into the content. The game is constantly positioning itself as possibly having some interesting content in the future, rather than giving you interesting things to do now.

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That said, the battle-fuck system is promising, but feels like it's missing something. The biggest issue I have is that it's the only bit of gameplay you can get invested in, and yet it's not fleshed out to the point where it could stand up as the core of the game. Instead it's almost a minigame attached to the story as a whole, which itself mostly just a kind of dull isekai-plot about a blank-slate protagonist who might be doing something interesting somewhere down the line. If this game had been built around it's combat, and the character-building you can engage in around it, it would have been a much better game.

If I had to give one piece of iterative advice on the current system, it's that it should probably allow for some type of snowballing "advantage", and that it should try to represent a seductive sexual encounter better. A system that is more focused around the fantasy of extending your influence over your opponent, and getting more and more control over the fight as you succeed, would play into my own kinks, but as a simpler solution you could also implement some kind of "limit break"-style of system to cut down on the length and grindyness of regular encounters. Or, as a very, very basic suggestion, you could tweak 'Mesmerize' to have it's duration extended, if used on targets that have their AP-gauge at a high level.

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One of the highlights of the problems with the game's concept, is a certain dream-sequence that happens after the opening of the game. The story literally pulls a "meanwhile, at Location...", and wrestles the perspective away from the main character for the first time, to tell a small vignette in a completely new style, with new characters, going through a completely different style of scene.
And then you're jumped back to the boring MC perspective again. It comes across as the writer themselves getting bored with where the story is at the moment.

It just feels like this game didn't have strong pre-planning, or that the concept that the dev was trying to build from the start is difficult to build in twine, and so the game is pulling towards the kind of novel-kind of experience the engine is designed for.

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My honest opinion, is that this concept of a Succubus-building, battlefuck-focused game could be a neat game, even with the same visual limitations as here, but that this particular way of using those systems is flawed.

Wanted to like this since the premise looked interesting and I like games that actually need to be played as opposed to porn slideshows, but it really wasn't my cup of tea. Obligatory could-not-make-myself-finish-playing disclaimer.

Main negatives for me:

- Too much grind without pay-off. Fuck the whole damn forest loop. The combat interface is just annoying and clunky and no fun at all. I desperately just wanted an auto-resolve or WIN button, as it just makes you go through the same shallow moves every time anyway.
- The real porn mixed with fantasy setting is so jarring, and does the game a major disservice.
- Dialog is well written but there's just a bit too much of it at times.
- Just random pics and girls for every scene. There's little or no continuity here and as a result, I'm barely even paying attention to the sex scenes. It's like watching a random gif carousel. I don't even know who I'm watching get fucked sometimes.

Positives:
- Interesting story & world building
- Quality of writing and characterization well above the norm. Skeleton God is hilarious.

Very compelling game. The gameplay with its RPG mechanics baked into worldbuilding is quite engaging, and the story is good.
It is a very slow build up however, so beware of that if you're not into it

This is a very promising start to a game. I like the setting and the story line.
I highly encourage the developer to keep going. Although the images and gifs don't really fit the theme of the setting i enjoyed the outside porn. I think i spend about three hours playing this just for the fun of it. Thanx

PROS (my view anyways)

• I like how the game has the same energy as karryn's prison.
• Grinding is apparent but not hindering.
• UI is decent enough and surprisingly did not experience any bugs.
• Story is up there and I am waiting to see what happens next.

CONS (not exactly)

• Still early in development, so i guess i have to wait for a lot of content to be added.
• Ability to customize characters and maybe adding consistent GIF and videos ( i might be asking for a bit much...but hey! if it fits it sits) .
• I know there is supposed to be grinding but the compounding XP makes it way harder than it should. If the developer can set a certain XP for every certain levels like i mentioned below:

Level 1 - 10 ( -/100 XP)
Level 11 - 20 ( -/200 XP) and so on, could make the game a lot more appealing.

Love this Game!

Incredibly fun to play.

Love the RPG aspects.

Love the combat system and unlocking new perks and magic.

I also did not mind the grind as its worth unlocking fun perks for MC.

Hope you add more side quests in the future maybe an Incubus enemy.

Keep up the great work.

• Love the models
• Nice story line with lots of options
• Like the kind of grinding (in most of the case) to improve the character
• Like the ability to choose the level of the opponent
• Like the events and side quests

Looking forward for more updates

Great game. Maybe a little too much grind, but the story, gameplay and the rest is well thought out and engaging.
There's already quite a bit of things to try out, the characters are nice, I hope they'll be fleshed out more vertically, so far there's not much depth to them.
Had a lot of fun playing, please keep it up!

Great game system, excellent clips and good story so far. I also found no bugs, which is another incredible achievement.
The typesetting on the lore sections could use some improvement. But otherwise it's an impressive entry for a game this new.

One of my favorite games on here.

It is actually fun to play with the RPG mechanics rather than just a grindfest.

The plot is unique and intriguing.

Writing is well done with some lighthearted humor.

Video choices are well done rather than using Riley Reid for the 1000th time.

Nice job dev, I can't wait for more updates.

A game really enjoyable with an interesting ystem compared to other HTML games.
Content wise I would say it is doing great for a 0.3 version.
Story wise I like what the developer is doing, and I understand that this is the barebones of the game, so I was not expecting hours and hours of story. Having said that, what there is so far is interesting. I am looking forward to where the story is going.
Bugs it has some, but they are addressed regularly, so other than me having to check the forum regularly there is nothing to complain about.
All in all a solid game. I will keep an eye for updates (hopefully they do not take 6 months like last time, buy hey, it is free...)

I can't say I enjoyed this. While the leveling system seems it can have a nice level of complexity it's pretty hard to make meaningful choices since skills and perks trickle in very slowly and you can't see the requirements or what you'll be able to pick in the future, or how they scale. Leveling and progressing in the story seems pretty grindy, a lot of going through identical encounters with no variety. Spent an hour on the game and only say stripping and hand jobs for sexual content so it wasn't really a good fap or warm up either. Additionally UI design has some serious flaws in that it takes several clicks to get anywhere, leveling for example requires you to click level up, then go through three menus to pick a skill, and then do that again to pick a perk, and again to pick an attribute.

There is some good though, the systems themselves have potential, even if it doesn't showcase in the time I played. Writing is competent with a few scenes being pretty good.

Excellent writing and game overall. I enjoyed the RPG aspects, the perk system, and the overall feeling of discovery in the game. As you play you'll unlock more, and naturally leading a player to systems and letting them explore those systems to unlock content is brilliant. I have to say I am watching with great interest and hope this goes far and becomes another big name game! Your work is admirable in the humor, atmosphere, and so much more. Thank you!

The game is great!
Well thought and implanted.
It's a "table rpg" with sex combat, that's really slow at first, and it grows on you, and you get excited !
Hope it develops well!!! Will keep visiting for sure.
Also hope that more fetishes and fantasies get implanted as well, it would be really fun.

Very interesting so far. The writing is pretty good. It allows the player to understand what it is like becoming a Succubus in an Isekai world. The way that the skills are introduced is pretty great and 'realistic'. You have to work hard to gain the skills you need to be an effective predator and the enemies you face can wipe you out if you don't take them seriously. Great game so far.