HTML - Small Town [v1.23] [Jake Still]

If you have tiktok brain rot this game might be for you. It's absolutely dreadful and embodies everything wrong with "games" that promise "freedom".
I don't know if I can even remember everything wrong with this and I gave up on it 10 minutes ago. I'll try to list some

• Visuals: Awful, random people playing any character, dev didn't even bother to look for material where models / pornstars look alike, in one "scene" your sister is a blonde bimbo, in the next one she can be petite Kenzie Reeves, then Riley Reid and then an amateur brunette tomboy, all of that in the same repeatable scene. Good luck figuring out who is talking in a scene where there are more than two people, only distinction dev does is pink dialogue for women and blue dialogue for males, and often you'll find it's just colored text instead of the basic and simplistic dialogue boxes used elsewhere. Images are inconsistent sizes, generally low quality, not even centered. Actions / description are mashed in and often talk to the player without any clear delimitation, while also abusing giving you meta knowledge without bothering to set it up (I'll elaborate later in writing)
• Game mechanics: If I had to sum it up, I'd say game mechanics in this game (grinding repeatable scenes) is the equivalent of steam games making you walk in slow motion so you can't refund. In this case it's banking on the sunken cost fallacy so you think to yourself you've already done a lot of grinding so might as well keep going for "the reward", while also jacking up the "play" time so financial backers think there was more content added than what actually was. You're genuinely asked to repeat scenes constantly while managing the lust stat low or else it's game over. Some other user commented it's almost impossible to play without cheats or you'll die because you have opposed requirements or circular dependencies in order to manage stats, from my perspective using cheats I didn't encounter that, but I found there isn't much of a game to play behind the grinding facade.
• Writing: I've played non-native english writers first releases, and I've let a lot pass, this takes it to the next level though. It's not just the fact that plot points are stupid (again, not talking about realistic, they're just what an immature writer would make up as problem when they find out from their users that stories are supposed to have rising action / tribulations that then translates to some sort of climax and resolution). Good writers can be very subtle so the reader can find out what other characters feel / think with small things, here the dev abuses narration mechanics to tell the player that some character is enraged, imagining something, "loves being a slut", etc. There are also expressions that don't make sense, typos everywhere, completely unrealistic (and bad) dialogue.
• Can't even track a single variable: During character creation you have 4 multiple choices, one list and two buttons that disable sharing content, when you click them you're told you can enable it back in the game by talking to them, shame that even if you don't talk with them and go, say into the living room you'll still get the investigate noise event that leads to mom sharing, if you go into brother/parents (you're forced into the second one because that's where your mother usually is) you might find them fucking one of the characters for which you disabled sharing.
• Game breaking bugs: There are two working quests / storylines, one for you "medical issue" and another for your fathers debt, if you finish the latter, it resets without any resolution, you just fuck a random chick, and if you try to re-do it you end up in a game state you can't get out from since it disables rollbacks.
• Map/Free Roam: 95% of the locations in the game serve no purpose other than having a random chance of starting a "scene".
• For a game that markets itself as giving you "complete freedom", not having any choice in the game (and not even respecting a flag like mentioned above) isn't the best practice. This game offers freedom in the same sense that you can watch a muted porn video / gif and imagine the dialogue scene yourself, because that's basically what you're asked to do here, x amount of clicks and you're rewarded with some random 360p gif you have to imagine is the character's mother/sister.
• Progression: The game apparently tries to play into the corruption genre, you know what plays well with that? A linear storyline with progression, so you can start with a little and start corrupting the character for more. What doesn't play well into it? Having random scenes where you have a single variable check to see what you can do, tying it up with the game mechanics point, you'd have to sink hours into a very mediocre game to get a feel of the corruption genre it's supposed to cater to in order to find every scene with every corruption threshold.

Positives:

• I guess you could argue at least it doesn't abuse AI slop.

Overall this game is a gif dump through and through, it's a shame because with the amount of resources and time this game has had, it could've done a lot more to make an actually good product. Don't recommend anyone waste time on this, won't play again.

When you play a game, you should be able to play the game.
You know, explore, learn, try things, etc.
What do we have here?
MC gets horny - he DIES. Die three times = game over, reload/start from scratch.
Ok, then i should be able to manage the horniness, right? Sure. Try to masturbate - you can't, you're not corrupted enough to masturbate alone in a shower/your room, because "someone might come in".
But hey, you ARE corrupted enough to go and ask your mother to jerk you off. Ah, but she's not corrupted enough for that... so she goes and makes your sister jerk you off. But she's only corrupted enough to do it once a day.
You're also corrupted enough to go and get a bj from a nurse. except she's not corrupted enough to finish you off, only to edge.
So you die, game over, congrats.
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If there is a game somewhere in here - i failed to get to it.

This is not very good at all. Barely any story. The story that is present is greatly underdeveloped and doesn't make much sense. Like you get super horny very easily and if you get too horny you die. You have to ask your mother for solutions and the very first thing she does is make your sister jerk you off. Idk about all that. Where is the corruption process? Even games that take place in the most corrupt locations require more than that. Right off the bat "mom, my boner hurts" "I know call your sister in and she can help". Nah not really

Very little amount of pictures, 0 consistency boring grind to get anywhere. Wouldn't recommend this to anyone that puts weight on these 3 aspects. I'm sure there is somewhat decent content written here but honestly anybody could do better.

A mod of this with added pictures/gifs that try to be consistent could go a long way.

This game isn't really very good. Many events or information link like quests are dead link that you can't leave but must use the back button. This is very poor design.

The kinks are semi incompatible with each other. Only someone into hetro as well as gay sex and NTR will be comfortable playing the game. You pretty much have to accept that your there are three males in the household and two females so you have to like sharing/having other men fuck your flat mates. Becoming a sex therapist is all about watching strangers fuck each other. While this isn't sharing nor NTR it still is adjacent to these kinks so again not something everyone will enjoy. Nothing about the kinks gets a low score as kink are subjective but you as the player should know that this game is going for a narrow audience and you likely wont like the game. You can't avoid most content so bare that in mind (gay content is avoidable at least up until the point I played but it was always an available option so if that bothers you then avoid playing.

There isn't much of a story or content that I could discover so the game is repetitive and thus boring. There are quests but they don't amount to much and triggering progress seems more effort than the worth any reward. This hurts the enjoyment of the game.

This is a sandbox with less mechanics than one would hope but at least most locations have content in them so you are not doing the hunt & peck hoping you trigger an event.

I got bored and found the combo of kinks and lack of real narrative curbed any possible enjoyment. The game didn't turn me on and in a fap game that's pretty much a death knell. Maybe with all the kinks aligning you will enjoy the game but even then I think you will find the lack of narrative hurts the game overall.

Review for version 1.13

Many have described this game as a mess. It is that. Others would describe it as a game to not take seriously. It is also that. And others would call it a game that kills you from overexposure to sexy scenes while having no outlet. Yes, that can be an early fate.

Not quite a "well-polished" game, but I am giving this score more on it being something to hit up with the same energy one employs their porn collection. There is only a small veneer of plot to direct one and early game can be hell, but it has a benefit of gathering momentum. The more you do, the more you can do, which quickly turns into a snowball effect. The little teases of your sister (I REFUSE to employ roommate or landlady. This game is clearly intended as incest with only the slightest cover to not get booted by patreon) can quickly turn into much more hands-on approaches, full temptations until you're fucking three times per day.

But there are two factors that I believe put this game above many others. First... the inclusion of gay stuff. No, I'm not some pro-alphabet advocate, but you so rarely find games with bisexual heroes. Either it's full-blown the homo-est of the gay, or it's guys so straight that they might die if there are men within ten kilometer ranges. While it's still lacking in more scenes to make use of the dad and brother in any way beyond partners to fuck women, still having them on the table is something a lot of other games lack.

And second... the sharing. Some probably hate that and think all harems must revolve around their genital implements, but here you will see that the people you turn so eagerly into sexual deviants are more than eager to pursue each other as well as your character. And you can join them. Still a shame we can't join the mom and dad when they be fuckin, but always nice to see the other pairings going at it with your option to help out. This puts a nice sense of verisimilitude. You made these horny fuckers, they ain't gonna wait around exclusively for your ass. Plus, threesomes. And occasionally foursomes.

A nice game to take on when one needs that thirty minute wank.

Just full of bugs and poorly made. Story line is non existent. It is hard to think of anything positive to say I mean literally you hit brick wall bugs every corner and it is also kinda grindy. I mean the dev is persistent with making update but none of them patch bugs.

The getting arrested mechanic is pretty boring and pointless, the scenes are alright in the game, but its not very well put together. There are cheats to get around the game faster but then you may as well just go look at gifs on reddit or something

just a bad game. reactions dont make sense. on time your sister has to help your condition and sucks you off, next time she gets hysterical when you have a boner. low effort game. the multiple choices are at least fixed kinda, but still looks bad but at least you kinda know what happens.

the game just overall makes no sense. makes no sense how you get corruption, makes no sense in where you need corruption, many choices have DLC and paid content requirements.BORING.

No audio, limited direction and dialog (just a bunch of thoughts and observations in MC's head). It's very much okay. If this didn't have cheats I'd give it 2 stars. I'm an incest freak but neither the sis nor the mom are interesting to me. They feel flat, just labels that are applied to certain short clips.

Otherwise, the HTML base is fine, definitely not the worse I've seen, but nothing exciting. "Map" is probably a little too big but not excessively so (at the moment).

Idk, I wish I had skipped this personally, takes a bit of time to realize it's not worth the time it took to realize that it's not worth the time lol.

I guess many of the reviews here are old.. But I think at least in current state, it is not deserving all the bad reviews..

Yes.. There are still various bugs.. A few places, you don't get an option to move on, so you have to go back and do something else.. A few places bugs are triggered, but it's no real issue as you can just move on ignoring them..

The game is certainly playable, and have a lot of small nice porn clips and a story to connect them together.. And while it's a sandbox, it's easy to get to the content, though it may be a bit of a grind to get corruption and money up.

I really like the concept of this game, and woulda given it 4 stars if the overall quality was better.

Without a doubt, the game is absolutely excellent! I'm eagerly anticipating future updates to enhance the experience. While it may not be flawless and lacks an abundance of content, I truly appreciate the dynamic gameplay that keeps me hooked.

If you don't care about choices, this could be a 5/5 (but then why don't you just choose your own porn?)
Also, as mentioned by someone below, if you're into NTR and free use you may have a good time here, so that's that.

As a game, however, in the state I played (0.9.1), it's just not enough.
Too many clicks to find what to do and 'story' doesn't really make sense as a whole.
Images are all over the screen.

Let's get the bad stuff out the way first. The author had a very quirky way of scripting this game, probably due to lack of experience. There aren't many outright bugs but a lot of things that aren't arranged or don't work how you might expect them to. The 'plot' isn't deep, and there is not much in the way of gradual corruption. First day you'll be fucking your sister's throat.

Oh, I mean 'stepsister'. I certainly didn't open the .html file with Notepad++ and globally replace 'stepsister' with 'sister' (127 instances) before playing.

The jail thing isn't as bad as it first seems, if only because you don't always explode as fast as you'd think you would. (There's a sentence) Basically, save frequently and you probably won't have to reload as often as you'd think (but still a lot).

All that said, it's a cool game worth a look before dismissing it as trash.

One star for forced sex with sister. One star for some decent choices of clips. That's the best I can do.

Here's a weird criticism at first but it'll get me to a point:

If you want a game to have some kind of economy then don't add in an investment option with compound interest. Rob the bank, get a chunk of money larger than any other option. Up your investment level a couple of times. You're now getting a few percent a day compound interest on 100k. Daily. You can sleep any time as long as you lower lust now and then. Even without trying exploiting it by hitting sleep a ton of times, you'll be making more money than you could any other way.

What are you doing with all this infinite money? Well, you spend a million of it to...unlock a job? You're a millionaire from using an expected source of income already. There's nothing left to buy anyway.

And the point I'm getting to is this kind of design is indicative of the lack of forethought put into every aspect of the game. No sense of direction or order, little reason to do anything, a mix of overly exploitable and pointless grind, and...I don't really understand what the quests are or if I've done them. I'm already fucking the Mom and sister, so what else am I playing for? There's things I think I'm supposed to be able to do but little direction as to how to do them and I'm not sure why I'd bother.

I just don't know what I'm doing or what's going on in this game. I went to jail. To survive in jail I had to fuck the inexplicably female cellmate (you'll game over if you don't). That reduced my relationship with her into negative numbers. There's nothing else to do in the jail cell (later, you can fuck a guard for $500 but that's all). To do anything else with the cellmate I'd need +100 relationship. You can gain +1 a day by not fucking her. Which means I need to get arrested repeatedly, do nothing in the jail for over 100 in game days to find out what her deal is. I'm not going to find that out.

As is often the case, I'm sure there's a game in there somewhere with development, but I don't see much reason to think that will ever come.

a pretty good and simple game. I liked the fact that you don't have to worry about where to click and what to choose. respect to the developer, continue in the same spirit. please make the update bigger, so that it would be even more interesting to play.

Its just a game with no thought or story put in, click somewhere and get sex. Its clear that the developer doesn't even care for his work either considering that he even mispelt sister on multiple occaisons. The game is buggy with a lot of options not even locking out or even scenes where the developer forgets to put a leave button or some way of exiting the text to continue on. And the grind is so fucking dumb, some scenes require you to get 5000 corruptions which is just absurd

Best real-porn incest-oriented game i've seen here in a loooong time. Sure, there are few bugs here and there but overall game offers almost everything I want from this type of game. Would love to see pregnancy content in the future, but in the current state of things this game offers more than enough for me to enjoy it.

Broken mess.
It doesn't even make sense to say if it has potential or not, because nothing works properly. Grind paired with poor design + unplayable state of the game. You get boner too quickly in the begining and later it just becomes too much of an annoying feature rather than a fun challenge.
Unless it gets a MAJOR bugfix it's not worth playing.

v0.4.6a - Game is still a broken mess like most people will tell you, no matter what when you start the game the quests are bugged, content is grindy and repetitive and you'll have trouble not dying of a boner till you unluck content. The Dad and Brother content seems not to work at all, no clue what the DLC is about but it's placeholder, could not get anything to trigger for most of the content. Also the main ways to make money are locked behind already having way too much money to care about it. Health's bugged, nearly every scene is bugged, etc.

Just don't play it, based on it being broken for so long you can expect this to never be fixed.