HTML - A Hard Pill to Swallow [v0.3] [Risky Bizzi Games]

Writing: 7/10
Imagery: 6/10
Gameplay: 6/10
Kinks: 7/10
Overall: 7/10

Drugs are good, mmm'k?

Feels like the guy in this once worked at the "corporation" but lost their job, and now spends his resources on fulfilling his sexual deviancy on the women around him.

You got a number of different pills you can make and use on your family and friends, leading them to eventually hop your bone calling you a different name. Master and daddy are just a couple monikers you can take up.

Sadly this is a bit of a grindy game with how sandbox it is, with no real direction, you're more or less left to click on each option of where to go until you eventually stumble across a sex scene you can watch unfold. And since each one doesn't really have enough visual appeal, and can be pretty short overall, just when you get started feeling something, the scene ends and you're back to looking for the next.

Still, plenty of kinks can be fulfilled, if you don't mind playing search and destroy.

A surprising lot of content, with them being fairly high-quality as well. A couple of bugs, but nothing that impacts a playthrough (a couple girls at the end of their routes have links that lead to unrelated scenses, but these only appear after their routes are finished).

(I used a save editor to skip through any grinding, so that might effect how enjoyable I found the game.)

The game actual seems reasonably well thought-out and presumably has content, unfortunately it's gated behind a ridiculous degree of grinding the same actions over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, each of said repetitions seemingly giving the exact same scenes and response.

Not sure if dev thinks this is a good way to make a game or it's artificial padding to extend game length but I ended up uninstalling it due to the needless and boring grind.
Still, I'll give it a 3 because unlike most games of this kind it actually seems like there's a real idea behind it and it's relatively well written for it's tropey premise.
Keeping it on watch for a few updates before I decide whether to forget about it or give it another chance but the grind has to die

I gave it a 3 star rating. It should be no higher than a 2 star but it's early in the development stages and the dev has a chance to change the direction before it's completely too late. I hate to completely dump on a devs time and effert. As it stands on Aug. 27th the game is not very good. If you have played any other 2 star HTML game on here then you have played this one. It's does nothing new and feels like every other bad game on here. It's grindy, has bugs and broken links or non existent links in some places. I just dont understand why devs just keep using the same bad formula that every other failed HTML game uses and then wonder why it fails or gets rated badly. It's like nobody has any creativity or originality anymore.

So far it's a good 1st attempt, the pace maybe needs to be quicker (and maybe give alternative routes involving the pills early on) but compared to other 0.1 releases this has good a good amount of content

Version Reviewed: v0.1beta

Overview: One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you ball...

Story: You are a stepdad who just moved back in with his bitchy wife who makes you pay $500 for sex and her hot to trot daughter. You work at a business that has a facility for making custom pills and you know the formula for corruption, sex, sleeping, and amazingly some pills that make people treat you like a husband/father. Your objective is of course to bang every warm hole in your life. I would talk more about the writing, but it's so forgettable that I can't remember it even now. There's nothing new or interesting in any of it and it veers into cringy redpill territory quite often.

The game his heavy on domination themes, with the MC being pretty rapey at times and always misogynistic. The women however are all pretty terrible people as well and take it with aplomb.

Gameplay: Soul crushing grind. Many interactions require you to take pills, but each pill costs between two to five days of clicking the "work" button over and over again. You also have to grind an intelligence stat and an authority stat that seems to just be how willing you are to rape some woman you don't know.

If there is any major content for the Mother character I was not able to find it, just a couple of "pay me to fuck me" scenes. There is a washing machine you are supposed to rig to trap her (yes, this game uses all the cliches), but the store is always sold out of it.

The daughter almost has content, after a huge long grind of talking to her day after day at different times in different places to get all of the clues you can play a quiz game with her on the weekend to advance her story, which immediately comes to an abrupt end.

There are a couple of office sluts that are far less grindy. You just talk to them until you own them, easy peasy.

The final mechanic is you can stalk your neighborhood at night and rape some neighbors. This costs pills and also greatly increases a "notoriety" meter that would probably be bad if it filled all the way. Reducing it costs, you guessed it, even more money.

Graphics: Real porn with only occasional consistency. Outfits will radically change between images and I'm not sure the actors are even consistent. Some scenes are better than others, but there aren't really that many in the game.

Conclusion: What would otherwise be a run of the mill sisterfucker is dragged down by excessive grind and a total lack of any kind of quest tracking/hints. Be prepared to be lost and aimlessly clicking around for a couple of hours trying to find stuff in this game. Hints are few and far between. I'm pretty sure I missed some content, at one point a university location opened up, but I never had any scene trigger there despite checking it every time period of every day for a week. One of the stores had several items for sale that never available for purchase. It's hard to recommend a game that is just like so many other games on this site, but worse.

I think this is a great base for great things to come. I love the interactions with the step daughter especially. I do have some notes.

Everything is very expensive. It's pretty annoying that I make less than $2000 dollars a day yet everything costs between 3000 and 10000. The pills especially sound like I'll need several but with how expensive they are it feels like quite a grind.

I imagine a solution to both would be that having x amount of knowledge allows for you to make y extra money due to efficiency/know how/work ethic. Similarly you could make it that have x knowledge reduces pill production by y amount due to better knowledge on proper quantities and improving percent yield.

Another thing related to price is the 4 side girls. It is fun having quicker content but I would be nice if you could either bring them into the family, like the main chicks seem to be setting up for, or that by using a different or other or by doing the stalk event on a specific girl enough they become permanently pilled as it is quite annoying having to pay 4000 for a pill and another 1500 to reduce notoriety every time you wish to do one of the extra girls.

The last complaint is actual just a bug I noticed. When you pay for a mommy milkier pill you get the scene saying you created a pill, you even lose your $8000. You don't get a pill though. The variable counter has no change and thus you can't use it.

Overall I thing there is great potential but I think it could use some quality of life adjustments. Excited to see where this goes.

V0.1a
For initial release, it looks quite promising. I hope to come back and increase the stars on this review. As of today there are a few characters, probably enough, but the plot will definitely allow for more. There is a good amount of sex content but you don't really get to max out your relationship with each (at least how the game insinuates you'll be able to). Some of this is due to content not existing, some of this is due to bugs (pretty easy to spot code errors in games like this, at least they don't crash though). I personally felt kind of blue balled by the step-daughter path - all the paths are pretty good but I've got a incest/step-cest kink and damn that shit was going good until I hit the "that's all folks" literally right when we get her interested in fucking. Other paths end after you get into decent sex content, thought this one was going to be the same....

I'd call this 2.5 stars today. With no bugs I'd give it 3 stars which is a STRONG review for a game's first release imo. Desperate folk could probably get off on this, but I think most people will need to wait a bit to get satisfying content.