HTML - Course of Temptation [v0.4.27e] [Anthaum]

Honestly similar to Degrees of Lewdity, but with a bit more freedom of playstyle and systems that are easier to understand. Would love to see it get a doll image based system, but still very good for what it is currently.

If you like Degrees of Lewdity's style but not so much its extreme content and depressing atmosphere, this game is for you. It's a similar kinda grindy horny life simulator. I've been liking the writing although it's all more generic repeatable stuff than any specific storylines.

It's slightly barebones for linear events (which is to be expected, it's a v0.4), but the foundations are solid. Also I'm not sure why people are mentioning that certain orientations are forced on the player? You can set the rate of any specific genders/orientations to nearly nothing and if you set your sexuality to a specific one then you never receive advances from one you didn't select.

3/5
The text is almost enough, almost.

It seems to take a lot from DoL mechanics and does them even better. DoL focuses too much on being a dark dating sim, while this game has a much better grasp on the general sandbox and character mechanics. (Not counting the lack of content it currently has)

One of the main things this game could desperately use to be the best in its genre are sprites, paperdolls, etc.

Played it a while ago and I can with confidence say that this is not only the best text-only game, but one of the best games in general on f95.

I love sandboxes and was quite sceptical at first thinking "h game with no visuals? naah..." Oh boy was I wrong. The amount of stuff that you can do and situations you can get into is simply astonishing. And the text descriptions reminded me that the imagination at times can work much better than any of these overcooked unreal engine trash scene players, html gif slide shows and japanese rpgm running around simulators.

Great, perfect, amazing, 10/10

Still very barebone, but I already like it. HTML game without bloated size due to abusive usage of real porn images instead of plot is rare, and it's refreshing to see.

1. Speaking of barebone, the gameplay gets repetitive quite fast even without tweaking the system to your favor and cheating your way. There's still no real consequence of your choice (maybe except for removing class bully), certain event triggered by your appeal rarely happened I actually have to edit part of the game just to experience them more often.
2. Content wise still a lot left to be desired, from activities to clothing and world, and NPC interaction still lacking other than hook up and hang-out, not enough depth beside that for now.
3. Story and originality? Definitely not original, you still need to get money every week just like many games (HTML or not) mechanic, story still at prelude level for now to allow current repetition flow.

Personal note: Playing as slut isn't that punishing so far, might be back when there is punishment of some kind.

Course of Temptation is obviously trying to ape off Degrees of Lewdity(it's in the name), and distinguishes itself by frontloading development with a billion different cosmetic options. Unfortunately, there is no in-game sprite, so all these purely cosmetic options don't matter at all. There is also no challenge to this game aside from the grind and having to manage needs, which tend boil down to having to be in a certain place at a certain time. Overall, I'd say this is less DoL clone, and far more text-based Sims if your Sim had zero autonomy.

You might be turned off from the lack of images but the content and the writing heavily makes up for it. Everyone's already saying it but it's basically like DoL. But it's a DoL where you're allowed to have some power instead of just being the eternal victim. (nothing wrong with those games but sometimes I wanna be the bully)

Been having a great time with this game. It's pretty much DOL college edition. I have experience the last few versions of this game and I am very hopeful. Really solid foundation and I am looking forward to future updates. I initially felt that it's lack of visuals when compared to DOL was a bad thing. But the more I played the less it mattered. If the game's future development was focused solely on gameplay like story, activities, world building and not visuals. I feel like there would be no issue. Though I usually look for visuals in games, I was still entertained despite the lack of them. I truly hope that this game continues to be developed and that there will be a lot more things to do. Like maybe relationships since they feel somewhat lacking. You could have sex, go on dates. But the dialogue and text are pretty repetitive and boring or maybe empty. Great game so far 10/10.

Haven't played a lot but this is promising. It's giving me Degrees of Lewdity vibes, except a lot less extreme and giving the player a lot more agency. It's held back a bit by the lack of images, unfortunately.

Waiting impatiently for updates!

Fun College sim. Customization of main character is detailed and I like the amount of things we can do as a student. That being said, I wished there was more ... deviant things to do. For example, bondage or bdsm..

really good game, not without any flaws but the 4,5 rating is not possible so ...

well written,a tiny bit grindy at first then it is totally ok. nice customisation of the character and the world you play in

Great game, 100% one of the best on the market. Clean, well thought out and properly implemented systems, great writing.

Unlike most text-based games - very good understanding of volume and pace.
Unlike most sandbox games - actually stimulating after first ever scene due to, again, great systems in place.

The only thing I personally could wish for - more options for character to be scumbag rather than solely experiencing actions of scumbags.

+ Fun Setting/Premise
+ Global NPC Gender/Orientation Settings
+ Shows Promise

= Decent Characters, best friend had the most content by far, but its not fleshed out enough atm to be anything special
= Decent skill/perk system, with perks being inclinations

- Grindy Hell, and this is with using cheats and an xp multiplier

One thing this desperately needs is the ability to turn off needs

Maybe implement a system where an '!' will identify events you haven't seen so you actually bother to visit facilities that are just super repetitive, ex: bathroom and food being the worst as its only extra clicks

Or maybe add an automation feature for certain needs?

- The Global NPC Gender/Genital/Orientation Settings cannot be set to lower than 5% so you can't completely avoid combinations you don't want, but they will be rather uncommon as a result. Why?

- The milkshake quest is terrible in just about every way imaginable.
Its grindy rng? It took ages to finish for me.
It locks you out of progressing with the best friend until you complete it.
It also lacks an actual ending of you recording the guilty party in this and reporting them.
I'd argue against locking characters to grindy content that only takes place once a week!

It is still a work in progress but it still manages to entertain a lot, the story is fun and it is not difficult to understand.
There are still things to add, fix some bugs but for now it is a good game

Good game with a nice start going to play more to see what to think about it

-As for what I think the game can add is more character job options would be nice with the character going slowly through the semester some thing the character is studying can lead to them getting a job in field they study which would be a good addition.

- also more clothes options would be nice and maybe events that start up about the clothes you wear.

-maybe add an option to add more than one childhood friend

-maybe a martial arts class our character can take with tournaments and events

That's most I can think more now.

v0.4.26
A clone of a popular game, but without everything that makes that game good.

It features way too many stats, including things like food, which makes it feel like you're playing The Sims, if having a snack required a dozen clicks.

The very first scene is a man cumming on your face in a crowded public school bus, and it doesn't give you any options to fight back or ask for help. This is literally the aftermath of the scene:

"Wow," says Juliette. "That happened." Her shirt is spattered with dark wet spots. You're sure it's all over your shirt too... probably in your hair... frankly, you're a little afraid to find out.

"It sure did," you say. "I feel like a lot of things just happened."

Juliette laughs. "I bet."

Since the game doesn't have any pictures, you would expect the writing to make up for that, but as you can see, it's far from decent.

It also includes some of the gender terminology used by modern kids, so half of the time you don't know what the game is talking about unless you go out of your way to research. For example, this is one of the first choices in the game:
"Your best friend Arely (nonbinary AFAB)"
All friends are bad?

The travelling system is identical to that of the other game, same for the options during class.
Character descriptions are exceedingly bad. This is an actual example, and far from the worst one I've seen: "a thick-bodied eye-catchingly dressed blue-haired college boy".

You get 1-2 sentence screens with descriptions like that all the time, and they don't seem to do anything: they'll increase stats that vanish by the next screen.

After 1 hour I didn't see anything that resembled sexual content, besides some mentions of somebody making sex noises inside of a room as you walked by. That's fine for a VN with a great story. For a text-only sandbox without a story or art? No, thank you.

In the end, this game managed to remove all of the mechanics that characterize the other game and only kept the least user-friendly features: the bloated menus, ridiculous descriptions, poorly generated repetitive scenes, and clickfesty elements.

A shame, because making a game like this takes work - if only that effort had been focused on better and more interesting mechanics, this could've been enjoyable. Instead what it offers is tedium, grind, and boredom.

A very nice game, essentially a casual clone of DoL (not in a bad sense!) By casual I mean being more.... normal? Instead of paranormal-ish town teeming with rapists and horny beasts you get a regular college campus, and you're less of a victim, but mechanics are basically the same.

One notable difference is that all characters are permanent and pre-generated at the start of the game, not unlike HHS+ or Influencing. That makes encounters more engaging since you know you can meet this person later.

It's still somewhat repetitive and sparse in terms of content, and some things need rebalancing, but even in its current state it's worth spending a couple of hours.

Extremely promising game, you won't get lost anywhere looking for certain passages. Characters are well-written and the entirety of the game is fun to explore, became one of my favorite projects around in no time !

Hope the dev keeps up with the work they're doing right now because it's beyond amazing.

Usually I avoid text only games but for some reason i tried this one.
And I didnt regret it.
Its a bit repetive but its okay and somehow even part of the fun here.

Overall I had and still have much fun with this game.
Though I would love a few Ai generated pics here and there, would really add much flavour.
Looking forward to the next updates.

found myself endlessly clicking to the end of time without much impactful or relatively fun stuff happening at all. tried to roam at different times, wearing skimpier and skimpier clothing.. nothing changes. the occasional grope. but over 5 hours of gameplay and i was yet to be non conned, yet to have sex. i was blue balled and bored. theres no risk to this game at all, and i wanted to play a trans woman playthrough and her being a bottom.. as no games offer you a trans protag but with bottom options from dudes. so as a fetish of mine (i like trans ladies, any human with a butt hole basically xD). thought win win, anal lover galore content. NOPE. nothing, nada, zero. i got bored after hours of tedious grinding that amounted to nothing