Off the beaten path: Volume 1
With this series, Pervert City reviews games NOT on Steam. So expect HTML games, games made via Illusion and others outside of mainstream because I feel some of these are too good to ignore.
So Asia, why start this series? Simple. It’s what no other reviewer does. Sure some Youtubers talk the highest earners of the Steam castoffs like Eternum and Harem Hotel (great games), but what about the rest? Is there a gold mine out there that SPG misses? Games that aren’t Youtube friendly that Purity Sin passes in between the co-user of her channel posting Alex Jones-esque nonsense? Or Adult Game Reviews, who I have heard some things about their review process (I reached out for comment on what I heard, until then it will not be posted officially). (EDIT: After reaching out for comment and hearing his side of the story for a rumor I heard… He replied and here is his official reply)

Well, THIS series will tell you. Small games have merit, some of these games might actually be prequels to games that get super popular or are pretty popular amongst a niche already. A few of them eventually grow and become noticed. Some have risque fetishes or use Illusion software, which keeps their reach down even though IllGames/Illusion seems nonchalant about people borrowing their games for intended purposes. Side thought, Illusion would have sold more had they openly allowed people to use their software as a game development tool. RPG Maker does just fine with this. Raise the price to $100 and add StudioNEO/CharaStudio. Free the license, print money, shouldn’t it be that easy? Anywho, that’s not the case… So many games using Honey Select and Koikatsu are never allowed to see the light of day because of this nonsense and yes, this is spoken from someone with a hand in the game. True. It is facts though, bias not withstanding.
So with this said, I am going to go with text based games. Something that feels very ignored and when you start, you must start with the biggest: Trials in Tainted Space.
Simply the most ample role-playing opportunities around lie within TiTS. Here, my character that was human woman as I started, became a spider-girl via a side quest. Do you want to be a human male and avoid transformation? Do you want to start as an Azula (a shark-anthro race that can only be hermaphrodite or female)? There are side quests galore to find, usually one in every hub, sometimes more than one. Unique races and characters to get to know, I can honestly admit to falling to Venus Pitcher game overs a few times, I enjoy that race. The issue has been the following, what you see here wasn’t how it was 2 years ago. It was on Java, but was converted with the shuttering of Java, and that took a decent amount of time. It’s been painful for fans awaiting the completion…
Nonetheless, Trials in Tainted Space is one of my favorite sandboxes to goof around in. However, with Lilith’s Throne and now Broken Dreams Correctional Center out there… The latter very early in development but is a far smaller scaled TiTS, it may be time for Fenoxo, the dev of TiTS to get it together. But we will see…
Then there are games which you feel are worthy of FAR MORE love than you see they are getting… For that, I point to REPURPOSING CENTER. An HTML masterclass by JPMaggers that is more developed version of Broken Dreams CC where there is alot to do and sift through right now, but far less furry.
As you see, a theme: Stat management, a slightly “open world” to live in, character customization, a lot to like about this game. “GGP” or “Good Girl Points” are your money. If you comply with the program that reset you as a person, you gain more GGP. If you don’t, well, you will be trained to be compliant. These are the good ones, but as you know… You root around places like Itchio to find games and you find some not so good stuff.
So if you didn’t cringe at that sign, “B*tch Land” might draw your eye. Oh? You noticed my character’s chicken legs and the clipping on the girl nearby’s clothes? Let’s be honest here, this is ambitious. It’s a pr0n “Rust” or “Ark: Survival Evolved”, at least that’s how it seems but this needs work. It needs… A LOT of work. I wish this dev the best of luck in his attempts to fix the myriad of issues and he adds an option to show you the controls again after the “tutorial” I guess thats what it was supposed to be, ability to save your game and turn off the clearly AI voices used by the characters and just use subtitles.
Anywho… That’s a view of three “off the beaten path” games. Let me know what you think. Should I continue this series or not?
Take care.
P.S. The pic you saw about this article is from a buddy of mine named passhonQ and its a cute character from his game Academy Live, warning though: It’s netorase (sharing). He makes some great characters.
- Asia.