With all this going on with DOL you have any recommendations for similar games?
mmmh... Unfortunately not right now, maybe once we're seeing people do their own stuff in the future. (fingers crossed)
I mean. I'm sure youve heard of the usual suspects:
Course of Temptations, Corruption of Champions 1 and 2 and Trials in Tainted Space.
All three allow you to OC or self insert but none of them share the same appeal dol has/had to me.
Course of Temptations started out as a "dol-clone" but has since become its own thing. Coding wise it seems very solid (at least according to a close friend of mine). But id say going from dol to cot is like stepping into a kiddy pool, by comparison. At least if you liked dol for the disenfranchisement, general vulnerability and trauma slice of life.
I tried course of temptations for a bit. It's great for those who want a softer version of dol and have never fucked that much with the atrocities in the game to begin with.
It is still in developement though, so I'm not up to date.
My biggest gripe with cot is that i feel like im floating around alone, in an empty world becuase the charcters arent defined.
The important NPCs have set tropes/roles. For example:
The Best Friend, The Roommate's Partner, The Classroom Admirer, The Classroom Harasser etc. But they feel so vague that i can't really attach to them on that alone.
Pro:
- no gender locked characters (a lot of customization)
- A wider variety of Body Types (helped due to it being exclusively text based.)
- Very well made isometric map
- stat management (similar to dol, if youre into that)
Con:
- (con?) Its an alternative but dont expect dol. its not dol and does not hit on the same themes. Mainly a porn-fantasy instead of a Trauma Sim
- Kinda Forgettable Characters
- "you flick your clit with a pair of fingertips"
Abortion?:
- idk
Corruption of Champions 1 & 2
I actually played both. Two more than One. They have some overlapping characters/premise iirc. But you dont have to play one to be able to understand two. I'll mainly adress two though, since its easier to access.
Now, Corruption of Champions can be a fun time. but it very much is a porn game first and foremost and the trauma and horror is basically nonexistent. It is pretty shallow as far as things go.
You have a narrative but its mostly there so you have a reason to fuck around and find out. Theres some very light non-con/rape but not much. It could not be more different from dol. Its also even more painfully heteronormative. Nor does it allow you to abort a pregnancy 🙄 You can make yourself sterile right off the bat though.
As a warning; While you can make yourself trans and fuck around with your body shape, it also uses the WARNING "Herm/Hermaphrodite" descriptor for an idividual with two genitals, instead of bigenital. (it works similarly to dol in that regard; its entirely based on the porn trope, unless they changed things since I last played.)
CoC2 is also full on fantasy.
Pro:
- A wider variety of Body Types (helped due to it being exclusively text based.)
- Furries (if youre into that)
- A variety of sex encounters. Theres so much content, you will probably find at least one of your kinks represented.
- (ymmv) More thorough Character and Romance writing (it doesnt hit for me personally but i think this could be a big pro for others)
Con:
- Gender locked NPCs (with some exceptions)
- Doesnt use Bigenital as a Descriptor instead of 'Hermaphrodite'
- At times fetishistic descriptors for darker skin tones, depending on the writer
- Varying quality in the writing due to a billion different writers
- Kitsune powered Japanese imperialism
- Lovely descriptors such as 'lovebox', 'cooter', 'clitty', 'lovepillows', 'muff', 'bitchbreaker', 'box-eating', etc.
- You can't process some quests without the.. sighs. "right" set of genitals
- Tonal dissonance
- Kinda bland writing when it comes to non-penetrative sex imo.
Abortion?:
- No
I played this one the least. It was simply not for me. Its sci-fi and shares a lot of coc2-isms. I cant give enough info to really provide a pro or con list.
But my friend @wolfgirlwrongs provided me witha a way better (and more thorough) review instead:
The quest has less urgency than coc (quest to reclaim inheritance instead of world fucking demon), and there’s a decent amount of fun to doing gigs or jobs to scrounge up cash for equipment or big purchases etc
it does do the sci fi space thing fairly well gameplay wise- its very present in how you move between areas, your “home base” really feels like a ship and you can choose to buy up to upgrade it or buy better ones, the tf system feels way more organically integrated into the world and I know I found it fun to make trans characters there (start out in wrong body and save up money for tf items) since there was a element of immersion into going to specific shops and buying like. Sci fi pills or stuff to use in the dedicated sci fi syringe
I vaguely remember it having a replace terms options for stuff like herm but it’s been a long time since I played >.>
But either way it does use shit like herm, trap, cuntboy
Same problem as coc2 with the varied writing quality
I’d actually say there’s less dissonance in how rape is handled because even the characters that get like. Sex trafficked. Don’t focus on the trauma aspect of it a lot, so it leans more porn game rapey fun generally instead of swinging from different ends between moments <- THIS MAY NOT BE TRUE FOR CHARACTERS I HAVENT SEEN
Oh god wait with coc2 as well- cringy fetishtic terms about darker skin colors
Think it also has the “muff” etc sins
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