Ren'Py - Completed - Cure My Addiction [Ch.5 Ep.1 C] [TheGary]

Bit of a rambling review. I’ll start with a technical assessment – the game runs smoothly, and has almost no bugs. It’s a bit of a pain having to download five separate chapters but whatever. The art is pretty nice, the models are hot.

I can’t claim to be a big fan of the format – the game is basically linear with no real choices until part five of five, and you will aim to see all content. The only real gameplay mechanic is endlessly circling through the rooms of a yacht and a penthouse searching for the limited cast of characters to interact with or catch in the act. The game playthrough time is at least doubled, maybe tripled, but the need to be in the right place at the right time to trigger specific events and progress, with you just following the guide. To me this is not engaging gameplay and a big time waste – I get that it’s meant to simulate actually living in the place and the passage of time, but some decent writing in a visual novel would achieve the same effect.

As far as the sexual content is concerned, there’s plenty, and some good stuff – with caveats. There’s lots of vanilla sex, as well as lots of spanking, and some BDSM. The game lists femdom as a tag but F/M is about 3% of the content overall so don’t be misled! Even then the game seems pretty scared of causing insecure maledoms offense so it’s all avoidable. I’m a fan of spanking so that aspect greatly appealed, as well as some of the more hardcore or BDSM aspects. The game also mainly revolves around a family with all the associated taboo there – something that doesn’t really interest me – I always feel it lends the story a juvenile aspect.

As a reflection of the above sexual inclinations the politics are a bit odd. It’s quite a conservative approach – there’s basically only one male character, the MC, and a harem of teens, siblings, mothers and aunts to fall at his feet. This patriarchal mentality endures, culminating in the farcical will & testament which is accepted by all. Also a somewhat strange attitude to age - Rachel described by one character as looking towards a grandmother type era in her life, and a corporate executive is lambasted by a young woman for saggy breasts and crows feet... for looking like she's 32!? The various characters start rather conservative and go back and forth for ages, dithering on whether to accept new perspectives. I honestly think a more interesting story could have been drawn with a similar premise but a move away from the family unit and a less nakedly ridiculous male power fantasy.

The story does pick up in chapter 3 and 4 and some corporate intrigue is introduced, and by this point more BDSM. Having spent a very long time with the characters by now you may have become fond of some of them – they are quite well drawn personalities and the endings are decent.

In conclusion, it’s a polished and spanking heavy story but with points deducted for sprawl and somewhat conservative storytelling.

It's a great AVN. I'm not sure why the average rating is so low. The idea and script are good. The dialogue is well written and funny. The graphics are decent. There are lots of hot scenes. If you don't like grinding, then there isn't much of it and it's fairly light. Thanks to the developers for creating this game! 5 stars!

One of the first games I experienced in my AVN jopurney, and made me realise its potential as a fap material,. ore seriously the storytelling here is neither revolutionary and have a lot fo RPG esquece mchanisma dn is a bit repetative.

What sabeves this game is great static renders, helpful guides so that you are not lost and lot of available walktrough that help you in case yopu are lost.

I believe one shoululd play this game atl;east once as iut give you decent isight of strengths and weakness of AVN as a medium. It have great kik sernes that don't go over board, meanwhile it balances it with quality writing .

There is no disturbing bugs/big bugs maybe there were some minor, very good renders/animations, fun to play and just enough grinding. perfect. I really like this game. one of the best lewd game I have ever played, and believe me I played a lot. strongly recommend it.

This game is still a pearl in this industry with amazing CG and fun gameplay (altough a little bit too crunchy for my taste). Overall good variety of flavours and interesting characters. Recommended to everyone interested in corruption, BDSM and femdom flavours.

Very well made visual novel. The first chapter is a bit tedious but everything that comes after truly makes this one of the best Visual novels. The renderers are good the bugs are at a minimum and the gameplay loop does not feel grindy so 5/5

Very stretched out, but the first 2-3 chapters are in the list of the best games I have ever downloaded this site.

Need more games where the guy on the 'lower rung' so to speak rise up to power. There is just something about it, and this game has delivered well!

The early chapters are truly magnificent. My first lewd game I ever tried and it still holds up to today's standards quite well, 6 years later. Has very likeable love interests, smartly laid out sandbox and overall a great game to go through. Especially if you like spankings.

Well the BDSM scenes are hot and I definitely like the MC slowly gaining dominance and corrupting others plot. But the game is too grindy! The hints are not even clear so I have to check the walkthrough and do multiple researches on this thread.

Also I do not like the ending, I am fine with not get the option to create a big full harem. But can’t I get a Rachel ending? WTF man, Rachel appears to be a major LI at the beginning of the game, but now you just tell me I cannot marry her? Even that manipulative bitch Amy does have an ending!

Great game, storylines, nice fetish, good characters.

Genuinely one of my absolute favorites.

Grind can be a bit annoying if that's not your thing but it's worth it in the end. (also chapter 5 is a perfect conclusion).

I enjoyed the game somewhat but the big problem with it aside from being old as added on 2018 or maybe older than that,is that there is alot of griding and reptitive actions,quest system is not properly made so much that you can get lost sometimes,you have to repeat many routines and scenes to get new ones which can be a mood killer,dialogue is kind of bad,not worst I've seen but def not a good one
the plot and how it unfolds in the game is just stupid,a guy is addicted to porn so you send him to a boat full of women who are secretly porn and sex addicts? Wtf.
I played quite alot of the game but I cant go on and finish it,im sick and tired of the grind,overall the scenes were good and art is for 2018 ok.

CMA is in my top 5! I've been searching for a sandbox of this level for a long time, and I've been so disappointed that when I played CMA 1 and 2, I had stars in my eyes, so I'm placing them here I adore this game, and yet I don't like BDSM, but it would be foolish to reduce it to just that. The only thing that bothers me is the treatment of Amy, what she becomes, and her sudden silence, but other than that, on everything else, the girls are very, very, very endearing. I easily fall in love with all of them, they are different, have genuine tastes, and truly contribute something to the life of the MC. The character of the MC is decent at first, but the more you progress, the more difficult it becomes to defend him, psychologically speaking. Those are the two minor drawbacks; the rest I find perfect.

The gameplay is excellent, and I like going back and forth, having the feeling of playing the game in the order I want with the girls I want. In that aspect, I find the gameplay perfect. I adore Rachel, but all the models are top-notch; they are all beautiful, and the scenes and camera angles in the game are very well done, showcasing them perfectly. What a joy to have a complete game! It's hours and hours, days and days of gameplay, and every time it brings pleasure; the author's mission is accomplished. I can't see why or how someone could not like the game. I read the comments, and the 1 or 2-star ratings are very poorly justified, except for subjective and personal opinions. When you get into it, you really get into it. There are so many good games, but especially so many bad ones that the existence of CMA is a breath of happiness. Thank you, and 5 stars are not enough; I would give it 10 out of 10!

One of the best spanking videogames. The mechanics are excellent. The way of the player scaling from down to up is really good. The Characters are really well developed. I hope more games like this in the future

Review for Cure My Addiction chapters 1-4:

Summary: If you like spanking, female domination, male domination, and BDSM fetishes, and you don't hate sandbox games, you'll probably like this game. If you're not into those fetishes, you'll probably want to skip it because there's not much else in the game.


Review for Cure My Addiction Chapter 4: The Ordeal:

This game is basically the same as Ch3. Scroll down a few lines to see what it's like. The one thing that sticks out for Ch4 compared to Ch3 is that the writing/translation, is much worse. Seems like it was rushed.

Review for Cure My Addiction Chapter 3: The Ordeal:

Scroll down a few lines to see what Ch2 was like. The writing, renders, and animations in Ch3 really changed from Ch2. What mostly changed in Ch3 is gameplay and content.

Content 4.5/5: The content is approaching top tier in quantity and quality. There's a lot of it and it keeps getting hotter. If it had more good animations, it would be 5-star.

Gameplay 2/5: Unfortunately, the game took a big step backwards in gameplay from Ch2. The user interface became more tedious to use and became buggy. During the course of the development of Ch3, the user interface changed twice. It looks like the developer got fixated on making the user interface more trendy/modern/flashy and it completely backfired. The bugs in Ch3 events are much worse than previous chapters including sequencing bugs as well as bugs with simultaneous events. The Renpy autosave feature that saved me many times in Ch2 is disabled in the Ch3. It seems like the developer had a mindset of only moving forward with backward-compatibiliy and new-content quality improvements being a priority for players during development, but going back and improving the overall experience for new players was completely ignored. That's a shame since the game would be much more valuable in it's completed state with GUI and coding improvements that wouldn't change the renders and animations where most of the development time is spent.

Review for Cure My Addiction Chapter 2: The Disciplinarian:

Story: 3/5 - The story continues from Chapter 1, but now the MC is scheming to become the person that gets to punish all of the others. The story starts to shift focus from femdom to male domination and as a result, the MC becomes more of an asshole and the logic of the story starts to become even more contrived.

Writing: 4/5 - The writing improved over Ch1. It's not perfect and still lacks style, but it's mostly good. It really looks like somebody did a very good translation, but then it was tweaked again by a non-English speaker and the tweaks were never proofread or retranslated again.

Renders: 5/5 - Huge improvement in renders over Ch1. Especially the female models seem more detailed. The yacht was "remodeled" as part of the story and it made for much better visuals. I think remodeling of the yacht as part of the story was a cheap excuse for the dev to not go back and re-render Ch1 with the new assets.

Animations: 4/5 - Another big improvement as many animations are real animations instead of the frame repetitions from Ch1. However, there are still several animations that used the style from in Ch1.

Gameplay: 3/5 - Still grindy and now there are events that require a complex combination of actions in order to trigger. Sometimes, it's way too much work and complexity for the scenes the player gets to see. The basic playstyle is still the same as Ch1, but the number of repetitions and the number of dependencies in the middle of missions seems to have decreased. The hint system has improved. A dialogue history button was added so you can see what you miss if you accidentlaly click or skip through dialogue. Still the overall gameplay is boring with really nothing to do 90% of the time. Players will want to make liberal use of the skip button to get through the monotonous repeating content. However, sometimes skipping automatically stops at the end of a scene and sometimes it doesn't and there's no indication of whether it's on or off, so players will frequently skip over things they didn't intend to skip and, of course, rollback is still disabled.

Content: 4/5 - With the improved renders and animations, both the quantity and quality of content is a step up from Ch1.

Review for Cure My Addiction Chapter 1: Unexpected Guest:

Story: 3/5 - This is a twist on a step-cest story where the love interests are "step-aunt" and "step-cousins" and set on a yacht where we can assume that normal laws don't really apply. There are many WTFs around why adults would act this way or allow other adults around them to act this way. Most real adults will either laugh or puke. The story is completely centered around femdom and spanking. Players can disable femdom and spanking of the MC, but spanking of other NPCs is required to progress the story.

Writing: 3/5 - I don't know what to think here. Early in the game, the writing sucks. There are many errors, like missing words from dialogue; but it does seem to improve. I can only guess that early dialogue was just never proofread or fixed.

Renders: 4/5 - The renders and models are good, even for content that is 4 years old.

Animations: 2/5 - The animations are just 2 or 3 frame repetitions and sometimes they are drawn out and unskipable. For the most part, they suck. Honestly, even a 2/5 is generous.

Gameplay: 2/5 - This game was designed for grind. So many events require multiple repetitions. Other events occur every few days. Plus, much of the player's game time is required for management to prevent bad outcomes. The game has the notepad and the events pages, but they're sometimes vague and there are so many dependencies between quests/missions, it's just stupid. What's worse is that the dependencies are not even logical. Then there is "The Island" which is the final 10% of the game. This seems to have been rushed or poorly planned as the sandbox is empty with nothing to do 90% of the time. Oh, and rollback is disabled. I can understand disabling rollbacks beyond choices, but it's completely disabled, so accidentally clicking twice causes the player to miss dialogue. Uggg.

Content: 3/5 - There's a reasonable amount of content, but the rewards simply aren't worth the effort put into the game. Players get a few renders and a few bad animations for so much time spent. Not good.

I spent about 2 months at the end of 2021 playing through all 5 chapters of this game and really enjoyed my time with it. It's been a while and I've grown more critical in that time so my memories of this one may admittedly be a bit skewed and I may have forgotten certain aspects by now.

Pros:
-Great feeling of gradual progression with both characters and power dynamics for most of the game. The story was solid enough to make it work. After Amy showed up she was an annoyance, then I remember hating her for a while, and yet by the end of the game she was giving my favorite girl a run for her money in my final choice between them... that sorta thing you don't experience with a lot of bland or poorly thought through writing and/or game design.
-It was fun to figure out the game mechanics in different portions of the game and use them to work in my favor. There's a certain amount of critical thinking required and this isn't a turn off your brain and look at the pretty pictures type of game.
-Models, textures, and renders all fairly well done - Amy's skin texture was the only bit of a gripe I had, but got used to it
-Lots of decent facials/cumshots which play into the power dynamics well (and I'm personally a fan of)
-Lots of very sexy senarios in general
-A decent variety of fetishes are catered to. The only ones I remember not caring for personally were the pet play and urination. I don't really get anything out of spanking, which is a big part of the game, in and of itself but I enjoy the humiliation, ENF, and some of the other aspects that accompany it as well as it again plays into the power dynamics theme.
-Lack of animations (only a few real animations in the game and most weren't good) - for me when a game can create hot scenes without using animation as a crutch then it doesn't necessarily need them. Subpar animations can easily make a game experience worse and I feel like too many devs fall into the trap of putting tons of time and effort into them because they feel they need to when a handful of well thought out renders and decent text can often be better if animation isn't one of their strengths.
-The game actively encourages you to see all the content without having to do multiple playthroughs (time being the tradeoff)
-There are no real time limits to work against (for the majority of the game) which can ruin some sandbox style games for me. I liked not feeling pressured to accomplish what I wanted to do in a set amount of days and being able to play up to certain points for as long as I wanted before continuing.
-Pretty much a harem (no getting locked into paths) until the final chapter

Cons:
-5th Chapter was really just an epilogue that felt a lot more rushed and poorly put together compared to the rest of the game.
-A bunch of tasks that were in chapter 2 needed to be done again at the beginning of chapter 3 for some reason
-I would have liked to have seen more development with the MC and Charlotte (the secretary)
-Which events were repeatable in multiple chapters and which weren't seemed a bit arbitrary
-It's easy to be left with a love/hate relationship with the task system
-The UI can be a bit of turn off for some people with it changing chapter to chapter
-It is a time-sink to finish whether you consider it overly grindy or not. Those short on time or patience I likely wouldn't recommend it for.

The Grind:
-While there's definitely a good amount of repetition and a bit of RNG I dont remember finding this game quite as grindy as people say it is. At least, I was enjoying the game enough to not actually be bothered by any grind there was. I actually enjoyed a lot of the content so much that I think a decent amount of my time was spent doing the repeatable events over again just because I wanted to (not to necessarily accomplish anything). I can definitely understand the grind complaints though especially in retrospect - it's one of the reasons I don't know when/if I'll ever replay the game despite wanting to. See the notes below for more details.



Overall, I think the game is definitely worth it if you can find the time to put in, don't mind sandbox style and gameplay loop, and want to experience what I consider to be one of the more satisfying (if getting slightly dated) games centering around shifting power dynamics. It's not a top-tier game but it's definitely better than average for anyone that enjoys the flavors involved. If you give it a try, do yourself a favor and grab THL's great Walkthrough/Guide which I wish I started consulting a bit earlier on myself.

Okay, doing this by chapter:

===Ch. 1
So the good:

-Pretty good quality renders
-The story is interesting enough
-Enough different characters to keep things interesting, and they all interact with each other.
-The mechanics, one you figure them out, are easy enough to handle.
_Sex scenes are pretty good, and more importantly, not filled with a bunch of pointless dialogue or typed-out sound effects to stretch them out (looking at you Roundscape)

The bad:

-The "animations" are just stop-motion, which sucks because:

-There's no way to skip or scenes aside from selecting the "skip unseen text" option, which can be a problem if you want to read the dialogue. Some of the related animations go on for quite some time, especially considering the spanking fetish that takes center-part in the game. It'd be great to allow the player to skip forward after one or two seconds if they're not interested in it, but instead you sometimes have to a scene that can take a full minute.

===Ch. 2
UI took a bit of a downgrade, but nothing too awful. This one is also a bit more grindy, but the sex scenes are better.

===Ch. 3
Only on day 4, but it's an absolute shitshow so far. The UI is even worse, containing multiple bugs. The story is all over the place to the point of being disjointed. I was told on day 3 that the next day would involve a business meeting, then the next day I found myself back on the yacht.

The UI gets better in the second stage of the chapter and the bugs disappear, but it turns into a grindy slog.

===Ch. 4

Another pointless UI change, but this one is no better or worse than the previous. Story is less grindy as well. I'd say it's an improvement.

===Ch. 5
This chapter consists of just the epilogues and I have to say, it feels rushed and unfinished. The endings that do exist are satisfying, but there just feels like there's something missing from the overall experience.

the game has great models, despite the personality of them being boring, and not boring but interesting, boring and extremely selfish,seriously, it pissed me off after such a sexy scene (anal with Emily) she doesn't say anything during the scene and at the end says "we did that, but that doesn't mean anything" with all due respect, fuck youi. In addition to being whores already, however if that was all, the game would still be worth it, but the problem is grinding, guys, the game's tips menu does not clearly indicate what should be done, for example "Emily starting to give me handjobs, I'm going to study with her in the afternoon..." then you go there, study with her, and nothing happens!, the mission is still there, and this happens MANY TIMES! things and a way that you get stuck in the missions for hours and hours, of repetitive dialogues and scenes, I'm tired, I really wish the game was playable, but for me it's not. or they change the hint system indicating exactly where it should be done or is it just unplayable.

I loved the models. I loved the content. The game, however, just dragged on and on and one and on. I finally just stopped playing it.

Look - I get it, games of this type come with some grind. I get it. This game just seemed like it was a massive amount of grind for every scene. I eventually got to the point where I was just trying to check the box, not even enjoying the scenes.

This gets 3 stars because of the quality of the renders and the kinks. I can't really recommend this one.

Spanking Simulator
I mean, yes this game is not all about spaking but seriously what the hell.
There are games which we call slow burn. In Sandbow games that's mostly the case. In this one you get certain stuff (bj,hj,anal, etc.) pretty early. But all that focus on spanking takes away all the fun.
Story is simple but fun. Women are good looking. Art and animations are pretty good.
This is a game you will enjoy a lot if you are patient enough. Played until midway ch. 3 but could not find a reasson to go ahead.

The game starts out good especially chapters 1 & 2. Unfortunately chapter 3 has the boring contracts part and chapter 4 finally ruins the game for good.
I really don't understand why after fooling around the whole game you suddenly have to choose only 1 girl, and you can't even choose Rachel.