In the year 2118 a VR nerd student gains access to an adult entertainment facility. Here players gain xp and level up for doing lewd things. They are divided into classes of alphas and betas, you can be either one: as a beta you'll submit to your principal who finds out about your visit / as an alpha you blackmail and dominate her when you find out she's a player too.
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Alphas/betas: game is separated into a dominant and a submissive route, some content is shared between both paths but the each route's storyline is different. At the time of writing this, betas have a lot more content than alphas so the game is mainly submissive-oriented.
Perversion: some content is gated behind progression, generally the game will tell you if "you're not daring enough", this means your character needs to do some quest that will get them there. The idea is that the further you go, the more open and willing your character will be to new experiences. If you get lost there's an upgrade in the player's computer to show hints before some of the less obvious quests for guidance.
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Player: (at the start) is graduating student before his last year in school, he's on summer break visiting his favorite VR establishment when he finds out about a more adult-oriented area in the building.
Scarlett: the principal of the player's school, she spends her free time in the Arcade as a side hustle. She's both a player herself and an Arcade employee whose job is to introduce betas to the inner workings of the Arcade. Depending on whether the player's a beta or an alpha Scarlett will act differently.
Timmy: a member of the Arcade staff. He's scantily clothed femboy whose job is to give membership tokens (bracelets) to new players. He's a beta himself and a player in his past time, he's friendly towards the player most of the time.
Walter: a chemist teacher turned drug-developer. He owns a shop in the Arcade selling high-quality chems to those who need it. He has a complex about his bald head and is currently trying his hands at selling less legal substances on the black market with the player's help.
Alex: a female mechanic in the Rent-A-Friend shop, she rarely plays in the Arcade and spends most of her time fixing worn out androids after the players have their way with them. She's open towards sexual advances but only from alphas.
Rose: Scarlett's niece, similarly to her aunt she has red hair and goes to the same school as the player. She's rather clueless about the Arcade and her aunt's hobbies but that might change in the future...
Leebe: an alpha android in the Rent-A-Friend shop, he's a short trap with gray hair and giant testicles.
Andre: an alpha android in the Rent-A-Friend shop, he's a tall, chiseled black guy with an enermous member.
Jamie: an alpha android in the Rent-A-Friend shop, he's a blonde, friendly, average looking guy.
Medusa: a rasta hairdresser in the Arcade, she has mechanic implants for her hair that can act like tentacles and help with her work.
Sphinx: an older, manipulative therapist lady working on a new drug and using the beta player as her test subject.
v0.2.3.4 (May 31, 2021) public
Content:
- Quest #12 for betas: player can now learn how to wear heels with a new character
- Alphas and betas can both visit Rose in her home (if their relationship is high enough)
- Option to end the game early for betas (I guess so there's no hardcore coercion)
- Added a city, another future hub area to access characters outside the Arcade
- The last android for betas is finally added to Rent-A-Friend (spoiler: it's a dominant trap)
Features:
- Player now has a skill for wearing high heels, skill lever determines what kind of footwear player can wear
- Makeup and heels skills added to stats page
- Added a contacts page in the computer before I realized I should just add the city to the map instead, in the future this will be a place to track relationships with characters more functional than it is right now
- Player's body hair now grows (except for head), shaving/waxing has to be repeated every once in a while to keep the status
- Player can now buy and wear high heels
- Player can buy inventory extension in the form of a chem
- Added status lines to stats page so shaving, nails, makeup could be checked
Fixes:
- Some changes to how the skill system will work, player now gets general xp for improving a skill so it can contribute to level ups
- Scarlett wouldn't know if player had a butt plug in his inventory
- Chastity can no longer be equipped by clicking/dragging when the player doesn't have the key
- Added prices to nails & makeup
- Player can no longer buy more items than their inventory can fit
v0.2.3.3
v0.2.3.2
v0.2.3.0 (May 31, 2021) public
v0.2.3.0 (May 30, 2021)
v0.2.1.1 (April 16, 2021)
Story & content:
- Added Andre to the rent-a-friend shop
- New porn options (it's unlocked through quest for betas)
- Betas can do Quest #3 & #2
- Alphas can request handjob from Alex
- New location [shopping district] and [silky smooth]
- Some hygiene items
Features:
- Better time management which means no more trapping between scenes (hopefully)
- Font size settings
- Main locations have images now
- There are some images for the cast now (with a pixel filter to keep mystique but it can be disabled)
- Changes to inventory system (mobile friendly, item name displays changed)
- Clothing checks - player can no longer walk around naked (yet)
- There's a short tutorial for new players to give hints on the settings / navigation
- Emails - player can now receive emails from characters
- The menu might disappear in a few scenes from now on to avoid breaking things
- Added a changelog in-game to keep track of version there
Bugfixes:
- Player no longer gains money for taking a candy
- Player can no longer have a negative amount of money
- Changing settings in the Arcade won't teleport player home (hopefully)
- Glitch settings should apply to every effect now
- Some updates to the way saves from previous versions are handled
- Displaying the correct amount of xp needed to level up
- Removed clothing-check upon entry until there's actually an option to buy clothes
v0.2.0.8 (bugfixes)
- Achievements and Lexicons should never loop now
- Error when accepting business with Walter & stealing panties
- Trapping player in inventory when using chems
- Trapping player in scenes because of energy limits
- Some typos / consistency in the intro
(Main routes like going home and moving the general area doesn't consume energy but it's still possible player has to go back manually in smaller scenes if energy is really low.)
- Option to turn off glitch effect in settings
- Inventory now has to be manually refreshed for the text to change (this is a temporary fix as automatic refreshes cause crashes right now)
v0.2.0.7
Features:
- Added a dominant path during the start
- Added a parser so body changes will be reflected in text
- Added a very basic character customization at the start
- Added a chemist (Walter) that sells body-alteration drugs
- Jamie can be visited multiple times now
- Scarlett now comments on player losing virginities
- Player gets a weekly allowance on every Monday
- Player can sell candies on the street to earn credits
- Added achievements (to track scenes/progession)
Scenes:
- Walter dialog options
- Small scene with Walter's candy
v0.2.0.0
Features:
- Added an inventory system and some items to buy (thanks to HiEv for his inventory system)
- Added settings for font and images
- Added option to navigate with number keys
- Added some images (locations, clothes)
- Added xp, leveling and skills system
- Added version control that should make future versions compatible with new saves (but it might not, I don't know what I'm doing)
Scenes:
- Private relief by watching porn
- First homework for the player with some branches
- Rent-A-Friend shop (for refurbishing the old story)
Arcade 18 has a strong feeling of The Secretary, one of the most liked sissifcation game on TFgames.site. That pixelize font is really doing it, which I disabled asap. That said, The Secretary has a really good thought out background story while Arcade 18 is more on the action part, straight to the tasks from your new found mistress.
I am currently stuck at the FIRST mission trying to find a way to shave with no avail. I guess either there is not much content yet, or there are bugs preventing the advancement of the mission. I will give it another look in a year or so when it is more ready.
Arcade18 is a game in the genre of sissification and like all of these games it has what you would expect - Heavy railroading, the default player character archetype, and cocklust.
The cyberpunk world and style of Arcade18 is reminiscent of Secretary, down to the font. Even the writing style is almost identical. I wouldn't be surprised if Mizperix has also worked on Secretary but this game is (thankfully) not Secretary though it shares a lot of problems with Secretary that are a real bugbear for me with these sissification/feminization games. That problem is the disconnect between player character and the player and how it ultimately fails to provide a good resistant character. It also fails to provide proper incentives for grinding out your stats and boy is there grinding. But why are you grinding?
Let's talk about progression and how the missions play out and are written. Once choosing the pink bracelet the player character gets blackmailed by the Principle of his high school. She gives you missions and it's up to you, as the player to complete them. It's exactly the same as the teacher from Perverted Education. There is no difference to be found in her. She even takes your money when you refuse to comply to her whims by not wearing chastity or whatever. The story reasoning for her to do so is to get the player character to the top of the Arcade's leaderboard but right now the leaderboard is an empty placeholder. Anyway, in the starting missions you get resisting options like, refusing to buy panties, just do the minimum to shave, etc. and that's great. I love it. Even the porn options allow the player to choose whether the player character will focus on the girl or the cock though as far as I can tell it does nothing right now. It shows a somewhat realistic portrayal of a character that is put into a situation that is in over their head and gives ownership of the character to the player.
However, at some point those options go away and then worst of all, all character internal monologues switch to full on acceptance. They have become the same character that is in all of these feminization games. All of these games feature the same protagonist. It's always an oblivious person that was, unbeknownst to them, in the closet but with a subtle or not so subtle prod (through blackmail usually) will turn from an ugly duckling (read "man") into a beautiful bimbo swan. Forget the blackmail and abuse, it was for the character's own good, they just didn't know better. They will always have the best orgasm of their life from their first anal stimulation... or having their nipples played with... or getting spanked... or smelling/touching/tasting a cock. I hate it. Anyway, at that point it is no longer the player's character but the writer's character and the game ceases to be a game and turns into a linear story with extra clicks in which the character only has one path - that of full submission to their blackmailer.
Gaining exp after getting to level 10 is not really properly incentivized outside of putting the character into more radical sexual scenarios for the enjoyment of the player. The player character himself has no reason to: visit the stocks, rent-a-friend, use chems, or really do anything and the quests don't acknowledge that the character did those things. It's like there are two different games being made here. One is an open world kind of game where you can do whatever you want to raise your experience bar and the other is a linear visual novel that does not check what happens in the freeroam portion.
Other things that bugged me as I played was being unable to remove makeup and whatnot after doing it but I'm thinking that has more to do with how it functions like the hair growth mechanic. Over time it will just fade. Another is the hypnotist/psychiatrist that is always all powerful in these games. With one session the character desires to and becomes comfortable with wearing female clothing in public and there is no resistance. Look, if the hypnotist can do that with one session then the rest of the player character's sexual awakening doesn't need to happen. They can just snap their fingers and through their hypnotist magic they can become a full on sissy bimbo. It's bad every time. It's a poor mechanic even in games where the player is on the giving end. Imagine if you will that the player on the first meeting can make their target the perfect sex slave. It's dull! It's like playing god mode on the easiest difficulty.
At the end of the day, it's a solid sissification story with all the usual caveats, tropes, and flaws but like Secretary, style goes a long way and this game has style. For the record there is another dominant path but it's not very fleshed out so I won't cover it here.
I've enjoyed every itteration of this so far (Currently at 2.3.4). Keep going!! :)
Story is fun and engaging, art is neat, and characters are fun! If you like a sci-fi aspect with a cyperpunk-ish feel thats more cyber less dystopian punk and still sexy fun? This is your bad. No space ships, no blasters, no "But I'm your father" twists, just a good fun TF story that keeps adding more fun stuff to mess around with. Well done so far! Keep it up!
Not much yet, but there is still enough content to get a feel for where the game is going. Nothing new either, but in a tried and true sense rather than a cliche. It has a very good foundation, so you can expect this game to be a solid one once the content is updated a few more times.
This game is very, very much like Secretary, though it lacks many of the features that make Secretary one of the best. Having said that, I have no doubt that this game may go on to be great.
The lay-out, setting, and overall "feel" of the game are unique (at least compared to MOST other games), yet there is a pretty distinct lack of pictures for scenes (minus the 'Maturbate' option available on the computer, but we all know that barely counts). This issue, I feel, will likely be resolved once the game gets further into development.
