21/10/2019: 100 likes reached! Thank you so much!
21/03/2020: 250 likes reached! Love you wonderful people <3
23/01/2021: 500 likes! I can't believe it. Thank you everyone, I wouldn't be there without your support.
05/12/2022: 1000 likes reached and right as Beta drops. The game as come a long way since the original release. Thank you everyone :)
06/02/2025: 1500 likes! This is just absurd, thank you all so much for the support over the years!
Fresh Starts is a game where you finally move away from your home town to the big city, but Hutinberg is an unforgiving place and you might need to do... immoral things in order to make your place in the town. To what lengths are you willing to go to stay in the city? Will you stay true to who you are, or will you change to try to fit in? Only time will tell...
As of Beta, the game --still-- heavily revolves around sissification of the PC, most event revolving around said theme. However, there are plans in the future to open new paths, but also to implement a female character. The game doesn't offer much story wise at the time, but all the content is optional, which felt really important as the game is supposed to be a "sandbox". However, major features keep being added with each update, making the game quite complex despite its early stage of development.
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Selling points:
-Decent writing
-Option to avoid specific content while staying in character
-313 unique clothing items
-558 passage
-339 unique adult pictures and videos
-30 visitable locations
-Multiple jobs (some involving complex game mechanics)
Which file do I download?
If you want to try the current version out without having previous versions installed, or severelly outdated files, download the full file. If you have the latest main version and no new content was added in the minor patches (lettered updates), you can download the HTML only and replace the HTML in your game folder with the new one!
Feedback and reviews are welcomed! (Even if you didn't like it! I strive on constructive critiscism). Don't want to post it publically? No worries! Here's the anonymous feedback box: https://forms.gle/CjqrAwNqjEhvGRpT8
Mr Ronzo: Your cheap landlord.
Crystal: A girl you meet at the Red Vixen with a secret...
Jordan: One of Crystal's friends, you can see him at the Gym some times.
Jeff Godwyn: Your boss at the Gas Station
Kara: Crystal's roomie, from what you can see, she's quite kinky
Raven: Works at Tenebria, a snarky, almost stereotypically goth woman.
Go to the Gas Station to get your first job, working there will unlock new options such as the gloryhole and specific stats will unlock new options!
Go to the college and choose a program before September 6th.
The laptop (unlocks porn, cheat, extra items and additional jobs) is available for purchase at Future Shack which is located in the Mall
Patch 0.8.3a
UI
-Changed button theme for the Underground Clinic's Pharmacy
-Centered "Leave" link for all shops
Balance
-Added alternate condition to unlock the professional top to prevent deadlocks in the Mrs. Holt Route
Bugfixes
-Fixed various issues with the latest Red Vixen event
Beta 0.8.3
Avatar
-Added Pushed Back hair assets (art by Moonflow)
Downtown
-College: Added one week of content to the photography route
-College: Added two weeks of content to the healthcare route
-College: Added three weeks of content to the massotherapy route
-Red Vixen: Added one new event
UI
-Tweaks to Wardrobe/Shops/Makeup interface
Bugfixes
-Fixed second friday of masotherapy content bein a blank screen
-Fixed wearing lingerie not properly removing Hosiery and vice-versa
-Fixed second spare room in Fixer Upper/Luxury Loft using the name of the first room under certain circumstances
-Fixed issues with the Rylan event
-Fixed the day resets if the Player is arrested at the Shady Alley
-Removed an extra parrenthesis in the transitioning code
Misc
-Code cleanup
I do enjoy this game, it has a lot of content, a lot of directions. The other review that suggests setting a schedule or auto-progressing to limit late game grinding would be a great add but I know I'll keep playing this either way.
I love the concept and themes of this game, but there are many times when you're clicking and clicking, and nothing seems to happen for a while. You think "is this the end of content?" but then there's a bit more, but it's very spaced out.
The game definitely needs to be more fast paced, but rather than more text, a higher priority should be to cut down on the pointless grind. Rather than filling the voids between the repetitive routine, condense it. Have less time and clicks between events.
Something like X-change life, where you have 3 slots per day, and even if there's some grind, you don't have to do that much to progress, and reach events. Or something like Girl life where you have to do a lot of stuff manually at the beginning, but eventually you can set up routines to do several actions with one click.
The grind is also extremely trivial, you're just clicking the same exact thing every day. Time management is more annoying than engaging. Is not like you need a walkthrough, just a lot of patience.
Fresh Starts is a slow tedious slog with zero reward.
Typically, I enjoy games in which the MC is slowly corrupted via the machinations of others, and I thought that Fresh Starts would follow that mould; however, the 'rewards' for successfully clicking through hundreds of 'eat meals', 'attend class', 'go to work' style options, is almost always a poorly written short sentence with little to no description, or anything to potentially titilate. The random events are few, and when they occur, they are similarly short and uninteresting.
This game needs about 10x the text it has in order for me to care to suffer through the tedium of clicking through the days. Even then, in order to be good it would need more events to make the passing of days less uninteresting.
The skeleton of this game seems decent, and I think if the author were to spend time writing each event, and think about how each event is written (more info, more details, 10x more text needed is not hyperbole), then this could be worth watching. As it is, I am sorry to have played it.
Apologies to the author, making a game is an impressive and cool thing to do, even if the game is bad.
Greate game. though i would add a dating mechanic so you can up the Sexual stats.
An absolutely classic Sissy HTML game. Game knows what its going for and does not deviate much. 9/10 rating.
Also, there is a forced and voluntary path of transformation, this is something which not many games here do.
