Original Release: Apollo Seven, 2018, HTML
A rare crack at a serious collectible card game with some depth in the adult entertainment world (and a rare offline web browser game), but also one that caters to very specific fetishes
TF Card Battle (HTML, Apollo Seven, 2018)
Where to Buy: Free (donations requested)
Review by: Master-B
TF Card Battle is a collectible card battle game in the general lineage of Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh and all that, from Naked Ambition designer Apollo Seven. Naked Ambition was pretty straightforward in its adult content, but looking over this guy’s other games he appears to have some real specific proclivities (futa / femdom / sissification) and this one is in that mold.
The “TF” stands for “transformation,” which is the point of each battle. Battles consist of just two guys, being dudes, gradually turning each other into women as they deal damage in card battles. The backstory is you’re just some random bro drinking in a bar, when an alien woman kidnaps you and forces you to play card battles to demonstrate your “potential,” as they do. Losing any of your card battles gets you turned into a mindless sex slave in your newly female form, sentenced to a fate of pleasuring alien dongs for the rest of your life.
Which is gonna happen if you play, because the game’s rules and flow are inexplicable. There is actually a lengthy rules page at the outset that explains what cards do, but it alludes to game mechanics that aren’t actually explained and in general doesn’t explain the fundamentals of the card battle interface either. Part of the problem is that this whole thing is kinda jankily strapped together with HTML; I mean I’m actually kind of impressed, it’s 400 MB in total (played entirely offline) but functions and holds up alright. So the UI is clumsy at best.
Anyway, you start battles by choosing from a variety of deck “themes” that each have their own wide variety of card types. And you can focus on stuff like trying to just deal as much damage as quickly as possible, or focus on building up to your own super abilities, or try to slow the enemy down by rendering them submissive, etc. It actually seems like it may be a fairly deep card game. But good luck getting started. Get into the game and the deck themes you pick are nowhere to be seen … instead you just get a constant flood of the same horrible cards while the tutorial enemy outpaces you badly with their flow of much better cards. There’s a brief mention of “buying” cards in there but hell if I could figure out how that works either.
So I was left befuddled as to how the game actually wants you to play it. It doesn’t really entice you to put in much effort; the female in-game models are just plain ugly and grotesque, and the story just uses random short porn GIFs that are all over the place.
So between the janky HTML interface, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ gameplay and unpleasant-to-me theme (really don’t care for all the femdom/futa stuff, personally lean more in the Rance direction and really don’t need rendered dongers in my face constantly either), this just quickly struck me as not being worth bothering with unless you’re really into the theme. It seems more like a beta mock-up designed to get funding to program an actual game, rather than an actual game.
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