Debasing Grounds is a web-browser-based RPG and social simulator set in a post-apocalyptic world. You can play it online or download the latest version and open the Debasing Grounds.html file using your preferred browser. The game is compatible with various platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The game is currently in alpha version.
Debasing Grounds contains graphic and dark material that can be unsettling or triggering to some people. The game contains descriptions of non-consensual sex, bondage, sexual humiliation and physical abuse. You must be 18 or older to play this game. The game focuses on dark themes and offers different paths where players can explore dominant or submissive questlines and sandbox mechanics. Some of the most developed themes are BDSM, feminization, humiliation, non-con, dub-con and pet play. The game includes feminization, sissification and transgenderism themes.
Your name is (X) and you are a (X)-year-old (boy/girl) (selectable from age 18). Your skin is (X) and you have (X) eyes. You have (X)-long (X) hair. You are of (X)-height and (X)-built, with a (X) chest.
A gust of cool air brings you back to reality, making you shiver. Your surroundings snap into focus, an unfamiliar landscape that leaves you feeling more lost than before.
You open your eyes to a strange town, with a mix of new and old buildings, some of which have been hastily patched up with different materials. The newer construction seems to be done with bricks and tiles, yet the older structures appear to be composed of metal and concrete. A massive wall made of mud and metal bars surrounds the town.
A few strangers appear walking down the street, wearing a mixture of modern clothes and tattered robes. When they come close enough, you hear them speaking your language. Their faces are rugged and unwelcoming.
There are more than 300 NPCs the player can encounter in the world.
Players find themselves in a desolate world with no clear direction. Your priorities should probably find shelter and make some cash. Don't stray too far at night!
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Version 0.4.12: "Main Quest and Intimacy" is now available for supporters in both SubscribeStar (preferred) https://subscribestar.adult/debasing_grounds and Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Debasing_Grounds.
With this release, previous version v0.4.11: "Portraits and NPC Personality Change" becomes public and can be played and downloaded from http://debasinggrounds.com/
Here's the changelog for version 0.4.12: "Main Quest and Intimacy":
Main Quest:
- New chat options regarding the player's memory loss
- Players can ask other gym members besides Holger to complete the "Investigate the Gym" portion of the main quest.
- New way to access the library and complete the "5 East Street's Library" section
- New books in Olena's library
- Players can receive discipline sessions from Olena through a Social/Trust or Seduction (Brat) skill check (optional).
- New discipline scenes: stress positions, canning, paddling
- New Kili-related subquest in Thulle when talking to Olena about her
- New chat options in Thulle related to Kili
- Players can now ask Thulle Deviants about Kili
- Kaelin can now be found in the Artifact Warehouse late at night.
- When curators tell players about Kaelin, the quest log will now update with her schedule.
- Players may loiter in the Keep Grounds and Artifact Warehouse if they wish to wait for Kaelin.
- Players can now successfully read the books from the Artifact Warehouse in the presence of NPCs if they pass a Stealth check.
- New dialog in the Food Production Center tour
- Talking to Wilda (the tour guide) will result in a clue that will lead players to the next "Slum Trafficking" subquest.
- Players can find Kili in the Food Processing Center.
- Players may also attempt to rescue Kili (optional) once they have learned what she looks like.
- Once rescued, Kili will remain immobile, forcing players to carry her around. There is a chance of being intercepted by the police (marked as a troublemaker), and if players can't run away or fight them, they will be arrested.
- If rescued, players can try to return Kili to Olena (+20 Trust), Thulle, the Thulle Deviants (reputation boost), keep her in their dungeon, or leave her on the street.
- Kili can later be found in room 4 if sent to Harrow's Manor or in the Deviants' dungeon if sent there.
- Finding Riley in the Gym's locker room now opens up the Slum's Trafficking part of the quest without having to talk to Wilda.
- Riley leads players to Isara and Synapse Corp.
- Players can complete the final sub-quests by joining one of these two factions reaching status > 30 or get trust > 50 with one of the following characters: Sagara, Emily, Alexia, Nath, Taresha, Polina, Cait, Vivian, Adam, Robby, Caspian (or any other faction member with status > 40).
- Gaining access to the Synapse Corp database allows players to view NPC schedules and other information without asking them.
- Gaining access to the Isara Inc DB gives access to NPC background information.
- Players can walk past the guards at the bank and go directly to Vivian's office after talking to them once.
- Players will now receive a quest (repeatable) when they receive a mail notification.
- New office areas at Synapse LINK Software
- The "Find Your Identity" main quest ends with a choice for the player, offering three potential new quests (The Birthing Program, The Outside and Anomalous Breaches)
Intimacy:
- Orgasms now increase all fetishes involved in that scene, not just the ones directly related to the current action (having an orgasm in bondage or feminized now increases those fetishes as well).
- Consent status is now displayed in the notification bar
- Lowered the lust threshold for NPCs to start sex acts during hookups to reduce the chance of NPCs being "unsure of what to do".
- New "Showing Teeth" mouth position shown in portraits during sex and pain sequences, before the fully open position
- Blush effects visible for lower thresholds of pleasure and exhaustion
- Successfully soliciting to NPCs now gives them a lust boost, making them less likely to remain passive during sex.
- Changed how NPCs react to player-initiated spanking, electrical play, and whipping. They may now refuse depending on their submission and fetish level.
- Increased the exhaustion effects of most sex and BDSM actions.
- Players must pass a dominance check to perform pet play actions on NPCs that don't have a pet play fetish.
- It is no longer possible to attempt to escape from the hostel when Exhaustion is 100.
- It is no longer possible to fight to free yourself from your restraints when your Exhaustion is 100.
- Not protesting insults now increases trust in addition to submission.
- The trust drop from breaking up is now greater
- Allowing NPC domination actions now increases submission to that NPC
- NPC fetish increases are now shown in notifications
- Cruel NPCs will now always become stalkers after breaking up with them.
- NPCs who leave their partners after being cheated on or offered an open relationship can now also become stalkers.
- NPCs will kick players out of their house after a breakup
- Changes to NPC lust and exhaustion will no longer be displayed in an additional notification.
- NPCs will no longer keep asking for "having pain inflicted" once players have agreed to it.
- Exhibitionism is now only triggered by being naked in public places.
- Dominant NPCs will now continue to perform bondage and BDSM actions after sex has begun.
- Dominant NPCs are unlikely to untie bound players before they've finished having sex.
- Players can request to have their bondage removed in the after-sex chat options.
- New NPC personality traits: horny (+10 base lust), hurt (+10 pain), unresponsive (+100 exhaustion)
- Softened the effect of fetish triggers and unfulfillment
- NPCs will now only perform a loop of tying/untying players during sex.
- Satisfying fetishes now lowers lust afterwards.
Other Stuff:
- New street loitering option
- Avery will now be kicked out of the town faction altogether when taking over the hair salon.
- NPC portrait changes for Reign, Ember, Sooty, Saymy, Riley, Lyra
- Added anxiety stat effects when taken during encounters
- Reduced lust and anxiety from unfulfilled fetishes
- Most action buttons now take up 50% of the width instead of 100%, allowing for two buttons per column.
- West Slum's disliked public humiliation and sex scenes now have different text if the player is famous within the Ronda gang.
- Added orgasm sequences to the Ronda gang capture scenes.
- Reduced the anxiety from being naked. Created a new Naked in Public effect that gives more anxiety
- Added numeric values to stats and fetishes in the stats menu
- Made minor changes to the effects list to improve clarity
- Actions with complex chance checks now display an accurate chance of success
- The group that attacks the player after they are caught stealing from the gym lockers will now also become a stalker group.
- Synapse Friend ads now pay 15 e-coins
- Synapse Media porn scenes now pay 50 e-coins
- Skills now increase faster
- Group stalkers now have a maximum of 4 members
- Set a limit to the chance of being approached by stalker groups. Previously it was directly related to the number of them, with no limit.
- Team member status losses due to player actions during Pangolin Pharma weekly meetings are now more severe
- Working customer service in the electronics store now levels social and problem-solving skills.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that could cause the budget menu to crash when only silver transactions were available.
- Fixed problem with eyebrow position in orgasm portrait
- Fixed several text bugs in the hostel capture scenes
- Fixed a bug where trying to escape bondage in the hostel was an automatic success
- Fixed several instances in the hostel where NPCs would disappear before their scene ended, causing pronoun and stat issues
- Fixed a bug that was skipping the orgasm sequence in the hostel gangbang.
- Budget window now shows correct expected and paid dues to Viper
- Fixed typos in West Slum's disliked public humiliation and rape scenes, police encounter scenes, Vivian's intro, various chat options, Synapse Friend, and media auditions.
- Fixed Viper having 0 status
- Fixed a bug where the player's faction boss would be shown as undefined in the Factions menu.
- Fixed a bug where getting robbed was draining e-coins instead of silver
- Fixed a bug where receiving strap-on sex would prevent the scene from ending
- Fixed a bug that caused an approach to be triggered when trying to escape bondage at home
- Fixed a bug where some bottom anal sex would trigger the top anal sex fetish
- Fixed a bug that was breaking some tattoo effects
- Fixed a bug that caused Ronda gang members to approach non-stop when players were wearing a Deviants tattoo
- Fixed a bug that made thigh tattoos always visible
- Fixed bug that caused restaurant income to show up as coffee shop income in the budget menu
- Fixed a bug that allowed fetishes to go higher than 100%.
- Fixed bug that prevented bondage items from triggering bondage fetishes
- Fixed a bug in 1-on-1 encounters where the effects of the interaction were applied to the wrong NPC
- Fixed a bug that reset the base masc/femininity when changing clothes
- Fixed bug with pubic hair description if it wasn't changed during character creation
- Fixed a bug that applied the wrong femininity changes for some body changes (breasts, height)
- Fixed map bug when staying with an NPC
- Fixed a bug in Raze's schedule
It's well-written, interesting, and ridiculously expansive for how early in development it is. It's much darker than most of the stuff on this site, but if you're into this kind of thing, definitely give it a go!
This game surprised the heck out of me and I wanted to write an honest opinion on it. Something I've not done in a few years as there was a lot of the same stuff flloating about. Suddenly came this game, on the surface some of the same tropes but well written. However, the depth of gameplay - if you look for it, made me double take. Seriously, knock a door, as it's an option, and next I know I'm someone's ponygirl? I was so delighted I had to put it out here. This game has several such semi hidden story lines and it's nowhere near done. I wanted to praise the sort of non-linear way this was done. Give it a go, even someone more surface oriented won't be disappointed.
The best thing about the game is probably the writing. The author "gets" what makes dom/sub interactions hot in a way that not many do. There is plenty of extremely good content revolving around the player's humiliation and corruption in an unbelievably harsh world. Even better, despite being early days a lot of it feels somewhat "organic" from the conditions the game sets up. The game world feels well thought out and has quite a lot of depth in some areas and throws plenty of surprises to keep the player engaged.
Overall I really enjoyed this game and would definitely recommend it.
There is also some room for improvement though. For example- even though the game is set in a harsh world, sometimes the character interactions are a bit "much", even for the setting. For instance, over about three gym sessions Holger moves from insults to skullfucking. It just moves way too fast. Ditto for the cafe and maid storylines- phenomenal writing but the characters have a distinct lack of chill that kind of breaks the immersion. Also in personal interactions, even your flatmates will jump straight from asking your name to full on sexual assault. (The insult mechanic is amazing, by the way- though it rarely seems to trigger). The scenes themselves are great and I know the author is probably still working on the pacing but generally I wish there was a bit of a slower burn. It would also be good if there were a cue to let you know that you'd come to the end of content in an area.
Currently there isn't really any feminisation content in the game. Transformations are implied but AFAIK cannot happen to the player (though there is the groundwork for them to be implemented soon). Personally I didn't really notice the lack of images- the descriptions are good enough.
I played this a bit, it has a decent amount of content, but a few things stand out: it can be quite repetitive, it could use at least some graphics in addition to the text, and lastly (and most diappointingly, from my perspective) the 'feminization' content in the game involves very little actual feminization, and doesn't seem to understand the fetish at all.
I’m inclined to view the current iteration of the game as the ‘bones’, rather than the ‘meat’, but I’m sure that’s something the creator is aware of. That said, the two things that are apparent to me from the outset are these: First, the game suffers from the same issue that begets a lot of games on this site, a lack of connection between the audience and the PC. The writing, as stands, does not give much in the way of a PC’s thoughts, feelings, or motivations beyond ‘find a bed’. Your understanding of your own character is more or less limited to your stats, with everything else being the responsibility of your own imagination.
The second issue is more or less a lack of signposts to guide PCs to interesting content. The billboard at the start is decent, as it directs the PC to a quest and employment opportunities. But beyond that, you sort of have to hope that you talk to the right person at the right time at the right place. Which is why the previous review by Salisria remarked on the need for a guide or stronger hint system.
Having not engaged with this game in earlier stages of development, I can’t speak to what earlier stages looked like. But if development has an ‘outward’ focus, as in building more content events, I think it might not be for me. If development instead has an ‘upwards’ focus, as in strengthening the pillars of the gameplay loop, plots, and your understanding of your character, then I think it has a very strong start and potential.
It just depends which way the dev takes it.
