Corruption Of Champions

Since as early as 2012, Fenoxo has been hard at work with his first official pornographic video game, Corruption of Champions. Back then the game was extremely rough around the edges, but the community could recognize the potential for quality when they first saw it. The game was a Flash game and was playable in-browser as well as available for download. It grew almost exponentially in size until 2018, when Fenoxo decided that it was time to give it a proper revamp and Corruption of Champions 2 was born. This version was built entirely in jS taking the style and story of the original into the next century.

Why the Switch?

You might make the mistake of thinking that Corruption of Champions 2 is the sequel to the original CoC, but the truth is that while both games have their own charm, they’re rather similar across the board. When CoC2 first came out it was almost identical to the original game, save for the fact that they were pushing to get the game up-to-par with current technology.

Fast forward a couple of years and CoC2 now looks and runs so well that it feels like it’s been backed by a large corporation – and it hasn’t. You owe the quality of this new release to the development team, which appears to be headed by a fellow or lady named Savin, at least according to Patreon and the backers that are currently shelling out over 18 thousand dollars every month to make sure that this game gets the love and appreciation it deserves.

Out with the Old in with the New

The old interface to Corruption of Champions had some very recognizable medieval styles with a preference of various papyrus-like browns and similarly styled buttons to boot. It fit the game’s general tone of magic and fantasy really well and the community loved it. Everyone seemed to understand, however, that the way that the interface was rendered was a matter of limitation – particularly thanks to Flash player. So the game’s interface looked both medieval and retro at the same time. None of it seemed particularly crisp.

However, with the newer installment, you’ve got the most recent interface within the jS framework that seems to be a ground-up solution and should make every Patreon backer damn proud of being a part of it.

First of all, you’ll notice that the interface covers most of the screen, making proper use of modern monitor screens and their fidelity. It feels like an HD production and you get a lot of resolution out of it. The text stands out, with its crisp, sharp font that looks damn impressive across the lighter brown background and the images are absolutely outstanding. They’re all high quality PNGs giving you the interface a sense of cohesion and every action has been coupled with a very smooth transition animation.

Granted, some of the old content that made its way to the final release, like the character portraits, is a bit rough around the edges. These were most likely assets that were saved in a small resolution and remained as such till this day, but they’re not so low-res that you’d have a problem with them.

The move to jS has possibly benefited this game more than any other software update for any other game ever made. You get amazing menus akin to what you’d see in triple-A productions for large games, complete with a codex and a quest menu to keep track of everything and anything that has to do with the game’s story and your progression through the world of CoC.

Some of the on-screen elements, especially in the skill listing, do seem to suffer some damage when it comes to the way they’re organized on screen. You can experience some bugs in your browser if you zoom around or are playing on a very high-res screen, but this is hardly CoC’s fault – The way that internet browsers handle styles is a bugged mess to this day. It’s a wonder it works this well to begin with.

The game also loads surprisingly fast considering how huge it is and how much content hides within. Different playthroughs will vary in length, but the game is an open ended RPG with tons of content stuffed into it so your mileage will vary. Either way, expect many hours of satisfying fantasy action.

A Mixed Bag of Sexy Goodness

The game features every single trope you might have seen in non-pornographic RPGs in recent years and a ton of elements that are so out-there that you can only really experience them in after-dark productions. From the top, you’ve got companion characters who accompany you in your explorative quest. There are currently eight of them, but everything in this game is subject to improvement, so that list might grow in the future. Each companion has tons of content behind them as well. These are not cookie cutter characters that are thrown in so that the main character has a blonde and a brunette to work with – they’re real people with thoughts, feelings and aspirations. You really get to care about them as the story progresses.

Then there are the NPCs throughout the game of which there are over a hundred. Every single one is unique and features tons of dialogue. Like your companions, these people have heart and soul behind them. The writers of CoC made damn sure that their characters were extremely memorable and that their presence in the game made an impact on both the game world and your character.

Beyond the memorable NPCs there are also the generic characters – the enemies that you fight. There are tons of characters that you fight over and over again, though the combat is far from repetitive. Certain zones are likely to have certain enemies and there’s serious context involved. The baddies aren’t thrown in for the hell of it – they matter.

You also get a ton of quests, as you should in every RPG and these are rather lengthy and motivating in nature. They’re very reminiscent of old school Dungeons and Dragons quests in the way they unfold and inspire exploration. They also come with a ton of character-altering consequences that you unravel yourself.

The game world is gigantic and laid out across a grid system, as you explore this game through the old school compass method of picking the direction you want to go. This is perhaps the part of the game that has benefited the most from the new tech as you had to read about the rooms you were in and figure out where you needed to go, textually. Now you get a very neat and handy map in extremely high quality complete with encounter markers. It’s extremely easy to get around in this game, now that everything is so smooth and the game’s world is vast and varied. You’re not exploring the corridors of an endless dungeon – you’re uncovering the mysteries of an expansive world.

The Combat

Unlike other smut games where the combat encounters were the prelude to the sex, in CoC you get actual fantasy combat. Spells, weapons, healing items and the like will keep you entertained for hours on end with proper RPG fanfare to boot. You get the real RPG experience and leveling up your character is an absolute treat. You unlock some real useful goodies along the way. There are a handful of really interesting classes, including black mage, charmer, thief, warrior and white mage. These all grow more interesting and more developed as you move through the game.

The Smut

Unfortunately, you don’t get any animated smut in this game, but perhaps that is for the best. After all, the game contains so many contextual and well thought out sexual interactions that to try and portray them would be an insult to the game’s writers. Their writing conveys everything you need to know in vivid exposition.

Now, the smut that you do get is loaded and varied. All of your companions come with a bunch of sexual favors that you can earn and enjoy and they’re extremely detailed. There are also tons of NPCs that you can engage with on top of that and the game has been praised for featuring an unprecedented amount of gay, trans and similar combinations of sexual encounters.