Academy of Chaos

Editorial Has potential

Academy of Chaos is an ambitious sandbox management sim in early development—spiritually a successor to Hentai High School, built in Ren'Py with text-based gameplay and minimal art assets so far. The core loop (corrupting students, managing an academy, building clubs, expanding the city) shows promise, and the dev is actively responsive to feedback. However, the build suffers from frequent crashes and progression blockers: quest triggers fail to activate (Karla and spy quests stuck), item-giving throws critical errors, some classes crash the game after day 4, and character placement bugs prevent quest completion. Writing is uneven—some scenes work, others have placeholder text ("SURNAME" instead of actual names) and grammatical slip-ups. The lengthy, front-loaded tutorial overwhelms newcomers; a more gradual, revisitable approach is badly needed. Content is sparse: ~25 story scenes, a handful of events, and only light sex content so far (dev promises to expand this next month). The UI borrows from HHS but feels clunky for a complex system; trait sorting and better NPC filtering are missing. Despite these rough edges, the design vision is coherent, the dev is communicative, and the mechanical foundation is there—this is clearly mid-development, not abandoned. Worth a follow if you love the niche (corruption sandbox, fetish variety per character, antagonist systems planned) and have patience for a bumpy ride.