I think this game actually got me blocked from a Discord server. Not kidding. Was trying to describe the scene where my half-elf character, fresh out of magic school, corners a dungeon elf in some ancient library and the AI goes absolutely feral with the generated image. Like, she's pressed against a bookshelf, dusty scrolls everywhere, and the lighting catches the sweat on her collarbone. I screenshotted it. Posted it in a nsfw-memes channel. Instant banhammer. Worth it though. The image gen in Dungeon Desire swings wildly between renaissance painting and weird fever dream, and honestly the weird fever dreams are better. Sometimes you get extra fingers, sometimes the fingers are doing things fingers shouldn't do.

The text part is barebones html, like something from the Geocities era, but that's almost nostalgic now. You pick a choice, the AI writes a paragraph, and then bam, an image tries to materialize what's happening. I got stuck in a loop with a goblin merchant for twenty minutes because I kept picking the rude dialogue option and the game kept generating escalating scenarios. At one point the merchant was just... not a goblin anymore? The AI forgot. He became a shadowy void with gold coins floating in it. I'm not even complaining. That's the charm.

The half-elf origin means everyone treats you like you're some delicate flower, which gets old, but it makes the explicit moments hit different when your character stops being polite. There's a moment in the dungeon depths with a dark elf sorceress that the game clearly wants you to romance, but if you just keep failing the charm checks on purpose, the rejection scenes are way more interesting. She called my character a half-breed disappointment and the generated image had this perfect sneer. Chef's kiss. The ai generated tag isn't lying, this thing is held together with hope and probably someone's python script, and sometimes images don't load or you get a blank page with just "ERROR" at the bottom. But when it works, when the stars align and the algorithm spits out something genuinely erotic and unexpected, that's the good stuff. That's what I'm here for. Late night browser tab, one hand on the mouse, other hand... you get it.

I wish I could rename my character though. Default name is some generic fantasy syllable soup and you're stuck with it forever. Minor thing but it bugs me every time.