The Secret Life of Dorian Pink

"The Secret Life of Dorian Pink | Prologue" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "The Secret Life of Dorian Pink". The Secret Life of Dorian Pink is an LGBTQIA+ friendly high school literature club dropout fan-fiction about Oscar Wilde (no really). It was a complete and utter failure with only 4 players, presumably students writing papers on just how bad literature pretending to be a video game can get. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not The Secret Life of Dorian Pink, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "The Secret Life of Dorian Pink | Prologue" too. Usually adverts are intended to get people to pay money for a product, but in this case The Secret Life of Dorian Pink is also free, so I …

I want to say while I agree with all the positive reviews that this game is charming, and engaging (the parts i got to play briefly) but I want to warn anyone playing more recently to know this game crashes. ALOT. And without any autosaving this means you have to redo everything again from the beginning. This made it feel pointless for me to try again without being able to gauge when and why the game crashed in order to avoid it happening again. It's too unpredictable. Thus, I unfortunately can't recommend a game (even a free one) that is, in its current state, basically broken and buggy in a way that ruins the enjoyment of the game itself. Super disappointing.

The game itself is genuinely interesting. The mini-games are fun, I like the storyline, and overall, there’s a lot to enjoy. However, the game keeps crashing. I honestly haven’t played such a poorly optimized game in a long time. It’s a fairly simple game that should run on pretty much any hardware, yet it crashed on me constantly. What makes it even worse is that whenever the game crashes, it also loses your progress. I had to start the game over several times because of this. I never managed to finish it, because the last time it crashed for good, I was already in one of the final locations.

While the game premise is fun, a quirky queer fix-ity of sorts, the game is incredibly buggy. It crashes midway and all progress is lost, making you start back from new game. After the third time, it became way too annoying for me. I tried becuase I wanted to finish and see what happens at the Feastival, but starting from scratch each time is just too much.

I LOVE this, but I am SO sad because it always glitches and I lose my progress. I would love to see a few bug fixes come out so I can appropriately finish!

...boring