Course of Temptation
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What Course of Temptation is
Course of Temptation is a text-based adult life simulator set at a college, made by a developer who goes by Anarchothaumaturgist (the site shortens it to Anthaum). It is free to play and runs in a browser, and the same game is also offered as an Android app and as a zip file for offline play on Windows, Mac and Linux. The player lives the days of a college-aged adult: attending classes or skipping them, joining a sports team, working part-time jobs, streaming and pursuing hobbies. The site states plainly that all characters are 18+ and that the game contains explicit content, and it is a long, sandbox-style text game with a lot of random events.
How it plays
This is a management-style life simulation rather than a linear story. The site describes a character whose day-to-day needs, skills, attitudes and clothes the player manages. Plans are made day by day: go to class, see a movie, work out at the gym, or make questionable side bets at the arcade. The developer says hundreds of events mean the player can never be sure exactly what will happen, which is the "different story every day" feature on the site.
Character creation comes first. The player chooses an appearance and outfits and builds skills as they like. The site also lists an attitude system: as the character discovers things about themselves, the player chooses their inclinations, and those choices decide how the character reacts to similar situations later. The character begins relatively inhibited and easily embarrassed and can learn to abandon shame and embrace their sexuality, which the site lists as the "Experience temptation" feature.
The world is meant to be persistent. The page describes a population of hundreds on campus and in town, including professors, coworkers, bosses, rivals and townspeople, with different attitudes, inclinations and skills that change how each interaction goes. People remember what the character did, such as an incident at a party or at a bar, and the site says those memories matter. A reputation system lets word of the character's behavior spread and shape how others treat them. Long-term plotlines with recurring characters play out over time, with prose that reacts to the character and the decisions made.
The roadmap page adds detail on the structure. It lists dates and hangouts with non-player characters, sports and activities on Friday afternoons, official relationships, social media and streaming, interactions with professors, a waiter and bartending job at a bar called the River Rat, background simulation in which non-player characters gain skills and start and end their own relationships, and advancement through the years of college up to graduation. Classes are picked in blocks, with a major covering two of them, and the roadmap plans a small storyline for each. It also lists items still to come, such as impromptu campus events, a delivery job, consequences for bad grades or missed weekly tuition payments, tutoring storylines, a campus lake, crime and punishment, and a strip club job. Seasonal events and weather are partly in, and living in town after graduation is planned so that play can continue past college.
Content and themes
The site names the kinds of adult content directly: exhibitionism, casual sex, wardrobe malfunctions, voyeurism, dares and bets, sexy parties, being an adult content creator and general college debauchery. The design leans on the player's character exploring exhibitionist and voyeuristic situations, which the site says are told through prose that reacts to the character and the decisions made. The site states that all sexual encounters depicted are consensual and that all characters are 18+. The roadmap also notes that some non-player characters are polyamorous and some prefer to be exclusive, and that the player can cheat or be cheated with.
For readers who browse by identity options, the site says the player can be male or female, with transgender options, or non-binary. That is the only statement on the pages about character choice, and it covers the player character; it does not describe the orientation of the cast. The setting is a college campus with a town around it, and the pitch is built on writing rather than art, because the game is text-based.
Platforms and where to get it
The developer's download page says the game is made with Twine and runs in any modern full-featured browser, and lists Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Edge and Safari as browsers it has been tested in. The page offers three official routes. The first is the developer's own site, where the game can be played in a browser. The second is itch.io, where the game can be played or downloaded. The third is a direct download hosted by Mega.nz, linked from the same page.
For offline play on Windows, Mac or Linux, the page says to download the zip file, extract it into a folder, find CourseOfTemptation.html and open it in a browser. Android users are told to download the APK file and install it on the device. The page does not describe an iOS version, and it does not list system requirements beyond a browser. The game is also supported through a Patreon page and a SubscribeStar page that the site links from its menu.
Price and model
The durable fact is that the game is free to play and runs in the browser without payment. The developer asks for support through Patreon or SubscribeStar and says the support makes future updates possible. Supporters are offered early access to content updates and developer diaries delivered to their inbox. The site also says that new content is usually chosen from two or more possibilities and then narrowed down through a poll of Patreon and SubscribeStar supporters. The site does not give supporter tier names or prices, so what a pledge costs is stated only on those two platforms.
Development state and version
In October 2026 the roadmap page says Course of Temptation is under development and describes it as in early access, with many planned systems not yet implemented. The same page says the project can keep growing after a version 1.0 appears, because the game is a sandbox with many possibilities for expansion. The roadmap marks features as implemented in versions 0.2 through 0.8, and the newest version it names is 0.8. Some items, such as town living, weather and seasons, and secondary skills, are marked partially complete. The pages give no date for version 1.0.
Who it suits and who it does not
It suits a reader who likes sandbox life sims with many small decisions and does not mind reading rather than looking at art, and who wants to play for free in a browser tab or on a phone. The wide range of listed kinks, from exhibitionism to dares and bets, suits someone who wants a game built around those themes in particular.
It is a poor match for anyone who wants a finished story with an ending, because in October 2026 the developer describes the game as in early access, with a rolling roadmap and no date for version 1.0. A reader who wants illustrated or animated scenes will not find them described on these pages, since the game is text-based. The college setting, with its adult cast, is central to every system, so it will not suit someone who wants a different kind of world.