In Their Own Hands is a dating sim by Surprise & Delight Media, built with HTML. You follow a married couple: a 27-year-old husband and a 25-year-old wife. You mostly play the husband, choosing how he handles ordinary days and unexpected events. Those choices affect the relationship, but the wife has her own independence and can be shaped by your actions. The story explores adult themes such as netorare and cheating, and its visuals use real porn imagery.
The current build is version 0.1.5, released on May 28, 2025, and development continues. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac, is in English, and is uncensored. This update adds a first meeting with Shaun's roommate Becca, plus a solo scene with two alternate outcomes. It also adds repeatable workday outings with Becca at the gym, jogging, a coffee shop, clothing shopping, and the beach, with a longer beach scene. Other changes include a short Christian and Jenny talk about Shaun, a texting scene with Christian's boss Mr. Day and two optional endings, two Jenny selfies for Christian, and completion of the end of Leah's explicit scene.
Developer's description
In this game, you will be entering the lives of a married couple. The husband is 27 years old. The wife is 25 years old.
You will primarily be playing as the husband. This may mean making decisions about everything from your daily routine to how you handle anything out of the ordinary that comes up. These decisions will have consequences, so think carefully about what you do.
Not everything is in your control.
Your wife has her own autonomy. She will, however, be influenced by your decisions. So, at least to a certain extent, your relationship is up to you.
WARNING:
Spoiler
This game currently contains, and will continue to include, various forms of non-monogamous content that may be categorized as NTR or NTRS (netorare, netorase, etc.). This content will be avoidable on a "Faithful" path but some content may occur even on this path if certain choices are made. Other paths include (or will include) cheating (her or him), sharing, swinging, cuckolding, etc.
This game will not contain coerced or forced sexual activity, nor any incestuous relationships.
v0.1.5
First scene introducing Shaun's roommate Becca
Next scene meeting Becca by herself (2 alternate scenes)
Repeatable scenes hanging out with Becca during workdays (Gym, Jogging, Coffee shop, Clothing shopping, Beach)
Extended Beach scene with Becca
Reduced timing of Shaun path events
Added short conversation between Christian and Jenny about Shaun
New scene (with 2 optional endings) texting with Mr. Day (Christian's boss)
Added two new Jenny selfies for Christian
Finished writing end of Leah's FuckR scene
Added an additional condition for the scene with the polyamorous couple so that it doesn't trigger too early in the game
Added two short scenes (research and relationship conversation) following up on polyamorous couple
Added "Orgasm Counter" and "Body Count" to Jenny's "Just the Tip" page
Converted all text messages to new texting system
Adjusted the statistics calculation to slow down Satisfaction loss if on "Open Marriage" or "Cuckold" routes
Fixed a bug in the alpha version the caused Satisfaction to not decrease on the "Make it Work" path (which resulted in the "Cheating" path never triggering)
Fixed a bug that triggered Jenny telling Christian about Shaun on the "Cheating" path
Fixed a bug that caused one of the sex scenes with Brian not to show up in Jenny POV except on "cuckold" path
Fixed a couple of small bugs that rarely caused certain scenes not to trigger (which would stall out the Boss path)
Fixed a few small typos in some of the scene texts
Updated the "Just the Tip" pages to reflect the new events
v0.1.4
Adjusted timing of work events to reduce timing for progress;
Changed triggers for Brian's visit so that it will start automatically in the fourth week if not previously triggered;
Made the "Peek" option on the first night of Brian event change relationship from "Open" to "Cuckold" path;
Adjusted events with Brian so that peeking does not occur if relationship is "Open";
New relationship conversation after Brian's visit;
Added text to first massage parlor scene;
New Beach scene if on open, cuckold, or cheating paths;
New "date night" event for Husband and Wife (invitation, date, wife pov, and after-event scenes);
New texting scene with Husband's Boss (Richard);
New FuckR event with wife (bisexual threesome);
New text from wife after second relationship conversation on cuckold path.
v0.1.3
New scenes - Husband working late with Beth (introduction plus standard/repeating), Wife new night-time "meanwhile" scenes (9 different standard/repeatable/+ 1 sex scene);
Continuation of Husband and Boss at Work (3 new Husband event scenes, 3 new Wife event scenes);
New scenes - Husband and Wife at Beach (First visit full scene; plus 2 repeatable standard scenes);
Created "Gallery" function on Phone;
Text messages w/ Photos and Videos from Wife;
Text messages to Wife;
Added additional statistic adjustments based on daily activities;
Added a new limit on the first day of game play (NSFW);
Updated "Just the Tip" with new events;
Updated no-pov stat adjustments to reflect new events off-screen;
Adjusted timing of Brian shower photo.
v0.1.2
Flashback sequence (Wife)
Sequence of related scenes/events with Shaun (
February poll results
)
Changed triggers for sex events at massage parlor so that they will occur only after the above event(s) if on Faithful path
Both husband and wife Arousal now goes down slightly when sleeping overnight
Adjusted the "Talk about my day" options to be more favorable
Slight edits to wife pov Preface
Expanded the Husband and Wife massage scenes (added alternate scenes), and limited the total number of massages per day
Added "generic" repeating scenes with Boss (Mr. Day) at work/office
Added another "Research" option in the beginning (before Relationship talk)
Made Wife taking photo of Brian in shower a mandatory scene (not RNG)
Added "something stupidt" videos to laptop
Other miscellaneous text edits and bug fixes
v0.1.1
FuckR
date with a woman (several scenes) (choice for wife to be bi or lesbian)
Swinger date with another couple (several scenes)
Completely reworked Husband scenes at
Dirty Bones
with bartender
Added conversation scenes with Husband, Wife, and Brian: (1) on first day, about relationship, (2) on last day, goodbye
Revised and added text to cuckold scene with Wife x Brian watching a movie
Added a new minor event at Husband's work, and additional routine scenes with Beth
Added several minor elements that will come into play in both Cheating paths
Added another Husband-Wife activitiy in the Bedroom (SFW)
Added or edited text to several scenes that were missing text
Added "Skip Preface" option
Added placeholder text, images, and return links to missing phone functions
v0.1.0
First Release
Player reviews
Player rating4.0 / 5 · 9 ratings
Written reviews9 · avg 3.4★
Positive (4–5★)56%
Latest review2024-11-03
What players say
Mixed reviews praise writing and scenes, but early sparse content, repetitive gameplay, and toxic characters draw criticism.
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Players like
Sex scenes and clips receive praise.
Writing and story receive praise.
Non-monogamy themes receive praise.
Male and female perspectives receive praise.
Common complaints
Early development leaves sparse content and unfinished paths.
Repetitive clicking and scenes frustrate players.
Toxic characters make some relationships feel unpleasant.
Best for players who enjoy non-monogamy themes, good writing, and sex scenes.
Summarised from 9 written player reviews.
TittyHeaven2024-11-03★★★★★
This needs a lot of work, it's still early on but it's horrible to play right now. The good . The scenes used are hot . Male and female perspective though the latter is limited . The actual approach to…
Victor0692024-05-16★★★★★
Sadly this game turns out to be really boring. At some point you are just klicking the MC through the day and hope for some interesting things to happen. What they don't. Even the Tips give you no real hints…
*TheFisherMan*2024-02-19★★★★★
The title is misleading, it says "In THEIR own hands" but it should be renamed to "In His hands 2 : the cuckening" The reason i say that is because you mostly play as the male lead in this who…