Ren'Py - Completed - Mist [v1.0.3] [395games]

Played this in 2020 and gave it a 2/5, but now in 2022 0.8.1 I see vast improvement, and so I'm giving it a 4/5.

I hate the "gameplay" here, but it's a world with nice a nice setting, decently written cast, nice art and production values. Definitely an enjoyable experience.

In regards to the improvement from 0.3.2:

Every aspect of the game got better. The terrible minigames were reduced, the unnatural sex progression and relationships got improved, the animations are skippable and not forced anymore. Great job on fixing so much stuff dev! It really got me to upgrade my rating.

Several of my complaints still hold true, that being the stamina system that forces you to waste time viewing repetitive content, still there, and the brainless combat, still there. You still need to essentially reclick on extremely repetitive, 0 strategy buttons in order to progress the story.

The sex scenes and animations are nice but very short, it's not as sexy as it could be and doesn't really get you into the mind of the participants. Dirty talk is like 2 sentences and then it's all over.

The plot is... alright. The character writing went from bad to decent though never reaches any heights. I now give this a C-tier.

Edit: Below is the original review from 2020. It was a 2/5

starts out a bit slow but definitely a good game.

world building starts after a while which was surprising cuz usually it starts at the start, it's all good tho. plus THE GAME keeps things a bit mysterious which in it's own way is good. same as how putting too much science and definition is magic is bad, keep it mysterious as something unexplainable but also understandable.

The art style and animations are excellent. The story is interesting and engaging, a new (to me) take on an "end of the world" scenario. The combat is simple to understand, but pretty challenging at first. I am excited to see where this game goes in the future.

very nice atmosphere , really looking forward to future updates.
story is great, the music is wonderfully bleak and the animations are unique .
enough content to give it a try atm, you wont waste your time and get blueballed at the end. it sort of finishes this chapter well and i hope future updates follow the same spacing even if they take longer.

Very promising game, great mix of a porn game and a dungeon crawler/resource management survival game, it has animation for the lewd scene and that's a plus, progressing trough the game is never confusing despite all the option you get the more you play.

I am really looking forward to fully play this game when it's done !

I honestly avoided this VN for a while. That was a mistake. I'm hooked
The story has a different spin on the survival theme. But it works nicely.
The renders are nice, clean and there aren't any place holder black screens
The ladies are lovely. Typical for your harem VNs
The stat grinding is a bit mundane, but it could be way worse
I look forward to where this one goes from here. Keep up the good work

A very refreshing game with a very cool premise. Gameplay starts off slow with great renders and time of day changes, and it slowly lets you explore the world around you, which is just the kind of game i like. There is a very distinct art style to the game, which might or might not be your thing, but this game is shaping up to be something great

One of the best an most unique games on this entire site. One of only 2-3 games here that actually graduate being a simple porn game and actually feels like a proper survival/adventure game in places.

Extremely well made, filled with genuine tension and mystery and with two lead female characters that are written miles better than most seen in other games.

Possibly the game on this site I am most excited to see develop, this game has so much potential and room to grow I think it could sustain years of frequent updates.

Love the game so far!
Cool story and girls.
i'm usually not a fan of "horror" games, or at least a little bit scary or even supernatural, but this one was quite interesting.
But there's an abundant lots of "then" when it should be "than" to be honest... Kinda put me off at times.

Another less than bright sex obsessed MC who dosent get angry at anything.

The premice is good but its not exactly original and its used mostly as an excuse to have girls interact with the MC when they would normally have nothing to do with him.

One of the big problems with a game like this is adding a life or death situation but then having MC or other characters treating it as if it were a game, you dont invite strangers into your house thus giving them access to your only food, weapons and a chance to kill you, in real life but in a game you would.

When the dumb MC realises robins situation is not normal after robin decides to essentially prostitute herself for shelter but then dosent and the other obvious lies even he should have thought thats a huge red flag and questioned her as to all the suspicious stuff or kick her out
The artwork is very good both in characters and locations with some very nice smooth animations.

I think most people will thoroughly enjoy this game but for me i preferlife and death scenarios to be more serious(not oops i used all the food for one meal dont be angry, with MC not caring in the slightest), the personalities of the characters is its major let down.

I played this game for the first time a few days ago, but I found myself thinking about the plot (forgetting what it was from) and wondering what happened next and why I didn't continue.

This is probably the only game I would call a porn game where I genuinely found myself curious about what's going on in the plot. Most feel like a game with a story to string together porn scenes, with a few exceptions, or start to blend together. This one stood out.

Beyond that the character designs are unique and refreshing, not the same few bodies with swapped out hairs and colours you begin to recognize from Daz. And the gameplay is simple but pretty decent. I overall enjoyed my experience.

But what drops it from 5 to 4 stars is that the writing is a bit awkward at times. The main character acts so awkwardly at points, I don't get it. Like he has some stupid ideas I cannot imagine anyone having. The mechanics also seem like they're responses to comments on old versions.

The most recent update gave progression as you kill enemies... But I feel like that should have been something added much earlier. Like before you reach the docks. It gives the player progression, makes fighting feel less like solely an obstacle, and it would prevent the need for a grind later depending on player choices if you just bump the requirement from level 1 to level 2 in everything.

And let Robin sleep in your bed, dangit. New girl takin' up all the attention.

Overall, would recommend.

Version 0.3.1
Excellent game and one of the best being currently developed for sure. The models are cute, the story is decent enough to keep you reading instead of clicking it all just away like some other games when it doesnt matter anyway.

The intro holding your hand for every click is kinda annoying for everyone who ever played a videogame before but its short enough to let it pass.

Animations are pretty nice and also very well integrated into the game both in sex as in story scenes.
The order in the scenes is kinda "wrong" to me

The focus on the "harem" aspect of the game (especially after a certain scene) besides all the "decisions" is pretty nice. Overall, great experience so far.

Only downside so far is MC. He is pretty inconsistent in all the things he says and does. Sometime full of confidence, next second super naive and
pathetic. Since the girls have their own "problems" this is kinda too much of it. Not every character in a game has toi be schizophrenic....


PS: For anyone rerading this and wondering if there is enough "good stuff" to play: there is.

Love the art and animation..first time for me to play this kind of game and with this beautiful animation...
surviving theme with horror and some magic and turnbased combat with not much grinding resources...really something i really need to play in adullt game..not just school, ntr, and honey select animation theme game...
i really hope in future content they make it more like dungeon crawling game with more surviving theme...

I love it.
It's pretty, it's atmospheric and the animations are smooth.
The first time I played it I sank roughly 5 hours into this game. I kept playing after the first wank just because I enjoyed the story and the atmosphere.

The start alone looks like a well made Horror/Mistery game from the 2000s. The characters acutally have character, their models are original and sexy.

The only minor gripes I have with this game are:
- Sometimes completing tasks to advance the story takes exactly all your stamina. Made a wrong turn or made a heavy attack? Better roll back or try afain tomorrow.
It's not a huge issue, most people won't even see it as a problem when they're playing efficient to begin with.

-I'd love an ingame implementation to revisit scenes that isn't just the gallery from the grandfather clock.
Just talking to a girl and initiating the scene, like "Hey, you remember the thing? Let's do that again!" and then replaying the scene with slightly changed dialog.

The gameplay is good, not annoying in the slightest. The girls are cute. The plot is interesting.

But the main character is pure cringe. Every second word from him is something like "sorry, are you ok with it", in sex scenes he is usually passive and does only what the girl tells him to do step by step, doesn't understand suggestions at all. Pretty stupid and passive overall, it's terrible.

This is the kind of game which keeps us coming back to forums like this and hooked to Ren'Py adlt games (apart from the fap material of course).

Story: Original, thought through, and well executed. The premise of being locked in while there's a doomsday mist hovering around takes care of a lot of things that other highschool/real world adult games have to joust with. But it also comes with fresh challenges, which are thankfully well dealt with by the developer and writer

Gameplay: Pretty good. The hints and the finding things and adventure feel reminds me of non-adult exploration games (the good kind)

Characters: Have some individuality and are not carbon cut-outs in both appearance and personality

Writing: Really good. No grammar issues. Good use of humour and dialogues between characters is true to their personality

Renders and Animation: Amazing


Overall, it's a promising start and there isn't anything that leads me to think that the game might fall short of delivering what it promises. The only hiccup in this game so far has been the MC's personality. Seems like a nice guy, but has a predatory side when it comes to eroticism and arousal, especially the way he makes his advances on Robin. Would be a little less disorienting if we were given a little glimpse into his life or personality. But it wasn't too shocking or deeply ingrained in the story.

The humour is really good. Want to highlight it again!

Everything is great, especially appreciate usage of original looking models.
Though the story gets kinda cringy and edgy when it comes to magic(really? the Chosen Gary Stue One cliche?)
Gameplay is okay, but its a VN not a JRPG, so no point in it

A future major hit. Good character designs. Great gameplay. Looking forward to the future and where this game is going to take us. also this 200 character limit is annoying and now i am just trying to hit the minimum.

A really promising game with more content than you would expect from a 0.3.1 verion.

+ i didn't run into a single bug
+ nice game flow, especially the time management while exploring is well done
+ management elements (i hope there will be more in the future)
+ story is interesting (i always liked books and movies with similiar plots) and there seem to be some twists in the future
+ quite contrary to some other opinions, i like it that the MC is not visible, it gives me more the feeling this guy is ME
+ in-game guide

+/- combat system could have been a little more strategic/interesting, but it is still better than like in about 90 % of the games on this site

- the dialogues that lead to sex scenes seem somewhat forced and strange to me, but i've seen worse; in generel i didn't care much for the sex scenes and clicked through them (probably just personal taste)

Wow! This game is outstanding! Was up to 4 AM finishing it. The game-play, animations, music and story are 5/5.

Renders good. Models are serviceable. If Dev had a SubscribeStar, I'd be a donor. Patreon is dead to me.