Ren'Py - Abandoned - 2044 [v0.31] [onionbros]

This is a really bad looking game, the backgrounds are all so trash looking with this weird filter.
The characters look mostly okay I liked how the real life porn is portrayed in the sprites but the videos that play are just terrible they look bad, they soubd bad and the voices just don´t make sense too inclued why not mute them?
The game also doesn´t work proberbly I couldn´t open the contacts or hints everytime it crashed.

Don´t play this.

One of the best I've ever played, two options for chipping girls. The only problem is that when you speed up the lines with one character and restart the game, the other one also does it and skips the fuck scenes... But it's one of the best! I can't wait to roll the updates and please keep warm on mandy muse.

I give it a 7.5 vote.
Pros:
Good choice of the models
Interesting story
A good amount of grind and minigames (for me)
Satisfying scenes once you reach them

Cons:
Not a lot of content and scenes
It can be quite grindy if you don't like minigames
Long time between updates

A decent game with interesting plot, I'd even say a plot with some level of uniqueness. Photo/Video material is quite boring, as seing Riley in 9000th times makes me feel "meh...". Overall woth of 1.5-2 hours.

I seriously can't understand the ratings this game received. To me it' s a complete garbage.

1. Real porn - didn't expect much, after all it's a lowest effort option for developing a game, it takes literally no time to add a scene, just download some video, cut it and you there you have it in one minute. Not like other developers spending hours drawing 2d art or making, posing and rendering 3d stuff. So it would be understandable to have lots of content or at least finely selected ones, but the selection is pretty standard, boring and inconsistent.

2. Minigames - seriously, memory was fun when I was 6, I don't need it to play it again. And no, I don't want to ruin my mouse clicking as fast as possible to lift weights.

3. The game lets you start some story and it is cut in the middle with no content for this version yet, but leaves you with permanent income decrease. Basically if you start Mandy quest you somehow end up in a worse position than before, and that is not all, you have to farm money to buy expensive equipment in the process. Really?

The game is on a good track to involve every worst design idea this forum witnessed.

Review of v0.25 (2022-09)

2044 is exceptional, so far. The premise and setting are interesting and different from most. The writing is nearly perfect grammatically. The dialogue, while not especially inspired (humor/wordplay), is quite natural.

The use of Ren'Py is some of the best I've seen and everything in the GUI works intuitively and without issue. The minigames are standard fare but I actually found myself playing and enjoying them despite the fact that I could just cheat past them. The metaphor worked. They represented the character's effort in a relatively fun and rewarding way.

The gameplay mechanics are still early days, but what is there, is really fun. (I loved checking the popularity of my vids on the platforms each morning, for example). As yet unimplemented features like scouting and management have me quite excited and execution so far gives me a lot of hope.

I have a few minor criticisms. Sometimes the writing doesn't account for you doing things in an order that is possible but unexpected by the author. (e.g. telling you you need to buy a suit when you already have.) Because there is so much flexibility in how the player goes about things and the game is so ambitious, this is likely to always be an issue, and it's mildly jarring, but quite forgivable.

I also found the flow of the porn videos (at least on the black MC route) to be very janky. Instead of using a lot of clips from one porn scene, it's often from very different ones just when, say, changing positions. There may be good reasons for this (I can think of a few), but it often jarred me out of my immersion into the scene.

Lastly, I really liked the MC, at least initially. He was respectful to anyone he liked (a nice guy) or had power over him (which is just sensible). But as I played he became a little more thuggish and egotistical. This could be meant to represent the character's corruption, but since the game seems to be willing to let you make some good/evil decisions, I still found the changes a little overly dramatic especially at the time-scale in play. It's probably far less so if you aren't trying to be as good as possible (but still sensibly self-interested) like I was.

Excellent work so far, onionbros! I'm really looking forward to playing more.

Great model choices. A lot of creators under the "real porn" tag just grab whatever blondes and call it a day. Not the case for this title.

A bit light content-wise, but if the work continues this game has got a very solid foundation to build upon.

Finally. Some good fucking content.

No, really though, well done dev. For 0.25 this game has a lot of fantastic world building and storytelling. The setting is really interesting, it is well written, and hot! It's clear the dev put a lot of time and effort in this game, and I look forward to seeing its development - Maybe even becoming a patron.

I've played the 0.2 version. Some of the best content this site has seen in a while! It's very clear you put a lot of time in this.

Writing: 10/10, immersive and to the point.
Setting: 10/10, very well worked out and immediately immersive.
Gameplay: 9/10, the 'grind' is balanced as to be rewarding. The quests are good and the rewards are even better. Really loved travelling abroad and seeing a new hub. Can't wait to see what you do with it. Only negative I have: I can't do the memory game, even on the lowest difficulty I miss it by a couple seconds, either needs more time or I should be proper ashamed of myself. Maybe I'm lazy but just something like 'you read books for an hour. +1 to INT' would be perfectly fine for me.
Actresses: 10/10, this is personal ofc, but you really nailed it imo. Good clips as well.

I saw a lot of criticism regarding the progression in the comments but that seems to have been fixed in 0.2 because I had no problems with it.

I really hope this will do well enough to motivate you to continue with the project. Please don't give up too soon, your game has the potential to go big. I will subscribe to your Patreon and suggest everyone else does so as well.

[v0.2]
Only the second update, so don't expect a lot of content YET.
However there is a lot of promises to be found in this "Freeroam Real-porn Game" !

In no particular order, a few thoughts and comment on it :
# Good casting of actresses (at least in the "white mc" playthrough), some are indeed among those overused in the genre, but they are so for good reasons (diversity and number of available scenes).
# Decent, if not quite ground-breaking, world setting and lore : a good dystopia lend itself very well to the corruption and manipulation, thought it seemed teased (we'll see how it goes) that for some "Love Interests" there will be softer approaches. I certainely hope there will be ! (I prefer to mix my corruptin' with some luvin')
# Good UI, clear and serviceable , that doesn't make you click too much and integrate already all it needs for the RPG elements (stats, inventory and profiles) and even an integrated walkthrough (no wondering if there is more content!).
# There is a story, it's not just a sandbox, thought it's still very early to really judge if it's gonna be interesting, it's decent enough to justify sexy shenanigans.
# The freeroam format might allow for some "non main story related" characters being added by the dev at their convenience (or maybe modders?)
# Instead of the usual "GIFs slideshow" often found, the Dev uses 10-20s looping videos often with sounds, makes for a more enjoyable experience during the naughty scenes, that are not very long (3-4 vids with the text that goes with them) but it's not a bad thing.
# Ren'py engine instead of the prevalent in the genre Twine, which I like since there's a lot of QoL already there.
# I personally re-enabled the scroll-wheel rollback function that seem deactivated, but Qsave and Qload are available.

TLDR and conclusion:
It's an early project, an "amuse-bouche" if you will, that is already mature in its format and just needs to deliver on the rest of the "all you can fuck" buffet. I definitely recommend giving it a try, at the very least following its progress if Real Porn is (one of) your thing, because there's a lot of potential.

Good job already to the dev and good luck! Hope to see more updates soon!

(Went all in with 5* for support and because I can't really fault the lack of content and story development on an early build)

This is a review of an earlier version of the game, according to the change log a lot of my issues have been fixed. I did give the new version a quick go but hit a bug and couldn't be bothered to restart ....

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Its a good first release but there are a few issues

UI and general design is good
Story is okay (no problems with english)

The cartoon filter on the women makes a lot of them look way uglier. Not sure if I got to used to it more but it bothered me way more at the start.

The main problem with this game is pacing - there is essentially one linear path but most of the content is unnecessarily locked behind needing to be in a specific place at a specific time and it just becomes infuriating to play. I've just go to the part where the girl is captured and instead of being able to just go to the next scene with her I need to skip forward a few days. There's literally nothing else for me to do. All I'm doing is visiting a girl in a cell , why does it need to happen on a certain day? At the moment 99% of this game is just spent skipping each day to get to the next bit of content. I gave up after the above scene.

I guess you're supposed to trigger the megacorp invite on the first day (Monday) and go to the interview on the next day (Tuesday Morning), I was playing around with the game on the first day and didn't trigger the invite until Tuesday. Then I had to wait until the next Tuesday morning (7 days) to go to the interview. Why not just have the invite set for the next morning rather than restrict it to be on a Tuesday. There is not enough content to waste a week.

Don't lock content behind needing to be somewhere on a specific day, most of it is pointless. Just lock it to weekend or week day activities and let the player trigger it on any weekday/weekend day.