Ren'Py - A Family Venture [v0.09 V1 Beta] [WillTylor]

This game is average sadly.
I liked the premise, the story, the background of the characters and the writing is well enough.
But my main gripe is that the game gets grindy quite fast. Soon you will find yourself clicking every location again and again, clicking through repeated dialog, again and again, because you might have missed a trigger for a next scene somewhere...this is not enjoyable! It is a shame because it had potential but threw it all away to become something of a sandbox game.
Edit: It has gotten even worse with the latest update (v0.04c) Now you even need to grind out stats for characters to have really minor increments in sexy content to unlock and doing so requires you to go through weeks/months of in game time, repeating the most boring, grinding tasks for nothing. Taking another star off for that shit.

I'm a bit of a lurker here - been commenting more and trying to be an active constructive member of the community. That said, I thought this would be a great opportunity to review a game in it's early stages.

First, I love the humor. There are comments that if you aren't actually paying attention might seem out of place; I suggest players take their time and read the dialogues.

Second, while I understand the preference for one body type or another is personal and based in what we, as individual players like (or don't like), I am pleased to see female characters with more reasonable proportions (there are several other games that come to mind: Big Brother, Long Live the Princess, etc.) Nothing against those that prefer breasts the size of blimps and asses like asteroids, I prefer my females on the average side (at least where proportions are concerned).

Third, taking into account my previous comment about proportions, the MC's dick is a bit over done. I will say, however, I am fine with that considering, as the creator pointed out, it is a porn game and he prefers a more porn-like appearance to some of the renders and story. Kudos! Stick to your guns.

Fourth, NTR, no NTR, don't care - meh. Never really had enough vested in make-believe characters in a visual novel or game to make me actually give a shit whether there was NTR or not - as long as there was nudity, sex and attractive characters, what does it matter? It's not my wife/girlfriend so go ahead, take my mom/sister/cousin/niece and have fun (as long as I can watch )

Finally, I feel as this storyline might be a bit cliche, so I think to myself, "self, why is cliche bad?" In this case it works because of the humor and writing in the game.

ADD: The renders are good, the layout is intuitive...although it could do a bit better with hints and walk-through.

Excellent writing
Perfect models (especially the Milf, how hard is that? apparently VERY so great job)
Decent Content for first version and enough to set up a good bit of how the game will (may) progress
Only allusion to NTR (so far) is clearly stated and optional (yes please)

Is a bit of a grind but I have no problem with that as long as the content stays great
An hourglass option to skip time would be preferable to going to room to whack it everytime although hopefully less need to skip time as the game develops
Biggest (and really only) complaint so far is DAMN it's only version 1, great start hope ya keep it up

Dev seems invested and open to opinions so 5 stars

Overall rating: 8/10 (for a new dev)

- promising game
- pretty well written and immersive
- knows its genre well and delivers
- honest, humble dev
- agree with some comments that the milf's body could be optimized to fit the genre better

Will be keeping an eye on this one.

Looks promising.

Good plot, check. Good characters models, check ("mother" looks like an actual milf, I am very impressed that creator was able to add age without making it look bad or too youngish). Sandbox mode, check. Current build is missing some proper H scenes, but I suppose that will be added with time.

Definitely gonna be checking this out.

EDIT: Typos

Its early on but not bad in terms of amount of content for first relase. Based on first release however this game shows great promise. Although its somewhat similar to the incest genre games on this site this has much more realistic body proportions. The sisters have amazing bodies and the mom is not your usual balloon tit mom from a majority of games. The sisters are the true gems of this game and hopefully are the cornerstone to future content. Models are great, I enjoy the "free roam" feel that you can travel around yourself to find events. Looking forward to future updates to fill that traveling with many more options.

Everything is pretty good. Writing could use some work but for the most part, it's alright. But my impression of it might be slightly biased against it since I'm not a fan of the whole grind through days to get stuff done.

Another game that has the potential to be great... but repetitive, time consuming sandbox elements made it hard for me to enjoy. Now I have heard that the dev took a lot of steps to correct this so I've increased my rating... but be warned: I recall a lot of very grindy day-to-day stat building exercises which left me disappointed.

The story isn't bad, the girls are very cute, and the renders are nice, which is definitely a positive. The developer also seems open to feedback and criticism which is also nice!

Overall, I really wanted to like this game and tried my best to get through the grindy elements, but in the end the pros did not outweigh the cons.

A fair bit of content for a first release, and I love the models and the scenario. I'll admit that the writing could do with a bit of polish, and the realism..., well, what do you expect?
But good, and fun!

The storyline is pretty standard, but the writing is amazing, practically comedic gold. The characters look a bit... shota... so I dunno about that.

What sells this to me is the "game director" and what I mean by that, is the camera angles and how the story is played out.

I suggest everyone to give this a shot, because trust me, this is way better than most adult games out there.

This game has great potential. The character models are great, dialog is good, renders are solid, animations are nice, it has music... hopefully the mc will stop being such a pussy and give in to his urges at some point. some things are still pointless but I imagine they will have a function later. I like the direction this is going and will keep an eye out for it in the future.