Ren'Py - A Family Venture [v0.09 v2 Beta] [WillTylor]

The sandbox elements ruin any chances this has for being good. Far too grindy to be enjoyable. On top of that there is barely any content in the first place, and despite all the overtly sexual things you do with your sisters they refuse any actualy sexy stuff with you. And this has been in development for a looong time now. Still cant have sex with your mom. Unacceptable stuff.

I just binged this game so freaking hard it is not even funny, and I can't wait for the sequel. So. The artwork is fantastic for a game of this size and for this style. There are a few games out there with more top-tier art, but this is on-par with other CG ones that don't break immersion, the characters look distinct and interesting, and there's something bordering on vulgar in some of the looks that certainly draws me in. Content wise its slightly standard fare of what we expect from this genre (it even introspectively makes fun of that through some 4th wall breaks) but if the formula works well... I'm certainly happy to see more of it! And it has enough novelty in how it is presented that I actually follow and don't tune it out, that I'm curious about navigating through it, and that I'm excited to see how the corruption plays out. And the writing is fantastic. Not too wordy, not too brief, good grammar, enough lewdness in the right spots to be hot, not reading like a fan fic porn novel.. Just love it. And so very sad to have reached the end of the current content (which is very helpfully indicated in the game's menus). More please!

Version 0.08 Played using the cheats in the phone

Well this is a gem that I always skipped as the pinned pics didnt really do it for me. Gave it a go, what a surprise. First I played with cheats on the phone, which seemed to bring down any grind that others seem to complain about, but it really didn't seem like the grind would have been too bad. After all this is a game, not a visual novel, or slideshow.

It was very fun to play. Extremely well written, renders are very good, and those start to grow on you during gameplay. Characters are very well thought out and gameplay is very well done.

The "progress" guide, checklist could be cleaned up, but it is there and tells you what you need to do, when to do it.

The story is engaging, funny and hot. As it is a "game" yes there is a need to progress and you get cockblocked many times ...so if you don't want that, go watch some porn. Its a very fun play and lots of playtime as of 0.08.

Only downer for myself was when the MC is visible...what a turd, midget, ugly, out of shape ...teen kid, with a horse cock. Wish the Dev made him at least a decent looking, normal height. As it is now, all the women fall for his cock....just his cock and his amazing white knight personality. As he has no physical attributes that are attractive...well other than his baseball bat dick.

Great game otherwise, very enjoyable and lots of playtime. Not a fap fest, but a great goal orientated, stage driven game.

This game follows the typical H trope where the borderline sociopathic brother wants to fuck his family, the difference of this game with fucking garbage like big brother and bad bobby is that this game doesn't take itself too seriously and that makes it fun to play, the writing is fun and witty, and grinding does have its rewards so it's not that annoying, and that's one thing i don't understand, this game gets a lot of bad reviews for supposedly having a lot of grinding but that's just false the grinding can be avoid very easily using the cheats that are on the phone, or at least that's what I did, but anyway the average user of this forum is not very smart, as for the renders it is true that they cannot be for everyone and sometimes the facial expressions are a bit cursed but personally I like them, they are not the best renders in the world but they are good. Anyway, I really like this game and it's kind of weird because I usually don't like this type of game with this type of mc but as I said, what I really think makes this game special is how it's written, it's very funny

garbage.

you'll spend 90% of the time clicking the same shit and pressing the skip dialogue button. the remaining 10% is watching crappy models straight out of 2001 doing over-the-pants stuff or handjobs. mc gets a blowjob from the town bicycle at some point tho, which probably gave him an std lol

someone said there's sex scenes, but honestly it ain't worth playing the whole game. get the multimod to unlock the gallery and read the overview, that's pretty much all you need to know about the story. the rest is just a bunch of crap the dev thought up to stretch the story for as long as possible so he can release as few scenes as possible every time.

edit: forgot to mention i spent like 4 hours on this thing. seriously, save yourself a million clicks and just watch the gallery.

Summary:
‘A Family Venture’ is a Sand Box H-Game of the Taboo genre. The story revolves around the MC named Ryan and his complicated Family. Ryan’s ‘venture’ is to assume the role of ‘Man of the House’ in light of his Father’s absence. The Creator Will Tylor utilizes the Renpy engine and Daz Studio to create a parallel North Eastern United States, consistent with tropes of affluent denizens, private schools, corrupt FBI agents, and Mafia underworlds.

Gameplay/Interaction
AFV is a more immersive gaming experience compared to standard Renpy visual novels. The player will need to navigate Ryan through different time schedules, money-making, and NPC Stat fluctuations in order to trigger ‘Events’. This may seem like a grind at first, but using the ‘Hint’ menu and the recent addition of ‘New Event’ screen announcements; it all becomes easy to understand what’s happening.

Storytelling/Dialogue
AFV has excellent dialogue and narration due to the Creator’s English comprehension. But he also understands comedic storytelling. The character banter’s hilarious, and each character has their own unique voice to add to the story. The script is concise and focuses on its main cast, but also the backstories and subplots help support the main plot's narrative.

Character Progression/Interaction
Ryan the MC begins as a small 18-19 year-old, living in his father’s shadow. But later he begins his own business, earning passive income and endeavors to realize his lustful taboo fantasy. The NPC cast goes through their own gradual transformations, each with their own motivations. But ultimately Ryan helps to bring out their inner slut.

Art Style/Direction
The character models have a design quality unique only to AFV. They’re somewhere between a cartoon and reality, and they remind me a bit of the art styles of Jab Comix or Barnabie Bunny. The character renders, poses and facial expressions are excellent! Their facial expressions really capture the emotions of anger, embarrassment, and arousal. The animations are great, and the Creator’s continually improving his Daz studio skills.

Titillation/fapability
This game is hot, and the build-ups too the sex scenes make everything worth while. ‘AFV’ has both loyalty and NTR theme., But even on the NTR route, the NTR is avoidable. It brings gravity to the decisions that Ryan has to make. The sex scene dialogue will bring you to the edge, and the hot cast of ladies will make you hard to decide on which one's your favorite.

I would highly recommend A Family Venture! It’s well written and has its own unique style of art and dialogue. 5 out of 5 my Friends!

Well, I found most of playtime pleasant, and renders are also in good quality. Events were placed close enough for me not to be bored with grindy parts. Gameplay length is.. satisfactory I guess? Well, with one exception - the school elections. I could either start it realively early, but with high risk of bad ending(I dislike NTR) due to lack of money, since costs were high and with spendings for other events it was a bit too much, or relatively late. Second option meant, I could pull it off financially, but there was practically no other events to do in the meantime, so with exception of few weekly regular election events, it was the most monotous and tedious part of game. For like 6 weeks I couldn't skip whole days because of constant need of earnig money, and yet there was nothing else to do, with exception of some repeatable sex scenes. But how many times can I repeat them? More so, I just wanted that plotline to finally be over. That part took one star from my rating.

Also possibility of repeatable scenes was definitelly good idea for this game. So then, why scenes unlocked during elections are not avaible later? It's illogical to just abandon those, it could easily be made as another replayable content to enrich grindy parts.

I really liked this game. It has a great amount of scenes. Optional ntr. Not top but good renders.
Grind is easily bypassed with the ingame cheat
The disadvantages are the amount of clicks you need to do every ingame day and strange UI

v0.08 v1b

the game is good, if you love to grind...

There is no reason why events can't be brought closer together, I think the dev has a sadistic side where he likes to slowly kill fappers by wearing down their patience until there is nothing left.

Everything else is of decent quality, but it really wouldn't be hard to restructure the game and get rid of the grind.

Just why?

Really great game. Slow burn as hell, but it deliver. I like that there is some kind of cheat mod that allow me to witness the romance and ntr route without the need to start again. I would love to see some physical changes in the girl, specially Mom. Maybe longer hair or another hair style.

I am looking for the next update. KUDOS mate.

I find this game incredibly hot for some reason. When it comes to gameplay itself it is decent but I keep coming back (if you will) to many of the scenes, especially with Sidney. She's crazy hot to me for some reason. High recommend to fans of this genre. Eagerly awaiting future content.

Great graphics, decent story. Deserve proper finish though. I would appreciate more variation of clothings. Possible connected with the level of corrupting characters. More photosets would be also good idea. So more scenes and completing story would make the game perfect.

Note: I don't believe a complex opinion can be properly represented by a number but I do understand some people are impatient so I don't use the star system normally, my ratings are as follows. 1 don't recommend, 3 unsure please read review, 5 recommend

I played this for a lot longer than I'd like to admit and I felt cheated by the sunk cost of time spent and the subsequent mediocre payoff.

Lets talk pacing, there a long stretches of this game where nothing happens or can happen, you can't progress the story until you get characters to certain levels of their stats which just mean repeating the exact same scene over and over and over and over and over and over, again. Did you notice how instead of 3 "over"s I had 6? which is far too many? That's what the game does. 3 times should be the max, it starts to get boring on the third time just move on. There is very little progress to be made in the game and you have to progress to certain points in each story line before you can progress in the next one, so instead of doing story lines simultaneously you have to do them for the most part one by one. You can't just skip though days either you need to do the same task every afternoon instance in order to keep earning money so it drags on even more.

The game's story heavily involves NTR, credit to the developer for the NTR elements being optional and explicitly telling the player whenever the NTR option shows up, but it's so prevalent it bleeds into the non-NTR run of the game. I mean the point of the game is to pay of the mob every week so your mom doesn't have to be a stripper for them. The younger sisters story line is entirely about making sure she doesn't fuck your worst enemy for a bet. I don't recommend this game at all but I especially don't recommend it if you don't like NTR.

The walkthrough for this game is 67 pages long, every 3 pages encompassing a week. 1 day of the week contains 5 time instances. It is during these time instances when sex events occur. If you do the math the walkthrough for this game covers ~781 instances over 22 weeks. As of writing the game has 80 non-NTR events. That means a little over 10% of the game is sex scenes and a little less than 90% of the game is not. If you make a porn game where 90% of it isn't porn you have made a bad porn game, there I proved it mathematically.

I think there could be a better game in this mess, reduce the amount of clicks it takes to interact with basically anything, make it so the events can efficiently line up and can be done simultaneously, change how many times you need to repeat scenes to progress, turn the "libido" stat into an on or off switch, and a number of other basic changes and you might have a game worth playing. I don't plan to stick around on the hope that those changes get implemented and I don't think you should either.

I usually hate these types of games but the grind in this one didn't feel bad. I laughed more times than I care to admit and usually at the expense of Sydney, especially early on. Great job with this one. My only complaint would be the interface.

Poor

after playing it for about 7 hours i came to the conclussion that it does not have any sex scene (vaginal sex) with any of the main females

and i reached the stage where mandy is giving me handjobs, but the story don t fking progress man, the days keep advancing and i feel myself waiting for the juicy days of blackmaling from agente diaz and the mafia and it's just the same , and im tired of play this shit

4/10

it seems that according to the screenshots everything should be slightly perverted, which is a plus, but. the game, even with cheats, is a rather wild grind, neither the characters nor the scenes are worth it.

Version Reviewed: 0.7

Overview: Grind some cash to save your family, and grind your relationship with them to unlock sex scenes.

Story: Stop me if you have heard this one before. You are a shiftless college student living at home with his mother and sisters who suddenly discovers that he has a gigantic oversized penis and decides that it needs to be inside of all of his family members. Also, your dad is suddenly out of the picture and there are mob guys extorting you for cash every week.

Along the way you'll discover that your sisters are into sexy cosplay and student politics. Eventually your aunt and slutty niece move in.

To tell the truth I played this game some time ago and managed to forget about it entirely. Even now I'm struggling to remember half of the plot points.

Graphics: They are decent enough. There are some short animations but they don't enhance the game much.

Gameplay: Frankly it's kind awful. Everything needs too many mouse clicks and it's often not clear what actions are available. The in-game hint system seems unreliable. In fact the game seems to have a lot of bugs. I worked for almost a full week earning $200-$400 every time and somehow managed to be flat broke for no apparent reason. There's a painting minigame with the election storyline that seems very glitchy, where I produce a Rembrant in the minigame, but then put up some turd a couple of scenes later. Everything is grindy of course, but usually the grind isn't too outrageous.

The most annoying part is the game has a bad habit of letting you level up a girl into pre-sex molesting and then silently running out of content. Very early on you unlock molesting your mom in her sleep, quickly work your way up to hotdogging her ass and a foot job, then just stop and for hours and hours of gameplay afterward nothing changes. You can visit every night and repeat the hotdogging scene, but that's it. Your younger sister is basically the same. Your cousin has a truth or dare game that ends up going nowhere that you can repeat every night. There are cosplay events and running events that stop before you go too far.

Conclusion: The run of the mill plot combined with the poor UI and mediocre sex scenes make this game hard to reccommend. It's playable and you can fap to it, but there are a lot of better games on this site.

The game is goofy, ridiculous. But it's fully consistent and "realistic" in its own fictional universe, which sucks you in. Overall I was very impressed with it, an unexpected gem with some really hot scenes, that you have to work hard to get to, which makes it satisfying.

Another grindfest game where you play a "21" year old guy ( in the body of a 12 year old... or midget...) who have to fuck his family because he's a fucking pervert with a big penis

The story is stupid, you have to pay money because your daddy who is in jail took a loan from mafia. And if you don't pay or worse tell the fbi the mafia will prostitute you and your family

What does you do... ? prostitute your mother in the very first day to pay for the loan.

Slow clap.... genius move

As someone who does not like NTR, I can say this game is probably the most enjoyable out of the dozens of games who try to cater to both sides of the aisle.

The sandbox feature isn't a borefest like most of the games of this genre where you have to "Achieve goal X, Y number times to unlock scene Z (mostly miniscule plot progression)". The repercussions of each step(or misstep) progresses the story at least enough for my liking. Menus are also fairly easy to navigate and don't take away too much time from the actual gameplay.

The LIs have distinct personalities and are generally likable (even Megan is one of my favorite girls). I also personally find it refreshing that the LIs of this game do not have plus-sized, disproportional boobs and booties and are of the more believable body types for their age.

The MC however is a different story. I get that at his age, he is bound to be irrational and dumb, but I feel like this trope is slightly overused in this game. Of course, this is but a subjective judgment.

The only reason I can only give this 4 stars is because of my disdain for NTR. This however does not take away from the 'Loyalty' route of this game which I think is one of the best from this genre.

The dev inserting himself into the story also tells me that he cares about this project and this is a good sign moving forward.