Ren'Py - A Home in the Desert [v0.4.1] [Misarmor]

A good game for its genre.
Good models, good storyline.
All in principle like and accepts.
I wish the developer prosperity, and many new updates
I'm translating a game at the moment)

V0.2b
The game is visually appealing, the models are good, but oh boiiiii the instructions are all but clear making it a pain in the ass to play.
It's only the begining of this game, and the first time you have to roam I got blocked with no idea of what to do, luckily someone shared the spot you had to clic to go on, but no hint and a very bad point and clic management.
I'm also very scared of the time component in the game: there's a watch in the (way too massive) UI, and you can fast forward 15 min/30 min/ 1 hour. I hope it won't be one of these games where you have to be a the precise spot at the precise time, nobody likes that, it's anything but user firiendly or fun, but the fact one of the characters already told you "same time next week" makes me feel it's where we're going.
So why 3 stars? I want to give it a chance and see if the dev improves the many flaws this version has, I'd like to see where it's going if the game was fun to play, but I'm being very generous on this rating, and will edit it in future releases if it doesn't get rid of his painfull mechanics.

Oh man, I really want to like this game, but despite it's good graphics and models there is nearly anything in here at this point in time.

When you are in the free roam, you find yourself stupidly clicking around in an EMPTY house. But the game tells you to explore it. Right, makes sense (not)!

Without someone else mentioning the attic (which is hidden under the ui) in his review, I would have closed the game immediately and deleted it. But got the game better from there? NO! After a short scene the game tells you to wait for someone to arrive. And when does this person appear? In around one weeks time (which the game doesn't tell you). Is there anything worthwhile you can do meanwhile? NO! So I ended up skipping the time for one week (countless hours in the game) till finally a short cutscene came up. And after a little bit of tiny content (nothing sexual) it started all over again, till you have no clue how to progress any further.

Gamingwise this game is a mess. An empty sandbox without any substance, just ending up being a complete waste of your time.

The plot is nonsense. Family loses everything because the husband is accused of sexual harassment, then gets a divorce, then moves out to the middle of nowhere with no vehicle no internet service and no job prospects. Somehow this is supposed to be better than all 5 members finding jobs and supporting each other in the city, but really it's just a method of guaranteeing they all starve to death.
The first quest requires finding an attic that is hidden by a mess of useless HUD information at the top of the screen. About half of players will probably not get past this point without a walkthrough or checking the thread for help, because the in-game hints/questlog doesn't mention it at all. Early development or not, there shouldn't be a flaw this big in your game.
The character models and gameplay are the same as in all of Nun Ya's games. Since Nun Ya also develops futa protag games I'm actually suspicious that this is Nun Ya using a new name after abandoning several unpolished and half finished titles. Progress the main story while occassionally interacting with various family members to build relationship stats. Currently it's too early in development for the latter to do anything, but the groundwork is obviously there.
As of v0.2b this doesn't even qualify as a concept. There's no real content, half the features are just placeholders, and bugs are everywhere. If it wasn't so similar to existing games I wouldn't even know what's being setup here. This shouldn't have been released so soon, and definitely isn't worth downloading.

Everything about the game looks promising. However the game is too empty at the moment. After the intro I got some dialogue with the family over breakfast and that seems to be it.
Let's hope the next updates actually have some content (at least a spicy scene or something).

I want to like this game. I like the models, especially MC and Aunt Eve, and I like the concept. Unfortunately, in it's current state, it's unplayable. On the first morning of free roam, there was no one around and nothing that I could meaningfully interact with. I could not advance time, I was told to use the time to explore the house, despite having explored everything I could find. I finally "blew off some steam" in bed, which advanced an hour. No change to finding anything interactable. Navigation isn't difficult, but could be more intuitive. Moving the mouse around to see if anything highlights is FAR from an ideal system, particularly outside.
Here's hoping for some major improvement in the next version. I rated it three stars because of potential, but gameplay improvement will determine if I revise my rating up or down. An unplayable game really ought to get a single star.

It's in it's infancy faze at the moment! But has quality written all over it! Graphics are spot on and the Model are unique plus the music brings a western feel to the game. Once you've mastered the navigation it's easy to move around the one thing it needs is a hint menu, although it does have one
but it's in WIP!