Ren'Py - A House in the Rift [v0.7.9 EA] [Zanith]

One of the best sandbox VNs on this site. Good renders, simple and clean UI, and decent storyline. Not many typos from what I've read so far which is always a bonus. It is not overly wordy and there isn't much grind to increase your stats. Instead, your stats improvement/decrease come from interacting with the girls and choosing the right responses/dialogue.

There are only 5 girls you can interact with so far but they each arrive one at a time so you needn't overload yourself with trying to do everything at once. Each girl has their own personality - you have the Amazonian, the shyster, the succubus, the tsundere, and the obedient housewife.

You have to work for the sex scenes and they aren't that abundant to be frank. However they are well done and there will probably be more in the future. So right now I don't think it's really a game for fapping but that can always change.

Therefore, 5/5 stars.

This is without a doubt one of the best games I've seen here so far. Top notch animations with very natural movements (even the water movement was handled properly), the story is quite interesting so far (just a bit short but I assume this will change over time) and the characters are very unique and lovely designed. Really worth a try in my opinion.

The story is interesting, the girls are cute and the animation is great.
My only problem is the lack of advancement with the characters story wise and sexually. I get you need to build up to it but it's still mostly all hand and mouth stuff with the existing characters and a new character has already been added

I liked it! Especially I appreciate the effort on putting more interactive pre-rendered scenes, instead of just fixed camera. Scenes give the SFM/Blender smut feeling with the moving camera, animated facial features, and the girls actions as well.

Rae, Cait and Lyriel are my favourites if I had to choose. Naomi is okay, but latest addition (the ogre girl? idk) is not really my thing. However, everybody has their own thing, so I don't mind of course.

Game itself has virtually infinite amount of potential for expansion, such as different/bigger house, more girls, more events, more powers, different kinks, scenes, etc., but everything has to end, so will this game at some point.

Story is pretty good, honestly, I see myself more like a visual critique, so I wouldn't comment further.

I would actually become a patron if I could afford, hopefully we'll/I'll see this game expanded/updated regularly with consistency. Cheers!

The cast of girl is quite disappointing, and the last two additions are really not appealing, before the orc girls I just disliked the pirate girl, now I really dislike half of the cast. At least, the elf and succubus are great and the mage is decent.
For now you can avoid the girls you don't like, but there are some limits, I tried an exclusive run with the elf and was forced to the succubus, in a dream sequence (in this game dreams are magical lucid dreams, so it's not the usual dream sequence with no implication).

The relashionship with the girls are not really progressing romantically, for now it's just purely sexual. With some characters (in fact just the succubus if I'm not mistaken) there's some cuddles, kisses and affection but it still seams to be "no string attached".

I'm not a fan of sandbox, but in this game it's bearable because the map size is limited to a house, but there's still some of the usual problems of sandboxes : mainly repetitions of the same scene and grinding. Recently the dev add money, and getting it is really boring, as for the food (which is only required for some specific scenes, no survival mechanism here).

When I first downloaded this game i didn't know what to expect. I personally like harem games, but the plot of this game didn't match what I was searching for at the time. Today I can say it's one of the most masterfully crafted adult game out there. Every character feels alive, and have their own dynamic and personality to them.

The gameplay is easy and the "romance" system is quite basic, but after thefirst few wanks I got into the story quite heavily. Started to care to some extent for the girls in the house. So all in all, came for the porn, stayed for the story and characters. My favorite character is Azaraesha hands down. Her personality and personal story got me hooked quite quickly.

Now for the negative (for me atleast). The latest addition to the "family" is a *SPOILER* shy orc lady. Now I will not kinkshame anyone, but it's not for me. Other than that, the lack of effect of "skills" on the story and interactions with the girls in the house, leaves a bit of bad after taste for me. There is no "special event" tied to for exemple maxing out strength will let you powerfuck Rae or even pin down our wayward pirate captain for a good romp. I really hope that something like that will be implemented in the future. There are other smaller problems here and there, but I think I ramble enough.

To the make of this game, I could only say, incredible job. Sorry I can't make any contributions to your patreon (living in a dirt poor country, lucky to have a flat under my ass), but the moment I get a raise and get some extra you can expect at least a 5$ or 10$ contribution! Thank you for the awsome game.

This is easily one of the best games on f95. Writing is pretty good, funny at times, and realistic enough. The characters look great and the animations are top-notch. One thing I really like about this game is that a lot of the lore is skippable if you're not in the mood to learn about ethers and whatnot.

My only problem with the game is I don't like Naomi very much, the way she talks or her appearance but that's a personal preference thing. I'm sure there are a lot of people that do like her.

Overall, this game is great and I highly recommend it.

Edit: Changed the rating from 5/5 to 4/5. This is still a great game, not sure I would call it one of the best games on this site anymore, partly cause I've played more games now. And playing through it again, it just didn't seem as good as I remembered.

Diverse and extremely well written cast of characters in an interesting setting. Quite a bit of thought out content and fully animated, high quality scenes to go with it.
Keep up the incredible work you absolute legend.
Definitely one of the best games on the platform.

I typically struggle to get into a RenPy game or visual novels in general. This game is excellent and really shows how well this type of game can be made. Highly recommend it. One of my absolute favorites.

~pajama panda

I don't usually write reviews, because I rarely find a game I fully immerse myself into. I really don't think it's fair to developers if I review a game after just few hours. This time it's different.

The writing is quality.
The animations are amazing and on point.
Conversations with the girls are fun and quirky.
I was pleasantly surprised how deep the world is in this game. It's not just another harem game, trust me.

Most importantly Rae is best girl please don't argue. This is a must play title.
Oh and it's still updated!

One of the few developers who is still updating on a consistent and rapid schedule. Commendable. Many, many other admirable games just trail off, with fewer and fewer updates. Happy to see this developers buck that trend.

Btw, the game is an inspired piece of work!

Nice game with lovely girls and an interesting story.
The renders and animations are good, the background music is realy relaxing, and not like other, going to be annoying.

would give 5stars but Lyriels "like"language is a big mood killer. She is a medieval Elf not the school bitch, it doesn't suits her. (my opinion)

It would be nice if the MC could use some of the facilitys by him self.(and can be visited random by one of the girls). It's strange to have them but can't use them (only when it's used by a girl).

Awesome Characters and a good Story,

Especially the little Stories like washing dishes with Ly, watching TV with Az or catching Cait secretly reading Henai make it one of the best Games for me.

Thanks and keep up the good Work.

This game is exactly what is should be, the way you can track events is integrated well, the animation and art is top notch, and the game itself is just fun. I would highly recommend this game. I didn't run into any major bugs and I look forward to future updates. Great job!

Summary: A fun sandbox harem game with an evolving storyline

One of my favorite games on the site. Each update tends to be relatively small and takes you forward a few days as you work through the new additions. This is actually fine for this game as it is more about the journey than the underlying story, although that's good as well.

This game is sandbox-centric with a story, I see the story as progressed primarily to provide incremental added content and new circumstances to explore from the sandbox. Each of the girls has their own storyline and background. There are no time limits and stat progression is more an afterthought you knock out relatively early in play rather than something you struggle to get done.


Pros
Good writing and story
Unique premise
Excellent renders

Cons
Characters can be a bit stereotyped up front, although they evolve nicely.

Superb. Very lewd, hot and likable characters. Top notch scenes. most of all story is actually interesting. Never wanted to skip any text and thats is a treasure in itself. Play this game and please support its creator. We need more content like this.

Probably the best game i've found on F95 to date and I see a lot!
ZanithOne Knows how to immerse you in the game with brilliant animations and much more natural movements and interactions the characters have totally independent personalities and behaviors. I would have to say this game is brilliant in its design.
ZanithOne your a legend cant wait to see the update..Seriously Ill hurt someone if I don't see a update soon Im totally addicted to this masterpiece.

only an idiot would dislike such masterpiece like this one, all girls are best girls, great animations, interesting premise, not grindy at all compared to MANY other games in here and its actually updated pretty regularly.
You should really try this one, 10/10

Been playing the game for quite a few updates and overall it's better than a lot of games on f95. The animations are pretty good, but sometimes the camera movement seems to be pretty jumpy sometimes.

My only gripe is the lack of advancement with some of the characters storylines. Such as with not being able to do much sexual stuff with Caitlin after quite a few updates. It's great that the storyline didn't just jump into the MC having sex with the 4 women in the house. But some of the storylines seems to have become stagnant after quite a few updates.

The overall rating of the game could definitely be upgraded to a 5 when more events are added to the game. But having to skip time to find the women in certain areas of the house at different times of the day can get tedious and boring. More girls are definitely needed to fill not only more rooms in the house, but some of the gaps in events with the main 4.

This game is really one of the best I've ever played on this site.
Never repeats itself. Renders are great, animations are awesome.
Writing and characters are beyond good. You must play this game.
Congrats dev!