VN - Ren'Py - Completed - A New Home [v0.5] [Xcribr]

Sent away from home five years ago, your family returns to you after your father's death. Maybe now you'll learn why you were sent away.

Mechanics: ⭐⭐⭐
Content: ⭐⭐⭐
Graphics: ⭐⭐⭐
Script: ⭐⭐
Characters: ⭐⭐
Enjoy:⭐⭐

Volume 1: ⭐⭐⭐
Volume 1 starts with an interesting premise that is watered down due to its conveniences and alarmingly fast pace, and rather flat characters. It's not suspenseful either, but it's a very fair pass.

Volume 2: ⭐⭐
Volume 2 is a narrative disaster. More scenes, but all the immersion of the first is lost.

Overall: ⭐⭐
A New Home is an insufficient game. Too bad, the premise is interesting, but that doesn't make your game good.

I had high hopes for this story. Let me start with the basics of why I could only give this one an average rating.
Renders: Overall 3/5. They are average renders for AVNs.
Animations: Over all 2.5/5. 1/5 for part one, 1.5/5 for part two. Part one's animations are clunky, and the movements are distracting. Part two's are only slightly better, the panning is pretty clean, and the animation is not as distracting as the first part..
Narration: Overall 3/5. 4/5 for part one, though the story began to feel rushed as the narration continued. It was solid story telling until it got close to the end of the first part (I will elaborate in my closing remarks). 2/5 for part two. this part felt rushed, the cohesiveness of the story just fell apart and the plot just seemed to unravel before the half way mark in part two.
Closing remarks: This game is not a horrible game both from the story telling and the erotic point of views. One of the glaring issues for me is that even though we are supposedly dating one of the non-family girls, there was no real build up on this part of the plot. It felt like it was just abandoned as were the family rules. Another miss for me was the whole prologue, the reasoning behind it, the time line of it, and the reactions from the other characters regarding the actions of the MC in it. While I was personally disappointed in a few parts of the story, I have to be objective, and objectively it is a good story, that is why it receives a 3/5.

Had to give it a Poor 2/5 rating.

The premise of the story is great. The hook and narrative are interesting. The renders are sufficiently done (though with some more knowledge in lighting it could propel the scenes ten fold). There is a clear goal it seems and it is purely, mostly, about incest. For an AVN this is a gold mine and should be 5 stars across the board, right?

Wrong.

If would have been a fantastic game if the pacing was properly done and the stories properly drawn out. This game, in many ways, needs a slow burn almost. Yet it is mostly wham-bam-thank you ma'am,fall asleep, wake up and see some one else. Wham bam thank you ma'am. Rinse and repeat. The plot seemed wholly secondary to the sex scenes.

You need to let things breath and stew. Not just go bam bam bam bam one thing straight after the next. It tears the readers away from the experience and doesn't truly, let them soak in the story. Instead you are pulled through this fast paced story being flung left, right, and centre with little room to breath and take it all in. So it, ultimately, makes all the characters feel two dimensional and flat. It really did feel that the story was just flung together string one sex scene to the next in quick succession.

Take your time and breath live into the characters. Don't be a afraid to have large chunks of speech with out sex. It, ultimately, just makes those scenes better because the reader will be more inclined to witness it properly.

And that Epilogue? Sheesh. Really felt phoned in. Had a real chance to tie everything up beautifully and it just feels like it is an after thought.

That is why I can only give it a 2 out of 5. Everything was there to make this a beautiful game but the pacing totally killed it.

However, the MMA Porn thing? Now that made me chuckle.

Good entertaining Story, hot Women, many animated scenes. But i wish this scenes were better animated. I don't know, how much it takes to create the Animations or how complicated it is. So its not a critique to the Dev.

Not a fan.

The models don't look too great, which I don't actually mind much, because I tend to get used to it fast. The old girls get a remake in vol 2 that mostly makes things worse and I was unable to connect the new models to the old ones. Su-jin, by far the cutest LI from vol 1 looks mediocre in vol 2.

MC is a short 21yo superman with super-fuck-you-money. I like ridiculous power fantasies but why make him so short?

There are no believable emotions whatsoever. MC gets abandoned due to some crazy stuff - eh, whatevs. Our family is predisposed to fuck each other - ok, let's get going. Your cousins are whores - cool, when can I get my tongue in that?

First sex scenes have no dirty talk or moaning or anything. One was even without any text whatsoever. If there is text, I'd rate it's sexyness on teletubbies level.

Political disses (libtard, republitard) in a porn game, that explains so much about this game and its fans.

Something that depends on taste, but it wasn't for me:
In the beginning you might think this is a MC-centered harem game, where the girls are virgins or have not fucked for twenty years. But when the time comes you learn that they are not really virgins, liking to fuck dildos that put MC's porn dick to shame. Anally too, of course. And while some girls claim to love MC, you don't feel it at all and most of them seem quite fulfilled doing stuff with each other.

Vol 2 is rushed and feels like it has almost no connection to Vol 1. MC suddenly left (apparently without any explanation, nice!) and is now meeting a character from another game. Which is a porn star he proceeds to fuck after she did her scenes. Whatever floats your boat man, I'm out.

Good fun, lots of scenes and likeable characters. Would definitely play again. Especially part two. The updated characters look great, will likely play the Christmas specials soon. I hope to see more games from this creator.

well i must say after the first chapter ends ,i was on pretty good spot this was a very noce vn with not the best story but was ok.
after the second part comes,and oh my gosh ....why the needs to rush to the finsih line so badly,you had a nice thing going on ....maybe is me but but i had the same felling with a couple of nice stories over here and i ddint understand at all teh rush to finish it like this .
THE GOOD: story till second part.
renders lke 60/40
simple but enjoiable.
THE BAD:also renders and bad animations.
rushing to the endgame toke 3 updates in the second part.

Worth to donwload? Yes,the first one,but the second one is pretty bad.

giving 3 stars because of the second volume where the girls and the scenes look better, the plot is bad, MC has a "harem" but feels like most of the girls are with him only because he is the only male of the family available, dev tried to make better graphics in the 2 volume so he just keep adding new girls and forget about the main ones

Different but lazy story. But it's harem focused a-feel-good game. So it did not bother me much.
Women are really good. Number of short haired women are high, which made me enjoy a lot more.
Animations are not so fluid but pretty good. In general, art is pretty good.
Screen time for some characters were really low. With this much LI in a game, it's something hard to do but still it feels like dev could not handle the dealing of screen time.
Ending could've been a lot better. Sex party thing was a good way to end it sex-wise but some questions are unanswered. The conversation at the end with sister was ok but it was quick and felt like the other characters (like mom) did not matter much. I little ''what's from now on'' quick conversations with other characters (with at least some of them) could've been a lot better than ''let's bend over in a circle to fuck'' ending.

i'm not a big fan of VN's, i rather play RPGM or sandbox, but somehow this game managed to get me hooked from the start to the finish. there were times i played for hours on end. beautiful renders, gradually improving animations, some overarching story beside all characters' individual stories, psychological needs, conditions. i wish there were more sex scenes (in orgies especially) for charlie but in the end the MC managed to fuck her thoroughly, so there's that. this will always be among my favorites. good luck with your new game, envixer.

Passable story, but with not much engagement, since there is hardly ever any real stakes, because you just always win everything very easily. Graphics are OK, models are decent to good, animations were extremely basic to non-existent in the beginning, but improved towards the end. Overall an OK game, you could play it if you have nothing better on hand

Just played through the 0.5 version of the second part of the game.

Great game.
- Good looking girls.
- High quality renders.
- Pretty good animations too. Good framerate, and good quality renders in the animations, but they are fairly short before they repeat. Understandable to cut down on work to create them though.
- The story is nice. I like playing a good guy, and I do enjoy harem endings.

The ending really sucked ass, nothing on if the ONLY attempt of pregnancy actually took hold or not but also the point system is worthless!! And nothing on how Bobbie and Charlie work out
The ending is a simply look back and boy was that thought stupid. It's like the author got bored and said Fuck it I'm ending it here

Awesome the only thing i dont like it that we dont have a choice over if we want to stay whit just 1. I know it would kill the story in a way but i certainly have one preference. and it Anna.

Thx for the game anyway was nice !

P.s. sorry for my bad english it not my native language

The first volume of this game is fantastic. Interesting story, unique models, and a good pacing. Unfortunately the second volume tosses most of that away by changing models and making some seriously generic characters, takes the story and starts turning in circles, and stops the progression in its tracks.

In addition to going from a linear story to a 'who do we bang today' there is a crossover that frankly made little sense.

I loved volume one but each of the updates for volume two drove the game further and further into mediocrity. Overall it is an average game that starts wonderfully and declines into tedium.

A New Home [v0.42]

1. Image / Rendering is good
2. Story: Highly fictional not convincing enough
3. No effect of forbidden relationship; entire family having unrestricted relationship is unimaginable

Story was OK in volume one and started great in volume two only to slowly but steadily turn into cheap porn script. We enjoy adult visual novels because of the story added up to erotic content, if we wanted mindless fucking with cheap excuses we would just watch porn. I think the dev just wants to be done with it and doesn't care about story anymore.

This shit is wild.

I’m just going to talk about the writing here, because the rest isn’t all that noteworthy. The VN plays fine and looks fine, though the main models have all been used a hundred times in other games by now.

If I had to sum up the writing in one word: aggressive.

Like the game is daring me to point out how ridiculous it is because it doesn't believe that I'd have the unmitigated gall to do such a thing.

I'm less than 48 hours in after seeing my mom and sisters for the first time in 5 years, and we're making out half naked.

Apparently I'm 21 and have an absurd amount of wealth and resources, owning multiple businesses, just throwing phones and bank cards and new clothes around my multimillion dollar mansion. Apparently the fucking president “owes me a few favors” too. Dope.

I made all my money and contacts by just wandering around Afghanistan until I “found a guerilla group” and then getting discovered by a Secret Service agent “after a few days.” Within a month, I tortured the head of a terrorist cell to death and “saved over a hundred kids from radicalization.” Because I’m goddamn Jack Bauer. I once tried to stop a teenager from shooting a hostage, so I talked him down, got him to take his hand off the trigger, got him to smile back at me, and then I slit his throat anyway because I knew I’d need an even-more-tragic backstory someday. And then the US president gave me a company and money because that’s what you do for an 18 year-old hero who kills children needlessly.

But on to the bits with tits. My aunt who I've literally never met before today is like, "You want to fuck your mom, right? Kiss her, bro, it'll work out."

So just out of left field, I'm all, “Hey Mom, been thinking about fucking you and the sisters. Like, it's kinda upsetting how much I'm thinking about it. Even made out with the older one earlier. Crazy, right?” Because humans beings love revealing their deepest degeneracy to their recently widowed mothers- we've all been there, let’s not front.

And Mom is like, “Yep, runs in the family. I grew up having orgies all over the house; my parents popped all their kids' cherries and my dad still fucks his brother probably even though five scenes ago I had to ask you how my parents were doing because I don't even know where they live. Your dad was pretty into that shit too but usually just in a respectful way, but it was whatever because he got his junk cut off and so he was mad at you because you still had a dick and obviously you'd wanna do the incest thing with me so that’s why he beat you a lot.” And MC just accepts this as being absolutely logical and not at all BATSHITFUCKINGINSANE because incestual desire is def genetics, you guys, and this is absolutely how human beans would broach the topic.

The new women in my house are all gorgeous but the sisters are of course both virgins and my mom hasn't fucked anyone in like 20 years. My aunt also was also separated from her husband so things weren’t good for her either. Her (twin!) daughters are all-in on incest and have been waiting for an opportunity to get rolling down that road. Suck it, Voltaire, because there is a god and this really is "the best of all possible worlds" because I couldn't possibly be attracted to these characters unless they have all had the least amount of cock possible so as not to ruin their appeal and have no positive male relationships in their lives and they’re also all completely dependent on me to not become homeless. It’s just about every terrible power fantasy trope. I’m their white knight and their future one true love. Harem train, bitches.

And apparently to get the most desirable outcomes, the player literally just only picks the top option over and over? I want to hate that, but I don’t, because I feel like keeping this part simple in the face of the rest of the VN’s delightful absurdity seems almost logical. So +1 for that, I guess.

I'm like an hour in, and my +1 INLAND EMPIRE tie is feeling really snug around my neck all of a sudden.

WhatTheFuckEven/5

Scenes are getting better.
Story is fair.
A world that is so far steeped with incest. Some consensual, some not quite pleasant. Luckily that is not a part of the scenes.
The first few sex scenes almost lead to me dropping this. I still have not had a greater disappointment than the first sex scene with the aunt. Was so quick, no animations. Just stick it in, and then the scene was done maybe two renders later
This is a VN rather than a game. So you make major choices easier than minor choices. I saw a review where someone was not to pleased with the lack of options about whether or not they could have defended with just the cousins as the aunt joined and they weren't the happiest about that.
My gripe was that an anal scene was required for one of the sisters. If not, that path might have been closed. I didn't test that all the way, just enough to see a few "you did not do well."
It is getting better in terms of visuals though. The story is still unique. But I'd say it's decent as a story

I really like this game, granted its not perfect but I like it nonetheless...

The art is good not top tier but good enough to not distract me from the game, I enjoy the character design and they are all recognizable granted changing the character appearance between game versions was weird at first but I got used to their new looks.

The i like the story sure its not going to win story of the year award but its a nice story re connecting with your family and being to help them out when they are in trouble. i agree with some other people here that the story moved on too fast, the MC forgives his mother after allowing him to be beaten by his father and then throwing him out of the house when he was a kid and only wanted to connect with him once she was out of cash and her abusive husband died. but apart from that, i like it. i like a story where you can help people out and re-connect with the family especially with the sisters due to the MC being close with them before he had to run away.

The new version with the new arc with bobby and that whole ordeal is really good i like saving his distant family from a gangster even tho he has never met them and then inviting them into the family traditions is a nice bonus

All in all, i really like this game and am excited to see where it goes.