VN - Ren'Py - A Perfect Marriage [v0.7b] [Mr Palmer]

See Seewolf's review for the complete write-up, which thoroughly expresses my thought and ratings.

My favorites highlights:
"...you’ll notice a lot of “porn logic” already going on, which isn't realistic ofc.

Either the female protagonist got a mental disorder like narcissism or she’s dumb, despite being a lawyer and working in a management position. The dev portrays her personality as flawed and being very tolerant of sexual advances of men, while also having some unsolved daddy issues.

Anyway it’s definitively "porn logic", if she lets a lowly old janitor grope her several times. It’s not realistic in any way, not for a bombshell like Anna, who knows her value. Even a narcissist wouldn’t lower herself that much just for a little bit of attention by letting the old janitor of her workplace grope her, while she is working in a management position. That's clearly porn logic at work.

Much of the porn logic going on is unconvincingly excused by pregnancy hormones, hormone imbalances, naivety concerning men and sexual frustration. Sorry, but f.e. pregnancy hormones do funny things, but in all seriousness they don’t make your (supposedly loving) wife act like a slut in front strangers. It’s not realistic.

So people claiming that the build-up of characters and the story was so realistic either have no idea of realism or they fool themselves. Excuses for the protag’s behavior like naivety, hormone imbalances or sexual frustration are not convincing enough for her extreme tolerance of very much straight-forward male sexual advances.
It is supposed to be an adult vn with porn content and there is definitively lots of "porn logic" going on already! (Ofc the example above isn’t the only one, but I don’t want to write a whole essay.) "

"Apart from Anna’s very much frustrating personality the whole plot feels like on rails."

"Choices so far don’t seem to have a real impact despite some stats, which can be accumulated, but they don’t really affect the gameplay, (yet). This might change in the future, but probably only to nuances. The player will still get more or less the same scenes and dialogues. The dev justifies these fake choices with the amount of extra work of branched paths, he is not willing to invest.

This can lead to rather stupid outcomes. F.e. during a gym scene, when the player decides to withdraw Anna's hand during the handshake with the personal trainer and by doing so, signalizing: “I’m not interested at all, boy!”, she will still have a strange inner monologue about how attractive she thinks he is. Wtf?! This is like a slap in the face of players, because choices don’t seem to have an impact. It wouldn’t even require different renders, just a different dialogue, honoring the player choice somewhat, but not even that is provided by the dev."

To add: I really want to like this one (somewhat do so far) but...
There are actions by Anna (the wife) in part 1 that make absolutely no sense when playing David (the husband) as faithful. With no corruption for either, Anna does something that no loving, faithful, rational wife would do. Then, in part 2, to correct this lack of player choice/control, player gets a choice to determine how Anna "feels" about the specific action. This takes place after player gets "corruption" choices early on in part 2. Then later, player gets a choice for Anna to do or not do the same/similar action player had no control over in part 1. This misaligned order of choices, events, and consequences causes some problems that need to be addressed/resolved/corrected in part 3 in order for the faithful route to make sense. I will happily increase my rating if part 3 adequately corrects or addresses Anna's baffling character and actions in part 1 & 2 relative to this specific event sequence.

No sex content and a lot od masturbating grandpas. Maybe on few years something will chamge but at this moment it's only a lot od tease and as i said before a lot od masturbating grandpas. Well, it's to early to said this is netorare game. But i have hope this will change fast because game have big potential.

There's slow burns and there's A Perfect Marriage, 2 years of carefully orchestrated buildup and then several new characters are introduced which absolutely derailed my interest.

The initial storyline was fine, and the visuals are good but repeating plotlines from other characters point of view break the immersion, becomes tedious and feels like filler.

In fairness the dev has always said it'll be a slow burn but I can't help feeling it'll be another year before the initial storyline gets picked up again.

Great game , loved playing the sexy events and wife being in the ordeal of whether to give up or not.

pros would be great renders and decent looking models , cons imo that game has things that I personally do not like such as the fat guy groping but i won't lower my rating cuz of that

Either way good stuff , would like faster development please!

The story is good. The premise is good. The potential is good. Sadly after multiple years of work, the story is going nowhere.

This VN plays like a long trashy novel, that women love. Nothing happens and I mean NOTHING HAPPENS, the only sex is a very lame scene between the husband and wife. There is an implied scene between the husband and some rando from the gym and that's it.

I don't think the dev has the writing talent to pull off what they set out to accomplish, long meandering story is honestly kinda hot but it never pays off. Hopefully they hire a better writer and for gods sake a better graphics artist. The renders get better but the first part is rough looking.

The premise is great and it has so much potential it's just sad the pace things are going. Try back in 2-3 years and maybe something will finally happen.

I can't believe this game took almost two years to make, we can't even see the female lead's naked. Splitting it into male and female perspectives just feels like a ploy by the developers to write more nonsense and drag things out.

There are so many better ways to depict separate perspectives, but the developers chose the most boring option: replaying the same week as if nothing ever happened.

2 points for the super HOT Anna.

5/5 one of the best slow-burn corruption games on the site, a lot more realistic than most games out there (even if it does rely on "porn logic" for some interactions). Yes the development takes a while but that shouldn't take away any stars.

great game, lovely renders, interesting story, pervy characters, reluctant female lead, slow burn, what more can you ask for?!

would love some more pregnancy and lactation content. some more options based on actions she can choose from would be fun too! as well as picking her outfits and not wearing panties/bras would be a fun route to choose. letting marvin feel her up without underwear under her outfit would be extremely hot!

Short summary:


This is a nice slow burn story, held back a bit by the lack of renders. Worth checking out later on.



Good Things

• Believable slow corruption story, with few exceptions
• Somewhat believable actions by the characters
• Writing is better than average
• Girl models are fine, but a bit dated

Bad points

• 1st 2nd day repeating the same scenes just doesn’t work, especially with the lack of constant POV just feels wasteful and doesn’t add anything new
• The renders are a bit dated, not terrible, but nothing special
• Not that many choices
• Long stretches of dialogue with the same renders, without variety

Artwork, facial animation, story - top quality! You won't find anything better in the slow burn corruption genre. I am a big fan of corruption and have played hundreds of games with this genre, but this is the most interesting, intriguing and exciting game!
Claims for the game or I would say concerns about the game can only be on two components.
1. The increase in the number of characters, which at current levels of development could drag the game down.
2. Increased development cycles.
But the claim that the main character Anna doesn't start fucking everyone is ridiculous. The way the teasing, groping scenes are written, the emotions of embarrassment, hidden pleasure, Anna's indignation are amazing. The game is very much exciting, it is not necessary sex right now, the gradual corruption of the heroine excites the mind. Anna has many more stages of depravity to go through: kissing, jerking, blowjobs and more. Those who demand an immediate transformation of the heroine into a slut are mistaken section, there are a lot of games where after the first shy touch of a man, the heroine is highly aroused and begins to fuck everyone in a row. It's really sad that some people want to turn this masterpiece into a slutfest as well

A Perfect Marriage (0.7b)

I’ll write straight about the big elephant in the room: after 2 years of development the amount of real adult content is non-existent!

All you get so far is a little bit of sexting, lingerie photos and some groping. This is neither satisfying nor enough for an adult game. I very well understand the concept of slow burn stories, but 2 years without any real progress in that matter is more than many are willing to tolerate.

So far updates only add more and more teasing to ridiculous levels, since players of this vn didn’t even see the female protagonist’s bare breasts or nipples yet. It’s a bad joke so far, she even masturbates fully clothed (there are some lame and not really convincing excuses for that story wise, like she didn’t want her husband to see, what she was doing despite being in a different room anyway). Even in her own bathroom at home and the dressing room of a public pool the protagonist isn’t shown naked, while undressing. This is clearly intentional by the dev to increase the teasing to absurd levels. Remember: it’s been 2 years since this vn started and the female protagonist wasn’t even shown naked, yet!

This vn about a marriage under attack features awesome daz3d renders and a stunning Caucasian blonde milf beauty, called Anna. Her 3d model is incredibly hot and the dream of most men come true, hence this vn got an almost die-hard fan base.

Story wise this is supposed to be a ntr/corruption based vn, despite also a faithful route in the future. Many of the almost fanatical fanboys (getting totally worked-up even about justified criticism) claim, that the story was so realistic for an adult game. But this isn’t the case! The slow character building wannabe "realistic" approach is also used as justification for the lack of sexual content.

If you still can see clear, despite the at least very much optically mouthwatering female protagonist and the future corruption (which is only taking place in your fantasy so far), you’ll notice a lot of “porn logic” already going on, which isn't realistic ofc.

Either the female protagonist got a mental disorder like narcissism or she’s dumb, despite being a lawyer and working in a management position. The dev portrays her personality as flawed and being very tolerant of sexual advances of men, while also having some unsolved daddy issues.

Anyway it’s definitively "porn logic", if she lets a lowly old janitor grope her several times. It’s not realistic in any way, not for a bombshell like Anna, who knows her value. Even a narcissist wouldn’t lower herself that much just for a little bit of attention by letting the old janitor of her workplace grope her, while she is working in a management position. That's clearly porn logic at work.

Much of the porn logic going on is unconvincingly excused by pregnancy hormones, hormone imbalances, naivety concerning men and sexual frustration. Sorry, but f.e. pregnancy hormones do funny things, but in all seriousness they don’t make your (supposedly loving) wife act like a slut in front strangers. It’s not realistic.

So people claiming that the build-up of characters and the story was so realistic either have no idea of realism or they fool themselves. Excuses for the protag’s behavior like naivety, hormone imbalances or sexual frustration are not convincing enough for her extreme tolerance of very much straight-forward male sexual advances.
It is supposed to be an adult vn with porn content and there is definitively lots of "porn logic" going on already! (Ofc the example above isn’t the only one, but I don’t want to write a whole essay.)
Apart from Anna’s very much frustrating personality the whole plot feels like on rails.
Choices so far don’t seem to have a real impact despite some stats, which can be accumulated, but they don’t really affect the gameplay, (yet). This might change in the future, but probably only to nuances. The player will still get more or less the same scenes and dialogues. The dev justifies these fake choices with the amount of extra work of branched paths, he is not willing to invest.

This can lead to rather stupid outcomes. F.e. during a gym scene, when the player decides to withdraw Anna's hand during the handshake with the personal trainer and by doing so, signalizing: “I’m not interested at all, boy!”, she will still have a strange inner monologue about how attractive she thinks he is. Wtf?! This is like a slap in the face of players, because choices don’t seem to have an impact. It wouldn’t even require different renders, just a different dialogue, honoring the player choice somewhat, but not even that is provided by the dev.

So in general and for the time being this vn is rather disappointing, despite the appealing art. (Btw. the dev is not producing these amazing daz3d renders himself, but hires an external artist. So the credit for the art actually goes to someone else.)

Since this review is already too long, I’ll summarize quickly:

• The daz3d renders are very good quality.
• The female protagonist is a blonde bombshell milf, with an extremely "flawed" and frustrating personality.
• 2 years of development and no sexual content, not even nakedness of the protagonist, only endless teasing.
• Story and character build-up is claimed to be realistic, but it isn’t (which wouldn’t be such a problem, if it wasn’t claimed in the first place).
• Choices are mainly fake choices, they don’t seem to have a real impact on many dialogues or even actions taking place.

All in all 2 stars for the time being! (APM has got the potential for much more! BUT potential alone isn't enough for a high rating!)

v0.7b
I will be honest, i was delighted when i first discovered this game at version 0.2, i even supported the dev on his patreon, but as it always is with things that are to good to be true, things are to good to be true in this game's context.
When the smoke clears, and you pull back to reality, you quickly realize that the game is far from what it promises to be.
Let me explain, it's been 2 years of development and we are still in sexting phase, we still haven't seen the female protagonist naked.
I get the whole slow burn process, but let's be honest this has stopped burning a long time ago, it's smoldering ashes at this point.
Yes the renders are good, but if you think about it, it's nothing out of the ordinary, just what you would expect in 2024 from a game that it takes itself serious.
I am a firm believer that a change should be made in this site ruling, when it comes to publishing games, you shouldn't be allowed to have tags that are not implemented yet, it should a separate planed, so people can make an informed decision.
In the end the conclusion, for me at least it's simple, at this point this game it's just a "short story/soap opera" type of deal, made into a adult visual novel, which unfortunately misses the whole point of why it should be here, and that is the adult content.

edit: spelling

I can't really complain about the artwork or the presentation as it is all pretty solid and it's clear the dev is talented, If you are into corruption games without any logic (and yes, I know, that is most corruption games), then you might like this.

To begin with, the friend's hatred of the MC and the bold faced attempt at trying to steal his wife doesn't make any sense. Where did it all come from? And the MC's ex girlfriend... whatever... another attempt to add drama to the couple's life. Now they are getting it from all sides. The friend, her job, his ex, his father's company is in the toilet... I mean, where are their friends? Are they all so jealous and have no lives they just feel like they have to fuck with this couple?

I guess, for me, there are so many well written adult VNs out there, that this whole story seems to be just mailing it it. The idea for this story is simple, add a new character and make sure they have it in for the couple, and then let them loose.

I mean, I tried playing the MC straight... he didn't mess with the girl at the gym and yet his wife treated him like there was some kind of affair. Again, the gym girl is part of some elaborate plot at bringing the couple down. It's just silly.

For once, I would like to see a VN where the husband has a fighting chance to keep his marriage intact. If he plays it straight and loyal, give him the ability to fight back... but no... they always loose in these VNs. So unoriginal.

Having said all of that, it does have some decent bones and it could be something pretty good. And again, as I said at the beginning, the dev is talented and they are producing regular updates, and speaking as a failed developer, I totally respect the work.

If you like corruption games and if you like the cuck experience, give it a download; from that perspective it is pretty good.

A Perfect Marriage has one of the more believable female protagonists I've encountered in a corruption game. None of the player choices feel out of character, regardless of what you pick. This is pretty difficult to pull off but I think the writer did a great job.

On the downside, it could be argued that there are a few too many characters vying for the wife's attention. I would personally prefer it if the game just focused on the husband's friend, the stud coworker and the gross boss. The others just feel like filler.

Nevertheless, this is a great game for anyone who enjoys captivating stories featuring suspense, drama and infidelity.

The developer of this game is a great story teller. He is improving however day by day the render quality. Compared to other stories this one is moving faster. We expect to see the MC in real action by the end of this year which is 3 years away from the start of the game.

5 stars to encourage the team complete the project.

Here's the deal: This game has a great foundation, but if you've spent any time with AVGs, you can already see the red flags. We're roughly 18 months into the game's development and it's giving the same warning signs that every other high quality slow-burn kind of game gives off after awhile. The updates are getting smaller and/or further apart, and we have to find new ways to stall out progress with the MC's corruption.

Yes, the writing is good, yes it's erotic, yes we understand that good corruption can't happen overnight, but we've seen it all before. Games like this get so wrapped up in the slow-burn that eventually the coals just get cold. We try to slow walk every single detail, explain why the woman needs to constantly take two steps forward and then one and a half steps back. Eventually these games just become a slog, too concerned with taking themselves seriously to ever allow themselves to have fun.

The summer of 2024 will be the 2nd anniversary of this game's launch. I think it will be a critical summer for the game. If we can't get over the hump and start ramping up the action in Act 2, then I don't think this game will ever deliver on its promise. Two years of waiting is more than fair.

A Perfect Marriage is the slow-roasted prime rib of the cheating wife genre. As of right now it has a couple of masturbation scenes and a whole lot of teasing and it's the hottest god damn thing on this website. The writing is fantastic, the renders are impeccable, Anna is gorgeous and sexy and absolutely begging to be corrupted. I love this game.

It is a great game, I really like that theme, the way it develops, the photos that the girl takes to send to her friend, I look forward to the continuation, how little by little it becomes corrupted due to what he does husband

Duuuude, the “sexting” is so relatable, like really IRL when you fishing for nudes from an “innocent” girl, all you feel is shivering, like is she gonna finally send the nudes?! and then damn, another tease. Man!!! And I love the teasing/groping(she needs a sneaky finger fvk in a nightclub crowd, Lol).

Very interesting corruption system, having two people in which you can do this, it's an excellent game in my opinion when it comes to that, beautiful, well constructed and manages to keep you hooked... few games can be like this these days. today. excellent work