VN - Ren'Py - A Slut Phone [v0.22] [Aason]

The game has a really good concept and I really like that it has a spin-off game, I think it's cool when games have a expanded universe of sorts, but I think it's holding itself back in a few areas.

The game likes to lock content behind a paywall, which I think is unnecessary and harmful to the game overall. So you'll come across some dialog options in the game that are lit up gold and those are locked off behind a paywall, but this is a bad idea in my opinion because I don't think any game should lock off content like that, for two major reasons.

Reason number one, if people like your game, they're gonna support it anyway and locking content isn't gonna change those people's minds, but for the people that haven't paid/don't support; this isn't the type of thing that's gonna change their minds. They're just gonna skip it and move on. But what if the thing they liked most about the game was locked behind the paywall? Then they'd never know how much they really like the game and who knows, maybe that content they missed out on was the content that'd make them wanna support, to boost future updates.

Reason two, it's just unnecessary. Look at every other game on f95, even all the top ones; they don't do this and that's because you don't have to. There's a better way to go about it. Like adding early access builds or cheat codes for the game to supporters. Most games don't even have any bonuses for being supported, they don't twist your arm at all and the dev is just happy that you're playing the game and if you're happy with the game and wanna support the game, then more power to ya, but they never try to push you in that direction.

With that out of the way, here's some pros and cons.

Pros
-good writing
-shared universe with another game
-neat idea for a game overall

Cons
-paywalls
-lack of videos overall
-lack of voice (I feel like this would have been a good game for this sort of thing)

I wanna give it more stars, but with such little content with any real meat on its bones, and locking some of that limited content behind a paywall, I just can't at the moment. Maybe that'll change, but for now I'ma give it 2 stars and dip.

I really like this game. We can play as an obedient, cnc and free-use girl and there's not so many games with this kink. The idea is quite good to see the action through the phone, but it sometimes makes descriptions of sex acts weird. Often there is this dialogue, "describe to me what he is doing to you" or something like that, and after some time it kills immersion. But I guess it's just this type of visual novel - we need to somehow describe what is happening.

Such a fun game just needs more content. The idea of the boyfriend not knowing this whole time is really good. Would be such a benefit if there's was more public content or if they started to give her tasks to complete while they're gone so she has to start doing degrading stuff on her own.

v0.20c

This is a linear visual novel that is almost entirely text based. The gimmick is the perspective is of the girl being abused, seeing it through her phone.

The text doesn't make that much sense really. Maybe if people only talked through texting, even while being raped... idk. Felt odd.

I was excited when I opened the game at first. I thought it would be a little phone perspective sandbox as if I had stolen a girl's phone or something.
Nah. Nothing that interesting.

2 stars for the neat idea.
-3 for basically everything else.

Okay this is hot. This is straight up rape and blackmail btw. No clowning around and prettying it up by making the girl into it even though it's blackmail. So I really love it, not many games like this.
The girl will be raped by her brother, by her father, and by many others. The father and brother will blackmail her into servicing friends and colleagues, they will rent her out. Use her. And all the good stuff.
My only gripe is the limitation of the medium choosen. Everything hapens through her phone, it's all written exchanges between the characters. So the dev has to use tricks to make it flaw as naturally as possible while conveying what is happening. So for exemple having her exchange texts while getting pounded by two dudes at the same time. So you don't see her getting raped by dudes or her brother, you see her texting whoever she was asked to text to "report" what is happening to her as it is happening, and often sending pics at the same time.
It's a little weird and it shows the limitation of this system.
Other than that I really enjoyed it so far and hopes the dev has more to come.

A surprisingly good game. I really had 0 hopes when I downloaded it, and I was only going to give it a couple of minutes to spare. But it has hooked me from the beginning. I don't give it 5 stars because I think it needs some more images. Or maybe I should give it 5 stars, because the game is tremendously sexy despite having almost no images. Maybe I'll check my rating later. A great job, without a doubt.

While I find this situation a bit uncomfortable in its believability -- especially the reluctant route -- that also makes it really effective writing, even a bit thought-provoking. I see comments from people hoping for a more traditional corruption fantasy, and I hope the dev's other game scratches that itch for them so this game's direction doesn't need to be sacrificed. As grim as blackmail/etc. are IRL, in a game setting, it usually means a guiltless FMC, which is a rare thing (outside Japanese h-game RPGs, which are ... an acquired taste) in a sea of corruption games about a talking sex doll.

I also liked the UI. I played another phone simulator game that was really hard to navigate. The story was very similar, so perhaps this is the same dev with a different engine. If so, great pivot.

I was a bit surprised there weren't more pictures. I feel like the aggressors in this case would be taking far more. Assuming the issue is a UI one (cramming them into a chat) not a logistical one (sourcing), perhaps the characters could stumble on some links to online galleries, etc.

This sucks lol. I hate to be so blunt but when I saw the game's interface I expected to actually be able to do something with those apps on the screen. Or to be able to use the messenger app to pick which NPC I want to talk to.

But no. Neither the player of this game nor the main character have any meaningful choices or interaction options at any point. Even the game's title is deceptive. It's called "A slut's phone" but all the female protag does is get raped every time. Is she a slut for being raped by every psycho male around her? Gross.

I gave one star for the concept and one star for being able to code an interface that looks convincingly like a phone. But there's nothing to this "game" beyond that.

Edit: Omg I take the part about him being able to code an interface back. There isn't any interface here. Every possible thing you see in this game is a pre-rendered image of a screen and the code is just displaying one image after another every time you click. This is such a mess and maybe that's why it takes this game so long to update.

Very cool premise and something that could have been made into a really cool series of different stories but the dev lacks the skills to make the story at all interesting.

You basically start off writing in diary about all the people in your life and then every male in the family are outright psycho rapists with no build up. No real corruption to speak of or really any story. It's just a badly told incestuous rape fantasy.

Edit: I'm rarely this harsh on a game but the texting way of telling a story is too interesting to waste on 0 build up and juvenile ideas. You basically start the game with all male family members being psychotic rapists. MCs logic behind her not telling anyone is also dumb as fuck. The only choice that seemed even remotely realistic ends the game within 2 minutes.

I really like the text style of storytelling, but everything around it sucks, unfortunately.
There's zero gradual corruption. It's zero to sex in like 1 minute of game time. The conversations read exactly like they're in a porn game. And most weirdly, the pictures are very few in number and are just close ups of body parts. Would it be that hard to actually associate a face with the protagonist?

Happy to come back and change my review if it changes!

Preamble
Like some other reviews already said, this style of storytelling may not be for everyone. The game focuses on storytelling by texts and keeps it rather realistic by displaying images ("h-scenes") by media sent by the characters in the game. P.S.: Please, just read the tags before playing and complaining about them.

The state of the game right now
The length of the game is acceptable, since it's only version 0.17 at the time of writing this review. Speaking of the new version, it brought a refreshing new UI, which looks clean and polished, added some rather subtle details for more immersion. And it seems like there are finally choices that really impact the story.

Hopes for the future
I hope to see even more important choices in the future, and maybe even some story expansions in already existing parts, for example building up to the action a little more, or incorporating the dad's blackmail a little bit less "on-the-nose".

Conclusion
I really like where the game is going and hope that it will continue getting better and better with the upcoming updates.

I just created an account to say this: I love this game!

The premise of the game is extremely unique and I haven't really seen that in any other hentai games! The UI is also very clean and I love the story.

I have read some of the other reviews and they do not apply to the game. Most people just complain about the tags... even though they're listed on the front page of the game..? And most of the reviews are very outdated, reaching way back to 2018, where they call the game way too short. I don't know how the length of the game was back then, but those definitely do not apply to the present.

I am really excited to see where the story progresses in the future!

Full disclaimer; this style of storytelling is definitely not going to be for everyone

Personally I really loved it and I do think many people have either jumped ahead to review an early build (which is silly thing to do in the first place) or have played whatever build but simply been far too harsh on the game

It is a lot harder to tell the story from a phone perspective as it adds a layer of complexity to the writing. Just writing straight up dialogue between two people is easy. Having the messages and figuring out how you will explain a sex scene through messages is a lot harder from a writing perspective

I am a bit curious about the real porn pics though as they all seem to be the same person or at the very least a near identical body type. So while this dev may lack skills to make their own art they did put the effort in to find quality real porn that maintains the same appearance and suits every scene in the game

The sex scenes are top notch, but this game is definitely not for anyone who needs the visual as this is in essence a text only game with some real porn images in between to add a visual element to the text porn you are reading

If you can enjoy a game without the visuals and want quality writing then this game is for you

If you need the visuals and want a proper Renpy then this game is not the right one for you

On a closing comment; I do think as a principle you shouldn't review a game that is simply not your genre/style of game. It is like if you hate horror games and then buy a horror game and give it a bad review. It won't matter how amazing that horror game is but you will hate it regardless so your review is pointless

The description and preview images on this game clearly show what it is and yet still you played and reviewed it knowing full well it is not your genre and then give it a bad review - where is the logic in that?

I really did not expect it to be this bad... I like phone interaction games where you are updated, learned new things from a third person perspective, so I downloaded the game. *However*, conversations are just like they came from a 12 year old newly-hit-puberty child. They lack base, they are so senseless. There are supposedly slide jump scenes where it reads "And he didn't" etc.
This is a text based game. You have nothing but the words to attract (except from some photos). If you are not confident in your sentences at the level of forming them at a native or at least B2 level English -where you can muster words and form a complex world- then please dont jump into this.

*this review is spoiler heavy, do not read if you do not want to be spoiled.*

So the premise is simple, you observe the life of a young girl being turned upside down. "plays" more akin to a novel as all that there is game-play wise is that you get a "choice" once in a while a choice that doesnt really matter as the outcome is the same...

And the execution does bring a few questions to mind like do locks not exist?
Does the MC consume a high amount of sleeping pills every time she goes to sleep? as the issue persists of her being raped by her brother, now i do get that this is supposed to be a corruption sort of game and i know where this ends... but it does seem incomplete that the MC didnt do anything to prevent this issue and perhaps even got suprised that it kept happening and would be reflected in the text. FOR EXAMPLE > MC discovers that she is being raped by her brother SO she proceeds to lock the door to prevent that, uh oh looks like the brother got past that precaution anyway... by knowing lock picking or something akin to that... or just straight up somehow having a master key or something... the outcome is the same but it makes more sense for the MC to be more resistant at this point and even trying to put a stop to it instead of doing nothing... it is shown in the Father blow job scene that she doesnt want this, but is forced to when her dad plays the black mail part, why not have it done the same way for the brother? as both of these scenes are at around the same time....

On the topic of the Father and the Brother, if i were in their position i wouldnt exactly want to share... so the fact that they spread the misfortunous misshappenings to not only to each other but to people outside their family as well... is just beyond my understanding then again this game wasnt exactly made for me. and there are people out there who will probably love this contrary to me, just worth mentioning i guess.

It uses real porn images for photos which might be fine for some people, not for me.

Not alot of content expect to read thought it under 15 minutes

Aand thats about all i can say, good luck dev.

I've been following the game for a while now and I rarely do that, but I think this could be a very good game if aason backups everything.
The story suits my taste so far and I love the idea of being informed about everything that is happening around the main character using only mobile apps.
I would like to get some more details about what the character has to do during the day and how he might complete several paths that can also have different outcomes.
But the developer needs more support for this and I really wish he will get everything he needs for completing his project so that perhaps more creative games can arise.

Very short so far but fantastic! It is one of the most unique concepts on the site, a great showcase of non-con content with emotions that carry through very well, the few pictures in there are very sexy.. I'd love to see this developed further

If you are into RAPE and INCEST at the same time - this game is for you. There is like... 6 photos and a little bit of writting. The righting is good, by the way, mostly realistic, with a flavour. However, only 15 mins to play or so.

After a few updates the schedule seems very inconsistent. While a decent concept, the story pacing is just way too fast. This update brought maybe 2 minutes of content if I'm being generous and it took way too long for those 2 minutes to come out. 3 stars is all I could bring myself to give it, maybe in the future it could be better.

So cartoonishly uncomfortable and over the top with rape. Genuinely unpleasant to play for even a minute. There is no real hook to the game unless you're into the rape fetish thing. There is no option to avoid it. Hell, there's no real indication that it would be so heavy on rape in the description of the game. It mentions it, but lots of games have that tag as something you can avoid. I would strongly recommend putting that up front as part of the appeal. I guess I can see how someone might enjoy it, but it should be more open about what kind of game this is.