VN - Ren'Py - A Wife and Mother [v0.215f] [Lust & Passion]

2022:

2 stars because for me, it is becoming ridiculous.

SLOW, SUPER SLOW --- EXCEEDINGLY SLOW --- ANNOYINGLY SLOW


The only PRO is that the renders are above average; fortunately.

Can't recommend this game right now. Let's wait another 4 years to 2016 (2026) for some major actions.

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October 2024:

First I want to congratulate the developer for having stick to this game for 7 YEARS! With 487 reviews and a thread of nearly 8000 pages!!

Everything positive and negative about this game has already been said; allow me just to point out something.

In this game, i've noticed that the lesbians paths are the "easiest" to identify and choose and their contents more potent. The male interactions are weak in comparison.

There is an undeniable quality in the work. My biggest complaint is that unlike other successful VN with female protagonist; here we are introduced with several "suitors" for our female lead but very few have been expanded upon and given the attention to.

If the patreons of this game want this type of content and those storylines; who am i to judge.

Imagine watching a porn that has a 10/10 hot girl but all the "sex" is where her mouth is outside the frame of the camera and the "penetration" is where you see her torso moving up and down while she pretends to moan like she's having the time of her life. That's this game. the Omega Teaser 9001.

Updates are too long to come for the money the devs get from patrons... I've discovered the game 3y ago and yet, 3 y later, only a hour of gameplay have been released. A shame because the game have great potential

Just the best game for its high quality of erotism, the delicaty of feminine feeling description and the slow progressivity of corruption for Sophia to become gradually more playfull and confortable with the idea to fulfill some few fantasies

Came back to this after a few years(2 or 3) and because I was fond of the Art which is very good but to my surprise after been so long in development there is no actual development? I mean the story was very basic but with an alright story and it was not a fuckfest but had an okay teasing... Now all I got was the same thing with no progress at all and the writing went from boring to tedious at best.
I do not recommend it to anyone, it's just not worthy there are plenty of games out there doing an amazing job but this isn't one of them, it gets 2 stars solely for the renders and that's all.

I didn't like the game right away, but then the game became better, the plot became a good lamp and the characters were made very cool and beautiful, the second season even became steeper than the first one, where the plot becomes more intense and interesting

Best game Ive seen in a while at building up tension and really making situations erotic. Not a lot of actual penetration or overtly sexual acts but its so hot you probably wont care cause it hits so many grope, teasing, incest moments that are so good.

It's a hard game to rate because objectively speaking it excels in almost every respect an adult game should, barring maybe its awkward, alienesque writing that does clearly hint at human emotions but never quite captures them, however after 5 years of development it still has basically no adult content and the developer continues to be stubbornly committed to some warped idea of realism, as if it's a sensical occurrence for a housewife to begin wanting to start fucking everyone around her over the course of several weeks that deserved a serious treatment exploring the psychological state of such a person, which, again, it fails to deliver on because the dialogue is too stilted to make it feel anything beyond a slow-paced porn game, failing to prove its case that a game with that premise shouldn't just be Project Myriam.

Great pics and animation. Awesome story. Tons of tease. This has got to be the longest running game on F95 still in dev, right? That's good and bad; Don't come in with high hopes of a complete story any time soon.

The story telling, teasing and graphics in this game are as good as it gets.

I'd make my review 5 stars if Sophia got F by anyone other than her husband.

This game is like no other. Haters hate the slow teasing burn but I enjoy this play style. You get bored with games that hit their peak too early.... Sophia is just awesome! I do find that there are some storylines that could be expanded and some that make no sense but the quality imagery and detail is great.

So slow paced it makes me loss interest quick. But I do l like the enf aspect of it. But she is way too unrealistically uptight in the beginning to make me think that it even based in reality. I've church ladies be more open minded than she is in the beginning.

learned music theory and how to play the guitar, 10/10 would come in a porn game for music lessons again
but in all seriousnes holy shit the game has some really good quality good job
more choices than i thought and really well written dialogue and scenes

Started off interesting and had me wanting to play more. But after 3 years I just no longer have interest in it. The story has become crap. The lack of sex content hurts it. Still could work out but I don't think the dev has any interest in getting to the parts everyone wants.

Ok so I'm conflicted by this game. On one hand the visuals and writing are superb and I greatly enjoy it. On the other hand, depending on how fast you read, you can go 15 hours only being cock-teased. The entire first part of the game is one giant blue ball simulator. I fully enjoy slow burn games, but at this point it is getting ridiculous.
(Edit: Good lord STILL NOTHING HAS HAPPNED.......It's been 7 effing months and several patches AND STILL NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. At this point it isn't slow-burn or a cock-tease it is a damn joke. At this point it seems the game author is so far up his own ass about being the slow-burn king that he forgot he was making a porn game.)

Everything about this game is disappointing.

It starts off interesting, with nice art and a moderately interesting story. But it goes very quickly downhill...

The pacing of the game is incredibly slow. It's one thing to make a slow-burn game, but this is operating on geological time - where aons are defined in millions of years. So lots of time in the game with very limited progress. If that's your thing, cool. But I find it boring.

Too much text - a game of a million clicks. That might be forgivable if it was well written, but it's not. The characters have slightly less than zero emotional depth. So you have lots of text, which is about as exciting watching paint dry for precisely no reward.

Then there's the pace of the updates. For this, see point one. The pacing of the game matches the pace of the updates. I'm not convinced it'll reach any sort of conclusion before the sun expands to end life on earth.

And lastly, trying to get Part 2 to run after finishing Part 1... it makes it sound so easy. But don't be fooled - it doesn't work. The help doesn't work. Others have made it work - but it's not straightforward for most.

Don't be fooled by the (probably rubbish) jokes in this review. This is not a good game and not worth your time.

This game, as it honestly promises, offers nothing but a life story of a married woman. It is full of dialogues and daily stuff, including using restrooms. They whole idea is based on slowly building the characters and their relations. That means, awfully slow story progress. It is full of dialogues and when I say full, I mean enough to fill a book.

Thus, this is not actually a game. I do not mean an "erotic" game. This is not a game at all. What we have here is a visual novel. So it is meaningless to discuss its game mechanics, since there is none.

So, since its a visual novel, I am gonna evaluate it as a VN.

The story is awful. It is full of clichés. Anything you can imagine is in this story. Incest, lesbian, NTR, blackmail, maid fantasy, teacher stuff, peeping... everything. EVERYTHING. But all are still on the early stages. FOR YEARS. It simply cannot move forward. The story is just stuck. It does not progress. It's repeating itself.

THIS GAME IS ALL ABOUT TEASING IMAGINATION. No real tease. Just the imagination.

And I am afraid, when devs think it is enough, they'll just rush it to the end then we will have sudden sex scenes that would ruin the whole story.

Anyway, with its current pace, your grandson, if he lives long enough, can see the end of this game.

I really like this game. There's something about the female protagonist's slow corruption that is very enjoyable. If you're a fan of trainer-type games, this game manages to scratch that same itch in what is, in my opinion, a more organic way.

However, this game takes the term "blue balling" to the next level. Make no mistake, this is not the game to play if you're just wanting a quick fap. This is for the ones that enjoy that slow burn and erotic plot.

AWaM achieves both of those, but doesn't actually give you any payoff that feels worthwhile. You'll sink hours into the game, excited to see what happens next, only for the game to end on what always feels like an erotic cliffhanger. Then at the beginning of the next update, the aforementioned situation is much less erotic than it was originally made out to be and ends up being just a light tease.

Updates are released at a snail's pace. I often have a hard time remembering what happened previously, which results in me having to play through the whole game again to only get to see what amounts to about 10 minutes of new content, usually.

The game is just too much of a commitment to follow during development in exchange for too little payoff. If the game ever hits full release, I'll be thrilled to play it in its entirety. But until then, I have a hard time seeing myself trying out any new updates and getting my hopes up.

It's a shame too. I enjoy the characters, the scenarios are hot, and the writing isn't too corny (for a porn game, at least). As good as these things are, at the state the game is in, I just don't feel like it's worth the time it demands from you.

Not usually a fan of female protag games but this one still works. Love the whole lesbian action and the alabama stuff really got me going. Its nice to have a different perspective sometimes from other male mc type games. Of course this game is not perfect but I would definitely like to see more.

A great game with an excellent female protagonist
I really love sophia the game does have some bad kinks like her mother son relationship but still the other are grest the blackmailing and the lesbian route are great i really recomend the game

To tell the truth, this is a very hard VN to rate for me, as the pro's and con's are so varied that it's hard to judge one way or the other, but I'll try...

Let's get the worst stuff out of the way. The development time is *horrible* . I was a patron of L&P years ago, when this was a relatively new VN, because, back then, frankly, it blew me away. But a clear pattern emerged even then, because I stopped donating after about a year to a year and a half. In the creator's own words, this is a "slow-burn" novel, and you're lucky if new content is released three times in a year. I cannot recommend donating to this author on a *monthly* basis for content that you might get every *six* months, or so. If you want to play this, get a free version.

Another problem is, as others have noted, is the lack of actual erotic content. Now, there is plenty of teasing material, some skin, and limited touching, but no real actual sex, except in a path (the loving, faithful wife route) that most people likely wouldn't pursue (me included). Now, this second point isn't so bad as the first, as narratively, it makes a lot of sense. This is a story about a grown woman slowly succumbing to her suppressed desires, and from a story-writing standpoint, her not instantly jumping into the sack with the various characters involved is right. But... as an erotic novel, it DOES leave your "monkey-brain" frustrated.

Another problem arises from the "various characters" I noted above. This is an ambitious novel, with many characters involved. This adds to the immersion... but also subtracts from it. There are too many characters, jumping in and out of the story. It can be easy to forget a few or their roles. I get it, some are there just to, apparently, move the MC's corruption along (for example, the maid or the museum boys) with no clear idea if that character is actually supposed to be a potential partner for the MC in the future. Many of these characters appear to be in the story just to allow the player to add specific "points" to the MC instead of actually driving story along.

Which leads to an admittedly minor gripe about the "points" system itself. The system is meant to count the amount of "corruption" of the MC has accumulated, plus help track "routes" with characters. In a sandbox-style game, this makes total sense, but in a narrative-driven game, it is incredibly frustrating. The system basically forces a player to use guides or cheat mods as it is too easy to miss content. If a player wants to skip certain scenes that hold no interest for them, they quite often come up short on the necessary amount of points for the scene that they *do* want. Story-wise, if a player is just spamming the spacebar to get through an scene for the "points", the scene itself is wasted.

There is good, however. Renders are beautiful, with attention to detail such as posing and backgrounds. The models are not stock, as far as I can tell, including hair and such. MC, and other characters, react (mostly) to situations in a sane manner. The more important characters each have their own personality and story (whether we as players LIKE those stories or not), and have their own roles to play in the MC's journey. The author is obviously a non-English speaker, and it can lead to some confusing dialogue, but, for the most part manages to get the point across well enough. Overall, the writing is actually pretty good. "Slow-burn" can be frustrating, but "edging" leads to a better "ending"... but "blue-balls" hurt, too.

In conclusion to this rambling review this is a beautiful yet frustrating VN. Its positives are clear, due to the thousands upon thousands of people downloading, playing, and commenting on it. But, many of those commenting are understandably negative towards it... because we think that it could be so much more. Female Protagonist erotic VNs are rare compared to their counterparts, and AWAM could be a legend, even amongst the broader category of erotic VNs. I would recommend playing it, but only for free... and only with a guide or cheat mod installed.