VN - Ren'Py - A Wife's Life [v0.7.0] [Kerosine_NTR]

Games revolving around cuckoldry are often pretty racist with their fetishization of black men, so you kind of expect it, but this a whole new level. not so much dogwhistle as dog subwoofer with references to migrant camps and migrants being violent rapists. a character, a black man of course, actually says the phrase "we start getting bored when they stop resisting"

the game otherwise is on rails and mired with irrelevant subplots that i tended to skip. The game makes you press buttons but they aren't optional so it just feels like the illusion of choice, which i usually don't mind but i didn't think it worked in this format

Great start. I'll be watching You...re game. I hope to see how the whole story unfolds.
+ video and pic
+ conversations
(maybe more spicy choices)
+ decent updates
- Let me choose what will MC response to messages

Had to rewrite my review on this one as after a few updates...smh

Putting this here because it would seem you can't leave a review.

I just played through the latest update on multiple paths and it would seem this game is trying to compete with "A Wifes's Phone" to see which one can go downhill quicker. I just...wow..I don't know how to put into words how bad it's gotten.

Choices mean almost absolutely nothing. I mean if you want to make a VN fine make a VN but don't call it a game.

Oh and almost forgot. I get its fiction and a story but nobody and I mean nobody would be as stupid and retarded as this MC.

Sorry to ramble on about this but the writing also. It would be one thing if it was good writing but it's like it was written by someone who is brain dead. And you can't really talk about game mechanics because for the most part there are none.

I know its not just me. In most of the reviews I've read that have criticism. It would seem people make the same points that I am making.

And nothing against the cellphone games. The first was a fresh idea. Now its just like copies of the same thing over and over except the quality gets worse.

I mean hope some people are enjoying it. I just think its a waste of your time and a time sink at this point.

Some have had said it's a lazy Patreon grab. Maybe or it could just be that bad.

I think this game is really good. I had a lot more fun with it than I thought I would!

But I will say, one improvement I'd make is to have more use of the sandbox elements. Maybe if you can go on the internet or on her phone in your own time for more additional content or scenes, instead of it being used kinetically, it would be more rewarding.

But other than that I think it's a really good game. It sets up the story and characters well, and the corruption isn't too rushed. I really liked it.

I seriously can't think of any redeeming qualities this game could have.

The writing and pace are all over the place, giving the impression that everything is decided last minute and the dev has no idea where this is going, all the while not being very good at improvising.

Way too many situations in this game are so absurd and beyond any logic, it's bad even according to porn logic standards.

How anyone could rate this "5*, perfect" is beyond me, it's just so poorly executed. There are tons of other options exploring the same kinks on this site that are at least decent, miles better than this.

Also the dev uses an image of some girl with a badminton racket and calls it tennis, unforgivable.

The pacing of this game is good.
I liked that this game is linear like a VN and has a few elements of point and click to keep the player engaged.
I have played a similar game called "A Wife's Phone", which to me is good, but sometimes it's really very all over the place with it's multiple routes and choices.
I prefer this over that (It's my opinion some may prefer otherwise). We get to enjoy the story as the creator intended with options of course, so that's a plus point for me+.

Suggestion:
Please make the videos and images available in chats easier to click and play. I had to click many times for the images to enlarge and the videos also seem to be having the same problem, if possible please do fix this.


For the people who are new, I'd warn you this story contains NTR+, and is mainly focused on kinks like: BNWO, raceplay (black dominating whites) , humiliation, cheating, etc.
If you enjoy these then you'll definitely enjoy this game, however if you don't then please play it at your own will.
I love this genre and I'm hoping that this game grows big in terms of content and popularity.
Again great work by the DEV.

This game has an interesting concept and a sense of mystery that excites our imagination, making us really think, have we been cheated on?
The game also has a great selection of images and videos, which also gives it an extra point from me.

Constant updates and the story is progressing really well. A lot of care and effort is going in to every release. Models are great too. One of the best NTR games on here, the MC still doubts his wife is cheating on him, but it is plausible she is innocent

Good concept but I will never under stand this genre's obsession with black guys. Why is it so rare to have options of different races? Its always a white couple with the wife cheating with a black guy. No variety, no options just the same repeative tropes.

Its a hot genre that is rarely well executed.

This game is very very hot, never once have I wanted to become cuck but this game man...

First the concept of going through her phone is really good, the fact that her friend in so in love with black dicks makes the whole story quite immersive.

Style is very good, story even better. Good game.

[v0.2.0]

I'm rating it for what it is, a linear story with minor interactivity. The interactive parts are not about choosing routes or making important decisions, at least so far. It's strictly to provide an immersive experience of using a phone and laptop. I mean, it's barebones, but for those of you who like to self insert as a cuck, it will certainly help.

Anyways, that's essentially it. Video choices are nice, but they tend to be long and you have no idea how much of it you've watched before clicking past it.

The writing is more or less pretty good for this type of story. The main idea is to create some sense of anxiety and doubt. The player who is very familiar with NTR and BBC tropes know what's happening, but the MC is braindead like most cucks tend to be in NTR games, be it because of gullibility, timidness, obliviousness, or just plain retardation. So basically you are going along the ride with the MC and viewing things from his POV as he gets unwillingly cucked while he is in denial.

If the build up and gradual escalation wasn't handled well, this would be a 2 or 3 stars from me. But the writing does achieve what it sets out to do, and the plot is streamlined for coherence and natural progression (unlike a certain other game about a wife's phone), although that's achieved by having no routes at all. Don't get me wrong, characters will act like retards, but since there is only one linear story, it doesn't suffer from schizophrenic whiplash from juggling multiple branches.

4* if you are fine with linear stories involving braindead people acting like idiots at all times. It's obviously less compelling for people who want choices or want more grounded scenarios in their NTR. Personally, I can fap to this because an MC being so utterly in denial is preferable to an MC that accepts his cuck status just like that.

Perfect story, perfect images/videos, perfect UI and handling, luckily not a sanbox game, cant wait for more content.
There are other games with similar content, but they either too slow burning, or to few images, or abandoned, or too long story to play.
I hope there will be bukkake and group sessions as wel.

My default setting is to side with a creator. They are putting in effort and work to try to produce something and that’s a fairly cool thing – even in this environment of degenerates! (I kid!! Sorta). Some writers phone it in… others put in some work. This is one of the latter kind. There’s a lot of work here but the ENTIRE thing is flawed because basic human thought processes aren’t considered.



The good:

• Lots of work and its well written.
• Content and layout are freakin beautiful.
• Wide diverse characters (if flawed)
• Huge potential (a bit undermined)

The Not-So-Good:

• The MC and his wife somehow met and got married and skipped communication. They just straight up don’t ever talk to each other and when they do they forget to mention all the actual issues that might come up. Its very off-putting because that’s now the kind of couple that would even last two seconds through hardship – much less the insanity of this kind of mess. WRITE BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS!!
• I almost think the interface would be better if it just flowed by random clicks. The buttons only exist to make you click them to forward progress. Just have the button light up and then move on to the next part of the story. Having to click click click isn’t beneficial unless I have options. I do not. Its notwhere near as bad as Wifes Phone but it could be better.

Note to the author:



You have a good game… if the MC and Wife were believable. They don’t ever talk about shit … he could show her the texts from the guy at camp and that entire shit would come to an end. He could tell her he overheard the boss. That would fix issues. Why doesn’t he?? Also – is she the kind of person who cheats? It doesn’t seem like it.

This is a pretty good game in its genre. The author skillfully escalates the situation. from the comments on the gameplay: the videos are too long and the rewind slider is missing
good luck dev, and i wait new versions on your game)) (DONT add sissy-content,please)

I have seen a couple of these "phone games" so far, where you can only interact with your wife via phone. The voyeurism happens via phone, which is fine, but when you have no interaction with your wife beyond texting, it is... awkward, to say the least. It is tough to build tension over text message.

I'm not sure it works as a concept. Situations where any normal person would talk to their spouse using words instead are awkwardly navigated around so the player can see SOME interaction.

Beyond this mechanism, there are basically no choices, you just have to click around texts and emails until you hit a video. Who finds this fun? It is beyond me.

This games slaps. amazing content with the real porn, could have just added a slider to that so we know long a movie is. There is the suspense around the paranoid of the MC. Hope the update is out soon

It's similar to A Wife's Phone but so much better and very attractive. Despite what people say, the dialogue is well-written, and it's a solid foundation for more to come. With what's here there's a lot to look forward to in the upcoming updates. Should give this a chance of this sort of stuff is your thing.

I hope that in the future the game will have more choices and more plot branches. For now there is only one choice, which simply opens a piece of content. However, I will give the maximum rating for a good and pleasant interface. I hope that there will be something more in the game besides the current applications, and that the main character will whine a little less

Important: if someone just wants to look at photos and videos, scrolling through all the text, you won’t like the game at all. The text itself is also not perfect, but overall quite interesting

I wish I could give this one star twice. How low do your standards have to be for this implausible, horribly written non-game? People who would play this and enjoy it would read a 2000 page phone-book cover to cover if the names were all interracial cuckold references. You'd have to be that obsessed to think this was in any way good.

To know before you play: This is not a game in any sense. Basically completely on rails. No decisions made whatsoever. You click through text after text. Message after message. Same with dialogue.

For a game with no choices & most interactions done by PC/Phone + incessant texts, the writing better be good. Unfortunately, it's not. The dialogue and story itself are both also implausible & quite boring, with little to no life. There's really no good effort into intriguing characters or world-building here. All just an excuse for more porn pictures or videos with no investment from the viewer/clicker (I avoided calling them Player, since there is no game here).

Consider it internet porn pics/vids chosen for you by someone else, but from the most inefficient website ever created, where you have to click through a bunch of BS to get to the next. You'll find yourself rushing through with quick successions of clicks (or at least I did) to see if it gets better in any way. From what I've seen, it doesn't.

Unsure why one would put in a quarter-assed effort to create something like this. No player investment. No game either. Just a slow and meandering device for delivering preselected porn. The point of creating a game format is to design a world where the user has personal agency, to get a different more immersive experience than just heading over to pornhub.

Definitely not worth the time.

* Reviewing version 0.15 *

Summary: I don't hate the game, but I can't quite say I like it. I will keep playing for a few more updates to see if my opinion goes up or down.

The Good:

• The writing is clean English. No major grammatical or translation errors to distract from the story.
• There are a couple of hints that the story may develop in one or more unexpected directions.

The Meh:

• The media clips are consistent quality, though the presence of watermarks and logos from the sites where they originated detract from the overall effect.
• The interface is interesting in conception---a laptop and a smart phone. It is definitely much better executed than a lot of the games that attempt something similar. That said, it is extremely limiting when it comes to storytelling. Especially for a married couple who are living in the same household. Some of this is also included below.
• The story is a combination of typical tropes: 1. Married couple moves to a new town without any money. 2. Husband can't find a job to support them, so wife "has" to work even though they planned for her to be some kind of tradwife homemaker. 3. Black men ensue.
• Taking the above into account, the story is generally executed well, with a couple of exceptions. See below.

The Bad:

• The MC is definitely a racist. As soon as he finds out his wife is working near "African migrants" he starts thinking all sorts of weird "You know how they are" type of nonsense.
• Also, I think I remember some references that imply this takes place in New York, but there's a "camp" for "African migrants." That's not how geography works. Or U.S. immigration law. Very weird premise.
• No choices at all. It's basically click here, click there to progress the story. It's not always clear where to click.
• A lot of the media appears as thumbnails in text messages. You are supposed to be able to click on it to enlarge it, but this doesn't work well. If you click around within the image, you might be able to find the exact spot that works, but this is definitely a problem with the image mapping.
• Why the hell is a wife texting her husband to wake him up right after she leaves the house rather than just physically waking him up 2 minutes earlier, before she left? Because the interface demands it. If they are communicating by phone, they aren't communicating. Not great.