VN - Ren'Py - A Wife's Life [v0.9.5] [Kerosine_NTR]

"WARNING: Possibly Spoilers ahead! Read at your own risk!"




(Sorry! Still don't know how to set the Spoiler warning)

Ok! Regarding this game, my feelings are contradictory. For one, globally, I enjoyed the game. I've even got aroused in some parts of it and cared for the MC and Wife chars. On the other hand, I hated it. And why is that? I see it as a good idea spoiled by many bad development and choices.

So, my first comment will be on the premise of the so called Africans immigrants “Camp” (they look more like Reggae Caribeans than Africans). I find it plainly racist. Imigrants at the Camp are depicted as a sex hungry wolfpack devoted to fuck as many women as they can using weed, blackmail, harassment and whatever means they find necessary to get there, being their reasons simply “Because I want it! I have this big dick and so women are unable to resist me!”. Anyone knows that usually that kind of imigrants get to a new place barelly alive running away from wars and facing life threatening circumstances. And when they arrive they are much more focused on survival than on chasing women from sex.

Second: MC and wife are brainless and stupid. However, somehow, they grew on me and I started to care about them as I’d care for two helpless 10 year old children. I really wanted them to be fine when the game get to the end. How can anyone make so many basic mistakes? Although in the beginning they are stated as a couple who has a good regular relationship, along the game they never interact to discuss how their relationship is progressing, how to solve MC’s premature ejaculation issues and other stuff. Just like “ok, he is unable to satisfy me (she doesn’t fake orgasm) so I bury my sexuality instead of discussing the subject”. Their dialogues are mostly “How was your workday?” and not much more. Really liked the girl chosen mainly for the wife role, and others too.

Third: Preposterous behaviour. Give some examples. MC is being harassed by one of the men in the Camp. He has long and tedious dialogs stating the guy’s real intentions and instead of showing it to wife and get her to his side, he keeps this info to himself. Other examples like that regarding other chars.

Also, when the harasser texts him MC’s constantly saying he will not answer anymore, that he’ll block him, that he’ll not view the pics/vids but he never act as such. But MC not only keeps answering to the harasser chats, but engages in endless and useless chats with him. This ends up in threatening messaging from harasser to MC. From the middle on I started skipping those messages, mainly those regarding MC’s mom and stepsis.

There are another character that after I get to 2 of the ends of the game, I still don’t know who was her, why she was harassing MC or what happened to her. She teases the MC to accept his “role” and become a cuckold.

Wife bestie is a female nympho slut asshole and MC best friend is a male nympho asshole.

Wife’s bestie is that kind of girl that doesn’t want to take the downfall alone and so, she’s constantly trying to bring wife drunk/drugged to engage into orgies with black men (her thing). For that sake she gets wife drunk more than three times and still wife, however stating she loves her husband and not being interested in that lifestyle, doesn’t break with her. After some time it becomes boring.

Same for MC supposed "best friend". He starts hitting on MC’s wife and even tries to blackmail her into having sex with him. What a friend! Well, MC says to himself he can’t accept that but, even knowing that, he doesn’t break with him or punch his face and, worse than that, still accepts the guy to be at his home for a week or two, giving him a straight opportunity to try to fuck his wife while he's not at home.

Same for another guy close to the end of the game. That guy was a former bully to MC at school and, even though wife knows it, she asks the guy to stay at their home for a week and MC accepts. Warning: neither of them at this time, MC or wife are into cucking.

Regarding the MC boss. Their relationship is absurd. Two days after hubby start working there, Boss hit on wife asking her for sex in exchange for promoting hubbyas manager of his new shop. Hubby overheard Bosses proposal to wife through his office’s door and does nothing. Wife, by her own freewill, decides it’s a good idea and accepts fuck with Boss so that hubby gets promoted. Her first cheating. Her excuse: I did it for you honey! Hubby keeps working there even after wife was fucked by Boss.

Boss assigns MC as manager of the new shop he decided to start and sabotage MC’s efforts to make the shop work just to fuck wife again. After verifying MC will not succeed he blame MC for it and want him to pay for the losses he had, threatening to bring MC to court. Ok, it’s the first time I’ve heard that a businessman can discharge his incompetency on choosing an employee and, for that sake, his losses on the employee. I doubt any court would penalize the employee. It'd be another thing if hubby had asked him for money for any project he was willing to start for his own. But hubby keeps working there and accepts to pay the debt what brings wife to keep having sex with boss just to pay for it, with the same excuse: “Oh, I want to help my husband because I love him”. Any man would be ashamed to be helped that way. Absolute nonsense!

Fourth: Wife never goes fucking because she develops in a way to start having relationships outside her marriage. She’s either being blackmailed by Boss or falling drunk when she does it. Hubby never really accepts to engage cuckoldry. He’s always fighting and in the many times he gives room to that is because he’s either drunk (by a coworker, by his “best friend”) or because the circumstances force him to.

Final: In spite of the stated before (there are more issues) I liked the game but it required me to overcome all that to get to the end. And regarding the final outcome it surprised me. I was expecting that, due to the lack of smart and relevant choices, the MC would be turned into a mush by the end (if that was even possible). I’ve got to 2 ends and they were quite good for the MC. One of them, he simply divorces. The second one he forgives her and they live happy everafter.

Still joining forces to try other outcomes.

Honestly kind of enjoyed that one more then i should have probably. It is in my opinion a worse sibling "Of That Other Game" but servisable nonetheless.
Porn Art is a bit too much on the no face side. Felt the game was designed to have a lot more content then it has. Teasing things that never came to be.
Writing is a bit on the nose. Chopped dialoque.
Still a solid effort. If have nothing else at the moment worth a try.

I tried and tried the game, I was hoping for a MC that kept its strong character, but the result is one of the stupidest MCs ever seen, graphically it is even worse, faded images, repetitive, they are frames. audio not received, a waste of time hoping for something good, dead hope.

after very very long time wife almost fuck evey man in the gama but developor think that " You’ll find out where the protagonist’s jealousy and suspicions will lead him. Did his wife really cheat on him? Or is it just Samuel’s scheming? And what happened to his sister? Could he have ruined her too? " because in game we have not seen any thing just possibility. text , cheat bla bla .

This word vomit mess is down right terrible. The setting is bland, tasteless, and boring.(some random city with a refugee problem I guess) The MC is completely braindead and only makes the dumbest decisions possible, I know there are dumb people in this world but even a simpleton could figure out that you should call the police if someone is trying to drug and fuck your wife and telling you about drugging her and stalking you, like I know it's a "game" and all but if you base something in the real world there are certain responses to certain actions. The grammar seems to show up and disappear randomly. The texting dialogue sounds nothing like actual people interact. The only thing that I halfway enjoyed was when you were able to switch to the wife's perspective outside of that the porn videos used are kind of alright. Kudos are in order though you made a game you wanted to make and released it to the public, if you make more try to improve on the realism of the setting so the plot doesn't have so many pitfalls.
EDIT: Review written before Thread Update: 2025-03-16

Started off strong, but after the first few updates the story loses all control and logic (even the lowest of porn logic). If it were Kinetic with no choices, it might make sense to some, but with choices that literally have no apparent impact outside of ending the story a little earlier it creates frustration. The developer is talented, but hopefully will learn from mistakes of this VN for the next one.

At first I was negative about the game and even when done game isn't perfect like through most of the game MC gust observes everything and does nothing until the end. plus he never speaks his mind to his wife. No wonder they both fell pray for campground leader. But the game delivered on what I wanted for games of the genre for a long time. A game where Ntr is not fully avoidable but you can have a happy end which is unique as it turns out in this day and age. So overall ok with tolerable interface and and not to tedious to replay if you need.

This game aint good. Spent around 5-6 hours for multiple routs.

Visuals: 0/5 Its the real porn. Its trash, garbage. %99 of time i avoid real porn games. Got so many flaws for these kind of deep games. Wife is getting blackmailed to suck the mans cock but shes enjoying it while doing so. Coz, well, its porn. Y might say its not the authors fault. It very well damn it is. Coz authors chose this type.

Story: 3/5 Yeah, yeah. Its a mind control and drugging the heroines to make them sluts. Worse kind of NTR imho. I do not mind blackmail but mind control is a no go for me. MC got a beating from the reviews but i will disaggree. Hes a spineless womenfolk and a huge idiot but theres a twist:


For the reason above is the only reason i give this game 3 stars btw.

Writing: 1/5 Nothing exiting or exhilirating. Standard, cringy, repetitive but somewhat clean with very few typos here and there. After an hour tops i started holding ctrl, wont lie.

Overall: 3/5 1 reason only made this games review is a 3 star for me. Rest can burn. Never download a real porn game again. NEVER.

While I will say that NTR to NTS is a favourite of mine, and the themes and writing at times scratch that itch - I would consider this game as a whole to have some of the most indecisive narrative progression I've ever seen, such that it brings what could have been a 5/5 for me down to a 3/5.

MC decides he wants to accept things as they are, has a relapse back to hating everything about his current situation, broods over things and repeat. This happens so many times that I've lost track, this isn't a progression of a narrative but an offset circle that deviates forward at a pace of 3, and then backward by 2.

We're inching towards something that could be called progression, but lo and behold the MC has yet another lapse and back we go...

It's not an issue of pacing, I think the general writing does a good job of slowly corrupting the LI and even warping the MC's perspective from totally against, to hesitant, to curious, and now growingly more willing. You could have events play out as they have, but remove the verbose umming and erring and it would elevate the whole experience I think - which means the problem isn't pacing; but the MC's strange perspective.

I think more recently the pacing has been off because we get told that the MC is gonna talk to the LI about wanting to see and hear more about her cheating, but then she doesn't accept that and we have to wait until next update to get what was promise at the end of the last one... I think the developer recently has realized that they've long since paved the groundwork for an elevation of events and don't need to constantly tease their audience anymore, and I hope in future updates we get to see a more natural progression of the narrative.

At the beginning of the game, there is a significant uncertainty about whether the MC’s wife is cheating on him. The choices and events continuously create a sense of distrust, providing the player with a lasting uncertainty about whether the MC will be betrayed. As the player progresses, doubts about the wife’s loyalty grow. With each choice, the fear of betrayal and the feeling of distrust intensify. However, the game also strongly suggests that the opposite could be true and that the wife may not be cheating. This gives the impression that the player is playing a game with a "avoidable NTR" theme. Until, at one point, the game developer makes a choice for the player, and the game shifts entirely to an NTR-focused narrative. The relationship between the MC and his wife is presented as though we made terrible choices and ruined everything. This suddenly leads to a situation where the wife decides to cheat on the MC, completely contradicting the direction of the story that was initially presented. The player's choices become meaningless, and at this point, I began to regret the time I had wasted. The biggest problem here is the poor writing of the MC. Bad character writing and a flawed storyline reveal that the atmosphere and narrative the player felt up until a certain point are completely misleading.

So, let's get this out of the way.

I love NTR. I love the genre, I love the kink, I love the tropes. My and my husband even dabble in sharing and "cheating" in our real life relationship. I especially like the phone UI subgenre that's cropped up recently. I think it's a unique and fun way to explore a genre I like. So, when I say that A Wife's Life is one of the worst games I've ever played, you know I'm not some NTR hater who played a clearly labeled NTR game and got mad at encountering NTR.

But before I get into the bad, let's try to find some good. The UI is pretty good. It works. No bugs. The writing is mostly decent English. The dev tries, and mostly succeeds, in using consistent models for each of the main characters. The build up is pretty hot.

Everything else is trash.

The main character is the dumbest motherfucker in the world. Even for an NTR protagonist, which tend to be pretty dumb, he is a fucking idiot. He finds out his wife is cheating multiple times. He's seen it. She's admitted it. But not even two in game days later, he's back to his long monologues about how his wife would never cheat and he would never believe that she'd cheat on him.

This happens multiple times.

And not just with his wife, either. Every single character that does him wrong, either by fucking his wife, or sabotaging his job, he constantly goes on these monologues about how this person wouldn't do these things to him. And even when he does finally admit that, okay, these people are fucking him over, nothing happens. He just puts up with it, says he's going to do something about it, and then never does. And that brings up the most annoying part of this game.

The dev seems to be psychologically incapable of upending the status quo. The MC must always be incredulous that people who have betrayed him multiple times would ever betray him. He must always hate that his wife is cheating, yet constantly waffle about whether he should leave her or not. And let's be clear, this isn't an MC who secretly likes being cheated on. He hates it. There is literally no reason why he should be staying in this situation. His best friend tried to fuck his wife, but he still won't sever the relationship. His wife is outright staying out all night fucking black guys and he still isn't sure he should divorce her. And every time he actually makes a decision to change his circumstances, the narrative will just...keep going. Every day he'll say "I need to do ______" and then he never does it. There is no logic, here. Not even porn logic. If you told me this game was an experiment to see how long a writer could keep a story going without ever upsetting the status quo or have any character development, I'd believe you. It's just...so bad. It's so bad it distracts from the porn. This guy is so miserable and so pathetic that you just end up holding your quickly softening dick feeling sad and vaguely embarrassed for him.

The premise for the NTR is also really stupid. There's a migrant camp that constantly gets the female employees hooked on drugs that turn them into nymphos, but no one ever investigates it because "the government supports the migrants". I'm sorry, but even the most left wing, culturally suicidal European country wouldn't turn this much of a blind eye to the literal rape camp set up in their city. Especially not if the migrants are constantly sending the MC texts with proof of what they're doing. Look, I know NTR games usually have unrealistic premises, especially BNWO games, but at least those games usually operate within the limits of their own established logic. This game never even tries. MC is just told "there's nothing you can do" and he accepts it. He whines about it constantly, but he accepts it without ever trying. It's so frustrating.

So, yeah, I hate this game. And I hate that I hate it, because I should love it. It hits so many of my kinks, and the beginning is so promising. But fuck, man. It's so bad.

EDIT (1/10/25): Okay, you know what, I'm actually going to add a star because I was just proven so wrong about this line:

"I'm sorry, but even the most left wing, culturally suicidal European country wouldn't turn this much of a blind eye to the literal rape camp set up in their city."

Apparently, England is literally doing this as we speak, and has been for years. So, kudos I guess to the dev for not overestimating human decency the way I did. Plus one star. Everything else I said is still valid, though.

This game started with some promise but quickly became repetitive and frustrating. The main character was hard to connect with, and the wife's actions felt overly scripted and draining. The plot lacked real depth, mainly unfolding through text messages and emails that didn’t add much to the story. The choices were minimal, and it seemed like the game was more about setting up awkward, forced situations than developing any meaningful narrative. The visuals were mismatched, with images that didn’t even fit the characters properly. In the end, the game failed to deliver any real excitement or substance.

Pros:
- Wife's part of story is really sexy
- Good choices of models/stars
- The videos are consistent with the characters for the most part, same actress is being used to depict the plot line throughout, that is actually good.

Cons:
- Could not connect with other characters and other storylines apart from the wife's. It was just created to increase the length of the game, no other purpose.

- Several of the actions don't have a video. For example: The MC says his wife must be fcking his friend, where he has the options to check his wife's phone but he never does.

Overall, a good idea and a good game design, maybe the game's done but would follow this dev's work in future.

The game is very poorly written, the graphics are simple real video, nothing drawn, the audio is painful and repetitive, but the plot and the game options are so obvious and monotonous that it bores the player, a lot could have been done, but instead the game has gotten worse and worse.

SHIT game with a stupid MC , denial mc , seem like the mc like to be bullie and do nothing and let the thing happend that 's one of the worst game that i played since i am on that site you will understand if you play that game

Pros:
-good model choice
-good video clips
-nice UI
-good english

Cons:
-either the author has a really weird cuck fetish or he is straight up racist, or both
The story kind of gives me "15 year old with no luck with girls who falls down a far right rabbit whole and blames all his problems on migrants"-vibes. I really hope this game is just his fetish and not his actual worldview. One piece of advice: Take responsibility for your actions and your losses and don't blame them on others who have nothing to do with it.

NTR is never my cup of Tea.
But a good storyline along with good characters always captures my attention and I appreciate the work behind it.
This game started of well, where the wife character gets slowly and steadily corrupted but in the next updates the plot completely went downhill. I mean it has become redundant at one point!
Bully mocks MC
MC retorts
Bully sends evidence of them fking his loved ones
MC lives in denial
MC wonders if it is true
--REPEAT--

And when finally things came into light, MC is still staying in the relationship! lol, so this is no longer a NTR game but a cuckoldry game, and NTR ≠ cuck

Very disappointed

I did enjoyed the game. But there are some issues that I would like to address.

Other than that small issue it is a good NTR game.

The game is a modest way of replicating how to spy on your wife and be an idiot husband, visual graphics with photos from the internet, horrible plot, non-existent choices, only some interaction with the spy chip