VN - Ren'Py - A Wife's Life [v0.8.0] [Kerosine_NTR]

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

This is a poor Black Man Cucks Married White Guy "Visual novel". More of a Kinetic with a few piss poor irrelevant choices tossed in to make it less of a Kinetic in name only and to avoid the tag. There are few choices and they make little to no difference to th eforced cucking this stupid white guy gets from his stupid white wife's Black Harrasser.

The photos and videos do not even match the pornstar they use the pictures of and it really goes hand in foot with the poor story line told mainly through text messages and emails. Not much of a story. But then its all about Whitey losing his wife to the Black Man in the first place. The game description says nothing about the whole game being the wife cucking only with the black man. It only mentions a job, NTR, and yes the tags say interracial. There is always a token one at every employer so the Government stays off their case so that is not a surprise. Nope her job is nothing but.

If you like cheap thrills with no story then this is the one for you. Not for me. I don't care if there is NTR. I don't care if he gets cucked by a black guy every once in a while. But I have no desire to see nothing but and definitelhy not in a good format.

All the porn out there with white girls and black dudes and the Dev could at least find enough clips and images that actually match the porn stars he made characters in the game. That is one of the main issues I have with Real Porn used in these is that the person shown is rarely consident with the actual characters portrayed photos. Ruins it. Hoped this would be better but sadly it is not.

This Game was good at the Beginning, when you (MC) was left in the Dark if your Wife cheats or not. It added a mystery, that is typicall for a NTR Game. As of Version 0.5 the MC knows that the Wife is cheating, but does NOTHING. The last three updates are all like this: "My Wife cheated on me. What should i do?" And then does nothing. Your Boss fucked your Wife, degraded you, so lets continue to working for him and meet at his BBQ Party.

I am not joking, this might be the dumbest MC/Story that you will encounter. Do not waste your Time, maybe only if you like to suffer or see this Game as a Parody of Human intellect.

love this type of NTR. Cheating, behind your back type content. These type of phone games are always a nice change. This game utilizes the phone well and adds spyware to the mix. Nice payoff as well by showing certain scenes you didn't think you were going to get in the beginning.

basically just a poorly written rip off of another game while also taking out the features that make the other game good. The choices you make don't really matter in the long run and only affect the story a little bit, the MC is a control freak but doesn't do anything with the evidence that he's given like images and videos of his wife cheating on him. The videos used in the game are mostly all recycled from other games on the site or are just the most popular videos found in their genre. Overrall just another NTR game with no creativity and poor writing, hopefully after the next couple of updates it will be interesting.

Decent story with nice visuals but lots of unnecessary clicking back and forth between phone calls, texts and emails.

I don't know which one was written first but this is the same base story as another wife/phone game with fewer options that make a smaller impact.

I would love to see the ui cleaned up so you arent having to click back and forth so much when your options to alter the story are so far apart. I think this would flow much better as a full screen VN instead of having the email in an area and phone in another.

The game combines immersive storytelling with innovative interactive mechanics. From the very first moment, the game captivates with its stunning graphic design and seductive atmosphere, inviting players to explore a world charged with sensuality and mystery.

For a game that is not yet complete, the truth is that it is quite good, it is not the typical game of controlling "your wife's" cell phone and it has a good foundation to be a great game once it is finished.

No interaction. No interest. Disappointing and waste of time because no command or action. Just to click without reading and when it blocks come back in a notch back to find out who to call and continue to click. The lyrics are useless. We are right there to read and when we can act to take another direction this is useless because anyway it will change anything. In addition the protagonist is nonexistent.