Ren'Py - A Wife's Phone [v0.5.0] [Bloody Ink]

There are a lot of things that seem to be happening in this game, a lot of goals you're supposedly working towards, but in reality all you're doing is clicking a whole bunch and trying to parse out what you need to do to advance the story, only to realize the story never actually advances. Pretty much every path ends up in a holding pattern the more you play, and the further you get the buggier the game gets. The overall story is ridiculous and requires the player character to be simultaneously a devious schemer, a willless cuck, legally retarded, almost supernaturally oblivious, naïve, and a pervert who wants to corrupt his family. Usually I don't have a problem with porn games sacrificing good character for porn delivery, but this game doesn't even deliver good porn.

You have a lot of great set up but none of the various LIs have a satisfying payoff as of yet. Most of the sex in this NTR corruption game is between the MC and his wife, or the MC and the women he cheats with. Most of the cucking/sharing happens to side characters that drop out of the story for weeks in game (hours in real time) randomly. There's one really good scene where the drunk wife gets raped outside a bar and you can either choose to save her or watch and realize seeing your wife like this turns you on. It happens kind of early on in the wife story, and you think "Awesome, things are gonna start picking up" only to fall into a holding pattern where you constantly raise your wife's corruption meters and the most that happens is she starts flirting with some other people, eventually. Progression is super slow. And not slow burn slow, but grind slow. But even then the meters you're grinding seemingly have no impact on the content you get.

The worst sin, though, is that with how long you have to sit and click through boring conversations to get anywhere, updates sometimes break your save completely. It's so frustrating. Especially since there's a kernel of a great game here. The hypnosis angle is interesting and should allow the player to customize the content he sees, the bad guy is genuinely dislikeable (even though he only works because the MC is an idiot), the scenarios that are set up are all potentially hot, but potential is all this game has. And it's not getting any closer to realizing it as the updates go on.

I give it full stars after playing the Alpha branch. The other branches made me feel like shit, you are more in control of your Wife's fate but at the same time it is a porn game, so it leads you to make self destructive decisions you later can't undo. In the Alpha branch you can finally take revenge of those who wronged you and your wife, nevertheless your wife is gone and done, no self respecting person would take her back no matter what, only the alpha branch let you act like a normal person would.

As others have said, I do not understand how this "product" has any positive ratings above "average", which would be a generous rating and should be the ceiling for any reasonable person.

Minus a few conversations and moments, the only remotely good part of this is the idea/concept. It's like mixing sugar with crap, baking it, then covering with icing to try and present it as a cake. Yeah, the "idea/concept" and some parts are really good, but ultimately it's primarily, overwhelmingly crap and no amount of "sugar" will ever change that.

If you're one that's hellbent on at least giving it a try, go ahead, maybe your "taste buds" can tolerate a crap cake with enough sugar and icing...

There is certainly a lot of potential here to be great with this idea/concept and a lot of good parts.
But this is a toxic dumpster fire of crap, sugar, icing, crap, gasoline, fire, etc, etc. A lot of good parts, but ultimately a hot mess of burning garbage, and that might still be too generous of a rating...

I think the premise is amazing and the writing is great but the gameplay leaves a bit to be desired, no real questline to follow and thats necessary when the game is this long, yes i know the routes are a thing but its way too easy to get locked out of content in this game so unless you have a walkthrough u cant really assure u do everything which also defeats the point, just make it more intuitive. If that gets fixed down the line its a 5star

I have to say when playing the alpha parth the game is quite good. Some things are abit ludicrous like you suddenly have 1 billion debt.. this breaks the immersion.

Also switching genders based on phone commands break thr immersion abit, but i understand some people enjoy it.

The cuck/sissy path falls abit short, its too many cliché, and Jenna talks about worshipping bbc as if its her religion or something, absolutely bonkers. It went abit over the top here and there.

There is also some sissify other in the alpha routr which is quite rare and nice to find.

Tldr; alpha route 4, other routes 2, average 3.

I don't understand why this game has a lot of positive reviews. A terrible system of progress . There are a lot of incomprehensible unnecessary characters . The plot is also terrible. A ridiculous debt of $ 100000000000 . Quests don 't work, they fall off . Fetishes are not signed in the tips. It is unclear what the choice will lead to .
There is a hot wife in the videos that are sent to the wife, but the hottest wife is still not in the game. in general, the game is terrible, long and tedious. I tried to play it 5 times, spent a lot of time clicking on the map and didn't find anything good.

Got hooked on this, for a few days... but then for some reason more and more branches stopped moving. just saying wait 0 days... for weeks on end.
maybe its because i used the button to terminate some branches i had no interest in... too much bbc for my liking,
would give it 5 if the lack of progress didnt completely kill off all the interesting branches... i dont want to have to play unappealing choices just to make the preferred ones progress...

MC not seeing big picture even though he makes millions of $$... he should wish for more wishes...i.e. if he gets an open slot, add a male (any male) - install app on that phone and use their phone slots as his own... add 1 male, rest females, repeat... unlimited power

The story and premise are interesting, but over half of your time is just clicking to remove "notifications" and not progressing the story. Images are decent and it has a gallery. It also present several different paths for the player through much less than all of the options would lead you to believe

This is easily my favorite, I really appreciate the writing and all the work that got put into it, if your into this genre its fantastic. There are parts that are a little rough around the edges but they keep getting polished out and I am always excited with the results.

I played many of these games and i can say...... it is an very Exellent Game , with great real emotions, pics and short clips. It turns so on by this really realistic way of corruption from the wife and her husband fall into the cuckold way of live or be a swinger and multible ways of other. i cant wait to see more of it. One of the best in this genre.

Some images don't load, some chats just bugged, Branching is really strange, no idea how and when you can choose (yeah u have notepad but isn't very useful). Overall you just got many many thematic pics with bad pacing and too many npc to remember who is who. Annoying Instagram popups...
And with 9gb of content you still skip most days :C

It's sad that I can't give this more than a 3 star, because it's a lot of fun and has a lot of content in it. But sadly there are many bugs that spoil the experience for me. The main one being the fact that in a lot of conversations the pictures don't pop up. I then have to check through the gallery, and of course I have no idea who is who because there far too many girls to choose from on there.

I think if this bug was cleaned up so that pictures always popped up in the chats, and less girls were included it would be a much better game.

This has been a roller coaster of an experience. I used to love this game, however I did prefer before when it was a disjointed, comical mess, but you didn't really lock yourself out of anything. Sadly with 4.7 you end up spending a lot of time trying to get to content through the numerous story lines, and if you're racing through the game with skip, knowing what you're doing, and just forwarding time over and over, it's still a 1-2 hour commitment. That is when everything races by at "instant" speed.

The game has a major change between intro gameplay, presenting WifeSpy and your home screen as something entirely different from what it will be in main gameplay. You end up with a bunch of apps on your phone that you'll not use, sticking generally to the newer apps you get later.
Why do there need to be two separate maps? You'll be using the second map in the post intro, but then almost never go to it again when you're in the midgame, because it serves no function except for interacting with George and Mark, despite everything in mid and late game just skipping the map entirely and progressing without the unnecessary system.
The internet stopped functioning a couple updates ago, since OnlyFaps got introduced. You use it to find a job, find a place for Lana to live and you have one interaction to learn how to make money. It used to be a place to share your wife's nudes, but now the internet may as well no longer exist.
There is an app you manually add to find other couples to bang, but in my last 30 playthroughs it's just gone to a blank screen and the content you used to get through it just happens in messaging.

So, that's just my 2 cents on the waste of space the MC's home screen contains, you'll end up using Messaging and Fuckstagram constantly along with WifeSpy, OnlyFaps in the late game, the debt payment (although you can just never pay), and the internet and map a couple of times in the early game. Changing the time of day, the branches guide and photos are all usable, after that everything else just takes up space and most of it isn't functional.

When you've played the game a few times there is a good chance you will absolutely HATE Fuckstagram and Hypno Spam, both introduce a bit of content but lead to constant, unnecessary, annoying indicators. Their only fuctions seem to be to fill out time when all branches require 4-10 days for any updates, causing the game to be a serious grind when you stop actually appreciating the indicators for useless content.

WifeSpy actually seems like a waste of time as increasing things like Blowjob, Anal, and Group don't actually seem to progress the character's desires to do those things, instead you can max EVERYTHING out on a character and then you're waiting for Jenna to send the character messages because having these maxed out doesn't seem to do much. It would be nice if I maxed out Cheating on my wife I didn't have to go through part 90 in some branch to get her to stop saying "OMG I'd never cheat" despite her getting hypno spam every 4 days that tells her to cheat. The feedback just isn't there when you actually play the game enough.

Finally, get used to "Progress other branches" if you look in the branches guide. There isn't indication of what branches to progress, and instead people have to come over to this discussion and ask what they need to do, because, go figure, you need to progress some seemingly random branch for things to move forward.
Luckily this section lets you avoid certain characters or storylines you might not like, eg the MC's mom can just safely be shut off entirely if you don't enjoy that questline.

Overall, I liked the quirkiness before, and really hate that sections of the game get invalidated through updates, but remain because the creator needs to keep churning out new content instead of spending the time to go back and fix the system.
But, at the same time, Casey Calvert is an angel and she just makes this game great as a wife for NTR content. Chef's kiss.

I was very frustrated while writing the last version of my review so I will try to be more objective now.

First and foremost, this game is a flawed masterpiece. The writing is one of the best I have seen in porn games but the bugs and game structure make it as annoying as it could get.

Spoiler below!
The picture selection and build up to hot content are top notch and definitely a pinnacle of this game. Also a wide selection of paths will make most players satisfied. Your wife can fuck your brother, her boss, random people, her stepson.

The first problem I have is that the game doesnt inform you that you lock yourself in one of 4-5 paths, which differ a lot, in first 15 minutes of gameplay. It causes strange things like paths disappearing from your phone randomly which looks like bug but really isnt.

Secondly, bugs, there are many. Few crucial paths just wouldnt progress even when all requirements were met. I had to edit my save in order to progress.

The pacing is also very weird. You cannot progress any path you want as you wish as the game tries to make the corruption believable and not make a situation when the wife jumps on someones cock on one path and acts like a good wife on the other. It causes a big problem, the first like 10 hours is a blue ball fest.

I've never seen a developer intentionally tank his own creation to such an extent. A Wife's Phone is a NTR 'texting' game with embedded real-porn vids and pictures, focusing heavily on interracial kinks. There used to be a ton of flexibility and decisions for players to pick and choose what they liked and didn't like.

In recent updates, however, the dev has stripped away all customization and placed the game on three or four linear paths: Cuck/Sissy/Alpha/Transformation. You pick one of those paths, and then the game carries on with little to no input from the player. For a game with a massive amount of 'clicking' (I'm not exaggerating, carpal tunnel awaits if you try multiple playthroughs), this is an incredibly poor decision.

I would have given this 4-4.5 stars as of v.4.5. As it currently stands, at v.4.8? Give it a pass. There are plenty of NTR games that don't take hours and hours to deprive you of any ability to impact the game.

How incredibly disappointing and frustrating! This is a GREAT concept and it starts off very promising, but the constant day/night switching, the constant of adding irrelevant side characters, and soooo many 'blue balling' when they set up a sexy scenario, just to lead to nothing? This had all the makings of a top tier game but the gameplay gets more frustrating the further you get. It's unnecesary

It's a Decent NTR Game. My only and biggest complaint about this game is the Wild Inconsistencies. The Story just doesn't make any sense at times. For Example: We see the wife cheating multiple times on the MC, but later on she is shy about giving someone else a BJ. Inconsistencies like this really ruin it for me.

A Wifes Phone is one of the few Renpy games that actually made me forget that I am playing a Renpy game, because its UI is so good. it simulates the phone of the protagonist as you delve into the story in which you happen to stumble across an app which is capable of influencing the minds of others...who will you influence in what way? thats up to you. This games revolves heavily around the kinks NTR, blacked and (optional) sissification.

The pros:
A huge variety of story branches, which in return branch further into multiple roots.
The selection of pictures and videos is done very well.
The games pacing is just right, not too. fast nor too slow.
the overall setting is very erotic and (for the most part) believable (aside from the mind control app being a thing in of itself)

The cons:
currently, I see two issues with the game:
1. the games branches are too disconnect from each other, or rather the MCs opinion about whats happening is. The MC can be fuming about the attempts of Jenna to corrupt the MC's wife into liking BBC whilst simultaneously whoring her out with black man for her only fans. This could be fixed with something like variables which keep track of MCs agreeability.
2. whilst the fact that something like a mind control app is already a bit of a stretch in terms of believability, an app that can magically change your gender sure is even more so. right now there are branches relying on this app to just magically work, but at least for me it seems too absurd. Maybe instead of another app one could include other things such as syringes, machines or skin suits that fuse with the wearer. Literally anything is more believable than an app suddenly changing your junk down there with no apparent reason.

Overall: I like the game a whole lot and I am curious for what it will have in store in the future!

This is truly the best game. so much effort has been put into it, so much content and options. Thanks to the developer. I hope you will continue to please and develop for a long time. There are still many development options
The only thing is that I would like to be able to go through all the content, and not just the options that you choose

Overall, I like the game, but due to its size, complexity, and the fact that English is not the author's first language, there are many errors, inconsistencies, and annoying elements.

- the frequent use of the word “pleasure” is damn annoying.
- why can't the player block Jenna?
- why, when “hypnotizing” characters, should the player go to someone’s profile and constantly view this message?
- before the latest “fix” of the game, the player could cheat on his wife and at the same time be on the “cuck route”, where the wife sleeps with others with his consent.
Now, if you are on the “cuck route,” content with other women is blocked.
- Why give the player the ability to block individual character paths if it blocks the main story?
For example, I don't like Greg and Mark, and I blocked their routes, but then I realized that in order to move forward with the plot, I need to follow their story.
etc.
I will add that the routes lack flexibility and choices.
The game gives you several choices at the very beginning, after which, once you take a certain route, the story becomes quite linear.