Ren'Py - Agent17 [v0.25.9] [HEXATAIL]

To start I usually give a mention about ntr for those concerned:


The mc thinks and acts in ways that don't make sense. Turn your brain completely off, the writer is in an awkward position where the very hook of the game: control of a loyal super agent in the hands of a complete nobody, has become both the answer to everything and nothing.

It's unfair of me to just leave it at this, so I'll explain further:



As for the mc:

Relationships:
Relationships feel horridly developed. Nothing about them feels like natural progression. The characters and their motivations usually don't make sense.


"You're a complete stranger masturbating to me in class? Let me flash my panties at you."

"If you can defeat my boyfriend I'll have sex with you."

"You had a secret agent beat me up over the money we stole from you? Well, guess I'll still threaten you and attack you. We're not intimidated at all."

"Brother, did you buy that new candy? What? You want me to close my eyes and suck the candy off something? OK."

The puzzles and grinding also aren't that fun.

So I've covered how I don't like the way the characters think and act, with the story being left in its awkward state. Despite this, the designs for the characters are good enough, they carry the whole game honestly. If the author fleshed them out a bit, made them act in ways that seemed more sane and maybe made the girls a bit more reluctant to be with other guys I'd probably give this game a 5/5.

The game has a few major issues, like for example the grinding aspect is very tedious and rarely fun. Also I feel like the moral for this game is all over the place (saying that while on a adult game site lol), but seriously, on the one hand you are pretending to be a good person towards one girl "saving" her from her family, while on the other hand you are blackmailing a girl with a dying sister in the hospital. Like it does not feel cohrent and the emotional intelligence this was written with is very very low. Also the dev like only does one update a year (My guess would be that he spends a lot of time on the minigames but if simplifying them would speed up the development time dramatically this would be a good sacrifice).

Regardles, this is one of the games I still look forward to the most. It has a very big bandwith of specific niches which are pushed to their limit here, like with no other game I have played before. So if you see tags you like here, there is a good chance you'll enjoy this.

i had so much hope for this game but god dam the grind. it should be illegal to make someone grind this much just to get a 5 second sex scene that you have to replay 10 times just to advance to the next stage. everytime i get a hard on its followed by 10 minutes of depressing grind. if there was a blue ball award this would win it every time

Great another game with dolls waiting to be fucked, the MC is real douche and all of them seems to be in fucking love with a creep, I can maybe give some credit to the animations... or the art style, but it kills me the game the either the girls are madly in love with an asshole for MC or they literally hate him but still are up to have sex with him.

Not gonna say the grinding is stupid, cause there are other games that are worse out there, but I literally was dying to have a scene with amber after all the effort I had to make to make her "horny", and having my reward for all that grinding was really dissapointing.

Highly robust game.
Some complains would be for example, maybe add some stuffs so the protag at least care for some of his cute. Def should empathize with him tho, with all the beauties. Some kinky path is very nice, because of the attractive heroines (I dont considered all of them attractive. Still I like most of them.) I def see the merits of playing the kinky paths of heroines I care about. Ofc it would be tiring if the dev made kinky not off-path or the path are not only for a number of heroines related to the flowchart, what I think should be for now at least. Non ntr for most heroines would be ideal for main course, imo.
Its a very nice Yarige, both in contents in main path and in contents for kinky play (some are choice path, some not). The "main path" (that I think its) is not fully vanilla either but also not really scummy or would break immersion. The tones never changes.
Fav girls in no particular order: Erica, Anriel, Alice, Luna, Dana, Saphire, Ruby, Irene. Chloe and Melissa are most fav. Very rare for I to like that many characters in a media, left alone-a renpy fan contents.
Because the game appeals of paths, the mini-flowcharts need to put up with some static elements (some elements, that not demands to changes in that specific mini/perceived timeline). Have some dissonance in game bits prolly alright for this game. Just dont make the chart path heroine so static, like changes from role to diff role as just the plot demands. And they should change in a consistent way. Characters and hooks are very tropey but not in wrong directions (not perfect but for me the elements I like are separating with elements I dont, so its not agony for me. And not feel sterile. I see less follow and more their ideal, ofc still very follow).
The game size vs non-kinky contents. Contents are at least x3 higher.

This game have one of the best side stories (For now Sakura is my fav story in all games of this kind), well developed, amazing characters and is very entertaining. Two paths, love and dark, which for some LIs have very different outcomes, Saphire for example. I think it also has the best sounds as for CG 3d game.

Sounds like a 5/5 game, well, not exactly - at least not for me. I'm not a fan of this kind of graphic. It's not the worst, but far of the best. Progress is very slow and it feels like dev starts having lack of ideas - for example Nora love/dark stories are almost the same. By saving her I'd never think of making her a pain addicted mind broken cum bucket and basically raping her, taking her virginity as well.

Thanks to characters and their stories, game is good... for now. Imo it's taking wrong path, but hope it's only temporary.

I can tolerate sandbox games when it serves to help progress the story in an immersive way but this game is just ridiculous. Not only is the game tedious with almost no sex scenes (with many just being default honey select animations) the story just keeps getting weirder with random stuff being added on for no reason. It goes from an elite bodyguard you contact with your phone to a superpowered agent to a time traveling world and a fairy. It's not done in a humorous way either. The character models look very similar face-wise and the render quality is poor. The english translation is bad with many errors. Don't waste your time, trust me.

This game has both very hot scenes featuring many cute women and interesting writing that explores many different settings and fetishes. Unlike many games, it's not repetitive at all and isn't afraid to explore real taboos and be edgy without going overboard. There's a lot of porn logic but that's the genre.

This game is an absolute disaster. I have no idea how such a mess gained popularity. It’s beyond terrible. I’ve never encountered a protagonist as insufferable as MC. The author seems to do nothing but drag things out and milk money.

I played this game when it came out and now I'm playing it again. Not much has changed, it's still incomplete, and it's been almost two years since its release.
The art is good, the music is cool, the characters are visually appealing, the story and gameplay are good, but the content is relatively short and the game seems abandoned.
That's why I'm only giving it two stars. I don't recommend playing the game unless you want to watch a few quick scenes and leave.

Beautiful game, i love how it uses Honey Select 2 to create quality renders and animations, it has a nice story and good characters, is still on development, but im quite excited to see what this game has to offer on a future, Agent17 is perfect examplo of how a Honey Select 2 game should be.

I'm gonna make the review simple I have played both ntr/corruption route and pure love route it is a really good game although very grindy the scenes are also good and the story too.

the only stuff I would like to say is that a gallery is needed due to the grindy scenes and amount of saves you need and probably adding more scenes with other characters other than that it was a really good game to play

This is one of the few games here that I keep coming back to.. so I've decided to give it a review.

If you're looking for animated sex scenes with hot girls, this is the game for you. The models are amazing and totally my type. You have leeway to play it like a douchebag (corrupt the girls) or play more vanilla (romance).

The minigames are meh and the story isn't anything mindblowing but let's be honest, you're here to jack off and the game gets the job done.

a well made game,
the story is diverse because of how the game works, based on each different characters so i think there is a story to the game
the render is beautiful, the girls are gorgeous, the mc looks a little goofy but playable,
the music is good, sex is animated smoothly and have sound too,
there are of course some fetishes in the game that i dont like, but the dev made is avoidable so if you dont want to play the game because of the tags, i think you should give this game a chance
the gameplay is well like the dev have described, it kinda repeating, you wake up, do chores get money, go talk with the girl, call the agent to do mission,... maybe make you bored, but with me, well i okay with it so...
so yeah 5 stars i guess

Version: 0.24.8
Gameplay wise, excellent, long game... lots of sexy models and scenes, but some of the scenes could be better. I just enjoyed playing it a lot, and the work to get the story/girls felt rewarding. The system itself is well designed and coded.

[Story]- At the beginning, the girls so far are paired into different story arc's. There is a huge diversity between the arc's, and all of them are quite intricate. I haven't completed the game yet, but I've played 2 huge arc's so far(time and halfway through prison) and I found them impressive. Not only is there great plot, but the gameplay changes and is very interesting as well, and you can mostly also pause and keep going on about your normal activities if you choose to. The game logic is done Very well and I have not noticed any bugs where someone was out of order in accordance with the story progression. There is some crazy stuff. The MC is VERY immoral, and you pretty much do Everything... Everything. There is a quest log, and it will mostly tell you where to go, but you have to be careful, because I believe there May be some missable content along the actual Arc's if you aren't exploring, like wedding sex scene.
Edit: There are basically only 3 main arc's completed/halfway at the moment, and most of the "abusive" paths are not fleshed out and have only one scene, but the "love" paths are only also at the start.

[Gameplay]- It started out a little annoying. At first, you don't know what you're doing, and you're just looking around this "sandbox" environment. There is a a quest log which you can consult about how to unlock the next steps, so you Will eventually find your way. It Is actually very sandboxy in the good way, as you can do anything you want when you want to(but you have to be in the correct time interval for events, of course). There is a grind for money, but they are not actually in the way of the events, and it just becomes a routine that I got accustomed to and didn't really mind, but you have to figure out how to wipe(mouse swipe) and not click, because that is the way to do those mini games quickly. Anyway, they give you a routine so that you're actually working for your story as you go along. There are a Lot of different mini-games that reward different things, and I found them all to be pretty fun. It may be difficult for the impatient, but, yes, this is a real "game". Again, the game play loop will change when you're in one of the major arc's. The agent and phone aspect was poorly explained(it's actually not explained at all), but you will find that it's not overly important and "resource" only goes to 10, so it's not actually stressful. There's also plenty of different plots to progress along, so I hadn't found myself repeating days just to continue content thus far.

[Scenes]- The models are Very hot, and there a Lots of different erotic situations and different scenes to unlock. A major problem with this game is that there's no gallery or replay, so you really have to save whenever you get a scene, and the game also likes to limit rollbacks, so you have to be even more liberal with saves, but there's 500 pages, so you can make plenty of them. So far, I have found all the none-vag scenes to be amazing, but when it comes to the actual sex scenes, a few of them are lacking due to TOO MUCH CLOTHING, and you usually can't see the goods because of that. Some of them just didn't look nice; but the ones that look great are Great. Some scenes have voice acting, but the voice didn't really fit the characters or the scenes, really. Again, this guy does Everything. If you wonder if he will go there... yes, he will. It's not really a fetish game though, so don't expect bdsm, torture, other kinks... there are Lots of chicks, but the relationships are well developed, and not everyone is a Main chick, but, well, you get lots of chicks to have fun with. "Abusive" paths currently add "some" penetration scenes(one each for Red Rose, Erica) that you cannot get with "love" path yet.

[Bugs]- This problem Really annoyed me at the start of the game. The puzzle pieces in the top left corner get blocked by an invisible "skill level up" icon that will not allow you to move them. This bug prevented me from completing the "discount" puzzle, because the piece is too small and completely covered by the button. I got over it, but I can't get the discount because of this.

While there's no bugs with story between different arcs and plot elements, there are plenty of bugs when you approach the end of the quest lines that were left semi-open for upcoming content. A lot of these have placeholder screens and notes, but the dev. missed some, like some ticket not working because a function doesn't work yet, or some characters showing actions that have unfulfillable stat requirements.

Most of the characters and graphics are top-notch, and the scenes are mostly very good as well. The concept of having an agent help you do missions instead of purely grinding for money is also a refreshing approach to these types of games. The addition of a "story tree diagram" is actually useful for tracking your progression.

However there's still a painful grinding progress to give you some scenes (especially the mansion questline, I would not go too deep into it in case of spoil the plot), it ends up just going through the in-game days for nothing useful at all.

Lack of gallery option? Especially for someone who doesn't want to waste 20 hours on repetitive in-game days to gain some points here and there, that is literally a pain. Personally, I would implement the gallery scene replay with the story tree since that would make the gallery easy to find.

Lack of rewards other than giving you a sex scene if you ask me, it really needs more rewards either money-wise or item wise to help to speed up the game.

I still think it is a game worth playing consider some of the innovative mechanisms. if we reduce the painful grinding progression but it gets more and more obvious once you hit to later stages of the game.

Positive point : the game has many languages, and although it is not a visual novel as such, it does have a good story and charismatic characters, making it a very good game. The criminals and bad guys really intimidate you since they can kill you, and the story has some surprises that impressed me. 5/5

Do it or don't do it, it's that simple...

Minigames that the consumer asks for? I doubt it, I'd rather play Tetris for that.

Very little sexual content for the years it's been in development... Lots of marked routes and none of them lead to anything.

Another sponge in the genre, it's supposed to have anal sex and nothing (except for the last update and it's NTR)

amazing visuals, terrible game.

the only way to make a sandbox game worse is to add tedious and boring puzzles/minigames. I don't mind puzzles, but these are designed to be annoying and time-wasting rather than any "fun."

however, the girl designs/renders are absolutely fantastic (some of the best hs on this site). i guess this game leans pretty heavy into the NTR audience so I'll give props for making it all "avoidable" (still I don't like LIs being in NTR situations, to begin with).


play it if you want to see hot honey select girls!

honestly i was willing to rate this as just average. heck i played a decent amount of it so that has to be worth something. I don't hate grind, some things could definitely be made easier but this dev clearly doesn't care about quality of life which is whatever.

It all changed when I got to the second part of the Sakura quest 6 tiny fucking locks? Had me questioning what I was doing with my life, no more. If you know what the six locks means, i'm sorry. If you don't, don't bother and just avoid this game.

Also, like many said absolutely horrible dialogue and nonsensical progression, but yea i guess it's meant to be dumb and immature. Still with that it was never going to get more than 3 stars from me, and it managed to kill it at the end. Don't invest in this game. People who are blinded by graphics are fools and I was foolish enough to invest a few hours into it.