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

Played on version 0.19.2 but did not get very far into it.
For starters I love Sandbox games(I rarely play VN's) and for the most part a games "story" is completely unimportant unless its as bad as this one.

It started out fine, you have a phone that lets you give an agent missions, alright haven't seen that before so good to go. I don't mind grind(I played both Straitened Times and Corruption without mods) and it didn't seem to bad. Graphics are good and girls are great. Mini games.... err I have yet to find a game with minigames that was good but hey maybe they wont be to bad.

Shortly into the game you start running into the darker content, which is good in this case, I don't care what your reason is, if a character has the MC beaten up and steal from him don't think for a second I'm going down a "love" path no she's getting kicked... a lot .

Then the first big red flag, the safe, what kind of stupid minigame was that? But fine at least you only have to do it once... wait... you only have to do it once right... My enjoyment of the game went down real fast.

Then what made me stop playing,
That was enough for me, I get light stories or even stupid ones. As I said I don't normally care for VN's mostly because they take themselves to seriously and spend a lot of time talking about feelings and things that don't matter(If I wanted to read/talk about feelings for 10 hours just to get a handjob I'd get back together with my ex). So stupid story is fine/good but this just crossed the line into moronic which is a no go. It sorta reminded me of a Robin Hobb or George R. Marten book, the story doesn't matter it's all about torturing the MC, so not not worth the time and I spent way to much time writing this.

Personally I'm a vanilla bastard but I'll occasionally venture out. In this game MC is simply a scumbag and not much you can do about it. You could probably count on 2 hand the amount of consensual (no blackmail) scenes. And this game has plenty of scenes

The visuals are good, way above average and plenty of good animations. Character design and characters are good and variety is plenty. The dialogue isn't cringy most of the time, writing is pretty good IMO and the story is okay. The plot is mainly driven by MC's dick although a few plot lines are moving towards actual conflict.

Gameplay is a renpy sandbox, it gets repetitive with a few repetitive minigames. Way too grindy, without mods I would not be giving this game a review. There's a good amount of content, a few hours worth.

8/10,

version 0.19 review:

I think this game is criminally underrated for fans of darker content. If you're mainly a pure path player, just keep in mind that there's a lot less content for you. Some of the girls, for now at least, have only blackmail content. You have been warned.

NTR is completely avoidable, although you may have to choose between pure path vs ntr/dark path for certain girls down the line. I'm not the biggest fan of NTR, but am usually a dark path follower, so that choice becomes harder for me. Would've liked an option for dark path without NTR as well, but it's not the end of the world.

I think the models/animations of this game are done using HS2, and they're pretty decent. HS2 tends to make all characters look a bit asian/anime, but I do find them attractive. HS2 also means theres a ton of animations and sex content so far. No complaints here.

Probably the biggest complaint I have about this game would be about the grind (it's a sandbox). Luckily, if you are a supporter of the dev (or browse the comments) you'll get access to cheat codes that completely eliminate that grind for you (sandbox nature of game remains, of course).

Not much to write home about regarding sounds/soundtrack, but that's the case for the majority of AVNs here. I won't detract stars for that.

I haven't been following this game for that long yet, but I believe it updates every few months, so I have no reason yet to believe the dev is trying to milk patrons.

TLDR: give this game a shot if you're a fan of darker content. Rated 5/5 since the dev produces a free game full of darker content and many branching paths. Upped it from 4/5 original after seeing the dev release on a regular basis for free!

The girls are certainly cute, some of the scenes are pretty good, and the plot, premise and sandbox gameplay could have been very good, but in almost every other respect this game is an absolute mess. Some highlights:

• Almost every single sex scene in this game is non-consensual and involves some degree of blackmail, coercion, or just straight-up drugging and rape. Normally this is just down to taste, but it's not clear if the worst bits will end up being optional or required to unlock future content. Either way, eventually someone will come along and report this to Patreon and it'll be booted off the platform forever, leaving the game's long term prospects questionable at best.
• If you're looking for any meaningful character development or interactions, this ain't it. The fan favorite that was voted for by the patrons has about a room temperature IQ, so that's not the fanbase's focus. But hey, maybe I could be surprised here if I end up playing future versions.
• Most of the minigames are absolute mind-numbing drudgery unless you enter the Agent Patreon code, which allows you to skip all of them.
• The choice was made to incorporate a ridiculous anti-cheat system instead of basic features like a scene gallery, making the progress tracker actually useful in any meaningful way, or of course more content. Their motives here are pretty clear.
• The English is generally pretty broken and terrible, but towards the end of the v19 Christmas event, several lines of dialogue are left completely untranslated from the native Korean. This would have been noticed on a single playthrough in English.

I'd like to have rated it higher because with the Agent code some few parts of it are worth playing, but the hostile user experience leaves a lot to be desired.

This game could be so good. The girls are really pretty to look at and the story has a lot of potenial. But all that doesnt matter, because you play a absolutely disgusting MC. Even on the "Good" Side you have to punish and blackmail almost all the girls. And now comes the really dumb part: They fall in love with him despite all that. I know this is a porn game and we all playing it mostly for one reason, but come on, at least give the choice to do what i want. Despite that there is lot of grind. You have to do the same thing over and over again to get to the next Part with one of the girls. There are also a handfull of minigames, but they are boring as well.

Summary: If you can toleate to play a whiny dumb garbage MC with almost no choice to change him, than have fun. Graphics are great and maybe that is enough for some people. For me it was a waste of time, sry.

The story is simple so far, pretty ladies and well-made animations, I also liked UI. I didnt mind grind in this game (it doesnt happy very often, usually I just check the gallery) . Definitely worth at least checking out.

As of version 0.18.7

First of: NTR! It is by all means avoidable. Not only is avoidable, it is CLEARLY marked as NTR as well.

This game, is fantastic. It is in fact one of the games that made me enjoy Ren'Py games! But let me segment a bit.

Characters:
MC: The main character is pretty decent. To a certain degree, you can decide if you want to be a douche or not. Though some of the places, you have to be an ass, which i find a bit of a shame. Especially since one of the characters you are an ass to, is actually not deserving of anything but a shoulder to cry on.

Girls/romance targets:
Decently written. Enough girls to have different personalities to choose from, but not enough to get tired of repetitive character with different hair colour.
One of the first characters you meet, have you chosing between ass-hole or forgiving gentleman. I would love to have a middle option. One where you show hardline mindset, not Saintly forgiveness or scorched earth only. Dont get me wrong, i like that you can do extremes, but i wish for a middle ground as well. Since things are rarely black and white.

Contents:
I find that the mini games are decent. They arent too taxing, and the most annoying one (the damn safe) is easily done with, for a small investment.

Choices:
i Already mentioned one of my grievances in the point of characters. But beyond that, i find that the choices i have are good. I can choose to go one way or another. And sure, i get that some of the more morally/ethically despicable things are pretty clear cut with only one path, that does make sense as far as the characters fairly simple mindset is (not seeing a different way to get from A to B). Overall, i find it good.


So the overall score is a 5, but how can that be, if there are points i dislike?
Simple, the format of the game, the circumstances and the story writing behind some of the characters are so good, that the small defects are easily disregarded. That said, i would more accurately give the game 4.8/5, but since thats not an option in stars, i round it up. I am looking forward to seeing more to this game, and the different options/outcomes, Good AND bad!

I don't know why this game is underrated.
Among the games I've played, it's one of the top three for having a fresh experience.
I like beautifully designed girls, fun gameplay and a lot of content in this game.
This game is really the best. I love you, hexatail.

Despite the low rating I gave this a try and surprisingly it is quite entertaining and exceeded my expectations of a game with 3-stars rating.

Of course it isn't a masterpiece but it offers you hours of fun if you have the time to grind, and honestly the grind is not as devastating as some people here have claimed; overall I had a lot of fun playing till the end of current build and look forward to the next update.

Pros:
1) Beautifully designed girls with many varieties, and there are more than 10 of them which has significant storyline so far and handful of side characters yet to be implemented.

2) Actually fun gameplay - unlike many sandbox with meaningless grind this game gives out "quests", which sometimes require you to do a bit of thinking and puzzle solving. And as you progress down the storyline, many things actually become free so this kind of give you a sense of achievement. If you endure the initial grind it would say this is kind of fun to play.

3) I find the UI extremely clean and reminds me of some japanese RPG. Of course not as good but good effort considering this is Renpy.

4) Substantial amount of content - it took me 6 hours or so to reach the end of current build and I think this game has been released for no more than 2 years. And non of them are repetitive - each characters storyline is unique and gave you different experience. Unlike some games that basically offers you the same 10 scenes over and over again, the dev actually design different scenes with the many characters. Good effort.

Cons:
1) Grind - you need money and resources to progress in any girl's storyline. The level is acceptable for me, but for many it may be off putting.

2) Bad writing. I can endure lack of sophisticated vocabs, unnuanced dialogue, or even bland storyline; but this is basically written by someone who has primary school level writing skills and the word choices cringes you if you read them line by line. Clearly the dev didn't put any effort in this department though, maybe this is just not his focus. Fortunately I am just here to watch some hot scenes so the text don't bother me as much.


I think this game has a lot of potential going forward. All the best to the dev.

0.18.9
PRO Good animation, beautiful character and render, ok story, nice progression
CON Sometine fps drop, hard to grind for money ( new patch make everything much cheaper which is nice)
overall its very nice ill give it 5 ❤
- Expected tag Pregnancy

This game is so good wtf. There are multiple routes for girls such as NTR (but not really as for example it is state that ruby will still love you so it more like sharing and prostitution) and love routes. The sex scenes are hot and have decent animations and more. The girls look great as well (especially ruby).

The ONLY thing that doesn't make this game 5 stars is that it has some fucking AWFUL grind. Other than that though its fucking amazing.

pros
girls are hot
ı like the pace
many fetish and choice
good renders
goodd animations (loops)
godd sandbox at times makes sense
cons
mc is dumpass
plot is boring
some girls are idiot
bad sandbox at times as well
verry long uptate and low content

overalll ı enjoy good fap
(sorry bad english)

The MC is a total perv and a loser happen to have access to Deus Ex Machina then embark on a journey to have his fantasy come true and have some sweet revenge in the process. Though the cotent quite dry right now definitely recommend

Models are very good and so are renders in general (poses and backgrounds and so on). But for some reason, I'm looked out of content and can't finish some quests. It's either bugs or I've done something wrong at one point to fail quests? I also dislike grinding and this game has a lot of it, not to mention the anti-cheat system. Why?
(But I'm just going to treat that as my personal taste to dislike grindy sandbox games and not let it impact the final rating).
Either way I hope the reason why I get locked out is fixed at one point. And I wish you best of luck, dev.

seriously sometimes I'm shocked that people give these low scores
for me, it is one of the best games using illusion style
I hope you will keep it up bro and not give up and fck these ratings they are baka XD The Scene with Raping my own little sister is something. sadly step sister I hope for an incest mod in the future but still very nice. I love the story and dialogues so far and can't wait for more.

Okay I was thinking why this game has such low reviews then I came to realise that it's based on biased fetishisms. Those who disliked rapey and non-consensual contents seems to be the majority haters. Sorry but not every games has to tailor to your fetishes.

I tend to enjoy every contents from romance, harem, NTR, Incest to this so I put this in the incest/rape content and If it's not your thing then it's just not for you. Deal with it. I cannot complain that a Marvel movie doesn't have enough romantic scenes when it's intended for action/fantasy audience so stay on your lane and ignore if it's not your cup of tea.

Personally I love this game. Only criticism is to make the grinding less "grindier".

I was a bit on the fence going in due to all the negative reviews around. However, I was quite surprised by a great game with very smooth gameplay and amazing art.

If you're also unsure, go ahead and give it a try. I personally found the game to be quite worth it and really enjoyed the experience.

It should be said, however, that the heavier scenes are, indeed, quite heavy with rape actually "feeling like" rape much more than in other games that feature it. But such content is optional and there are enough warning prior to it for those who do not enjoy it be able to avoid it.

Pros:
The girls in this game look amazing.
The lewd scenes are very well made.
Grindwise it's absolutely acceptable.

Cons:
I noticed some weird things regarding the story and MC acts quite strange during many scenes which takes away some immersiveness. However, I will still give 5 stars because it's clear to me that Dev puts quite some work into creating an amazing game here.

Also some harsh words to the community:
I'm kinda ashamed by many of these reviews here.
People really give this game a bad rating because it's "too rapey".
For real? Are you guys aware where you are here? Everyone can enjoy his/her fetish - if you aren't into some stuff that doesn't mean that you have to destroy the ratings of a game. I'm personally not into futa stuff and still don't go around and give only one star to futa games. Just don't play games with rape tag if you don't like them.

Game version: 0.18.5.

I think I started playing this game from the beginning and the only thing that got "improved" since then has been the grind.
The overall visual quality of both the lewd scenes and the gameplay are quite good, though.
What really kills my mood and motivation is the unfair reward-grind-ratio. You need to grind ~ 5 minutes to progress in one of the girl's arcs and it is not even guaranteed to get a lewd scene at all.
The overall content so far is quite limited so far.

EDIT: The farer I'm progressing, the more disgusted I get from the weird and stupid story, the unrealistic interactions between the mc and the npcs.
The MC is an a**hole: sadistic, sassy (in a bad way), rapey, dumb and just not bearable as a MC
One star less. I'm just staying for the lewd scenes, which are good, as already mentioned.

I can't really say that it is a bad game, but the dev does too many absurd things to artificially stretch the game/ adds to many fillers for my taste.

the new updates so fun and interesting
more chara also is a plus and the design is 8/10 ngl
revamped stories is 9/10 and it fixed so many bug since last update

minus
mc kinda design is just Ugly Bastard kekw
i think you need to focus with main chara that appear first in story and not focused for the extra chara that appear lately like Mom or Dana before adding more chara / storyline but so far i'd enjoy the updates too

nice update since it needs to focus on one chara before going to the other

overall it's 9/10 but i give 5 star for excellency since some of good games like Deviant Anomalies abandoned kekw