Ren'Py - AIRevolution [v0.3.6] [Akaime]

The first night I played this, I was initially turned off by Akaime's brash attitude and deleted the game. I've decided to give AIRevolution another go after reminding myself of forgiveness. It's so much better than I imagined.

PROS: The co-existence of androids and humans is not something I haven't seen before, but the way it's shown here is rather unique, in my opinion. It's like an anime reimagining of Detroit Become Human, except the androids already have free will. For the 1.5 years that it's been in development, several of the characters have well-fleshed out backstories, like Rizzette and Aomi being Combat AIs, Katsue and that dark elf (forgot her name) being Premium AIs and Eva being Viper's first project. However, we still have a lot to learn about Yuriko. We only know that she's an alt-girl/guitarist/prankster who appears to live alone. I wonder what her origin story is. The MC, Tyler, is your typical horny toad, but he's not the rapey and douchy type. For instance, in the sex scenes for the love interests, he doesn't force them into anything. Instead, he takes initiative after they tease him for long enough. Not exactly a realistic approach to intercourse, but thankfully he doesn't harm anyone. The voice actress, VixxenVA, brings so much energy and diversity to the love interests, with Yuriko being extroverted and Naoko being gentle for example. Despite minor errors, the animations are insanely well-done and full of expression. They feel less monotonous and more like full movies. Even the heart pupils common in hentai were recreated beautifully with a glowing effect, which was a nice touch.

CONS: There are numerous typos that become more frequent as the game progresses. Sometimes, the jiggle physics look more like a character's breasts are floating rather than being affected by gravity (e.g. Katsue's sex scene). There are also countless clipping issues. Tyler thrusts so hard that his penis clips through a character's abdomen (e.g. Katsue's sex scene again); a background character's feet phases through the floor in the opening scene for the Christmas event; Katsue's tail clips through the floor when she performs squats; Tyler's arm glitches out shortly before he cums inside Effie in the shower. The sandbox aspect is pointless, with the main storyline progressing well without it. It would work if Tyler had a part-time job or something, but the sandbox is just "go to one place at a specific time and the plot continues from there." Back to the sex scenes, they are not interactive and lack choices. Additionally, Tyler has never done foreplay, as it is always performed on him by his love interests.

Overall, AIRevolution still has a long road ahead of it, and it's a bit rough around the edges, but what exists so far is nothing short of excellent. There is not a single character I find unlikeable, not even the MC or Akaime. AVN protagonists are often predatory, sociopathic and manipulative, but Tyler is surprisingly a decent person who just happens to have a strong libido. The VAI conflict surrounding Khoren's plans for domination is something that I can't wait to see unfold.

If you are looking for a game with big titty dragon and sexy AIRobot this is One of a game, good story, lewd, good model, monster girl with massive tits.
What else do we need ? Music and atmosphere are also really good.

The game has a nice flow story wise, it kept me going and actually made me read all the lines instead of just skipping towards the NSFW-parts. Animations are smooth and got sound from the beginning towards the end, which is awesome.

The nice visuals is the first and last positive this "game" has.
A completely generic harem, where every creature with a vagina can't stop drooling about the MC despite him being a supposed outcast and lame person.
The story is outlandishly stupid, contrived and illogical, every event will require you to spread your suspension of disbelief so thin you could see through it, choices that don't matter and mountains of bad english. The characters are barely one dimensional, with no real appeal or charm.
The "gameplay" is a linear sandbox, events can only happen in one order only, completely removing any point of the system. It's like the dev just saw that many other devs have one so he needs to put it too, without actually putting any thought into it.
Whatever small amount of sex that is there just happens suddenly, with the most minimal amount of buildup of tension and relation.
Maybe if the dev spent less time on the window dressing and trashy seasonal events, he could have had more time to spend on making something worth going through.

The models are nice enough and the animations are ok if rare. The writing though, this is the kind of bad that transcends language and culture barriers.
The story of this one is like pure distilled isekai, so distilled it's almost solid.

I want to say, the dev should focus on the visuals and at least hire an editor to help get this story in check.

Solid. Although I am usually against the sandbox type of novels, this one at least does it nicely, without a stupidly unnecessary movement mechanic. Still, I would rather prefer it to be straightforward.
Otherwise, the game is pretty cool, character designs are unique, and they are memorable, which is the most important thing IMHO.

This game certainly has some good parts. Art wise the game is great the Models look good the sex animations can be excellent. The characters themselves personality-wise are quite good they have variance in character and they generally interesting.

But the rest of the game is pretty damn rough. Any writing that is meant to be plot based feels so obscenely contrived and stupid, I'm playing monster girl hentai I'm not expecting realism here but my suspension of disbelief was constantly shattered. The character interactions are mostly the same, zero attempt to make believable relationship building just yahoo every character instantly loves you, the characters are cute I want them to actually have storylines and build up but there's just nothing there.
I can understand a game having non serious writing and just being meant to be fun but this really feels completely like somebody just making a story up as they go and not caring if things are contradictory, illogical or pointless.
It's not really trying to be comedic either.



This kind of game where the models are good sex is good writing is bad/stupid and characters just want to fuck you immediately can be good there is nothing wrong with a game focusing completely on sex scenes.
But this game isn't doing that it has like 9 sex scenes half of them pretty short and a whole lot of badly written (both ways) dialogue.

There's far more time spent dealing with sandbox garbage or watching bad character development scenes that don't develop the character or relationship building scenes that don't change the relationships, than there is time spent playing through erotic scenes which is the much better part of the game.


I don't really understand why this is even a game just watching the scenes without context would be a better experience.

I'm going to be really odd and give this a 5 star review even though i'm worried about the future of this game. That sounds negative but know that times from a desire to see this game truly become one of the best koikatsu games there are.

The positives?

Animation: I think everyone can agree that these are just perfect. Ofcourse improvement is possible but like, it'd be like going from 95/100 to 96/100. I was recommended this game while I was searching for high-qualtity animation and this delivered.

Characters: They work. They're all unique, especially the ones that have gotten attention.It's a bit too early to say that one "cares" about them but the foundations are there.

Story: People are allowed to say the story is mediocre or even cliche. However I personally raise two points: It's a bit too soon for me to judge the story. This isn't to throw a stone or something but that's how it is. Due to that, I am treating the story as a vessel for interaction with these characters and not vice versa. Usually that's bad with how the characters are written but it just worksworks.

Writing isn't perfect but it also isn't bad. Some proofreaders would help the quality up. But I didn't feel like the writing was hampering my enjoyment.

I honestly feel like that your opinion on this game is dependent on how much quality you expect outside the animations. If you want a "all in one" package with general high quality, then AIrevolution isn't there YET. It has solid foundations to rise to the top but it needs to finds it's footing.

However I do have some worries about that future.
1)LI/scope creep: the Undoing of many devs, you can have a lot of LI's but you either have to pace the game in such a way that the player doesn't get burndened by it. Scope creep is almost the same. You may, in the future, have to kill your darlings and that's ok. We all have to do that when we're being creative.
2) Sandbox/VN. As of now, I prefer sandbox but I feel like AI revolutions is balancing the two. Keeping that balance is tough but possible although it may be easier to lean into one more than the other, just food for thought.
3) Tone: Be consistent. As of now i've gotten the impression we're going to get a light tone and not a serious one but don't try to 180 on it without really good build up. Whiplash effect is a strong one and this game, has for me atleast, set it self as a light-toned adventure, not a serious msystery game. If that isn't desired effect, my apologies.

Honestly, I wish the dev the best of luck cause what you have right here is a diamond in the rough that in the future may shine brightly.

What was the point of making a sandbox if all you have to do is skip time and click to go to the right location and see a ton of text? Make it a regular visual novel then, these useless clicks are annoying.
Little NSFW content, literally two or three scenes and that's it.
Primitive harem story where any girl falls in love with the MC almost immediately
So I don't understand so many positive reviews about this game. Maybe later everything will change but now the game has almost no NSFW content so I don't see the point in wasting time on it

best nsfw game I've ever played, amazing characters, plot, easy to navigate, has a guide if you get stuck, sex scenes are very well animated. can't wait for the future updates. Never encountered any bugs also, althought there were black screens who took a lot of time to get through, i dont know if that was intentional or a bug/glitch.

I don't need to write a 50 paragraph essay for you to play this game because the game does a good job attracting you with beautiful girls, with a lot of different personalities, good models and animations that go a lot longer than the typical 3 second loop that you seem to encounter in every single game of this genre

so yeah, one of the best 3d games i played here

Developper put some work in it, and it shows.
While it is not the best game out here it is a solid four stars.
The game got custom animation, good models, and a big cast of interesting characters. Some of them are really lovable.
It's main problem is the lack of plausability when it comes to horny things, for example :
- every character that goes on the beach has an ultra sexy/revealing bikini, even the shy ones.
- everybody gets horny way to fast sometimes
- the LI are too quickly interested in the MC
- they sometimes go for something naughty even when it's out of character
I hope the dev will improve on theses points !

Despite the rather heavy sci-fi summary on the game page, AIRevolultion is an overall light-hearted and comedic slice of life game loaded with plenty of animations and humorous dialogue. Just don't go in expecting a serious and logically sound sci-fi adventure and one should be alright.

Story
In the future AI androids enjoy the same rights as humans and are more or less indistinguishable from ordinary humans in daily living. MC's parents got him an AIGirl as well and most of the story will revolve around his interactions with normal and AIGirls in school as well as his new roomate, Akaime, bought by his parents.

Amid the hustle and bustle of school life, a group of AIGirls who want to start a revolution to overthrow the current order and establish an AI superior one also enrols into MC's school. It's best to see this more as a funny premise for MC to build his harem rather than a real mystery or war adventure as there is very little logic to it.

Game Mechanic
It's a tightly controlled sandbox with an easy quest guide to move around and trigger events. Choices are mostly inconsequential other than the one where you choose whether you want AIGirls to be equal or subservient to humans.

Even then from what I observe so far, this only results in slight variation to the dialogue. Hopefully the story will branch out further differently depending on your choice.

Background / Character Renders
Background and characters are typical to that made with Koikatsu with ordinary images revolving around the town.

There are plenty of LIs, eight so far, with more planned to be unveiled in the future based on the blanked-out character profiles to date. Each of the LIs are uniquely designed to appeal to different players with traits such as catgirl, android, demon, ninja, elf, vampire etc. There's something for everyone.

Character Development
As a slice of life humor game, character development is not the main focus though. MC is somewhat colourless save for the usual hentai perversity whereas the LIs take up the usual tropey traits in anime.

However, credit must be given that the developer does it from an angle of fun, so none of them are annoying. You kind of just laugh along with their silliness.

Sex Scenes
Animated sex scenes are the selling point of AIRevolution - many of them feature multiple unique animations that go beyond the standard 2-3 second loop and there's even a separate cum shot animation.

Not only are the animations beautiful, the dialogue, sound effects and music all add to the mood and offer a great experience.

BGM and Sound Effects
The BGMs are mostly pleasant complimentary tunes that blend well and sound effects are minimal.

Conclusion
AIRevolution is a good light hearted visual novel with gorgeous animations that doesn't take itself too seriously; just don't expect too much from the "AI Revolution" story line which is more complimentary to build up the "silliness" premise.

Review:

Game: AI Revolution
Version: 0.3.4
Type: VN ( ) Sandbox (X)
MC: Standard, but then becomes a pussy magnet

Graphics: 5/5
Animation: 5/5
Scenes: 5/5
Story: 5/5
Models: 5/5
Content: 3/5

Suggestion: Katsue's hair keeps changing, i find it wierd. As other said, the pace goes form 0 to 100 pretty fast. The sandbox doesn't add much, and the choices do not matter as well.

Thoughts: I like the hud. I like that you don't need to sleep to pass the day. The models are f great, Akaime is the best so far. The story is cool enough, though simple it is above average in execution. The animations are great, ariesana's scene *chef's kiss*

Overall F95: 5/5

Just based on the graphics and scenes I can't give this game any less than a 5 star rating. The story is interesting, although the pacing gets weird as hell. Same thing goes for the way the game handles relationships between characters and the MC's development, but the hotness of every single damn character just carries this game to a point I can't even find words to properly explain. 25/10

plot 6.7/10 the story is really good but it can be improve it
chara 10/10 damn all the female here are hot as fck
sex 69/10 damn all the sex scene are fire. i already wack my d 4 times but it won't stop erecting
suggestion if i may
I hope creator adds a repeatable sex scene because a one-time scene is not enough
and also add a small flat female chara not small enough look loli

This review is based on ~4 hours of gameplay for the v0.3.3 release.

Outside of the character models, everything felt very average. I suspect there's still a fair amount of content for me to see, and some of these scores could be raised if the more recent content has improved, but based on what I've seen so far I suspect it's more of the same.

Let's start with the game's strength...

Art/Animations: 5/5

As the screenshots show, there are a lot of varied women depicted in this game. If you've got a style/flavor, there's probably a girl for it. Though, for me, there every girl would be improved if their bust size was reduced by one cup. Most of the girls here are at the very upper limit of what I find attractive, and the rest are still well above average. There's even a scene where one of the girls who's a solid D cup is complaining to the MC about how small her breasts are and how she knows they're not attractive. Like. What? Drop her to an A, or at most a B, if you're going to use that trope.

The animations are above average, but not amazing. The loops were a little short, though future scenes may be longer. I nearly marked this section as a 4/5 but the sheer creativity and diversity of women in this game made me want to keep it a 5/5.

The characters sometimes surprised me with how authentic they reacted to certain dialogue (with respect to body language), which was a nice surprise as well.

Story: 2.5/5

The story is... serviceable. There were moments when I laughed out loud. The girls do have personalities, but they're only a step or two above one dimensional characters. Quite tropey, but the dev makes it tolerable via comedy. Your hangouts/dates with the girls are as unique as their themes/flavors, so that was a good plus.

You'll see weird or contradictory things occur fairly regularly. Extremely minor spoiler example: One of the girls, who is seen as a social outcast, so much so that the MC, who isn't popular himself, didn't want to hang out with her, asks one of the popular, snobby, school bullies out (no NTR, non-sexual, plot driven reasons). The snobby, popular bully accepts without reservation. When she no longer became a social outcast? I haven't a clue. Another Extremely minor spoiler example: The MC suspected one of his classmates was a 'combat AI'. The MC knows this girl is second in command to the antagonist, and thinks he's figured out her secret. So what does he do? He confronts her, then when she wants to speak to him alone about it, he follows her. Yeah, great idea, lets follow the combat droid of your enemy to a secluded place as the two of you discuss how you figured out one of their secrets. Look at the game's main picture, it's theme is an "AI Revolution", but it's not taking itself seriously.

Speaking of the game not taking itself seriously, the MC gains a fair amount of proficiency with wielding a katana via two morning practice sessions. Just give him a kendo background and have that interaction be focused on how that LI can help him improve upon what he already has. There's so many easy ways to fix these plot issues, I'm struggling to understand how the dev fell into these plot holes in the first place.

Conversations are generally supercharged and are narrated in as few words as possible. That scene where the outcast girl asks the popular bully and he accepts? Around 100 words... For context, that's a little less than half a page for most novels. Sure, I get it, a picture is worth a thousand words, you get to see how these characters look and their environment, so that'd count as narrative content as well. Still, 100 words to bridge the social gap between someone who is such an outcast that the loser (at the start of the game - at least) MC didn't even want to hang out with her and the snobby popular bully? By the time you realize she's asking him out the scene is over. While that scene might be particularly bad, the others have similar issues.

There are a few spelling errors, grammatical errors (I can't imagine the Dev employed a professional proof reader as one of the changelogs claims) scattered throughout. The narration and character dialogue is 110% popcorn fiction, there's nothing complex about it at all.

Sound: 2.5/5

Like the story, it's serviceable. Simple, short songs on loop in the background, occasionally an action has sound, lewd sounds, etc. All the standard stuff. Nothing outstanding, no essentials missing. Average.

Game Mechanics: 2/5

The sandbox style adds nothing but a chore. You'll click around a lot for no other reason to move the story along. Perhaps there's more planned, but as of now, this should have been a VN where your character is on rails. You'd lose nothing and save time trying to figure out where you need to be at what time of day to move the plot along.

All but a small handful of choices are fake as well. The most they'll show you is a slightly different scenario that still finishes the same way.

I took a half star off because you don't even get shown the days of the week, meaning you can go to school 7 days a week. Even the pointless sandbox games I'm use to differentiate between weekdays and weekends.

Final verdict: 3/5

This game shows promise. There's a decent skeleton here, it wouldn't be difficult to add in more narration, fix the spelling/grammatical errors, and make use of the sandbox mode or just make it a linear VN. Do that, spice up the audio a little, and polish the plot to where it takes itself seriously and I think it could reach 4/5 stars.

This review is based on ~4 hours of gameplay for the v0.3.3 release.

Outside of the character models, everything felt very average. I suspect there's still a fair amount of content for me to see, and some of these scores could be raised if the more recent content has improved, but based on what I've seen so far I don't see any reason not to expect more of the same.

Let's start with the game's strength...

Art/Animations: 5/5

As the screenshots show, there quite the variation of women depicted in this game. If you've got a style/flavor preference, there's probably a girl that covers it. Though, for me, there every girl would be improved if their bust size was reduced by one cup. Most of the girls here are at the very upper limit of what I find attractive, and the rest are still well above average. There's even a scene where one of the girls who's a solid D cup is complaining to the MC about how small her breasts are and how she knows they're not attractive. Like. What? Bring her down to a B or A cup if you're going to pull that.

The animations are above average, but not amazing. The loops were a little short, though future scenes may be longer. I nearly marked this section as a 4/5 but the sheer creativity and diversity of women in this game made me want to keep it a 5/5.

The characters sometimes surprised me with how authentic they reacted to certain dialogue (with respect to body language), which was a nice surprise as well.

Story: 2.5/5

The story is... serviceable. There were moments when I laughed out loud. The girls do have personalities, but they're no more than a step or two above one dimensional characters. Your hangouts/dates with the girls are as unique as their themes/flavors.

You'll see weird or contradictory things occur fairly regularly. Extremely minor spoiler example: One of the girls, who is seen as a social outcast, so much so that the MC, who isn't popular himself, didn't want to hang out with her, strikes up a conversation with one of the popular, snobby, school bullies with the intent to ask him out - (don't worry, no NTR, there's a non-sexual, plot driven, reason this is occurring) The popular, snobby, school bully accepts with no reservations. When had she risen above her social outcast status? I haven't a clue. Another Extremely minor spoiler example: The MC suspected one of his classmates was a 'combat AI'. The MC knows this specific classmate is second in command to the antagonist, and thinks he's figured out her secret. So what does he do? He confronts her, then when she wants to speak to him alone about it, he follows her. Yeah, great idea, lets follow the combat droid of your enemy to a secluded place as the two of you discuss this important secret you've figured out about said enemy. Look at the game's main picture, it's theme is an "AI Revolution", but it's not taking itself seriously.

Speaking of not taking itself seriously, the MC gains a fair amount of proficiency with wielding a katana via two morning practice sessions. Just give him a kendo background and have that interaction be focused on how that LI can help him improve upon what he already has. There's so many easy ways to fix these plot issues, I'm struggling to understand how the dev fell into these plot holes in the first place.

Conversations are generally supercharged and are narrated in as few words as possible. That scene where the outcast girl asks the popular bully out and he accepts? Around 100 words. For context, that's a little less than half a page for most novels. Sure, I get it, a picture is worth a thousand words, you get to see how these characters look and what their environment looks like, so that'd count as narrative content as well. Still, 100 words to bridge the social gap between someone who is such an outcast that the loser (at the start of the game - at least) MC didn't even want to hang out with her and the snobby popular bully? By the time you realize she's asking him out the scene is over.

There are a few spelling errors, grammatical errors (I can't imagine the Dev employed a professional proof reader as one of the changelogs claims) scattered throughout. The narration and character dialogue is 110% popcorn fiction, there's nothing complex about it at all.

Sound: 2.5/5

Like the story, it's serviceable. Simple, short songs on loop in the background, occasionally an action has sound, lewd sounds, etc. All the standard stuff. Nothing outstanding, no essentials missing. Average.

Game Mechanics: 2/5

The sandbox style adds nothing but a chore. You'll click around a lot for no other reason to move the story along. Perhaps there's more planned, but as of now, this should have been a VN where your character is on rails. You'd lose nothing and save time trying to figure out where you need to be at what time of day to move the plot along.

All but a small handful of choices are fake as well. The most they'll show you is a slightly different scenario that still finishes the same way.

I took a half star off because you don't even get shown the days of the week, meaning you can go to school 7 days a week. Even the other pointless sandbox games I'm use to differentiate between weekdays and weekends.

Final verdict: 3/5

This game shows promise. There's a decent skeleton here, it wouldn't be difficult to add in more narration, fix the spelling/grammatical errors, and make use of the sandbox mode or just make it a linear VN. Do that, spice up the audio a little, and polish the plot to where it takes itself seriously and I think it could reach a 4/5 stars.

Yes, I only rated it 3 stars.... but hear me out.

AIRevolution is a good game. But only 'good'. It does some things fantastically, but does other things in a very flawed way. Things that hurt the experience for me. But even with these flaws, you can feel the love put into this game.

Graphically, this game is one of the best, especially being Koikatsu assets. The rendering is very top-notch, the environments are beautiful (but very empty feeling) and all of the ladies are very sexy without being over-the-top anime hentai BS. The parts of the game that are animated are animated very well, even if the animations are not looped well. The Pron is strong here.

Game story concept, it is very interesting with some well thought out lore points... but the pacing... THE STORY. I half expect the MC and his waifus to start breaking out mystical powers with world-ending abilities before long and the antagonist to join the MC in fucking God or something before this story ends. Or... could just win with the power of dick. Who knows?

Gameplay wise, the game also leaves something to be desired. The game includes a hint system that is sometimes misleading. Dialogue trees also sometimes include RNG. Don't worry if you choose poorly however as it seems most events will end the same way regardless of what choice you make. The difference in dialogue choices tend to take you on different paths to show some funny things or sexy things. Most of the grind in the game is just the 'time of day' juggle that these 'sandbox' games tend to have.

tips for gameplay:
-If you decide to do something and the MC gets smacked around for it or fails spectacularly at something, try save scumming. It may have been an RNG event(example: taking a swing at the guy in the alleyway during prologue). Other times, just might have been the wrong choice...(example: the scene that results from getting caught in the girl's shower)
-Pay attention to the sound that plays when choosing a dialogue option. If you are in a position where choice matters, you'll hear a more 'cheerful' tone than usual to tell you that you chose the optimal choice(example: the scene that results from getting caught in the girl's shower). The most important decision that seems to get brought up seems to be the choice of being 'FAI' or 'SAI'.
-Gallery and extras are available after the prologue when your friend Effie gifts you an AI drone named 'Zero'. The Gallery is not complete and will not include smaller sexy times, such as 'punishments' for the catgirl. Highly recommended to start making use of codes as soon as possible when they become available. Most are just bonus art, but the first one is actual gameplay and you will miss out on bonus content in the BioAi building without it.

Basically, my only true gripe is the wtf feelings that result from the plot whiplash moments of the game's story since it is in those moments where the game story suddenly feels like it goes from relaxed pacing to WTFBBQ and feels like it was written by someone who has watched way too much anime.

I'll still play it and follow it, though.

This game is gold, everyone should try it!
Story is very interesting and well written, even tho it is just beginning and I bet it is going to get better and better with each updates.
Game looks awesome, scene animations in this game are probably the best koikatsu animations I have ever seen. Also writing in scenes is great.
Wish you all the luck dev!