Ren'Py - Altered Destiny [v0.11c] [ICCreations]

The story is a really interesting premise and I like all of the characters.. except the MC. He is... just a fucking asshole. a reactionary whiny, stupid, lazy, uninteresting, snarky with no right to be... dickhead. Rewrite him and the game would quadruple in quality.

The girl models are excellent with nice models for the most part, but there are downsides.

It's laggy as heck so you end up NEEDING to press skip to counter it, but then you end up missing stuff.

The main thing that makes this drop from ok to poor - asshole minigames all over the place. There's even a setting for this because obviously it is well known how much people hate this crap - yet the setting does NOTHING

There's a bunch of monster scenes. I think content like that is trash but I guess some like it. Wasn't bad enough to affect my rating, but worth mentioning.

Youre forced into absolutely vile scenes especially at porn studio with nasty women

Think I've gotten to the end of the content at this moment. Sooo right now, i like the premise. The idea of an mc jumping back and forth through time to interact mainly with his family is really neat, along with seeing other adults (mainly the females of course) younger.

Pros
The premise is really really interesting
Incest (with the patch) that is all
Mc isn't a shota/child
You arent railroaded into trying to get with the best(girl)friend
The female models for the older and younger women look good

Cons:
While not the worse, I hate the MC's model. His face looks like he's 50 while he's got the body of a 15 yr old but is 19.
Alot of the facial expressions can look kinda bad.
I'm up for slow burns but the story overshadows the sexual content quite a bit
Game is a little too dialogue heavy and not engaging enough to keep me interested (personally)
While im cool with a game with free roam, alot of it seems pointless as of yet.
Features are allowed before they have an actual point like interacting with your family before there's really any reason for it.

VERSION: v0.11c
SUMMARY: Pretty good game overall, but has a very long development time and not enough content to justify it IMO.
RATINGS: (out of 5):

1. Models: 5
2. Animations: 5
3. General Visuals: 4
4. Characters: 4
5. Story: 4
6. Writing: 4
7. Pacing: 3
8. Content (amount): 2
9. UI & Sounds: 3
10. Fetish & kinks: 2

Average: 36 of 50 possible points giving a 72% rating i.e. 4>5 stars.

PROS:

1. Very good looking models overall and a decent looking MC that actually looks like a young man and not some baby face.
2. Written quite well, good over structure.
3. Story is not entirely new, the Timestamps games did this kind of thing before and in a way also better, that being subjective though. Overall its always fun to see a story that fucks with time and the cause and effect.
4. Visually the game looks damn good, some sexual renders are better than other, some look a bit washed out, too bright and others better. This however is not often but something I did see once or twice.
5. Sounds are not bad, music is better than rest of the sounds,
6. UI and interactions with the world are surprisingly not bad, I hate sandbox however and find it a waste of time but I get why its done this way. It is done well. I do appreciate the efforts gone into it.
7. Animations are great,I also like the small animations of characters and the world like the speakers from radio, small things but nice and great effort.

CONS:

1. While sounds are decent there are not much when it comes to sexual lewd content which is a bit disappointing.
2. The MCs best friend is highly annoying and only detracts from the MCs real goal and that is to save his family.
3. At the same time the MC also is annoying with his ability to cockblock himself.
4. Frustrating having some characters in free roam world still have no dialogue options and they only act as placeholders...
5. Amount of content I feel is OK, but should be more, hell the game should be completed by now.

FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS:

• The MCs "best friend" is not exactly an interesting character or a character I would regard a friend at all, I believe her intentions are mostly self serving and she clings to the MC out of her own insecurities and other bullshit. Her actions are highly annoying as much as she is and she is overbearing and selfish in that, that her actions while they seem noble/altruistic always play to her advantage like some long game she is playing and using the MC, that is my impression of her at the moment, it may change but I personally don't like her at all and she kinda kills the mood of the game for me.
• As per above point, while I generally approve of the MC and he is trying to do the right thing most of the time, it can cut both ways when he prevents himself from actually getting much action. This is after all an adult VN, so it does get frustrating when the MC gets cold feet despite being obviously some pervert with kinks too. This was my experience, however I have not completed the current version so it may change.
• While I feel overall very positive of the game, I am frustrated that the game has some much missing still considering its original launch date. Yes I can appreciate that people build and develop these games with much less than a normal studio, I do feel that these games become overly ambitious and never gets done or end abruptly. Perhaps it would be best to split these kinds of games into several games rather than drag one game out but never get to experience much. Its as if this game keeps on wanting to become more and better but never gets there and when it finally does its pretty much done. I hope I am mistaken in this instance, but this is my opinion and im sticking to it.
• A decent quest log or system that indicates there is still content to play and what would be nice instead of jumping from timelines and fast forwarding time to unlock new events, another bullshit thing about sandbox.
• This game has a HUGE amount of potential but again, it needs more content to fill into the potential place holders and the rate that content has been released is IMO very slow. Great game, great way to introduce and play it despite sandbox, but just worries me that it takes so long to develop. Unfortunate...

This is bad. The worst of sandboxing blue balls. Aged renders. Some really unlikable characters. Honestly its like the overall thought is when in doubt lesbian scene. Not solved plot points, not MC gets some.....just lesbians. I don't hate lesbians.....I hate the constant stream of tease or lesbians. Either way the premise was interesting if not for it being a let down for lack of follow through.

Shitty games, with shitty renders and, and point and click sys that is not instinctive.
More over the ration of h-scenes is poor, which is worsened by lot of blue balling and the executiion of its concept of time travel done very poorly.
Not recommended. I hope I can recover my time I wasted in this game.

Animations are so good. Character renders are okey. Story is about time travelling between two timelines. (20 years ago and present). Choices dont matter much. So far so good. I hope developer continues this project. This promises much.

This game surprised me. Sure, it has some obvious tropes (i.e. helping sister with homework, lusty friend's mom, etc.), but the main plot line (think Back to the Future) is great. The writing is serviceable and the lewd animations have some bounce to them. It is not completed, so you get that, 'this route will be in future update' junk and the sandbox setting causes some reruns, but I am certainly going to bookmark this game and follow to completion. If the developer finishes it by the end of 2025, I'll even buy a copy to show my appreciation.

One of the greatest porn games I've ever played.

I had it put aside because I didn't like the appearance of the MC and her best (female) fried, Kim.

But I tried it out of boredom, and it has gone directly to one of my top ten. Maybe even top 5, I don't have them rated.


I like the MC and Kim. They are likeable. The MC is not a hateful person that only wants to fulfill his lust as in many games. He cares about the people he loves and understands that something must not happen, so it's slow burn.

Of course, he will do it will all the female cast, but in a tasteful way. He even put on a condom to have sex with one of the LI.

Netorare (NTR): Per definition "one character, often a man, is romantically or sexually involved with a woman, but she is seduced or forced into a sexual relationship with another man, leading to feelings of betrayal, jealousy, and emotional distress for the original partner.", there is no NTR in this game.

But if you are the part of the f95 NTR hater group and feels betrayed if your female friend pecks your mother, or gets hurts when a LI married to another LI have (out of screen) sex, this game is not for you. Avoid it.

Bro i don't know why this game is so underrated. I mean I get it sandboxes are very annoying when you want to bust that nut but this game is too good to be avoided just because of that . The characters were well designed, the story writing is good, the animations are good.. well. I mean there is very little to complain in this game. I mean being a dik, treasure of nadia,summertime saga(og) all are grind centered game. but theese games as a whole are too good to overlook , the same can be said in its case. I don't know of your opinions but this game is a solid A tier game.

I absolutely loved the characters, the story line and the look of the characters. The characters were well developed, and you can actually see them growing and still staying true to some form of moral code. The MC really does try to be a good and moral person, but his moral code of making sure that those he loves are happy and fulfilled over rides that sometimes. It actually becomes a rather endearing trait.

Good story so far, and really good renders/animations. I just wish there was an IC patch, since his "roommate" calls him "bro". Other than that, really liking this so far. The game mechanics are pretty fun as well. Having to upgrade your transportation to reach further out spots gives it a challenge.

This game has really interesting and emotional story, in a good way and i love it! Characters are hot, with different personalities, a there is a type for everyone.
Animations are really good, so are the scenes in general, with good writing in whole game. Great work as always from this dev, wish you all the luck!

Just a fantastic game. The women are varied, there's fun shenanigans, time travel had fun implications, and it's got enjoyable humor. I enjoy these games where it's pretty linear, but you're given a world and you can go and focus on who you want

Good story so far, left me wanting way more lol .09c so far. The game does a good balance of the time travel feature (i think i missed the part were since he messed with the past why the mc doesn't disappear also) The ladies are hot though the fortune teller is meh (in terms of looks) and could be a possible way to guide players if they are lost.

I am very confused by some of the negative reviews for this game.
Some people are saying the story is too hard to follow or that it doesn't make sense. I can only assume these people do not understand English very well.
Some of the character criticisms (one character in particular) are based on an older version of the game.

The story in my opinion is quite good; traveling back in time and forward again and seeing how what your character did in the past effects the present is executed quite well. But this is not a jump into the R rated scenes kind of game, it is very much narrative driven first and foremost.

The characters over all are great, they are very believable in a R-rated incest game sort of way. They all have distinct personalities without entering caricature territory.

Kim's character in particular is heavily criticised; but to me it looks as if her critics have missed something that, if intended, seems very obvious. I would encourage people to play the game rather than read this next part

Short said -- dev is talented but the game is kinda not my thing
writing is good - parodies are funny ( still missing the baywatch parody lol )

came for the time travel stuff and hoping for some kinks that are just missing for the moment

kinda played until the story just stopped and no more quest popped up..
since i spend alot of time in this gime - had to write a review.

if you are into overwelming hand and blowjobs.. this is your game
if you are into big boobed every girl .. this is your game
if you are into 60y grannys that look 40 with big firm boobs ... wel this is your game..
the only girl with kinda perky tits is lesbian so you can only dream about that...

overall good writing good 'story' but it misses some good features
and being more than 6 gigs in file size.. well maybe i expected more
models look a bit out of date and the same... but hey. thats a personal opinion

* Dev has clarified my drastic misunderstandings. Review altered in response. I will be replaying the game in full as my recollection is flawed and biased at best. Edit: Sorry to dev for not clarifying that and coming across as sarcastic (I forgot to update the rating it wasn't a personal slight. ) * tl;dr and skip to ratings on bottom.

MC's friend is given free reign to do something just about anyone would be furious over without consequence that the stereotypical "main character" plot armor allows. I greatly dislike this.

As to the game itself, the renders are solid the faces are... not quite but a bit disney-esque at times? The pacing isn't bad, and the general premise is good. If you can get over the hangups I have over the issue above, I recommend giving it a try.

Edit: Overall rating I say 2, maybe 2.5 , but given the sincerity of the dev and future clarifications in the story of these issues I say it has plenty of upside. I appreciate them taking the time to reach out. That sincerely impressed me. Could end up being a quite good game in my view even with my misgivings. I'll keep tabs, and recommend anyone on the fence to give it another shot later after a few updates.

However, I (personally) still find Kim to be a horrible "friend" who has a lot of work to redeem themselves as a decent person the MC should have any goodwill towards and think MC is a bit of a pushover as a result.

Ratings on a 0-5 Scale for clarification 0-1 = 1 star
Concept: 3/5 (Time travel to save the world/etc)
Plot: 1.5/5 (Reasons that I sincerely disliked above)
Sound: 3/5 (Nothing praise, nothing to shut the volume off for either)
Graphics: 2.5/5 (Faces overly expressive at times, not bad, not something you'd DL in 4K either, which with over 7GB it feels a bit bulky for...hmmm "vintage" renders? Still solid, I've seen far worse and its better than Koikatsu assets.)
Price: 5/5 (Its free PogU)
Overall: 2.5/5 As it is I feel its a 2 star, but dev's sincerity bumps to a 3.

Jesus, game is just bad. It is crazy to think that this dev has so much experience and yet is delivering something like this. The renders are showing their years already, the characters are awfully unlikeable like, very unlikeable and even annoying at times, is the dev making them like that on purpose? Dont know, it doesn't seem like a good idea in these type of games, and of course you cant avoid stuff.
Also the game seems to be a bit obsessed with lesbianism to the point it gets very annoying and makes you roll your eyes, so if you are not really into it a lot, dont try this one. The MC feels like an afterthought in this , seems like he is just supposed to watch or something, honestly just feels like he is just "there" but he is not the one driving the story and is just dumb and obnoxious, kinda like the rest of the characters here

....The story ...... is okish I guess, time travel is always an interesting topic and this has some twists and stuff but they are all very silly and unimaginative, and since the game doesn't make you care about the characters it ends up very mediocre, dialog is very cringe at times, as are some very stranger facial expressions that really make you question what the f you are doing with your time playing this.
Overall, one of the least enjoyable experiences I've had playing a porn game in quite a while.

One of the fucking BEST GAME ever!
Good Side : The crazy story and gameplay!
Bad Side : The interface is not ergonomic. A clearer walkthough should be made. The Gallery is messed up. Lack of choice during scenes.
The graphics are good enought to support the story.

But at the end of the day, the story is so wild that it make up for all the other limits!