Ren'Py - Altered Destiny [v0.14.2b] [ICCreations]

Ok,, surprise WOW game.

Almost missed this one because the cover art didn't really push any buttons for me. But out of boredom I downloaded it. GLAD I DID.

Ok first off. The story is a great concept and well executed. There is even a sort of sim-hidden easter egg that pays tribute to what is obviously an inspiration for this story. "Back to the future"

So:

Story: Fantastic!
Characters ( writing ): very engaging each with their own drives and personalities.
Characters ( Visuals ): A++
Mostly stunning. the girls are hot... even the Milfs. I even like the fact that the MC is a bit homily with some errant facial hair. Really they all look great.
Sex Scenes: Takes a while to get to any.. but they are well done with great "Secondary animations". There are some "implausible" physics ( giggles and bounces ) but it doen't detract from immersion.

Visual Story Telling: GREAT! the story/plot can be followed with little reading ( but it's worth reading )

Constructive Criticism.

OK the only thing I have negative to say about this game is. It's another one of those Sandbox games that is really a mostly linear story making the sandbox nature a little ( but just a little ) annoying. That said the game gives great visual clues ! about where to go next. leading to minimal hunting around for the next event.

Would be nice if there were more ( and slightly randomized ) repeatable event interactions once the MC is inmate with characters. To make exploring the open world more interesting.

Kinks.... oh yes..

My favorite part of this game is the BFF.. The girl "friend" is probably the hottest girl and the fact that she starts out at just a friend and it takes a long while to get her as a LI... its a great tease leading to a great please....

I'm going to follow and join the patrion of this one. !! Cannot wait to see where the story goes next.

I just played this game. It's one of the best games I've ever played. I admit, I'm completely hooked. Thank you for creating such a great game. I just played this game. It's one of the best games I've ever played. I admit, I'm completely hooked. Thank you for creating such a great game.

A lot of great ideas, although the "story" is a bit kinetic. The sandbox nature of the game is basically so you can replay sex scenes after the fact. There's really only one path through the game, and although some things have been added to recent releases to help guide the player to the next event, it's still never clear what to do next without running around everywhere just to see if something has changed. Also, the time of day is important as certain things only happen at certain times.

But that's about it on the cons. The visuals are great, although the animations are a bit janky. The characters all seem to have well-defined personalities, and develop over time. And the overarching story is pretty cool. I'm assuming that the climax will be the MC discovering that he's his own son, or that his sister is his daughter, or something like that. But it needs to get there--the last couple of releases seems to have slowed down the whole time-travel angle that pushed the story along in the early chapters.

All in all, one of the few titles that I'm constantly checking for new releases. I hope this one gets finished.

I played version v0.14.1b. The story’s pretty good, and I like how it opens up as you explore. It’s cool that some places don’t show up unless you have the right transport or know about them. The characters are different enough to remember, and the young and old faces look right, which makes everything feel more real.

I just played this one for the first time. It was always somewhere on my list but I kept avoiding due to the sandbox elements and stuff. I must said I felt like playing a game one decade old although the graphics are good, there are some animations although not a lot, I played for around 5-6 hours so maybe there is additional content later in the game and stuff

The game lacks any real hint system and in general you move around the map doing things over and over again trying to figure out how to proceed. There are a few scenes that trigger automatically, or marked with an exclamation point, compered to other games similar to this one and sometimes you feel lost in the 2010's sandbox nightmare. One of the games that if you loose a save you probably never go back.

My view is that the dev needs to look at Murray's mod for some games and try to implement something that give you some guide on what you are doing in the game

It's not a VN with a branching choices, good story, free roam and mini-games. Certainly not.
It's kinetic novel, telling us a story about how MC saved his aunt from death using time-traveling artifact. No choices, some kind or free roam and mini games just to prolong game time. That's totally excessive and clearly not needed elements that dev added for the game to have anything besides aforementioned story.
Game is pretty much finished (without the rewarding finale where villains got their punishment), and it's clear dev don't know what to do next so he just adds some meaningless characters, telling us their stories (no choices again) and telling us his usual incest theme.
All in all, it looks like a weak attempt at milking money with nothing to show. The only good thing about this game - the story itself, I liked the way it was told to reader but there's no game in that story.

Curious as to how this will go. Enjoyable so far. Would like more content with Kim and her sponsor. It is odd that no one notices that you are the same person...as the past you....or the present you...guess I'm overthinking it...

Deserves way more than the rating suggests so I'm rating this with 5 stars even though it's more like 4 or 4.5.

pros
- Great LIs and non-douche MC
- Nicely flowing dialogue and there's not too much of it so it doesn't get boring. Maybe a bit too much constant banter, it can get a bit jarring at times.
- I didn't believe that I could like a gilf LI but here we are.
- The town and the environment are pretty nice with animations even for non-lewd scenes in many places.

the ok
- Story is ok overall. Enjoyed reading it but feels like portions of it are undercooked. Maybe that gets fixed in the future updates.
- Pacing. Game started pretty slow (especially regarding lewd-scenes) but suddenly turned it up at some point. I still feel like it's done pretty well but you might have to play for a while before things heat up and if you're not interested in the story it can be a bad experience
- Sex scenes. They range from ok to (very) good. I really like the ones where there's a little build-up and dirty talk but some of them are also underwhelming. Animations are good - not the best but very serviceable and the scenes vary in length.
- Gameplay. It's basically "Go here to trigger a scene and then go to the next place". There's some extra side-quest stuff in the form of finding different objects around the town but I couldn't be arsed with that since they basically reward you with dream-scenes which I generally don't like.
- UI is well done

The meh
- Maybe a few too many characters. A lot of games do this and it usually doesn't go well at all. It's not too bad here but they've recently introduced new LIs without giving some of the old ones much new stuff at all. Takes away from the focus imo.

The bad
- Some unskippable animations and long scene transitions for some scenes. This is my only real gripe with the game. Annoying as hell.


The kinks here are definitely focused on family fun (but there are some other scenes as well). If you're not into that I don't know if you'll enjoy this.

Overall I really like the game and it's one of the rare ones where I didn't skip almost any text. Absolutely one of the better games on this site for me.

This is one of the rare games that leave me wanting for more. Can't wait for more updates! Would love to see further progression with the 3 main girls

I have to admit I played the mini games on EZ mode, not one for mini games. I do love the intuitive way it directs you to the next quest/lewd scene. Was a bit disappointed with the lack of photo opportunities though. Love the idea of taking secreted photos. Should jam a few more of those in there.

Keep up the awesome work!

This game is fucking amazing. The animations cool, the story is intriguing, the characters are endearing and interesting, it makes me not enable "skip unseen text" and just press ctrl, until the next fuck scene, like most games. It started as a slow burn, and would've liked some more transition between hidden desire, dismantling the taboo and full on incest fucking, but other than that, it's really well done!

I enjoyed the beginning, I'm generally a fan of the sort of 'best friend dynamic' and I thought it was fun and well written, so that's kind of a given for me. It also felt like a lot of effort was put into everything, I enjoyed seeing the story progress. The quality I felt went down a little bit once we went to the past, and really went down a lot once we were back in the present and onwards.

For those portions, I really only played through them because I was committed and wanted to see everything. Even if I could think of how I could like certain ideas, it was really hard for me to buy how sex was suddenly everywhere, and that kept being in the back of my mind.

On that topic, I should mention, the game starts off very slowly, no sexual content for a long time, with big focus on the plot. Later on, this seems to flip. It creates a weird situation where if you enjoy the early parts, you may be disappointed by how different it becomes. On the other hand, if you're looking for sex scenes, you'll have to sit through a large amount of content with virtually nothing of the sort.

There are very few exclusive options to pick, none are significant, and none are dialogue choices, so you have no influence on the MC's behavior at all. The sandbox aspect of the game is not badly implemented, there's no grinding and it's clearly marked where you should go.

A rating of two stars felt too low, four felt too high, so I'm giving it a three. A high end three, the game isn't bad, but it could be better, and it's very inconsistent.

I’ve tried a lot of games recently, but this one truly stands out. The graphics are stunning, the gameplay is smooth and engaging, and the storyline keeps me hooked for hours. Definitely one of the best games here, and I’d highly recommend it to anyone looking for an amazing gaming experience!

My first ever adult game was the artifact, I played it many times, all 3 parts. my biggest hope was, a remake of it.

But this is even better, a totally new story, with new mini games, and the same mystery, time travel, and family love stories (probably now with incest patch).

Graphics is great, and I had a lot of fun playing this one. I'm looking forward to the next update....

Review of 0.13. I haven't given this a run through before because of the mediocre ratings and some of the comments...I should learn to ignore them.

Glad I did, this is a superb production and I enjoyed every bit up to the end of version 0.13c. Lots of content to play through.

It is linear, some alternate choices do appear but those don't change anything in the game, it also has a sandbox, that is well done and very clearly tells you where to go and what comes next.

Timetravel, some serious hotties in both timelines, MILFs, a GILF, and lots of family type relations, and a best friend.

Now the story is really good, it kept me engaged and I wanted to see what happened next, sex is very well done (some reviews say there isn't enough of it, but I found it excellent and fits into the story at a great pace. Much of the sex is vanilla, which is great as this is a good story with great normal interations...so it doesn't go into crazy stuff and fits well (aside from some incest, impregnation, timetravel, and really screwing with the timeline. Really interested in how the dev is gonna write the rest as he seems to have a great hold on how the story is playing out.

Wholesome, good, and nice - but yes sticking yer dick in places that will create issues in the future.

Animations and some seriously good graphics, and perhaps one of the better storylines I have seen in this genre. I really hope the dev keeps it up.

Very happy to drop 5 stars on this, it isn't just checking the kinks off nicely it is an excellent quality production.

This game is awesome.

Its play style is pretty solid, i love the feeling of moving from a place to another, even when it is a linear plot it feels dinamic and alive, the characters are all so charming and the Mc is pretty great as a person (even when he has an idiot face) the Lis have strong characters and they feel pretty alive, the main story is where this game shine, is inmersive and pretty rich even when it is cliche, you feel bad for these characters and wish that they will be ok at the end.

Sadly it has a little weakness and it is in the lewd deparment, there are some main lis that dont have much development in that department, and god waiting is killing me.

I recomend it 100%

Just finished v0.13.
I like the story and it's pretty interesting to follow through. Didn't find myself skipping the conversations so yeah it was enjoyable for me.

Not a whole lot of scenes yet with LIs so looking forward to future releases. But where there were scenes I did enjoy them.

While the game is closer to a kinetic novel given the linearity, still the act of going to places and doing things makes you feel like you are participating in the game which is great.

As for number of LIs, pretty good amount but maybe some extras feel really like extras - the life guard scenes felt unnecessary and would have preferred if the dev spent time instead on the main LIs.

All in all it's amazing and hope future releases maintain or exceed the current quality.

After playing version 0.13c, I think this is a great game. It said in the beginning that this is not for the faint of heart, but it is not anything like that. It's just a really nice and easy, light-hearted story with fun mini-games implemented in it.
But I would definitely recommend playing this with the incest patch though, because the story is designed with it in mind, and it felt really weird with terms like 'sponsor' and 'sponsee'

Another VN masquerading as a sandbox, there's not much to do here besides following the linear and choiceless storyline. The game takes a bit of time to gear up, you can expect at least an hour or so before sex scenes start showing up. The plot is pretty simple, you play as a self insert that gets the power to travel through time, when it suits the narrative, and change up stuff. The setting is your usual safe, family harem type, this time with "sponsors".

The presentation in this game is really good, the renders, the angles, the music. However it tends to be a bit too pristine and unnatural, for example the girls are always hairless. There's also constant hard pauses that you can't click through to pace the narrative, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does get grating.

As for the sex scenes, there's a decent amount of them, but they're on the shorter end and the eroticism is lacking. It's one of the problems about harem games with a lot of interchangeable love interest, you need sexual tension, you need to feel that the girls matter, and that doesn't happen here.

I love that the same old tired assets aren't used in this. One of the few games where I look forward to new releases. Dev seems to have a thing for tit-fu*#ing - not that that's a bad thing I guess.

90% of the animations are there just to bloat the size of the game and show a big number in the change log. but most of them are pretty bad and most importantly useless. the dev should stop wasting time with these meaningless animations and focus on the important stuff since the time between updates is already too long.