VN - Ren'Py - Completed - AlwaysFan [v1.0] [AtemX Games]

If I had to summarize my opinion of this it'd be "It's alright". It's not bad but I don't necessarily think it's good either, easily fits in the 3 Star rating overall.


I think what mainly affected the rating for me would be:
The pacing
Stiff and/or unnatural dialogue


With the pacing of the story and characters being the main one. We're barely given much time with characters after their introduction before there's an H- scene with them. Whether it's a simple blowjob or a full blown sex scene.

I found myself turning on the "Skip Unseen Text" open to just skip passed them because they were just that common and felt like I spent more time with them than with the story itself.


My other gripe is in regards to the dialogue feeling stiff and/or unnatural. As quickly as you are to have an H-scene of some sort with a character is as quickly as you'll learn their life story. Not from experiencing it from an event that makes them think about it, or noticing that they liked something from an event. No, they'll outright tell you most of what you need to know from the get-go.

Don't get me wrong, you do learn more about them all throughout the story, but it doesn't really amount to much in comparison to the dump you were left with when meeting them.


Credit where credit is due, though. The game pays special care and attention to things that a good number of others don't:

The choices are clear enough that it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone what leads to what.

Despite my gripe with the frequency of h-scenes, at least there's an option for a couple of them (Before bed and during the shower. Small victory but a victory nonetheless)

The achievements also make things clear enough what you can expect from some choices if you are (somehow) unsure where something went wrong during your run

A very well organized gallery WITH a built in unlocker! No need for a save download or a mod, you can easily unlock it yourself if you just want to see all the scenes available and any that you may have missed (or chose to not do). Granted you have to complete the game first to choose that option, but still. The fact that few other games don't offer the same is criminal. Why is this not the norm?

This is a very unique game with a diverse cast of characters, with twists and turns in the story that is well written and sometimes dark, it creates a lot more emotional impact in the game, as you can tell by the five stars, I'm a huge fan, that being said...

I get that it's a harem game, but I swear the MC could rip ass and the girls would flock to smell his farts, every other male character in this game is either some of or all of these categories chauvinistic, sexist, perverted, pushy, etc. I get that it's supposed to make the MC more appealing, but it just means the MC is the only normal dude so the MC doesn't even have to try at getting the girls. Like I said, it's a five-star game, but it did bug me that every single girl just loves you after the first or second meeting besides a few select characters, Emile and Cassandra have established backstories as to why, but characters like Jenna just throw themselves at you despite being reserved personality-wise. Also the "I'm a virgin" line comes up SO often in a game about OnlyFans models it bugs the shit out of me.

I'd probably knock it down to 4 stars but the rest of the game is just so good I can move past some of the logic leaps.

EDIT: I have to lower this game to a 3, when I got to the Lea romance the pacing is insane and made me think of the game differently. Lea tells you of the horrors of Marcus Biggerman and what she's had to go through to survive for her and her sister and in the next 5 minutes she asks you to fuck her. She even goes "I thought I hated all men but with MC it's different." The writing gets worse and worse as the game goes on

this is a game done WELL!

i'm not sure where to even start so i'll run down the goods & the bads (spoiler alert: the ratio between these is not balanced!)

goods:
-main LI is amazing! she has an unconventional design but it works so well. albinos aren't used particularly often in games, let alone porn ones, so it's a nice change of pace. besides, it makes her.. even hotter? can't quite put my finger on it. she's smokin hot, though. in her, sorta awkward-ish face but extremely well endowed body.

-the game is actually finished. yes, you heard it right, ladies an gentlemen! a game, on f95, with a wide variety of paths, choices & even some bad ends thrown in here and there is actually finished! this alone should give the game an extra point in all categories.

-plenty to do! as mentioned before, the game has a plethora of choices to make, some objectively better, some worse (i.e locking you out of a specific girl, for example) and some just shape the way your playthrough is going to go. this gives the game an incredible amount of replayability and i've honestly lost track of how many times i've finished this game. now that i'm thinking about it, might do it again today

-sex scenes are good! not much to say here. nothing extraordinary but not slop either. just good! considering the game has many, i don't really mind the quality all that much.

-great fetishes and the quantity of them! nuff said

-to clump this all up together, rest of the game is great as well. UI is clean, showing off which girl is locked/unavailable/etc.

bad-ish-personal-opinion-thing:
-truly, the only two things, and i mean, the ONLY things i did not like about this game were the questionnaire and pc file search minigames. they aren't actually bad at all - matter in fact, the pc search thing is actually quite simple and intuitive to do if you know what you're doing. but i felt like they broke the game's pacing just a little - you go from never really doing anything aside from screwing girls to being in a timelocked minigame.

don't get me wrong, the game has a good story, and this definitely expands on it if you take the game slower. but at the same time, i enjoyed playing it as a fapfest and being cockblocked (literally) wasn't particularly fun. i soaked in the story through dialogue, personally.

again, this last point is ENTIRELY personal and subjective. i would never knock a point down for something like this, although i do wish there was a simple "skip minigames" option.

other than that, the site needs more game like this. it's wonderful. play it if you haven't already!

Great game! The plot is addictive, although the game seemed boring at first, but only for the first 10 minutes. Good graphics. There are also interesting plot twists. It's interesting to know how it ends

TLDR: Outstanding completed pure visual novel about a couple and about exploitation of women. Meaningful choices and real consequences make it a real game. Optionally serves a lot of the standard fetishes.

Consider this concept for a visual novel: Take an environment in which women are ruthlessly exhibited and prostituted. Throw a male main character into this environment. Give him a special interest in one or more of these women and in a criminal case related to this environment. Allow the main character to be played as a traditional hero or as an asshole, but sometimes force him to make difficult decisions. Allow the game to branch significantly in reaction to these decisions.

The present long game, started in mid 2022 and finished just over 2 years later, is based on this very effective concept. Unfortunately it stands in the shadow of another realization of the same concept which was started already in 2020 but which is nowhere near completion. Where that earlier/ongoing game is primarily about sounding out shades of gray, the present game really allows us to play in extremes (or anything in between). That should give it a wider appeal, but so far it has not found the attention it deserves.

Plot summary: In school, ample-breasted albino Emilie was systematically bullied by the other girls. The boys secretly fancied her, but only her classmate Chris (default name of the male main character) supported her occasionally. A few years after graduation, both independently run into the same problem: No job, no money, no support system. When the two meet accidentally, Emilie moves in with Chris, who at least still has an appartment even if he does not know how to pay the rent. This is the beginning of a relationship which we can shape as loving or dominant-submissive, and which we can steer into monogamy, a harem, or sharing. -- To make money, Emilie becomes an OnlyFans AlwaysFan girl and Chris her photographer. So far so cozy. The darkness begins when Emilie nearly becomes the next victim in a series of kidnappings. Maybe Chris achieves a miraculous happy end in which he is rich and has multiple happy, mostly pregnant girlfriends, while all the criminals are in prison. Or maybe he is an asshole who manages to get Emilie exposed to the darkness even before the kidnapping attempt, resulting in extreme wear and tear on the girl. Maybe the thriller plot even goes horribly wrong.

Whereas the structure of this game is outstanding and most developers of visual novels could and should learn from it, the renders are a bit of a weak point. What you see (in the example pictures) is what you get (in the game). It's perfectly adequate, but not more than that. The Honey Select graphics are plenty and perfectly serviceable, but they are clearly not the main draw here except perhaps for albino fans.

what's this about?
you play a MMC (Male Main Character) default name Chris, who just lost his parents and is because of that in need of money. then comes the FMC (Female Main Character) Emilie, who is a childhood friend from school and who also has it even worse than you. not only is she an orphan too, she got kicked out of her apartment and is unfortunately an albino too. together you come up with the idea that the quickest and easiest way to earn cash is to make an AlwaysFan (onlyfans copycat) account. since Emilie has been so devoid of affection her entire life, except for her late mother, she is completely obidient to Chris and accepts. as a result, Chris becomes a good photographer, Emilie a top model and you also uncover a human trafficking ring.
as one can imagine, will lead to a possible romance between Chris and Emilie, while also running the risk of having to sexually share Emilie with others. but that's not all, since you run into lots of side characters who are in similiar problematic circumstances and are happy for any help or guidance and so you are able to form your own harem.

what to expect?
the game consists of: vanilla, maledom, male* moresomes, female** moresomes, ***orgies, sexual objectification, sharing, NTR, double penetration****, corruption and prostitution.
(*a moresome with 2 or more males having sex with just one female (3 males or more is a gangbang). **a moresome with 2 or more females having sex with just one male (3 females or more is a reverse gangbang). ***any moresome with more than 1 male and female. ****ass and pussy fucked at the same time)
frequency?
the game mainly consists of:
vanilla scenes involving Chris and multiple different girls. but mostly of Emilie.
quite a few gangbangs. some with different girls, but mostly with Emilie.
about 1/3 of the content is about prostitution. some with different girls, but mostly with Emilie.
the game rarely consists of:
there is 1 reverse gangbang in total
there are 2 ffm threesomes (*)
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and almost all scenes are maledom

NTR
since this game has it, we need to talk about it.
first off: any sharing if consentual or NTR, is completely optional.
you have the option to either pursue the love route with Emilie, or the sub route. only the sub route has NTR and even there it is optional.
this game mainly focuses on the potential of having to sell out Chris's childhood friend. but it does it by giving Chris almost all the agency in doing it. therefore the game is foremost a sharing game. the sharing happens for the most part with consent of both Chris and Emilie. the NTR aspects which may appear, are only happening if you neglect Emilie emotionally, which considering her infatuation with Chris, is hard to do. so you practically have to force the NTR events to happen everytime. there are exceptions, but they are even rarer.

Synopsis

like usual for sharing games, the sharing of the respective parter happens unbalanced. this game is sadly no exception. while Chris gets multiple girls as sexual partners, they always consist of named characters and mostly of potential romance options. whereas Emilie has many, if you go a certain route an ridiculous amount, of random guys as sexual partners. though quite a few are named, none of them are there for more than to fuck Emilie.
now i personally actually don't want for the FMC to have romance options, especially if they are meant as NTR bad endings (though it would certainly be interesting to even have romance options for a FMC like MMCs get in harem games, as nobody did that before), but Chris can be as man-whorish as he can be, he won't get even close to the calibre of a whore Emilie can be.
like i listed above, Chris despite his sizeable harem, seems to interact with them mostly individually. the 1 reverse gangbang happens right at the end of the epilogue and he only has 2 real threesomes (Cassandra and Emilie / Cassandra and Toki), since every other time Chris has sex with 2 girls, he only interacts with one at the time. (*) so most of the female moresomes are rather disappointing.
additionally Chris does not take part in any male moresomes either. while it is understandable that as a pimp he isn't the one to be entertained by the prostitutes, there are too many gangbangs in the game to not feel left out the entire time. except one: that one job at the strip club was the best. there Chris can doubleteam either a stripper or Emilie. i would have liked if there were more scenes like this!
now to a topic i only briefly mentioned: Emilie is an albino. AtemX had the ingenious thought to put a abnormal person as FMC. for story purposes this opens up some possibilities and is definitely recognizeable, making the game unique to say the least. however as much as i like the character, she sticks out like a sore thumb. in the earlier scenes of the game i think her head is quite a bit bigger than Chris's or most other characters, which i assume is luckily rectified in later releases. still for an albino she looks light gray instead of how albinos usually look: with a pinkish taint. considering that she is to star in over half of the game's sex scenes, i would say her design is lacking. and the game suffers from that.

while the underlying story of the game is nothing extraordinary, it is close to hollywood action movie quality and therefore quite good for porn game standards. but who looks for story in a porn game looks in the wrong place anyway and here too the characters shine brighter as always. like usual for harem games, having no or 1 alibi friend, Chris also has one male friend in total. every other character is better written, as they have their own troubles to deal with, or past mistakes to rectify. the love route is what you expect of a harem game and some of the girls are too adorable to be left alone (i'm looking at you Toki). from bodytype to style there are a lot of options and for the most part look really good for HoneySelect models. the harem is quite big also. the animations are just run-of-the-mill animations from HoneySelect too, which probably could explain the lack of good ffm threesomes.
it seems that the ending was rushed, as some characters have barely gotten a scene and suddenly are made to be part of the harem.

i generally liked the repeatable bathing and sleeping scenes with Emilie, as it is a nice workaround to show that the main couple has an active sex life, without creating new scenes over and over again.
same with the good amount of route variation.
what i also liked was that not only Emily could be shared and that next to those 2 side characters maybe becoming escorts, you could become the pimp of some other girls as well.
but what i really loved is how the game handled prostitution. the prostitution tag has been used for many games before, but from all the games i played, only 2 games actually had prostitution as theme (not just 1 or 2 scenes) and did it justice. and AlwaysFan is one of them. even the infamous Akabur games (like witch trainer and princess trainer) treat it like an action cycle and not a viewable event. with the possible escort girls you can have, you see all their jobs and take part in it as the player, which should be obvious one would want to see that in a sharing game, but seemingly it's not obvious. at the same time the clients you encounter each pose a different scenario, to not get boring anytime soon.

rating
i do 3 ratings, as view the game once how it fares against general media, since porn games are often severly lacking in anything because seemingly some people put low effort in it just because sex sells. but generally porn games have it harder to make convincing games, since the consumer expects low effort and instant gratification.
therefore i also rate it once how it fares as a porn game in general.
and then once how much i myself like the game.

2,8/5 broad media
this may appear low, but as i said above, porn games in their nature are less good than popular video games or movies, so a 2,8 is already quite high.
3,5/5 porn games
for what it wants to be, the game does a good job, but is lacking at multiple places. would this be the only ranking i would give, it would round up to a 4.
5/5 personal enjoyment
a full score, since i can overlook the game's flaws for the incredible love, sharing and prostitution scenes (especially prostitution) rarely any game achieves!

my actual rating i would submit here, would normally be a mix of all 3 ratings, but for such an unique success in things most games fail, i will give it a biased rating of 5

Not sure how to rate a game like this. The adult content is good enough and plentiful enough to *cough* get the job done as it were, but the story is preposterous and the dialogue is poorly written, where the author clearly takes the position of, “If it can be conveyed with one word, why not use a thousand?”, filling the game with endless and oft-repeated exposition.



First off, this is a Honey Select game through and through, and a default one at that. You won’t find any unique animations or camera angles here. The lack of variety, and the fact that I’ve seen all of these animations before, takes away from the enjoyment, but this is made up for in sheer quantity. Despite fast forwarding through the entire story (which is terrible) I’m still not finished with my first “Love” run after several hours. This is a LONG game, with a new sex scene every 5 to 10 minutes of reading if not less. Apart from my other gripes, my main frustration is the group scenes where the girls rarely interact with each other, only with the MC. Again, this is likely due to the absence of unique staged scenes with all of them being stock Honey Select ones.



It's also clear that the author was trying new things throughout, as the pace is occasionally brought to a halt for some seemingly random mini-game, like a block/parry/attack fight scene, or a thoroughly frustrating bit where you’re literally writing in terms to try to find evidence against the Big Bad.



Finally there’s the writing. In a word, it’s bad. Tons and tons and tons of exposition. Paragraph after paragraph of characters explaining everything about themselves. Huge volume dumps of backstory all at once. It’s annoying the first time it happens as well as the 20th.



Despite all my complaining, it wasn’t an unpleasant experience. The adult content worked well enough in quantity if not quality, and that is what we’re primarily here for, right? There’s also a great deal of sharing content if you decide to follow that path, and there aren’t a lot of games with this level of quantity of that kind of content. Just don’t expect to be adding this game to your top 20. Just something to wile away the time until one of your favorites gets an update!

Edit: Perhaps I was too harsh at 3 stars. Took a look at the sharing path, and it's superior to the "loving" and "submission" paths by a longshot. Lots of elaborate group content. Well worth the price of admission.

Fantastic nts game with lovely characters and good ideas.

Only downside is required choices to get to nts path, but the rest of the story makes up for it.
Would definitely recomment trying it and pushing through the asshole start choices to get to the nts love route wich is great

A simple but a good game loved it, the story is simple and it works perfectly there are different routes the choices do matter.

different fetishes to explore and the characters are lovable the graphics were not to my liking but this is the first honey select game that I loved, also first netorare game that is completed .

Alwaysfans have great well deveopled characters that dont feel flat and one dimensional.

Several routes that while they dont diverge much, allow for different fetishes and ties well together with a good written plot.

Great visuals, simply a visual novel done right.

A true masterpiece of its genre. Rally behind this quality developer for doing quality work, sticking to their plans and not bowing down to public pressure.
This game in completed form deserves full 5 stars. Top notch art style and animations. Hoping to see much more from Emilie in the future in another game!

According to the intro of the game, it was the dev's first. It shows. The dialogue is inorganic. It reads as if someone learned how conversations work by watching movies or television and then tried to recreate those scenes without doing a rewatch. The message would be the same, but delivered in a way I've never heard an actual human being speak. If it was just that, I could forgive it. I'm actually not that far into the game. I figured it might get better as the game goes on and the writer gains more experience. But then the game presents you with either no choice or meaningless choices.

The choices you are given in day 1 give the impression that you can go full romance or train this love-struck albino girl to be your pet, only for you to just fuck in the middle of the night the second night. Zero build-up, zero pay-off. I had only just started caring whether or not she was even a love interest and I'm already being given her full service. What follows is just a string of meaningless sex scenes that no work whatsoever had to be put in to get. If I wanted mindless porn, I'd watch it. I use VN's because I actually want to think and feel things when the sex happens. That just isn't what happens with this one. I get wanting to keep your audience entertained, not wanting your supporters to lose interest by blueballing them. That's what supporting characters are for. You can use those to provide low investment entertainment while still building up for a rewarding main love interest, instead of just, serving up the main girl before we can really build an appetite for her in the first place.

The graphics are pretty standard for the engine in which the images for this game was created. I was drawn to this game because the main interest has a more unique look. Still just thoroughly disappointed in how she was handled. The full game is around 10 GB, so there's a lot of content, especially considering that games with this graphic-style use a bit less data per image than more photorealistic Daz3d styles, I just wish the content was more impactful. I'm struggling to continue and will likely drop this VN, which is why I'm leaving this early review.

This game is amazing! I only found out about it like a week ago and I couldn't stop playing it to completion within a week. It's definitely one of the best for harem even though I wish we could have more special one-on-one moments (like going on dates, etc) with the other girls other than Emilie, that's basically my only criticism in that regard. Toki for example is... very lacking in the romance department. Cassandra is another that seems more interested in hanging out with Emilie more than with the MC IMO. Also kinda wanted to see all the kids that MC had with his harem though, to see them all playing with each other or something like that. Like a big family photo with all of the girls and the kids

I understand that with so many LI's it would be a lot of work to implement date scenes/intimate moments with every single one of the main girls, but well, it is what it is. Still a great game, nonetheless, and honestly the love path with Emilie made me tear up a bit. I've become really fond of the girls that I simply refuse to unlock the sharing gallery, I can't see them be mistreated at all, my heart can't take it

Thank you for your hard work on this game, dev. Another one that I will add in my most favorite list of games here. I'm looking forward to play your next game once it's available to be played

I finally finished the game... it was quite a long and fun journey. I initially downloaded the game for the sharing route, but the MC was treating Emilie so poorly that I had to switch to the romance route. After finishing the game, I unlocked the gallery and checked out the sharing scenes too, and they looked good as well. I think it's a game that deserves 5 stars.

Honestly the best VN I have ever played. Emilie is the sweetest character ever and all of the other girls are pretty great too. The multiple paths are great and can take you from one extreme to another. Thank you AtemX!

So, i think "Average" fits perfect for this game. There's a lot of people who liked this game, its good rating is the proof so i still think you should try this game and see it for yourself if you like.

With that said, i liked a lot the idea of having multiple routes, girls you can choose to be romantic with or just making them a whore. And my first thought was "Ok im gonna make a full romantic playthrough and then try a more evil one"... Spoiler: i didnt even finish my first playthrough.
I think the story wasnt bad at all, but i guess too predictable, too obvious, all girls too easy. And i know that this is a visual novel, its not intended you to grind stats or something to get a girl, but most VNs i've played had better progression with chicks.


TL;DR: Try it, it has a good rating. Me personally found it boring and predictable, i wasnt even able to finish 1 playthrough.

Finally got to play the completed game and it's easily in my top 10, if not top 5. I still could do with a walkthrough since I'm on my third playthrough and still can't manage to get all 13 women on board at the same time (supposedly it's possible?), but I don't mind trying again. The animations are great, the story is well done and there is a variety of fetishes represented (thought not all of mine, personally). I look forward to the devs new game--though I'm not sure anyone will ever measure up to Emilie. Best waifu.

I played this game following the love route because I simply can't be mean to characters who don't deserve it. I couldn't in Fallout 3 and later and I can't in an AVN either.

Following this route, I found this game has one of the most romantic love stories ever featured in an Illusion style game. I generally dislike adult Japanese games because they all tend to look the same, the unrealistic looking characters put me off. This one is not entirely exempt of that issue but the storyline, the insane length of the gameplay and the smooth animations make up for its flaws, mostly.

What I didn't like:

* The sparse facial expressions, especially Emilie showing an almost permanent evil grin.

* The ending with the MC marrying all the LIs (if you decide to take this route) is unrealistic, but then this is a problem inherent to "harem" games where your godly charm enables you to stock LIs like you're collecting stamps.

* There's too much sex. I mean, sure, we're all here for the porn, but when the MC bangs 4+ girls in a single day things become a tad unrealistic, like killing 3 dragons before lunch in Skyrim with a 50+ level character. Something that should be extraordinary and thus a satisfying experience after a nice build up becomes a routine. Moderation, please.

One of my favorite games, I only played the love and harem route, because I don't like sharing and the submissive route was too cruel for my taste.

But I just have to say that if you like harem and romance play this game... and Emilie is the best girl.

Story - 9.5/10
It starts with the MC alone in his flat inviting his recently homeless ex-classmate to live with him and starting AlwaysFan(TM) to pay the rent. Over the course of a few weeks you end up uncovering a kidnapping and sexual expliotation organization hiding behind the corp running AlwaysFan. Joining forces with a young detective whose sister is one of the victims.
The main girl of the game is too loving. Even if you treat her like shit she will still love you(Don't go too far or you will get a game over). Telling her no to see the sex-mate scenes was the hardest decision in the game.
Visuals - 7/10
Its made with Honey Select so the dev can only do what the engine allows but he does a very good job within the limitations. All the girls are unique (except the twins) and very sexy. The chubby ones could use a bit more of the "chub" but thats about all I can complain about in regards to the girls.
Audio - 6/10
Its there. Sex sounds are ok. The song selection fits the scenes.
Choice - 9.5/10
2 paths. Love and Submisive for most of the girls with optional sharing on the Sub branch. The game gives you plenty of chances to make Emilie your GF on the sharing and sex-mate paths. One of the few games where I completed the love path first.
Sex Scenes - 9/10
Solid variety of scenes and positions within both main branches with lots of hot sex talk. Some girls could use a few more scenes but this game mainly focuses on Emilie and shes worth the attention so its not that big an issue for me.

PS: If you got all of the final 3 scenes in the sharing galery without using the unlock cheat you are a monster.