Ren'Py - Apocalust [v0.08] [Psychodelusional]

This game is hard to rate right because it shows you it's entire deal in the first minute yet you have to see all of it. For the animated renders of course, nothing else.

The story idea is interesting, but with how apparently slow the development is with such 11/10 animated rendering in every single scene, how slow the whole pace is, and how poorly written it is, there isn't much interesting dialogue to read or story to enjoy.

You got a big dick, you find a way to rub it against everyone and eventually fuck them. If less scenes were animated I'm sure we could have a much bigger story, but the writing definitely needs improvement. The dev certainly is a master of whatever tools they are using to show us these.

So, definitely worth it for the hot renders and nothing else.

This is a high quality VN, that has believable characters, that are unique and well written. The storyline is quite short at the moment, but has the potential to become absolutely fascinating.
I have started supporting this developer on Patreon as I believe this game is going to be one of the best VN's we've had in a while.
[Edit] It was refreshing to see that the developer creates their own assets and characters in the game...no rehashed environments or characters you might have seen in a dozen other VN's!

Reviewed: 0.05
Pros: The visuals and animations. Seriously these are top notch and really fun to look at. It's the only reason this game is getting 3 stars instead of 1.

Cons: Everything else. The story is very disjointed, rushed, and lacks cohesion at this point. Characters show up without any kind of proper introduction. It's like 3 separate games pretending to be one.

I was also surprised at how little content there is for being nearly 2 years old, I assume it's due to the time it takes to do the visuals.

Frankly this game makes me sad, because the Dev is a very talented artist. I wish they would partner up with a writer who knows how to write a proper story because as of right now the game is a waste of potential.

If you want a fapfest, well I have good news for you because that's all this game is right now. Even then, there's too many Milfy characters and they all throw themselves at you, there's not much build up. If that's the your thing fine, but I really wish there was more variety and I wish it was a bit more of a slow burn. do like that there's some pubic hair, that's nice to see.

Overall, meh.

Honestly as a game this is kinda Meh.
The renders and animations are amazing, not gona lie.
Its a weird little slideshow of hot images.

I mostly just think its a wasted opportunity to make something "average". that could be amazing!

I am still amazed by how visually engaging this game is. I cannot stress that enough. There are other games with animations though well rendered are meh and doesn't connect with the players. This one though not only lets you feel the mood but takes it a bit further. The angles are original and engaging too.

The story is fine. The developer knows what his objectives are with the porn game and doesn't try to do more than necessary.

Game mechanics is straightforward though I noticed a few unnecessary clicks and mechanics. It's not bad and it's original but unnecessary.

This is a 4.5 for me, a game and a developer with so much potential. I can't wait to see more.

I started looking at this work because the other work that the author had already done was a work of God.
I was shocked after seeing the new work. It is no exaggeration to say that this work uses full animation.
Compared with the author's previous works, the images and animations of this work have made a qualitative leap. It shows that the author is not just out to make money, but genuinely passionate about creating.
The author's previous works have been plump and seductive, but the bodies of the women in this one are even more stunning.
If I recommend it, I can only say that the highlights of this work must be played by yourself. Innovative full-course animation, no sandbox and no numerical decisions to embarrass you.

I will start with the only good point of this game, the renders and the cinematics, this game is like a giant cinematic, everything is constantly moving.
Now the bad points, everything else.
Here we have the standard story of this type of game, same kind of perv MC with a giant dick and all.
Tons of fake choices, the game is completly linear...the player sometimes has to interact clicking in a specific spot, but theres only one spot to click and if you dont click you'll not advance...makes no sense adding this feature tbh.
In 2 or 3 instances you choose between "lust" and "love" but this will not change anything important.
You cant choose which Love Interest MC will pursue, or if you want or not to peep and see 2 other characters fucking, or if you want to see or not the wet lesbian dream of a chick and obviously theres no story branches.
I was really hyped with this game but what i got was a 100% linear "game" with a story on the level of a "BangBros" porn movie.
If you are the kind of player thats happy only with good renders/animations, dont care about story and dont mind 100% linear games with no real choices... go for it.

Visually it's stunning. The animations aren't incredible but the renders are. The story is fairly interesting as well but it seems there should be more content for how long this game has been in production. I hope some of the other comments aren't true about the creators just looking to milk money out of this game because it really could be a great one. In terms of other improvements, it would be nice if more decisions were included and they actually mattered. In its current state its more of a VN.

4/5

Honestly one of the best Ren'Py games ive played. Renders were beautiful, animations were great, story was interesting, pacing was pretty well done, and over just enjoyed everything about the game. I cant wait to see more!

I played the previous version that came before this one and I was stumped for words. I must admit that the graphics in RenPy have came a long way since 2018 and this game is a perfect example of it.

Well, that's about it. I can't find any tethering point in the story, character, their arcs and the MC which would make me go through the stunning visuals. It's as if someone gloss packed a piece of dead flowers, sent with express delivery with a string quartet. You're overwhelmed by the gesture and you open up the package trembling with excitement only to summarise your shock in 2 words; "Oh, crap!"

You can polish a turd but its still a turd.

This "Game" is nothing more than a scam. plain and simple, you may see top tier renders and "animations" which are for the most part just swaying backwards and forth but at the core it is not a game at all, its just a short on rails demo that give you the illusion of choice.

I can't say I dont respect the hustle these guys are doing because its clear they are making bank while taking an absurd amount of time to release a chapter.

Also the story for whatever the hell they are trying to make it as makes absolutely no sense what so ever so far its like they are not even trying haha.

Story: 8/10 [ The Story is simple and good. ]

Gameplay: 8/10 [ Normal linear visual novel with few Interactions . ]

Sound: 7/10 [ I expect a little more in the future (e.g. better slap sound) ]

Graphic: 10/10 [ It's magnificent, nothing to complain about]

Update time : 9/10 [It's require a long time, but it's worth it, especially if the dev is alone]

In the end 5/5 because above the average.

It has no story and no "real" interaction with the characters.

The art in general is very good, but the UI is poor.

It's been in development for three years now, but the "game" is nothing more than a demo so far, so it's not a real "game".

I enjoyed its first VN, so I have hope that this VN will have a good future.

Overall 3/5 stars

Il give it 5 stars , although 4 would be more appropriate. I give it 5 starts cause I think it's only gonna get better from here. Loving the art and the smoothness of the animation, the story looks promising and a lot of attention to details. I just hope the developer will introduce some younger female characters in the game as well ,not only milfs, the milf thing has gotten a bit "old". Of course the fate of the game depends on the frequency and quality of the updates.

v. 0.04

If we disregard the slow update cycle, the game looks incredible. Great renders and scenes. There's no gameplay to talk about which is just fine by me for this type of presentation.

If you're not the patient type I'd suggest waiting for a few years before you pick the game up, however.

There are two bad things in gaming. Whichever is worst for you depends on personality:

1-A dev that trying to make art, therefore is slow, and is then accused of milking.
2-A dev that makes pretty pictures, is actually milking with no desire to finish a game.

I'll assume this dev is 1-... so 4 stars... BUT... dev... PLEASE...

There is a nice middle between awesome art once, maybe twice a year, and monthly generic Daz with "Fuck me Mommy!" dialogue.

Your graphics are top tier. There's no doubt. Super huge improvement over your last game (which I played and enjoyed)

But maybe get a bit generic on UI and other stuff to get a release schedule going, increase production and see where you can cut. Otherwise people like me will follow and enjoy your product... absolutely... but it'll be in the "what pretty pictures are we seeing this half-year" type category.

(NOTE = Had to coin toss in my head whether this should be in Review or Discussion... it came up Review... because it'll also inform other players where the game's at: pretty pictures and a UI first released on version 4!)

Story: 0/10 [ There is no story. Apocalust is just your regular step mom stuck under bed scenario. ]

Gameplay: 3/10 [ Typical boring linear visual novel. Interaction is absolutely zero. ]

Sound: 6/10 [ SFX's and musics are nice but amateurish. I don't care about voice-over. ]

Graphic: 7/10 [ While ingame graphics are really good, GUI is absolutely trash. Side images in 3D game is absolutely make no sense. ]

This is my only 2 cents
Pros:
1. Greatest renders you will ever find. Top of the line. Period.
2. Best looking character models and animations.

Cons:
1. This has been in development for more than 3 yrs with no content to show for it
2. Lack of proper storyline or plot
3. Lackadaisical attitude of the dev regarding updates. Really slow in terms of game development.
4. After 3 yrs the dev is still stuck in proper UI deployment
5. No proper cohesion within updates.
6. I would say after all of this time it is still in the demo stage.
7. There is no game. No storyline or build whatsover. All the game has going for it is the renders and thats not enough for stories and plot so as to continue it in the future.

I would say for the characters and animations do give it a try. It has got the best renders you will see. For renders and animations 5/5.
Do give it a try before making any decisions. Hoping the dev improves because it could be a great one if taken into the right direction. Has all the proper elements just poor implementation.

Yes, the plot is thin (to the point of being almost non-existent) and the updates move at the pace of a melting iceberg. But my God.... This is a really, really great game!
The renders are a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y top-notch; 100% of the game is animated (yes, yes it is!); the music and sound effects are really great; and... since v. 04 we now have a proper UI.
Assuming the dev keeps up with the project, this has everything to be one of the top 10 games here.
To give this gem less than 5 stars would be a crime against humanity...

Good Points
+ Art style, and render quality looks pretty good.
+ Girls/Women are damn hot! Aside from Chloe tho.
+ It's a nearly fully animated game, we have tons of animation, nearly every scene is animated and their physics and quality look pretty good.
+ Sex scenes are pretty hot with well-made animations and different angles/positions for them.
+ MC got a little bit of development after the first parts of the game at least with certain women, but I just wish he wasn't that clueless and shy at first parts of the game, especially since his act with Evelyn was quite nonsense, she was saying her back is killing her constantly, and you can even see her pain from her moves, yet he never offered back massage until very later on, and watching that was quite frustrating.

Bad Points
- At first story feels like have potential, but regardless to say it's ruined by later poorly-written scenes, too bad they couldn't execute things better.
- Translation seems kind of bad, most of the time dialogues feels distant and weird.
- We have a lot of dreams and passing-out scenes, they are too frequent, and it's pretty annoying.
- A couple of things about the game make no sense and never got explained, like Realtor and that rent thing, that made no sense, yet Evelyn told ''I will look that up, it might be a mistake'' then she never talked about it with the MC nor we saw any scene about it, yet in the bull riding scene she told MC ''10k is a lot of money, it might fix our problem with the realtor and we can pay the rent'' seriously? Jumping like that without even explaining that thing as it was explained? That just makes no sense.
- The game use of parentheses or not makes no sense, sometimes it's used for showing someone is thinking, or talking in their head, but most of the time when that happens we don't see any parentheses at all, and it's just confusing, you have to guess yourself if they are talking in their head, or with another person.
- The game has episodes, and if it's not breaking immersion enough we have parts, so imagine you are playing the game, following the story, feeling the immersion, and then ''BAM!'' the game sends you a menu where you have to choice a part in that episode, and that's breaks whole immersion, the game should just naturally follow the story as long you go, and not force you a very unnatural screen like that, that's a very bad decision.
- Existence of forced content like being forced to have scenes with Chloe, or some scenes like Kendra's bull riding, pin-up thing, or things Evelyn was wearing while selling hot dogs or scene with Ava & MC's father, etc.
- Existence of love and lust routes, because they have no meaning at all, since all scenes have the same results despite your choice of love or lust, can't see any reason to have them at all, and all routes/paths are actually lust routes, there is literally no love route/path in this game or any love type of relationship MC had with any girl.
- Overuse of the ''stuck'' concept, like seriously how that woman can get stuck in every damn scene?!
- The dialogue box shows a talking character vector/side-image (PNG transparent face of characters), it's too big, and looks bad, they should be smaller and even DEV should delete them totally, they do break that immersive feeling. I mean seriously they always block girls' body parts and you always need to use the hide feature over and over again which is very annoying. And it's almost like a big fat joke DEV didn't fix this problem even after 2 years of development despite it being clear as sky...
- The game is always buggy, 2 years ago it was, today it was, and in the future probably it will be again, for example, the current bug of the game is you are seeing this scene over and over again after some scenes like dream scenes, so know it before starting it.
- When you make choices like ''Inspection'' they give you LP, and when you choose again it says ''10 LP'' again, and that looks very weird, even if you choose again to see the render it shouldn't say/show ''10 LP'' again, since you don't get the point after first time anymore..
- Dialogues has a lot of pointless gasps like this is one of dialogues happened between two characters: ''Like... Well... I... ... ... What? ... Like...'' and this happens a lot, and you keep reading nonsense gasps and pauses like this over and over again is really annoying.
- Whole debt thing and things MC & Evelyn has to do is nonsense AF, you really telling me they had no money around at all for paying that debt despite having all that luxury? Or how he simply won't ask money from his own father, etc, and instead do all that stuff, and like that's not dumb enough writers saying MC's father lost all of his money while trying to find that cure, and now he has no money at all and asking MC money?! BRUH...
- V.08 animations looks bit sloopy.
- The game is progressing too slowly and going nowhere.

For The End
Considering the game have a very good base with those great pictures & animations , it's not surprising to say this game could easily play to be 5 stars adult game, but the writing is poor, most of the scenes making no sense, the route game is going towards something annoying, and all bad points considered this game has nothing good going on aside from visual parts.