Ren'Py - Ardor for Depravity [v0.1.2] [Adventurous Goat]

It's quite good overall and comes close to a 5-star rating, but just misses it. Now, what follows might sound like a sweeping critique, but it isn't.
Rather, it's meant as a suggestion to develop corruption and the story more evenly.
Apart from a few pop-up image names in the tavern, the game ran flawlessly, and I was able to follow the story quite well despite my limited English.

The time management takes some getting used to at first, but after 3-4 in-game days, you'll manage it without any problems.

Story spoiler alert:

If you're given a task at the beginning of the story to ask several townspeople about a job, but can only actually complete three of the five jobs, you'll later have trouble returning to work as a beginner at the alchemist or tailor with full corruption.

It would be beneficial to develop the quests alongside each other, instead of focusing on just two or three to quickly corrupt FMC and thus create an imbalance in the story.
It's like running around naked in the tavern and getting fucked on the tables, but at the tailor's, you're still playing the untouchable country maiden.

Gallery
Furthermore, the gallery definitely needs some work.
You bathe with the sister, but a picture requiring exactly that action isn't unlocked.
The hints for the pictures in the gallery are helpful in general, but they also show that some pictures can only be unlocked if you don't follow a clear path.

So you constantly have to balance between giving a corrupting and a defensive answer to unlock certain pictures.

Quest Log
For some quests, the quest log says that progress is currently stalled.

For others, it says that you have to talk to a specific person, but then nothing happens, and the quest log isn't updated.

Minigame Church/Beggars
Here, a bit more flexibility in the responses would be helpful.
You have to find four correct answers, but you can't choose how you want to act.
You have to refuse to be groped, you can't say that you enjoyed it (or perhaps did enjoy it), even though you moaned with pleasure when it happened, and you know that if you want to work there again (which is a prerequisite), you'll be groped again.
However, since you act completely differently in the tavern or at the merchant's, this is a contradiction in terms of the story.

The question game is actually the biggest buzzkill of the game.
While you can keep trying incorrect answers, the automatic nature of the game means you get stuck at that point because you can't stop the question. It took me six tries to find the right combination.

VERSION: v0.1.2
SUMMARY: Ok, but not especially good.
RATINGS: (out of 5): ⭐⭐⭐

NOTE: The following categories and scoring method are my own criteria and may require more context. Additionally, scoring is based on the state, and what is in the current version and not what may or may not be introduced at a later point.

1. Character (Model) Visuals......... : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. General (World) Visuals........... : ⭐⭐⭐
3. Animation Quality................. : ⭐⭐⭐
4. Character Personality(Persona).... : ⭐⭐⭐
5. Story & Dialogue.................. : ⭐⭐
6. Writing & Grammar................. : ⭐⭐⭐
7. UX/UI, Game Type & Mechanics.......: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
8. Playtime & Pacing..................: ⭐⭐⭐
9. Music & Sounds.....................: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
10. Adult Content & Fetishes.......... : ⭐⭐⭐

Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars.

PROS: - See my opinions section for details.

1. Models, especially MC are good looking and quality
2. World visuals are detailed enough, and fit the era an aesthetic.
3. Writing is structured and reads well (mostly)
4. UI/UX is actually decent at least because the font is clear and there is no dialogue box blocking the renders but also because there are sound test options, handy feature.
5. Animations are fair, but nothing great, they lack any decent angles also.
6. Audio is decent, lewd sounds are a nice bonus and not bad.

CONS: - See my opinions section for details.

1. Some aesthetics are not correct for the time period/era, some clothes, hairstyles, systems like names and words are also not apt. This is technically a small gripe, but...
2. Plot inconsistencies and details missing, e.g. trekking after the sister, no bags, purses or anything? MC looks more like royalty than farm girl with all her makeup and that after a days walking a dirty road?
3. Adding this to Con but not really one, still though, the lewd scenes are not many nor are they very exciting at all, very vanilla. This may change later though.
4. Plot inconsistencies like the MC being a prude, the previous scene having issue taking a bath again where woman only are to flashing her tits in a full tavern...how do you do a 180 like that? This is simply laziness IMO to jump to lewd suddenly...
5. Sandbox, I am not a fan, and this AVN would easily enough have been fine as just the novel without the grinding and sandbox. That said, it doesn't feel too bad and better than some sandbox AVNs. Still sandbox usually is just busy work bullshit to stretch out the story and add random encounter scenes...

OPINIONS, SUGGESTIONS & FINAL REMARKS:

NOTE: The following remarks are my personal opinions and thoughts, which may provide more context and could be useful to the developer. (Read them or don't)

• As with most corruption type games, you can't play it "nice" you need to go the corrupt route or end up with little or less content, and this when you ask "why bother asking or having a choice" we want more content so go the corruption route. The only time it works is if there are types of things that you don't like i.e. kinks, so anal, urination etc. then you can skip that, that makes sense.

TLDR:

Not bad, a fair bit to nitpick about that really does not require you to look deeply, its plain as day, especially considering that medieval fantasy requires that you have knowledge of the time period to ensure its historically authentic. If you one that doesn't care for such things then this AVN will appeal to you.

Renders are decent and sounds are not bad, but there isn't much going for it right now. I will re-review later and see how it gets on.

Initial release is good imo, yeah its a bit simple currently but there is clear renders and a good concept. Given time I am sure that this will develop to be a pretty solid game...

As long as the creator does not abandon the project like most devs do.

A little too simple and straightforward, but I like the MC. The visuals are nice, the dialogues are well-written. I'm going to look forward to further updates. Hope there'll be more options and exciting stuff.
Just a little grindy.

Pros:
+ render quality
+ setting
+ pretty female faces
+ ugly and old bastards
+ sandbox not overwhelming
+ gameplay not complicated
+ fem protag
+ fem protag has solid firm, relative big tits with hard relative big nipples (depends on the light of the render but sometimes they look juicy perky!)
+ fem protag lost sister looks also damn sexy (wish she would be optional protag too)

Cons:
- light sometimes make her nipples more flat and tinier
- no sex yet (seems when she sleeps outside stuff is happening but not added yet)

Wishes/personal thoughts:
- Much potential. Hope to see busty sister in some nun or priestess outfit with some nasty old priest maybe?
- Fem Protag could have dark eyeliner/eyeshadow and a bit more hips, butt and thighs in my opinion.
- red haired companion looked also damn nice but lacked (maybe on purpose) the boobs and the hairstyle looked too much like a wig in my opinion.
- i hope the light in later important sensual scenes get fixed a bit to let see the nice hard perky nipples
- i think the black merchant and the cloth merchant look a bit too vanilla (maybe on purpose tho)
- bath scene of fem protag bathing is pretty hot maybe some of the merchant guys or some other ugly bastard will join her - optionally of course
- alternate outfits later one which let her look more sexy but not too slutty would be really nice!

1. there is TOO MUCH empty "small talk"/ dialogs chewing on the storyline point, on same renpy screens(scene).
2. empty black(blackout) screens with MCs thoughts.

It's clear that this was done to reduce the work on the demo, but it might played a worse role in attracting additional support.

3. this is a steam adventure text game with additional adult content events, not a typical genre game for the mainstream of f95. If dev looking for Pulitzer Drama Prize, then this is clearly wrong place and public for it.

4. if, probably, patreon-supported demo version has more H-content, in same prologue before sandbox, then this mean a new cashgrab start, where any further h-content will be strongly paywalled.

5. UI is normal. But screen/background elements is not interactive (personal rented apartments as example), only persons.

6. Characters and Models unique, no oversized crap, no degenerative personal beliefs. But MC has an emotionless, "lost look" expression on her face, in most sandbox scenes.

7. sandbox = total brainless grind with "work for 7 days", "wait for 3 days", without even H-content events.

Excellent start to a corruption game.
The renders are great (the cum could look better, though), it has a neat quest log and is very easy to play.
I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes next.

Right now this is a pretty short demo, but it is very promising.