VN - Ren'Py - Artemis [v0.6.1b] [digi.B]

I never thought that I could replace 'Being A Dik' as my favorite with this VN. Clearly the best I ever played. I couldn't spot any drawbacks during my first playthrough (apart from bad lighting in the first episode, but from second episode it is great). It has some great LI's. The slow relationship building in this is so good. Also love the animations in it. So realistic (not the renders but the actions of the characters. ). And the BG score is great too. Also I feel disappointed of the lack of attention this VN has.
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Can't leave without mentioning LOF reference ❤. That was unexpected

TL/DR: Well crafted, well written, and well designed slow burn sci-fi. The MC looks great but the LI are not very attractive. Meta-plot is overall too predictable- but still nuanced enough to be enjoyable. Animations are nice- but descriptions of scene content are anemic.

Pros:
+All the tatted up characters is badass
+Some great moments of catharsis.
+End of chapter 4 was pretty climactic / an excellent cliff hanger
+Cass is a pretty good antagonist.
+There are some really nice slow burn relationship dynamics brewing. (Zelda, Dr. K, Kindra)
+Effects are nice. Music, camera pan, short narrative videos ect are all well done.
+Very good at mirroring earlier content later in the story.
+Distinct characters

Neutrals:
~MC kinda being a soft bitch in some ways, but a strong tough guy in others is pretty interesting. It sublimates the idea that a buff dude is always gonna be rocking an Alpha attitude, which is refreshing. The game goes out of its way a little too much to make him a bitch for my taste.
-Game-play factors are quite simple. You have love points on most characters and everything is tracked with flags. Dr.K also has a professionalism stat.
-Humor is generally pretty good, but the 4th wall breaking meme humor was pretty tasteless.

Cons:
-Not a big fan of the bulk of the game's sexual content being flashbacks / imaginary.
-The female character's body types are far too homogeneous.
-Some of the female characters faces look really fuckin' janky. (Naomi's face change is a thing of nightmares- she looked good chapter's 1 and 2 but now she looks like an alien wearing a human skin mask.)
-Game is far too predictable. You can basically see where all of the plot lines are headed.
-The scene content is really underwhelming. The game goes for all visual and almost no novel on them- so its just a bunch of short loops with very minimal description. Boring.
-Lots of overly libertine women.

Undeservedly high rating. Renders at the beginning of the game are of very poor quality. It's just a shame. The protagonist is an adult man who prefers to cry into his pillow instead of solving his problems. The story is delayed. Not interested. Boring.

Will update to a full review once the game gets finished.
So far a very fun game, great crossovers, great and diverse cast of characters, funny trivia.
Looking forward to the rest of the game and will support for sure.

This game feels more like a VN with porn elements than a porn game. The story and characters are written incredibly well and while a lot of tropes (all genius MC/friends) exist, it doesn't feel so far removed you can't enjoy them.

I was hesitant to try this game because I'm not a SCI-FI type of a guy and preview renders looked average. But once I started this game and played it for a hour I was hooked, its more than just renders. The story is so much fun and the characters is loveable and in Cassandras case dislikable.

Dialogues and overall humor is just brilliant and so funny. The jokes really hit and are straight comedy. What I really like is the small moments in the game where the characters just vibe of each other and just hang without need for lewds. Not many developers who have pulled this off.

Aiden is probably the best written MC across all VN. Hes goofy guy with a big heart even though he has been trough alot and you can take alot of positives from his "story".

This game looks great and has the best animations I've seen in any VN, they are long , realistic, and very smooth. Soundtrack fits the game and scenarios nicely.

Top 3 game on this site for sure, and highly recommend for anyone who wants a laugh and a great time.

Awesome! After playing through the current content (0.4) I'm stunned and speechless, absolutely fantastic work so far. I love the whole idea, characters and the making. And a S/O to special guest star Lexi <3

Pros: Really good graphics and music. Some animations exist as well. It's big and lot of effort certainly went into it.

Cons: I expected it to be something more. It is labeled as sci-fi but It's actually closer to a soap opera. Yes the action goes in 2040s or so but this world is generally the same as our world. Yes, the story involves building some android but most time you do unimportant chit-chat to some gals. As others said quite a few of them really don't matter in the story and work as some kind of filler. Oh, and the erotic scenes are quite rare.
So it's easy to lose interest as it happened to me.

The game is also quite heavy in GB and happens to hang on my computer while other ones don't.

What a game! I enjoyed every bit - great story, renders, characters, smoking hot girls, well written dialogue that feels natural, MC that isn't a loser, total creep and potatohead like in many other games, nice lewd scenes, great animations, great humor and.... did I say smoking hot girls?
Eagerly awaiting more and I'm happy to support on patreon!

A masterpiece in adult VN entertainment. This game just punches at a weight class above so many other titles, it feels like a labor of love.

Heartfelt story, vulnerable and hilarious MC. I love the mental images we get from his imagination, it really makes it feel like you're the main character even though they're established in the plot. A bevy of GORGEOUS women who are constantly walking around in hot fun outfits that aren't always perved out, but super sexy nonetheless. Some great animations, lots of visual storytelling. Could go on and on.

Also some great mental health awareness and acceptance that feels really poignant in this day and age.
Just a wild slightly futuristic romp that grabs you by the balls and the heartstrings and doesn't let go until you love all the characters and cum at the same time.

Eagerly awaiting any future updates. Give me more Reina, Kindra, June, Cass and ZELDAA.

I just finished chapter 4 and holy sheit that ending !!

Kindra best girl! But something tells me that's about to change ...

Must play 10/10

review for v0.4.1
One of my favorites games. Its a story driven VN with sex sprinkled through out.
I love the author's sense of humor.
The chemistry between the characters is top notch, it has a wide range of people in the story and they are all unique and interesting, making you care about them and want to see how they interact with each other.

Story: 4/5
Its centered around the MC's trauma due to getting screwed out of a company deal by his would be fiancé. But its not a huge dramatic focus on it, instead it shapes his interactions as he tries to live as best as he can with all the interactions he has with the others around him. The main story focuses on AI and robotics and his interactions with a female sorority. It makes for some funny scenarios

Art: 5/5
The models are all unique and great, and the environment is well made. Without spoiling anything, the main "objects" in the story are rendered absolutely beautifully

Sex scenes: 4/5
They're pretty good. animations are fluid, renders are pretty hot.

Sound: 5/5
Good sound utilization, Great bg music selection

overall id give this a 5. must play

This is a fantastic visual novel. The visuals are stunning, the comedy is among the greatest I've seen, and the tale has amazing emotional depth and a likeable protagonist who goes through a realistic arc. The ladies are all fleshed out and wonderfully delightful, each in their own way, and, of course, beautifully depicted, and the author understands exactly how to pace the plot. One of the best available.

This is a great game all around. Because of its name I initially thought it would be space-themed, but it is actually quite down to earth. The dialogues are good, funny, and the raised topics are interesting. The characters are memorable and different and the main protagonist is very pleasant. Eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

If you come for a quick fap move on because this is a mostly a story driven game. And thats fine if you into this type of story but if not you will feel like you wasted your time. I feel like 10gig should have way more sex scenes than it has also the sex scenes it does have are way to short don't get me wrong the scenes are good but to short and not enough angles. Also not enough romance. The girls are pretty hot but to me the best girl is a let down because it seems she's more into women than she is into men. You can tell she may be into MC but rarely shows it which is a turn off for me. All in All it's not worth the 10Gig of space on your pc to download just for a decent story and not enough sex scenes and short ones at that.

great game. cant once agian wait for future updates love replaying it every time theres a major update. art seems to keep getting better with time. love the small but corny funny moments with the slice of normal-seriousness and not too much depresion so we all Feelsbadman 2 much haha. much support form here <3 been here for a good while and will keep being here. gl in future.

I rarely take any time writing reviews, but this time i will in hope more people will give it a chance, and not judge the game from the very start, like i did 3 times.

Like i said i dropped this game 3 times after playing about 20-30 min, cuz it didn't really catch my attention that much, well this time i just made and effort and kept going for like 8 hours straight.
Man the writing is so good, i really care about the characters, i didn't really like our MC in the start, now he is one of my favorites, i have laughed so much, i have felt emotional, shed tears, been excited for the plot and more..

So please give it a chance, the renders get better after CH1, this one is in my top 5 on this site ; )

This is a well written VN however my problem with it is that I feel like there is a LOT of content that feels irrelevant to the story.

The premise itself is interesting and unique - it is about establishing a robotics/AI based startup and I find everything related to that goal extremely interesting. Everything else however feels a bit unnecessary.

You have a whole bunch of side girls from a college and while the scenes/renders involving them are great, I simply cannot understand what was the point of adding them. It feels like filler.

The MC's backstory with his ex girlfriend is great and the resolution to that drama is also well done. However the game seems to try and drag on the drama instead of just closing that chapter of the MC's life.

Filler content and prolonged drama are what drag this game down from a 4 or even 5 stars for a 3 star game for me. I dont mind filler content in slice of life games. I dont mind drama in games that are written like a soap opera however when a game has a unique/interesting premise and when the game has a clear end goal (setting up the startup), everything else thats in there feels pointless. I just want to skip and get to the interesting bits.

I understand that character development is important and I am happy with the character development scenes we have with the MC, Kindra, Cassandra and June. It is the rest of the game's content that I have an issue with. What is the point of the INK girls? What is the point of prolonging the drama with Cassandra at the end of update 0.4 when they could have just focused on building the startup? Why move away from a unique and interesting premise to introduce more unnecessary drama? These are the questions I find myself asking when I play this game.

Setting up a startup is a massive undertaking and I feel like there is a ton of content/stories that can be told here. However this game tries its hardest not to tell those stories instead focusing on generic drama and other fluff content.

Original story, Well developed characters, everything is *muwah* Brilliant!

For the Wank-O-Meter: this game is not for a quickie, but you are in for a helluva story! (don't get me wrong, there is SEX in here, OK?, but it isn't the main focus.)

This going to be a new standard for the Top tier, Heavy hitting projects!
I would love to introduce you all to similar projects, but since it's forbidden to do this in reviews to keep reviews fair. I'm not going to, although! If you have a KEEN-EYE, there are a few shout-outs throughout the Visual Novel! (Hell! Even crossovers!)

KEEP ON GOING, digi.B THIS IS FANTASTIC!

I just got caught up on this one after 0.2.

It's one of the few VNs on this site where the main character's depicted as realistically down on his luck and traumatized without going full doormat or descending into angsty hell. He's been through some shit, which has been established, and in a big way he's still going through it. I really like that his first instinct is always to call his shrink; it's a very humanizing reaction.

The actual main plot of this thing feels like gilding the lily. This could've gone ahead and been a whole story about the MC getting his life back together, while simultaneously getting to know all these new people who've popped into his life, and it would've been a perfectly decent VN with some realistic, interesting conflict.

The ridiculously human android at the heart of the story, the title character, is barely a factor at all so far, and feels like an unnecessary complication in a VN that's already got a ton of moving parts. That could change later, of course, but I went for a long time while actively forgetting Artemis was a thing.

Anyway: it's a good time. Good character work, jokes that land, an antagonist you're really going to love to hate, and 90% of the models are great. (The exception's Paige, who needs to fire her tattoo guy.) You won't regret checking this one out.