Ren'Py - Automaton Story [v0.2.0 Fix2] [AngryFur]

TL;DR
Overrated waste of time. Bad H-scenes, bad sandbox, boring story, meh art.


Art: 2/5
Nice-looking hand-drawn style and smooth animations — so why only 2/5? Well... 80% of the game is monochrome, and there are only a handful of animations. And it took the dev 6(!) years.


H-scenes: 1/5
They’re short, mostly silent (no dialogue or narration). No buildup — scenes just pop up out of nowhere and end just as abruptly.


Sandbox: 1/5
One of the worst of its kind. No QoL features: large, maze-like locations with 5+ screens, and you can only open the map from the first "room". No highlighting of interactable objects, so you end up pixel-hunting. No easy way to skip time either — you have to dig through the journal or go to your room.


Story & Writing: 1/5
The story is just boring, but the biggest problem is that it's constantly interrupted — a few sentences, and you're back to clicking through that obnoxious sandbox.
Awful fetch quests — you exchange a few words with one character, then run to another.
Dumb romance progression with the main LI — you give her an incest book, and the next night you're groping her. Porn logic, sure, but come on.

It just needs more dedication to the game's development time; it takes a long time for a fuken release.
angryfur´s type of art and style is my favorite, hits the spot while gooning, no cap.

But it's still the best fuken game I've ever played in my fuken furry gooner life.

Saw it, played it, and was impressed for longer than 2 hours, so certainly something must be done right here. The game is still unfinished but at present state its complex enough and I doubt the general gameplay is going to change, so here's my review.


Basic premise is this. You play as a some kind of canine anthro who is 19 yrs of age, lives alone with a younger sister, with no parental supervision. Yes, youre probably gonna bang your sister at some point, but hold back that erection because the game is not centered around this. One day you find a *female automaton (because obviously why not), and from there the main plot is introduced but as yet there isnt any definite ending.

Gameplay is VN style, with a lot, and I do want to emphasize on this, ALOT of point and clicking. The main plot may be somewhat linear, but because theres just so many characters in this game with their own separate plotlines, you may well just call this a sandbox with non-linear gameplay.

H gameplay is also VN, in other words, there's zero complexity. You dont really get to decide anything beyond where your cumming and even then only if that option is present. There is animations, which is quite smooth, but no VA far as I can tell. I say this because there is an option for sound volume (not music) but Ive heard nary a squeak from this game from 4 hours of gameplay.

Not a fan of the artstyle, though thumbs up for effort. Every now and then the body proportions can go whack, and even when it isnt its simply not drawn to any appealing standard. Many of the body types quite frankly look way too similar, and Id just like to point out that there's a lot of placeholder sketches - perhaps a tad too much.

To conclude...

I have to say, this game is impressive for the size and scope of its gameplay despite its unfinished state. Perhaps unsurprising given that its been 5 years, but its impossible to not at least admire the dedication. The only real point of contention is that I cannot really see where and when this game would ever end. If 5 years is not enough, then how much longer?

Still, its easy to recommend this because it fulfills a niche that isnt common - its furries that isnt about brokeback mountain. Not to mention that this game is properly complex enough to be both interesting and admirable. Only book of lust comes closest as a comparison, while pig princess is still struggling to offer even an inch of branching plotlines, let alone the sprawling tree that is this game.

Few bugbears to mention:

- Sex scenes can be longer. Like seriously, its a H game, and some of its scenes are so short you barely get your hardon started let alone sustain it.
- Game needs polishing, a lot of polishing.
- For fuck sake, this game needs a wait function because those trips to bed just to progress time is about as annoying as an unreacheable back itch
- For all the extremely long winded teasing, you dont actually get to penetrate your sister, which should be included into the list of H game design deadly sins. Either let us, or dont. Leaving it hanging like this is just -____-

So glad this game finally got another update, as it is easily one of the top 10 on the site in my personal opinion. I just love the setting and worldbuilding, steampunk is so rare and different and you rarely ever see it done right even when it does crop up. This is done right. Throw in good story, an art style that is easy on the eyes, and cute furry girls and you have a real gem. I hope this game continues to be worked on no matter how rare the updates may be.

One of the games I enjoyed playing the most. It's rare to find a game with good furry animation. And finally a game that isn't just gay. I recommend you to try this game, you will only enjoy it !!!!!!!

Enjoyed everything released so far. Great pacing, good dialogue, and the story seems intriguing. Only thing that took getting used to was the choice of hair. Not big into furry stuff so seeing on these characters was weird to me at first. Got over that though and its been great otherwise. Cant wait to see whats next.

Usually I don't even enjoy furry or anthro stuff all that much. This game's story, writing and art are all just very good. Very appealing in every sense of the word.
Give it a shot even if you're not usually into this sorta thing. I doubt you'll have a bad time playing

The art is great and it has some very good stories that I will actually sit and read instead of just skipping through it, it makes me feel as if I'm actually in this game, which is a little weird but its kinda like reading a book where you get lost in it, anyways, great game really no complaints, besides the fact that its kinda confusing to get the scenes for side characters (for me) and I really don't feel like restarting my entire save because "its not compatible" with the newer versions and I'm pretty sure a BUNCH of people can agree with that, I'm not a game dev or anything so idk if that's even fixable but I feel like if other games have it to where older saves work with newer ones and they're using the same engine as this one then I feel like this game can do that too, but then again idk cause I'm not a game dev.

A furry game with a straight MC, who is a furry and not a human - a thing as rare as a unicorn. Neat handdrawn art and animations, no AI generated bullshit (at the moment at least). I cannot wait it to be finished.

The game isnt very intuitive but I got through it all and it's... ok. A lot of the character progression is annoyingly tied to specific days of the week & times so you have to just guess or cycle through and guess. Not sure why the map option is hidden except for specific rooms but whatever. Art's not bad for what parts are actually completed. Overall, pretty half-baked.

I'm rating this on it's potential. It's actually an engaging story unlike some other games.

I'm a big fan of the art style and the change to art style especially. The artist deserves more appriciation for this game and the long waits between releases are completely justified! I will pay to see this game complete, it's worth it.

Highest quality furry VN on the site, Story and world are interesting scenes are S+ in quality and variety long lengthy and detailed hand drawn animations (no skeletal anim BS) only fault the game has is dialogue is iffy which can be chalked down to the project lead not being fluent in english

A game with massive potential!
A growing story and better effort given to it them most other projects, Although the time between releases is long it's always been worth it.
Hopefully the developer getd more time to keep this project going.

Keep it up AF.

A good novel with a plot, which has a rather thorny path to reach its technical finale. In general, my subjective assessment comes from the fact that the game is not even finished and ends at the most interesting. But still, from what is already there, and these are a few sex animations, finished and unfinished sprites of locations and characters, and, well, a rather interesting idea for me with steampunk technologies. So I boldly put 5.

One of the best games in years, you can tell that the creator of the game puts value on the story and the animation. I hope there will be more updates in the near future, cause i can´t wait to see what´s next

Really sweet and cute story and concept. I love the art and the sister especially. That being said the development speed of this game could be outpaced by crippled snail. Once again the game itself is gorgeous and great, but you might see meaningful content in another 3 years at this pace.

Not really a playable game at this point, I really like the art style and hope the Dev can get some help with the logic and flow.
The bugs in the game are expected at this point but game breaking bugs should never see production.

Wonderful so far! While it's very much still a work in progress, this game has a lot of talent and creativity being put into it. I was honestly surprised at how much I found myself enjoying this game, and I don't seem to be alone in that sentiment.

I was gonna come in with an edit about how early game content isn't even finished, and they just added 21 characters? But the opening of the game they admit to having underage content in their game? Just blatantly. The little sister he creeps on the whole game? 16 year old. That's gross. And on top of that, the code is overbloated and unnecessary. If you don't want to be put on a list, avoid this game. If you want a polished product, avoid this game. If you are a furry, avoid this game. If not, please don't contact me.

You furries make no sense to me. Most of the stuff that's actually in this game is unfinished. There's not much more than one linear route, and even early game content has WIP drawings. So much furry art seems to be in "the potential of the piece" and not worried about the fact that you got delivered sketchy drawings on a bar napkin. I can almost tell during the game when each update was started and ended. Yeah, the FINISHED CGs are good looking, and the premise is better than some of the drivel I've seen on this site, but there's almost nothing here. You meet a bunch of lusty characters, the art style changes if not per character then per scene. When I first saw this I thought "WOW. It's a furry game that's not gay." Only to be met with a game that has the Skyrim syndrome of an open world with nothing to really do.

My advice for Dev: Go on hiatus for a few months, and actually make some content. I will say that I understand having actual artwork makes things take longer or if you have an artist, cost more. But there's just not enough here to entice me to support a 30 minute game.

everything is perfect and I love the game the only thing I could say is wrong are the parts that have no color, the rest is incredible I love the characters and the story surrounds you I can only thank those who are creating this jewel thanks...