Ren'Py - Completed - Babysitter [Final v0.2.2b] [T4bbo]

Just finished one of the paths of the game. I loved it from the beginning and the end was pretty good.

I cared for Christine and Jessica. My playthrough had a pretty realistic outcome even if it was not what I wanted. Plenty replay value.

Animations of this game is probably the best IMO on this site. Yes, there are other games (City of broken dreams, Timestamps, Milfy city etc.) with very good animations. But the animation in this one was spectacular. The physics of the boobs, the speed and action of the body movements during sex were perfect.

So for me

Characters: 8/10 Christine and Jessica were pretty special. Plenty of other side character and all of them good.
Story: 7/10 Story were solid and enjoyable
Sex scenes : 9/10 Very good and very erotic.
Animation: 10/10 Pretty much perfect.
Replay ability: 9/10 Quite a few paths as far as I know


All and all, very good and enjoyable. Tons of quantity, tons of sex etc.

Recommended.

Babysitter is a fairly boring and mundane game with an extremely creepy MC that never seems to get recognized as such. There's many issues with the game, from nonexistent music/ambiance that often makes every scene feel dead, mundane writing that felt so filler-y, and character models that are less than great. Overall, the story is alright with you having admittedly many paths to take which is great, the issue arises when you actually sit through the monotony of these paths and the boring writing that attacks you from the first scene. I really think the author was going for an emotional romantic love story, but not only can I not take that seriously when the main character is a piece of shit that knowingly sells spyware to a creep without a care, but also spies on his actual love interests. Beyond that the writing could be passable if there was some kind of consistent soundtrack (copyright free is fine, just something), but there are long stretches of horribly boring dialogue and stick thin characters doing nothing of substance. In the end Its not dreadful, and many people clearly got value from this, but it has too many issues to get an average score.

Your niece needs a place to stay while she looks for work in the city. Guess who she's staying with? Bingo, it's you!


The story sounds very generic. Luckily there's more depth to it than that. Besides "babysitting" there other plots involved. And there's heavy branching, meaning some choices have a drastic impact on where the story goes and how people react.

The characters are generally fleshed out. With the niece the relationship and tension is built before it gets porny. I like that. When a character doesn't act like a one-dimensional sex doll I find it easier to relate to them. I even liked some of the antagonists to a degree. Although basically evil, they're not completely without charm. Except for Paul, that dude's a useless yahoo.

The sex scenes are okay. The love route I played had tons of lovey-dovey foreplay. I'm guessing on the horny route it might be more of an explosive rush kind of thing.


After the story had delivered most of its punches I felt it slightly outstayed its welcome. But all in all this is pretty good!

I fell for "babysitter" name, I thought it would be short and cheesy game. Kudos to creator for proving me wrong. I loved character development. I actually cared about, hated some characters. When credit hit, I got sad that I couldn't play more of it. I wanted more but it already finished.

Story starts cheesy but got interesting
Same goes for characters, with dilemma in it.
I had to use "walkthrough" cause I don't like NTR stuff. (Being cheated once hit you hard I guess)

Overall it's good and fun adventure, I suggest anyone to play this gem.

Had no problem in MW2 killing all the civilians in the airport mission but man... i feel like a scumbag cheating on Christine. That is enough for me to give 5 stars.

Besides this all i could see were minor flaws:
- mapping inside your home is a torture at the beginning - felt like a maze
-There are minor spelling errors but so far, i only saw a handful and they looked more like typos
-There are 2 paths in the walkthrough as example but for me it felt like if you mix them to much, you sometimes get weird results since i guess the game got confused

The last one is mid to major:
- Often it felt like you have to take one route to get the (only?) good ending:
SPOILER!!! since tool didnt work:


AFAIK there is just one (true) happy ending. One with her but cheating on her and she accepts it (half-good?) One were she leaves you including an abortion and the rest are NTR-endings.

TLDR: One of the best games i played so far and i rly hope, the dev will make another game!

This VN was really fun. The story moved well, there weren't any grindy elements, and the renders were pretty amazing. The name choice is a little odd considering the word comes up in the story only a couple of times as a throwaway descriptor of what you were doing and felt more like a title drop than anything... but that really doesn't speak to the quality of the work, so whatever. Excellent VN; might run through it multiple times.

This one was ultimately better than I was expecting. It has multiple endings, though more like two main endings with variations to each which can include NTR. I did not pursue these endings so I can't speak to their quality.

The story was more lengthy-feeling than I see with games like this, and I enjoyed the dialogue with all the characters who I thought were quite well designed.

The two main paths are "friendly" and "horny" (or I think more accurately "love" and "lust" though they are referred to as the former in game files) paths, based on a point system for those two stats respectively. Choices you make raise/lower those points at certain times and ultimately drive the path you're on. These paths have very different endings and personally I thought the Friend one was the best option.

The lewd scenes were well done as well, though some had some questionable lighting IMO.

The only things that are a mark against this game is that while the choice/path system seems relatively in-depth, it's very hard to determine what path you're taking when, and what the choices mean sometimes. There isn't any indication of important choices except one instance - which as far as I could tell had no actual effect. Even with skipping there's a lot of story to blast through again if you felt you made a wrong choice somewhere, and the walkthrough provided is IMO not very comprehensive.

The other is that for as decent as the story was, the ending was quite rushed. It definitely felt like there was considerably more game to play, story to learn, and maybe endings to unlock after the Spin the Bottle segment, but it just goes into a series of summary slides instead, which is disappointing. I don't know anything about the circumstances of the developer on this game but at least it HAS an ending, instead of being dropped. FWIW I did enjoy the ending I happened to get, despite it not being quite what I was hoping for.

Overall, worth a play, but I very much recommend a walkthrough - though you may have to find or make an easier-to-decipher version than the "official" one.

Best game of all games I tried so far.

There are several outcomes, so it's worth to play it more then one time.
Especially the NTR scenes/routes are gold.

The dialogoues are written well and enjoyous. I also likes the characters a lot, I found all of them well designed.

Sometimes the requirements of points to fullfill show specific scenes are a bit too strict, so it is difficult to unlock some scenes without following the walkthrough.

There are some scenes which are slightly more rough than in many other games, but just slightly.

This is my review about the game Babysitter, developed by T4bbo at its Final version

• The renders are great and the character models have a beautiful design. There are some animations and they are decent too.
• The gameplay is based on decisions with a point system (Friendship Points and Horny Points). Your decisions define the route (Corporation, Patreon, Cuckold, or NTR) you want to play.
• The story is good with a coherent narrative, the characters have their own charm, the dialogues are natural and well-written, and elements like humor, drama, and eroticism have an accurate dosage.
• The sex scenes are hot and fit pretty well in the narrative, and their narration helps the immersion.

Great game for all gamers that like a solid and enjoyable adult visual novel

What to say really?
Few games have this level of quality and I feel like I should have played the game without strictly following the walk through, but as I have a lot of games to plough through I guess I'm excused.
The story was plausible, I didn't notice any bad grammar or weird sentences. (I might have if I'd read it properly)

The renders were amazing, just a few of them were grainy and the animations did point out how animations should look like and other developers should take notice, some of them were super hot!
Sure they could have been longer but they were smooth and not 3 images on loops as other games waving the "animation"-tag.

I'm currently looking through the images to see which I missed in my play through.

Download, read, interact.

Rating based on: final

Very good game , nice story with different endings.
Cute and well-kept scenes and animations.
Different scenarios and choices along the stroy time line, very nice and nice, deserves to be in the top 10 of the best.

Comfortably one of the best games on F95Zone. Really love the character of Christine. The character building was really good depending on the path you choose. There should have been more Sonya content though. Also, Veruca should also have been included as a love interest. Alyssa's story seemed incomplete. She should have been included a bit more in the story.

Pros:

1. Awesome Renders
2. Engaging story
3. Multiple paths and endings
4. Really good animations
5. Good replayability

Cons:

1. More combinations for love interests were possible
2. Lacks a harem ending which was definitely possible given the storyline

The amount of content and the quality is just too good and really consistent almost throughout the game.

I refrained from evaluating until the game was over. I personally liked the game very much. The graphics are very good and acceptable, as well as the animation. And I will rate it with 5 stars. And as for the story. The story is very simple, I just wish there was more development in different directions, but not overloaded. And I will rate it with 4.5 stars.

This game isn't only fantastic, it's also huge.
there are so many paths and combinations of path's you can take - easily hours of playtime which is nice for a VN (which i usually dislike)

you can also get many kinks addressed here, corruption, incest, web girl, big dick, romance, forceful... its all here

I have to say it is one of the most complex game I have play in terms of choices and paths and it is a semi open world.
I enjoy it because of this freedom of choices,

I have play several times to see all the patterns in the story (I hope).

My favorite was Jessica, she was way more lovable than the main girl Christine, I guess the author know that too, because he only uses jessica for UI and banners .

The story is pretty solid, they are some spying and plots, not the type of content you usualy have in adult games.

The game really takes his time all long and it is a good thing, because of that the very end seems way too much rushed and forgot some plots or characters in the way of closure.

I have see some bugs here and there, but it is not dead end for the game.

In short it is a game worth trying and make more than one time.

Okay models, the animations work (played on Android), the story was kind of mediocre and HOLY SHEEEYIT was that ending horrible. Embarassingly I somehow triggered the NTR route in my first playthrough (it's not fun, trust me ). I then downloaded the walkthrough (which is incomplete ) and played the Patreon route, expecting to get a harem ending at the very least, but I haven't tried the other route yet but at the same time I don't think it would make any difference, it feels like the result will still be the same. Getting Christine pregnant might get you a different ending (never been a fan of pregnancy so obviously I didn't bother giving that one a shot). Overall, a solid effort ruined by a rushed ending.

i liked the game/story on the clean path, i saw what the dev tried to do and i hope his next game will be even better.
cant 4-5 star it. there are a fewtoo many grammar issues ( even with the names) but looking at his patreon he is getting proof readers ( yay) and small continuity errors with C route if she doesnt work for silver there is a moment in the end where she quits that job ??
overal. please keep writing & developing, you have the skill/talent for it

Oh Boy! Time for an honest review. I played both routes with their different variations. Here it goes:

Story started out great. It reached its peak at the yacht. Then the magic slowly faded away. In the last two updates, after you meet Christine's mom Monica; there was a huge rush to end the game and concluding a lot of important plots in slideshows during epilogue.

What about the TWO routes? Well the Friend route is worth it, even with rushed ending. Very good romantic end if you stay faithful. But the Horny route is a huge let down. Normally in these type of games, you corrupt a character to end the game in threesome, harem etc. But here, the main center of attention Christine(Chris) leaves you no matter what. WTF?

Graphics and Animation wise, the game offered decent material. The animations are specially very good at times. Static rendered pictures are a mixed bag; ranging from very good to just bad. Some improved over time. Jessica, Sonya and latter on Christine(not at start) have excellent models. Monica looked awful to me.

Finally my main issue with the game: A rushed ending along with a lot of problems that it introduced.

First of all, there are a lot of coding problems. I did exact same things yet got different outcomes. Veruca pregnancy not implemented. I found Chris+Jess doing porn even in Friend route. Also in Friend route, there are no consequences for cheating on Chris after you choose to be exclusive. You can sleep with Jessica few times, Veruca twice, Sonya at the end and also Alyssa even before that. Just don't sleep with Jessica/Monica at the very end on couch. You still get the good ending. Ending of Sonya is so tricky. I got that one where she leaves to find other men most of the time. But in horny route, I got her to stay as partner and have regular sex after I had sex with Veruca twice. I have no idea how the game triggers Sonya's particular ending. There are a lot more irregularities that I'm sure others will find.

Next the missed opportunity to explore the main plot of framing Silver and his group farther with more involvement of Veruca and specially Alyssa. You get only one chance to bang Alyssa, and both Routes in walkthrough tells you to ignore it. If you do that then there's no more content with her apart from some talks. What was the point of creating a great looking model for her anyway. Sonya could have had more content.

And finally Monica. There was almost no build up. Game pointed out that she always had crush on her brother, so why not. Bang your niece's mother! There could have been a lot more content surrounding her and her coming to terms with MC's relationship with Chris. But a quick fuck it is! Fan Service imo.

That's enough babble. At times it was a 4 or even 4.5 game for me. But when I consider the whole game; specially how it was rushed to finish while the Dev started a new game; I have to say I am disappointed. Could have been great. 3/5 it is.

P.S. I hope the next game gets full attention from start to finish.

Some spoilers ahead.

I think Babysitter’s most glaring weakness is pacing. In the beginning of the game, the pacing is strong. There are not only choices which shape the plot of the story and the characters in it, there are optional, lesser choices that unlock hidden content and even some collectible things to find. These extras serve not only their face value function but, being early in the game, they serve to stretch out the run time of the first act. As a result, the relationship you form with your niece feels believable. It’s a slow burn from her questioning whether it’s wrong to have these feelings to eventually trusting and loving the protagonist, and that’s due to good pacing, strengthened by the aforementioned story devices.

Where I think the story had its biggest error in pacing at the boat, but not for the reasons a lot of people are mentioning. By all rights, the boat should’ve been the climax of the story. Not only is it the location which all of the characters discuss and where all of the story’s big players converge, but it’s where the pacing takes a dramatic shift. No longer are there any gradual consequences or stat farming—once you’re on the boat, you see the effects of your choices instantly, and the options available to you are determined by the stats you’ve acquired and the relationship choices you’ve made up to this point. Once the player’s on the boat, the pacing changes from cycles of action and repose to just action-action-action. This would be good pacing for a climax, but the boat is not the climax.

After peaking, the story awkwardly wanders in normalcy for a bit, decreasing in tension, before the climax happens at a bar of all places. At this bar, the story’s central plot (the investigation) and its central relationship (between you, Robert/Steele, and the niece) both come to a head, and it feels bad. Not only does this bar event kind of come out of nowhere and come after a location which should’ve held the climax, but it feels bad as a climax because none of your choices really matter and nothing decided at the bar immediately leads into a conclusion. There are, I believe, just two outcomes of the bar location, and there’s no way your character stats will be close enough by this point that any choice you make at the bar will make the difference in which outcome you see.

The final pacing issue comes in the conclusion, which comes a little awkwardly as both a trip to a resort which the player acts out at a regular pace, and also as a summary epilogue, after the resort. The pacing here feels inappropriate because the story at the resort is told in a way that makes it feel like the action and tension are increasing—despite already having 1.5 climaxes in the story. I believe this was done because the author wanted to introduce one more “romantic” character, but the pacing of the tryst is so different from any other romance in the game (and the relationship in general feels empty and out of character), that the decision to ruin the pacing yet again just for a weak character feels so frustrating.

Despite all of my criticisms regarding its pace, I still believe Babysitter is above average in the areas of setting and character graphics, overall story, player interaction, and so many other areas. I’ve played a lot of games on this site and seen a lot of stories and, for as fresh as my frustrations and disappointment are regarding Babysitter’s ending, I would be lying to myself if I said the game overall was just an average experience—let alone below average, as some others have reacted to this last patch. For these reasons, I must give the game at least 4 stars.

I personally am giving this game 5 stars. Not necessarily for the game itself but for the path it set me on as well as for the help T4bbo has given me over the time I've known him in the creation of my own game.

I found this game by chance while on YouTube. I forget what exactly I was looking for but a play through of the early part of the game was suggested. I checked it and I really liked it. I hadn't really paid much attention to the story at first, it was for the graphics/renders that I was seeing. As a big comic book fan when I was a kid and have always wanted to do my own comic book, it got those gears going. Plus it also reminded me of the movie big with the whole 'interactive comic book' vibe. So I got into it quite a bit. Once I started paying attention to everything, and realizing I could do this, my path was set(though, definitely have had my bumps and bruises so far along the way).

The game itself, I've always liked the rendering. You can tell the improvement from the start of the game til the very end. T4bbo has always put a lot of time into getting better with his rendering and it shows. Some think it's as easy as just popping a character in a scene and hit render. No, it isn't that easy. It's actually a pain in the ass because you have to make sure each render is set up correctly and your lighting is good and your camera is set for the right DOF.....if not, and you're batch rendering, you just wasted a lot of time rendering junk and having to go back and rerender stuff. So I think presentation wise, he has always done a great job on that end.

The models....For the most part I think the models were fine. He improved Christine as the game went on as well as Sonya. The male models were a little 'eh', but were you playing this thing for the male models? I know I wasn't. Monica I was a little disappointed in.....she was certainly improved from the first time we saw her. If she's supposed to be around 50, then I fully understand the choices that were made with her....but if she's only supposed to be slightly older than the MC, she's either aged way too much or did A LOT of hard drugs. Again though, I don't know what her age was supposed to be. That being said, she's still very much approved upon from the first time we saw her.

The writing. This is where it fell apart for me. Initially, I didn't mind it. It was a little silly, but hey, it's a game. I was able to suspend my disbelief. I was ok up until the final writer change. The personalities of the characters changed and either said or did things I don't think had the writing stay the same. This was out of T4bbo's hands though since there were some issues going on. Life happens. This isn't to say the new writer was a bad choice. Just that the writing style didn't match the characters or the game. The old writer was brought back as an editor to try and keep the flow going. The damage was done though. Even before the switch though, there were certainly holes in the writing...which happens. If you really stop and think about it, the fact they were able to pull off this story line with the limited character line up they had is impressive. Though, the ending did seem rushed. I think between being late on releases and burnout from the game, might have been inevitable. He has stated about doing some more content post completion depending on the feedback from his patrons. So maybe if given time and a more relaxed deadline, maybe some of the loose ends can be tied up properly.

Character development. This was probably my biggest issue. While the MC and Christine were the stars of the game, the biggest character development was Jessica and probably followed by Sonya. I thought too many times that when it seemed Christine was making progress, she was acting like a naive twit again. The MC, while he had his moments, kinda felt the same. Jessica was struggling with her sexuality through the game but was built up. Sonya was weak in the beginning and wound up becoming a strong woman who knew what she wanted to do. I didn't get that with MC or Christine(keep in mind, I did like both characters, but some of the writing for them was just weak). As for Silver, Robert and Paul.....these have to be 3 of the dumbest criminals I have ever encountered in a game, book or movie, lol. And that might have been the intent because none of them were made to look very bright. Before the ending, you get that Silver had been doing seedy stuff for awhile, but wondered how since he's kind of a dipshit, lol. Paul is just worse. Robert, you can kinda see because he is more portrayed as a street level thug who thinks he's bigtime only to be proven how smalltime he really is.

The game certainly had it's good points as well as it's negative ones. The positives definitely outweigh the negative I think by a large margin. Certainly some lessons to be taken into the next game to try and avoid. As for me, because this was the first game that exposed me to this genre, it will have a significant meaning for me. As well as the help T4bbo has given me with the creation of my game. Some of you bash the guy, but don't realize he's actually a pretty cool dude and has been very giving when he doesn't have to be.

-ReturnofPoncho