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

First of all Kudos to the dev for at least completing the game, now on to the rankings...

3/5 Story - The story started interesting, and while I despise NTR, the routes to take to avoid it, and the joke scenarios (hello shark) were funny and well done. The romance with the different characters was well done as well... That said the endings just feel rushed and uninspired, not sure if the dev lost interest, or got too busy with his new game. None of the issues brought up got resolved in a satisfying way... Jess ending with Chris ? Nope, Monica romance ? Nope, Veruca pregnant ? Nope... etc...

3/5 Graphics - I liked the models despite most feeling they are generic Daz models you can buy without any alterations, however the males are awful... dropping the score considerably... the MC is never shown except that dumb gross beard, Silver is using the shitty "Russel" model... and there is ugly as sin Robert... eww.... The reason the game goes back up to 3 stars is the animations... lots of people hate these "stock" animations that are a loop, but honestly they are the smoothest ones, and work well for porn games, I am fan of them.

3/5 Characters - the characters while having well written personalities, which should net the game a higher score in this category... are stringed along by a dumb plot (mostly the NTR routes)... the girls honestly swallow such HUGE stupid pills you'd think they choked to death and got replaced by blow-up dolls instead... they fare a lot better on the romance paths, but you have to take the entire game in perspective when rating.

Kudos to T4bbo for complecancel the game.
So there's no need to suffer anymore trough the story. Found this game just recently and it was intriguing but lost it all after a while. Story was easy to read and enjoyable no engrish stuff.

Renders were ok, used models not overused but kinda ugly sometimes. Animations were good though.

Seems to be the devs first work and therefore it's really enjoyable but no real need to replay the stuff. Story is too twisted and even some minor decisions have strange outcomes.

Better to end it here instead mutating it into a huge mess. Will try the new game.

Up to before the yacht I really enjoyed the game, the "enjoyment" rate was quite high, about 3.5-4 stars and I was hopeful with what could happen in all the routes. Unfortunately from the yacht the game changed too much. It was not enjoyment anymore but frustration and disappointment.
What could have been a great game, with hot scenes, nice corruption, that I hoped would progress into sharing, bdsm, prostitution etc, became a boring game, with little of that and rushed scenes, I felt the Dev wanted to finish it and destroyed all the possibilities that this game, up until before the yacht has presented. The last few updates I just extracted the CG, sure a few nice animations, and a couple of hot CG, but not the CG I hoped for.
Enjoyment rate is 1 (terrible) this because I didn't enjoy it at all and because of the high expectation that the game did have up to the yacht.

A good start, followed by a faceplant into a blender.

Following this game has been an exercise in patience. The content and development were good, great even until about midway through the project. While the quality of renders and occasionally the writing were janky in the early versions, it was still nowhere near as bad as other games trying to hit their stride. Once it did, it was amazing for a while; regular updates, good quality writing, constantly improving renders and some creativity with the setting all made for an exciting experience, and had me hooked for the next version.
Then came a sharp cut. Coincidentally when the creator announced a second game. The head writer "disappeared" and had to be replaced, deadlines were missed and communcation was less than stellar. To this day the development process has not recovered. I cannot rid myself of that niggling feeling that this project has simply been placed on life support until the fanbase migrates to the newer game.
While the renders are likely better than ever by now, a product of experience no doubt, the writing and story lacks soul. and that can't be countered by pretty pictures in this medium. If I just want to skip to the naughty pics, I hit up sadpanda and spare me the trouble.
That said, you will get a good experience playing this game, just do not expect anything from the updates, you will be disappointed. I cannot rate the game higher than average as a result, since the ending tends to stick with me. I just wish that the dev would stick the landing on this one, but at this point, I cannot help bout doubt his willingness to do so. I am certain the team could do it, they just no longer seem to care enough. This has been one of the biggest disappointments in western eroge. Not because it is bad, mind you, but because it could have been, and used to be, so much better.

I spent few hours playing, but I found this game very mediocre.
Mediocre in the animation, storyline, character building, sexual tension.
I see it is constantly updated but still the backbone of the game is not as intriguing and charismatic like other titles.

I appreciate the developer work though

_Babysitter_ has outstanding features and mediocre elements; in the round it is a flawed game that is probably worth your time (with certain caveats).

The game is highly fappable... but getting there requires _hours_ of fairly dedicated work with a walkthrough.

Its strengths are largely the flipside of its weaknesses:

• it is enormous -- so enormous that seeing even a slice of everything requires a walkthrough;
• semi-open world elements and a zillion variables make it very replayable, but also make setting up scenes labour-intensive;
• the character art is good -- but the backgrounds and animations are less impressive until late in the game;
• the two main girls -- Christine and Jessica -- are interesting characters, but (as others have noted) the remainder are clichés.

IMHO, the semi-open world design added nothing to the game and greatly over-complicated it. It was unnecessary.

I hope the dev learns from the experience of creating this game, and applies those lessons in his/her next project. I will follow it with interest, and recommend that you do the same.

excellent work!

voyeur, cheating, Girlfriend sex, secretary sex, incest or NTR many fetishes are here combined
just playing the game once doesn't end it
you have so many options how to game could play out there is something for everyone if you go step by step with the walkthrough or go random its nice

I play this game for 8 th time and I still love it the MC can get the guy s or the guys can get the MC its nice to feel the experience
Its kinky full of fetishes

This game is a Cliché'd mess featuring "The Gentleman", the "No Life Dad"/Creeper, the slutty friend, the weinstein, and the magical cock. (Check out this thread if you want a deep dive into all of these.

Clichés aren't always bad, in fact, they can sometimes even be good. But not in this case. It just kind of felt "paint-by-numbers" without much new or interesting in it. The random clicking around the house to navigate was also very annoying. As another reviewer said, if this had been the first game I played, I might have liked it more. As it is, life is too short and there are too many other games out there to continue with this one.

A few key points:

Why did Sonya's look change so drastically after the meeting with Mr. Silver? It was very weird and kind of distracting.

Every dude the MC met the MC hated (and you had no choice about it, the thoughts were pushed across your screen without input). I mean, the MC even hated some high school punk who Christine had some partial make out session with way before the start of the game. I find alpha-rage-jealousy to be very off putting, I want my characters to be strong of will and mind. Un-restrained Jealousy is a sign of weakness.

I liked the truth or dare scene. It was well put together and pretty hot. Oddly I haven't run into a truth or dare scene in other games. So well done there!

The sex progression is slow and I didn't enjoy the characters or the writing style in general. I'm not exactly sure what it was exactly that put me off. I think the white knight good guy love route feels icky to me because it's so sentimental and impossible. The bad guy horny route felt dumb as well and not in a passable way like some other games.

I quit playing right at the start of the second day. The walkthrough said to go to the bathroom and use the toilet and I spent about a minute clicking around just trying to figure out where it was. The actual game didn't give any indication as to what I was supposed to do. I'm somewhat interested to see where the story goes, but I just can't deal with the awful user experience.

Pros:

The English is competent. I didn't see any spelling or grammar errors.

The textbox is custom and looks nice. It scales to the height of the text too which is cool and I haven't seen it before. One minor gripe is it is only a tiny bit smaller at one line than at two, so it can be a little annoying if you read as fast as I do with the top of the box constantly jumping up and down. Better in my opinion would be to make the minimum box size equal to two lines of text so it only rescales for three or more. It's very small anyway even at two lines.

Meh:

The renders are nothing special and somewhat low-res, but not ugly.


Cons

The intro background story has about a page worth of flying text you have to read as it moves by without the option to pause. You know, Ren'Py has this built-in system for text which allow the reader to read at their own pace. Why would you think it's a good idea to introduce your game this way? I almost stopped literally 20 seconds in.

The navigation system is awful and moving around is an unintuitive nightmare. It's the worst I've ever seen, hands down. A system like this is unnecessary in the first place but if you insist on it, at least provide a menu to make navigation reasonable and give text popups when you mouse-over doors, etc. It probably took me on average about 15 clicks to get from one place to another because the layout makes no sense and there's almost zero guidance.

You are just left to wander around with little or no indication what you should be doing. Good luck figuring it out without a walkthrough. And the developer apparently disabled the text history (it's not in the menu anyway) which makes it worse once you've starting moving around the house and can't figure out what it is you're looking for.

There are a lot of text buttons you have to click on for no reason. IE, not an actual choice, just something that makes me take my hand off the enter key, move the mouse, and click so I can go back to reading. It's a pointless chore.

Whether you like incest and/or NTR there's a ton of good content here.

I'll get my 2 cons out of the way first.
The biggest one is how reliant on a walkthrough you'll be. I'm much more a fan of having key decisions effect the course of events rather than the kinda of "oh you don't have enough of these points so this is going to happen rather than the thing you wanted" style... navigating even just your apartment each day is a bit of a chore, oh you've woken up well click to turn around, click the wardrobe, put on trousers, click to the next room - and the layout is super annoying until you get used to it ... basically I think it would have been better as more of a true visual novel and then maybe you'd be less reliant on having to use a walkthrough to be looking at erotic games or spying on people at the right times and stuff ... basically, playing the game is no fun and a chore, but the story and content do make it worthwhile, but that aspect still left me feeling grumpy... I sort of feel if you ever really need a walkthrough to see the content you want to see then a game has been poorly designed.
The second much lesser complaint is just that it gets a bit buggy near the end of the current content, it didn't cause me any major issues you can just "ignore" your way through it and I think it's mainly just due to missing images from the scenes but it happened on each playthrough I tried with various routes (to greater/lesser degrees) so is probably worth mentioning - but I'm sure will be fixed in future updates.

But the pros are strong.
The plot and writing are great, I loved the corruption of your niece, not so slow as to be boring, but slow enough to let things nicely cook... though thinking about it I've got no idea why the game is called the babysitter, sure I used a mod to restore being the uncle, but even if I wasn't there's no baby for her to possibly sit and she gets 1 of 2 jobs pretty much straight away anyway.
The renders and animations and everything are solid no complaints there.
There's a ton of content, as it's only 0.2 I didn't expect it to go on for nearly as long as it did (I should have learned by now to not pay attention to version numbers), I got to what I thought would be the end of the game and it kept going, haha.
There's some different branches too. The 2 main paths involve her having a completely different daytime life, then in each you can try to get her, or someone else might and then there's other characters to maybe throw in the mix... personally I think if you're after NTR the corporate route probably pulls it off better, and if you're not then I liked her going to work with her friend as those 2 dressing up and stuff was nice to see and was ultimately better for my tastes.

So yeah, good story, well written, good characters, mega hot, buuuut a bit annoying to play and you should definitely look at the walkthrough to get your desired outcomes... I'll definitely play a full release of it and hopefully someone would make a walkthrough mod to go with it then as constantly flicking out of the game does ruin things a little.

I don't know... i have no hate of the game. Actually i loved it. NTR does bothers me a lot so i played "good uncle and corrupting uncle" routes.
In my eyes Christine character is adorable , her naivety and shyness were very charming. Yes she did appear to have some slutty tendencies but her persona seems to be emanating faithfulness, the way she struggles with her jealousy but still keeping it in check by staying loyal and trying to see (find/fix/) mistakes says a lot about her persona, which i have appreciation for. She was using words "i love y.." "always yours" are really fitting her. I hope to see more of the same.

Jessica on the other hand.. her brain screams "love me!" not "whore me" despite what others seem to want or see in her. She longs for being wanted, belonging to someone and not to be tossed from one to another like rag doll. She is very envious about Christine relationship with her uncle ,on subconscious level and wan't what she has.And she is definitely in love with uncle and Christine, she just cant understand whats happening. Her ending up with Christine and uncle in love triangle only seem right fitting , after a lot of crying and her opening to them and realizing her real desires with help from "uncle" who would bring her to the ground and kinda adopt her (knowing that he is more mature with his thinking and has insight into her feelings and persona) , but seems like he might need some help.. which is where "mom" jumps in..

Mom.. i dont know plans , but i do have feeling that after "taking in" situation and realizing her daughter feelings and knowing that it would simply be devastating if she goes against whats happening , (knowing that she already supported her and accepting when she thought that Christine was lesbian) in fact i think it would be liberating to find out about the "love triangle" and not only lesbian
And as most "emphases on most" mothers do... They HELP.. so . she could be the real game changer for Jessica and help her ground down and make her understand that she can be loved and accepted by uncle and Christine

One of the best games out there, many paths, many endings. Great renders, great animation, great story. A must play, Most likely takes a hit like most ntc games just because of those so few saint wannabees. This is one of the few that is a must play , your missing out if you havnt played it.

I would say this game is a bit controversial, it has ok point-n-click gameplay, it has a somewhat ok story, it has a somewhat ok development. But how so? the development of corruption is good at a certain point because progress is slow and for me I could have explored certain things a little more. The story unfortunately ended up deviating from this progression and ended up confusing certain things, which resulted in an ending that I didn't like. There are some things in the game that are irritating, some mechanics that I found annoying and confusing that seem like only the developer knew what the massages were and where you have to click to make the right progress. Overall I think the game is good but it's far from being my favorite.

I am giving this vote as excellent because the game has good history, and good exploration content, it is worth the incentive for the developer.
Already detailed certain things about texture with the developer who needs to fix but other than that, history, sounds, events became worthy.

The game has well-written dialogue and character interactions with choices though not the most exciting but good story with various multiple choices on how to progress the story. It also features plenty of sex scenes both with main and minor characters as well as an NTR route if you choose to. The renders and visuals, in general, are ranging from good to excellent with some very good looking character models and well made intimate scenes.

Overall a well-made adult-themed VN, with plenty of said content and a simple but engaging enough story with multiple ways to progress it and different endings.

ok first think this game is probably is very interesting, espesialy for the art and 3dcg pic that so awesome, so maybe my reaction is
-firstly is the art 2dcg : for me the art is fine for every chara, but i have some at first time the MC meet chara Sonya maybe she is very different when she not use her eyeglass, so maybe that the point for pretty stuff in game
-art 3dcg : is awesome , moreover when scene blowjob and sex scene
-display menu : my opinion is the menu display is little bit difficult
-story line : is kinda boring because the text is too long, maybe cn shortert with adding a scene or any stuff, like the MC cn command girl to use another cloth

yeah bad english

Version Reviewed: 0.1.9b

This is a fairly run of the mill sisterfucker type VN. It has the usual elements of slow corruption and pulling in their friends. If I had discovered this game a couple of years ago I would probably rate it higher, but it has a lot of the features I've grown to dislike after playing several of these games.

Gameplay: This is a visual novel, so you're railroaded through the game making choices that can affect hidden stats on the various people. However, this has the annoying feature where if you don't play the game exactly right you can fail to increase stats at specific times and be locked out of the steamy content. Worse, it doesn't even make it apparent in many places if you've chosen the correct path or not, the end result is maybe a slight change in the dialog afterward and then a continuation of the same story either way. Some major game altering choices are presented with no warning or clue as to what they will create. The end result is if you want to see the good stuff you need to play with the walkthrough open. I'm also knocking off half a point because it has mutually exclusive branches so you have to play it all the way through multiple times to see the content, even with the generous rollback feature.

Characters: This is where the game loses a point for me. The MC and his goddaughter/niece are such sticks in the mud for so long that it gets really frustrating to watch them shoot down every fun idea. Worse, the correct choice in most instances is the most boring one. This leads to endless reading of trite dialog and never making it to the fireworks factory. There's a lot of text to read too. This dev takes the "novel" part of VN seriously.

Plot: It's nothing special. The MC has business trouble but is doing ok. Your niece is trying to make it in the city. Stuff you've read a hundred times in these games already.

Graphics: Would have been a 5 star rating a few years ago, but the other devs have really stepped up their game and this one has fallen back into the adequate region. There are some animations, but they're the old school 5 frame loops.

Sound: I turned it off.

Verdict: It's such a slow burn that it gets rather boring after awhile. The graphics are decent, the characters are realistically proportioned (good job on no titmonsters). If this was the first pornogame I played I'd probably give it 5 stars, but it is stuck with some of the braindamage that was common with the older games that drags it down. I'm also knocking half a star off for not enabling Linux support, even though that's trivial with Ren'Py.

A deep slice of life story

A solid game that will interest you for a good bunch of hours. For a Visual Novel kind, the gameplay is better and the choices are higher than your average VN. The renders and animations are not the best you can find, but good enough to enjoy the classic story of hardships of life.

--- Character Design :
The renders are getting better during the game. The girls are too tanned for some reason, and the color so unnatural. Sometimes the faces are meh, sometimes extremely cute (for a same character), so the quality is a bit inegal. Otherwise their body are really sexy overall.
Personality wise, it is pretty interesting to see how Christine (the main girl) progress in her discovery of the adult world. Also the girls are more clever and unpredictable than your average game, a good point. The MC makes sense. The other guys are not really likeable, but probably not the goal intended.

--- Story/Background :
I don't really know what to think. The dialogues are well written except some typos, but overall it is a very common story. Not saying it is uninteresting, because sometimes it portrays some realistic points and aspect of life that are worth knowing, but some other time it is a little absurd, but well it is a game. I still have a feeling that the author don't really know where to go with that plot : the shaddy deal is really vague and the fiesta in the boat quite absurd. Despite that, you still kinda want to follow the story, so it's not that bad

--- Sex/Animations :
I find the animations to be the weak point of the game. It would have been good 2 or 3 years ago, but now we easily find much better than a 2 renders loop animation. Now the renders are nice, and usually quite erotic.
Edit : The last scenes are a bit better, so I'm increasing the mark

--- Gameplay/Content :
One can think it is just standard VN, but at the end it is a bit more complex than that and there are a lot of factors and choices to make, that do change the story and the relationship quite a lot. Overall I think the dev has found a quite good compromise between simplicity and complexity.
The contents are bigger than I thought at first, you won't do that game in one night (except if you skip all dialogues)

In terms of character and plot development, this one is way up there. I wasn't expecting a game so full of content with the genre of a rated R action/spy film.

Nothing felt out of place or forced, contrary to what the other non-positive reviews say. Only thing that threw me off at first was the skin textures but that "problem" quickly subsided. Great visuals and H scenes but also not a game where you just sit back and relax. A lot of these choices do matter and effect later scenes and I'm willing to wait to see what the next update brings