Ren'Py - Burning Boundaries [v0.1.4] [T4bbo]

It's passable, good things going for it are the current amount of content and the renders and girls look great. (although there is next to no variety in girls age and build).
I breaks for me at the MC and the story focus.
The MC is a simp and lets people walk all over him despite it not making sense in the setting.
The dev obviously has his focus on NTR and sharing. You can choose to not partake but for a lot of scenes then come out awkward and the MC will still keep his noodle spine personality, like the MC being all wishy washy in front of a man that could have been a bull for your SO (but in your playthrough nothing happened to make you insecure).

I think the branching, if you can even call it that, is done very poorly. You have to follow specific routes and perfectly make the "right" choices to get specific scenes. And sometimes these choices don't even make any sense, so you'l want to get a guide or URM. I don't know about you guys, but I don't see the replayability in a VN that is not even finished.

The focus in this VN is jumping all over the place, from character to character, from place to place, sometimes it skips some time without telling you and sometimes events take place at the same time for different characters. Makes it all feel even more incoherent.

TLDR; My advice, if you are wooed by the pretty renders, is to skip the story completely and just unlock all the scenes. The story does nothing new or interesting, while the scenes are pretty good.

just average? i didnt want a relationship with the step daughter, but youre forced anyway.

Its 2025, game is ran by AI anyway, seems the DEV is just rushing

AI is really killing the game, wouldnt surprise me this dev is most likely just copy and pasting from CHATGPT.

Renders are amazing, no surprise. But the whole game is restricted.

Even with cheats or walkthrough. Like i have 5 love points for the step daughter, never defend her and my guy is still a simp...

If you like to be owned by women, this game is for you! Dev is really creepy for half of the scenes aswell, he is probably european, so doesnt surprise me ( Im chinese, soprry for bad engluish)

Beautiful renders gets 1 stars but seems like another wannabe auteur going for a PG rating instead of giving people a reason to become a supporter of the project. Isn't that the entire point of a prologue?
Walk in on a beautiful woman in the bathroom and her arm is blocking her boob, why?!?! Then later shes in the shower and the focus is on her face, seriously? Give people something to look forward to ffs.
MC is yet another example of a spineless beta that every women walks all over, doesn't help that he looks like a mongoloid android to boot.
Story is fairly generic and unoriginal utilizing hammered out tropes.
Still has a lot of potential but is giving me little to no reason to check back for updates.

Wow! I love this game!

Everything is close to perfection: the storytelling, the models/renders, the characters, the conflicts between the family members the story is based on, the choices you can make and consequences you suffer.

I am looking forward to see the game in its entirety.

Thanks, T4bbo!

Marking this game as a favorite for me, one of the best in 25 imho. Not sure why this isn't even higher ranked or i had to search in the searchbar to find it after a few weeks. Really nice job on the different paths, extensive storytelling and very nice imagery. Loved the complete story. I wonder if the updates are going to be progressive or i'll just have another go at it next year.

Pros:
top notch renders,
differed alluring character design
great choice to pixelate the baby character otherwise the story will feel yuck

cons:
story paper thin, so it is only good enough for a single playthrough not much repeat value
need a walkthrough for finding some routes are extremely diffcult

At the beginning I have to say that I'm glad that dev decided to change title. Babysitters didn't fit this one.

First thing I'm describing is always plot. But here isn't really any plot. Game is full of slices of life of few characters and I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Just writing it, so people who'll read my review know not to expect anything big. Just a simple stories that won't rock universe. Writing is quite good, beside of some confusing characters thinking with speaking, you'll find a nice quality text and decisions in this game really matters. Personally I only didn't like occasional too long descriptions or chit chat of third characters that don't add anything to the story nor build characters or tension. But hey, there's a skip button for that

Earlier I mentioned that decisions really matters and they very affect characters. Depending on love points amount they can be more/less sweet or harsh with MC or more/less open to some kind of sexual behavior. It opens many paths, but luckily there's a good walkthrough (as an option of course) and proper gallery, so you can decide, if you want to play all the paths or prefer to play one and check the gallery for rest like me. If it comes to characters progression, I played strict daddy with loyal cuckquean wife and I was kinda disappointed. Ok, Lara postpartum depression was a matter of time, but for all game long I feel that she didn't change at all. Even when she developed cuckquean fetish, she still sometimes was jealous or even angry on MC, she just didn't make any drama about it. As for her daughter I feel that she only changed when her daddy was around. She still was the same manipulative bitch (damn, I hated when she exposed Erika face on her stream without her consent) who sells her body on webcam, but was just less swearing and was nice to her daddy. The only character with real visible progress was Erika, but also here I'm disappointed. I'm used to that MC is corrupting LIs, but here almost all the job is done by Angelica and MC only get sexual profits..

Exceptional things in this game are graphics and animations. Especially the second is top level with perfect voices and sounds. Sometimes face expressions are weird and/or make characters look totally different, but it makes them more real. Bodies have amazing proportions and faces are very good, but not beautiful for my taste. The most beautiful is currently unfuckable (Dr. Wick), but who knows... we're collecting points for her.

If you're looking for a game with top visuals, this game is definetely for you. You'll of course enjoy many other things and maybe some other paths will be more pleasurable for people with different kinks, but for me there wasn't anything exceptional, beside of graphics.

I have played numerous visual novels, and this one stands out as the finest I have ever experienced. The graphics are stunning, and the characters exhibit a wide range of diversity. The narrative possesses greater depth than any I have encountered before. It resembles an exceptional book that you wish would never conclude. I firmly believe that this will set the gold standard for many years ahead. I sincerely hope to witness an increase in BDSM and cuckqueen scenes.

Again in this game, like many others, all the women are young with bimbo bodies, while men of different ages are well represented. Why not find this hierarchy of ages for women? It seems that mature women are not appreciated.

Abssolutelly incredible renderings and one think that I saw for the first time in VN's, the guy actually cumming in the girl like a gif. Absolutelly sublime, following it and looking for new updates! Hope he don't drop the balls!

I cannot praise Burning Boundaries enough, wonderful renders, fantastic animations and good writing in an interesting setting. I had so much fun playing it and cannot wait for the next update. I love it

Almost Perfect. Very good game / Visual Novel .
I wish it had more mechanics that effected character traits and showed you where they are via a status menu as the game progress along. Game Of Hearts is like this . Graphics are very good .

It would also be nice if like Shadows of Desire , this game gave the main characters the ability to interact and either reduce or increase corruption, lust, greed , fear etc and as those are manipulated , an alternate path ending begins to create.

In the end , like Lesson Of Passion games, you can end up with 12 different end points via all the choices you made along the game.

Thus causing patrons to play it over and over again to unlock those achievements. This would make it absoultely Perfect and more engaging than it is. I still give it 4.7 Stars. Story line is well written.

I quite enjoy the paths available and the options. The love/hate dynamic you can create between characters is quite enjoyable. Replayability is pretty alright considering some of the variations. The story seems pretty well constructed and im excited to see future versions.

This game has so many great things going for it!
I have to say I hesitated for a long time to try it because of the NTR principle that you can supposedly disable.
But first, let's start with the big assets of this AVN.
-All the characters are incredibly well-crafted:
The MC, his wife, and his stepdaughter: This trio is the first circle of the story, and I must admit that Mother and Daughter are truly superb, and I would say among the most beautiful women in all the games. Then there are the neighbors, whose wife (and colleague) is also superb. Then we have the satellite LIs. The introduction of the psychoanalyst is excellent in the narration, and what's more, she's gorgeous.
The girls are really very sexy, and despite the plethora of teasers, I must admit that it's a pleasure to see the girls evolve.
Then we have the story, which is pretty good at first, but unfortunately goes off in so many directions (so much so that we end up getting caught up in it all) before trying to refocus on what's important.
Visually and cinematically, everything is there. WELL DONE.
Unfortunately, there are flaws because we can clearly see that the developer(s) wanted to make an ambitious game that could include: NTR or not, swinging or not, cheating or not... Well-intentioned, but it causes inconsistencies in the story, errors in the sequence of images... All of this makes us wonder if it will end well for our characters.
I tried playing without and with the mod. Without the mod, I never manage to achieve what I want to achieve; with the mod, it's also difficult.
For example, I want the MC and his wife to flourish without the wife cheating on him, and for the wife to want to see her MC with other women. MC would rather see Madame with women too, but only other women. For the moment, this bet is not at all winning, even with the mod!
Then I'm trying to see the MC have a relationship with his stepdaughter and the nanny in an attempt to build a family, but since the harem principle isn't implemented, it seems compromised.
In conclusion, I don't see the point of making a semblance of all-inclusive packaging without ultimately allowing the harem, at least for the first circle of the family and the nanny or the shrink, if not the only possible conclusion to the story: this family will implode!
Why not instead make the others implode: the boss fired in favor of the heroine, the neighbor couple imploding because she's fed up with her rude husband... making the daughter, the nanny, and the wife models for the MC... each character has a truly significant margin of progression to rise: become a model, dresser or stylist, a famous journalist... one or more happy endings that everyone wants! Tired of seeing whores and whores and big perverts.

So we're faced with an AVN that could easily become a TOP 5 best game, but which borders on the huge disappointment of seeing the wife be nothing more than a pure slut like her daughter (who is more of a lost and stubborn young girl without enough guidance to tell her stepfather that she simply loves him) and an MC who, over the course of the story, becomes a pure asshole with a disproportionate member! Chasing S... should be a model to follow, especially for the ending(s)!

I'll be on the lookout for more. 4 /5 for me

What a game! This game is made for everybody in mind. Want vanilla go for it. Want NTR it's here. Want sharing you got it. The renders and animation is spot on. Lot's of contents in this sort of a new game. Those who are unwavering about this game give it a shot.

Story/Originality: The story is interesting that it is a flashback given to a counselor by the MC about his life. The reactions differ on how you talk and act both during the interview. You can control how the wife behaves as well. 4.5/5
Renders/Animations: What to say. It is fantastic even if it is made AI. I do wish there were more sex positions. I do appreciate there are variations to the scene. The penis looks inconsistent makes it look unnaturally large unless it was intended that way. 4.5/5
Performance/Bug: The game runs smooth. There was a slight bug with butt plug that crashed for me. 4.5/5
Grammar/Contents: For the most part, the English is good. There are lots of scenes. 5/5

The developer definitely knows what he is doing. Not many games can give you so many routes with satisfying results. I look forward to what the developer have in store for me especially with the counselor. Overall score: 4.6/5

I think all the high ratings for this game were mostly for the quality renders and I have to agree. The LIs in this game were some of the best that I have ever seen. Really hot chicks including the Milf wife. Unfortunately, I think the dev bit off more than he could chew.

I applaud the attempt to make this game all in one (cuckold, NTS, NTR, Cheating, Swinging etc.) You have the different routes to choose from, but once you choose, the linear story seems to waiver and the continuity of the progress gets muddled particularly toward the end. You wind up with these fragmented scenes of the MC being at the dorms, then suddenly he's swimming at night in the pool peeking in on the stepdaughter. Meanwhile, the wife was at work then all of a sudden she's in a limo. On top of that the side characters seem to completely disappear for long stretches of the story (the swinging couple and the babysitter for example) and then all of a sudden the MC and his wife are in therapy with the hot therapist. I got whiplash trying to follow along.

Also, some of the build up was great but most of it was superfluous dribble of boring and banal small talk that could have been left out to streamline the story and hopefully help keep everything a little more linear. I mean at the Bday party the MC is indoors talking with the wife for way too long, feeling her up, while all of the guests are outside being ignored, he serves them drinks in the hot tub then goes to "check on" the girls (daughter and babysitting who are sunbathing by the pool) and has time to give them both a full body massage for an hour or so, then they have a chicken fight in the pool for another hour. Meanwhile, the wife is still inside cooking for what would be in real time about 2 or 3 hours when her boss shows up uninvited. The guests just hang out in the hot tub the whole time with nothing to eat or drink (I guess?) while the MC is hanging out with the girls and the wife is inside "dealing" with the boss. Maybe to those players who fast forward dialog to get to the "good stuff" this was fine, but to someone who likes to read along and not miss anything, the bday party scene was way too long and unnecessarily so. That's just one example of the continuity issues I had with this game and sadly, it's riddled with other examples.

I even turned to a Walk thru mod, which I rarely do, to try to navigate the storyline and still wound up failing miserably.

Again, Kudos for the dev's models. They were 10/10, especially Jessica and Miranda, but I just got too frustrated to continue to any of the endings. I think if this game had been broken up into two or maybe even three different games (one for NTR, one for NTS and one for swinging for example) this would have been a home run. Unfortunately, it was a muddled mess by the end.

Really good game. Diverse with interesting story. And my GOD the animations are top notch! Never seen anything like it. In-game cut scenes during sexual interraction look like as if they were shot reallife before imported in game. Really well done graphicwise. I recommend it with both hands raised!

This game has one of the most restrictive and insane point allocation system in any game I have seen in this site. If you make one wrong choice, one wrong statement, one wrong click you are locked forever from the path you are following and you are not informed of that.

Infact you could be hours into the game , make a wrong choice and you would be locked from all scenes going forward. This is not conveyed to the player in any way so you could be playing 2-3 updates down the line not knowing that your game is BORKED and BROKEN.

This is just terrible game design. Just terrible point allocation system without hints or guides to what leads to what. It does not help that the writing in the game is incredibly mediocre so often that the choices are almost identical in tone to each other.

A really good game! More realism than most and meaningful choices. Each playthrough could have wildly different results. The women are beautiful, the sex scenes are really good. I am looking forward for future releases. I recommend it!

This AVN is only for reading the first 20 minutes to understand what the story is about, go to the menu, unlock the gallery and enjoy... Especially the last scene with Angélica pffff 10/10.
Because if you try to play this AVN, not only will you encounter a typical story that won't tell you anything new, but you'll waste time trying to figure out which answers are correct to get the complete scene, because this AVN pretends to have multiple paths, but the reality is that most of the content is focused only on certain paths, while others only give you incomplete scenes. For example, if you want the MC to have sex with Angélica, you need to be on a very specific path, while on the others paths, there would only be teasing. So if you don’t play it with a walkthrough or a mod, you’ll be as lost as I was, and I’ve always said that any game that forces you to use a walkthrough is a bad one...
But what this game has is the sex scene, are top tier; as a porn game, it's one of the best for sure, but as AVN it's a piece of crap that's not worth reading because even the relationships between the characters aren't interesting. Practically all the LI are sluts except for Erica... So you really don't lose anything if you just unlock the gallery; on the contrary, if you don't like NTR, you avoid the awkward scenes with Tony that make no sense in the NoNTR path.