VN - Ren'Py - Bad Memories [v0.9.1] [recreation]

For some reason I had not yet written a review of this game, while it is in the top region of my watch list. It’s about time to correct this.

I will start with a warning. While writing this, the game is in early development (0.2), so don’t expect much explicit content in it yet. The style is very European, so don’t play it if small framed girls with average to small boobs turn you off. I recommend you to play this game if you like a suspenseful story that hasn’t unfolded yet, so you can speculate about what has happened and what is about to happen. And play it to enjoy the stunning artwork.

A very special thing about this VN is that you can choose whether to play as a male or a female MC. The female route will have only lesbian content, which is a rare and pleasant choice if that is your inclination or if you are just curious to look at things from a different point of view. At least until now, the story in both paths is virtually identical, but of course sex scenes will look different. So, when I refer to the MC in this review as a male, she can also be female.

Bad Memories is a visual novel with, so far, very few choices. You play a man or woman in his/her mid-to-end-twenties. You have accepted a job in the town where you grew up, but which you left long ago. Just as you arrive, your new apartment burns down. Then you meet someone you did not want to meet: Rachel, the common law wife of your late father. This brings back bad memories. Your father was a violent bastard who abused Rachel and Rachel took revenge by constantly picking on you. You fled the house as soon as you could and you had no intentions to ever come back.

But Rachel is nice and seems to regret what has happened. Her offer to come and live in your old room would be a neat temporary solution for the situation you’re in. Is she really sorry or is she acting? She is sometimes acting weird, that’s for sure.

Then you meet Ellie, Rachels daughter, and she is so happy to see you again. You call her your sister. It is, however, not made clear if she really is. She is a beautiful petite redhead, but there’s something off with her. She doesn’t talk. Now that could be every man’s dream, but sadly her silence is caused by yet undisclosed traumatic events in the past. Again, bad memories.

Now picture this. Ellie walks around half naked. She wants to sleep in your bed and humps your leg not wearing panties. She peeps at your genitals and enjoys watching 3d porn. On top of that she has a hot BFF, Jada, who might have benefits for her (and for you, for that matter). Yet, a large part of her fan base on F95 zone only wants to pat her head. That’s how cute she is. You can’t get any cuter than Ellie.

I won’t spoil anything more. Play this game if your interest is piqued and support the dev on Patreon.

Just a few things about the artwork. In my opinion, Rachel is how a Milf should look. She looks her age, but still she is very attractive. No need to exaggerate the size of her boobs, they look natural. Look at Ellie’s skin. That is how a redhead looks. Notice how the dev uses mirrors and reflections in almost every scene. Enjoy this world where bras only exist in the mind of a bullying hotel manager.

Review of Version 0.2:

Though still early in development, it's easy to say, that this game will be a masterpiece!

It has everything, you can ask for:

- great art/renders
- beautiful girls/women
- an interesting story (which will evolve much over time)
- 1st-class writing
- you can play as male OR female (->pure lesbian route)

Biggest brownie point is the dev, who is really passionate about his work, communicative and btw simply a nice guy (who deserves your money, throw it at him!!!)

Really promising. It seems like story will be amazing and it has fantastic characters. The most important part is boobs, yeah they are more realistic in this game. Though it's really short right now and I'd wait if I knew it. I hope it will be completed soon.

review for version 0.1.6

I'm really impressed with this Visual Novel so far. The story is great, nothing amazingly unrealistic. The characters feel like real people and not mindless bimbos... although the therapist chick is a bit of a mystery. The renders are awesome. The author even has in-between renders to make the scenes feel more fluid and alive, rather than a simple emotion gauge at the bottom.

Fantastic premise, and great presentation. I love the psychology of the setup, and the ladies are attractive on the realistic side of the coin. Not seeing much value to free-roam yet, but it's super easy to move from scene to scene. Added to my watch list!

Awesome game, I'm pledging!
Despite looking like a cookie cutter incest game at first glance, this game has it all! A great story, great renders, really nice animations and some hot models, although I would have preferred the sister look a bit older but I know some people will love the younger look.
Also a decent amount of content for a first release so I went to pledge!

great models, interesting story. I love everything as is. absolutely great start!

maybe if Ellie had just a bit more up top it might quell some of the other critics. I personally have no complaints. Too many of our devs like tits so big its had to figure how the models stand up straight. This is a refreshing change.

stories of domination without all the slut name calling sounds like an intriguing story line as well

(v0.1.5)

Rachel is gorgeous, but Ellie looks to be no more than fourteen years old at the most. So that's super gross. Ellie would be fine if she weren't heavily sexualized, but there's already an unavoidable scene where she crawls into your bed and gets off by grinding against you. She's even underage when she does it according to the game.

The story is interesting, but there's only a handful of very minor choices to be made, so it's not much of a game so far. It also has one of those annoying free roaming maps in the house where there is only one correct room to go to and all the others are a waste of your time. Those sections are short and they don't happen often, but they're still pointless.

Version 0.1.5:

Very promising game, good graphics, a story that is grounded and well executed so far.
The characters are engaging and i look forward to see how they develop.

The only reason i didn't give 5 stars is for personal taste, this game give you some choice from time to time like, do you barge in or do you knock on the door? at first i beleived it would steer you in a classic 2 path story, a gentle type and a more forcefull one.
However that doesn't seem to be the case as the MC in version 0.1.5 start to interact with some character by exploiting them with little remorse and no choice to act differently, not my style unfortunatly.

So far i am in love with this game. Not alot sexually or anything like that which is great cause its so new. Its all about setting up the story and so far i love it. I hope to see Great things from this game in the future. And As it is now its among my top fave games alongside of Melody and Mify city and quite a few others. Great job and im looking forward to more. Above all i love how the women in this game so far are Proportionate. They dont seem to have that Super Balloon Tits Syndrome lmfao. The women in this game are just perfect <3 If you have not played this yet Do it. It is short but so worth it.

First impressions, as of v0.1.5 this game has the potential to become one of my favorites! The artwork is top-notch, shading and textures are fantastic and even the lighting on the lights-out scenes is good, which is one area most artists mess up.



(Minor spoilers ahead)

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Character introductions are also good. So far we have the suburbanite mom that you don’t want to like, but kinda do. The minxy chick you know you should avoid but don’t want to. That sophomoric young professional you want to hate because she’s had her degree for a whole day and already knows more than everyone else. (I secretly hope Kathrine gets arrested at some protest and ends up shouting from the back of a squad car “Respect my authority!”) My personal favorite that cute “spinner” of a redhead that’s a little broken and needs a white-knight to love her. Ellie is fantastic!



On my personal check-list of adult games, I absolutely hate big giant back-breaking boobs. Bad Memories, has realistic proportions which is great. Brunettes are better than blonds, red heads are better than either, and gingers rule them all. Given that, Bad Memories is right up my ally. The final item on my personal check-list we haven’t seen at all in v0.1.5, and that’s pubes. I understand trimming, but totally shaved is a real turn-off for me. A “vag” that looks like it belongs on an 8 y.o. is cringe-worthy. So far (which from a story aspect is a good thing) in Bad Memories the MC hasn’t encountered “3rd base” yet. I am curious to see how that develops. After all, part of the attraction to red heads and especially gingers is learning whether or not the curtains match the carpet.



Great job so far! I’ll be watching this one closely, and will certainly consider patreon after a bit more development. Keep up the great work!

It's rare that I play these sorts of games for the story and I really did not go into this one expecting all that much but the option to choose my gender intrigued me and I actually found myself reading everything instead of just skipping until it got to the adult stuff. Really looking forward to further updates, here is to hoping that they are frequent and not just a few extra minutes of gameplay at a time.

I could go on about the usual stuff such as renders, gameplay, writing and whatnots of this game but I feel like what makes this game special/unique is one character alone- Ellie. This little girl is reason enough to give this game 11/10. I've played a lot of incest games, in many of them I had younger sisters - but the emotion they evoked in me was just lust, there was almost no trace of affection or care. But one look at Ellie and my heart flooded with affection and I felt the need be an actual big brother to her. I know this is supposed to be a lewd game - how can you feel sexual attraction and brotherly affection for the same person? And, also, isn't that supposed to be creepy? But in the end, I feel like that is at the heart of all good works of art, to quote W. Faulkner - "the human heart in conflict with itself". (Okay, I'm getting carried away here.)

In most games, you are the one taking advantage of your little sis. But in this game - I have a feeling that the innocent looking little devil will turn the table on you! Now that I think about it, this is how it's always supposed to be. Your little sis cannot love you after you grope and take advantage of her, you're her elder brother for Christ's sake! But as the younger one, she doesn't have any such obligations. And you'll love her so much that you'll probably feel powerless to stop her shenanigans.

The writing seemed nice and somewhat refreshing as well. Well, there are some of those mandatory scenes for adult games such as the "shower scene", "groping scene" and "the morning wood scene" which are passed down over generations of porn games. But the writing style was good.

Graphics is on par with the best VNs in this site. So, nothing to add there.

Overall, I am really optimistic about this game. If it's developed properly, it should turn into one of the best games on F95Zone.

Well mostly I should say this is quite short at the time v0.1 but that would be the only thing I can bitch about... the game only being at v0.1...
It's short but there is a great setup for a good story, and enough story/content to make me want more... Really enticing.
The renders a good though you should be warned that there is only one light groping scene (sorry about that wouldn't be a big spoiler but is worth it because it really made me want more)

Ok. I think i got it now. Most important thing in a 3dcg (whatever that means, no native here) IS without a doubt GOOD RENDERS. Have seen many games with cool features, grinding, just straight one liner gameplay, routes, ect. ect. ALL of these had been appreciated when good renders where involved.
THIS gem is already on the top 3 Pages if you sort ALL the games with 3dcg based on rating or views. With JUST the first release and comparitifly=? little content and no "special ferature" yet like...zooming multiple animations or whatnot.
Because the models are TOP notch.

Keep going and hopefully next update will be in the beginning of next month pretty please

The models in this game are top quality and really pretty. The story is well set up so far and engaging. The scene renders are exceedingly well done and the atmosphere it portrays is warm and inviting. I'm keeping an eye on this one from now on.

So far not much happening. More an exposition to the backstory of your character's situation than an actual game thus far.
Show plenty of promise which can be said of a lot of "fresh" games releasing. How many will survive to a full version is the question.
I'm interested in Bad Memories mostly for the story at the moment. This initial release, which seems more like a prologue, does well to introduce Rachel, Ellie, Jada and Katherine in a very short time - with enough backstory and current behaviour for Rachel (Step-Mom) and Ellie (Step-sister), while leaving a fair touch of mystery with Jada (Sister's friend) and Katherine (Therapist). This leaves the reader grounded in part of the story with enough mystery to want to delve further and find out more about the other characters:
What is up with Rachel? What kind of person is she really; is she who MC remembers or is she truly the way she's behaving now? Is she hiding something from MC and does it have something to do with her referring to MC as "hun"? If so, what is it and is it something serious, and will finding out change everything MC understands?
What's up with Ellie? Sleepy-time cuddles and intense staring at MC (among other quirks) are fine and all but what's going on with her? Why won't she speak even to MC? Was her past truly what Rachel revealed or did something else happen? Did MC cause this all and if so, how can he do better now?
The little mix Jada is being the standard naughty friend pushing Ellie from out of her comfort zone and seemingly into MC's arms. What is she doing and why? Is she serious? HIding behind raunchy behaviour/humour? Does she have any ties to Katherine?
Speaking of.. Who is this Katherine and why is she Ellie's therapist? What hides beneath her curt, icey character? Is she there to help or hinder MC, Ellie or even Rachel? Is she professionally involved with anyone other than Ellie, like Rachel, Jada, etc?
What's with the MC? He did something he thinks bad and felt he needed to leave his home town. Even that one police officer is nigh-harassing the MC about whatever happened in the past. Does everyone else know about it? How will this affect the story as it progresses?
There's also the cop but not enough development on him yet. Actually it's good the game has so few characters for now because it gives the impression of focus which gives hope of development and releases in future.
The story seems to leave many opportunities to develop, has piqued my interest, contains interesting characters and that's where I'll stop - I have a lot of ideas of my own where I hope the story goes or what possibilities there are that might happen but it's not my story and I'm not here to tack on my ideas through a review - the story looks good so far and I'm always going to complain about a lack of content because at the moment I want more but I hope you can play a "real ending" playthrough while being a gentleman.
Visually I'm hooked. I like the look of each character and the design of the scenes is very good. Models, lighting and character placement are used well with body position, facial expressions and the dialogue making events seem quite natural.
Rachel looks the part of what kind of character I imagine she is at the moment as well as the possible characters she could play - her looks fir the part of the step-mom.
Ellie looks perfect for the character as well; innocent, sweet, curious, slightly naive, playing things close to the chest and hiding a secret.
Katherine fits well too - she seems heartless and manipulative in the game which is perfect based on how she's introduced. What hides behind that remains to be seen.
No sound thoughts at the moment - they're not always necessary.
Once this game develops and is more fleshed out then my impression is that it will be great to play. Keeping my fingers crossed for that to happen and truly considering supporting the developer for it.

I didn't wanted to lose my rating-virginity to an unfinished game but... BM has everything (at least for me) which makes the base of a masterpiece! The renders are top, the story leaves a lot of room for your imagination.

I played it a few times in a row just to get every nuance which would tell me what's wrong with Rachel.

The Dev is really active in this thread, gives hints but doesn't reveal too much, so the motives of the actors are a mystery.

I love it! Thanks, @recreation for creating this wonderful game!

This is truly a hidden gem, still a little unpolished, but with great potential. The renders are very good (the ones with Ellie are so fucking cute) but what is really outstanding, is the writting and the story imo. When the MC comes home for the first time, that scene with Ellie peeking around the corner was so cute. I knew immediately that i like her and something is wrong here.
Very well done dev!

On a site full of erotic games, this one stands among the few in which the story really draws you in. In most games, I find myself skipping though or simply skimming pages of dialogue, but this is one of the rare exceptions in which the story itself drew me in and kept me fully engaged. This is not your run of the mill "son returns home after years to seduce the whole town" games. I highly recommend checking it out.