VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Bare Witness [Steam Build] [AlterWorlds]

Genuinely one of the best VNs around at the moment. There are probably only 2 or 3 I'd consider to be better.

The characters all felt real. I've only done one playthrough but I decided on the "MASH" ending (Mora, Athena, Sadie, Heidi) as it had the most characters to interact with.

• Heidi is just completely adorable from the start.
• Athena has this hard exterior at the start but softens until she's just as cute as Heidi. She's also quite shy which you wouldn't think by looking at her, which is a nice subversion of expectations.
• Mora felt extremely real with very real problems that have to be dealt with.
• Heidi started in a very interesting place. She's not in the best of shape and that's not something you typically see from a love interest.

The only downside I really have is how willing Mora and Sadie are willing to jump into a relationship with Athena and Heidi. The latter two are already established to be into women, while Mora and Sadie are not. Mora basically jumps right in despite being shy, and Sadie doesn't hesitate at all. There are some time jumps in the story so perhaps this could explain any missing elements but it would have been nice to see.

The models, renders, and animations are all superb. Again, some of the best I've ever seen.

There are 11 endings in the game so there's a lot of replayability.

Easily one of the best VN games out there. CG is decent, story is good, but most importantly it's just a great feel-good game. None of that NTR, cucking, depression inducing stuff, as is popular to add to certain game. Kinda shame there's no option for harem, at least as far as I can tell, but still, if all the VN games out there, it's definitely in the top. Highly recommend. The only real downside is the Android port: textbox takes up like half the screen and font is god damn awful. Ability to switch fonts would easily make this a 10/10 game.

Truly a masterpiece from the writing to the deign of the characters to their personalities building up it was a pleasure to be able to play this.
Thanks to everyone that made this game possible looking further for the next projects.

For me, the most important thing in a game is the story, and I can't say I liked this game's story very much. Of course, I don't expect a Disco Elysium-level scenario in adult games, but I do expect a low level of logical inconsistencies. Two things in this game bothered me a lot. I will write about them with spoilers.


After the second logical inconsistency, I stopped following the game's story and skipped most of the dialogues. I really liked the women's appearances and personalities; they were among the best I've played so far. Heidi, in particular, was very beautiful. However, I can't say I liked the animations very much. As I mentioned above, the story is the most important thing in a game for me. Since I didn't like the animations either, I can give this game at most two stars. This is the maximum rating I can give to a game where I only liked the characters' appearances.

Really good story and all the women are beautiful. Most of the solo endings were satisfying. Where it lost a star for me was the Harem portion of this, I'm not really into lesbian/Bi content and in the Harem portion it turns into more of a Poly relationship than a Harem. Everybody loves everybody just doesn't do it for me. And i love Harem stories and the Harem in this story was disappointing to me. So if your into Harem without the everybody loves everybody i don't recommend but if you don't care for harem stories or you don't mind the Lesbian/Bi everybody loves everybody type relationships or you like doing solo runs then this one is for you.

Just finish this game today, a solid 4/5 for me.

+ Girls are beautiful, although you dont get much background on them, they fall in love quite fast, no in depth complex personality, pretty straight forward tbh, nothing is force, u can reject every girls ,be single all you want and get 0 content if you choose to do so.

+ The story, its .. decent, quite simple actually, ,MC and the girls did go to college, but there are like 0 college content, there aint much to see outside of a few activity with each girls, then sex, then some crucial choices, and so on, there are many plot point that could defintiely be expand on.

+The game throw important choices at you at a really fast pace,constantly, certain decision early on Ep 2 could even lock u out of the Harem of 4 aka MASH path, so Walkthrough mod (Sancho) is recommended. The entire major upheaval past thing? mention a couple of time, then final confrontation at the start of Ep 5, and it wrap up real quick too. Someone from the past come back ? your cousin,1 small talk, 2 gym workout ,1 massage session and a cup of coffee, if you choose to, boom, LI, she aint gonna do anything to mess up MC new life.

+ Even with 11 path,its still a short length game -with only 5 episode ,i play through a couple of solo path by accident, then MASH, then duo path, not much different in term of story in the early chapter (except when u pick Zenda, she have quite a few extra exclusive scene, and she's solo path only). Around chapter 4 and 5 is when u gonna see different scenes/renders for each path, MASH definitely got the most content out of all path.

+Pregnancy tag, when u technically impregnant Heidi , Sadie, Valerie (even on MASH path) , u only get text and then the game end shortly after, with a little secret scene if u choose to fulfill Val request but didnt pick her path, there aint gonna be any visual pregnant belly on the girls, no preggo sex scene or anything like that. Incest is for Sadie-the cousin, MC's mom are mention like twice, no name, no face or anything.

+Animation are great, especially from mid game onwards, high quality, smooth, good camera/angle, take a couple of clicks to switch position or new angle, but it long enough to be enjoyable, especially on the five-some scene.

- Overall ,Its a good game with happy ending that is satisfying enough, beside from the harem, the game is quite simple in terms of story and the sex is pretty much vanilla , no kinks ,not much crazy stuff happen, beside from that minor Mafia pack, it leaves you slightly disappoint and wanted more, even though the game is quite short, i would definitely recommended it.

Short version: Entertaining narrative but gets caught up in it's dialogue, solid renders and good attention to characters. 4/5

A bit dialogue heavy at the beginning, cleaner in the middle chapters, and tapers off with some inconsistency at the end of chapters. There were points it didn't quite line up causing me to rewind and see if i missed something.

Played through 4 of the 11? endings. The endings are a bit lighter on the dialogue, which weirdly made them feel a bit out of place from the rest. Was good to see solid attention paid to all of the characters.

Solid, well lit DAZ renders. Nothing stands out as something to nitpick that I wouldn't blame on DAZ myself.

It's a solid game in my book. At least a 3 out of 5 is bare minimum for this. The effort and time spent into this. Other games are done more half-baked, while this clearly isn't.

All my feedback is from my first and probably only play through. Possible spoilers ahead!

. Which got me confused on how should one manage to get X of them at once.

Would I replay it? No. And here is the reason:
To start off with the obvious: the renders are great, yet I'm still not onboard with most of the girls' hair. Same for animations, some are really well done while others are lackluster at best. Clipping hair through hands if girls hold the MCs head is always a thing.

I also get the feeling that some girls got more attention than others did.
The world design is mediocre at best, but most characters are well done (aside from above-mentioned issues). Some humor put into frames cracked me up, while the ugly cats and the spaghetti that looks like printed out cardboard blew that away real quick.

The MC is pretty much ideal, aside from the unnecessary long schlong.

Apparently I ended up with only one chick The rest somewhat died out and two of them broke up and kinda broke up.

What got me really upset was the mindset of certain girls, or the lack of brain cells.
Hear me out on this:

I went friendly with all of them, and only declined offers when I JUST made plans with another girl a few moments ago. Never went exclusive with any of them yet no one really bothered aside from . After about 15 weeks or more without having sex at all she just randomly asks if you meet other girls: obviously I did because who prevented me from it or told me not to?

She got mad and just dumped me because I denied the exclusivity to her when there was never a sexual thing besides kissing in the whole time.
is the only chick that thinks about using a condom with a stranger and wants a test in order to go deeper. Really?

The other girls didn't give a damn about this at all. Only told the MC that she's on birth control pills. Like what?

is one selfish fuck who wants to have things her way. Has her thing going with , but when you tell her that you're not a fan of exclusivity, she gets salty. She is literally the only chick that I really didn't want to get close to: just by the looks of her ugly ass hair that has to be modeled off a toilet brush.
The next thing is the random jumps in time “seven weeks later”. Bruh?

Some girls don't even appear back after the second time skip just because you turned them down once because they contacted you RIGHT AFTER you already set plans for the day? Give me a break!

The story if you can call it that is weird to me but a different approach. The ending (I had) left me confused a bit.

TL;DR for the devs:
— Animation quality is decent, looking forward to the next game.
— Common sense for some characters should be a thing
— Characters are not equally done, some look plastic while others look excellent.
— Music is decent and fitting more of the time.

One of the best games on this site by far.

Great visuals, even better writing. Seriously, the dialogues maybe aren't the most profound, but they feel very natural. It's not easy finding a game that has a cast of characters that are as well defined; it tends to be more on the 'different face, same slut' vibe, but in this case each of the love interests are pretty good on their own right and, apart from Heidi, they don't start super horny and have very interesting developments each. Also, it's pretty darn funny. The references and jokes are plenty, but so much they become annoying, as it sometimes happens.

My only complaint is that the plot is a bit over the place. The whole thing with the criminals and WitSec feels like it was meant to be a bigger part that was left out as the game got updated. The fact that, depending on the path you take, it may as well be finished when you only reach like 2/3 of the entire playthrough prooves as much. Luckily, that also means it's not too intrusive. Best if you suspend your disbelief as much as you can and just focus on the MC and his relationships.

Apart from that, the whole relationship system is a bit chaotic and it's tough properly following the path you want. I had to install SanchoMod at one point because I got the same ending 3 times in a row despite making different decisions.

Still, superb job. Can't wait for more from AlterWorlds.

Lets see, I found it a pretty nice VN to play. The story was pretty decent and no complaints on that side. I did find the last chapter a little long. Maybe it was just me and a short attention span.

The girls though in this game are pure quality and the dev chose some fantastic models to use in this VN. Honestly it's hard to choose a favorite since they are all gorgeous and have there own qualities. Maybe I lean a little towards Athena since cute gothic gamer. Followed by Valerie the absolute cougar.

Conclusion - A good visual novel with a decent play time and fantastic models.

This is indeed a good game. There are some bad sides but the good ones far outweigh the bad ones.

Characters are mostly good. They all have their own personalities.
The MC is a little bit of a letdown, he feels like a mind controlling superhero and all the girls are literally throwing themselves at him without much effort.
Mora, Heidi and Athena are really good characters but the rest are pretty forgettable. The worst is the cousin that feels a bit off, it doesn't feel like she really fit in and her personality is the weakest of the cast.

Graphics are as good as it gets. Consistent and good animations and renders.

Story is well done but a little long winded sometimes with strange pacing in a couple of places, overall it's good though.
The main mafia story doesn't get a lot of airtime and is a bit forgotten though, it feels a bit like it's only there to give a backstory but is not really explored.

Sex scenes are good but most follow the same script and are a little bit too vanilla. One would have thought that 5 persons in a quintuple would have more varying tastes. Now it's just oral then vaginal and repeat, over and over again.

Overall it's a top notch game though, i really recommend it!

Story is good, not great to some of the other AVN I came across. Renders are decent, character designs are very good, some are even very realistic, (not the player character though). The girls are very sweet, the red head is just a sweet heart. Has harem option, endings are quite good, hence has decent replay value. Overall, enjoyed the game very much.

I'm amazed that people can say this is a great story. I couldn't *bare* to finish it. One of the most common AVN tropes is that every female writer is clearly written by a young man, but this one just dials that up to 11 to the point that it's hard to let it slide.

Great models and renders for AVN standards but the plot and dialogue are so flawed that it's hard to look past that and actually have fun. I can actually ignore writing entirely when the game doesn't take itself seriously and is just a fuckfest, but this one feels like a failed attempt at writing something compelling given the witness protection angle, so I can't just judge it as a fuckfest.

I think the dev would benefit from spending some time training their creative writing skills as that would definitely pay off for future games.

See you on the other side

Great story with several interesting character paths to explore, really enjoyed this game. I tried to get into MC's upbringing and made decisions based on that, more fun than playing for maximum payout.

One of the best visual novels on this site! Everything about the game is good to excellent. A great all around game with few negatives.

Pros

• Excellent renders and visuals
• Excellent character models
• Realistic body shapes and proportions
• Great story
• Excellent writing
• Excellent English
• Unique and interesting characters
• Likeable MC
• Good character development
• Fun and engaging storyline
• Good humor
• Good to excellent progression with LIs
• Different paths/LIs to choose from
• Good sex scenes
• Good animations
• Threesomes and Foursomes
• Real relationships and real love

Cons

• Some of the routes closing off other routes either doesn't makes sense or isn't intuitive enough. The game features a mini-harem where you can only have a maximum of four girls. So if you pursue more then this number, routes will be closed and you don't get to choose who's route gets closed in many cases.
• Cowgirl sex is a bit weird and unnatural. The girls ride the D but don't go balls deep, leaving two to three inches unused. This makes the girls look like they are floating on top of the MC. It would take a lot of extra effort on the girls part to fuck the MC this way as their leg muscles would never get a break or rest. The MC has no issues fucking the girls balls deep in other positions.
• The two cougars in the game are a bit too forward and sex craved for my taste. They are so forward and aggressive that it's uncomfortable at times and hard to believe.
• A few sex events are mentioned or hinted at and then skipped
• A few of the girls have nipples that are too high on their breasts to look natural (unfortunately very common with rendered games)
• Some girls with D cup (roughly) breasts look unnatural as gravity doesn't affect them. A prime example of this is Athena. A through C cup breasts can stick straight out without gravity affecting them much but this isn't the case with D cup and larger (unfortunately very common with rendered games - i.e. too much fantasy)
• The MC moves on with his life but the people pursuing him are never dealt with and there is no conclusion to this element of the story (unless I missed it somewhere)

Overall, an excellent game that is well polished and functional! No big disappointments or major cons with this game.

The characters are fun and enjoyable to get to know. The MC is likeable and not a dbag. The writing and story are great. The game has enough sex scenes to keep most players satisfied. The lewd content is well done and the threesomes and foursomes are refreshing.

I love the fact that the MC and LIs genuinely fall in love with each other and express it on a regular basis. Very refreshing to see this in a visual novel with a mini-harem! I'm somewhat tired of all the fuck buddy and friends with benefits relationships in other games. Real love is refreshing!

My favorite girls:

1. Mora
2. Heidi
3. Athena

I highly recommend this game!

Bare Witness pretty much is a complete package. Great LIs and relationships, solid plot and really good sex scenes.

MC being in witness protection, goes to live in a new place. He hides his identity, has a new name and doesn't really talk about his past. The main plot is a bit in a background, only sometimes it affects MC and whats happening. This game is mostly about spending time with girls. And this where the game really shines. We have 6 main love interests, every one of them very different with different looks, backstory and personality. All of them are fairly interesting and well written. We as a players really are able get to know this girls, fell in love with them and just care about them. We can smile with them, laugh with them and also cry. And those could be both happy tears and sad ones. I was crying at least two times, no shame in admitting this. 30 yo guy was crying over a girl from a porn game. This just shows how good this game is, if we can get this emotional while playing it. There are different routes, different combinations of girls you can end up with, but on all of those paths you can feel genuine love between MC and his girl(s). Passion, affection, gestures, looks. Everything is here. This game is not about some casual fucking. What i didn't like were a time jumps. I don't like them in general but here we have two 7 weeks time jumps in the first 4 chapters of the game. They just add nothing to the game. They didn't serve any real purpose. There are 11 endings, they're all pretty solid and satisfying. Of course some of them are better than others but generally speaking all of them are enjoyable and fitting for those specific routes. Well, i mean there is one "bad" ending so can't really say that's satisfying.

Visual quality is also pretty good. First chapter looks noticeably worse than the rest of the game so its a bit of a shame that devs ultimately didn't redone it for a Steam release like they planned. In later chapters both renders and animations are getting better and game looks really good. Good lightning, solid backgrounds (but i fell backgrounds with nature could be better) etc. Girls models are generally very high quality. All girls are visually different with different body types. I just don't like one girls face, don't know, she just looks weird to me, something with her eyes or mouth is bothering me. Compared to other girls faces she just looks worse. What impressed me the most were sex scenes in general. Before playing i was expecting good LIs and relationships, but i didn't expect sex scenes to be this good. They're pretty big, with different positions, animations, good camera angles and quality dialogue. The affection and true love i was talking about earlier is very clearly shown during those scenes. Many of those scenes feel very intimate and personal. I can definitely say that sex scenes in Bare Witness are among the best scenes i have ever saw in a porn game. Even when some scenes are a bit shorter, the general quality stays the same. Really great job here. Music in Steam version is also quite solid. It's supposedly worse than the original Patreon music but it was ok. Some nice and really fitting tracks which also helps build the proper atmosphere.

I don't really like games in which you can't get all (or at least most) of the available content in one playthrough. I don't really find the idea of playing one game multiple times just to get one other girl interesting. I was planning doing 3 routes, maybe 4 at best. But I did all of them. Bare Witness is just that good. You just want to play more. LIs are great, writing, banter, romance, love, emotions and amazing scenes. This is definitely the best porn game i have played in recent time.

Fantastic and hearth worming game. Great renders, cool story, gorgeous girls. Best endings in like ever, specifically Valeria's. That epilogue almost made me cry, hands down one of the best mature woman in any avn (even if her model is a little too perfect, she looks like 25-28yo, but there are a LOT of women in their late 40's, that looks like they barely hit 30, so it goes down to the personal preferences).

To sum it up, if you into a good love stories, great renders and into model looking milfs (Valeria), give this game a try, You wont be disappointed.

Cheers.

Bare Witness is one the most polished "harem" games out there and well above average in all respects, with lovely women all around (both teens and some older ones) and a good story that catches you from the very beginning. Bear in mind, however, that this intends to be "realistic", so though you can initially engage in several relationships at once (some of them kind of forced on you, btw), it won't be long before you have to pick amongst them which one are you really going to pursue to the end. So be prepared to feel a pinch for being a complete jerk at times and turn down some awesome women. Oh the other hand, this means you can (and definitely should) use those gamesave slots to replay it several times and see how things develop should you were to pick a different LI.

There may be the odd ren'py crash at times and some animations are better than others, but OTOH I'd like to applaud the level of "intimacy" achieved in some scenes, like when you see only the head of your partner and her expression of bliss and happiness as you are pounding her. It feels like you're really close to that person and you're truly making love to her, not just fucking someone to have a good time. As I said, it's a very polished game with a lot of care after it, and it shows.

So far I have only played it once and I'm hoping we get to see some hot action with mom eventually

I guess I should have read the game better, it plays all of it's cards in the opening scene. The dialogue is full of cringe and missed shots at funny, and your choice for Zenda is to compliment her or to flirt with her. The game operates on the assumption that you want to jump every girl, and is basically hostile to the idea that you don't find some of them appealing. Even when they are nothing-burgers, and that's the best case scenario. Most have "antics" that are off-putting or predatory, or both.
Both cougars are way too forward and not pretty or interesting enough for me, the bar scene is actually uncomfortable and I was amazed that the game thought MC should ever come back there.
Sadie doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation and tries to date her cousin. In her defense MC does a 180 in the span of 5 minutes and goes from a mild panic attack to taking her to a date, so I guess it's just me that cares about the witness protection plot here.
Heidi comes off as an awkward creep. It felt like MC was violated when she decided to barge into his room, get on top of him, and stay to watch him change. This is a tropey porn game scene, but everything is off. Give me the option to throw her off, or to call her bluff and take it "too far" if she thinks this is ok. Even giving an option to confidently strip in front her would have changed the mood completely. Instead it looks like MC is uncomfortable and he cups his balls as he shuffles to get his pants.
The context also works against this scenario. MC has some real problems and his introduction with Heidi has him actually scared that he might not have a place to live, because of a bad joke. Then you learn that the previous tenant was a creep and the girls almost got a restraining order against him. But disregard all that, there's a grill in your room, all is great.
Date with Zenda was mostly nothing, until the "choice" was sprung. I don't know what planet you are from if you think that not interrupting means I'm going to sit alone for 30 fucking minutes. The song ends and if she's not back at the table I'm miffed and will probably confront her, but I'm on my way out of there already. I don't like these kinds of games or girls that play them. She might bring it back with "I was waiting for you to return" or "I was hoping you'd interrupt" and playing it cool, but that works after one song, not after half an hour. Lecturing the MC on confidence after this disaster is delusional.
So that basically leaves Mora, which works because I'm a sucker for a read-head. I was assuming "playing" a tabletop rpg in a group of 2 was an excuse for a make out session, so that went well, but I was hoping she wasn't actually into the game. Things get worse when she reveals her problems, but oh well, I've seen worse plot devices. At least she seems cool, just hurt. She gets way less cool when she breaks down twice more in the next two scenes. I was kinda hoping we'd get a reveal that she is a manipulative bitch but no, Tyler was gay all along, who would have thought. The scene is actually not bad, except for Mora storming out again. I can almost believe this is a scenario that could happen, it's stretched beyond how people act to shoehorn the MC into the group, and I can live with that. Anyway, girlfriend/boyfriend words get dropped and this plot point is "resolved".
So Athena and why I finally dropped the game. I don't have anything against the girl, I will humor her "I'll kick your ass" for a while. But apparently trying to be friendly with your housemate was too much for the game's choice structure to handle. She gets injured, you act nice, she tries to kiss you after a while. MC takes over and kisses her back, while the Mora plot is still happening in the background. I knew the game would not let the characters talk about it like adults, but I thought I turned her down afterwards. Instead, immediately after the scene with Mora where she calls us her boyfriend and we call her our girlfriend, MC went home, run into Athene, kissed her and declared that as far as he is concerned, they are "together". You guys do you, I'm apparently not in this story.
I guess there's a "right" way to play this. The girls are pretty enough, the writing is not my cup of tea but not the worst I've seen. There's some intrigue, MC almost slipping up during conversations in chapter one was enough to keep me interested. So I guess it's not that weird to see high scores for this. For me it mostly fails at setting up proper tone. It pretends to be serious, expects you to act carefree, and gets really awkward when you treat is seriously. The choices boil down to "I wanna smash" vs "I don't want to have any fun". Nope for me.

The model quality is really good, especially the eyes. I love that there's some emotional weight to the story like the characters actually have emotions and your choices feel like they matter. I actually got a little bit choked up when I was the reason