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

Loved the game.

Story is good and the characters are believable, have different personalities and kinks and the story of building a relationship with them takes its time to develop (though I am really missing a HAS option as a twelfth option).

Graphics are good, some animations are a bit wooden, though, but in the later chapters the quality gets much better.

I don't want to spoil the story here (other reviews do that in abundance), but it really read like a Visual Novel (with lots of sex though). I'd really like to play more stuff of this level of quality. Well, I have played some really great stuff, too, and this is not the best of the best, but I'd like to say, I'd love to find more games like this one. It sets a standard other games should try to achieve or surpass (like 'Leap of Faith' or 'Once in a Lifetime').

I will also have a look at the follow-up project from these guys (when it's finished). Great work, AlterWorlds!

I went into this expecting another badly translated mess with a shit story and text full of typos. This game surprised me. The story is interesting (if you like soap operas like I do), and the epilogues are wonderfully detailed. The characters also seem like actual people, Mora specifically is a carbon copy of someone I know.

This is an adult visual novel that didn't forget the "visual novel" aspect and is more than just a bunch of sex scenes tied together by bad dialogue.

Play this game. Ignore some of the bad reviews, they don't get it and clearly wanted something else. Inceton games might be more to their liking.

Gameplay:
Classic VN
The gameplay consist of choosing various answer to get on the path of girls that will lead you to one of the endings. It can be a combination of several girl, or just one. This will unlock different scenes, and also make a variation of the main ending scene before the epilogue.

Story:
It's a bit of a mediocre soap opera. The MC has a mysterious background which is the main narrative arc, but it's a bit silly (not in the funny side, but the stupid side). Especially the resolving scene (or scenes, depending on choices, but the ending results is the same). Otherwise, it's a harem where lots of girls are attracted very quickly to the MC, which contrast to the realistic tone of the story.

Graphics/Animation:
It's very good, with lots of animated scenes.

Sound/Music
If you like generic romantic songs, well you have plenty. Not very interesting.

Overall impression:
The game looks nice, but the story sucks. The epilogues are incredibly long and boring.

Wasnt expecting to enjoy this as much as i did. The two girls you live with are fun and interesting to interact with and the little side women are pretty neat as well. I can't personally go into detail about it because I played this a long while ago but I will admit that (with the mod), your relationship with your is honestly worth playing this game for alone. Helping her get more confident with helping her work out and seeing her change over time along with the slow nicely paced interaction you have just chefs kiss. Wish there were more games out there like this

It's a good story but feels rushed and anti climactic at the end. The epilogue was too long and a little sad on the Val route. There's a lot of repetition and just lots of 'I love you's'. Ok dev's you think Val's too old for the MC and must be insecure, we get it. It's fine but I was hoping for a something better, however it is great to see a VN finished. So overall I enjoyed it but it didn't quite stick the landing.

The visuals are excellent with a great choice of LI's and the emotional scenes are fantastic with good variety. There's a nice mix of characters and personalities in the LI's that I feel would have worked well in a harem all together and created a fantastic VN. However I tried playing for this but it is not clear which choices lead to all the LI's as a harem. Some relationship paths seem to just stop with no warning. I presume if you choose Valeria or Zenda your blocked, which is really strange as Val is the one who starts out as FWB and moves into an open relationship, except for her friend Nicole. Heidi is in an open relationship with Athena but stops him seeing other girls, wants an exclusive with the MC or nothing and breaks up with him. Huh? Why? Then Heidi's and Athena just end up disappearing, I think it's a small line of text that says you move out but you're still in a relationship with Athena aren't you? Only Heidi left not Athena? This is disappointing and really makes it 3 1/2 stars rather than 4 but overall it just scrapes 4. The length is perfect for a VN as some go on way too long and fizzle out or get abandoned. It's so nice to see an end to a story!

This feels like a first project that had massive potential and just didn't quite get there. I'm really looking forward to their next project, where if they learn from this, I think it will be fantastic.

Finally a harem game with multiple group sex scenes. I'm not sure why creators are so shy about adding the ONE fantasy that every dude has! There are multiple 3somes, 4somes and a 5some -- depending on the choices you make. And the animations are friggin great.

The characters don't have that dead-eyed glaze. Maybe this is something they just fixed in Ren'py or made it easier to make realistic looking eyes? I always look at the screenshots before I download and I notice a lot of the older games (even those that are a few years old), the characters look like Real Dolls. They say the soul is in the eyes but it's really that our brains are hardwired to read faces and spot inconsistencies. For 99.9% of our existence we have had to quickly judge whether someone was friend or foe by scanning their face. We are all a product of people who were skilled at reading faces. Anyway, when something is off-- like dead eyes and plastic skin -- we feel uneasy, especially when you are supposed to feel attraction for this character. Years of genetic hardwiring make it difficult for us to connect to characters, and can really ruin a game that otherwise might have all the right stuff -- engaging story, great animations, interesting characters, fun game mechanics.

The game overall is really good -- lots of scenes, beautiful girls with cute faces and tight bodies, a serviceable story (better than most).

Overall, besides NLT's games - this is one of the best I've ever played. You know it's good when you go back to watch the scenes in the gallery after you have finished the game.

To Creators of Harem Games -- Add more group scenes, if I wanted a girlfriend experience or a dating sim, then I wouldn't be playing a harem game. I want a harem, like a sultan.

One of the most amazing things about animation - compared to every other medium - you can create any fantasy you can dream up - breathtaking Perfect 10s in gorgeous locations, doing anything and everything to the player. And the animation is getting really good - where it's looks close to film quality - the girls look real, the places look real, the situations feel real and alive. And you have grinded to get to those scenes so you are move invested when the scenes happen.

Anyway, NLT games and Bare Witness and Projekt Passion are the only ones that I've seen to craft these amazing fantasies in their games, fantasies that would be impossible or wildly expensive to create using film. Just finding that many hot girls, not to mention ones that are up for whatever.

Play the game -- it's great. Good work!

The game's renders and animations were quite beautiful. I had no issues visually. As for the story... it was average? Overall, I can say I had a good gaming experience. The story could have been a bit more realistic, but that's not a problem in my book. I give the game 4.5 stars.

Bit of a mixed bag. The sex scenes are very high quality, and there are a lot of branches and variations to keep them fresh, but the story itself is pretty uninspired and the writing doesn't do much to give the characters any real emotional weight, meaning all the otherwise excellent sex and romance scenes feel a little cheap and hollow.

The final chapter in particular (the climax of the story before the various epilogues) is underdeveloped and frankly silly, and really takes the air out of whatever investment a player might have had up to that point.

It is also not always clear which choices lead to which story outcomes, and some relationship paths seem to be turned on or off quite arbitrarily based on your relationship with other characters, which makes going back and playing multiple paths a frustrating process of trial and error, and speaks perhaps to a lack of attention to detail in the story mapping.

Overall, worth a casual playthrough for the sake of the spicy stuff, but the characters and story don't hold your attention or stay in your head like the best ones do.

Another completed game, and I enjoyed it fully. The renders were excellent, and there were tons of animations as well. The songs were wonderful. This is another game where other AVNs are promoted/mentioned/featured. The LIs were different but all lovely. I enjoyed it completely so let's go and play another game as see how that goes.

A very enjoyable VN that knows its characters and keeps them both consistent and believable, barring the initial suspension of disbelief required for these types of scenarios obviously.

I enjoyed all the interactions, and each character brought something different to the table, or the relationship depending on how you played. I wish I had a rating between Good and Excellent, because it is most definitely better than just "good", although I can't give it a full 5 stars mostly because some of the relationship decisions that determined routing were a little strange. Easier to lock yourself out of a route by accident than I think should be possible in a game where that's the main draw, and really who wants to start something over if you saved in the wrong spot and realize you locked yourself out by accident since you weren't following a walkthrough at the same time you were enjoying the narrative? But that is a very minor complaint, and one that is handily solved with some help from the community, but still something to consider.

I hope they do more and expand even farther with any future projects, will definitely be picking this up officially.

It's cheesy, predictable, unrealistically happy and falls into certain patterns. However, it kind of fit and didn't pull me out of the experience. So despite these flaws, I found it fun to play, occasionally actually funny, and pretty sexy overall.

Render quality is pretty good. Girls are quite different body wise, although I wish Sadie didn't lose most of her weight.

I think it works in the end, as the story moves on quickly.

One of my most conflicted 5 star ratings. There is so much that can be improved, but in the end it's clearly a labour of love, that I ended up enjoying a lot despite all its flaws. I'm looking forward to see how the dev will improve.

Realistically, this game is a 3.5 out of 5 overall. The story is passable, the LIs are likeable, and the renders are overall on the above average side. That said, however, the fact that this game is actually complete with multiple (11 I think?) endings puts it a bit higher for me. It's not too long and there's variety available. Although there are better alternatives, it's worth looking at this one.

Story:

First off, I have to say that this is one of the best story novel I have played. The story is written well, the characters are fun and engaging, and how the story was narrated is simply superb. There are quite a few laughable jokes, funny and wholesome moments, emotional scenes that might put you into tears, I just can't give enough praise that it deserves. The length of the story itself isn't very long but the the amount of branches or paths it has to offer and over 10 different endings really made up for it.

Deep-diving into the branches of the story, it was really well done. I really enjoyed exploring each one of them. Each L.I. has her own path, backstory, and respective ending, and if you play it right, it is also possible to end up with multiple women. I also liked that they also have L.I. that are 'exclusive,' where she isn't the type to share her man with other girls. I personally enjoyed being on a single path rather than multiple directions for a throuple/harem. Perhaps it's just me, but I feel like spending time with them individually rather than in a group is much nicer and more romantic.

One issue that I personally have with the story is the pacing. There are times that I think the story progresses a little fast, like in a college for example. I wish they put a little more work with this part, showing the MC spends a more time in college like hanging out with friends or have more interactions with his girls. Speaking of girls, I think they fell in love with the MC way to quickly as well regardless of whom you're with. I wish they could have developed the relationship a little steady pacing. For instance, you got to bang your girl after your first date at a nightclub for passing the 'test'.

As for the endings, it was really well-executed, some might find it a little too long, but for me, it was simply rich and beautiful. I have yet to experience all the climaxes but after experienced the endings with girls of my interest, I can say it was simply masterpiece. They really put a lot of work to the endings of the game, there are ones that was simply dream-like, ones that were emotional, and ones that were wholesome and fulfilling.

Characters:

The characters in the games are all great and special in their own way. They are all different not just from their look, but their trait, personality, quality, and the devs really nailed on how they were displayed.

I will only highlight a few characters as I have not experienced with all of them yet. (I might edit this after I explored their path and ending)

Started off with the MC, who had traumatic past and trying to get over it by moving to a new city. He is overall a nice guy, good sense of humour, goofy sometimes, and always trying his best for everyone around him (besides in bed of course).

Zenda, the first girl I went for on my first playthrough. She is a girl every guy could dreams of. You would think a girl like her would look down on you and brag about her daddy's wealth. But no, despite being from wealthy family, she never once act spoiled, entitled, bitchy, or bossy. She would spoil YOU instead during your dates with her, bringing you to expensive restaurants, buying you designer clothes and tailored suits, hell she even would fly you out on private jet! It could not get any better than that. Even when the MC in deep trouble, she would still help in every way she can instead of leaving him hanging. And lastly, the ending with her was just dream-like. Travelling around the world, getting married, her parents approved of you, and expecting a child on the way. (and still being rich)

Valeria, she is a definition of don't judge a book by it's cover. Even my first impression of her was a turndown with her offering a free sex. But after replaying the game and exploring her path, I was wrong. She has some of the saddest backstory I have ever heard. The loss of her daughter at such a very young age and the aftermath of the tragedy, trying to relate to MC tragic past witnessing a murder of his father's colleague and his father barely survived. It nearly brought me down to tears. The closing chapter with her was a roller coaster of emotions. With him still being a witness protection, the MC cannot remain in the city with Valeria, thus having to move out, leaving Valeria with a child expecting soon. Several months passed, the MC finally heard a news from Valeria that their child is born and she named her Shelby after MC old name. It wasn't until few years later that the MC finally heard a good news that he can finally reunite with his girlfriend and meet his daughter. And they soon got married after and finally lived happily as a family.

Sound Score and Music:

There wasn't much of a sound effect in it but the soundtracks and the songs in this are definitely nice. There's so many songs and soundtrack you hear that's didn't feel repetitive and boring and the songs and soundtracks they chose really suited vibe, ambiance, and the scenes they want to capture.

Graphics and display:

The graphics was simply top-notch. It was very detailed especially when up close and the backgrounds are not bad as well, the tone was set right, the lighting's great, and the romantic scenes are just nice.

Conclusion:

Overall, this is a great game I seriously would recommend. The multiple directions of the story to explore with varied endings to discover is really something to enjoy especially when the endings are done well and felt satisfying.

This is like the definition of a 4.5 out of 5 stars game. The LIs are all very well done with distinct personalities, the renders gradually become some of the best I've seen, and the sex scenes last much longer than usual. The harem route was a pleasant surprise in that the LIs actually interacted with each other and had solid relationships. Zenda and Val having solo paths make sense.

At the same time, there's plenty of issues with the story itself. The plot had potential, but felt more like an afterthought and offered nothing interesting in the end. The tragedy the MC experiences doesn't seem to have any effect beyond a few conversations, and the climax of the story is incredibly ridiculous and cringe. The writing ranges from sweet and funny to mediocre and lazy: in the harem route the characters probably say "I love you" to each other more than a hundred times. The relationships between the characters had an odd pace as well, going from friends to soul mates in the blink of an eye.

All in all though, it was a solid game with a good conclusion. It didn't overstay it's welcome so I liked the length as well, even if the pacing was odd.

This game has probably the best looking renders I have ever seen.

The story is ok but it gets rushed a bit towards the end.

Aside from the quality of the model what makes this game several steps above average is the music and the characters, they're all fleshed out, memorable and have their own personalities. The fact that you're not supposed to romance everyone at the same time makes sense exactly because of that.

Play it.

TLDR: Interesting narrative, great renders, memorable characters, and a fresh look into harem/polycule dynamics, hindered by a few pacing issues in the later chapters.

I primarily play harem games and I really wish more games venture into the relationship dynamics portrayed in this game.

Most harems have the MC juggle solo scenes between his love interests and the occasional FFM+ scenes, but most LIs in other games don't do much more than take turns with the MC.

The MASH ending, while not for everyone, is honestly enough for me to give it 5 stars.

All these women are part of the relationship with the MC AND each other. They don't stop existing when the MC is not around, and will fool around with the other LIs in the relationship. It's refreshing and makes the characters feel more alive, and I hope more harem games do this.

Maybe some might not like that dynamic because they don't like sharing, but how is four women making out with each other in front of you not a massive turn on? Now if there was another dude in the relationship, i'd understand not wanting to share.

Obviously, it depends on the LIs and how they're written and their narrative sexuality, but I definitely think more games should venture into this space.

The solo endings are good as well, but any of the endings that aren't exclusively solo are a treat because of the points said above.

My main criticism of this game would be the pacing. It definitely doesn't drag on like other games that just have lots of monologues, but there are times things move too fast. Hopefully the dev's future game improves on this front, keeping scenes memorable, preserving the passage of time for realism, but not cutting interesting plot points short.

Also, Heidi as a character is amazing. Both in looks and personality, she's practically the glue that keeps any of the relationships involving her stuck together, beyond just the MC's massive dong.

The last two chapters is probably the best ending ever, other developers take note! This VN has some great love interest and great lewd scenes. The romance is top tier too, the negative is probably that the plot is weak and very uninteresting. Just stayed for the girls. Val and Heidi is wifey

This game's worth the 5 stars. Genuinely the hottest and prettiest girls I've ever seen in an AVN. The variety of scenes were great and the number of routes and ending were awesome. 10/10 would reccomend.

This has to be the best AVN I've ever played. I've played every route multiple times and I'm gonna play it again after I finish writing this review. The story is solid and consistent, with dialog that makes sense grammatically. The renders are top quality, girls are hot, and there's plenty of banging to do. The music is nice, but songs with lyrics can be a bit distracting. Not enough of a problem to lose a star.

Some of the LIs are solo only, but it makes sense with their character and I really appreciate that.
Heidi and Athena being a package deal makes sense, and Mora being open to experimenting with the group works based on her previous relationship experience. Adding Sadie is fine because she doesn't care about who you're with, she just wants to be with you. Zenda and Val being solo only is a great move IMO, it makes a statement about the type of person they are and adds depth to the game. Not everything can be a giant orgy fuckfest.

5/5 would give it a 6 if I could

Graphics are very good, girls are beautiful, the multiple choices are good but sometimes you have to save beforce choosing, I could go in the wrong direction which you were not attending to. I played though it ones but after it I dont wont to go back to and play it again. Story is OK, But after one playthrough I deleted it. 4 of 5 stars