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

It's one of the classic, a must play!
I got the wholesome ending (throuple) and for the last few minutes playing I totally forgot that it was an adult game and I was just smiling at the screen!
In general, multiple choices and endings, nice sex scenes, characters that you care about. The cons are no voices, the relationships seem railroaded, but in overall, it's enjoyable! Also, it has a "cameo" from a character of "Come Home" (and "Come Home" has one from here!)

MUST PLAY AVN!!

Excellent AVN, with a good story, and GREAT LIs!! They all look phenomenal,, their personalities are great, and it'agreat variety too.

Excellent animations and renders, top tier imo

The endings were all very good, just wish the game was longer

ver. Bare Witness [Steam Build] [AlterWorlds]

2 stars might be rather harsh for an actual finished product, with pretty well-done erotic scenes. However...

When it comes to a 'Visual Novel', it misses the 'novel' part. Basically, what it is, is a simulator where you can choose your favourite girl or girl combo, and then go through an extensive epilogue with your chosen option. There is little more than that.

in fact, Chapter 1 and 2 were pretty badly written, with strange dialogues, cringe-worthy jokes, and mediocre art. It's after chapter 3 that the writing improved and the models were quite a lot nicer to look at (certainly the main character looked weird initially).

I still finished it, but I did role my eyes quite often. There are a lot better games out there - even those that are unfinished.

I have many complains on this game but I don't want to discuss spoilers.

Simply put, characters are hot, great sex scenes, story is serviceable(has some mysteries).

But the character interactions just didn't cut it for me. It feels as if mc is the only boy in their life which totally breaks realism. very "everything is good, everyone is happy" type game. Yeah, some characters may not get their desired endings but considering how easy they were to get my dick, it won't take long for them to find another dick.

I would have given it 3 star, but when I think about the good stuffs, I think 3/5 is too harsh.

If you are liking the models, don't care about character depths and want to enjoy some great sex and harem, you will enjoy this game. Give it a try. It's better than most of the vns' here.

I came for the redhead, but it’s a shame the writing feels juvenile and makes little effort to establish any sense of plausibility. Nearly every girl throws herself at the MC within seconds, with little to no buildup, and that really makes them feel the same. The overall plot is practically nonexistent, which can be fine for AVNs that make up for it with a strong cast. Unfortunately, that’s not the case here. I expected much more.

I wanted to write a detailed review first, but then I saw a review on vndb. He perfectly describes my thoughts about the novel.

Bare Witness have several memorable moments that made it shine among other "decent" western VNs out there, but it also plagued with many issues.

The most obvious one is probably the pacing. The game have a decent set up for the main plot and a list on interesting heroines you can explore. But the game did a mediocre job on how those stories were told. The main plot is non-existent and barely explored other than to "progress" the story to the climax stage.

Rather than spreading out the the romance developments and interactions with the heroines throughout the game, you're being shoehorned with heroines every second you get (albeit, some of the interactions with the heroines are interesting and add to their development). I just wished it was longer. Adding more side stories or exploring the main plot could patch up the poor pacing. The vibe I'm getting from the game is that the dev just want to finish the game asap, so everything is just like in 200% speed.

Overall, the Bare Witness have several bright spots that made it memorable to me, but unfortunately, when you see it in the bigger picture, you'll notice that it has many flaws.

+ on my own, I would add that it is very disappointing. The potential was great, but instead of clear plots of characters and their disclosures (for some characters, you only find out what they do or their hobbies at the end!!!) It's just a collection of sometimes unrelated scenes. Total chaos. Although the individual scenes are very well written, and the dialogues are good. That's why it's a shame.
In comparison to the general plot, the endings stand out as a highlight. The way they are executed is among the finest I've encountered in Western visual novels. I’m fond of the slides from Fallout.

Bare Witness [Steam Build] [AlterWorlds]

Almost all of the negative aspects of this game stem from its brevity, so in the end they are quite forgivable. All of the girls are more or less interesting, but the aspects that characterise them remain very superficial, often leaving questions unanswered.



Aesthetically, it is not a brilliant game, but it remains largely enjoyable. The story is nothing special; it serves as an excuse for certain things to happen, but objectively, there was no room to develop it more fully.

It is worth noting that all the girls, or combinations of them, have a distinct ending, with very few common scenes.

All the model renders or character appearances feel a bit outdated, making it hard for me to get into it and causing me to disconnect. I'm a bit surprised by the high ratings; this seems to be the rendering standard from five years ago. People who like youthful romance might enjoy it, but it's not my type.

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.