VN - Ren'Py - Being a DIK [v0.11.1] [DrPinkCake]

[v. 0.11.1 - 3 complete seasons]

The best avn at the moment

You won't get bored till the middle of season 3. A lot of mini-games, enjoyable graphics, lots of good music and sounds to highlight different moods, exciting story with well-written dialogues and texts.

Some of the advantages become disadvantages especially in season 3.
Hidden objects without guide you won't find by yourself without spending huge amount of time carefully searching every scene.
New mini-games take your time without any reasonable meaning. Just to stretch out the episode. You won't make profit from aquarium maintenance even with every bought equipment. Party management looks cool at first glance but if you chose useless items and perks you should replay half of prolonged episode with other mini-games.
About choices and paths. You can't be a DiK and date with some girls. Even if you made them happy. You can't restore it later only replay from the 1st episode. And it's not finished yet. So to complete every path without rushing you should spend like month?
Like someone of the LIs said "If there are a too many parties they become boring and ordinary". The narrative pace gets lost with so many activities. And the most offensive thing is that you don't feel the impact of your actions.

Visual and graphics

Not great. Especially in sex scenes where girls look like plastic dolls with glossy layer.

Animation

Impressive. Animated glances create impression of motion capture. I think in ep.11 the author cut corners in many scenes.

Sound

Well-chosen tracks with sounds. Better could be full voiced dialogues but you know how expensive it would be.

Text, dialogues

Great. I can't find any disadvantages.

Gameplay, replayability

I like mini-games and free-roaming in games but in 3d season there are too many of them without great rewarding so it becomes boring and irritating therefore you'll want to turn it off on your second playthrough. And without guides it's nearly impossible to complete some of them.

Conclusion

The best AVN with great story, many activities and cool sound.

This game deserve to be the number 1 ranking in terms of likes. This game has comedy, good characters, good sex scenes, everything that you expect from an adult visual novel, the thing that I like the most about this game is the ability to give everyone nicknames to your choice, it is pretty realistic considering the fact that in real life we tend to give people nicknames if they are close enough. The only complain That I have for this game is the vast amount of dialogues. I am not a fan of reading too much. I understand that the dialogues are necessary for character buildup and story but there are a lot of ways you can condense a full paragraph into just few lines.

Overall, an excellent game. I admit, I'm looking for sex scenes in my game downloads from F95 Zone. Dr. Pink Cake (Dr.) interestingly provides a number of scenes that range from flirtation to quickies, to elaborate scenes allowing you to repeat positions. It acts as a reward system for achieving key relationship goals with characters. A few pros of this game are:

• Very attractive characters.
• An offering a "character paths" allowing to a range of relationship types from carnal (Dik) to sweet (Chick).
• While you are required to pick a single romance path at the end of Season 2, it doesn't seem to stop you from having fun with side characters.
• While many games attempt to give you humorous sidekicks, I did think Derek is one of the better ones.

When Season 2 ended for me, I sincerely felt a little tinge of loss as I knew I wouldn't get to interact with those characters for a while. A good sign.

Oh, and more Rose!

if you are starting out playing AVNs or adult games in general. DO NOT PLAY being a dik. the quality difference will turn you off from a majority of the AVNs on here. this game is way to good. i couldnt even finish the game. now im trying to play other games and unless they are really good story wise, im losing interest within 20 minutes. fuck this game for ruining my palette. i was not ready for peak

ok this was one of the best games when I played it some years ago that was at the end of Season 2 than all this stuff with the interlude started to happen in which I had absolutely no interest so I dropped the game for some time to so that the game would have a lot of new content when I would go back to it I just played the first two seasons of the game again to be back in the story which after some yeast I had forgotten I am totally confused by the ending of season 2. I have no idea if that is hard coded or I just did stupid stuff in my playthrough but after deciding that I truly want to be with jill my dude looks at some pics and goes fuck fuck fuck and than at the last summery there was some text that he didn´t love any of the girls he dated than I go download the 3 season start the game and after having to play thru the interlude I don´t like and care about the first thing I have to see in the 3rd season was some minigame about planning some shitty party what about that confusing ending of the 2nd season? why the mood switch? that just showed me why i liked the 1st season the most no drama of heavy plot points just some partying and some fights between the assholes jocks and the DIKs and boning some girls by the side while you see who of the main girls you want to date

This is so good well done dev keep it up. I wish that it was 2D instead of 3D but that is just personal preference and it is still most certainly five stars I will be playing this for many more months or years I hope! Also if you add more ntr content I will love it even more

Every so often, a visual novel comes along that reminds you why this medium exists — not simply to titillate or entertain, but to move, to stir something quietly human beneath the surface. This is one of those rare experiences.

The writing is evocative yet restrained, weaving intimacy not from the obvious, but from the subtle — a glance held too long, a line of dialogue that trembles with meaning. The characters feel alive, vulnerable, achingly real. The art, though sensual, never feels gratuitous; it celebrates connection rather than consumption.

What struck me most, however, was how the story lingers. Long after the final scene fades, its emotions remain — tender, bittersweet, and impossibly genuine. It’s easy to make a game that excites; it’s much harder to make one that understands.

This one does.

Probably one of the best AVNs i have played overall, certainly sets a bar that few other games on this site can match.

Renders / Animation: I Think Ill Give this an 8/10, The Renders start out Fine, and become Exceptional once you get to the end of season 2.

The Animations are pretty poor to begin with, not that there aren't very many, but that they don't look very good, and are distracting (at least to begin with), again they get much better into seasons 2 and especially 3.

The Character models are good, and are definitely the best looking of all the games with models which i think come from daz studio?the majority of AVNs i've seen are either this brand of realistic model, which again, i think comes from daz studio (i could be wrong), or from some game called honey select, while the rest seem to be hand drawn or modeled, but i digress.

Certain character models in this game look a bit strange, notably jill. Why is she mewing at me all the time?? her cheekbones are just so unnaturally defined that it throws me off.

Characters: This category is definitely a 10 / 10, they're all fairly deep, especially the LIs, and the character development that we get to see is amazing. There are a few characters i don't like, but it's a non issue i think, and not nearly enough to make me want to detract any points.
I may aswell go over the LIs, They're all good i think, im not quite sold on Jill or Maya and Josy just yet, butI'm in the middle of a Maya and josy playthrough, and ill do a Jill one next, so i might change my mind. Bella and Sage are top tier.

Story: 9/10. The Genre and Setting is perhaps a bit cliche or overdone, but it seperates itself from the rest with it's far above average plot (for a porn game).It's quite deep and detailed.

Music:A 9 / 10. Very very good music, especially for an AVN / Porn game. In Fact, its the only music from an AVN that i actually listen toon occasion. Perhaps that shows i have shit taste in music, but oh well, i still like it.

Replayability: By far the strongest aspect of this game, and of course is a 10/10, It's the only porn game i have done multiple playthroughs of, outside of a large update or not playing it in a while. Every time i come back to this game, i find small details that i had never noticed or thought about before, there are even a few characters (madame and sort of jade to an extent) who i am yet to even encounter. And of course with such a vast amount of content, playthroughs are fairly fun and quite long; especially if you don't use cheats during the first 2 + early 3rd Seasons to do multiple playthroughs at once.

Other: The Freeroam events are annoying, and a bit difficult to navigate, especially after a couple playthroughs, episode 9 is a total slog, and my ctrl key is held down permenantly throughout. The minigames were fine last i remember, but again, they suck after 1 playthrough and i just turn them off.

The Sex Scenes are mostly fine, what you see is what you get, no real descriptions, just compliments and lots of *Moans*, which kind of sucks but oh well, it is a visual novel after all.

One thing which i wont rate but will point out is the unbelivable production and money that is in this project. how many slave PCs with 5090s or 4090s in them rendering stills and animations 24/7? There's like 6 or 7 of them.. You would think with all that, maybe Daz and RenPy(! of all things!?) is too limiting for something of this scale and ambition, atleast it can be played on basically any computer that isn't some embedded system, or ancient computer architecture that hasn't been supported by any modern (or antique with modern shoehorned in) operating system.

Adding an other 5 stars to the list.

For so long I overlooked this game thinking it was some teeny-cringy-fest. Because of the name, because of the setting, because of the DIK/CHICK system that can really mislead you into thinking that you have to play as an asshole to enjoy this game.
And ho boys (& girls) I was way way wrong.

I got attached very fast to many characters and stories, I take sweet time to measure the weight of my actions and their consequences before (and sometimes after) major choices.

I didn't not reach to pants once as I didn't want to loose time and continue to see the stories unfold. It's a rare compliment for an AVN but I mean it in the best possible way.
Congrats!

Still the best adult game I've played. I must have done about a dousin playthroughs and I'm still entertained.
The characters all have their own story and you start really emphasizing with them as the game progresses.
The girls are hot but not "airbrushed-bimbo-hot" (Except maybe one or two of them), making them a bit more relatable.
Awesome game.

Badik is the cornerstone of AVN games, it set the standard so high that a lot of games can't replicate it nor can they come close to it.
The best part about this game is it's music, no otherAVN comes close to how good the songs are in badik, every season introduces bangers after bangers.
The characters are also lovely and well written, the love interests are amazing in their own right and deserve their own playthroughs to give them justice.
The only flaw would be the slow updates, but given how detailed the game is, it's a worthwhile sacrifice to just wait for the best and see what the dev delivers.

I must say after soo many good reviews and after opening the game the very first time (with fully voiced pre-intro) I was really hyped of the game. Some people even said this is better than other very popular games in the same genre (its not). But after completing it, i must say it sadly is just mediocre for me.

On a plus side the renders are decent, the characters well developed and unique and the story is somewhat interesting - nothing major, but a nice movie feeling. And that is the main thing for the whole game: it feels like a drama teenage collage movie. It has lots of relationships, lots of broken hearts and drama, some humor and a few sex scenes.

On the negative side: The game is not immersive: even without minigames you don't really feel like being in - or even part of - the game. You just view a movie where you can shape how the move unfolds.
Another big minus for me is that there is no harem route possible: Even with the Patch at some point you have to decide for at most one relationship to continue and possibly need to break all of the other hearts (with saddening breakup scenes).
The many sandbox moments doesn't add to the game either. For me it would have been better without sandbox events entirely. Since the game has many different branches (especially in season 3) you need to repeat the sandbox scenes lots of times to explore other branches and that gets annoying fast.
And for a sex game i must sadly admit, that this game doesn't deliver as well: Sure, there are quite a few Scenes over all in the game and the grafics in them are also quite alright, BUT: the scenes again doesn't feel immersive - they are just a bunch of different positions you can choose from. No transition from one to another, no natural flow of the interactions, just a list of different positions.

I was really hoping to add this to my top 3 after all those amazing reviews but sadly it doesn't fit in the top 10 (except for the lenght - this one is LONG!)
Overall I was enjoying this lenghy "move with decisions" but wasn't really into it and be happy to finally have finished it, so that I can now move on and enjoy the next game.

Damn anxiety I had throughout college cocking blocking so many great opportunities with dozens of beautiful and fun ladies, but at least now I can sort of relive those lost college years vicariously through this fantastic AVN. Thank you Dr. PC fill than void of missed life experiences likely for many of us.

Love the charaters and the over all experiencee, the way game has been made
story line is intriguing. its really Goated! Best visual novel out theree
but its just takes a lot of time in production which sucks. but thats something I can deal with. hehe XD

Definetly the best AVN there is. There are so many memorable characters, that you can genuinely begin to like. The writing is superb in both humor and emotional moments. It also for sure has the best music in any AVN. Your choices matter and there are many different paths they can take you along and it all feels quite realistic (for an AVN).

My only critique is that only one of the five main LIs is really interesting to me, both in how likable they are and how, in my opinion, all of the others have really unrealistic and a bit weird body proportions.

However I don't really care anyway because Zoey is best girl.

Good story, likeable characters. Overall the #1 AVN, must play.
-Animations, renders 5/5
-Story 4/5
-Characters 5/5
-Choice impacts, branching 5/5
-Free roams!! 5/5
Insane how good it is. The amount of deep, well written characters is out of this world, haven't found a single AVN that could compete, my personal favourite.

Amazing story and characters. My only complaint is that too many of the girls have fairly unrealistic proportions - slightly put me off Sage who is otherwise wonderful. Honestly I'd play this with zero lewd scenes.

This game its Amazing!!! DPC its the GOAT!!!
The renders are awesome, the story and dialogue are are flawless and breathtaking, the music fits perfectly, and the characters really feel very well developed. Tons of variety, great animations, and the choice system with all many branching paths its pure ecstasy . The mix of humor and drama just works perfectly.

Only thing I’m crossing my fingers for is that it doesn’t end like Acting Lesson. But knowing DPC, I’m sure he’s gonna hit us with something amazing again.

This has surpassed what I had expected. You won't find this kind of humor anywhere else, such a incredible story, impeccable visuals, a huge dynamic cast with so much content it feels like you hit gold. This may very well be the greatest AVN on this planet at the moment. I strongly recommend this if you haven't tried it.

Being a DIK is by FAR the BEST AVN available. No other title in the genre comes close in terms of storytelling, character depth, and production quality.

What makes it stand out is how it combines the emotional weight of with the interactivity and choices of a game.

The writing is simply outstanding, unlike many AVNs that rely only on adult content, Being a DIK delivers a narrative that keeps you hooked even without the NSFW scenes.

Visually, the renders are top-tier, animations feel polished, and the soundtrack is surprisingly good, perfectly setting the mood for each scene.

The choice system is another strong point. Decisions have real consequences, and replayability is massive you’ll want to experience every possible path. The balance between humor, drama, romance, and adult themes is executed flawlessly, making the game feel more like an emotional rollercoaster than just an AVN.

Gameplay is another huge highlight. The game doesn’t just stick to choices and dialogues it mixes in a variety of minigames that make it feel like a real game. There is the point-and-click exploration (free roam), decision-based branching (like any VN), quizzes such as math/english tests, phone games (Brawl, Tiles, Shuffle), and management aspects like fixing the frat house or planning parties. This variety keeps the experience fresh and adds real depth to each playthrough.

If you’re already an AVN player, this is the gold standard. Being a DIK raises the bar so high that it’s hard to imagine anything else topping it.