VN - Unity - Book of Lust [v0.1.24.1d] [KanashiiPanda]

I feel the saying 'bitten off more than you can chew' can sum up how the game will be.
Good concept, but there is way too many options to be implemented.
If it actually finishes I will gladly take back my comment and pledge the Patreon without hesitation.

Game suffers from being far too over ambitious. The result is it presents a lot of options and 'content', but there really isn't much to see.

You can fuck people, mind control fuck people, dream fuck people, put a succubus in their body and fuck them, put yourself in their body and fuck them, put yourself in their body and a succubus in your moms and mind control fuck your mom
See, that's a lot of fucking.
Its too much fucking.
Its far, far too much fucking, too many scenarios, too many people fucking people to draw in any reasonable amount of time.
The result of this? Most sex scenes just say, essentially, ''you banged, +stats''. There's no indication in-game on who has any real content beyond a black screen and ''you banged'' so you just have to try them all... but you tire nearly instantly with any action and you have to grind their stats up. Tediously skipping days and grinding them just to be met with ''you bang''.
The game needs a marker or something to show who actually has more than ''you bang''.
And getting back to your bed to rest is tedious. The fast way is to hit 'travel', click as many arrows as it takes to get home, click back, then sleep. The fastest way is slower than the default way in most similar games. There's no town map or location indicator on the top of the screeen or anything like that.

Now when you do actually get to do a sex, and its not you bang, what can you expect? Mostly uninished art. Sometimes finished art that drastically shifts artstyle mid-scene when it switches from animated to not. Which I find very jarring.
But are these scenes GOOD? I would say no, not really. They're very short. More or less just 'put dick in hole, done'. I don't expect like tits or coc level of describing sex, but what we have here just feels like the absolute bare minimum. Its borderlining on just saying ''they banged'', but with some pretty art.

The art is pretty, by the way. Very little variety in body types. But pretty.

The writing, however, is... not pretty. MC is understandably against fucking his possesed mom, then more or less gets told, 'get over it lol'. And so he does. So effectively he won't bat an eye as he replaces his mothers conciousness with a succubus, his sisters with his own, and uses his sisters body to fuck his mother. Its like they just forgot to write 90% of the game. Everyone is like this. They're either fine with anything you do or nothing. On or off. Binary. Like machines.
And because of this, once they are 'on', once you've seen all their scenes, there's nothing to see anymore. You can't explicitly grope or kiss them or anything like that. You can click 'flirt' and hope that's what he does, because the game won't tell you. The only thing you can explicitly choose to do is put dick in hole. Which, as we covered, is pretty dry.

Unlocking spells comes down to doing a sex, so ironically, the best way to progress in this game is to completely ignore what content is there, find a ''they banged'' character, and bang them. Then you just skip past the ''they banged'' message for your stat ups, not an entire scene.
I feel like there's a serious problem when the best way to progress in your game, outside of cheating, is to actively avoid finished content in favor of a black screen.


Right now the game is 'okay'. I played it, 'I banged', I maxed the family. Then I cheated to see who has content and found 90% of the game is barren. I was unimpressed with the sex scenes I saw, but the art was nice.

I'm not someone who says ''oh, game could be good, 5 stars''. If the game gets better later, I'll come back and give it more. But right now, its just.. okay. I can't really give it more than that when its so unfinished.

{Review on ver 0.0.64.1c]

I played a lot of VN games before. Some with overflowing UI which makes the game a lot difficult to navigate, Some with good story with no good cg or animation, Or some with no story at all.

The game has simple UI and simple mechanics. Story is good and entertaining (but as far as the info from the website and the game itself, more will be added in the future), Cg and animation are really nice and sexy (some are still sketches but at least we know something is being worked on)

Some comment said to focus on the sketches and finish them, but as for someone who is a programmer and a digital artist. Both takes time and for just 1 person to make decent animation (especially frame by frame which is what I think used in the animation part ) + art and then code the game (even if it's C# and C++ which is used for programming in unity). Then play test and debug, All I can say is props to the dev

Tons of hours of surprisingly immersive play, really fucking hot. Cool worldbuilding, feel-good vibe, and sexy as fuck. Also, the game is consistently given updates with lots of sex and game stuff. As a heads up all weird content you may have heard about is either very apparent or clearly avoidable.

Very solid start.

Content is currently a bit light. There's a lot of systems in place, but very few ways to take advantage just yet.

The skill tree is surprisingly robust.
However, other than a few late items (Body swapping), most of it isn't that necessary. By the time you grind (and bump) enough exp to unlock everything, you don't really need them any more.

That said, they open the door to some very interesting game play if more content gets added.

Very interested in seeing where this goes.

What? A furry game with hetero sex you say? A mind control/possession mechanism that actually works? But that would infinitely multiply the work the of the dev... well luckily there aren't that many characters at the moment but it's a fun game. Every new character increases the possible spell and character interactions exponentially making BoL quite the ambitious project.

With decent art and what looks like a deeper storyline waiting to happen, I expect great things. Though it might be years until we get there.

Now I'll start off by saying I am not a furry fan, that said I'm open minded. The main point of attraction for me with this game, and it might attract you as well, is the possession mechanic. You are able to eventually swap bodies with anyone, or you will eventually.

For example, your sisters boyfriend is called Mel and is the typical American high school quarterback type jock. Tall, built and comwhat cocky. So...why not possess him?

Interestingly enough, when you possess another character the relationship stats change as you would expect. So your mother obviously starts out with more love for you but if you possess Mel you have to start off with 0 love from...'Your' mother. It's nice enough that scenes and dialogue change depending on who you are currently possessed.

I think that's what makes the game stand out from others at the moment, now it's early days so some scens are text or a simple sketch, others are decently animated. My only hope is that he dev continues with the game and gets everything done because oddly enough I quite like it.

The possession mechanic though leads to an interesting conundrum, some of you will notice the dreaded NTR tag (I don't mind it). But from what I see, it's you as the player that initiates that. So let's say you possess Mel again and you have him charm and seduce 'your' mother or your girlfriend. IS that really NTR when it's YOU controlling the guy?

Story and graphic wise it's okay, not "I wanna put my dick through the screen' type great but neither is it akin to watching Ann Widdecombe speeches and having a cold shower. So....yeah.

If your skeptical I advise downloading it and giving it a fair run before deciding, even if you are put off by certain tags.

Me personally i think there is the potential for some great comedy moments, imagine if the dev codes in a way to return to your body without having to be in the vicinity. Possess mel, have him fuck a fat girl and in the middle of it go back to your own body. Lol!

OMG this is one of the best games i have ever played. there is a ton of content and the art is awesome. There are scenes with no color, they are like rough drawings but you can tell who is doing who. Animation is good. I highly recommend it. Can't wait for more.

I think this is a solid game. The skill system is a great idea, you create a situation that has a large amount of possibilities. The art is on point, with each scene with one solid animation. The only reason I didnt give this game a 5/5 is because some of the scene's art is not complete, you can clearly make out what is happening but there is no color or the animations are a really rough sketches. I would say it's understandable to pause new development of the story or new skills to go back and complete the art. If the art in those scenes that are incomplete were complete that should be as good as new content in the game. It would be like a color blind person finally seeing color for the first time. I did notice a few bugs but they were that bad if you continuously save. I do want to mention there was a part you had to grind 40+ to progress which I think is just over kill, that should be minimized to a lower number like 10+ and you can only do it daily, so you had to be at least on day 41. Nonetheless, I cant wait for more.

Good art, somewhat engaging mechanics. The game is in very early stage so if you decide to go for it, take that into consideration. In my opinion it holds promise.
If you are into anthropomorphic girls, and can stomach some amount of NTR I would give it a try.

[Rev @ v0.0.50.1b]

Art's good if unpolished, decent placeholder level as evidenced by several rough sketches present for some scenes.

Writing is the same level. Plotting is understandable and hints at promising potential, but is a bit trite at the moment. Pacing is a bit wonky, particularly with the zero-to-sixty nature of the mom.

Nothing squicked me. There is male-male content I didn't go for, but it's avoidable via the common sense maxim Don't Flirt With The Guy As A Guy If You Don't Want Guy+Guy. There's as much potential with the porn as there is with the plot: group stuff, milf stuff, harem stuff and Jerry Springer set-up-your-sister-to-find-her-boyfriend-banging-her-mom stuff.

Lookin forward to where you go from here.

The art is fantastic and even has animated sex scenes. The dialogue is fine and the gameplay is sinple. I encountered no bugs when palying. So far the game is eqyal parts easy and lewd. My only problem is that its so short. I cant wait for new updates. Its my most anticipated game currently.

So far this game is fun and shows some serious potential, but like most of the games around this site it will definitely take time before it's anything more than a unpolished gem. The game needs more story content but what's available so far and what I've seen on the artists websites tells me to expect great things from BoL. I suggest playing it now, and then waiting a few months between play times before trying again to see what's available in the future.

Honestly I am tempted to give this 5 stars for the visuals alone. But luckily I don't need to since the rest of the game is good too. First I will get the negatives out of the ways so I can end on the positives.

Negatives: Honestly most of them aren't really problems with the game more just the fact that it isn't finished.

1] Settings not saving, every time you boot up the game the settings seem to reset to default just after the unity screen.

2] Early game/spell tedium. The only way to get experience is to engage in sexual actions, with the Succubus being the only one that can be fucked whenever you want the issue is that she also drains tons of your magic and stamina each time (80 at game start 40 with both upgrades out of a potential max of 130). Considering that all but 3 spells cost more than 30 mana to cast those three being spells that influence the succubus and also costs influence with her, means that you have to designate an entire day just to use the more interesting spells like Dominate Mind, Soul Link, Infatuation, both Aspect Spells and Dream Walker (without level 2). Also sleeping can only restore a maximum of 100 to each with both upgrades.

3] A lot of the scenes and animations off the main part or towards the later parts of the game are unfinished.

4] A severe lack of variety when it comes to sex scenes even more so if you don't have some of the later spells.

5] Lack of characters as of 29/01/2019 there 5 characters that you can interact with on demand, one of which is whoever you are playing as, while another one is possessed by the Succubus and thus can't be truly interacted with even with the delve spell. Resulting in only having access to 3 of the 5 characters at once.

6] The UI needs some work while it works fine currently, as more characters and locations are added a better/faster way to move around and find characters will be needed.

7] Some spells not working on certain characters mainly Mel who seems to be immune to the spells Bend Will, Obedience, Affection and Infatuation.

8] Lack of text log to read parts that you accidentally skip.

9] Lack of indication of when you can do certain action/how character will react to certain actions.

Positives: While the negatives out number the positives the positives matter a lot more than each individual negative.

1] The artwork and animation is amazing and due to it all being done by the games creators is all consistent. The animations especially are amazing and honestly what I think is going to take up about 90% of the games development if they stay at this level.

2] Tons of choices open up with high level spells from entering dreams, linking souls and being able to influence their actions (very limited at the moment), swapping bodies, having the succubus possess different people(2 choice currently mother or sister), non zombie mind control aka they will do whatever you ask but can still live their lives as normal etc.

3] Tons of freedom on what you want to do and when.

4] No sudden bad ends if you fuck up, currently you just lose some stats with that character.

5] No arbitrary and or poorly made combat sequence or mini game, why they pop up so much I don't know.

Honestly this game looks really good already and looks to have a lot more content on the way. Also if a line from the Succubus is to be believed then the spells in the current version of the game are only the first chapter of the spell book. Considering we are already capable of body swapping and dream walking I can only imagine what the next chapters might hold. Personally my bet is on gender swapping characters and transformation, we can already be a futanari naga in a dream we just need to be able to become that in reality. My only true gripe with he game is how tedious it can be to use magic, but I reckon as content is added the cost for spells will go down and we will get more magic and stamina to work with. I really hope this game makes it to completion and I look forward to future updates.

PS because I can't find a place to put this, can we have more stuff to do with the Aspects, specifically the Aspect of Dominance I want to do stuff with my shadow wolf.

Has a surprising amount of content for an unfinished game, and you can tell that the dev is constantly working on it. I can't wait for the next stage of this game! I don't particularly care for furries, but this meets so many of my other kinks that I'm willing to overlook it.

Very enjoyable, only wish all the artwork was finished. The game play is easy for a point and click, there is a lot of great ideas in the game, and as a furry game, it's really well done. I would like to see more animation, maybe different poses. However, the game is still in development, so there is a lot of potential for improvement, growth, and extension of graphics and story. I cannot wait to see future updates.

Editing my review because it's been 6 years.

The art is good (when it is actually complete), the updates on the game are basic, barely existent changes so come check on the game every 6 months or a whole year to see some kind of small content change. The story has been in development for over half a decade so do not expect the game to be finished anytime soon, it has been milked for far too long. A decent game but again, do not expect much there are better out there.

Interesting idea with combinations of spells. Plus manual drawing. It of course will strongly slow down process in difference from 3D, but it is worth it. The idea of a plot of course is worn out but given very not bad.
In my opinion an excellent game with the perspective future.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.0.14.1a...

Originally Reviewed on 12/27/2017

It's an interesting game, but doesn't have much story beyond the introduction... But it is very early into it's development, so who really knows what the author/s have planned for it... This is a Furry game, which is not something I'm really into... I actually visited the furry area in Second Life once, oh so many years ago, and it was an interesting experience, and as I said, not something I find appealing myself... But there are plenty of folks out there that love that stuff, especially the RP side of it... This game also falls, again, into the overly used Family Sex arena, just this time it's with furies...

The visuals of this game are hand drawn 2D and although a bit cartoony, they actually are not that bad... Some scenes are not fully drawn out, so you'll see partial drawings or drawings that are not colored now and then... The backdrops are done in exactly the same way... It's refreshing to see artists being creative with unique art used in their game, rather then re-used or modified versions of others art resources...

The script follows you're typical Corruption/Domination story with a Succubus and magic spells... It's pretty easy to read, and I didn't really find many flaws in the script... The male protagonist wolf furry, can influence/flirt/seduce other characters to eventually have sex and build up experience to learn additional spells given through the Book of Lust... His mother is possessed by a lusty succubus, and he can work towards being her cohort or eventually getting arid of her, or at least that is the premise you get from the introduction... For now the content is basically a stat grind leading to sex acts with those the protagonists influences, and there are some random encounters as well... There really isn't any story elements given beyond the introduction, which makes this pretty much a typical sex grind game... At least for now...

Overall, it's not a bad game, just not my style with the furry theme... But all the game mechanics seem to work good, the UI looks fine, it's actually pretty simple to figure out, and overall I like the creative art style... Currently you can cheat in stats if you don't want to grind it all out, but I avoided doing that during my play through, just so I could experience if it was a bad grind or not... It's an average grind, as they don't go up 1 point at a time, but increase in larger numbers instead, so as not to take a terribly long amount of time to get the stats up... I will most likely not revisit this game, and not because it's bad, I'm just not into Furry...