Looking for a new game to try, I was immediately attracted by the graphics, and I must say, they are great! Unfortunately, it’s the only positive point, and I really didn’t enjoyed the game (v. 0.6.1). I still give it two stars because I think it’s still salvageable, if the devs are ready to put an insane amount of work into this piece.
First of all, it’s advertised as a breeding game, and this part, which seems at first glance to be pretty interesting (stats, levels, special skills…) is in fact extremely light and not well-implanted: only levels matter, just put two in a pen, repeat a dozen times, sell. Despite multiple breeding combinations being possible, only a very small amount of them are implemented (the ones with the MC); the other ones are “off screen”. The ones with the MC are also very boring: one animation with three facial expressions and that’s all. The models all look the same: cats have two different haircuts, dogs have two different hair color, and that’s all.
The management part of the game is also weirdly pointless: money is easy to come by and pretty useless: no customization, no tools to buy, nothing. You can build a bigger pen, but what for? Since the advanced breeding system isn’t fully implanted (and money useless), you don’t really need to keep every offspring.
Every day, you have energy to spend, mostly used for breeding, but also working on the farm (earning the landlady affection) or in the bar (earning small but steady income). After two hours playing, all that seems pretty useless, and you’re just running in town to try to unlock the story.
The VN/story part of the game is oddly overdeveloped: you have a lot of dialogue lines with the landowner and some decent sex scenes with player input: you can change positions and a pleasure gauge suddenly appears during sex! At first, I was flabbergasted: if it was implemented for the breeding part of the game, alongside with different positions, you could have a very interesting breeding minigame! But let’s be honest: that would require a lot of work, and we all know that Patreon projects are funded on novelty, not quality.
Another strip-blackjack minigame is available at the tavern. It’s fun and the rewards are very arousing, taking you down to memory lane with your cousin, that one time in Florida, when her mom got divorced and you ended up drinking Schnapps in the bathroom… But why the hell spend so much time coding and animating minor storylines when the main stuff (breeding) isn’t there?
In conclusion, you have very decent graphics and once again, a project way too big for the devs to manage. It’s like watching an amateur rock-band trying to write an epic rock opera, when they can’t manage to play a cover of Smoke on the Water. Sad.