Ren'Py - Bright Past [v1.003] [Kosmos Games]

Wow, I can't rave about this incredible game! The graphic is simply breathtaking - every screenshot could go through as a work of art. The detail of the area and the lifelike characters immediately move you to another world. But what really distinguishes the game is the captivating story. From the beginning you are involved in an epic adventure, with turns that always bring you to the edge of your seat.


The developers have really worked hard to make both the plot and the gameplay mechanics as exciting as possible. And the best? New updates are constantly announced! Whether new quests, characters or even expanded worlds - the anticipation is keeping the community in suspense. I can hardly wait for what's next! If you are a fan of immersive stories and impressive graphics, you shouldn't miss this game!

Wow, ich kann gar nicht genug von diesem unglaublichen Spiel schwärmen! Die Grafik ist einfach atemberaubend – jeder Screenshot könnte als Kunstwerk durchgehen. Die Detailtreue der Umgebung und die lebensechten Charaktere versetzen einen sofort in eine andere Welt. Was das Spiel jedoch wirklich auszeichnet, ist die fesselnde Geschichte. Von Anfang an ist man in ein episches Abenteuer verwickelt, dessen Wendungen einen immer wieder in Atem halten.



Die Entwickler haben wirklich hart daran gearbeitet, sowohl die Handlung als auch die Spielmechanik so spannend wie möglich zu gestalten. Und das Beste daran? Es werden ständig neue Updates angekündigt! Ob neue Quests, Charaktere oder sogar erweiterte Welten – die Vorfreude hält die Community in Atem. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, was als Nächstes kommt! Wenn du ein Fan von fesselnden Geschichten und beeindruckender Grafik bist, solltest du dieses Spiel nicht verpassen!

Good music, attractive characters, and for once, no male trolls, as is unfortunately often the case. It would have potential to be a good game if it weren't for the developers' extreme fetish for sandbox and the constant attempts to stick cocks into our main heroine's body orifices without being asked.

Great game.
It's one of those rare occasions when you feel sad that the game is over. I liked the beautiful storyline and lightness. In addition, the storyline is slightly non-linear due to the different endings. I hope this won't be the author's last project.

I am giving 2 stars just for the sheer amount of content that is there. The game has massive issues where you will spend most of the time grinding or getting stuck on not knowing how to progress, which gets progressively more frustrating. The mod for money cheating is basically must have.

Great game, i really like it, but it’s definitely not for everyone.
I really enjoy sandbox gameplay, storylines centered around the corruption theme, and games with female protagonists — so for me, this is a perfect match.
The graphics are excellent — I really like the art style and the main heroine’s design, though it’s a shame there aren’t more animations.
There’s quite a bit of grinding, which might turn away some visual novel fans, but I personally enjoy it since I like putting in the effort to achieve results.
This is one of the few projects I’ve been closely following and supporting on Patreon for over four years. During that time, I’ve had to replay it about five times because of save issues — which already says a lot.

Very fun little game. The grind is out of this world, but you're rewarded pretty often and pretty consistently. The thing I deplore is that there's too much, WAY TOO MUCH futa content. not a big fan of that, I expected FMC to be a a depraved whore coke addict, but turns out it's not really possible. There isn't a lot of choice truth to be told, You want to increase a certain stat to be able to do more, You can always decline to do so, but it results in not increasing the stat. and thus limiting your further prospect.
and you have to grind money, a lot of it, because there's survival involved ( eating/sleeping/Smoking and drinking if you're addicted) but it works well, thing is the scenes are always the same for very little variation.

The story is pretty fun. but too much lesbian and futa content, not enough straight content.
a shame. very close to my favourite type of games and characters are good looking. except for Barbara , (the mother and landlord), she's ugly AF
There aren't many clothes either which is a shame, there's a semblance of dressing simulator, and it's pretty hot but it's a shame that the worst you can do is "wear no panties with dress" not much more. Not whorish clothes, nothing of the sort.

There is A LOT of gameplay though.

A pretty rare very long play time game, with super nice graphics, great stories and characters. So many possibilities and quest, lots of details, loved it ! Hoping there'll be some further developement and follow up ^^

TLR - Its a Freeroam Grindfest with somewhat nice optics and terrible english.

The models are nice even not very special, just nice. To me I felt constantly blueballed as the lewd scenes are super short with stills and later on some flipboard-animations. And while the english is even for me a very forgiving non english native so horrible, I could not get off ...
The game has audio yes but in the end I disabled the Music and was ok with the 2-3 sound samples for effects.
If you like games that shit you with collectibles, achievements by making you grind through all the assets a Dev provides you in a game, here you go.

Graphics: 4/5
Writing: 1/5
Plot: 2/5
Lewd: 1/5
Audio: yes

Excellent game! I really liked it! Special thanks for the Russian language. I read English quite well, but it is still more convenient in my native language. There is not much text, and this is also a huge plus! I would like more animations, but otherwise, everything is great!

This is a prime example of many games that are featured on this site. Individuals or groups that roll out a new product and then it takes years and years to develop. Not only that but with all that build and promise to have a quick or sudden end that is all too meaningless. This game had so much promise prior to 2019. And now it’s just another project that you can throw into the abyss that is F95zones now large game graveyard. The game itself has not much realism. The grind does not make sense. The protagonist is good looking for a model 5 years ago. The story is boring. Decisions do not mean anything and in the end you just have a repeated mix of decisions that lead to nowhere. Plus the Easter egg part of the game has images that are 40 years old. Just save the 4 hours of game play and pass on this dinosaur.

A nice looking game with some pretty impressive stuff, especially the UI, which displays the MC's mood, needs and desire. There is the obligatory cell phone and numerous inventory items, including wardrobe and sexy collectibles. I enjoy Female protagonists in games, and found the MC to be a real cutie.

Unfortunately, the praise ends there for me. The complex UI becomes more of a distraction as the game progresses and you will find that the left side of your screen will be cluttered with numerous character reminders. The game is also quite the grind and may become more of a chore to play than an actual enjoyable experience.

Eating is also more complex than it needs to be, with the addition of an ingredient requirement to make most of the meals. After a while I decided to use the cheats mod just to see what would actually transpire after all the grinding. It became a bit too much for me.

The English translation is also very shaky and needs a guiding hand to make it bearable. I also found that there are too many instances where a character is displayed in a Room, but there is nothing to say to them.

You can clearly see that the Dev put a lot of dedication and hard work into the making of this game. However, it feels like the Dev may have gotten a bit too creative, and may have been better suited keeping things simpler, with less moving parts.

I wish the dev all the best with this project.

One of the best games here, probably the best in terms of sandbox games, with a slight touch of free-roaming and character customisation. The setting is lovely, the protagonist is very cute, the storyline is highly original and gives the nod to many underground cultures. Above all I love the fact that you can actually plan your day and chose how much depravity it's gonna have. The routine and the high replayability of the events, plus the collectionism features and the lifesim tools (skills and relationships) make it really fun to go slow and just have a play with it in a sort of free roaming approach. The game mechanics, especially those concerning character development, addition and so etc. are just pretty good! Last but not least: the characters are sexy and well rendered, especially Barbara, which is a MILF even in the smallest details of her feet! A true work of art of his author.

Review: v0.99.5

This could easily have been the best female corruption game of them all. Kinda like Chloe18, sadly it falls short in so many ways. This is from the heart...

THE REALLY BAD:

1. The Engrish: It's bad... It's so bad in fact that you'll get lost in the quest log because it actually gives you the wrong information on how to complete a quest. It's game breaking.

Example:
"Keep practising with Falsetto" (Who's actual name is Mateo Lopez).
When you talk to him, all you get is a dead end: "I'll come later".

Yes. The game is from a Russian developer, but many of the text strings aren't even translated. Lazy work?

2. The Grind: It's insanely bad, all you do is eat and sleep, while trying to earn a small pittance to buy food that is crazy expensive. It gets even worse after that.

THE GOOD:

1. The protagonist is a "Dating my Daughter" model. She's cute and sexy most of the time, except when angry...
2. The game play is a good style of corruption, had it not been for the game breaking bugs above.

CONCLUSION:
If the developer had actually made an effort to translate the game properly, and added hints in the quest log, this game would have been so awesome.

As much as I want to recommend it, I just can't. I even played it with the cheat mod, but I still couldn't find out what to do because the quest log is a convoluted mess.

Graphics: 5/5
Models: 5/5
Scenes: 2/5
Story: 4/5
Gameplay: 5/5

The best sandbox game I've tried so far.
Well developed graphics and templates, the interface is also very functional. There's a bit of grinding to do, but it's not boring and is developed well to progress through the game.
The animations could be done better, and perhaps too many characters have been included, some of them with superficial stories.

An excellent product that becomes one of my favourites.

If you are into boring and time-consuming sandbox AVNs like me, you have found an oasis of joy. There are a lot of interesting events and an awesome daily routine, but the strongest point: The art is stunning. This FMC doesn't have a load of negative and guilty thoughts when doing something lewd like some other annoying sandboxes, she builds her courage to do stuff and that's enough. Also, the plot is quite nice.

About the translation: Yeah it's easy to find some typos and agreement errors, but nothing that ruins the game. It can be easily understood and sometimes can be even funny.

Is it a perfect game? No, it has some translation issues and a few things here and there, but to me personally, the most important aspects of this type of game are: is it entertaining?, and is it kinky? The answer to both those questions is yes.

The graphics are not perfect but not horrible, and characters have decent lore that lets you enjoy them even more.

There is grind, so if you don't like that, then stay away from it. I personally like it because even though there is plenty of grind, it always feels like you are making progress and want to do a bit more to find out what will happen next.

As per always, don't just judge the game by what I think or what others think. If you feel interested, try it for yourself and make your own judgment.

one of the best sandbox game in here, idk how i never played this game before or even come up to my search from sandbox tags, but im glad to found this actually, while it gives us to experience to explore almost everything, but one thing that actually caught my interest, we can change the mc appearance from clothing to get somewhere by using public transport and owning ur own vehicles. while the story itself is fun to begin with but still could go with some more freedom of choosing her own path but overall its definitely one of the best VN sandbox game!
hoping the dev will create another game like this since it seems its going to be completed soon.

UPDATE - Deducting 1 more point.
There maybe a translation issue when it comes to the English version of this game... The worse thing this VN does is BORE you. I continued playing this after my initial review thinking maybe the game becomes more enjoyable in later updates. Unfortunately this is not the case this game goes from annoying grind to BORING. It shouldn't be boring all the ingredients are here but no plot point is given a chance to breathe, its like a boring soap opera.

For Example - 1) The Mafia shows up and kills people in front of you. That should be a major event but its brushed off and glossed over with no consequences at all.
2) You take deepthroat classes so you can deepthroat a partner finally and when the classes end and you meet the partner. The same scene plays the same as before with 1 render of the deepthroat and we move on after all the training and work.
3) You become a Prostitute a huge monumental decision and it's give no time to breath at all it just "Whelp I guess I'm a prostitute now".

This game is dull and the story is going nowhere and it has all the Ingredients so it's either bad writing or a bad translation. The MC is Vapid, dull and boring.

ORIGINAL 3 star Review
Do you Like Grind! Do you like micromanagement of seemingly every little detail? Do you like Random events that you have to click click click to hopefully one day trigger then this is a VN for you!

Your MC will always be hungry it seems and you will have to take a lot of time out to make money just to buy her food! Fun!

Your MC will STINK, so realistically you will have to take time out pretty regularly to shower or bathe her. Fun!

Do you like a quest log that only gives you the vaguest idea most of the time to clue you in on what to do next. Fun!

Do you have WRISTS and FINGERS of Iron that would make a martial artist weep with envy? Excellent because you will need them to get through all the random clicks you need to eventually activate some random quest. Fun!

Do you have no job and no money and only have time for one VN then this is for you as it is the ultimate time sink! Your time is wasted so thoroughly here you may never need another VN ever. Fun!

The Good
The renders are attractive although static I never made it to any animated renders but I guess my random luck was just bad!
The Premise of the story sounds like fun and its interesting initially.

The Bad
Wow do you ever need money in this game and man if you think inflation in any country is bad, you haven't seen anything until you check out this games inflation! You want a Hotdog from a street vendor? $40!! You want a Burrito? $65!! So forget a burrito and get a TACO you say!!! $70!!! Damn I would love to try a Taco that's worth $70!! Holy crap I will never complain about inflation again!

The art is tremendous and the story is ok initially so they have a great start to a VN, but they have a sadistic BDSM dungeon master designing the UI and playstyle that is designed to torture anyone who dares play this title.

I'm being super generous and giving this title 3 stars as it has potential, but I fully understand the people who give it one and two stars. Anyone who gives this VN 4-5 stars in it's current state needs a butt plug shoved up there backdoor because they are into hardcore keyboard BDSM in my opinion.

Pros:
- nice renders
- interesting characters

Cons:
- grind
- bugs
- questlog is pretty bad
- if you do quests as you want, they might make no sense sometimes as the dev didn't take into consideration that this is not a kinetic novel
- economy - money earned compared to prices is just silly
- having to take care of hygiene, hunger, sleep etc.
- skills rise painfully slow
- navigation system makes me want to vomit

Big cons:
- for only straight, there is not that much content
- for lesbian, there is allegedly no pure lesbian route (as far as I know, I'm not interested, but it is a con)
- even using cheats to speed things up, considering how much time you have to waste there is a really low porn density, there is a bit more in the beginning, but later on there is even less

Beautiful MC and generally fantastic characters. The story is interesting, perhaps a few things could be developed further. For example, the hotel is virtually not used in the story. But I loved this story!