Ren'Py - Broken Sky [v0.5.2 Public] [Wistala]

*Edit 11th April '24 for 0.091* - tl;dr, give it a while for more content. 9 scenes currently (with some variations such as sub/dom). Maybe 30 minutes of gameplay.

Decided to play again after seeing all the five star reviews and thinking perhaps I just missed something.

Well, there's nine total sex scenes that are in the replay section (after completing the game intro and unlocking the gallery). There's one NTS scene in the game right now that I could find, and one cheating scene. The rest is fairly vanilla with some mild (in my opinion) kinks (such as cumplay).

The writing is good, the artwork is excellent, but there's just.. nothing here still.

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Edit - (For 0.07, apparently only the second update, so changed my review from Poor to Average).

Hard to rate at the moment. Decent enough concept and the game looks nice, but there's very little content and it's (in my opinion) not particularly amazing.

If you like NTR, there's zero content at the moment (0.7) fwiw. There are plenty of choices for it, but no actual scenes.

The filters that apply seem to work.

love the game, can't wait for future updates. Good story and background so far. From what I can tell, there will be lots of custom character choices planned, and lots of different paths to take. Although there isn't many scenes/ cg's yet, the intro is still fun. I do wish though that the dev will go back and add more scenes, then just imagining through text; like a cuddling scene, for their first night.

I was going to wait to review this because I generally have a rule I don't review things early. I want to emphasize that so that you understand just how good this game is. I even chose to support it early, even though I don't do that either after being hit with a lot of cash grab and runs. So now with the review itself:

Story (5/5): It's only at the prologue, so of course we get a lore dump and some world building. It's built well enough, you can tell a lot of care and thought have gone into the story, and it shows through its rather excellent writing. No broken grammar, lots of diverse choices, that impact not only the story but how you interact with the love interests. I can't praise this enough.

Art (4/5): Honestly, its a 5/5 to me, but I know some of you will blow a shit fit because the background (and only backgrounds) are AI generated. The characters are well done, Lily is a sweetheart and easy on the eyes whether you're a furry or not (hell, she might be reason enough to convert). Oliver your best friend (for now) is a DILF, there is a lot of eye candy for whatever your tastes, the only one lacking at the moment is an actual human female, but I say give that time.

Characters (5/5): What can I say? This is the major selling point of the game. The characters are vivid and well written and are designed to react to your choices that is honestly a little ambitious. I do worry that it might be more than the dev can handle, but so far I have every reason to be confident that the quality and believable characters will remain constant going forward. Also they are all really likable in their own way, you truly feel the friendship and romance between them.

Sound (N/A): None yet. I think at some point it will be added, but I'm not going to ding this game for not having music, especially when so much care is going into all other aspects.

Sex (5/5): Whether you have extreme kinks, vanilla, hetero, homo, or anything else that you consider, you're covered. The game goes both hard and kinky and love and sweet. Your choices are being addressed, but are limited due to only being at the prologue stage. The sex scenes are minimal (about 1 per update, with quite a few variables depending on your choices on how it plays out), but satisfying when they happen. You won't be disappointed.

Overall (5/5): Game is so fun to play, the only down side is its still in the prologue stages so there is so much more I'd want to play. The dev is very committed to not only the game but the community in the game too. Extremely active, everything is fun, the dev works extremely hard on the game and is being consistent so far with the updates. I feel confident enough to recommend this game, even before it gets the third update since I already know its coming along and going to be released on time, and also witnessed the Dev at work (all the while keeping her community thriving).

Super recommended, might be one the best games I've played in years and is on my definite follow/support list for as long as development continues

I don't typically back games early in development, as many are too bare-bones, or go too long without updates from the developer. I can say Wistala is not only active, but very clear about their passion for this world, and the characters in it, which shines through in their writing.

The people feel like people having a conversation, not just two poorly-written/translated lines before someone starts slobbing on a knob like it's corn on the cob, and I appreciate the effort that goes into making an actual plot. The premise sets your character in position for some sure to be crazy hijinks, with a healthy dose of cyber-tech and mystic tomfoolery along the way.

The characters feel like they actually have some history, with options to establish the tone of preexisting relationships, and the opportunity to craft new ones. I'm curious to see exactly how the player can interact with the other characters they meet, and how that affects the trajectory of the game.

As someone who enjoys several flavors of kink, and played through what we have access to a few times now, I have to say, I like how the level of influence your behavior has on your choices, though I prefer if I can still have more than one option, especially in developing my character's path. There's a lot of excellent story opportunity to have a submissive character snap and finally become dominant after being pushed too far, or a dominant one broken down by the weight of the world.

In all, probably the game I'm watching the most eagerly right now, and I urge you give it a try!

Coom, coom never changes, through over a dozen years I've played porn games with hundreds of titles that have *came* and went. Few have truly stood out in large part due to their writing and that is Broken Sky's strongest point. Even in the 0.062 release the characters we have access to give feelings of what might be in store.

Lilly who has the most content has a brilliantly well done arcing paths that interweave routes of domination and submission, with intricate scenes and gorgeous art reflecting the relationship between her and the PC. Hints of further branching paths are clearly outlined in the variety of ways you can choose to form a couple after the first night together (Dating, FWB, or turning her down for now) this is then compounded by your decision to have the possibility for swinging and cuckolding SHOULD you CHOOSE to indulge with that particular run.

The world of Broken Sky is unique, a mix of what I'd deign in vein of "cyberpunk-ish" it isn't all broken dreams neon and crying, but there is a slightly sinister vibe just hiding behind the very cute colors of the NPC's and well rendered backgrounds. The absolute unit of all this is the personal communicator which seems like the most interesting menu in any game I've played. Not only do you get a normal codex entry and a "slut" entry (via clicking on the NPC) but with the game promising to move to a more open world having the ability to contact other NPC's seems ideal for encouraging exploration and titillation.

The game runs smoothly even if skipping at max speed in Renpy and all of the bugs are currently squashed, as the "call menu" bug has been fixed

The only downsides to the current release are;
Sound is mostly absent from this release aside from a few sound effects.
As is proper Voice Acting for now, but those are much less important to me than actual content, with it's decent number of full & varied scenes scoring high marks from me.

Very pleased with the preview so far! I took the submissive route and am thoroughly excited with what is to come. I find that most games tend not to really lean into femdom elements too heavily, and this game really fills a niche for me. For one having anthro/human content as well as fun fetishes like cum eating. Can't wait to see more!

The writing, art, characters, and sex scenes are top notch. You can either be dom or sub and the writing deliciously leans to your preference. I'm making choices for the NTR stuff and no NTR sex scenes yet but good setup for it so far. The sub stuff is amazing if your into that so it'll keep you satisfied until the full NTR scenes are added.

What an excellent game, I love everything about it, from the art, the story and how decisions influence it. I look forward to future updates, good luck and success with this project. I had a lot of fun (in addition to other things) with this game.

This game has great potential. Hopefully the focus is more in story than the sex scenes. This game reminds me of Superhuman. Hentai game doesn't always have to be about sex and NTR.
Not a furry either but the character is really lovable and the story is engaging. Hopefully this becomes a game where people would read the story and not speedrun to get a sex scene.

This is very early in development. I find Lilly surprisingly charming. The setting is interesting, I don't even mind the AI assisted backgrounds.

I have my concerns though. There's a lot of talk IN GAME of how the game is going to work and that does not instill much confidence. I don't think hyping large complex mechanics in game is a good idea when even the UI is largely stock renpy.

The content and all the talk about how it will be so flexible and there will always be choices when it comes to more niche content again is cause for concern as well. The more choices you give us the more parts you have to add to your game. It's a massive undertaking to just give yes/no branches for all this stuff but for this game it's yes/no/maybe?

The character artwork is great, we're only presented with 2 characters as of this first release. The plot and the lore of the world works but the events presented are pretty old and cliché. Can we just get some early days co-operation without the whole "We don't like your kind around here" attitude? You're not in game for half an hour and someone is dumping beer on the lead heroine so MC can do MC things and save the girl.

I like Lilly because she's presented as a sly strong character, but she's immediately undersold because her human friends took her to the humans bar to drink human beer...where she was immediately bullied like it's 5th grade.

As a fan of games like Mass Effect and Skyrim I just don't get this weird furry culture agenda. They're extra dimensional aliens...Captain Kirk was all over aliens decades ago why are we digressing? Why are people acting like this when there's a giant medical corp owned by an anthro with a private military made up of ppl from both sides based in THIS CITY?!

I need a more compelling event then this. For example, One of these guys hits on her or hell hits on you?! Mebbe one of them is a chick or something in between? You can still demonstrate choice in this situation. Have an arm wrestling match, call for a round of shots and see who can hold their liquor better. Stake your claim by throwing an arm around her and giving him/her/them the stink eye.

I'll leave it at a tentative 3 stars for now and wait a few updates to see if some of this talk turns into action in regards to development but it sounds like it could be fun if that happens.

Although the game is in a very early stage of development, it has great potential. I really liked the variety of options that the game offers, making it a more personal experience based on your preferences.

The art also seems very good to me, Lily's design and her personality make her a very interesting character with whom I would like to spend more time.

Just played the first version of this last night and while I rarely do any reviews I want to makie one for this. Im not gonna lie and say, im not a furry but...
Nope, I like humans BUT give me a well illustrated and designed furry character (Ive always thought the eyes for any drawn character, even if they are human, is what attracts us to that character, when they are beautifully designed), and I will be there day zero. So yes, i can say im a furry (but only drawn or 3d characters, the real costume stuff is a big no for me, but if others enjoy that, good for them, everyone has its own fetishes).

This is just excellent, this is exactly what I always wanted from an anthro furry game.
-Character customization (you can be human, anthro, male or female, sub, dom or both ways.... and add your name, and you dont know how important this last part is, Im seeing a lot of games lately forcing you to be and already stablished name, even with sotry decissions, and sinceresly, this type of decission making VN or light dialogue rpgs with choices, if you cant be yourself, it basically fucks up the whole premise. You are not CDPR using a charcter from an already made book FFS, just make your character be able to be named)

-A world with anthros and humans (as I want to be myself in aworld were i can get with sexy anthros).

-Good sex scene options, with actual variation dpending of what you chose or like or not like certain fetishes (Im actually sad there was no illustrated paw rub below the table at the end of the game, like the writting implied, hopefully thats added in the future, becuase just with text that was sexy as hell).

-And probably the best part of all, this are not just anthros visually and everything in the writting is you meeting a normal human. No, Wistala wrote the anthro character, Lily to use her atributes for normal live, and best of all, sex. Its done sooooo well, and with so much taste (it never feels disgusting, it only uses the more interesting aspect of the animal to make a pleasurable experience in the writing, that little fascination with how this characters look.
Just for this the game deserves a 5/5, even when its only an intro and a sex scene.

Theres only a big negative for me, as an artistany AI non retouch art is a big NO for me, and the bakgrounds here are made this way, actually distracting becuase the text already describes were you are, and some of this images dont even look remotely as interesting as the text implies, and also, it doesnt even look the same city most of the time).
If AI was used only for now, and changed in the future to retouch BGs (AI can be used, but i prefer if an actual artist then uses it as reference or with heavily retouching), just becuase, well, Wistala is starting and theres no budget for it, I would be fine with the decission right now, so hopefully this game has more uspport and actually does that.

But again,this initial premise is sooooo good, that even my haterd for AI doesnt change how much I loved it.
I really REALLY hope this game continues in the future, as right now it turned into my favourite game in the site, and Im seriously considering actually supporting it for 5 euros if things look bright in 2 or 3 updates. Becuase I really want for this to see an end if its as excellent as the intro.

Also, Wistala, you made Lilly so amazing, Im debating of just going out with her on a first playthrough and not do any harem decissions (I did choose to start dating her intead of FWB at the end). Thats how good you wrote her,. I dont know what im gonna do if all your other female anthros are written as good as her. BTW chosed her to be a little bit of a femdom, even if i made the middle decissionat the beginning, becuase femdom lilly is sexy as hell.

ion normally fw w furry shit, but this really aint that bad and got hella potential as an adult game the more funding this guy gets, really hope this dont get abandoned before v1, get it on steam, get more funding, i would suggest to make this more open world with more characters, get a good path and bad path like corrupt life or fighting it, good path being romance and bad path being cucked, all and all love it and hope this game doesnt get any gay shit