Ren'Py - Cabin by the Lake [v0.42c] [Nunu]

A very unique concept. Average CGs, but a nice story, not too slow, not too fast.
The menus are a bit bloated but nicely organized and the game can easily be navigated with one hadn.
The optimization isn't great, but if you're into incest impregnation like I am, it's worth it.

I love this game. It's been a while since I stumbled upon a game here that I liked as much as this one. It's got great writing, the characters are well developed, funny, and all around enjoyable, with their only fault being a bit tropey, but still very well written and with more depth than one would expect at first.

The Groundhog Day mechanic is very well executed. A very polished set of mechanics that really encourage the player to keep playing, despite being the same weekend over and over again. It also wastes no time to explain why or how it is happening. So many games with similar mechanics waste so much time trying to explain it (I'm looking mainly at you, Lust Theory). We don't need to know why it's happening. Groundhog Day never gives an explanation. It is fine.

If I had to nitpick, since no game is perfect, the visuals in this game are just fine. There's not a lot of body variety, with breast sizes ranging from ridiculously big to impossibly big. If you don't like massive breasts, this game might not be for you. The sex scenes are also nothing to write home about.

...and yet, every other aspect of this game is so well executed that I can't give this game anything below 5 stars. At the end of the day, I find it really enjoyable, among the best, most original games here.

Props to the developer, can't wait to see more.

[ Review for version - v0.38 ]

TL;DR: Cabin by the Lake is one of the best character development visual novel I've played. It is densely packed with character stories and detail that increase in amount iteratively as you progress the game. It also has really sexy scenarios that keeps you coming back for more. I have been following the game for over a year now, and sadly it seems to be nearing the end point.

The Good: If you love rich character development, and an air of mystery this is the game for you. Double so if you also love enormous breasts, which I do. The game tugs at your heart strings often, both for the better and the worse, and you will guaranteed find at least one character that you absolutely adore!

The Average: The game has a time looping feature which is interesting, but it will not appeal to everyone, and it can get tedious to grind outcomes to progress the story as you can only achieve a few of them in a single loop. You can very quickly develop the story, but you need to know what you are doing or follow the in-game guide.

The Bad: There is so much text – more than a novel’s worth – and a lot of it remain the same between each loop in the later stages that it becomes easy to hold skip and forget the nuance of certain events when trying to reach others. That’s only bad because the stuff you end up skipping is great content, and it feels like a shame to not read it again. Some character content is also locked behind developing other characters first, and while that may make sense, if you aren't interested in those character (for some reason) you may struggle a bit with the first half of the game.

Wishlist:
> More. MOAR!!

Loved it, the loop mechanic was fun to mess around with and see all the different dialogue you could play through just based on what state of corruption you have each girl put to. The female characters all feel different and are fleshed out, making the interactions with them unique and endearing. Sex scenes are great and all the women are hot as hell. Looking forward to seeing this game completed.

Loving the game and the fact that you turned what is just a looping weekend into such a long, complex and enjoyable game is amazing, the characters are all enjoyable in their own ways and the main character doesn't feel super bland to me. Only complaint I do have is cause the game has grown to such a complex system that it's very easy to miss or skip conditions for unlocking content or story unless you are constantly opening up the menu to see where you are and what you have to do and sometimes you miss something cause you didn't click the right response that would extend the tree either making you restart the loop or just get through it as fast as possible while trying to get other story points and unlocks. Currently 4/5 for me simply cause while difficult it's only when you get far into the game and have a better understanding of the system that it ramps up and waiting till the content of all girls have more or less reach a near end point.

Nice idea about looping, but guide hints sometimes too overloaded, and sometimes not understandable. Visual style are 50/50 because of poor source of images. But gameplay are really satisfying, except i cant progress some routes because of bugs

Great game. Honestly very please with the progress of this game. The storyline is very good and gives the player lots of hours to figure out how to seduce a lady or they can cheat and use the hint option. Nunu has been clear with the goal of this game.

Creator is actually actively bringing updates. Nunu has been transparent with supporters about goal of game. Characters are very busty and have nice face. I would advise everyone that love this style of hentai/sex game to support it. Very good storyline, it’s like a sex version of Groundhogs day.

The sandbox aspect is already something that I personally think plagues way too many of these kinds of games, but here it really hinders the experiences to the point where there's no enjoyment to be found at all. The timeloop aspect of repeating the same vacation over and over again, getting different results each time would be fine if it weren't for the fact that it feels like getting any kind of notable change at all feels impossible. The guide is completely useless because of how confusing it is, where it genuinely seems like you should be all set to finish a route only to realize you must have missed something because a scene or option isn't triggering.

The game needs to just scrap this confusing guide and have a step by step guide on how to unlock everything in the best order, rather than showing us a map, the corruption requirements, etc.

If you're into the kinks and fetishes this game explores, it has some great content with some very hot and passionate scenes. There's also a lot of it and plenty variations that are very interesting to explore. The format of the game is pretty different than most in the lewd genre, though, and I imagine that might put off quite a few players.

It's essentially a puzzle game where you explore the same weekend over and over, unlocking new events and situations for future runs by doing certain and often quite specific things in the current run. Each run is quite short, especially when ctrl-skipping through the scenes you've already seen, so it becomes more about experimenting and trying out new combinations to get access to new scenes.

It's different and great fun when you figure something out, but can also be frustrating when it doesn't work out. And while much of the content is fairly easy and intuitive to unlock, there's also quite a bit that unlocks in pretty weird and opaque ways, so much so that the dev includes a walkthrough in the game and a lot of instructions about the mechanics, the various symbols and colour codes etc. Without this the game would honestly be very difficult and even with it, I feel many unlocks are annoyingly convoluted and vague. This can lead to runs being wasted because you didn't do one specific thing Friday night that was necessary to get a certain scene Monday morning, sometimes something the in-game guide didn't mention either. And when you're already doing dozens and dozens of runs in order to unlock the content even when getting everything right, the "failed" runs can be pretty frustrating.

But the characters, the writing, the kinks explored etc. are sufficiently good for me to stick with it. I do hope that the dev opens up the game somewhat, making some of the requirements a bit less restrictive, so it becomes a bit easier to enjoy the great content they've created.

Version: [v0.34d]
Surprisingly fun considering how grindy it is.

In 'Cabin by the Lake' we get the chance to experience the same weekend over and over again, but each time we get the chance to influence the LI's, corrupting them more and more with each repeat.

Each LI has a corruption level, to progress it you need to achieve a bunch of goals ranging from getting x in a specific stat to finding a way to cheat and win a poker game against said characters. we only have a few 'time slots' to do so, so you get to plan and attempt to reach that goal before the weekend is over, sometimes you'll fail, sometimes you can progress 2 LI's at the same time, either way its takes a while and it is pretty grindy.
I really dislike grindy games, but this one is built very well, its never too easy so you got to plan a bit, progressing corruption level with a LI can and will improve your ability to unlock the rest, and you get to unlock new scenes and dialogue changes often so it stayed interesting even 5-6 hours in.
I will say some of the unlocks felt pretty silly and IMO should be streamlined (Lisa's) but overall for the most part it was pretty damn fun.

The writing is pretty good, the models are... acceptable even though they aren't great and they all have weirdly massive tits, the scenes are good and combined with the nice build up to them they are very hot.
I did encounter a few bugs when it comes to unlocking new content, but there's an easy to use cheat/debug menu that fixed the issues that did come up.

I stayed away from this one for a while because of the massive tits and the grindy aspects, now that I give it a chance I found a charming game that I had a lot of fun with.
I will definitely check it out again in the future.

This is no joke the best h game I have ever played. Love the characters and how they behave and the insane situations. Props to the dev. Not even finished and yet so much already, incredibly absorbing.

Big fan of the big tits and pretty much every other fetish in this game, but the writing and execution is also incredible. Very excited to see what future updates may hold!

My only (small) complaint is that the current time loop structure only allows you to go for 1 (sometimes 2) character corruption routes at a time, which can make the game a little slow at times. Other than that the game is an easy 5 stars for me.

I avoided this game for a long time because usually massive breasts are a big turn-off to me. I don't remember why exactly I decided to give the game a go, but it was the first time in a long time that I skipped most meals and sleep for a day and a night because I was too engrossed to notice the passing time.

I was pleasantly surprised to find excellent writing and amazing character development. I found that I quickly forgot about the massive tits on characters because I was more interested in their actual characters.

I found the story unique. You experience a weekend trip normally, gaining the power to make choices near the end, then you start repeating it with your power of choice intact. If your choices cause a heroine to open up with you more, or if they have a substantial effect on the weekend, when that loop ends the past is changed which changes how the weekend goes ranging from small tweaks to dialog, to new or replaced scenes.

And of course there's something spooky going on; if the time loop and past changing wasn't enough evidence. I was caught completely off guard whefllntlqddktsf-

Cabin by the Lake is an absolutely absurd game. Not just in the size of its... assets... but also in its ambition. Despite being relatively simple on the surface, the game's central form of meta-progression turns that simple scenario into a spiraling fractal of depravity. It's interesting to see a game which weaponizes familiarity and routine in such a potent way, and it makes unraveling the puzzle of this family trip a wonderful thing to experience.

You will be underwhelmed at first. You might not like large breasts or the other fetishes at play. This is still one of the most ridiculous feats of scripting logic to have ever graced hentai. I promise you will be surprised by how far you can go, and by the end, wondering how long it will take for a new update to allow you to go further.

Great gameplay, boobalicious models, and interesting characters that you want to sex up.

I love a game where your choices can affect the outcome and the next play through. Especially when every character is boobalicious.

This gameplay is short, but the fun is replaying it over and over again and changing the outcome based on your choices in-game and before the game actually starts by modifying events influencing the story.

If you manage to complete a route in one play through, you'll unlock a modifier that'll influence your next playthrough. This unlocks more scenes and better endings.

Tits and Timeloops, the game

This is one that I find myself checking in on periodically. While I don't find the art style or model variety compelling, the core gameplay loop is one that I enjoy and haven't found to be overdone.

I also enjoy the dev's two other small VNs and I'm looking forward to their future efforts.

TL; DR
It's an actual game which is fairly fun and interesting to play. Has some rough edges, that's why 4*. But, with those edges being smoothed, definitely can be top-rated.
With no doubt is recommended for playing.

Best game on the site I've found so far, and the only one I've decided to pay to support. Helps that it ticks all my kinks (huge tits, harem, incest, pregnancy). But the writing is excellent, I feel like I've got to know the characters so well over the last year of development, and the main plot is intriguing and has me hooked.

The game has a fresh take on how it plays out but at the same time it can become quite tedious because of it's gameplay.

The premise is that the game plays out over 4 days, though the 4th one you can't really do much so more like 3 days. Upon these days the MC is able to interact with different characters which will affect them mostly by corrupting them in some way after this you come to a sort of settings screen where you are then able to activate these new settings which in turn changes the past and makes the present play out differently and by looping the story over and over again the women in the game and the MC becomes more and more depraved.

For instance one of the girls with the so far most developed route will at first refuse anything sexual but by unlocking more corruption and changing the past she can eventually turn up pregnant in the present because the MC met her months before the meeting and got her + all her friends pregnant at the same time.

So the interesting part of the gameplay is that by finding and unlocking new things the past and therefore the present will change in the game.

At the same time however this also means you will have to loop the game over and over again to unlock parts of it especially since the time is so limited you are looking at dozens of loops at the very least if you play with the ingame guide. The story thankfully changes quite a bit and most of the loops will be focused on one or two heroines at a time, so for the most part it won't feel like your just looping the same story. With that said if you are having trouble finding or unlocking stuff you might find yourself looping the same thing over and over.

Lastly the women are all big breasted and even without the incest patch it's heavily implied that there is a lot of incest as well.


In short the game has a very depraved story to tell that just get's more and more depraved with an interesting way of telling the story that makes the game feel unique.