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

Edit: This is both the most and least deserving 1 star I'm probably ever going to give.

I cannot recommend staying away from this game more. The process of playing is quite annoying. You can just endlessly flail hoping to accidentally hit new stuff by chance, or you can constantly be checking the poorly integrated guide and still spend hours getting not-quite-nowhere. To add salt to the wound, the payoffs are little more than short teases.

The scenes often have great ideas behind them, and come with pretty good writing to boot. But by the time they sell you on the concept, you've seen the handful of renders and are sent back to grinding.

The reason I'm giving this a 1 is as a warning. To the right person at the right time, you can get drawn back in to this fucking mire.

"Surely, this time, I'll just use the guide a little better and breeze through the rest of it. Surely, this time, at least one of those cool-sounding scenes will be worth it."

But you can't, and they won't. But you'll rediscover this massive disappointment after burning way, way too much time on it. Again.

Just don't start. At least those other 1 star games will only waste a few minutes if you feel like confirming their shittiness. But this time, just trust me. Don't risk it. Don't get stuck hoping this game will ever be worth playing.

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It's kind of strange mixed bag.

If you're going to try it, enable transition skipping. It's miserable otherwise.

The graphics also look... pretty nice, but they're also simultaneously too simple. There are barely any different poses, and you usually just see the same model in the same position all the time. Occasionally they might change clothes though, I guess.

The writing is actually surprisingly good for a game like this. You get some seriously good and very real-feeling discussions. It's really nice.

Yet... Three stars is being kinda nice. The whole cut-rate groundhog day thing (seriously, the MC isn't even aware of it) is just miserable. It starts... okayish. Then it just gets unbearable. Even spamming the skip hotkey, it's just... no. It's not fun doing the same stupid shit over and over and yeah. Even the hints you do get aren't enough. Not because they're so bad, but because so often there's just nothing new to do even if you obsessively checked the hints.

So, yeah. It's just contradictions all around. A game with fairly nice models that ends up mediocre graphically, and a game with some extremely good writing that's simultaneously got no notable story and is just full of boring repetition.

It's a weird one.

High hopes for this game: mega tits is a fetish that doesn't get many games, and fewer that really do it well; uasually its a side note of one character, or inextricably combined with other fetishes, whether you like that or not.
The art is Excellent: huge tits are usually an afterthought, or don't the work & refinement of other forms.
The progression (so far) is a nice middle ground where you progress thru every scene by re-enacting the same period over & over, which is different & a nice balance of complex choices for personalities, but also simple, straightforward & quick progression.
The game progression also gives an easy sandbox freedom to choose what content you view, which is deeply appreciated & unfortunately unusual given the wide array of fetishes most games provide for -tho alternate text sections w a toggle for turning off applicable fetishes is always appreciated.
i have great hopes for this game, & hope it gets completed - far too many of the very few games for this fetish fail early.

Now if the "titty Norm" brigade would go back to the hundreds of other games that cater to their preferences, or target any number of outright amoral or criminal fetishes that proliferate without argument here, that would be nice.

Another game ruined by being a sandbox. The women are hot but the constant loop is draining for me. In the case the game needs to be a sandbox because there’s no a lot of things to do. It’s an infinite loop of doing the same things over again only to see little progress made. I can’t fathom why this style of play is fun and exciting.

Holy shit, this game is amazing. I was skeptical about the time loop mechanic at first, but after playing through a few loops, I found that it works surprisingly well, and there is new content almost every time. The writing is very good, despite a few typos, and the characterizations are strong. Alex is a very sweet character who does the breast expansion fetish very well (to say nothing of the monster!), and I've never seen a predator/prey sex relationship in a game outside of paranormal romance novels, much less figured out why people like them, but the writing in this game makes it clear what is going on in the prey's mind, which I found sexy and educational (even if that character doesn't have a ton of content yet).

Here's hoping for more content, pregnancy, maybe lactation?, larger boobs, and more sweet corruption into cum hungry sluts.

Fantastic new game, tons of potential with "time-loop" style mechanic, especially since a more contained game is a stronger one. It can combine multiple threads with the experience of slow burn, while also being easier on development so updates are more efficient. I'm surprised it hasn't been done more!

Really looking forward to new releases, I haven't been taken with a game this quick in a while!

This hits a lot of what I like in various games I've played here; harem, corruption, and huge knockers are big ones I'm always excited to see. Really enjoy the pacing, the writing is solid, and I like that reactions feel logical for what you're doing vs where the character's headspace is at.

The repeating world state is unique from what I've played as well, really curious to see how far everything gets pushed. I can already tell this will be one of the three games I look forward to the most for updates.

This one's got some promise, I think. The models will definitely not be to everyone's liking, but hell, nothing is. The game seems to work a bit like a time loop, where the decisions you make each time gradually increase the "corruption" of the girls and the world in general, allowing you to get farther with them the next time around. The biggest issues with this are knowing what to do in what order and remembering what you did last time. It's not always clear what will give you a result without the walkthrough, and that really takes some time to decipher. You will probably be skipping a LOT of repeat dialogue. An in-game hint system would be really, really appreciated.

I will say, however, that what really makes this game for me is Alex, the character with the most development so far. I'm kind of in love with her. She was written with this overwhelming sense of affection and her interactions are full of cuddling and smothering tits and this strangely comfortable intimacy that is really appealing to me. She's sticking in my brain right now and I want MORE.
So yeah, I'm interested to see where this game goes.

From the Ghastly Eyrie I can see to the ends of the world, and from this vantage point I declare with utter certainty that this one will be big if they add animations! The models are great already, now the game just needs content.

V0.01a. Super strong potential for the game with models that are more competent than those in the majority of its peers, provided the body shapes are to one's personal taste (they definitely are to mine). I really like the time loop premise that gives it a majora's mask-but-lewd-VN feel. Dev seems to have good ideas and plans on how to move forward with development.