Ren'Py - Carnal Contract [v0.9 Rework] [Dotty Diaries]

unskippable opening splash screen with sound at max volume for almost 20 seconds? what kind of bullshit is this. My ears hurt, and I have to go in and modify files just to play the game. i'm gonna give it a second chance, but no guarantee I change my rating.

The developer ran out of ideas for a sequel to an almost-completed game, so he did what all con artists do: remake. In addition, from VN to Sandbox, that is, artificially extended gameplay time at the expense of mindlessly clicking through locations hoping to find something to do.

Entirely useless and unneeded sandbox rework mid development ruined this completely.

The game use to be descent with good visuals a serviceable story and nice sexy moments but this latest rework to make it a sandbox juste takes away from the flow of the story by making you click everywhere in an empty linear world. It's nothing more than an nsfw version cookie clicker now.

The version of the game which I'm reviewing for is the 0.9 Rework. So what's the rework for? Those who had played the "final" product previously with the rushed ending would think that this rework is exactly about correcting that mess. On the contrary, it LITERALLY takes you back to the beginning of the game since that part is what this rework is about: adding a sandbox free roam and time wasting meaningless mini games like going panty hunting. Can you believe the supporters giving feedback addressing the most obvious problem of the game (the rushed ending) and the dev goes like "yeah, I will correct the rushed ending by...adding contents to the beginning of the game and that content being a sandbox forcing you to go perv panty hunting". Seriously, this update seems like outright trolling from the dev.

Pretty much loved the game.
The renders look amazing.
The pacing is alright.
One thing is that the character development seems kinda fast. You do nothing with the girls and suddenly in 5 minutes you're already having sex. But I guess that that's the nature of the game.
Recommended

One of the best written mc's period. He's not a creepy bastard, he doesn't need to force/coerce/trick one dimensional npcs into sex and he doesn't talk to himself way too much like so many autistic mc's.

Strong points for me were that the family all seem to care about each other and they aren't shallow, or retarded, or a generic trope trying to pass for a character, like you see in so many other games. Dialogue was fluid and wasn't full of jank or weirdness, it was just like people talking to each other. All the models looked good for the most part and animations were pretty solid.

The only real flaw I can think of are some of the paths are harder to do than others. The only thing I can think of to add would be maybe don't magically make all the jizz disappear from one frame to the next. It'd be pretty hot if after filling up one of the girls in one scene she walks away with some cum dripping down her leg or have a little extra cream on her lip after a blowjob.

tl;dr refreshing game to play after so many mediocre ones, great mc too!

I just finished it, and it's really good for my taste. Hope some WT is included on your games really apreciate if we know we on the right track of the route we bangin haha! Thank you and keep up the good works brodas and sistas

I'll bet five, just because my fetish is a younger sister, it's great here. The rest of the game is worse, but you have to play as a lover of your little sister. I can also praise the animations, grieve a little that the older sister turned out just to be. But Becky is wonderful.

A great VN that is 100% complete. The writing is excellent, the models are hot, the choices matter to a decent degree. I hope that the next game shows the pleasure and responsibility of being on top.

Carnal Contract is definitely a good game and one which is complete, even though that seems to be rather uncommon. They're still adding stuff which is great, but the game goes from start to end with multiple paths in it. The story is quite interesting and it's not a common overdone one, it has its own style and interesting characters. It has a couple things and scenes which are still unexplained and seems to make a few jumps in logic at some points, but overall it's a good story. Choices could be better, since the main choices of the game (relating literally to the Game) cannot be not-done so it ends up being mostly a story in which your choices relate to which girl you focus on.

Render quality and character models are pretty high. Animations are also pretty good and there's not just sex animations, even though sex scenes are a bit short. Audio seems a bit above average, which is a nice addition.

So, all in all, it's a good game. I'm divided between 4 and 5 stars so I'll go with 5 to be positive and will keep on checking the game if new content comes out.

This game ended up turning out better than I thought it would.

Story:

Was skeptical about this game at first but the writing was actually good. I play these types of games without the patch as sometimes it makes more sense that way. The main plot was based off of a life threatening dare challenge game which grew on me. I did like the dialogue a lot, it felt as if people were genuinely having conversations versions the robotic, inorganic stuff I usually come across. Love interest were likeable except for the cheating EX. The main character was well balanced, not too macho, not too timid and for the most part he carried himself well like he actually had a brain, it enjoyed this overall. Feels like more could've been done but sometimes less is more and at least this creator isn't dragging stories out for years to come.

Characters:
Well made for my liken, maybe a few more petites would've sufficed and maybe a BBW? No?

Becky was my favorite which was unusual for me, followed by Nicole.

Dialogue:
Great.

Writing:
Good.

Renders:
Solid.

Animations:
Good.

Overall:

Congrats on finishing your first project. You should look at this as a huge accomplishment. You crossed a finished line that not many Devs have the chance to...or want to anyways... cha ching! Best of luck to you and your future projects.

Very solid game and story. There are meaningful choices. I love that it's actually complete. The story hooked me well. Without going into spoilers any more than necessary, this could have been explored further than it was. It seems intentional. The women are attractive which is always a huge plus in my book. Definitely a better than average game. Recommended.

I finished CC and am happy to review it.
I liked almost everything about it. The only complaint is that the virgin was not given more time exploring the MC.

In reading other reviews, that go into better detail on Character Models, Story, Pace, Grammar... etc., I agree with all of the positive points.

I don't agree with the negative comments, except when they refer to the virgin.

I am looking forward to playing subsequent games by Dotty Diaries.

4/5 Star Game.....

Story 4/5 - I enjoyed the story, incest is one of my favorite kinks, so having that as a starting basis is already good for me, add to that the fact of the "mysterious game" plot and you got yourself a nice mystery that add some tension to the story. The one downside as to why its not a perfect five in this category is that the game felt short, not sure if its meant as a Season 1, but you literally only get one "full" sex scene with the three main girls before the story finishes.

Graphics 4.5/5 - I like the character models chosen for this, every single female was god damn beautiful, notably the mom character just did it for me, but the sisters were no slouches either. The animations were pretty good in most cases, with only a tiny amount of them suffering from either wonky movements, or bad camera angles for the action.

Characters 5/5 - The strongest category by far, the MC is young and attractive, and not your typical shota loser with a big dick like most of the stories in this premise have, hes taller than all the female cast, and you can believe he can take care of them both physically and sexually. The main 3 female were also fantastic, you dont get your typical mom and older sister hate the MC and only young sis likes him... all 3 like him, and eventually develop deeper and naughtier feelings for him. The secondary cast is also decent, the females were hot, had decent scenes... and the rivals were dealt with in believable ways before they did anything to ruin the story.

This game likes to force player to certain acts which is something i hate, Your character doesnt have much control how the story gonna progress and game doesnt give you any motive to do or care much

like game tells you to gain money from some forced challenges for some debt and some car but doesnt explain or show you why you should care, and when you dont care you wanna skip these challenges and thats the gameover scene yep

scenes are ok
story is boring
characters have no soul

nothing to gain here by playing this i suggest just skipping this one

4 star game, giving a 5th star due to development speed

Not a unique premise for a story but has its own twists. The writing is above average as far as VNs go and has good pacing. It is also well edited, no spelling mistakes or engrish in this game. The models are good, and the characters are distinguishable even if some of them (particularly Diana) are textbook trope characters.

What keeps it from being a 5 star game IMO is the choice mechanisms. Most of the choice paths are fairly clear (can only pick one path) but in some situations you can select several if one option is taken first (like helping with the boss), and this is not clear to the player unless they do rollback or another playthrough

The game has been out for a little less than a year and already has about 4 hours of unique content in it. The story is also progressing, not adding needless side characters or filler content, and is probably about 2/3 finished. This game is on track to be finished by the end of this year, which is very rare for VNs.

Weird this game is barely above 3 stars when it doesn't have usual red community flags, like "engrish", paywalls, or surprise ntr(?) . The only legit complaints I see are incest tropes(really, everything already been kinda done, so it's just the matter if you enjoy the characters or not), and poor illusion of choice - you get small changes here and there, but there are no exclusive branching, the main plot about secret society screwing you over is here to stay. So yes, it's mostly kinetic novel with side content, like majority of top 50 games here.

I don't get comparison with *that* game either - you get sexual tasks on your phones you need to complete on your phone, so what? What else would you use, anonymous paper mail? Secret society is more mythological illuminati vibes this time around. And they target specific people (seems to do something with lineage) and make their life difficult before swooping in offering a way out to get them on the hook(this particular time around it was money offered to debt-ridden guy)


Renders are good, most models aren't easily recognizable from usual DAZ assets(including MC). Lots of animations/cutscenes (not all of them are good or needed, but it's a plus for trying), and they are major contributing factor to size. Writing didn't leave me smiling or awed, but it's servicable , didn't have any snags with it at least. Sex scene writing is lacking(often the case with animation-heavy games), so they may leave you cold despite pretty models and angles.

Overall, this could go places. I'm tempted to give this 5 to offset harsh reviews, but will stay unbiased and dock a point for one thing i noticed: choice inconsistency.
Not all choices are properly tracked, and script can refer to events in railroaded "canon choice" way. I can understand it with money tasks, but not smaller private stuff like peeping (unless someone catching you in the act or knowing about it in some other way is demonstrated).

Nevertheless, this is pretty fixable thing, just a case of going over the script and doing some conditional scene branching, so I'll still be glad to see this game in finished form and can recommend it if you liked what you saw on screenshots.

Edit: alright, one episode since my review and it's already ending, with a slight teaser of the next game(though plot in it is already looking to be way more boring besides the struggle with anti-Game people). Game was kinetic novel with meaningless choices, but suddenly in the last episode or 2 some choices become mutually exclusive, even it doesn't make sense to make them so.

For example, you get time to help out NIcole with her boss and still go save Becky from kidnapper with nothing changing with her situation at all if you would've gone straight to her. Example of old kinetic choice. But just the day after you can only pick one girl to hangout with in your family. That is obviously done to branch endings variations, but with how they are implemented, I can't be bothered to find them all(because It's hard to know which choices are kinetic and which are exclusive branching) .

Exclusivity also feels artificial, which can be very glaring at times. Like in scene with Diane, if you are honest all the way, she is okay with sharing with Becky, but later on you are still sneaking around with her and girls don't have interaction with each other. No harem or threesome stuff. MC is just being made sneaky fuckboi for no reason.

All in all, still good game, with nice renders, characters, and animations, but it suffers from it's inconsistent story board and rush to put a [Completed] bow on it.

Overused trope of a young guy with a giant dick who lives with a horny milf and two younger women. There are some great games that use that premise, this just isn't one of them.

Renders are surprisingly average given the mammoth file size. The story is bland and annoying. I don't want to name other games in this review, so I'll just say the edgy contract seems to rip off ideas from other games on this site.

Sex scenes are boring and unimaginative. I found myself rejecting sex from the random side-sluts just to get through the game quicker.

BTW, why is Tom Holland the main character?

The story isnt amazing or anything but it's decent enough and enjoyable. One complaint I seen was people thought the MC is a loser or weak. Well I dont see it because if you follow the story you would know he has some real fear on why he is doing everything the cult says.

My real only complaint is the lewds comes way to easy for my taste. But it also makes sense because this game is more about the story rather than building a relationship. Which kind of hurts the game's experience for me as I never felt like you get to know any of the girls that well and some like the ex GF are just forgotten.

All the girls are pretty in this one which was part of the reason I wanted to give it a try. But the animations are some of the best ive seen in an AVN.

I say if you are going to play this go in expecting just something fun and semi serious. As it does have serious elements to the story but most of the time it just makes for fun scenes. So dont expect anything amazing but something that is just fun to be along the ride for.

The current game content does not justify 10Gb download. The charcters are poorly posed, they look like broken mannequins. There are 6 episodes so far and 2 main characters, and a main/side character that is a sex release character that's connected to the main plot and one of the main characters.
With the other characters you get nothing, pretty much
then you have the usual "harem" of side characters or less important characters that can give you very easy to get sex like its "hello, lets fuck" and those don't need any challenges involved, or booze, or anything really. Their events will have a beginning and a meaninful continuation and "satsifactory" ending, as oppsed to the main characters, specially Becky that will have events cut for whatever reason. The first time she faints, the second time during the movie night she leaves and when she returns the mc leaves. the third time there is one of the options that interrupts the event, which happens if you face her when she is doing stuff. The plot won't allow you to face her at this point in the plot, and she will run and the thing will never be spoken again. If you dont face her, the result is the same, she will go missing, the thing will not be mentioned again until plot says so.
But as I said there is sex with pretty much every side character at some point, so that is not lacking. But sex scenes are not good and as I said, at least 2 girls have the same face, and every girl pretty much have the same body, and they are not well posed, poses are not natural.

the story is 90% illusion of choice cause I dont think there is enough work to integrate the choices made into the dialogues. The booze party for instance, you have the option to reject Lara, but even if you do, after that night the thing will be mentioned as if something actually happened.

The thing has a lot of flaws, it didn't move me at all cause visually there is nothing to enjoy and there is no anticipation, mostly stalling main characters and filler sex.
I can not recommend it in november 2023, maybe november 2025