VN - Ren'Py - Casual Desires [v0.20] [ionDivvy]

TLDR: 2 stars due to gangbangs and DP, otherwise it would have been just 1. Unlikable MC. She corrupts and dominates the men around her, instead of being corrupted. MC and other girls look weird. Terrible story. Must play as other characters. No animations. But gangbangs and DPs are hot.

Positives:

• MC loses her anal virginity in a DP. Same thing with another girl. Nice.
• a2m. First time Violet gets shared, she sucks a dick straight out of another girl's ass. (But it's not highlighted with dialogue.)
• Can choose that MC is a virgin. (But she still acts like a slut from the start, no real corruption process.)
• Exhibitionism. A significant element of the game.
• MC losing her virginity in a MMF threesome. Alternatively, MC losing her virginity to one of several strangers she doesn't even know the name of.
• Another girl (not MC) gets convinced by her BF to be shared, DPed, gangbanged. Very hot.
• Good dirty talk in a few scenes (but not most).

Negatives:

• Poor story, plot holes, mostly boring. Lots of forgettable slice-of-life, pointless conversations.
• MC is really unlikable. Arrogant, into herself, bragging about her body and how easily she can manipulate men.
• Always MC aggressively corrupting men, not MC being corrupted. She throws herself at the guys, starts performing some sex act, and the guys are all hesitant, nervous, "uhm, wait, what are you doing? But, ah, are you sure this is OK though?"
• MC is slutty from the start. MC just goes up to random guy in an alley and puts his hand on her breast or gives a BJ. Or gets naked in public in front of other stranger, without even talking to the guy. Wtf?
• Must watch other people have sex without MC.
• Every time MC swallows cum the guys are like "but, uhm, are you sure you're OK? I didn't ask for that?!"
• Weird-looking girls. Their faces are some mix between realistic and anime. Mouth and nose too small, eyes too large and far apart, strangely shaped head. Especially MC.
• The characters are especially unsettling since only some are weird anime-looking but others look like normal humans. Mismatch.
• No animations.
• No option for straight-only mode, just for lesbian-only. Game constantly pushes lesbianism. Even when you keep refusing, you're still put in those situations over and over, flirting, getting propositioned by girls. MC's thoughts are always about being interested in girls despite my choices.
• Text is far too verbose. So much unnecessary dialogue & inner monologue.
• Choices don't feel impactful, seems like mostly just sex or no sex. Or slight changes to dialogue.
• Must play as other characters often. Weird. Breaks immersion. And not at all in line with the game's description which only talks about "the protagonist" and how the game only tracks stats for MC.
• Consequences of choices are very unclear.
• Forced footjobs.
• Bugs. Some dialogue is wrong depending on your choices.
• Renders don't match the text. E.g. guy talking about his fingers slipping into MC's pussy but renders show he's fingers are outside.
• The 6 main LIs consists of 4 girls, 2 guys. And the guys basically count as 1 LI because everything is done together with both.
• There's no "love" with the male LIs anyway. It's just MC making fun of the guys, fucking them, then leaving.
• Bugs. Wrong renders shown. E.g. chose spa with men but some of the renders are for the lesbian path instead.
• MC pays for a guy to fuck her.

Scenes with MC. Dreams don't count. DPs also count for both vaginal and anal.

• Vaginal: 14
• Anal: 6
• DP: 4
• Gangbang: 1

Scenes without MC.

• Vaginal: 11 (Violet: 9. Sophia: 1. Luna: 1.)
• Anal: 4 (Sophia: 1. Violet: 3.)
• DP: 3 (Violet: 3)
• Gangbang: 2 (Violet: 2)

(Version played: 0.20)

Was unsure whether to give 3 or 4 stars. When being asked one year ago, when this was one of my first novels, it would have been 4 stars. In the meantime I know, there is some other kind of quality and way of doing novels out there. But it is a very nice story, you can influence in a ladies version or male version for the partners of the female MC and it is nice to follow. So a novel for beginners - like it was for me. For pro's, it is probably too less

Art - 3/5
Story - 5/5
Writing - 4/5
Gameplay - VN
Characters - 5/5
Porn - 5/5

While the characters have some attractive features other parts of their Anatomy really do not hold up during scenes, but that is really my only complaint about the game. The story is a slice of life style, which isn't for everyone, but it is well done and the dialogue is pretty good. The sex scenes are some of the best I have seen minus my complaint about some of the anatomy.

This game is not about intriguing story or philosophical issues about our soceity.If you want that check another game. But if you want ta masturbate to pixel on your screen you are on the right spot.

We follow a girl and her friends having casual sex without worry. Thats it. And it's good at it.

It doesn't have meaningless grind and time consuming, boring minigames.
Another one of the plus side of it is, it's not like the other female protag games where fmc goes from pure, innocent girl to drug sniffing, condescending rotten person. She is horny and she has sex with people around her and it's hot.

I loved the creator's other game, Rebel Duet, so my expectations were high. This one's not bad, but it's definitely a whole lotta shoujo vibes. Think girly conversations, daily life stuff, and the FMC's thoughts and reactions. If you're not into that super cutesy romance stuff, you'll probably be bored out of your mind.

Don't expect any crazy plot twists or action here, it's pure slice-of-life. The NSFW content is definitely there, but it's a slow burn. It starts with touching and gradually builds up to more. Like, you won't see the really good stuff until way later in the game. So yeah, if you're down for a slow burn romance with lots of shoujo vibes, go for it.

Surely, leaving excessively shitty comments makes Divvy much more likely to update CD. Surely.

I'm disappointed and annoyed too. I like CD, don't care for RD at all, and there were broken promises. Still, I'm only disappointed because it was good in the first place. I'm hoping for more and hoping people to grow some grace and patience.
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Edit: I stand by what I said, but there's been several more promises needlessly broken since my review. So, I'm dropping it my rating to match where it's been abandoned at rather than what it was shaping up to be.

Nice character models, but honestly there is hardly any storyline and the whole setup is typical to that to those seen in porn.

There's no real character development and dialogue exists simply to lead players to the next sex scene.

I'm surprised this comes from the same developer as that of Rebel Duet. The latter has a far more enriching story.

This game is competently made and contains most of the correct ingredients for success but it fails hard in the writing department.

This game annoys me because I should love it but I finally figured out why I don't like it at this time (v0.19b) ...

The Writing is BLAND - DULL - UNINSPIRED and just plain BORING. I think the Dev figured it out as when I played it the first thing it does is offer to skip to ACT 2. I try to be fair and started in ACT 1 and worked my way through it. THE VN has NO Tension, NO Drama, NO Excitement, what is the MC's motivation? Fucked if I know.

The Renders are good but desperately need some animations. Either add animations or the renders need to be upgraded to show some more emotions.

I keep waffling between 2-3 stars but I reserve 2 stars for Bad games this game may be even worse as it is just BORING. I'm going to be generous and give this title 3 stars as the ingredients are all here but the writing has no idea where to go with this story.

I know this is a beta but it did not feel like the player has much choice other than to fuck or not. The player cannot choose the destination, clothes, or really very much but when to bang. It feels more like a comic with no agency to the player.

The game has started with a good idea in mind: give you a female protagonist and let you make her grow into any kind of person you want.

But the implementation is just not good. Writing is bland. Characters are bland. Sex scenes are short and bland. Story is... mostly absent.

Overall, disappointing.

I'm willing to give this game credit for its sleek character models, but that's about where the good ends.

I've tried this game multiple times now over the past year or so, and if you're looking for a game where a girl just wants to expose herself and act slutty with no real motivation, by all means go ahead, but if you're looking for character development, corruption, or player choice, give this a hard pass.

This game isn't a good corruption novel purely because there's no motivation involved in any of the activities, they're very spontaneous and the MC is pretty much a braindead slut by choice from the getgo. It's honestly halarious in that respect because the game lets you decide whether she's a virgin or not in the beginning, when this has effectively zero impact on her ability or willingness to strip for just about anyone she sees.

Player choice is...I don't want to say it's nonexistant, because you can at times decline or approve certain things but...I'll put it this way: The very first choice in the game is one that goes ahead with what it wants regardless of your selection. If that sounds like it's setting a poor tone, it's because it is and it delivers on that. Railroading is very common, you play how the game wants or you don't play at all.

This game features an optional "Lesbian Mode" in the settings. This does about what you'd expect, it automatically declines optional scenes involving males (take care to pay attention to that wording here), but it also genderswaps a few sidecharacters from male to female. Now about that wording, I say it that way because while the explicit scenes are generally optional, there are many scenes involving the MC being ogled or pretty exposed with males that are not optional (see player choice) and are not removed in "Lesbian Mode". It makes a very poor lesbian game for this reason.

To wrap up, I want to give examples of two of my attempts at playing this game:

- The first time I touched this, nearly a year ago if not more, I was looking for corruption games and saw this recommended. I was suitably unimpressed given the lack of corruption or really any sort of character development. You go in and the MC is like "Damn gonna ask this random dude if he wants to touch my titties." and that's just the entire game.

- The attempt before writing this review, where I wanted to try doing a "Lesbian Mode" playthrough and see if I could do a wholesome lesbian relationship with the Japanese girl who's into the MC. I'm writing a two star review so take your guess at how that went. Put some clothes on girl, please.

Overall, I cannot deny that the characters are visually appealing, and I'm sure there's an audience for what this game is. Personally, however, I'm extremely disappointed when considering how engaging it could be.

+ Felix, cute cat
+ relaxing music
+ MMF/MMFF/DP/gangbang scenes (best thing in this game)
+ Rita can be in relationship with 2 guys. That thing it's so fucking rare, and i never seen something like that before in any FMC i played

- no animations
- straight route is poorly done compared to lesbian
- guys in this game are pathetic wimps, no assertive types and most of girls despise them
- story is pretty boring
- sex scenes are not so good - short & bad written ( especially straight ones, Rita also rarely cum in them)
- game is mostly focused on interactions between girls, they are also boring as hell

Im only here for good straight content, and it's unfortunately disappointing. I like the idea where Rita can be with 2 guys.. anyway, game is much worse than dev second project. 2 stars from me

Played on .18b

+ Renders are fine
+ Broad variety of content

--- Poor writing
- Weird looking characters
- Overambitious

Comment: I've been holding off on reviewing this game for a bit but I guess with the same issues coming up over and over again it's not going to change. The narrative and dialogue is the big fall for this game, because of faulty logic and strange and often random thought patterns it comes off as clumsy and amateurish.

The game lacks any substantial erotic writing as well, we get some half-baked description of what is going on then some stale porn line, once you've clicked 3-4 times the scene is over. And I'm not saying the renders are bad but when it's the only thing that holds up the game it's just a hollow experience. I've played some games that looks like it was drawn with crayons and still manages to come out better just by having good writing alone.

What a good story about this naughty girl ;-) She is very curious about sex and test all what is possible and they like. She is very seductive and it is heavy to say no to her.i dont think they get depravity , i think they is a free mind and try many things for her pleasure and maybye the find then a love relationship with on or more girls.i will see.

The game is definitely well put together. There are not many games that you want to replay, but this one goes right to that category. The main character has her kinks but is still an adorable throughout the game (as of v0.17). Same goes for secondary protagonists girls.
What in my opinion may be improved is the sexy scenes variation based on previous choices / stats.
Most of the choices now means just either to show or to skip the entire scene. It is too unrealistic if a player choose a middle ground with choices and at one point a virgin that only teased some friends sudennly grabs a complete stranger and blows him right away or goes all-in with some delivery guy. At least additional "abort action" choice may be implemented into current script without much rework.
Other than that, wery fun project to play no mater what route player chose.

PS. As of v0.17 there is lack of animations in the game, but knowing that it is a one man project, I would rather chose good story and pleasant renders over animated scene that take the same time to create.

Casual Desires [v0.17]

Pros:
Great Renders
Great Character Models
Many kinks
nice premise
lots of content
additional Lesbian only mode
Sex Scenes are decent


Cons:
Lack of Animations
Characters lack personalities
Story lacks substance
Dialogues feel boring

Conclusion:
I do like the Game. I love the model choice. They all look very attractive, cute, unique and are not the the same lame-ass models you see in every other game. The same goes for the renders that look great.
But it all kinda goes down from here. You can choose how much sexual experience she has at the beginning of the game, which is a great idea.
But I don´t feel like the choice really influences the story and you don´t see much build-up from her being a virgin to becoming a slut.
She can tease men at the beginning which evolves to handjobs, blowjobs, vaginal and anal, but the story lacks substance on that front and the corruption is so brief. You don´t see her getting introduced to her sexual kinks and interests and the story doesn´t feel impactful because of it.
The Scenes look decent, but so much potential got wasted because there are no animations.
I understand that it takes much time to create animations but the lack of them hurts the game and the immersion.
That being said I do like the game, but it´s a shame that it has these problems or it would’ve been one of the best games on this site.

The story is boring. I can choose if she is a virgin or not from the beginning but that doesn't seem to help her. The first five chapters and she only gives blowjobs. The art and characters are not stimulating. I'll give it a two star boner rating. Needs work to make it erotic.

Great game...a lot of action and great atmosphere. The music, graphics and sound effects are all top-notch. I've been playing for hours and still haven't finished the main story! Highly recommend this one! 10/10 would play again!

Since i was playing the lesbian only route i guessed this game would have only few scenes to play but i was surprised to find that it had a lot of lesbian scenes along with few kinks.But the only shortcoming was that each scenes were somewhat short, it would have been great if they were a little longer.

This game slogs too often for my tastes, but I don't entirely hate it.

Casual Desires gives a lot of time to monologue and mundane activities. You'll be forced to listen to the main character's inner thoughts and feelings on her new boss, her new job, her new friend, how a recent event made her feel--including jokes that occur only within her head, and more. Additionally, you'll watch the main character do a lot of things that don't contribute to the plot, build intrigue, or otherwise reward the reader for reading them.

I really wish the author would've chosen to show the protagonist's feelings towards things through reluctance/reactions, rather than tell us through ten lines of inner deliberation for every emotion and thought. I also wish the author would've focused more on the protagonist's most interesting days and not inserted so much filler.

However, if you have either the patience of a stone or you enable Skip Unread Messages, you will discover a fairly entertaining game. There are a lot of love triangles and some corruption elements that will appeal to many.