The models are excellent and the writing is extremely dumb but comedic in a way that I can appreciate, but those are really the only qualities that recommend this game, in my opinion. It's unbelievably repetitive and grindy, to the point where cheating or editing your saves doesn't begin to make it approach a reasonable level of grind. And then once you do unlock animations, they're almost never worth all the effort because they're just slow, simple one-thrust loops. Definitely a shame because some of the characters truly are hot.
VN - Others - Chloe 18 Fake Family [v0.69.2.01] [GDS]
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prov2
I don't understand this game.
I've tried multiple times over the years to look for what people find appealing about it. I imagine it's the renders because some are pretty good and I'm into petite girls as much as anyone, but the game surrounding it is beyond saving, and the updates over time have shown the dev(s) have no desire to fix the fundamentally broken design.
I gave it a 2 rather than a 1 because clearly there's a lot of effort here, but that effort is buried in nonsense. The pacing, the mechanics, the dialogue. It's like a fever dream of an alien who learned game design (and English) by playing only bad porn games. Other games in the series are equally terrible but this one for some reason is put on a pedestal.
How it is permanently on the trending page is beyond me. I don't understand its high rating or popularity. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Pros:
- The renders are good I guess, same problems as usual with the engine (uncanny faces)
Cons:
- Dialogue often illegible and along with the plot is utter nonsense
- The UI is sloppy and ugly
- Gameplay is grindy with very little early sexual payoff or motivation
- Progression is locked behind guessing wtf is happening on the screen or in the game at all
If you're into it, all the power to you, but this is just a massive shrug. -
Jaga Telesin
At first glance Chloe 18 Fake Family looked fun, original, and had enough uniqueness to keep me interested for an hour or two. Unfortunately that came tumbling down when I realized how much of a grind it was. Once you reach the point where you can play Chloe as a second MC, the enormity of that grind made itself apparent.
Games are usually made to entertain, and/or to challenge. This one does neither well, as after 6-7 hours it felt more like work, and the repetition and required tasks just drove me to press quit out of disgust.
It looks good enough, animations are passable (though not great). Some mechanics are useful and immersive. But it just tries too damn hard to stretch what should be ~20-30 hours of content out over 50 or even 100+. If a game requires a walkthrough or tips to get players unstuck, or solve their confusion, then it wasn't made properly. If a game is more work than entertainment, it wasn't made properly. If you're seeing the same screens dozens or hundreds of times in one sitting, it wasn't made properly.
Triple the progression speed in the game and it might be enjoyable again (especially for things like Chloe earning money). Add in more clear direction (or hints) for parts of the game that are downright obscure now (missing tooltips everywhere is just one of those oversights), and it might be far less confusing.
At this stage, I'd rather re-play any of a dozen other AVNs that I've already enjoyed than try and finish Fake Family. Sad to have to say it, as I had high expectations after my first hour in the game. It just turned out to be a job more than a game.
Entertainment shouldn't need a cheat sheet, a manual, or enormous amounts of patience to work through. -
Donjoe81
Chloe 18 Fake Family [v0.69.2.01] [GDS]
Pros:
Decent Character Models
Cons:
Boring Story
Very Grindy
Terrible UI
Dull Sex Scenes
Lag
Game Engine
I remember that I´ve played the chloe games years ago and revisited them recently, and ohh boy are they rough. You can´t say it aged terribly, because even back then it would´ve looked way too overcrowded with it´s bad user interface which is one of many problems in the Chloe series.
Probably the biggest problem is the grind, which is really tedious and sucks the fun out of this game. This is an issue you´ll see in many sandbox games and it´s just not worth the time to work through a boring story just to watch some lame scenes. Less is more would´ve been a much better path than spamming the game full of grind. Another thing that just boggles my mind is the game engine choice. The Chloe games can be very laggy, but there is nothing that couldn´t been done in Renpy really, and it would´ve run much better than Godot.
This game did nothing out of the potential it had and is just not worth the time. -
Gokkun Fan
Great game. Very interesting approach to the game, playing as a guy. Though you can of course also play as Chloe. I really like this intention.
A large dose of humor, great scenes, graphics - all this makes this game unique. -
88Michele88
2 stars I usually don't rewried games with male protagonist but I like Chloe as the only True Protagonist in this game. Without Chloe this game never ever existed. The male protagonist whetewere is name is, is tooo blank with no personality. Becouse in Chloe18 the first game when I tryed been a slut with him he didin't loocked at Chloe and never been an jerk molester for what I remeber never took advantage of girls seduction. But in this game he act like a prick every single seconds.
The choise here are clearly fake with no chance to keep his hand to himself and go straigt to next scene. He just need to fuck as much as possibile. In addiction if my memory don't put me in wrong he never acted as pervert befor. All choise to take another time don't count and they ain't selectable as action on Male MC. It kinda weird I don't find myself into him nor can't be act as gentleman.
As I heard her Female MC Chloe is playble only if you unlocked her. For me is an turn off. Why can't it be choose you gender insteed of forcefull Male MC with Female MC ulocuekd later on kind of game? Why can't it be more like these game where we can pick whitch we can play from? It really bad thing to put it in this way. It too stressfull to ulnlock Female MC aka Chloe to play with. Really unpleasant time with Male MC. I don't even know how to save the game, I can't even find out how to save.
Pros:
1) Chole is the true Main MC (I wish the dev make a gendre selector for thos who love Chloe as only one playble) my onest opnion
2) the grils are hot
Good:
1)The girls are stunning and an turn on
Bad:
1) Male MC it bad and blunk no prsonality at all (It too blank fro the other Chloe18's games)
2) Choise are almost all fake if you wanna act as jentlmane and wait for another time to fuck the girl there no way you can wait. All choice I can't even click if I want him to act as gentlman there no way I can do that. All choise are fake exept fuck the girl to advance trought the story (Sex scene are forcefull) and wait for another time there are in but not selectable (unplayble) -
Mare
The game is way way overrated. Horrible coding. Laggy & glitchy. Too much clicking of useless menus. Story is poor. Progression is so grindy and terrible(you wont know how or where is what). Only good thing are the interactive h scene menus. And somewhat decent animations. Overall would be rated much higher if it was coded & constructed properly. -
GameleaksStudio
My favorite game so far. It has a very engaging story, a very good soundtrack, the graphics have become better and better with each game. The halloween bonus is a lot of fun and the MC's encounters with the girls in the car give a feeling of immersion in the story.
And to finish, but not least, the photos of the girl that appear are incredible. -
taglag
My Thoughts:
I like the game because it is more of [GDS], and I enjoy there slap stick way of popping from one naughty animation to another, along with there move around the screen text during the animations.
The school setting reminding me of my Teen years in High school, and also my poor attempts to be the center of attention.
The starting male protagonist:
A 26 year old loser pretending to be a teenager in a home that he has no real relationship too, and pounding all the chicks in town. (I have to agree what's not to like about that. A pimple faced 13 year old in the basement on the net in his underwear would be in heaven.)
The animation scenes and events during the game are enjoyable to watch, and it is a lot of fun.
I personally <<< that is (Me myself and I) Or my Thoughts
Would rather the game had revolved around Chloe as I just got really use to her, because all the other Chloe18 games had her or a female as mostly the Main character so playing her seemed more constant or better somehow.
These games and the writing and dialogue have been orchestrated and over time personified to be for Chloe the almost pretty, nearly cute tean girl who Loves to fuck, but tries not to seem that way Slut! Who is perhaps the Anti "Life is strange" character. With a really kinky and likable, but also dis-likable behavior.
It is probably the difference one see's between players who like "Tomb raider" or The knock off "Uncharted" Both are actually good, (I personally again am pro Tomb raider though).
(Remember I said I Personally)
Eventually
you do finally get the opportunity to play as Chloe in this game but it is late in the game, and she feels like a very tacked on character with most of the events that she can do just copied and pasted into this game from "Chloe18 Back to Class, and others games of the series".
Game Play:
I think it has been improved on, I still get lost trying to understand the interface early in my game play, but get a grasp of it pretty quickly as I just click and hope until I understand it better.
I never found a volume control, and had to resort to my Win 10 slider.
Alt Plus Enter got me to and from full screen or Window mode with no problems.
Saving is similar to Back to Class with "Continue game will autosave" or "-Save Game-" Option's on waking in the morning. Three save slots and one Auto save Slot.
The male character has a car instead of a Motor scooter. Need to keep gas for it, and that can be a little tough at times depending on where you are trying to get too.
Over all My Thinking:
A Fun game, especially for those that enjoy playing a geeky Male character which lost me mostly because of his age, and the pretend to be a teenager stuff when he was not.
It made for a story that could use him to help Chloe, but just did not feel right to me.
( Just to alien to the other games in the series, Might have been better to just remove it from Chloe completely and make it evolve in another universe).
But I doubt the character could carry himself alone with out the Chloe background and Chloe story line so I guess this was the only way to insert a male Main character.
It is all good fun more than worth playing, and I enjoyed it, and am looking forward to a beefed up Chloe presents in the game over time if GDS has not lost desire to continue it as has happened in there other games of the series. ( The -Read GDS Infrerno- stuff before bedtime is pretty neat and gives chloe a new look.) I do not remember it in any other chloe18 Game.
Once it has truly reached a finished game "Complete state" Something I have actually never seen in a GDS game they seem to always Alfred Hitchcock suspend the ending in there games, and just move on to another project.
I may improve my rating when that happens.