VN - Ren'Py - Completed - City of Broken Dreamers [v1.15.0 Ch. 15] [PhillyGames]

This is seriously one of the best games I have ever played might be even the best. The story is connected together to the best level. And the choices here impact the game strongly not just a slight branch that gets into the same line again. And the characters are good and so damn well chosen for their task in the game. This game is truly a masterpiece and the best VN I have ever played.

I will start off by saying that this game is like something straight out of a movie lasting more than a day's worth of gameplay. Amazing plot line that is filled with twists and turns, without getting boring but attracts you into the story even more. The animations are pretty good and same goes for details (shading, character design) / renderings. However, I feel that the design of the MC is bland, (bald, no face reveal, etc). The endings are also I feel a bit too short, could be maybe expanded on a bit more with each character or the lone wolf path as well. Despite the small cons, I believe this game is completely deserved a high rating and worth the try.

Thank you for an unbelievably wild ride Philly! I loved every moment of the game from start to finish! Sad to see it end but.... wow! Desert island pick for sure. Thanks again for your incredible work and all the best going forward.

The ambience, music, renders and animations are high quality/well fitting.
It's a shame the writing went downhill during the second part of the story, it feels like the LIs lost their personalities and a lot of sex scenes were there just to fill the "lewd quota".
The lack of closure in the end was also a bit disappointing...
An honest rating would be something like:
Graphics, ambience and music: 5/5
Writing: 3/5.
All in all, it's a really good AVN, well above average.

The graphic, animations and renders are one of the best I've seen.
Also, good UI and music - I would rate it 5 stars easily.
But, the story-line bored me so much that I haven't even finish the game.
so I'll give it 1/5 for the story, and 5/5 for the rest.

Triple A game quality: came for the wank, stayed for the story. Not to mention the renders, music, UI are all great. Only weak spot is the "find the secret" mechanic, because there's no logic to where hotspot is hidden.

This is the standard all VNs should aim for, especially if they have been in development longer. Heck, please wanna devs should follow this one to learn how it's done

I absolutly love sex scenes in this game, how variable they are, how hot dialogs, renders, animations etc.
But story is so pretentious with boring lust/love minmaxing again, that I don't want to play the game.
Also only Katie was somewhat intresting from all love interests, everyone else just bitches in heat.

So up until update 7/8 this was my favorite game on this site. No competition, the plot, writing, cyberpunk setting, music, ambience, characters, all as perfect as the limited resources and constraints of porn genre allow. Easy 5 stars.

However later, it started going downhill. The quality of writing dropped, we moved away from the typical cyberpunk things and settings that build atmosphere in my opinion, plus philly started pushing multiple side characters, dedicating less scenes to the main cast. I remember staying up late at night to play the first 8 chapters and later on that passion completely evaporated. The whole story frankly got less and less interesting towards the end.

Now, let's talk about Chandra. She was a side girl, eleveted to the LI position due to being fan favorite, and she didn't get an ending, not even a real path. And he knows full well how many people love her. She is the mascot of the game, she is in his ads, his steam page, she is the only girl from the game in his steam ad of the game. That's bc Philly knows Chandy screams Cyberpunk with her looks. You see her and instantly think of clubs, neon streets and cyberpunk as a whole. She is the most cyberpunk girl in this game. She is like JOI in Blade Runner 2049. There is no other way to look at it other than that he's using her as bait but refused to give her a proper path and ending bc he doesn't like her that much or he was rushing.

Moving on to endings, it sure does seem like they were rushed. They were really not great and not conclusive. Compare that to the excellent endings of depraved awakening, and see the difference. Let's compare Chandy and christina from DA, who play similar roles. We meet them both as slutty brats, we learn there is more to them, they end up helping us... And christina gets an excellent ending, where not only do we see what became of our relationship, but that she wrote a book and set her life straight. Meanwhile Chandy has no such complete character arc. Other endings were also not up to par. Overall I would rate this as 3 stars, but the excellent start warrants at least 4 stars.
Hoping for the dlc but I'm not holding my breath.

The first third of the game ( 1 - 5 chapters ) is excellent and quite enjoyable.

The second third of the story, however, starts to drift towards pure fanservice, slowly but steadily.

The last third was the death of it as a decent read, and an utter degradation to the level of being a mere fuck-gallery.


The ENDINGS. Is a fucking joke, nothing much to say here.

Also, for this one-liner ending for the woman, which I personally consider to be The BEST due to her connection with the MC, her mental state after all the drama in Caracas, and her potential for growth, development and transformation, which your incompetent ass couldn't deliver — get fucked, Philly.

The visual quality only improves towards the end, I also like environment and cinematics. Mostly.
2 Pegged Phillys out of 5.

City of Broken Dreamers has me conflicted on how to give it a final rating. Ultimately I think it ends up a 3.5 for me, based on all available factors.

++ Game starts out with a very strong story
+ Some interesting characters with good body types are introduced slowly
++ High quality still renders with a lot of varying backdrops
+ Some good animations, some bad animations - almost makes it an indifferent addition to the game
++ Sex scene position choices were varied, and involved some kinks occasionally
+ Music, but no sounds other than gunfire/explosions (no sex scene sounds)

-- Story that started strong, gets weaker as the game progresses
--- The ending of the story felt rushed, weak, and highly unfulfilling
-- Wrap-up of different character arcs was similarly rushed, and unrewarding
- Sex scene animations were meh compared to a lot of other games, with rough edges and mechanical animations for some of them. Camera angles were sometimes less than good. Overall, just not fulfilling, and usually too short.
---- Sex scene writing was atrocious. The author needs to play a bunch of other AVNs to learn how to get the viewer engaged in the moment and hot 'n bothered by what they are viewing.
----- No love interest choices for some of the hottest girls in the game (Chandra/Abby) as far as endings go. Even though they were "side characters", they should have been viable as a choice for the MC to end the game with. It is an utter travesty they were not available in that regard, and shows the developer wasn't really in tune with the fans.

CoBD had the potential to be one of the all-time greats, but it just didn't deliver for the last 4-5 chapters. It felt rushed, unfinished, and like it pidgeon-holed the player at the end. That is perhaps due to how strong it started out.. it just ran out of steam halfway through.

I wondered what score to give and it's tough because there's so many aspects of the game that are 5/5 for me, but some are not there, especially the endings. It's kind a subjective, arbitrary number. It's maybe 4.5 or so, it is really awesome and I'm glad I played it, just there's some criticism.

Don't read if you mind spoilers.

I liked the world. It's different from the usual 'horny boy goes to college' type of cliches most stories seem to follow. I don't necessarily like grim stories and this world is certainly not a happy place (although we see a small section of it only; for all I know there could be billions of people living ok). However it's depicted pretty well, a shitty world that feels kind of a likely outcome seeing the direction today's politics and quasi-monopolistic corporations are heading towards. Still there's regular people that are not without faults, but somewhere on the scale, but certainly neither absolute evil or good for the most part, itás just in this setting you do what you need to survive so it's even harder to find the line morally where you can still feel ok with your choices.

I really liked the characters and their backstories. I felt the whole story was somehow too short (as timespan at least) and indeed there was perhaps not enough character development due to this, but the way things unfolded for the main characters and how we got to know them was pretty good. I would have enjoyed to stay more with the 'full' versions of these characters.
My favourite was Victoria, character's story was quite believable to me - being raised and trained by Baynard, and not being in on the most confidential projects it's easy to see how one can not really be aware of other perspectives and hins happening.
Gloria was not my first choice but it was cool khm, teaching her a bit and getting friendly, she's not a clueless little girl she's a young woman and that's great.
Katie seemed very similar to Gloria, that much naivity was a bit weird to me but if she represents hope for the society then be it, she carried that well.
Ellen was probably one of the characters that were closer to me, realistic and wearing a mask that must be normal in that kind of society but very sweet and 'everyday person' with 2 feet on the ground in a good sense of the word.
Not my type, but Sonja was pretty cool, physically strong women with a 'soft' (feminine) side can be very sexy, the guilt she carried and MC's guilt over allowing her to do that was pretty strong and could have used a bit more dialogue; resolution was too quick on that, would have enjoyed some private moments getting in detail and clearing up all that once and for all.
I didn't really connect with Chandra even tho her character was sweet and fun.
Who I'm sorry not to see more is in fact Abby, wow that woman, very balanced; a bit of mystery, smart, quite pragmatic but not cynical and resigned at all. Tough cookie that remained very sensitive. I know story wise irrelevant, but I found her very pretty, expressive face, maybe it's all in my head
Sasha was also a great side character, very fun and hot woman. A perfect partner in this kind of world.
Shanlon and Teri were fun as well. Not into that kind of thing but as a fantasy the rough sex scenes were very hot.
Hell I would have even liked to give Meredith a good spanking if I had the chance.
Venus was an intriguing character, there were some hints into why is she so self aware compared to othe bots, could almost see her as a main character if the story had more time, it's a pity we didn't have that. Dream wife, huh.

I only did Victoria ending. Seemed rushed. Considering how she lived her entire life without love and trust I would have hoped for some more romantic / cuddly scenes, something to show that there is a path of a lot of gentleness and regularly expressed affection that could get here to open up and relax and experience a relationship the way it should be, down the line. Reclaim her humanity and find what is her personality inbetween the original person, augmentation, training, previous life experiences and the newfound, radically different kind of life she leads. Some hope through short and lonmg term plans that would suggest it's all possible.

I plan to look into the other endings as well, but overall I find the ending was kinda cut short and didn't do the rest of the story justice.

Scenes and animations are pretty amazing, I don't care about the actual sexual act animations but the 'entrance' (walk ins, or top to bottom, bottom to top looks at the ladies) are absolutely gorgeus!

I think it's a good story everyone should pick up. Don't expect perfection but it's good.

It's been over four years since I first launched this game, and it has truly evolved in remarkable ways. There's something indescribable about it that captivates you from the start. The writing, animations, story, and soundtrack are all flawless. Personally, I chose Gloria's route and never once doubted my decision, it felt incredibly natural for both me and the main character.

Towards the end of the game, I couldn't shake a slight sense of emptiness, feeling like there could have been more to the conclusion. Nevertheless, thanks to Philly, this game stands as one of the closest to "perfection" in its genre. There's a bittersweet feeling that it's over, but as they say, all good things must come to an end.

To anyone reading this review who hasn't experienced this masterpiece yet, do yourselves a favor and savor every moment of it.

5/5

Renders are great, story is fantastic, love the characters. I'm here to read great stories, with adult themes and content. This one is one of the best. The doctor is a sweetheart and my favourite, but all the LIs are wonderful in their own ways. I don't have any negatives of the game, I just enjoyed it.

Amazing game, very nice story, plenty of intrigue, a complicated protagonist and beautiful models. Big fan, what can I say, I will be following this author very closely. What else can you ask for in a VN?

The game already has hundreds of reviews so I doubt there's much I can say that hasn't already been said so I'll keep it brief. This is arguably the best looking game on the entire site, its premise and characters set it a part from the default thousands of 'not-cest' games that seem to get churned out with no end . I think this is the best 3D game on the entire site

With the game now completed, I think it's time to finally review it.

In general, this is one of the best AVN's out there. It has plenty of issues, but it is objectively a high-quality indie AVN. It has plenty of varied and interesting content and the renders are consistently decent, with later chapters bringing this level up quite a bit. The story and dialogue is competently executed, although a bit cookie-cutter at times. All in all, this game firmly cements itself as one of the best games on this website.

So why did I give it 4 stars rather than 5?

Frankly, the 2nd half of the game did not live up to the promises the first half made. The first half set up a bunch of characters, an interesting plot and was paced very well. The sex scenes were appropriately placed and didn't detract from the plot.

The 2nd half sort of lost it's way a bit. The dev seemed to lose his ability to combine both plot and porn in a satisfactory way. The plot sort of stalled as sex-scene after sex-scene was jammed into the game in a very hamfisted manner. I get that this is a porn game, but pacing still matters. Overall, while the visual fidelity improved in the 2nd half, the writing quality noticeably decreased.

Finally, the ending felt a bit disappointing (especially for Chandra/Abby fans). Despite taking a year to complete, it felt strangely rushed. Not just because some characters that got built up to be more important didn't receive an ending, but a lot of side-characters stories felt a bit unfulfilled as well. This is something that could be fixed with a dedicated epilogue down the line, but I have to agree with quite a few people in this thread and say I am disappointed (and not just because Chandra was my fav lol).

Overall, it would be disingenuous to rate this any lower than a 4, as this is a very high-quality avn, but I don't blame anyone for being disappointed with how things ended. I do hope there is some kind of epilogue at some point to flesh out the ending a bit better.

Well, obviously this game has great production values. Art and animations are great, but apart from that I really couldn't get into it.

The story is simple and unnecessarily convoluted. The characters are shallow, tropey and similar. Eventually the whole thing devolves into a string of non-sensical porn scenes, because if you are wounded, you have sex, right? If you are in lethal danger, you have sex. If you visit someone, you have sex. It's gratuitous and forgettable.

I guess that works for a majority of people, but I was actually hoping for something more meaningful than this from this Dev.

It's ok as a porn game, I guess, but don't expect anything more than that.

City of Broken Dreamers... when all started there was much promise for this game. A story that was compelling and interesting, a cast of characters that were iconic and well crafted, even a wonderous soundtrack that was fitting it many parts.

However, by the start of Book 2 (Post Henry), the story really fell apart. There was no draw, there wasn't anything compelling other than minor twists and turns and sub adventures for the occational side character to get pipe or some minor set of drama with the characters. Sure, one could say that Betty's heroics were 'grand' but there wasn't a real impact there. Not to mention that Chapters 13 and 14 should really have been put together and simply been one big chapter instead of split into two small chapters. The same, sadly, is true for the final chapter as well.

While certainly, your choices can influence what happens to your muscle wife, the conclusion of the story felt... uninspired, bland, almost as if Philly was complete bored and simply wanted to be done with this project. In short: Gloria pretty much goes BA, the Red Moon has a redemption arc, we get a couple of last one timer lays with certain people before we 'settle' with who we declared our love with, or not. And while some of the ending endearing, personally I did love Ellens, at the same time it didn't feel all that satisfying. Sure, we 'completed' our mission but it didn't feel like we truly accomplished anything.

Now, being the brutually honest guy I am, if I was to give this game out of 10, I'd give it a 5. Out for 5, I'd say it's a 2.5/5. Maybe a generous 3. While certainly the visuals, animations, music, characters are certainly well done, the story, which has such promise, sadly faltered and fumbled it's way to the end.

This game for me is masterpiece, beautiful unique models u hadn't seen them in any other game, Amazing and most realistic animation u can find on the site, and I love the anal sex, and u can fuck all girls in the ass and that is what made me love the game the most. Of course,
I will recommend this game to any lover of sex game, especially anal lovers, thank u for your hard work I hope for u happiness.

The real cyberpunk experience that we deserve!

Bright, enchanting, twisted story. I highly recommend it for the people that want to start exploring the field of Ren'Py visual novels.

Variety of plot, quality in lewd scenes, no technical problems, nice wallpapers for your PC - all your expectations from that type of game would come true.

I mean, of course, you cannot find a dainty language, the aesthetic of the game-world is kinda dark and tied up to neo-culture, typical cyber setting but more tied up to sex instincts.

To sum up, I really enjoyed it and I'm sure you'll do it too.