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

[Version Reviewed: v1.14.0 Ch. 14]

What I liked about the game:

+ Premise. City of Broken Dreamers (CoBD) does the sci-fi / cyberpunk really well. The world feels immersive and the varieties of ways that the humans evolved is interesting to look at.

+ Story. The story is rather straight forward with a few similarities to the dev's previous game (uncovering a conspiracy and helping out a girl), but the execution is excellent. It's easy to get invested in the CoBD characters.

+ Characters. Good amount of focus on most characters. The non-LIs like the Red Moon and Henry also have compelling storylines.

+ Art and Animations. The art and animations are a strong point in this game. It felt rather advanced when I first played it in 2021 and has managed to stay at level with the competition even in 2023.

+ Music. The music fits the world of our characters. It helps for the immersion while playing the game.

What should be improved:

= Romance. The romance between our MC and the LIs feels a little rushed / without much substance.

Overall Rating - 9/10. I would have rated the game atleast 0.5 higher if you would have asked my opinion during 2022. The last two updates feels a bit rushed imo which left me a little disappointed at the end of each update.

this game is one of the biggest AVNs out there, like the third I ever played and at the time I love it, creative story, beautiful renders, gritty plot lines but the entire last half of the game is complete meh, plot is all over the place, feels like no connection is ever made to romance options, and dialogue is on par with the phantom menace in terms of writing. general consensus is the production has been rushed. the value and enjoyment of playing the game has plummeted recently.

Based on version 1.13.1 on 06/09/2023


City of Broken Dreamers is a game that deserves it reputation as one of the top adult virtual novels on F95 and perhaps of all time. With a rock-solid sci-fi story, gorgeous renders, and well-animated adult content that is arrived at because of the story rather than as the sole focus of it, there’s not much that I can criticize. While you will likely miss out on some of the content without several playthroughs and the use of a walkthrough mod, these are mere nitpicks in light of the game’s strengths.


Like the authors previous work, Depraved Awakenings, equal attention is paid to the story as the adult content. You play as a Ghost, a type of mercenary for hire who ends up switching sides once you learn who the mark is. At 13 chapters, there’s a great deal of story to go through, but it’s never boring and in fact is so good that I finished a second playthrough while fast-forwarding through what are usually considered the “good parts”. While the game is strictly linear, there are a few twists and turns given the choices you make on your way to the ultimate goal that will change the playthrough slightly. Do you allow the succubus-like Victoria to lead you by the nose, or do you fight against her augmented powers? Your choice will affect how she, and other love interests, treat you as you continue through the story. There is fun to be had in playing with the different ways the story branches off even if it inevitably returns to same linear path.


The music and sound effects. First, they exist. Not a given when it comes to these kinds of games. Second, they’re excellent. The music varies throughout the game, changing from scene to scene in ways that make sense and increase the tension, or sexiness, of different scenes. The techno beats play well against the sci-fi backdrop of robots, androids, and mechs, and augmented soldiers. There’s also a music player available in the menu so you can pick and choose music as you see fit, or just to listen to which I found myself doing quite often. Several of the songs are catchy enough that I decided to download them and them to my collection.


Still, who cares about all that? This is an AVN, and what’s the main question we have? That’s right! Does the adult content work. So does it? Yes, yes, and yes again. I can break down my collection of AVNs into 3 categories

1. Story only. Those whose adult content just doesn’t work for me but that has a strong enough story that I’m willing to play through it entirely with my pants on.

2. Decent adult content. AVNs whose adult content is good enough that it works for me once or twice, but isn’t good enough to hold onto for repeat viewing.

3. Excellent adult content. AVNs whose adult content is so good that I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve revisited it.


The third category is a rather short list, and City of Broken Dreamers falls under it. All of the love interests and side characters are beautifully rendered and unique, and while some of the animation can be a bit awkward, most of it is top notch, with numerous bits of dialogue and different renders leading into and out of the animated sequences resulting in a believable flow from one position to another. While this is not a harem anime, you will still end up with multiple group couplings, more and more as the story progresses. Even the adult dream sequences, usually cringy add-ons to rope in players in early chapters before the story has had a chance to take root, take place late in the game and have a good excuse for existing given a particular character’s psychic-like abilities. It doesn’t feel like a cheat the way dream sequences often do in AVNs.


When it comes to City of Broken Dreamers, I have a difficult time coming up with any legitimate criticisms. The game is not perfect, but I’m at a loss as to how to improve it without the author putting in hundreds of extra hours. The story is believable and does not require any suspension of disbelief, the adult content is gorgeously rendered and animated with multiple stages, growing in length as the story progresses, and the music and sound effects are top notch and well-used to enhance the experience. Perhaps a built-in optional walkthrough, something that keeps you apprised of what tags your character is getting for each dialogue choice, would be nice instead of having to rely on an outside modder, but that’s all I can come up with. The game continues to enjoy a spot on my hard drive of games that I genuinely look forward to being updated. I can’t think of any higher praise than that.

tl;dr: a porn game on a porn site, it's really one of them.

A harem visual novel with op mc, any choice is an ok choice, but some has some requirements, so be considerate; easy to play without fear of missing out (actually has a lot of content), story is captivating at the beginning, but... not so after some time, so I just started skipping text mercilessly at some point.

Why "excellent"? 1. MC is a top. 2. H-Scenes, a lot of work has been done on a lot of characters. Good 3D animated scenes with different poses and choices. A whole lot of them. And this is not some sandbox as well where you need to grind for hours or something. A breath of air. Played it twice, second time with the cheat mod thought.

Any cons? Well... Spoilers!
3. I guess cheat (walkthrough) mod could be a legit option in the base game.

So in the end, nothing to really complain about. I guess characters could have had more depth to them but then again, I just started skipping half of the text at some point, so what's the matter xd

I'm here first and foremost for the lewds, the more and the kinkier the better. And that's not what City of Broken Dreamers is. In fact, it is a story-driven VN chock-full of more or less common tropes, some of which you can see coming from a mile away. Buuuuuuut... but. But! Did it take me on a good old style Epic Grand Adventure? Yes it certainly did. Did it manage to squeeze in plenty of lewdz in the process, should I choose to pursue them? Undeniably so. Did it do all that while immersing me in a (most cozy) Blade Runner-style cyber-neon-retro-future? Absolutely! And most importantly - did it do all that while offering me actual choice...? Having walked Gloria out of a deeply dangerous place without having shot a single bullet or landed a single punch - I need to admit, absolutely yes. Aaaand worst of all... it made me care about all these people, and the choices I made dealing with them... So play at your own peril - you've been warned...

Among the best VNs ever made. Been following this for quite a while and so far each update had been very well made. I cannot wait for the final chapters to come out so I can can replay it again. Unlike many stale games this one has actually an intriguing plot, compelling characters and great looking renders.

This is an outstanding neo noir experience. Storytelling characters and render are all top class. Investigation is exciting. The suspected near future environment is something new and unique. I experienced different routes by choices and you can influence relationships with the girls differently.

This game has good renders and I guess also a decent story for a porn game (even though I don't understand why most here act as if this was shakespeare). The animations are kind of okayish but often feel clumsy and stale, especially during the spanking/slapping scenes. The variety of girls is relatively large but except for Shanlon, Teri and Venus, all of the sex scenes play out fairly the same. I guess if you are into Futa, which I have absolutly no idea why dev thought it would be a good idea to have, there is one more exception. Semi-forcing the player to look at the Futa masturbation scene was kinda lame though. The SciFi world with all the underground scene (the Pit,Milchers, etc) would have been perfect for a "futuristic desert stalker" vibe, but overall the game is fairly vanilla and dark only in exceptions, except for very few rougher sex scenes.

Having a bazillion choices force the player to play on many, MANY save paths and using the walkthrough. This is far from comfortable. Game would be a 3.5 stars but it gets 4 because you can see dev put so much effort into this.

Honestly my main attraction to this game in the past was the scifi elements.

The women for the most part I am no atracted to.

Victoria's face looks like a man's to me, both Gloria and the Asian girl have faces that look like 5 year olds inserted onto adult bodies and Shanlon may look attractive but her attitude makes her less so.

this game is honestly sherr fucking class when it comes to writing ... the dev builds the world well and quickly and keeps it building as he moves the story along .. char dev is very well done not one character is like any other there all unique and you get a sense of there personality ... the main story is moved along as it needs to do so not giving away too much until it needs to but its consistant and keeps you interested ... there is some cheese here but its not overdone ... you feel for the main characters and thats a real endorment to the writing here .... the gfx are all well done and fit perfect in the qusi blade runner cyberpunk world ... the sex scenes while not the best iv seen are good and do a very good job ... the game is updated in a way similar to been a dik ... its constistent but not tiny updates there a good chunk each time and you can tell the dev has the entire story already writen and is following it .. no stupid patreon vote poll crap here .... tbh im a massive fan of this dev ... i like fap material as much as anyone but i love games like this .... well thought out well paced and with good gfx were nothing is over the top .... yeah i can happily recomend this to anyone and not think i hope they like it ........

I wont bother writing a detailed review. Don't need to!!

This game is a masterpiece. One of the best out here.
and Victoria ❤

PS - This one line caught my attention and really cracked me up
"I wont bow, but I will kneel"

This is an epic saga with enthralling story and characters , it's mesmerizing to experience and easy to hook on story , it has essences that are usually difficult to approach for a regular game, I mean story about futuristic elements , it kind of reminding me of Blade Runner which I love.
Characters and artwork are sensational and top-of-the-line and twists are masterfully implemented.
City of Broken Dreamers it is definitely one of bests here.

It's a great game, maybe the best adult visual novel I have seen so far.

It has a good, dark, cyberpunk story that would work even if we take all the sex out of it. Actually it could work as a story for a mainstream movie. It also has some paths so don't expect to see everything during one gameplay.

The graphics are all good and custom made, no universal assets that you see every second game. There is also a lot of high quality animations.

The girls are different, both visually and in personality. You will meet corporate bitches, wild rockers, rich party girls and idealistic, innocent ones. Should be enough for everyone's taste.

I recommend it to everybody.

Most renders are pretty, animations is solid but clunky?

another issue is female main characters faces look wierd.. Aside from that this game lacks humor and emotional connection (you dont care about the other characters who die) and story is kinda dull and boring. All you do basically is trying to choose right answer to gain love interest points for more lewd actions and you cant effect the story so far with any real choices, it will play out pretty much the same no matter what.

This game really is Cyberpunk 2077 but in VN form(just pretty renders). Game is not better than developers previous game and gameplay is pretty much same from start till now. I can understand the rating if this was 2018, but at end of 2022 nah

Good cyberpunk lore. Good cyberpunk girls. Good cyberpunk renders. Good cyberpunk action. Predictable but attracting plot so far. I hope the quality persists in second book. I bought it on steam to support devs, i advise you to do the same.

I wrote this review at 1.12.1 Ch. 12 (Although I only play it to chapter 10) nevertheless this game is excellent.

Only handful games that can invoke some emotion like sadness or awe when playing… eh you know "F95zone" kind of games.

The Renders is really good on the eye, the sound is okay

Not to forget the animation is really made well and humongous content this far



The biggest thing I like from this game is the story and the action that really put well for me.

I recommend to play this if you like sci-fi and dystopian setting

Cya ghost

This is one of those games that raises the bar for adult gaming. Excellent visuals and audio. A really captivating narrative. Extremely erotic. Characters who, excuse the pun, feel filled out. It comes highly recommended.

When this game was first released (2019) it had a major impact.People were comparing it to Being a DIK which i could understand.Back in the day it had it all: Amazing renders,compelling story,interesting characters,charming sex scenes.However 3 years has passed,more games have entered to industry,old ones like being a dik improved themselves but this game stayed the same.And that’s the reason i am giving it a 4 star.The game is awesome,and yes story is progressing,but except different sex scenes you won’t see anything different for the entirity of game.It doesn’t add any new mechanics,It doesn’t try something different with animations,it doesn’t even show you any different characters.The game presents all of it’s tools at the beginning.And since choices are mostly meaningless for progression of the story,when you are playing this game eventually you will feel like watching 15th season of the tv series you once loved now is being published for cash grabbing.

I really liked the settings of the game. Some renders are horrendous but overall it's okay.

What really put me off was no real choice.
ex.(even if you chose not to peep doc changing it assumes you have done so in later on conversation).

Chandra is the reason i gave it 3 star ratings. all other girls don't appeal to me.

No choice on how to deal with Gloria, you are forced down a path. You can't decide what kind of ghost(soldier) you want to be. I came from sandstorm and desert stalker so of course lack of choice bothers me.

Very nice medium weight game with excellent graphics, nice music and lovely girls. Very rare, substantial updates. Cyberpunk / post -semi apo world. Walkthrough mode heavily recommended. Really nice game that would be preferred to be finished to see full story.