VN - Ren'Py - College Kings [Act 2 v5.3.0] [Undergrad Steve]

I keep trying to like this. The dev is great about regular updates and it is clear they are trying to make it look and run professionally, but it never quite works for me.

First of all, I hate all the crap with the phone. It is constantly pulling me out of the story as I try to figure out what I need to do with it. Plus, I hate all the simulated texting, just display the text if you want the player to see it. Why force them to pull up the phone, find the text in question and then respond. It would be different if you could ignore some of the texts, but you can't. If you do, you have to eventually reply to it or it crashes the game.

Then there is all the silly fighting stuff. I just don't get it. On top of that, I don't understand why everyone is so high on the MC. I played the MC as a non fighter; he got punched by Grayson, walked away from another. Then he joined the Apes and refused to cooperate and still was able to join and Grayson still sees some kind of leadership potential with the MC.

At one point, one of the girls is facing expulsion so she calls the MC for help. In my playthru, the MC barely interacted with her and the first time I played it I couldn't even remember her. So why in the hell would she even call the MC for help? I mean, he met her in the street, blew her off for Aubry, had coffee with her but skipped the bowling and suddenly he comes running to her aid? Why would she even bother calling him?

The whole story/game is filled with nonsense like this. It's just a rambling wreck of a story with strange and forced interactions giving you the illusion of choice, free roams with no real point or benefit and a phone OS that is so bad and so annoying, it even makes me wish it was one of those silly iPhones all the iSheeple use.

On a positive note, the sex scenes are pretty good and there are a decent amount of them. And to be fair, the dev is talented from a production standpoint and I understand they have gone through a couple of writers, but it's a maddening game that has the bones of something really good. To bad it falls way short of the mark.

And that might be the problem for me... the story is just a mish mosh of events that make no sense. There is no growth or development, just the MC stumbling around with no real sense of direction.

This game is a terrible, non sensical mess. Plenty of other games out there that are way better than this and you all know which game(s) that is. But we aren't allowed to mention it other wise the forum gods will nuke you into oblivion. Don't download it. It's a waste of time.

its a good game nothing more to say. i am also not gonna mention how similar it is to other games i played. hint hint. jk (pls dont delete my comment) try it out im having fun playing it. the girls are really pretty and the interactions and choices are fun too.

Can't understand how this game has a high rating. It's probably the most scummy obnoxious app i've ever opened:

- tries multiple internet connections
- popups on the main menu
- awful UI that wont let you just load or start a game without a bunch of extra steps
- LOUD music right from loading, before even readying the menu
- opened steam on its own

The renders are pretty decent, nothing exceptional. The story is mediocre but the writing is fine. But you wont see all that until youve gotten through the worst parts of the 1990's internet that inspired this game

This is one of those hard to rate games. On one hand it has several things going for it including the girls in the game (though I wish like in most games they weren't all so white). The fighting is definitely a plus because we get a some action. However, this game also has many of the problems present in a lot of games. It has no general direction aka slice of life, which is always a detriment in my opinion because we don't need a "normal" life story as most of us already know that. Then there's the paths, which again become a problem because of the popular, confident, and loyal mechanics meaning you can inadvertently go down the wrong path and not know until hours later. This leads to plenty of wasted hours for a game that doesn't really provide you enough of a reward for that.

Everyone hates this one but at least the cast is quite differentiated from one another and they're mostly interesting. Annoying quests though bring this one down and the writers do have a tendency to write nonsense and not respect the sense of choice that attempt to create.

This game is all about friendships. You can enjoy this game even when you're friendzoned... which is quite rare! I like this game that it is challenging, it adds thrills to the gameplay! (I bet the reason for the rating of this game being so low is because you get friendzoned a lot, lol) The only downside is that there are a lot of bugs. I don't recommend playing right after new update. Wait for bug fixes.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME IF...

if you don't want to experience the happiness of being loved by lots of sexy ladies at the same time...

if you don't want to experience the thrill of playing psychological games...

if you don't want to feel like you have real friends who get you...

if you don't want to feel happy even though you're friendzoned af... lol

if you don't want to think about characters even when you're not playing it...

if you don't want to chuckle alone in your room at midnight... (this game will make you laugh!

My Rating: 7/10

Story: ★★★★☆
Dialogue: ★★★★★
How well it plays: ★★★★★
3D Models: ★★★☆☆
Sex Scenes: ★☆☆✩✩
Girl Options: ★★★☆☆
Replayablity: ★★☆✩✩

*My only complaint with this game, is that some of the girls look horrendous, I kid you not, when I saw Lauren... I cringed and said "F no!" *

So here is my overall take on the game after just completing it.

The story is good, I honestly can't fault it, but... it's too close to real life.

There are two types of games out there when it comes to H games, and there are two types of players or should I say...readers? Out there.

1. You have the player that wants a game which is packed with sex scenes, so he/she can get his/her job done while enjoying a nice H game.

2. You have the player that wants to enjoy a good story that includes some sexual content to a certain degree, but he/she doesn't mind that the game has more story than sex scenes.

This game falls in the category of the second.

It does contain sexual scenes, but it's not a game made for sexual scenes if that makes any sense.

The Developer didn't just make a game here, he/she wrote a book, a short book, but he/she didn't want to do it on paper, so he/she did it on an engine that can also provide images to enrichen the senses of the reader.

If you are expecting a game packed with sex scenes, lewdness, e.t.c, you are not at the right place, and don't listen to anyone who says otherwise.

The game is 14 GB's in size, and has 10-20 sexual scenes in total and 10-20 girls. Every girl has 1 or 2, maybe even 3 sexual scenes depending on the girl and the importance she plays in the story.

* GB - Gigabytes, as in the amount of space the folder takes from your hard drive.

Now let's take a smaller game in GB's, for example "Urban Demons", some may know it, some may not, it does not matter. The game is 1GB, and has many, many more sex scenes in comparison to this game.

Now, before you hastily say "But College Kings has better graphics than Urban Demons", and despite that being true, you can't deny that a 14GB game has less sex content than a 1GB game.

What I'm saying, is this, this game is a story driven game.
Urban Demons is a sex driven game. (I'm only using this game as a reference)

Both may contain sexual content, but they are not the same.

If you want to read more than fap (After all this is a H forum), this game will suit your needs.
If you want to fap more than read, this isn't the game for you.

college kings is a fun story. nothing groundbreaking but the fundamentals are solid. the developer had run into some issues that almost made me walk away from the game. but they seem to have fixed a lot of it. great job to the dev team. i hope they keep the quality high, staff changes low(as it was a staff change that made me say wtf did you do) and i cant wait to see what they can do with it moving forward. cheers!

Overall OK. General review: Story is really bad and all over the place. Girls are pretty well designed and tehres lots of choice, but this game isnt good enough to warrant a replay to unlock all the scenes. Not much emotional conenction with the characters.

For College Kings 1: I think this game is actually quite good. The holiday in Europe really saved this game and I found this 'arc' to be really interesting and fun, including the murder mystery minigame on the boat and other stuff. I enjoyed the character of Bruce Lee and some fo the girls are pretty good. What really kept me playing this when I started to get bored near the start was that I wanted to be the fight king or whatever. Unfortunately, this pretty much gets scrapped in the game which is just poor. Also, the game was quite unpolished and just felt janky at times. Overall for this ep 8/10

For college kings 2: Definite downgrade from the first one, especially as you cant transfer your saves across (which is absolutely stupid). The quality of the game in terms of how polished it was definitely improved, and it felt a lot smoother to play. The story is however completely uninteresting and nothing happens with the fight king stuff - which is what enticed me to play in the first place. Generally meh for this ep, 7.5/10

This would be a five out of five if it weren't for the sloppy coding that has characters saying/doing things that make no sense due to your choices thus far. That being said the story is interesting, characters are varied and have many different attitudes and opinions toward each other both good and bad and the animations are good.

Sort of a slow burn, especially with the less outgoing girls but, assuming you don't have your head in the sand, you can definitely get your dick wet. I normally dislike minigames in porn, but the fights are skip-able and even auto-winnable so no worries there.

Most of the time your choices do make sense and there are very few choices without the option to do at least one thing I can agree with.

All in all it's a very solid game with some coding issues but excellent potential to be one of the best.

its a great game, the story is good (peek is between part 1 act 3 and part 2 episode 1 in my opinion), the girls are all pretty different in character and appearance, the sex scenes are awesome (only the game thats not allowed to mention here have better ones).
i would give the game 5 stars but the endless amount of bugs are so fucking annoying that they ruin the game.

sorry if my english sucks, its not my first tongue.

mfg
katzenstreu

Review for College Kings Ep.2 v3.0.1:

This game kind of turned into a bug-fest. I originally, found the first part of the game on Steam and bought it (it's currently called College Kings: the Complete Season in my Steam library, but I think it was just called College Kings at the time I bought it). Then, I became a patron for a few months to get access to updates much sooner, but the second season/act/episode/whatever just seemed to get more buggy. The bugs ruined the game for me. It might have been better if I started over and played it all the way through again after it was completed, but it's a long game and replaying is boring.

Story: 3/5 - The story doesn't have a good focus, although it's not a necessity for an adult game. It started off like fighting was going to be the focus, and then the fighting just disappeared. Then there was an election, then a trip to Europe, etc. It's like the developer asked a group of people to come up with ideas for an adult game set in college, and they randomly chose a few of them, and made each one into an episode of a TV sitcom instead of creating one coherent story for the game. There are some pieces that are pretty well done by themselves, though.

Writing: 4/5 - Good English and some humor. It's not cringy (except some of the over-used dialogue during sex scenes) and it mostly has good style; however, it's not always consistent. I'd guess there are multiple writers.

Renders: 5/5 - Generally, the renders and models are excellent. The girls are mostly beautiful with quite a bit of variation among them, which is great.

Animations: 4/5 - Animations are fairly smooth, clear, and high-res.

Gameplay: 2/5 - I'm not a fan of the way the player choices affect character traits and how traits affect availability of future choices/content, especially when you don't really know what the affect is until after making the choice. Some people really like it and I understand it, so that's not why I score it lower. Also, the free-roam segments were mostly well-done, too. The problem with gameplay is the bugs. The phone interface was a complete disaster. The type of gameplay adds a lot of complexity and it's obvious that it wasn't tested very well. Some were game-breaking, some were game-altering, and some were just a constant annoyance. Transferring the player's progress from the first to the second part of the split game was also a complete failure. Bugs basically ruined the overall experience.

Content: 4/5 - There's a good amount of content in the entire game, but with the Seasons, Acts, Episodes, Versions, and differences between Patreon and Steam releases, good luck figuring out what the fuck the entire game actually is. It's even a cluster fuck to figure out just on Steam.

Summary: This game could've been so much better if the developer had put more effort into validation and it could've been a masterpiece (as adult games go) if it had a well-planned coherent story.

Surprisingly in-depth game, with interesting characters, choices, mini games and so much more. The characters seem well thought out and are pretty dynamic. I have played it through multiple times and have enjoyed it each time, picking a new girl to pursue each time is a lot of fun, just due to all of the various interactions you can and will have with them. Highly recommend it. I look forward to what is added in the future.

Excellent game with a nice variety of characters, personalities and situations that make it interesting.

It surely has bugs in it, but its not more bugged than other WIP Games. It's stable.

Renders and sex scene wise, this is some of the best 3DCG content out there. The animated scenes are hot, and the build up to them is really solid most of the time. Choices can matter, and you really have to pause sometimes before you make a decision.

This game is def. worth playing to get off and for some of the plotlines. Just go in knowing alot of things dont make sense and ideas are all over the place.

This used to be a must play dating sim at the beginning.

This game had potential until homecoming, I was actually enjoying it.

However, it went downhill fast.

The story clearly lacks direction. The MC goes to sleep exhausted. Wakes up, tired. Goes on a date that usually leads nowhere because you've not chosen the correct path for that character. He goes back to sleep exhausted. Rinse, repeat.

The dates are mostly boring as fuck. They barely develop the story. It's just a bunch of nonsense thrown together to show off the newly acquired assets.

The fighting aspect almost completely disappeared. Strange, since I thought that was the main plot. It's not. There is no main plot.

There are so many events that are completely fucking pointless and dialogues that lead nowhere with a bunch of giggles.

This game has become almost completely unplayable and unenjoyable.

For every new version from now on, you will input your own variables and play the new content from the "path maker", which is essentially a cheat code to experience any content that you want. The game completely lost all its charms.

What a shame.

This game is crap. No, honestly, it's the only word that comes to mind after subjecting myself to what was obviously deigned to be a commercial cash cow. Unfortunately for the dev, the writers he hired were just awful.

The first chapter was quite fun and had some promise to it. I liked that their was a kind of fight club vibe to it all and even though the main character looks like a 13 year old shrimp, hey, I was rooting for him!
The girls were interesting and had diversity, there was some drama with the dickheads..sorry, apes! after their leader punches out our lil shrimp

After that chapter it all spirals downwards with each new episode.
The actual fighting scene just seems to dissolve onto the back burner while we get silly drama plots and have to figure out why the KCT is such a stupid system for wooing the girls. Amber you hot babe, I'm sorry I missed out on hooking up with you, but my KCT changed at the wrong time, forgive me babe plz?

The writing truly descends into painful when we get constant descriptions of the characters *chuckling* or *laughs* over and over....ugh, so moronic that I dropped 50 IQ points in that chapter alone. The Charli character was hilarious as the nefarious villain of the Europe trip. He really rubbed some fans up the wrong way...naughty Charli

The "romance" becomes a joke half the time and you have characters like Lindsay who was a sweet girl really interested in the MC and she becomes a bit of a bitch with hardly any time or interest in the MC...and that is the trouble, it all feels disjointed and inconsistent due to the different writers and Undergrad Steve trying to bring in new things instead of sticking to the original flavor. The whole detective segments are just...ugh.

The pool party episode turned out to be a flop due to the sheer lack of content despite the dev trumpeting how awesome it was!
Poor fans were struggling to rub one out due to lack of lewd content with their favorites.

I could write more negatives but am actually slipping into hypoxia even thinking about this game. so I will just end this review with "Would I recommend this?" and that's a solid NO.

This game is very cool. The problem is that we compared it with the GOAT because of the many similarities that it have. Ignoring that; is a complete game. Cool storyline, cool MC, cool characters and a cool table of choices to pick from thru the gameplay. I liked it so far. Of course is not on the same level than the best games of his genre, but it makes the work. I don't feel really inspired like with others game to play it again after what I already played, but who knows? I think that this game has the chance of keep improving 'til we stop comparing it. The art is not that amazing and the scenes aren't that inspiring, but thinking in all the pros, this game is worth a try.

I was just sitting on this game and how stupid that was.
Wow what an amazing experience. The personality of characters are very true to life.I just completed the part 1. I really loved Chloe and Nora.

Fights and free roams were really interesting. I took above 20 minutes and got all 16 kills it was amazing experience.
Chloe Nora and Aubrey were my fav. girls.
Emily was also beautiful.
Negatives- I didn't like lauren's render maybe personal preference. Even though she was shy and cute couldn't like her face. Kinda disliked the lack of sex scenes With your fav. npc , there were hardly enough scenes.

Overall would definitely recommend this game. It has it's own flavor. More believable character. I liked that about this game.

Definitely play this if you like romance/crush games.

I really wanted to like this game, and in fact I used to, ok the game characters are great, they look amazing and each have their own personality, the game had great sex scenes with selectable positions down the left hand side, the fighting worked really good, if you picked "auto win" the whole fight scene played out and looked great. So what went wrong, well the game was rebuilt and the sex scenes changed to boring shit like every other VN, the fight was also changed, so now if you pick "auto win" there is NO fight scene, you just get the victory message, wtf? why get rid of the best parts of the game? the game has far to many free roam parts, one "the murder mystery" on the boat, drags on like fuck, free roam RUINS any VN that has it, and this needs to be stoped, VN games do NOT need free roam, Charli exists so that is a n extra star removed. and college kings 2 butchered the game even more, there is a dumb election thing, where there is an annoying campaign, why the dev thought putting politics in the game is a good idea I will never know. the game also has a weird personality thing, pick all right options with a girl, still can't get with her, because you are loyal, when you need some other bullshit, this game is not the worst VN not even close to the worst, BUT EVERY UPDATE HAS MADE THE GAME WORSE, the dev here needs to really scrap all of college kings 2, put college kings 1 back to how it used to be, delete Charli, and START AGAIN from Act 3, yes act 3, because the acts also NEED to return, as they were far superior to the shitty "episodes" we get now.
game was once 4 star, now it is far less than 1 star, but this site won't let me rate lower than 1. this game may be free on here, but in it's current state, the dev should be paying us to play it.