VN - Ren'Py - College Kings [Act 2 v6.0.0] [Undergrad Steve]

Man... It took me THREE (!) updates to get past that Riley/Lauren phone loop bug. Also, had to start a new game. Here is a little tip for those who stuck there as well: start a new game and try out alternative routes.

Anyways, been a fan of this project from the very first release. The novel gave me "Never Break Down" (2008) vibes. Watched the hell out of this movie when I was a kid. Everyone's in this college is into fighting and the fight king is the coolest guy to hang out with, who gets all the chicks? Count me in!

However, with few updates in, it got pretty rough. That phone thing really bugged me. I got anxious every time MC had to pick up the phone lol. The writing's pretty goofy at times as well. i.e.: When Lindsey slides her number to you, somehow she's the first one texting you. And the list goes on and on.

On the bright side, this game doesn't claim to be "the big brother". It is light, the plot is pretty interesting. A couple of girls are really cute. My favs are Chloe and Nora by far. The fact that they are polar opposites and have problems with each other, makes it even more compelling.

I've been thinking a lot on how to rate this game. It was either 2 or 3 for me.
At the end of the day, I'm pretty satisfied and enjoyed it. I'm also excited about what's coming next. So, if you're into college lifestyle/frat parties type of novels, you should definitely dig it!

Every single release is plagued with bugs, and for an 11gb download it's honestly not worth it anymore so great game, if it weren't the buggiest thing on the site. Hard to enjoy when you know it's going to be unplayable...

One destined to be one of the greats. Its also great to be in a universe where you are not the only man in a world of women !!! The fighting part ads that something extra .Great game cant wait to see where it all goes .5 STAR GAME!!!

I started with version 10.1 and I haven't had any bugs in my two playthroughs.
Great character models, good animations and scenes.
There are tons of characters. They're not all interesting, but there's something for everyone ! (and they're all smoking hot!)

The only disappointment came when I played a second time. In my first playthought I had the impression my choices really mattered (committed to Chloe almost entierely), but I realized that you can actually go after all the girls without any changes. Kinda disappointing !

Anyway, I'm looking forward the next update !

The game has very cute girls that are extremely good looking (obviously subjective). However, the story is lackluster. There's a lack of character development and building of relationships. There's also too many girls being introduced into the game, with some having literally less than 10 minutes of screen time.

Some of the girls seem fun, but I don't know how any would find them interesting since we don't really know much about them or their past. There's a lack of quality time being spent with any girl you can choose as a love interest, and they seem more like a one night stand than a relationship now that we've finished Act 2.

If you are NOT looking for a relationship but would like to be able to screw hot chicks without consequence, then this game IS FOR YOU.

Great game, if it weren't the buggiest thing on the site. Hard to enjoy when you know it's going to be unplayable. Every single release is plagued with bugs, and for an 11gb download it's honestly not worth it anymore.

The models are really great and original,I don't think I've seen similar in other games so that's refreshing. Sex scenes are really good and I like how they are done. However The story itself is not really that interesting to me.

Awful experience, I don't know what else to write because this site ask me for a minimum 200 character.

The story is nothing special, but i could handle cliche story if its good or at least decent but this game is not in that good or at least decent category. The girls are superb, love chloe and aubrey model. the progression of the story is not that great and left a lof question mark in my mind. Ohh yeahh and it is BUGGYYYY AS HECK

Now that is a combo

The very first few release were great and a 5 stars game in the making, that was what i thought at that time. I am glad i didn't give review and rating early on, because since the last 3-4 updates, this game went crashing down hard.

The dev be like ' Okayy there are a lot of bugs report, i will do it and fix it tomorrow' and then almost a year later, nothing got fixed. I don't know why the dev could release a buggy game and be fine with it, we are a pirate so i guess thats okay but imagine releasing these buggy games to your patrons, The balls to do that is top notch

The story was good early on but now ? i don't even know whats going on anymore... It is a shame its come to this, because the renders are great and the girls are hot

Since I played version 0.4, there have been a lot of updates. The game looks better, but that's not enough.

All the same bugs with the phone, creepy faces and not interesting characters.

The story is boring and has no development.

TLDR
Gameplay 2/5
Music 1/5
Renders (faces) 0/5
Story 0/5
Phone 5/5!

This was a really promising game but the moment when Steve started bringing more people on board to help him is the moment when the game died. It's a commercial product now and initial dev's vision is gone.

Story is boring. I don't care about anything at this point. MC is like an NPC. He is blank. Story in this game is meeting every girl possible throughout the day and hang out with them. That's it.

Sex scenes are boring. Yes, they are smooth and latest animations are better than before but they are not interesting. They are the same. Every update we have a sex scene with Aubrey - show me them and I wouldn't tell which is from which update. No excitiment.

And of course mobile phone which for sure has at least 1 bug every new update

At this point I'm just skipping through the update to see if anything changed but nah and I don't think it will.

What the hell happened to this? Really promising start completely squandered. A very noticeable dip in quality, I don't get where the dev is going to go from here. The story is just... so boring now. The characters are now too one-dimensional, they all seem to bleed into each other.

Not that great. The animations are sloppy and the character models are not that good. The faces and especially the mouths are weird. The game itself is tolerable. The story is nothing new or special. I also would like an option to tell some girls straight up that they have a butterface and need to leave me alone.

Waste of time.


Story is very boring and cliche,most of the characters are ugly

As a porn game there is almost no sex

A lot of things in the story doesnt make sense,probably because of lazy coding your choises gets messed up


Making it sandbox doesnt serve anything it doesnt make sense

There is a tag for humor but i only found one joke which its whole game



This game doesnt deserve any of my time

I'm updating my review after playing College Kings 2 v2.2.6

This game is really underrated. Yes, it has its flaws, but which game doesn't have one? I stopped playing this in the middle of CK1 and just got back to it in this current version. I can say that there's a great overall improvement since the last time I played. Aside from that, the renders, animations and audio are still good even if it's a little outdated compared to the latest game releases. The story is engaging and has just enough routes to pursue, thus making the story less complicated. The path builder is a great tool to help the player save time when pursuing different routes. I still encountered a few minor bugs which I hope will be fixed in the future updates. I also liked that there is not much of the fighting mini games and more of the story progression instead. I am not a fan of free roams as it usually takes a lot of time to finish and not usually does anything to progress the story, so I am glad that such is not the case for this game. I am hoping for a harem route, but I think that will be a long shot considering how the story is going. All in all, this is a great game.

En route to 5-star game. As of v9.0, lot of potential hindered by buggy releases, imho your generic adult VN MC and crawling story. (Also as other mentioned, especially Riley's model is several levels under the "average" in this game, not even talking about Chloe/Nora levels). But, and this is a big BUTT, there's a lot to be enjoyed here and a lot to look forward.

College Kings started off great, but it has become a monotonous experience.

I believe the growth of College Kings and taking on more staff to perform tasks such as writing, dialogue, and rendering hurt the game more than helped it. The game doesn't seem to have a vision of what it wants to be. A team of people can be great for an AVN, but they need to understand how to work cohesively to make an actually good product.

The story drags on and on and on. I honestly didn't know what was going on 0.8 and forwards. Transitions are especially lacking. I didn't know what was going on because you're in one scene, and then you're suddenly in a whole new scene. There is clearly no direction in the writing. College Kings is going to have 100 acts by the time the staff finishes the game.

Romance and dialogue has now become superficial and it's like you're reading a teenager's fanfiction. When I read a character's lines in the beginning of the game, I got an understanding of who they were. Now, it feels like every character speaks the same and has the same set of morals. Lindsey, a character that I felt had a great amount of potential, got dumped off with unnatural dialogue and comes off strange. It also doesn't seem like there are any consequences for fooling around with multiple girls. At least in other GOOD AVNs, you're blocked off access from at least a few girls. There's no fun for replayability when you can just have everyone at the same time.

The girls and overall setting/background in each scene did look fantastic. There is a noticeable dropoff in quality in 0.8. This is likely due to having multiple people render. You're at the end of 0.7, but then the lighting and model of the girl changed drastically as you go onto 0.8. Literally night and day.

There was a ton of potential for this game, but it was better off as a one-man-project. College Kings needs direction in its story. The extra staff can't do what Undergrad Steve was able to do with actually make the game appealing and create buy-in.

Interpret my review as whatever you want. It may even be inaccurate in some details, but undeniably the game got worse as it grew. (And goodness gracious, the phone and text messages are overused. It was annoying to see the phone pop up as much as it did)

Initially, I enjoyed this. The animations aren't the greatest, but I can't animate for shit, so I try not to judge too harshly. The sex positions change in a weird way, like one second they're... idk, 69ing, then the next they're in cowgirl with no kind of transition. Also, some of the faces during sex are... off-putting, and there's a lot of what I'd consider "porn star" talk during sex, no matter what the personality of the girl is.

But! My biggest problem with the game is that it's... boring, with a storyline that seems like it's somehow in the background while you spend most of the game hanging out with girls who text you. Because there's so little time spent on the actual plot, the way it moves forward can be awkward at times. Like, it almost feels forced. For example, in the most recent update, all of a sudden there's gonna be a freshman brawler competition that's happening in like... a few days. It just kind of... pops up... as a thing that's happening even though the "plot" of the whole game is about two fighting frats (which is super weird and would never exist irl but that's neither here nor there) having a rivalry and each wanting to recruit the best fighters so that they can beat the other in competitions.

Lastly (I think), the "romances" feel... shallow/rushed, and it's super weird that there are pretty much zero consequences for messing around with multiple girls at once, even if they're good friends with each other. Plus (I'm so used to seeing it that I didn't even think about it at first), there's like... 8+ potential main romances, and none of them are Black, and maybe none of them are WOC period.

There are aspects of gameplay that are similar to ... another game that cannot be named... but they're not done as well, and they can start to feel more frustrating than fun pretty fast.

The game started strong but the storyline and the sex scenes are less and less interesting, combat is just annoying so you'll just save and reload a lot.

On top of this, plenty of game breaking bugs which not only stops your progression in the version you're playing but in the next ones so you'll have to restart over and over again.

I've reach my limit.

(update as of V 0.11) I don't normally update a rating unless there is a good reason. But I will for this one. Bored. I was SO bored playing the new update. There was nothing that felt organic or compelling, it was all just -scene with a girl- walk home- something happens on the walk home- get in bed- respond to text- wake up next day. The game is painfully generic. I don't root for the MC, I don't think choices really matter, and I don't feel like any progress is being made in whatever excuse for a story this is. What is the plot, undergrad Steve? What are my objectives or motives? This game is an ungratifying mess.

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I liked this game at first, but now it's just leaving me with a big ol' meh. There are a few college setting games I play while waiting for the big one to release a new chapter. This one is tumbling down the list.

Everything about it is fine, I guess. It just doesn't do anything that particularly stands out from the rest. It's a poor man's imitation of better games out there.

Story? Please, you already have a pretty good idea of what the story is. It's a college game. Our MC, Babyface McGee, is a freshman at college and is looking for a frat to join (sound familiar?). He meets a bunch of women who stumble all over his oozing adolescent sex appeal for reasons I can't comprehend. Maybe it's his skin-tight jeans and generic red game controller shirt. That's gotta be it.

The girls are... I don't actually remember. There are the ones in the header photo, and the rest I can't really remember, and there are a lot of them. They are modeled nicely, though I can't say I remember there being much diversity among them. I like the redheads bold eyebrows, they are nice. Other than that, I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what their names or and what most of their stories are. The redhead is your ex and the blonde is a sorority president who is so much more than she appears! (Ring any bells?)

There is a fighting aspect (do I have to spell it out for you?) that is so cumbersome I completely forgot how it worked and had to relearn it for every update. Oh, and its animated! Kind of. There are a lot of little animated clips in this game that you will miss because they are easy to skip over. Then there is the phone... it's very poorly implemented. The UI for the phone is so ugly and basic. Also, there is a free roam... moving on.

Look, there are a lot of college games coming out that are clearly looking to mimic the success of the big papa of all college games. Some are good, some are okay, most aren't very good. This one teaters between okay and not very good for me. Most of these games do something a little different while paying homage to their inspiration or directly referencing it. This one isn't that. I mean just look for the warning on the main page.

College Kings takes itself too seriously and tries to hard. It just feels like a cheap imitation, not a rival or spiritual successor.