Ren'Py - Come Home [v7.17.3 Premium] [R.J. Rhodes]

v4.13.1

I'll try to keep the review on the short side mostly due to my few complaints with the game.
The story is interesting, and mostly well implemented and developed, although has gotten stuck as of late, maybe my impression as I started playing this game's iterations recently. Still, I'd like to see the game have more main story content.
Regarding love interests, there's for pretty much every taste and you can pick what you want to play and what you want to ignore as well, which is very welcome. The "I'm fine with us not being exclusive" thing feels forced on a lot of the LIs though. On the same topic, the relatively normal body proportions the models have are very welcome.
If I've seen grammatical errors in the game, I do not remember them, which again, very good, I love me some proper english games.
The renders are pretty fine as well, so no complaints at all here.
Now, the one thing I have issues with here are the animations, they're bland, mostly uninteresting, short as hell and to top it off, reverse-looped. They have a severe lack of different points of view, and the fact that you can only pick one position per sexual encounter is lame. Definitely the weakest point of the game.
Continuing with things I don't like, the recurring "What do you want to talk about?" question during dates at the conversation topics list is annoying after the third time, and with the amount of dates you need to go to to unlock content, it becomes a pain in the ass rather quickly, but that's me. This also applies to the other sort of "questions" that pop, like where to cum and so on, they don't feel natural at all in the scenes, they should flow from one part of the scene to the next, but instead end up like rehearsed lines coming from a robot.
The UI could use a bit of a touch-up, a black background with rectangles all around isn't the most eye-catching thing in the world, and the rest is the default renpy interface.


Overall, this game needs some serious animations-department improvements and it'd be well rounded.
The one thing kinda "dready" will be the moment when you have to pick one or two LI and dump the remaining 18~19, lol.

Come Home is a sandbox dating sim. The very best one.

You can nitpic about some graphics and some animations some plot points... Whatever. Doesnt matter. It´s huge, it has great characters, great scenes, lots of different women, kinks and that Brandi chatroom is hilarious!

After playing this i only wanna complain about RJ Rhodes lack of courage in making this game a true VN. You know with branching story lines, managing different love interests and so on...
Just a pinch of salt away from greatness.

Great game, great story. You can choose who to romance, the pace you want, and in any order.
The scene selection screen after the introduction lets you know if there's a new scene available. Can be kind of grindy with all the dialogue options to get through, but it's all worth it.
The futa/trans character is more "trap" I suppose, and I didn't think I would like it. But it's well done with some descent character development. I was suprised I would enjoy,.
Give this project a shot.

First game I have seen with a proper Bisexual male protagonist with unique npcs with distinct personalities and stories and sharing scenes thaat makes sense and gangbang which is consensual and not rapey. I think the animations need more frames but thats the problem with the daz3d engine because every game with daz 3d characters has piss poor animations so to say. But I was genuinely impressed by the game.

I've probably played 80+ Renp'y games over the past couple of years. Considering the size, scope, and quality, Come Home is easily in the top 5....top 3.....maybe the best game I've seen. The renders and writing are top notch. The art actually improves significantly once you get past the first few releases, and they were good to start. I can't say enough good things about this game. Super well done and I can't wait for a completed version. Kudos to the developers.

The main story is odd, I won't spoil, but hopefully you enjoy sci-fi/detective stories. The mc seems to be obsessed with letting everyone know about how he was studying in brazil, but yet somehow manage to do absolutely nothing over there, no friends, no gf, no experiences, no traveling around, and he was failing college on top of that, so it feels like he was stuck in his room jacking off for 3 years straight. It feels like a big wasted opportunity.

Around 20 romanceable characters, 70% of them are ugly models. I don't care for "realism" in this case, same reason why I wouldn't watch a movie about a guy named bob doing his taxes. The animations are not great, they feel stiff, and short.

Most of the girls have a self contained story separated from the main story, and each other, but they still feel the need to let you know "you can fuck other girls" anyway(redundant).

Sandbox, you are going to spend a lot of time clicking around, and skiping time to get the stories you want to follow.

Come Home is a very good game that falls much more into the "Dating Simulator" category than "Porn Game". The girls (and guys) look normal and realistic, but the model quality isn't necessarily top-tier.

Don't be misled, that's not to say that there is no (or minimal) sexual content in the game, but rather that you will generally have to progress in a normal human fashion with your Love Interests to unlock it. There are a lot of sex and sexy encounters for the characters, but they are often walled behind sometimes tedious texting topics like "Do you like indoors or outdoors better?" or "What's your favorite food?" It would be a nice touch if there were at least flavor text acknowledging retention of some of these things, but by and large it is usually just a check in the box to advance the story line with no repercussions.

Honestly, the only criticism I have for this game that despite the other somewhat reasonable personalities, every single person will explicitly tell you that it's perfectly acceptable to date/have sex with other people since you're not "committed". This is a typical harem trope, but honestly it doesn't seem like the Dev is intimating any sort of harem ending, so the dialogues just seem unrealistic for any otherwise monogamous person; any multiple-relationship suggestions could really be omitted unless the Dev plans to have the MC marry all 20 characters.

I had to change my review structure a bit for this game, I'll ignore main story and writing this time. Just say it's good enough. Light harem without much of drama.
1) Gameplay: It's like like 20 (LI count) different kinetic novels in one game, sometimes they're connected, but mostly can be played separately. No boring grind. Nice UI. Nothing is forced, choose and have fun. Just play and relax. No routes though, linear progression/all content in one run, thanx God (+)
2) Character plots/personalities: OMG, I've never seen so much totally different characters with original plots, believable and lovable personalities, in one game. So much original stories I've never seen in other games, so much fresh content for for Me. (+)
3) Character desighn: Characters are not models or pornstars or smth., so much different body types, clothing styles, some has tattoo, some are not really a beauties, but they're all as believable and attractive in their own way. No cringe petite girls with mega boobs or smth. (+)
4) Sex scenes: short but satisfying enough animations, nice scenes, nice renders, a lot of creativity, believable (as with characters), they maybe can't blown your mind with graphics but surely fits Just perfect. (+)
5) Content: game is not yet finished but I think (and hoping) it Will be. For the moment game has enough (good quality) content for many hours of playing, it's already enough for two avg. games. (+)

It's quite a good game overall, with lots of original, high quality content. Not a perfect game, it has some flows but not worth mentioning tbh cause it's more depends of tastes.

Excellent story driven title with a bit of everything. R.J herself is very passionate about the project which you can see in her regular updates and blog posts on Patreon. The girls (and guys) have very unique personas and sexual interests, making it easy to quickly find who might be best suited for the player.

A lot of potential with this one.

This is a nice, light game with quite a handful of characters, which are quite interesting. The plot itself is not very important, the accent is made on getting to know a person you liked. There is no drama or hard choices, nothing is forced on the player. All in all, a good relaxing game.

First f all, I don't usually play Ren-py games, reading 500 lines of text while one still picture is displayed is not gaming for me. This game is a pleasant exception with a decent story and dialog and very good graphics and animation.
The progression kept the grind to a minimum and the variety of ladies along with the built in guidance kept the game moving forward.
No politics, no Mini-games and models without boobs the size of Montana.
5 stars

Under normal circumstances, I'd give this game 3 stars at best. But the reality is I can see the ammount of effort that went into making it. And it's not bad at the "encounters" / sex / writing. What's bad is the way it advances. The "click a place with an event till you finish the game" thing is not fun. Way better than a typical sandbox, but almost everything is, so that's not the biggest plus.

I also really don't like the progression. I hate how I can't really focus on one girl. It pretends to give me the ability to choose, but then I'm railroaded. I can't focus on the mom, not the sister. It takes a long time and fucking a lot of hoes till I can constantly sleep with my sister, but by that time, the mom is out of the picture. I can't even repeat sex scenes ... WHAY? Because everything else ends in repeating scenes.

I really do not like how the game is set up, as a game. Not the story, not the porn. The game. I hate it.

HOWEVER!

The game is decent. Not great. It's 2000 porn game dating:
- What's your favorite color?
- Are you a virgin?
- Would you kindly ... suck my cock?

It's a harem. I like that. I even loved sharing the crack whore with her whole gang. Fun times.

You fuck whores in public, in front of their friends. Your sister throws her gf on your cock so she can masturbate in the shadows.

There's a lot of cool fucking in this game. There's a whole lot to like. I just wish the game had a more free progression system, or better hints. I don't like having to jump between all the girls to progress.

EH, FUCK IT. I don't like anything about how the gameplay is set up. Except, I like the ability to repeat scenes. I like roleplaying. I don't mind watching the same scene, if I can cum in my sis every night.

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TL;DR - YMMV. Has good bits, has bad bits. I kinda like it. I don't love it.

(12th update review)
It's a game with around 5 hours of content currently.

I like some girls (especially Ms Welch, Dana, Suzy, Jamie and Gertrude, also the waitress whom i forget the name of) but they are not the most beautiful ones around. The models are a bit lacking of something, I'm not sure what. Those I like are not ugly either, I'd say they are average.

As a "sim" type of game, you decide which activity to do at which time, but most of the time, as often in this kind of game, you just go for the "available event in location" one and do them one after the other. So the "sim" aspect is not really useful since there is no stats to manage in this game, just time. And since there is no "missable event due to time" the whole "simulation" aspect is useless.

But since it's a "sim without stat" it has the whole big negative point for a simulation type of game : a wrong/weird pacing/timing game.
That's so bad.

I really think that this game would be more interesting as a story game but that's a choice the dev has done and we cannot ask otherwise.

So you will choose which girl you are interested in, and do their events, one after the other, up to the "see you next update" sign.

The story is underdevelopped and a deja vu. It's a pretext for a porn game, I get it but I'd prefer to have no pretext rather than this bullshit pretext. Well again, the story is of no real importance since it's a "sim" type of game and the story is not paced at all, and just happen randomly when some triggers are fulfilled.

Finally, the girls fall in the "my man sleeps with all other sluts in town but it's fine, however i only like him" category. Again, not a problem but more diversity (seen that there is more than 20 girls !) in their behaviour would feel better.

So all in all, a 2 star game which can go for a 3 star if there is polished and nastier scenes with the girls I liked (I feel the potential especially with secretary Dana, teacher Welsh and councilor Gertrude).

I deactivated some girls and the guy so I can't judge all the girls, but those I deactivated had a model which didn't please my eyes or whose introductions were totally uninteresting. (Lawyer, Adrian, Micha and "mom")

Okay, straight-up: this game is excellent.
It's a RARE pleasure when I go to play a porn game and find myself enjoying the actual story content and characters more than the hanky panky, but the writing and personalities in this game are just awesome.

First off, Adrian Kendra and Tammy ( I have a thing for short hair, it seems ) are some of the best girls I've seen in these kinds of games. Kendra in particular is just the sweetest, most likable person, and even though I sorta saw it coming her revelation still made me ACTUALLY SAD. You don't typically get that in a game about fucking as many people as possible. And Adrian, oh Adrian...if ever there was a time when I wished I could pull a waifu out of a video game and into the real world.

Also, shout-out to whoever worked on the chatroom comments for the Brandi content . That shit had me HOWLING with laughter. And the line in the double-date with Suzy and Tammy about 'who would want to date 20 girls?' to the cut-away pose...pure comedic genius.

This is definitely a game I can happily wait for updates on, because even though there are some girls that just do not interest me at all, the ones that do are good enough to make me keep coming back for their updates.

....one thing, a minor complaint: You can't hint at a hang-out with Kendra and Adrian and not give it to me. That's just mean.

3 / 15 / 23 Update: I have been given my Kendra / Adrian / MC scene. All is good, perfection has been achieved, the nut has been launched. I repeat, the nut has been launched.

Absolutely love this game - LI's to cater for most tastes and you can choose which ones to follow. Good quality renders / scenes and well-written characters.

Only (very small) gripe is that the main story seems to have died off in the last few updates, but given that the interactions with each of the LIs is well-thought-out it doesn't matter as much as it would otherwise...

Other than that, I just wish it was updated more often, but I guess that's the mark of a good game - always left wanting more!

Amazing game and keeps getting better, you choose who you want to pursue and who you're not interested in , a lot of freedom in your choices and a great story line! Would like longer animations but the update did add a long scene i really liked.

This game does not have great graphics, the animations could be better, but it does give you the opportunity to experience different stories, some of which may be shocking, bring in fetish, etc. It is much closer to real life than most games I've seen. I'm really interested to see e.g. the game line for Lisa, Dana, Kendra develop. And I'd love to see some more exhibition fetishes, maybe water sports?

I really loving this game so far. the story , the fcharacters..even if some bad new about 1 of the girl come up...hope Kendra will be ok!! i even cryed for her at the bad new..so for a film\game\book is mission accomplished. keep up the good work dev.

Such an overrated game. All you do is grind for some shallow content with empty characters. The whole sandbox system is there only to hide the lack of actual content.
The only thing that is good in this game are the character models: natural looking, diverse, each one beautiful in their own way. Thus 1 extra star.