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

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.

If I had to sum up this game in one word it would be serviceable. While the story isn't anything that's going to wow you, and the MC is pretty milquetoast, the game is at least competent and it's writing. The renders are also decent. This game has a pretty wide variety of kinks. The game has a decent selection of love interests, including a gay, trans, and disabled option. Nothing is forced on you. If you're not interested, tell them. You can also enable/disable a character's romance story at any time. While this isn't technically a harem game, there is no penalty for having a relationship with all of the love interests simultaneously.



If you're looking for a simple erotic VN, I'd recommend this one.

Review on Update 10


I really, really like this game. I debated giving it only 4 stars just because of some objectively not top-level aspects of the game, but that would ignore the degree to which I enjoy this game in particular and all the things that make it stand out so much to me.


The thing I like most about the game and which is honestly surprisingly unique is the way its characters and interpersonal relationships are portrayed. At least for me, it's the perfect kind of wish fulfillment harem game.

And not to sweep one particular aspect under the rug, the way the MC has just tons of sexual and romantic relationships going on at the same time and even when they ask about it, all the love interests are just fine with the MC "playing the field" but still develop over time a loving romantic relationship that certainly looks monogamous from the outside, is really unrealistic. So just to make it clear that I'm aware of it. But honestly, I don't care. It's written well enough so that you can sort of believe it and the rest is just a mix of fantasy wish fulfillment and suspension of disbelief.

So now that that is out of the way, I really dig the variety of love interests and the way their relationships with the MC play out. They're all just very unique, I love that we don't just have the usual lineup of stereotypically attractive white women with the one black woman thrown in there to spice things up. You notice that the dev really cares about diversity, we have all sorts of women of colour, a trans woman, a disabled woman, variety in body types, it's just awesome representation and variety and I just love it.
Furthermore, they all have very unique personalities and backgrounds and interests, it just furthers the way this world and their characters feel real and lived in, it's just great.
This large variety also makes it possible to have characters like Izzy, who would feel like a stereotype if she was the only black woman in the game, but because she isn't, it just allows the dev to tell a realistic and immensely empathetic story about a young black woman from the hood. Or to have the shy Asian girl battling between her commitment to her family and her desire to break free. Or the "white trash" girl from the country. All of these characters could feel sort of cliché to the point of being problematic but because they are just a few among a large cast of characters, it works. Plus, all of their stories are handled extremely empathetically, and the characters are never pigeon-holed, or 2-dimensional, it just makes for excellent writing and story-telling.

I also really really like the MC because he's thankfully, for once, not your typical immature, creepy sleazeball. He's respectful and empathetic and intelligent and charming, and while yes, obviously, this is still an unrealistic game, it's at least in this instance somewhat believable that these people would all be interested in him.

The sex scenes are the first sort of weak link in my opinion. What I do like is that, simply based on the very unique characters, you do automatically have some interesting sex scenes that deviate from what you would typically expect from these harem games with a white male MC, like sex with a trans woman, sex scenes with a man, probably in the future sex with a disabled woman etc. So that's at least interesting.
Otherwise though, the sex so far has stayed, in my opinion at least, pretty underwhelming and all in all very vanilla. I'm sort of tempted to give this game a pass for that because it goes for that more realistic vibe, but based on the personalities of some of these women, you'd expect some kinkier sex scenes than we've gotten so far. I guess the fact that the build-up in this game is fairly slow doesn't help with that, so maybe we'll get kinkier stuff in the future (there is at least indication of that with some of the LI's) but so far, not a whole lot. Sort of disappointing.


Other than that, most of the other aspects of the game fall into the sort of okay but definitely acceptable category for me.
The main story is kind of compelling but then doesn't really get enough screen time in my opinion for me to really be able to follow along and care about it.
Other reviewers have complained about the grindiness of the gameplay and I think I can sort of agree but at the same time, going on repeat dates still offers some variety with the different questions the MC can ask and just because the whole game is just written so well, I really am interested in all of the love interests and their backgrounds and thoughts on life and so on, so I actually don't mind sort of grinding dates, because they do stay interesting enough in my opinion. Otherwise, I think the gameplay is really straight forward enough to not be overly complicated but more interesting than pure visual novel, so I'm fairly ok with all of that. It's done fairly well that you can just opt out of certain characters, if you're not into that (which I've only done with the femdom lawyer chick and the mom character because I'm really not into both of these at all) and with the variety of characters, there should still be something there for everyone.
I think the graphics are just fine, I don't really get people complaining about graininess, haven't noticed really anything about that but sure, the renders aren't as a high a quality as you might see in other games but I think the uniqueness of the models and environments more than makes up for that, so I have no complaints here.
I really like the music choices though, I do like when a dev cares about that aspect of the game and the music does increase the tension in a lot of scenes, so well done there.


So yes, all in all, while some technical aspects of the game are maybe not up to the very highest standards that you can find elsewhere, there was just something so unique about this game, and something so intriguing about all the different characters to me in particular, that this game is definitely in my top list of games, so for that fairly subjective reason, I feel good about my 5 stars.

Extremely grindy, especially if you want to advance with a character that for some unknown reason can only talk on the weekends, even though you can visit them and call them also during the week. Seems like roadblocks put into the way to just extend some arbitrary grind mechanic, which I loathe. Then you also cannot skip days, and can only sometimes skip 1 time segment, and cannot skip to go to bed, etc, to again force the grind.

Then the tips to advance with a character are utterly useless. E.g. it will state to get 5 hearts with a character to advance, which is super unhelpful when you are stuck on 4 hearts.... game does this constantly.

it has a scene gallery that bugs out and for example will say I found 0/4 sex scenes even though I have already seen all of them: buggy. Some scenes are not in the gallery system at all like the blind date.

There are 2 gay characters so if you enjoy that, it's a plus for you. Not for me, but hey options are good.

Writing is mediocre. Every girl is into MC having a harem and dating everyone except for the sister. Bit unbelievable. There are sometimes talk about money, like whether you tip or not, or whether you lick your boss pussy for money or not, when there isn't even anything in the game to buy or to track money..

Writing OK, mechanics too grindy, Character variety good, gallery buggy. Overall (weak) average.