Ren'Py - Come Home [v8.18.1 Premium] [R.J. Rhodes]

This is an awesome and lovely VN, from the renders that are both sexy and cute, not only the main cast but also the side ones as well. to the writing of their individual stories, I encourage you to give them all a try, I did and let me tell you Adrian is a very lovely girl. if not for the sex stuff, her story worth reading.
The music is your common royalty free stuff, does the jobb well enough but that's about it. I do like the voices of the characters, but at times it seems there wasnt a clear direction on the delivery of the lines, it's not bad, but it bugs my brain a bit since Im a sucker for voice acting.
This game has a great hint system, all is explained in the tutorial, and it's done in a charming way.
Now, if you want to speed run the spicy stuff, theres a few girls that get on pretty quick, I advice patience, this is a VN, not a porn video.
I played the v7.16.3 version for about 20 hours, I like to read the conversations, and still have content to go, and I love it very much. consider support the creator if you can!

Ok to begin with, I have played a lot of games on this site. That means I have experienced a lot of garbage and a lot of good games too. This game is one of the best. The amount of options and choice you have here is nothing short of perfect. You have total control over all situations. You have the final say in all interactions between characters. You can control everything. You can even disable characters entirely and remove them from your game. It is simply perfect. The graphics and animations are great, the girls are all varied in both looks and what they offer, the writing is good and you have a lot of different styles on how you want to answer and treat the girls and even the main story. The game has so many varied fetishes and of course they are all optional and are very upfront about them. Threesome, foursome, pet play, trans, lesbian, camwhores gay bi sub/dom bdsm... It's got it all. Now at first I saw the sandbox tag and was like oh man another one of these click around to fish for events game. This game is not that. When you realize just how much content is in this game, it is absolutely staggering. The "sandbox" element is needed to be able to interact with everything. There is no time limit and you don't have to "fish" for anything, it's just there for you to interact with in any order and what way you want to. You can even look in the girls menu to see what content you're missing and how to get it. It has full replays of not only the dates and sex scenes but the conversations as well. This game is one of the best and it deserves honest praise. After 10+ hours of playing (yes that is how much content there is minimum) I could find no fault in this game and believe me I was looking. Absolutely recommend this gem.

Visuals are good
Choice is amazing ( fan of the choose who you want to woo screen )
Story is good
Sex scenes are good

I bought the game on steam when it released and have been pleasantly surprised to have it moved up to one of favorites and always installed now.

The improvements to the UI have been very welcome. Although I felt their was nothing inherently wrong with the previous versions they just keep improving.

And I like how each Girl/Guy has a unique voice to them so to speak.

Looking forward to future updates of the game

.... more Gertrude... let me take her away and marry

Definitely worth playing. Although I am not a fan of incest and it is poorly hidden in this game, I totally recommend it. The characters are believable, the story is good and the animations are beautiful.

Yay! A game with believable women! That alone makes this stand out in the crowd here.

Now if you add great art, more animations than you'll ever need and hours of content, kinks you don't usually see here and regular updates, what do you get?

One of the best slice of life games you'll ever find here. It really is a breath of fresh air and deserves your support. Try it and consider supporting this.

TL/DR: A relatively enjoyable dating sim that lightly dabbled in storytelling elements. Tons of animations, if those are your jam. Good character focus that built out the relationships. Mildly sloppy content gating with some kinks I disliked and narrative inflexibility related to dodging those topics was slightly annoying.

+ The prose of the title is pretty decent. Author has a nice vocabulary.
+ The author is good at capturing the emotionality of the characters. For the most part they feel like people. There is still some handwavium involved in the plot / personalities to allow for porn scenarios- but that is the buy in to get them. Altogether the progressions felt relatively naturalistic.
+ Nice to play a Mc that wasn't a string bean. Kinda unique build to him- most games you play as a either a really wimpy / nerdy protag or a megachad. This bro is rockin an almost fit dad-bod.
+ I love all the bush!
+ Doggie Hair-pull scene with Suzy was mega-hot.
+ Being able to toggle a character on or off on the UI was quite elegant
+ I was glad the game had a main plot to follow. I would have liked a bit more of that- but it was still nice to be working with Adrian, Jez, and Whitney to try to unravel where pops is.
+ Core plot structure was kinda trope- college bro comes how to fuck a bevy of his definitely not relatives, their friends and the people in the city- but there were enough wrinkles on it to keep it somewhat fresh.
+ VA was a nice element. Game would improve with more of that.

- For me the largest criticisms relate to how content is gated in this title. I have one minor gripe about it relating to UI and one major gripe about it relating to kink tastes. 1) Minor gripe = it was very annoying on a character that I wanted to do *some* of their content- but not all of their content that the pink border indicating content was still available could not be removed. I am *never* going to say yes to this pegging scene. So why can I not remove the *new* content flag- it isn't new content; it is content I have seen is available 10 times b/c I keep thinking there is new content and there isn't. I also straight up turned it down once. So why is it still there? 2) Major gripe = putting a mmf 3some kink on Tammy was boneheaded. You have one of the most pure- lovable character (Suzy) associated with her a priori with no ability to split them up- and now I have to worry about not being able to satisfy her other partner's core kink b/c I hate it. Great. The whole progression gave me the ick. I didn't even *want* to ask Tammy that question b/c it is just not something I would bring up with a girl. But again the pink "content available" indicator seems to imply you cannot skip it to progress. The game's approach of HEY THIS IS MY KINK, but you won't find out about it until you are deep, deep into someones route is pretty meh. I'd deeply prefer to know up front what ppls are into if it is a somewhat controversial kink (like with Brandi or Tammy)- I don't like cam-girls or Gang-bangers either- but it wasn't sprung on me so I didn't get attached and then feel deep disappointment later. I can think of a ton of ways this could have been handled better to insulate ppl who don't like the kink from feeling grossed out, while still allowing the dev to do it.
- I don't find most of the girls aesthetically pleasing.
-Occasionally the author relies too heavily on the MCs internal monologue- sometimes MC-kun drones on and on about some super boring observable detail. I've got eyes MC- you don't need to say redundant things. I can see it on the screen . No need to pad that word-count with fluff
- Bombshell vs petite woman ratio was too damned high. Flat is justice!
- I only liked 13 of 20 routes in the game- which is pretty low for me in a game that I thought was good. Probably a result of it being more bi-sexual (more dudes) than a usual harem game and not being into that.
- The only choices that mattered at all were to decide if you wanted to do a route or not.

The number of romances and the diversity of the romances in story and looks makes this one really stand out. If kinks or fetishes are your thing there's a little something for everyone here, and I found myself enjoying stories that featured fetishes I'm not normally into just because I was enjoying the variety of it all. A fun buffet of porn. Excited to play it again when it updates more.

EDIT Oh also shoutout to that one character that likes Beloved and Homegoing, love to see some good literature in a porn game

I'm a little torn about this one. If I could I would have given it a 3.5.

It has plenty of women and good scene's. And it was definitely playable. Never felt lost because of the sandbox elements.

I just couldn't get passed the concept of being in a small town. Declaring your love to 15 different women and having none of them question that. Also back stabbing drug dealers while you are part of their operation without consequences. Nobody even questions who the snitch was, they just continue going on dates.

Personally I would have enjoyed it more if the number of love interests were cut in half. But with more dept to the interactions. Or.. just explain throughout the story that this entire town has polyamorous traditions. Anything to explain away how all the women love you but some how none care or notice that you sleep around.

I'm not normally a fan of sandboxes, but this does a great job. There is no resource system, no real grind. The plot is interesting and there are a great variety of LIs.

My two star ding is because of lack of choice in certain areas. You can chose to not engage with certain content, but that just locks you out of things, instead of just removing the content. For instance, one LI is a futa, you have no choice in that. I love the trans angle, removing that from her story would be stupid, but I just don't want a chick with a dick. Having the option to have that be a thing or not would be the best of both worlds, folks that like that will have it, and folks that want her to have a pussy will have that too.

There is one other instance of this kind of thing that bothered me enough to ding another star, instead of just one. You have to share one of the LIs. I know technically there are a few like this, ones that wont leave their spouse, or the cuck one, which I honestly thought was kind of adorable. They are a cute couple. But, I don't want to share my "roommate" with the butch MMA queen. She's nice, but she openly states that she does not want a serious relationship, your "roommate" openly states that she loves you more than anyone and does not want to lose you ever again. Then, if you try to deny them the "thruple" relationship, they both leave you to be with each other instead. If I wanted to experience this level of lying and hypocrisy, to be left for another person and feel rejected and alone by the person who supposedly loved me the most, I'd just start dating again. The realism is a bit too much here.

I think it's impressive how there's like 20 love interests and the dev is able to make them unique in some way.

Writing is also pretty good and I like the renders. All in all highly recommended to play.

Edit: I think the voice acting doesn't add to the experience, it really seems out of place tbh. Personally I find it annoying although others might disagree.

This game is aggreable enough. Most of these games that are story-focused, fail to entertain. This game is on the same boat. For how varied these characters appear on the surface, they are quite empty under the surface. I feel like this game is building itself up for an orgy scene with every character involved. The drama is so pitiful. Everyone just agrees with eachother. There's no dynamic. No stakes. Yet this game really wants you to care. For example, there is barely any drama between Suzy and Tammy, even though they both have a crush on you. Polyamorous relationships aren't exactly easy to manage. Somebody is bound to get jealous, and RJ fails to acknowledge this crucial part of a throuple. It's all fantasy, and I can dig that, but there is a point where it is too unbelievable. The MC is God and nobody can touch him. He does not experience any character development of any kind. He is literally the most boring protagonist, and we are suppossed to care about him. He only has his looks which serve in the plentiful of H-scenes that this game offers. However, this game pretends like he is the only guy who is worth while. The game has too big of an ego. However, the renders and animations are good, and RJ is good at releasing updates regularly. She is actually more dependable than most developers on this site. Just don't expect the game to offer much in terms of story. The game also offers a lot in terms of freedom in choice of characters. If you don't like a character, you are not forced to pursue their story. I would recommend to play this game for the animations and not the plot.

Wish:
I wish this game had an animation replay gallery for those who only want to revisit animations and not click through dialogue.

There are many good qualities with this game yet it falls for one of the most basic pitfall there is. Lots of content with plenty of characters, to the point it all feels so bloated. Not to mention that to progress with the LIs you need to go through a checklist of inane questions geared to getting to know them but it just feels robotic and monotone.

You slog through dialogue after dialogue where nothing really gets said. It's nice if you want long conversations of nothing but I expected more action.

I don’t write a lot of reviews but for this game I just want to mention a few things about the character ;


Great selections of character from different races ( especially the mix of Asians) My favorite is the most talented beautiful girl Whitney Not a lot of disable girls are in games and that’s why she is so special being part of the main game .Noting has been written about this special character on the future content but i am sure she will play an important role in MC's search for his father.

MC's behavior is very good none of those bulsits you see in every other games.

All scenes are fully rendered & animations are great how ever becomes a grind when you have to go through so many questions to ask which push couple of dates before lay down to bed.

The game is also great because you can choose who you want to build relationship and drop off those you are not interested. unlike some games you just have to stick with character you don’t like.

Lastly it is great to see the developer has FAO which you rarely or see in VN games ... good customer relation build up and i feel really part of the game.

All in all great game 5/5 stars

what can i said, game have more lady.. than i can count in Arabic.. 18 to milf only missing is loli... but hey you don't need Epstein island to have harem, and fun in porn game. so yeah a lot fish and they have story! and there also other ethnic in the game! even on wheel!! (wish she was slim modal like one in IG ) GOOD game is defo not blueball game.

An okay game.

There’s a decent collection of characters and fetishes, represented by their profile photos you can select to spend time with.

The writing is convenient and is there to maximise the sex scene configurations. So are the love interests. For the most part, no one cares if the MC is a raging manwhore.

There’s a story backdrop to all of this but this gets swallowed up by the love interests and is barely there. Kind of like the photo profiles as they slowly take up more and more of the space in the game…

The renders and sex animations are ok. It starts off a little grainy and improves a little over time.

2.5/5

v6.15.1

The game and sandbox mechanics itself is worth 5 stars. We haven't even talked about the story, characters, lewd scenes yet.

Seriously all sandbox devs should take notes from the dev of this game. The sandbox is well designed and thought of. Almost every game info and detail a player needs is presented clearly in 1 or 2 screens and is not cluttered, theres minimal navigating around. Everything is so organized. Quality of life features i never thought i needed in a sandbox until now.
Gallery is game changing, the sex scenes are the full scene and additionally it also includes the non-sex scenes like conversations, hangouts and dates, something you never see in every other game.
Wonder if dev was a ux/ui designer background? The User Experience is amazing!!!

Now the story. Main plot is not very prominent, investigating your missing father. Can't talk much about it at this time as its pretty early still in the storyline.
The bulk of the plot is basically individual character stories and theres many of them. Some are boring while others are pretty good. You can choose to ignore or pursuit them though some characters share questlines but for the most part the character questlines are mostly independent of each other. I'm not gay so i avoid all male love interests and remain as friends only.
I generally love most of these character stories. My only complains are that they tend to have short chapters and relationships progress too quick, likely due to the enormous cast of LIs. Also i wish the character storyline intersect with each other more instead of the mostly standalone format.

Characters have quite varied personalities, attitude and outlook with their own backgrounds and character stories. So far i'm liking most of them and they do get reasonable doses of character development.
Like mentioned before, i wish they get much more hefty personal storylines and bring down the relationship progression a notch. Maybe dev should have cut down on the number of LIs, to be frank theres some overlap in several character archetypes. Then again there are 1 or 2 side characters i wish were LIs like the single mother friend of your LI or that subscriber chick in your LI's livestream. The single mother is a treasure trove for storytelling & a unique LI archetype, dev should really add her in.

Lewd content is fairly vanilla so far but theres something for everyone. Theres sub/dom, roleplay, cucking, sharing etc but are pretty mild, don't worry they are optional/avoidable.
The scenes are a mixed bag though. Some are well choreographed, full blown scenes that are hot while others are too short and more like flipping through slides, underwhelming. You do get repeatable scenes where you can choose positions and so on.
I prefer proper choreographed scenes with banter and all, so this is a 50-50 for me. Half the scenes are really good, the other half are forgettable.
Animations, its done well enough for the most part but the repeat loop is too obvious.

Game has voice acting. I generally play in silent mode but i have to give credit where credit is due. The VA is professionally done, i was pleasantly surprised.

Definitely looking forward to more content updates. Every sandbox player and dev should play this game and learn from it.

Came back to this game recently and was pleasantly surprised. Good development, strong character progression, wide range of fetishes, good and improving graphics with complementary animations, and even some voice acting.

Originally I believed this was just another average game and skipped over subsequent updates but I am very happy to have been proven wrong. I definitely recommend checking it out!

PROS
- It's about what you'd expect from a Ren'Py VN.
- Lots of characters
- Pretty up there artwork and animations
- Most of the characters are very well designed
- Some decent backstories
- Some kinks to choose from

Cons
- A lot of the characters are bland and short lived, or the ones that are interesting have little content/direction.
- You have very few options to actually change the outcome past a yes/no outcome (Do you want to x with x? Y/N)
- Political agenda hamfisted throughout the game
- The kinks that are included in the game are pretty surface-level and generalized.
- Some of the characters just look inhuman to me

This is everything that a sandbox should have.
- Hint system
- Progression tracker
- "Skip time" function
- How many and what kind of scenes you can see with a character
- Whether or not you've seen all the content with a character
- Actual explanations for the game mechanics
- Options to pursue whichever character you want and even block ones you don't want
- Everything. Is. Just. So. Fucking. Organized.
- And the list goes on. It really does. I just can't remember all of them.
Every developer who wants to make sandbox should play this game and take notes. It's not "making the game easier" to have these QoL features in the game.

It's just that none of the character models look good. Some of them even look hideous. That's the one caveat about this game but it's a pretty big one.
It deters me from playing the game but all the game features are so FUCKING amazing that it's cathartic so I can't bring myself to give it anything less than 4 stars.

Seriously, fuck this game. It is so good that I will constantly compare other games to this one. Come Home is a very good sandbox game where you can really persue the women you want. A lot of sandbox games give you the illusion of choice, and you end up having to go through all the storylines to progress. This game is very different in that regard. There are 20 partners you can interact with and they all feel fairly realistic. Not to mention that the variety of women is very nice.

The writing is very good and it actually feels like you are reading a book at times. The basic story is that your father has disappeared without a trace, which causes you to come back home after studying abroad. This triggers various events to happen.

This game is just very good and I can't get enough of it. I highly recommend this one.