Ren'Py - Corruption Ring [v0.14] [Ecchi Abyss]

The game is not bad, maybe it has a bit of grind, although I edited the savegame and added money.
Corruption is "fast" with this trick, otherwise the game would be too slow.
What I don't agree with is the way the creator acts. He releases an update and disappears for months. Since 2019 when this game was released, it has had few updates.
The problem is that each update is tiny. Today I found version 0.11 on my hard drive and tried to download version 0.13 (the last public one) and there were only two scenes for Mia.
The updates are so small that I would never think of paying a Patreon for this game.
All this added to the neglect of the creator.

before i start my humble Review of this game, i want reader to know "English is not my first language"

Game Story, is Terrible or pig poop because sandbox i give a chance to play it, my gosh is terrible mc homeless than meet surcubus than mc got mom and dad and sister.. game storyline is from 2019... a 4 year+ story is like not been develop or improve is like game design to milk cash, base on not much going on in the game...

Graphic/model well is from 2019 but this remind me 2001 PS2 virtual fighter model... if game is free yes okay..

my opinion.. game is terrible.. 4 year pass feel like game was made 6 month ago..

Writing: 5/10
Imagery: 6/10
Gameplay: 5/10
Kinks: 7/10
Overall: 6/10

The one ring to fuck them all.

Well, with a lot of help from a succubus.

The story is kind of whatever, guy finds a ring after becoming homeless, goes back to his family and uses it on them to move back in and fuck his sisters and mother. He learns there's shady government types looking for him now because of the ring, and he needs to help a succubus so she will help him by giving him energy to use on the women and men around him.

This suffers a bit from being a sandbox, like many others, you need to grind to get anywhere. Money used on buying off notoriety and energy charges from the succubus, which you can then use on the women to progress their sex line.

Sadly as of the current state you an only go all the way with the little sister, mom, and the convenience store clerk. The older sister and your boss at the cafe are off the table. You can also mess with the dad, but that's just to make him less perspective and more accepting of NTR.

Models are also kind of whatever, very base stuff here, the positive is the sex scenes do all feature an animation at one point or another. Still, they are just really basic and without much alteration.

Just "average" in its current state.

Good game, but not great.

The Good: The plot is what I like, and the developer does a good job of balancing things between the money you need to get charges, the money you can earn, and the angels out to kill you if the suspicion goes too high without making it too much of a grind as of version 0.12.

The Bad: Typical translation problems that come with most games on the site, but not the worst out there by a long shot. Biggest issue I had was identifying with the MC during the prologue. The dialogue indicated that he was a homeless bum simply because he didn't want to get a job and contribute to the household finances and just wanted to drink all day and mooch off of his grandfather until everyone had enough and kicked him out. It was only later that we find out that the mother dumped him on a negligent to the point of abuse grandfather and when she was around she was overly controlling. My suggestion is to speed run until you get to the sandbox.

some points: intro, the font used, corruption message at night, Mia without animation in the last build, and others.

Intro: The intro needs to be redone, especially the issue of images, they look older.

Font: This font is striking with shadow, bold. I think it would be good to use a less strong font and use italics for thoughts (sometimes it is impossible to differentiate thoughts from speech with other characters.

Corruption Message:The message of corruption at night in the girls' bedroom is practically useless once we know it, it gets repetitive.

0.13: In version 0.13 Mia has no animations during sex, but there are images, an apparent decision by the developer.

Yes, the game is good, it's worth playing, I miss more content like with the succubus, Lilly (maybe turning her boyfriend into a cuckold), maybe adding petplay and bdsm, ensuring that the girls in the game are only from mc or no (if the player chooses), and close to finishing, jack gives the house to the mc so he can take the girls to live there, add a dugeon, get them pregnant, and add sub/dom systems (i don't know if liked little sister dom)

It's a great game i like it and i think the people who are into mind control and incest would enjoy it if you are into it like i am and you should definitely play this game . I am giving this 4 stars for a few reasons and if you dont really care about story then must play it . Some suggestions for dev are as follows:-
1. Discord server:- This is the second time i am asking you about it because i dont wanna lose you , you are making great game as per my taste . Discord server is a necessity because incest porn is banned by patreons ,i know a dev who is earning 1200 -1600 $ a moths and his patreon just got ban with any notice and he didnt make a discord server so he lost all his patreons . So if you continue like this the same thing can happen to you too . So make a discord server so if something like this happens you can transfer your audience .
2. Add story :- In first i think this game has a story but i get less story content than i expected i think you should focus on story a bit . Atleast with lily and that demon lady .
3 . Dont focus on one girls at a time .
4. Expend more on other platform like itch and subscribestar ( you did it ) also add some pictures as last time i see your itch page it didn't have any pics .
5 . Add more fetishes like bdsm slave pregnancy etc ( i think you have planned this )
6. I didn't know whats up with mind control/ corruption games dev they like us to grind a lot for what engaging us for their games or what . Dev if you r seeing this pls make the game less grind or make us earn a lot of money in future in cafe and that Emma shop .

Decent game with corruption trainer mechanics. The sandbox isn't hard to navigate. The story is a bit generic but the execution is good.

There's roughly 2-3 hours of content in v0.09. IMO its underrated.

Good Points
+ Prologue's story was good, especially starting the game as a homeless young guy was interesting.

Bad Points
- While the prologue story was interesting after the prologue the game story becomes one of cliche corruption game stories.
- Girls/Women used to look attractive years ago, not anymore.
- Animations were decent years ago, not anymore, now even best ones looks poor, and newest update v0.14 didn't even had proper animations, it had some static terrible ''animations''
- Visual/Art style used to look decent years ago, now it looks quite poor, old, and bad.
- The game is quite grindy, especially in the first hours of gameplay, corruption level-ups take too much ingame time and money, charges are too expensive, and like these are not grindy enough you need to pay money to lower your investigation level as well.
- There is no time skip button anywhere in the HUD, so every time you need to skip the time you have to do something like going home, then your room, and skipping the time.
- The game English is quite bad, there are lots of problems like a lack of subjects in the dialogues, grammar problems, typos, etc, and it makes understanding the game kind of hard.
- Gallery is bugged, some events don't show up there despite opening them in the game like Amelia's level 3 room and changing, etc.
- Some girls like Amelia and Emma can use some changes. Emma's head and face look big and it's not fitting for her body size. Amelia's face and head look big, not fitting for her body size and her hair is unattractive as well. Both can use some change, but Amelia is far worse than Emma, she should be the first one to need some changes, especially considering she is one of the main girls (family members) of the game.
- The game solely based on corruption routes, it's lacks diversity because of not having any romantic relationship developments with the women/girls.
- Despite being a sandbox for progressing the game everything has to be done, so nothing is avoidable, non of girls, jack scenes, etc.
- After 2-3 years of hiatus the game is back, and weirdly enough it's back without any improvements for uncompleted parts of the game from before, some events like sleep events, etc, are still uncompleted. And the visually terrible-looking prologue is still unchanged as well.
- Some scenes like Mia's scene in the club bathroom is unavoidable.
- Amelia's ''conversation with mother'' events were nonsense AF.
- Latest update v0.14 was terrible, it had even worse animations than oldest versions of the game, had very nonsense story about Mia's job, and some other stuff, it's just straight up weird this game become worse with every new update to be honest.

For The End
Honestly, this game had potential back in the day, but DEV couldn't execute that potential well and done poor job with it, he could have make the game reach that potential after coming back from hiatus, but the game is even worse than before now, and thanks to being really bad it has very a few players/supporters, I was one of rare people playing and hoping it will become better, but with v0.14 I decided to stop playing as well, shame this game become like this, it could have been soo much better.