Ren'Py - Covenant of Morn [v0.5] [395games]

PROS
+ The story is kind of interesting, and not poorly-written in most parts.
+ Visual style looks unique, especially the usage of lights, and place designs are quite interesting.
+ Animation physics is well-made.

CONS
- Story-wise MC doesn't really feel interesting or likeable, his motives are not really logical either, he got reanimated, and he accepted deal from a witch he saw in his life first time just because of wanting have more sexy time with her, wanna feel her lips more, etc, BRUH...
- Not just MC, most of the other characters are not that likable either, and they are quite inconsistent with themselves, etc.
- Again there is a mechanic like the curse in the other game, and this time it's called ''Life Points'' that force you to have sex with girls before you lose all of them, or you face with game over, which feels lame, and copy & paste from the old game of the DEV.
- Now there are another mechanic called ''Date Points'' you need to accure via hanging out with girls, or working, etc, to see their content like dates, sex scenes, etc, even tho it kind of makes sense, feels bit annoying, and little bit grindy.
- Minigames are boring, and kind of tedious, some are skiblabe after doing them first time, so that's plus at least.
- Your choices not really matters, and sanbox doesn't give you any real freedom aside from ''exploration'' parts either, if you don't count those parts then the whole sandbox thing feels unnecesary AF, in fact the game could be Visual Novel even with those parts included with no problem at all.
- There is too much unnecessary text/dialogue, it makes things boring, and tedious.
- Even tho visual style is unique, and colors, and place designs, etc, looks good, can't say same for characters, characters has unnnecesary cartoonish look on them, they look weird, and not attaractive at all, considering this is an adult game this is biggest con this game has, females are not appealing at all, and MC doesn't look good either.
- Stock red stick figures used for common people look weird, and bad.
- Sex scenes are not appealing, they are quite poor, especially thanks to character models.

VERDICT
Honestly this game straight up downgrade to the old game of the DEV, can't see it's worth playing with the current CONS I talked about it, shame tho, this game could have been soo much better.

Fantastic new game from the creator of MIST. The game is truly awesome and very unique. The story is dark, immersive, bizarre and interesting to the extent where I still would be playing this game even without any porn for the sake of story alone. But lewd content is, of course, present and makes this game way more enjoyable. Scenes here are less of a pure debauchery but about intimacy and nonetheless still are very lewd.

The UI is great, there is practically nothing left from basic Ren'py features and design. Locations all unique too, everything I saw in the game world, I didn't see anywhere else. That concerns characters too; from their looks to their behavior, they are all fresh, have unique, interesting personalities and in general are great waifus. MC thanks God, is a normal human male - dedicated, has balls, decisive. He doesn't irritate, or do braindead stuff, or behave like an edgy soyboy loser)

Sound and music are very atmospheric and play a big part in immersion in the new fantastic world, where everything was made from scratch, and thanks to it, feels very fresh and unique.

If you think that I overused the word "unique" then maybe you are right, but this word is the best way to describe games of this Dev.

V0.5

Although is a work in progress, CoM has all the quality I expected 395games showed in Mist. I think the renders are beautiful and an improvement over Mist, Kasia's model is one of the best renders I've seen in a 3-D NSFW game and the lighting in some scenes is marvelous.

Story-wise I'm engaged, though is a little bit early in the development yet, I think there are some rough corners in the script that I think will be improved in the future, people don't remember that Mist early content was completely re-worked as the game became more polished.

Don't get me wrong this is not a bad game but somewhat feels inferior to "Mist", the lore and plot is fantasy and can be a bit strange to get into for some including me, previous game was straightforward harem. This game is a bit different; it is harem alright but lots of backstory loaded into characters, which is good but didn't appeal to me unfortunately. And stock red stick figures are lackluster. You should try this game your take might be entirely different.

The graphics in this game are stunning, with details that make every scene visually striking and immersive. The story is captivating and well-crafted, keeping players intrigued with every twist and turn. It's an experience that perfectly combines narrative and aesthetics, setting a new standard of quality for the genre!

I am really enjoying this game so far. The atmosphere is dark, mysterious and different. The music perfectly complements the scenes. I like the characters so far. The premise is interesting - it is a weird mix of dark medieval fantasy that I really enjoy. The art is quite unique too and is different from the games that I am used to.

I am looking forward to seeing how the story progresses.

The legend is back again omg all the previous games he made were out of this world. Full support to him. The animations are on par with AAA stuff. I truly believe this dev needs an award. The top 1% game here

Here at F95Zone, there are numerous adult games, but among those I've played, only a few truly capture my attention. In my opinion, these rare gems manage to keep me engaged, compelling me to read every dialogue and become intrigued by the story and its developments. Covenant of Morn is one such game. While it lacks certain elements I personally enjoy in a game—such as pregnancy (which may or may not be feasible given the MC's condition)—I hope the developer considers incorporating features like this in the future. The intricacies of pregnancy, along with additional scenes of passion and other elements, could add even more depth to the experience.

Now, onto the specifics of the game:

• The gameplay is impressively engaging for a Ren'Py project.
• The renders are outstanding.
• The dialogue is well-crafted and immersive.
• The story stands out as refreshingly unique compared to other games I've played here.

These are my two cents as a contribution to a review. Congratulations to the developer (or team of developers)—I hope you continue delivering such excellent work!

I'm really surprised with the plot, story and the background of the characters. The design of characters is good, the animation is smooth, too bad it's still early and don't have enough of content in it. It's really good and i can't wait for the next update of the story. Need to know more about MC back stories.

You can really feel that that a great deal of care has been put into every single aspect of the game.
Every single visual und audio asset seems to be handcrafted and makes for a very unique and fresh experience, compared to other adult games that feel very rehashed.
The world, story and characters have depth to them and are intriguing and the sex scenes have build-up and tension with handcrafted and excellent animations that are accompanied by amazing audio effects. I usually mute moaning in sex scenes since in most games it takes me out of the experience due to it being repetitive and/or seeming out of place but this game really nails it. I can't wait for the next update.

Pros: decent writing. Somewhat interesting personalities for the women.
immersive cutscenes that are actually worth not skipping. They're well done, and other developers could learn from them.
Cons: everyone looks wierd.
Minigames are annoying.

I was surprised that I was slightly disappointed when it ended, not because I enjoyed it, but because I wasn't 100% ready to give up on it. Only like 99.8%.
I'm going to start with the main point: everyone looks WIERD. The protagonist is cold-corpse-blue, which makes sense at the start when he is literally waking up as a corpse, but is rather unnecessary everywhere else. I'm not sure what purpose it serves, in terms of making a compelling product. I think most people's suspension of disbelief, if it allows "the protagonist is a zombie," will allow "the protagonist is a zombie with human colored flesh." Or maybe it's just me. And he has tatoos on his penis. Why? Don't know.
Girl 1, Enna, is good looking. She has two big scars over her eyes, which are blind-cloudy-grey, but it doesn't render her ugly. Theoretically, I like human diversity, so that's ok, even if it doesn't make her as attractive as she might have been without whatever happened to her eyes. But something about her face just doesn't seem quite right. The contours or something are unhumanish, and from certain angles it moderately disrupts things for me. And her boobs are meh, as is her pussy. When a girl gets naked, I should be happy about it, and with her, I'm not.
Girl two, Moran, is a snake demon. With scales, fangs, superhuman deepthroating ability, and a very I'm-blanking-on-the-word-it's-not-quite-'volatile'-it's-more-playful-but-I'm-not-sure-what-to-call-it-but-I-think-there's-a-good-word-for-it-somewhere-in-English-'whimsical'-that's-it!-but-I'm-in-too-deep-to-go-back-and-insert-it personality. And she's mostly hot. The snake stuff doesn't do it for me (except the deepthroating, but humans can do that too), but her monsteryness doesn't ruin her as a LI. Still, I don't find her super attractive.
Girl three, Kataryzieinfeijsaa (I think I spelled that right) aka Kasia, really doesn't do it for me. When naked, her proportions seem awkward. She has TONS of stretch marks, (which normally don't bother me, but her skin makes it look almost like she once gave birth to a horse that was pregnant with an elephant), saggy boobs, and unerotic nipples. She's a miss for me, even with my weakness for redheads.
The writing is good, but there are problems, like not explaining whatever the fuck demons and demonic posession are. And things like why can't demons just rip the heads off of excorsists, given their strength.
The protagonist is kind of weak as a character. He's hard to relate to. Seems just blown across his path like a tumbleweed, without much personality or individuality or character or anything.
The women have personalities, and they aren't just cliches. Overall, that's good. At the same time, they're all kinda' annoying. Enna, despite (or perhaps because of it? That would be less annoying) her magical connection to the protagonist, pushes him away all the fucking time. It's like she wants a slow burn, with a guy she literally kissed back to life and had sex with before the first date. V0.4 and she won't even let you sleep in the same bed even though you fucked who does that??? And she's really annoying when she's being closed off, which is almost all the time. I get being closed off, but she's very anti-sweet about it. If that makes sense.
Moran is a demon, so she's deliberately irritating (or uses that as an excuse to be deliberately irritating) at times. Fine.
Kasia The minigames are not great. I've certainly seen worse, and they wouldn't be a deal-breaker on their own, but they're not very challenging, or rewarding, or skippable. The exploration minigames are worse. There's a place you have to explore that you get kicked out of if you stay too long, but you get kicked out way too quickly. It feels less like a challenge and more like a way to force you to spend several in-game-days on the exploration to make it seem longer.
In one minigame, I failed one because I reacted TOO quickly. On my laptop touchpad.
The sex scenes: it's too soon to give a definitive opinion here, and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to play future versions, but the sex scenes don't do it for me. The ones with Enna are kind of bland, and the ones with Moran are right at the border of consent. They were a little creepy at times, even though I was pretty confident she wanted it. And they wouldn't have been that great regardless.

Overall, it was almost entirely unrewarding for me, and at no point did I really want to keep playing. So I'm not going to.

Coming from their previous game - MIST, this one is a huge disappointment, sure it's technically still not finished (I think so, I don't see a complete tag, so I have to assume it's not finished), not only do the girls are less attractive, there are absolutely no bulges, no cock growth, creampies aren't animated, there are very few actual penetration animations in the current scene.

Big let down.

Renders are great, gameplay is atmospheric and rmeidns me of the best parts of MIST, though I REALLY wish dungeon/Veils had like 4 times the stamina/duration amount. Because getting kicked back and having to retrace steps kinda sucks. Even with rolling back to optimize my path I still had to cycle time and re-enter in excess of double-digits, and just getting back to continue every time got real boring real fast.

really enjoying it so far. it's on the slower side but that's good, at least for me. the character models look far better than on MIST. the story so far has been intriguing. the animations are also very well done, hopefully more are one the way. all the very best with this project

I bought the game on itch.io, but since I come here often I wanted to leave a review. I'll keep it short.

Masterpiece. Intriguing story. Mostly complex characters. Absolutely stunning renders and animations. Sensual sex scenes. Great, albeit spotty sound. Pace of the development is also consistent and relatively fast, considering the quality that's being delivered.

Finally gave this one a playthrough. Another great piece of work coming from the developer of MIST. Visually its a leap forward. Excellent sound design. Really looking forward to seeing more of this game. Minigames are skippable, sandbox seems pretty manageable so far.

version played v0.3.2

Awesome, under appreciated game!

Game play: Yeah this is a game, not many of those on this site. Most of them are just shitty VN where you sit back watch, get blue balls, and then wait for the next update.

Cut scenes: Are gorgeous. Not sure how they got this level of detail but it's awesome.

Looking forward to purchasing the full game once it is out.

The game feels like a 3.5-4 but I can't really rate 3.5 so I'd have to go with a 3. First off, graphically it looks awesome, the animations are awesome, and its got good sound and music and "cutscenes". There are no issues in that department. However, the writing is tedious as hell and you don't get a choice in how your character is. He's just a huge doofus, written to be really aloof for some reason even though you're specifically brought back to be a champion and to slay her sister. A lot of the dialogue is also just very filler feeling, it's just dialogue to fill the time between scenes, nothing more nothing less. While I do really like seeing humans as the blobs due to your connection to the Morn, I wish there was more of an explanation and more lore or backround added besides just some mysterious "veil;" or whatever. Aside from the boring, tedious writing and mediocre MC, I have to say that grinding these dumb ass minigames is pointless as hell. What idiot thought it was a good idea to have you work in the shop to grind for date points to progress the relationship with these characters who you don't even get a choice in how you approach them? Not to mention some of these minigames are just completely dumb and unplayable, like fishing. Have you never fished before in your life? Why would you put a cursor speeding along a bar and having to click it at the perfect time as your fishing minigame? It has nothing to do with it. I could keep rambling on but overall, this game is a massive disappointment. There's a lot of good here but I feel like it's just being crushed by a large pile of garbage that detracts from the whole experience.

Review for Covenent of Morn v0.3.3

Overall: 4/5 - I played this game for the first time at version 0.3.3. There is a lot to like about this game, and I give it the credit it deserves for what it is trying to be. However, in my opinion, it's not erotic, it's just weird, and it would be better without explicit sex. I'm sure there are players that like it, but I'm bowing out.

Story: 4/5 - There's a good story here. Much more story than is needed for an adult game.

Writing: 5/5 - The writing is great, but to be honest, it's over-the-top and wasted on this type of game.

Renders: 4/5 - Most renders are really good. However, normal people are depicted as red doll-like forms with no face, no hands, and no feet. What the actual fuck? The excuse given in the story about why they are seen that way seems like a cheap excuse for the dev to not use/create models of real people for all of the scenes.

Animations: 4/5 - Animations are good, and they are used more frequently than most games, and not just in lewd scenes.

Sound: 3.5/5 - The sounds are all fairly quiet even with the volume turned up. The music is kind of generic, but at least it's not super loud or super annoying, same for the sound effects, and that makes the sound above average.

Gameplay: 4/5 - The sandbox UI is very well done and new features are introduced slowly, which helps with any learning curve a player might have. The store minigame is boring and is a rip-off from other games. There are several choices that can lead to a very early game-over. Not sure why they even exist other than to taunt players.

Content: 4/5 - There's a lot of story content and a some lewd content. The lewd content is just too weird to be erotic. The story doesn't say it, but the MC is basically a zombie. The first two lewd scenes are a zombie having sex with a blind witch and a zombie getting a blowjob from a demon with reptilian skin. Combine that with all of the "normal" people being doll-like with no face or hands or feet and I don't intend to stick around and see how the content gets "better". It's just not for me.

I played v 0.3.2

Riveting. The opening contains a very brief period of atmospheric tension, then the full force of 395games's storytelling comes hard and fast with engaging characters and rich world-building. Of course, the art is fantastic (as can be seen in the preview stills), and the animations do not disappoint. While light on gameplay, mostly focusing on story, there seem to be extended puzzle sections which are thoroughly engaging. I'm only a few hours in, but so far, I'm incredibly impressed.