Ren'Py - Completed - Cure My Addiction [Ch.5 Ep.1 C] [TheGary]

One of the best long games I've played here. Usually with games of these length, if they aren't good enough, most people lose interest halfway and never finish it.

What I want to say though, the best part of the game was that you could never miss scenes, as the tracker made sure you knew if there was scenes left over, and had hints on how to get them. It might take effort and time, but you can't miss it like other games.

Though I wanna say the game peaked at Chp 2, It's not really fair to the developer because honestly, there are plenty of good scenes in every chapter.

Chapter 1 was good, the system and game mechanics meant the game was abit grindy, but in terms of content it definitely delivered.

Chapter 2 like I mentioned, was probably the best of the 5, the story was progressing nicely, and your relationship with the girls was advancing at a good pace. It had all of the good stuff from chapter 1, and none of the grind.

Chapter 3 was the longest chapter, and also probably had the most amount of scenes, though some of them was repeatables from chapter 2. It introduced a few new game mechanics, but unfortunately also brought a sense of reality to how the story was progressing.

Chapter 4 started off well, but was overshadowed by the strong ending. This was also my major gripe of the game. The fact that there was no harem ending. Of course, that was a personal opinion, and others may think positively of how the game's direction ended up.

Chapter 5 was pretty much individual endings of the 3 female characters. And despite the dread I felt from chapter 4, they were surprisingly fun to play through. It was a long journey, and like it or not, you've developed different feelings for each of the girls. Everyone probably have their own favourite at this point of time. I would have really liked it if Rachel and Charlotte was included in the choices available, and also maybe a harem ending, though it doesn't fit the storyline the author had masterfully weaved.

All in all, I'll always remember the great times this story brought me. If you're undecided about whether to invest the long hours required for this game, my verdict is that you'll have to at least try it. It's good enough to at least deserve that.

Most of my opinions have already been said so ill not repeat too much, great game, lot of promise but fails to deliver. I do hope that the dev might read these reviews and consider returning to this project and continuing it or at least remedying the ending. I love this game and it does pain me to see such promise squandered.

The game started okay good with chapter 1 until chapter 3 then suddenly unexpected things happen like it's out of nowhere just bump into player Rachel step back and get cut-off is probably 1 of the stupid way so that she can give chances to daughter. Funny things is Chapter 4 never got to pickup the story again and then it's rush to chapter 5 to get the ending. Dev seems have lost direction or interest in the game. Then we get 3 ending which is Emily, Chloe and Amy and wow only Emily ending make sense but Chloe and Amy is just like to give more options to the story that has been going nowhere. And Rachel again being cutoff just for the sack of logical ending. After playing this game logical probably the last way to think about the story but yeah no Rachel even after those event since chapter 1 to chapter 3. Even Amy and Chloe got their own ending despite MC just fucking their hole in every possible way and considering what Amy has done in the story like blackmail Rachel she deserves an end too. Hahahaha. Sounds like good writing.
Anyway tldr solid game till chapter 3 after that just rush to the end and some characters just got cut off for the sake of logic and if you're looking for Rachel ending just don't play the game so it won't disappoint you. Imagine playing this game to see the character got cut-off in the end. What a waste story is just mediocre at best and some of it just illogical. New edit somehow Rachel got 3 endings by just always be there for MC as if its enough to justify sudden change no ending for Rachel. It's enough for Rachel to not get her own ending. 1 star for render story just meh after Rachel step back, rush to ending, some questionable ending like why the hell Amy's ending instead of Rachel.

Im replaying episode 1 and 2 cause back when i played Ep3 was barely released.

So far i have seen that every chapter has around 1000 files inside the folder, so thats what we are working with. First episode can be good for a story point of view, not free of a Cringy MC which has a lot of Max from BB moments.

For the second playthrough the story is know, so all the bad things raise and gain the spotlight. Mainly a noticeable lack of renders, for starters, nice renders but also long dialogues with static images. Animation if you can call them that, are terrible bad, they are just 2 images repeating, somce scenes last a lot because Dev decided to make 2 iamges repeat 50 times during 40 seconds with no text at all. Terrible terrible work.

Plotwise, i dont care what dev wants to sell, 80% of the game is about Femdom. In this case woman in posistion of power exercising power and submiting people. The Femdom pack comes with footjobs of course and more BDSM kinks, which contain the femdom pack. If you are not into it you are gonna get bored as fuck, cause the game is Antivanilla, there are a couple of options, but mainly sidecharacters, no vaginal during first episode, and the second starts the same way.

Also noticing an aura of plot protection over Chloe. In the beggining of 2 episode, you can have "sex" with Rachel, Emily, Linda, but you can not even touch Chloes ass, someone will come and interrupt you. You can not advance eith her without some tutoring bullshit, im guessing you will need the old hag. And this part is like the BB remake, where the mother had to supervise Liza sex education. In this game it happens with 1, and almost with the other, at least.

This is a review of the overall feeling of the game, visually is quite good, the girls part at least, because the MC is a souless robot. Episode 1 has average posing, episode 2 improves but you can still see some rigid limbs and someone sitting in the air.

The MC personality, wel, he doesnt have really, you dont know where his feelings are, or whos side he is, he doesnt have a word of comfort, he even defends "the bad" even when she is supposed to side with "the good"

Episode 2 starts full Cringe with the MC basically pushing everyone like Max, to fuck in the ass. He basically pushes everyone but Chloe, "because".

He is clearly some sex addict psychopath, but when he is drunk he rejects to take advantage o Chloe with the worst inner dialogue ever: "am i that drunk to take advange of her? im gonna regret it"

Seriously the MC personality is over the place whenever the plot needs it to be, It is kind of like this review.

I had a better memory of this game, and playing it again i now know why it happens: because i was playing for the expectations, and what i was gettting the first time playing ,was enough to keep me going on, but now im doing it with the brain free enough to analyze all the bullshit this game has, which is a lot.

To finish this, i will say that i have been playing with the same underwear for 1 day, i would not wear it to a party, but i would definetly wear it to the store, thats how replayable this game is.

It is not enjoyable, there is this constant violence and bad mood, and power play, everyone is angry all the time, they may have sex but for some reason that is not improving their mood, is like living with your widow grandma. This i know from a friend...

Well this review is amess, kind of like the Mc personlaity.

After spending 2 days playing FF7 with no porn at all i came back to resume palying Ep3, i thought i would be more snsitive to this highly sugestive imagery, but i discovered tha my level of horny was equall or less than playing FF7. This game kind of improves renders a bit, and maybe soe approach to sex scenesm but is aging badly cause it is repetitive, and doesnt offer anything extraordinary. If not for the quality of renders, and some parts of some girls, it would be a 1star.

Ah I would have loved to give it 4.5 but 4 are also good, I love this game and it carried me over a week so it was a good time. I would say though I never got punished as I did my chores on time always. I enjoyed this game immensely and did play all 3 endings in but we all know that Emily is the answer and that is the best ending as well. It was nice seeing all the different variances with the different choices. Every episode was different so always it took a little time to get used to it. A very good game.

I feel like many sandbox games are little too much focused on grinding which may used as a tactic to make players feel more rewarded when they complete any milestone (along with a nice scene), However often times they overdo it and it becomes bland and lose interest quickly.
this review is limited to chapter 1 only , I may update it after playing subsequent chapters.
In CmA, I will say the sandbox is perfect where you actually feel rewarded with the premise fitting for no grinding.

Pros:
Renders are NICE realistic looking body and the curves looks like they actually belong to the person.
Story progress beautifully, player can feel for the characters and experience changes happening to them as player continues with the quests.

Cons:
My only issue with this game is no sound. I mean I would LOVE to hear the spanks and maybe juggle those asses little bit

overall: fan of the game and can't wait to see how it goes on.

This was one of my favorite games so far.

The game has different play styles and game mechanics. The story isn't monotonous. The renderings are fine. I particularly like the character designs and their complexity, espacially of Emily and Chloe. They have their own special kinks, strenghs and flaws. Overall, the content with these two characters is very authentic and there is a real love story in it. I really fell in love with Emily.

What I disliked was the forced MILF content and that the player has to play a character who basically is a dick. He is into control and manipulation. That doesn't make him likeable. I also hoped for more diversity in the repeatable scenes. And there was a series of bugs where the save games got trapped and I couldn't progress, so I had to use savegames from the community.

I hope there will be a sequel with Emily. I can't get enough of this character and her natural attitude.

Very nice renders all around. The story is pretty fresh for a harem game. It has some good twists and very enjoyable characters. The BDSM aspect is very high so if thats something for you then this game does it some good deed.
I think without the very good walkthrough this game would not be playable though. Too many very cryptic quest descriptions and convoluded paths.
The endings were very nice and unique for the characters

This game is a collectible for sure. Great job dev... looking forward to more games from you! maybe dive into something 3d with more options during sex. However worth playing ... had lots of fun I would recommend this one for lonely night in!

The grind in this game is so boring somtimes it feels i unlocked new things but then the same scenes playing again hints are usless And that was only chapter 1 Should just have added a cheat button or mod for this game

I do not mind tedious or grindy sandbox games, but this particular culprit is too much for me. You will find yourself clicking hundreds of times just to progress one step since the hints are awful. You might be studying at 2 instead of 3 or maybe you cleaned at the wrong time of day. All that coupled with the fact that there IS a way to game over if you don't complete certain weekly thresholds, just adds a layer of stress that does not make the grind enjoyable at all. Needs WAY better hints and icons showing you were ppl are at certain times. Maybe even a color showing that progression can or cannot take place at a certain location. I really wanted to like this game. The overarching story is fine and the characters are decent and it could have worked to being a great game.

TLDR: Game ruined by more grind than I have every played through. how to progress is confusing.

This game really deserves a 3 star but because of Emily it gets 4.
I'm addicted to Emily, that's why I keep coming back. Sexy redhead, saucy minx, and Anal Slut. Perfect Waifu.
Honestly the game has some problems.
The grind is real, it gets pretty severe in chapter 3, and will test a lot of players patience to get through.
Dialogue is a bit wooden.
Not sure if English is the Devs first language, and there is nothing wrong with the translation, if it isn't, but there is something a little off about the character interactions.
Almost seems like since the MC is a Dom, he can't be affectionate in his speech to any of the girls. They also seem to emotionally keep him at a distance, so real intimacy seems a bit lacking at times.
Emily seems to be almost in love, but it's frustrating cause there is not much real emotional connection shown by the way they speak to each other. They have been together for a very long time, and no one has said the "L" word in a meaningful way yet. Wait...Amy did, but she took it back.
If you are not into spanking, and Femdom, some of the scenes will be pretty boring, or downright offensive.
Borderline abusive sometimes. Spanking and Femdom aren't my kink, I'm just here for Emily.
Severe lack of meaningful choice.
Pretty much just grinding the time to unlock all the content. Would have been nice to be able to close off some of the romance paths and focus on a single girl (Emily) by chapter 3. Also would have cut out a lot of the grind, to not have to see every scene with every girl.
Finally, Please Dev, for the love of God, give me a solo Emily ending.
Would break my heart to have come all this way, and be forced into some silly harem. Rachel ending would be nice also, she's a lovely Sub.
So that's pretty much it. If you love sexy redheads as much as I do, Emily is one of the best I've seen. And if you aren't afraid of some real grinding, she is worth it.

I'm following this game since chapter 1 and this is my first review. I normally don't write it but i wanted to write this time.

- Story isn't mindblowing yet not so cheap. I enjoyed the development of the story especially in chapter 3.
- Design of the girls is really hot, i really enjoyed just seeing the girls without sex scenes
- Unfortunately grinding is really bad and getting worse in every chapter. Not animation on sex scene not helping either. So i deleted 1 star from there.

I really enjoy this game even with the grinding because girls really worth it. Especially Rachel and Emily. If you have spanking and bdsm stuff you'll love Chloe more. Even Susan growed in me with her femdom stuff.

4/5

A porn-addicted young adult gets sent to his uncle's luxury yacht to be disciplined, aka spanked by his (in law) aunt for not clicking on little buttons on your monitor at the right in-game time of day, or not clicking them enough times. Eventually, if he clicks a lot of little buttons everyday, he is promoted to spanking lieutenant and gets to spank his (in law? step? natural? must have skipped that part, oh well) cousins. Then he gets to spank them more freely and finally at will. Oh and btw the uncle owns a procurement and distribution firm that services the military and our hero eventually starts managing contracts for them from a penthouse he apparently never leaves. Credit where due, the setting/plot is pretty unique. Writing is fine for a porno gaem - technically ok and doesn't try too hard to be edgy/cool/deep/funny.

The renders are nothing special either on aesthetics or quality terms, decent for models and textures and above average for lighting and environments. I've seen maybe 5 animations in the game files, none of which are anything special either. The sex scenes are mostly still images which is usually a big minus for me unless there are other redeeming features like an interesting fetish/story setup or superb gfx. In this game they are mediocrely -rendered and -lit, and generic as all fuck. And, of course, spanking. Spanning hours of in-game time, and likely actual time as well if you complete all the quests. Good god damn that's a lot of spanking scenes. Sometimes you stick things into their holes but not without some spanking to spice things up. Yeah maybe not so much when you're doing it to every chick around every hour and the premise is that it's punishment for not doing your homework/chores.

Still, a few of the scenes with bondage equipment are good, so if that's your fix you may rate this higher than me.

The sandbox grind is physically painful. Like for real, clicking this many buttons all over a screen hurts my eyes. That pain is amplified manifold by the fact that none of it leads to a satisfying reward. I'll get to spank a girl, she will respond blandly and we'll both act like nothing's happened afterwards (guess that's part of the 'maintain discipline' fetish). Sometimes I'll have sex, but the h-scenes are so trite and indistinguishable from each other they might as well be the same one over and over.

Ultimately this game seems tailored to the sort of person for whom arousal is primarily about affirmation of the concept that one needs to methodically complete a series of tasks, including orderly spanking sessions on both sides of the power dynamic, in order to achieve coitus. I somewhat get the psychology behind that. It's a very specific type of bdsm fetish but does nothing for me.

About 90% less spanking, 200% more animated scenes (given the available content) and -999999x more sandbox tedium would make this a 4 star for me. As it is, and also due to the lack of a walkthrough/gallery/cheat mod, it merits one star and more than one tedious spanking session.

One of the best games to play if you are a fan of femdom and anal. Very comprehensive (spans 4 chapters). Has trainer elements to it (you teach someone to become your servant/slave over time) and a decent plot to boot.

This isn't one of those games where the girls just willingly submits to the MC's requests immediately but builds up over these four chapters.


Semi-spoilers:

My complaint is chapter 3 is a bit redundant given you have to repeat events in chapter 2. In fact, I would suggest that chapters 1-2 could be combined into 1 longer game with emphasis on the yacht while 3-4 are merged into 1 game, but that's trivial. The tracker in Chapter 3 is ugly AF and should be reworked.

The grind system in chapter 4 takes too many clicks. The hours should be reduced from 16-21 hours to like 10-15 IMO.

My ranking:
Chapter 2 -> Chapter 4 -> Chapter 1 -> Chapter 3

I highly recommend starting from chapter 1, don't jump straight to chapter 4 without learning the family's dynamics and inclinations to their preferential fetishes.

This is worth your time. Start with Chapter 1; it's worth it. If you jump in later you'll have no idea what is going on, and you'll miss crucial context and character development.

Would you start playing Mass Effect with the Shadow Broker DLC? Would you start watching Star Wars at TRoTJ?

Seriously there are like 3-4 games that have held my attention consistently over the last 3 years and this is one of them.

Also, some of the best scenes are in CH.1. There are plenty of kinks for everyone especially if you like anal play.

Played Chapter 4 only. Often games improve with time but this gave me such a bad impression it put me off trying previous chapters.

Some of the girls are pretty cute and the menus have some keyboard shortcuts. Those are the only positive.
Scenes are weak, with huge emphasis on spanking.
None of the characters is likable.
Worst is the boring repetitive grind and tasks that even with the hint system are hard to get (still often have to mindlessly click in every room to find someone) and certainly not fun nor satisfying.

solid sandbox game.
polished, enough content, no grind, examplary ingame tips system
4 star for me (though looks like most games i review are 4 st :] )

i added 5th star just to try mitigate ridiculous comments&rates of novel readers.
look, CMA is a rare example with zero grind. (excluding some choruses in ch1, or studing in ch2)
what bright minded VNers call grind is typical quest system of some sandboxes. (some comparable games may require you to, indeed, grind some relationship scores, mood, love-lust ... if you for some reason dont use cheats)
and "repetition" is also a part of how the things work in such sandboxes if you get into location during a wrong time.
and "fake choices" is because you dont get here dick/chick scores like you do in your VNs. you progress by other means.
and no walls of text or poetic char development is also due to it being not a book. play, not read.
it is not minuses and cons, you, 1-star geniouses.
really why would you leave such useless whine about it not being a VN or your frustation with actual games UI and gameplay. just go read your books.

so why 4 stars.
renders. half of gials faces are kinda so-so at best. granny is even scary. doc and mom are somewhat weird (eyes as usual).
progression. i played up to 50% of chapter 2 and kinda became bored:
- content started to be perceived as something recycled;
- lewdness became rather omnipresent so any "reward" didnot give any satisfaction (moral or otherwise)
- too many minor quests (often short and with similar actions) which didnot contribute to any immersion; such just lost their 'value' and became forgettable.

Unfortunately, I must qualify my 5 star ratings, since I averaged the quality of each chapter, I ended up with around 4.5, which I then rounded up.

Chapter 1 - 5 stars
Chapter 2 - 5 stars
Chapter 3 - 4.5 Stars
Chapter 4 - 3.5 Stars
Average - 4.5 Stars

I opted to round up because truly I think this is one of the highest quality games of its kind out there, and I will go through each chapter to qualify them.

Chapter 1 - A solid game, lots of content, the art wasn't the best in the world, but it was fun to play, the even tracker was easy to use, and it just kept getting more and more interesting as the game went one. There were of course some problems, but nothing that I would be willing to complain about.

Chapter 2 - Probably the best chapter in this game, the art is the same in this chapter as the next 2 chapters, meaning its high quality, a solid upgrade, the event tracker is easier to use, and the game was definitely building up. I like that the events are now sticky so that you can put them on the main screen and thus make them easier to follow. This game is massive so the walkthrough its a godsend.

Chapter 3 - I was kind of mad from the start that the first thing I had to do was to redo everything that I did in chapter 2, but it was nice that they started to sort the event lists. Unfortunately there is a big error in the bottom of the event screen right from the start that no one seems to want to bother to take care of, but moving past that it is still a really fun game, just not exactly an improvement over the last one. I would say they took a slight step back on this one, but nothing too major.

Chapter 4 - A huge step backwards, maybe that's just because it is still in development, or maybe they just decided on a different vision, but this games quality is much lower than its prequels. These games are kind of grindy by nature, just due to the massive amount of content, but I would have to say this chapter brought that to a new level. The amount of contracts you have to do to get all of the content is just ridiculous, if you spent a full 4 or 5 in game days per contract, it would take you about 95 in game days to get all of the content to Sophie, and that's if you do nothing else, and to be honest I think that is a low estimate. The Pole Position quest is bugged, I tried probably 15 times to get the 3rd star, different times, days, waited, different levels of affection, no luck, which is really disappointing because it leads into another event that I will now just never get to unlock. The event tracker is no longer sorted by person, its sorted by incomplete, not started, and complete, which I think was a poor decision on their part because one of the easiest ways to get through each girl was to focus on their events, now there is a little more work involved. There is still a lot of content, and I am sure they will add more, but without some major changes I would say this is easily the worst one in the series.

On a whole I really do enjoy this series, the art is really good, the progression is exciting, I would recommend it to anyone who is into these types of games. Chapter 4 is the only one that I don't like, but the issues I have with it are not issues that cannot be fixed, I think there needs to be some rebalancing done with the amount of grinding required, and some of the events need to be fixed so that they aren't ruined by RNG, I did run into this issue multiple times, but all of the other ones I was able to eventually get through them, the Pole Progression is just completely bugged and impassible.

I wanted to give this game 5 stars because if you played 40 hours of a game, and the last 5 weren't that good I would say the game was good enough to entertain you for at least 35 hours, which is far and above what most other games manage to do.

Awesome game, Chapter 2 is the best, I think chapter 4 can be fixed, I look forward to trying it again after a couple of updates.

This is a review of versions - CH1, CH2, CH3, and CH 4 Ep.2B

A four with flaws that drop it to a two. Most glaringly, it requires so many downloads to play it all and it could really use a walkthrough which would have to cross all those versions. The renders and some of the scenes are nice. No question there's good adult material. Mainly the issues that have me drop it are that it just isn't convenient to play and if I find myself passing on a game because I didn't like dealing with it, well that's not an above average game. Your mileage may vary.