VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Dating My Daughter [Ch. 1-4 v1.01] [MrDots Games]

DMD is legendary! The developer is continuing to its finish, while so many others quit when the funding weather turned sour. The story was intended in the beginning it was a story of a naive teen that just turned the legal age, with epic tits, but was still in school. Her mother was a piece of work, with her own daddy issues, she was controlling, very strict, and selfish. During her time off of school, she traveled with he bestie to the town where her daddy lived, which she hadn't seen in ten years when she met him again.

The story is well written though predictable, the dialog was realistic but kind of wooden, and the graphics were good throughout the chapters with a commendable consistent look. Play is easy enough, with many pathways to how the story develops and other characters influence the main character.

One of the titans of this community and also my favorite game. At the time of this review the game almost fell down to 3 stars overall rating and i cannot understand why, possibly just because of the mad people that the game is not how they want ( the sharing part ) which is absolutely avoidable by the way. Whatever you say you can't deny the quality. I played 90% of what this site has to offer and this is and will be one of the top adult VNs. I will not debate this.

If I were to describe the DMD experience in 1 word, it would be "disjointed". The game can be divided into 2 halves: ch 1+2, and ch 3+4.

Story:

Ch 1 & 2

Dad receives a visit from his long-lost daughter, who got taken away by his ex-wife. After a hang out, she gives him a peck on the lips, and one thing leads to another...

"Dating my daughter" is an accurate name because that’s pretty much all you'll be doing. The game has a few other support characters, but for the most part, it's all about slowly getting closer to your daughter, breaking the barriers between you, and going all the way. Not much of a story outside of that.

The MC does talk her into normalizing them engaging in sexual acts, but to me it never came out as ill intent. They do genuinely fall in love, even while second guessing their actions, and he does make a great deal of sacrifices to be with her. But there are people who dislike the MC because he is somewhat manipulative given how naive his daughter is.

When I said "slowly" before, I do mean it. This is the game with slowest sex development I've ever seen. But honestly, that’s what kept me going. The slow buildup generates hype and expectation, and you want to see them becoming a proper couple and getting down and dirty. That’s what chapters 1 and 2 are all about.

Ch 3 & 4

The main problem with the later chapters is that they lack the motivation the previous ones had. With father and daughter now a couple, they start fucking like rabbits. That’s great for a while, but eventually, the scenes start losing their appeal, and looking repetitive. In fact, I’m pretty sure some animations are straight up recycled. What’s more, without the relationship development, and expectation for sex, the bland and uninteresting story become much more noticeable, and start to get annoying.

So, to give players scenes to look forward to, the devs added kinks. Light bondage, exhibitionism, swinging, threesomes with other women, and other men. To be fair, these scenes are very few, and you can avoid most of them. However, the buildup to those still take a big chunk of the game’s content.

Let me explain. The threesomes with other dudes, for example, aren’t just a casual with strangers to spice things up. The game actually tries to build up attraction between the daughter and other guys, to the point she says “I love you” to one while he fucks her. In fact, the game becomes less about developing a relationship between F/D, and more about them building relationships with other people. Even if you turn down those paths as soon as possible, you will still hang out with these characters a fair bit. Declining them feels like you’re fighting the plot.

Visuals:

This is an old game, but the renders hold up fairly well. Early on the animations are very rudimentary, but they do improve. However, neither goes beyond what would be considered “okay” by today’s standards. It’s a game that might have been visually stunning on release, but stuck around long enough to be far surpassed by many others.

Conclusion:

This is a game that has been around forever but lost its focus along the way. Could have comfortably ended in chapter 2 on a high note. The other chapters just feel like it’s spinning its wheels, not to mention targeting a different audience. If you get excited for the sharing stuff, you probably will have a better time than me with the later chapters. But will it be enough to carry the weak story and repetitive scenes regardless? And will you also enjoy the several hours of slow, vanilla buildup it will take you to get there?

This game had its glory days, being one of the first of its kind, and got deservedly popular. However, nowadays, there are simply much better options, regardless of how you feel about the kinks. The lackluster story and ok visuals simply don’t support the bloated playtime this game has. It's really overstayed its welcome.

Excellent characters and animations. Each chapter keeps getting better. Father-daughter storyline is great. Making choices between two or more decisions that will negatively or positively affect the outcome of the story is fun.

Love it, just love it! Here, let me explain:
- The slowburn approach for winning over the daughter and slowly doing more and more lewd scens is really well thought out.
- The render are decent, not amazing (why 4 stars). Still, the art is consistent
- The characters are believable. Although the daughter turns into a real slut later in the game, she's hesitant at first.

Here it is; the game that got me into these types on VNs; DMD.

At the time, it was the greatest thing I'd played, adult game wise.

I loved the renders, the writing was cute and the plot was both steamy and charming.

So, does it hold up many, many years later?

Not quite...

The adult game genre seems to have passed DMD by a bit. Compared to newer games that have come and been finished since the DMD dev cycle, it just doesn't hold up. And that hurts to type.

The renders look dated, the daughter character looks a bit doll-like, and the slowburn, seduction aspect in the earlier parts of the game that got me so hooked long ago, has been done better in other VNs.

I'll always have a soft spot (or a hard spot, maybe?) for DMD, it's a classic, but some classics are timeless, while others are just...classics, ya know?

3* for nostalgia.

This game/story started off fairly strong.
The renders of good quality.
The plot of the story was interesting.
The two primary characters are father and daughter. They are not very well developed. In fact they are pretty much hollow shells throughout.
The primary story is about Dad forming a relationship with his daughter. That's finished at this point and the author is basically milking the project dragging it out.
Frankly the newer content isn't of my taste.
I'd probably rate the story about a 4 if it wasn't for the content going beyond the primary story. It tends to just drag it down.
If your only interest is to fap well then none of that matters to you.
Most the content people tried to avoid the author made avoidable.

A pretty good game.
The story is not the most developed but it is still correct, however I find it lacks some variety.
Of course this is my opinion and I respect the work put into this game (as I am unable to do so).

The premise for this is very good, with the father and daughter meeting again after many years. They build up a relationship and start to fall for one another.

However, I don't like how they are supposedly in love, but the father has multiple options to betray her. If going down the betrayal path, the loving dialogue shouldn't even be there. Doesn't make any sense.

I like that you get to make decisions in this game, and the dialogue is very good.

The appearance of the father is good, but the daughter could be improved, as she appears too young for my liking. Just making her taller would have made a big difference.

I don't like the corruption wheel, it would have been nice for the daughter to retain some of her innocence.

The main thing I don't like are the 2 underage girls in this. And there are scenes with them that are forced on you. No need for children in these games.

who wrote that shit! fuck! it is amazing ! i mean, seriously , in story telling compare to reality, it is excellent, how could a man continue so long with the story line. mesmerizing.
but the main problem with story line, is that it is too fucking slow. too much nonsense. who cares about 90% of it? it is just waist of time. that makes me really angry! why such an excellent story line goes bad so fast because of being too irrelevant knowledge stuff. some are good to get your mined of of the hard stuff , but too much , will distract you completely and get your thoughts off the main story.
i am wondering how long it took the developers to make it, but in total , amazing job. thank you.
best regards,

Updated review after playing the whole game.

For those who know the other game by the same developer "Melody" it is more or less the same gameplay but instead of weeks you do day by day content and I strongly advise you to play this one before as you'll get some easter eggs and see or hear about some characters that were in "Melody" those two worlds are connected, it is quite nice to see some characters again even if there are no content with them (for now).

The renders are good, everything is optional so this is really big yes for me.
What you need to know about the game first though is the sharing path. I really like some of the girls we can romance besides daughter.

You can see the daughter is rather immature (of course she is only 18) and fall in love rather quickly. For example, the Martin sharing path was poorly done in my opinion as they don't really have a relationship before but they will have sex quickly and say I love you, while for Cassandra a character that has been in the daughter's life since chapter 2, you have to wait chapter 4 for anything to happen and they never say I love you while their bond should be much stronger than what daughter and Martin have. The sharing path also have 2 characters that seem more important than the rest, Georgina who could become the wife of dad and maybe adopt daughter and Martin who could become the "official" boyfriend or husband of daughter. You also need to absolutely play with a walkthrough mod and maybe read the walkthrough of chapter 4, otherwise, you might have unexpected surprises near the end of the game.

Aside from this I think the game has plenty of content, too bad some content are not in the game anymore at some point like pee or BDSM (No BDSM in chapter 4 for now), very well done and if you don't really care about the Father/Daughter relationship it is fun to corrupt the daughter.

It's still a solid and good game I would definitely recommend you to give it a try. Now gonna try Sunshine Love and see if it is as good as Melody and DMD

For some reason, this VN is one of the beloved classics on this site's community. Probably either because it was one of the first of its kind or rather because many users were and are still blinded by its graphics and oftentimes have no further standards.

I can't recommend this VN besides its optical values to anyone.
There is absolutely no sexual tension between the abusive father and his seemingly retarded daughter, who is on the mental level of a toddler! The perverted father instantly makes up ludicrous reasons to first french kiss her and then grab her boobs ASOASF. For me as a player/reader this is not sensual at all and gives me all the wrong vibes, therefore is a complete turn off. Also there is no real building in their relationship. Everything happens someday after enduring an excessively long period of unnecessary expositions of a boring narrative. It only gets worse in chapter 3 ...

Sex scenes are not satisfying. Side characters are distracting and are forced constantly upon you.

Seriously, save your precious time. It will take you a whole week of insufferable boredom with steady yawning and little outcome. I wish I'd did.

F

Instead of being *only* a simple story of corruption and sex, it is also a story of the developing love, a true love at that, between Father and Daughter.

Though it may seem overlong, at first, I promise you will find it all the more rewarding when you hit the stride of the latter CH. 2 and then through the third. You will *love* it, I swear.

A classic. Very badly written, so get your skip button ready, but the visuals are very good. After a slow start the game picks up and keeps picking up until it's sizzling hot. Again, don't expect to immerse yourself in a believable scenario. This relation between father and daughter stretches the imagination beyond the breaking point. This is like corrupting a wolf child* that never experienced human civilisation before. With a lot of unnecessary words. God there is so much text.

Somehow the developer succeeds in stretching out a straight forward incest story with only one girl as the main focus (there are some others on the side) over this many gigabytes. The creativity at work to imagine this many scenes is impressive. A defining porn game that is a must to experience, if only to understand the inspiration for many others like Melody or Lewd Island. Four out of five.

*a nymphomaniac wolf child, to be sure

This game used to be one of the most popular romance game back in the day.Now it just an empty shell of its former self.I dunno what happen but the writing become worse after chapter 2.All love interest just dissapear and MC LITERALLY offer his daughter to other mans,Its optional,but dissapointing.The writing also going downhill after that.Fake pregnancy,robotic dialogue,personality changing with the characters and ex problem that should be resolved YEARS ago.It feels dragging and the renders also become worse in each update.

Im not recommend,Dev clearly lost ideas after years making this game and you might be dissapointed if you used to be Dev supporter since the very beginning.

The first game(I think) by Mr.Controversial who's only loved by some.

The game feels really slow due to day by day content being shown with very few timeskips.
It feels alright at first if you're a incest fan, but as the game moves ahead further it becomes unbearable at
later stages even if you're an wincest who's ready to sit through some boring/unbelievable stuff to see some banging(Which you get in plenty later, but it's not any good tbh).
At a later stage you see the innocent D becoming sluttier and sluttier to point where she starts fucking other guys(If you got that route)
I expected way more from this game, but it left me really disappointed.

Pros
Wincest(at the start)
Decent renders(Most poses feels overused in the game)
Great amount of content

Cons
Slow grind
Boring story and sex scenes
Presence of avoided content/festishes is felt throughout.

TLDR;
Wouldn't really recommend. If you really wanna play it, just play the first 2 chapters and leave it at that.

Remember playing this a while ago and ragequitting after the game kicked me out when the landman (PC) tells his landgirl he loves his coworker. Current review is based on just finished skipthroughs of the ch 2-4.

Basically the game laser focusses on a very specific fetish i.e. landlord/landgirl sex and romance. And takes it very seriously to the point where it has 10 gbs worth of an erotic story about them. Other females are available but landgirl is compulsory even if you choose to get with them. Writing is native-speaker level, characters are fine for a porn game but overwrought in places. The landgirl is frankly annoying. There's ebullient, life-giving cuteness and then there's clingy, over-saturated cuteness. She's definitely the latter, tho that might be your thing.

I enjoyed a few of the h-scenes but they're very vanilla and indistinguishable from each other. There are different sex positions, the kind you might read about in a circa 70s couples sex manual, but they don't contribute much to kinkiness or novelty. Without the incest fetish it's just 3d porn about a reclusive, kinda weird, optionally swinger couple trying out new sex things in bed in private. Even when they're doing exhibitionism it's not risky or shocking.

Gfx are mostly decent but won't win any prizes. Anims are smooth and detailed.

If like me you're not into the game's eponymous primary fetish, or at least not into exploring that to the extent it does, you'll probably still enjoy some of the h-scenes.

So. I have not made my way in that deep.
So far, I'm still in chapter 1.
But this is tiring as heck!
I've seen some other reviews about this dev having filler way too much. I somehow could work with the filler for sunshine love. But the filler here is plain terrible.
Game feels grindy as heck.
I know virtually all devs make a disclaimer that all the characters are above 18 yada yada. Though for some reason they choose to do that especially when they designed their character to look specifically 15 and younger.
I need to play something else until I find the boredom and motivation to continue this

I could not get through Ch 1. I don't count incest as one of my fetishes, but I have enjoyed quite a few games in the genre and think it can be super hot when done correctly. In those games there was a mutual desire, the fire of which needed little if any stoking.

I felt like I was manipulating an emotionally damaged person with a level of intellectual disability. Not abelist, as there are ID folks who are DTF, but in this case it seemed the daughter was being coerced rather than a natural chemistry. Daughter's internal dialogue was ringe, clearly showing she was confused but not in a "I've always wanted this" way.

Elena and Jennifer tho . I'll probably have a farewell fap using the mod to unlock their scenes before I delete the game.

( Mr Dots Games ) Thank you and your team for the work you spend on the three games you created and the others together with you I just ask you to continue with the sharing routes because it is a very interesting part of the game and swap couples if possible that would be very cool....