VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Dawn of Malice [v0.12a] [Whiteleaf Studio]

v0.12a
+good art. really carries the game
+cute girls
+impregnation harem fetish. very hot.

-there is some uncomfortable "technically legally not netorare" that leaves a sour taste.

-the plot is so dumb, that reading it caused me to become dumber.
so so dumb.

- choices are mostly fake.
> do you rescue this woman?
> no? well you said no but we are going to make you do it anyways. only now you insult her in the process.

- bad morality system... your chosen alignment alters a few sentences at start of game. After that it just forces you to pick good or evil choices (unless you are neutral. in which case you can pick every time). There are only like 3 morality choices in the game and they do not make any difference. just slightly different dialog. Like "you are getting a blowjob. jam it in to make it a deep throat while calling her a slut. or continue as it while simping a bit"
Also most choices are not even marked as moral choices. Like the aforementioned "insult woman as you rescue her" choice.

- poorly done time skips which hurt the plot coherence (at least before it jumps the shark and self destructs).

- one of the banner girls literally gets forgotten. I am guessing she is dead now? since you just left her for weeks to fend for herself in the apocalypse

Ok I'll be honest
The game has potential but it also has many things that handicap it
Story..... To quote Carmack *Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important.
So ok but a bit lacklustre and a bit rushed (And why did you give an incest plot without any choice for the player)
Most of the characters (except Winter best waifu without any debate) are average or meh
MC is a fucking loser
Reason? that face XD (sorry artist but can please make him a "grey guy")
The whole "Karma System" is hardly noticeable ("Idea" maybe instead of edgy text maybe make it so the MC can be nice and friendly..... or a cunt from NTR)
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Aaannnddd If you guys do some big Update someday I hope you will improve a lot of things
Big love to you and I hope you guys achieve some success

ART :
Incredible artstyle and art itself, it got my attention right at the start but sometimes the same character looks another person in a different scene and it took me out of imersion.

SCRIPT/PLOT/HISTORY:
The game slowly got my attention and admiration, but it really fails to connect to the main plot in a smooth way. I mean, we had a normal MC lifestyle then out of nowhere monsters and stuff (I liked, but it should be more immersive and the game should slowly preparing you to the main plot)

Sometimes the time and meaning between scenes is rushed, a normal conversation or a normal day has moments of silence and boredom, other than that awesome game and history.

OVERALL:
Alright, this is a nice game. I really mean it, like, the kind of art/game I'm looking for and it's lacking out there. About the criticism this is just my opinions don't get me wrong, trying to give some nice reviews out there.

Keko Approves. ♥

This game does not make any sense at all. The dev obviously either doesn't know how to make a evil route or is too scared to actually go through with it. You pick the so called evil route and the MC is still all nice and not wanting to take advantage of people? How does that make sense? Now I have no problem with a nice guy MC and play those games a lot, but if a game acts like it has multiple route but actually doesn't, that shows how stupid the game actually is.

Version 0.12a

Look, this game is not bad. But it's not great either.
In terms of gameplay, it's a KN.
In terms of character progression, there is none - they just become your dumb whores immediately pretty much.

It's lots of words over 5 images per sex scene and a story inbetween, which is presented by text infront of paperdolls infront of a background.
In its current state it bears a strong resemblance to its predecessor Tamas Awakaening.

The game is definitely fappable and I will download again when it's finished, but not something I am holding my breath over.

Also it has a strong emphasis on breeding fetish.

Was not expecting a full Visual Novel in the terms of little to no player choice or gameplay (aside from very few spread out choices). This type of Visual Novel just ain't for me as I find it very boring, especially if the story doesn't hook me in, which it didn't. The art is the only thing I found pretty good, and the font choice and numerous typographical errors were the negatives that stood out the most.

End of it all, I abandoned the game somewhere mid or near end of the story?, I'd been spamming enter for a while to see if anything would be interesting outside of the sex scenes, which there weren't.

I'll make this short.

Pros: Arts Gud, much fappable.

Cons: Absolutely everything else.

Plot: As terrible as it is forgettable. You're going to skip it. All of it. Dear god is it shit. Not only that but there is a ton of it.

Player Agency: You're kidding, right? Every 10 or so scenes there's an option to choose to do something completely inconsequential that has little to no effect on the general plot.

Gameplay: EnterEnterEnterEnterEnterEnterEnterEnterEnterEnterEnterEnter

Overall? Is there a gallery unlock anywhere? Anyone have a rip of the CGs?

The game might not be for everyone's taste, as can be seen in some of the reviews. Here's what I can say about my experience on the game. I think it works fantastically as a NUKIGE aka come for the faps.

If you're looking for an engrossing & captivating plot line with interesting game mechanics, this game definitely isn't that. The game has a morality alignment system, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't really impact the story much. The game is mostly a linear Visual Novel.

But if you're looking for good fap material on corruption/domination/incest/harem this game checks all the right boxes with plenty of sexual content! The art direction is really solid as well. Another big plus is that the game is updated on a regular basis and the devs are very active on the forums, interacting with the fanbase regularly.

If you enjoyed Tamas Awakening, Whiteleaf Studio's other game, I highly recommend you give this one a shot as well

5/5: Would fap to this again anytime. Looking forward to future updates!

I played(?) this game only once, but at the moment I have no desire to repeat this experience. Therefore, I will write a short review based on what I remember and what I think about this game.
If you want a short version of my review, here you go - I skipped almost whole game because of bad and boring writing. What did I saw while I was skipping - nonstop sex-marathon with different characters.
Perhaps, only perhaps, towards the middle or end of the game, everything takes on completely different colors and becomes playable and interesting, but unfortunately I could not get to that point. If this is true, then I strongly recommend that the developer redo the first versions of the game, just edit the text so that it is not so repulsive, because of which I (and maybe not only me) pressed the skip button.


And here is more in-depth review. (as its possible for me)
To be honest, the only thing I could highlight is the Art Style. This is the only thing that I liked and, in fact, what made me download this game after viewing the screenshots. I really like this.

Next are the characters.
A fairly standard and banal choice - milf mother who is crazy about the main character as soon as she sees his penis (not a single moment of doubt, not a single moment in terms of morality like "I should not do this"), bitch sister who doesn't seem to get along with the main character, but very (and I mean VERY) quickly becomes his sex partner.
Who's next? Oh yes, a new school friend who sees you for the first time and immediately after meeting you advises how to get under his sister's skirt (as it turned out, they don't seem to be relatives, but it doesn't matter). Just wow. The next character is a childhood best friend (unexpectedly) whom the main character cannot recognize from the word AT ALL. (as he explained, she had short hair as a child and he mistook her for a boy, which is why they were friends). What?..
I will not talk about the sister of our BEST FRIEND FOREVER, just a default character who has a reputation as a whore (from her words, this is completely not true), but nevertheless, after you have given her a gift, she is already ready to suck you. (no, the rumors are obviously wrong...)
And my favorite character type in such games is a lonely goth girl who has no friends. How well is it written in this game? Just awful, if you're wondering. Literally after 2 meetings with the main character, she, like everyone around, is already just crazy about him and is ready for anything for him. I assume that such a girl should be silent, unsociable, modest and shy, given that she works in a library and has no friends. And what do we get in return? As soon as she gets the number of the main character, she starts spamming him on the first day, then meets him in the main hall of the school and starts casually talk to him. Later, she forgets her phone, which you obviously find and look into the gallery. Guess what you find there? Nudes. (Wow) After you give her the phone, she says in her thoughts “I wonder if he saw the photos. I took them only because of him) or something like that, I don’t remember exactly. To be honest, at about this moment I got incredibly bored and I started to skip absolutely everything. From what I saw, almost immediately after that they had sex right in the library. Character development - 10 out of 10.

At the same time, some antagonist appeared in the form of a nurse? I didn’t pay much attention to this, but at least it doesn’t look too banal, like, for example, a school bully, adored by all the girls at school and who hated you at first sight)

Perhaps someone will think that my review has no weight due to the fact that I started to skip the entire text component of the game. But there is a problem with the text itself. It's written so badly and boringly that I just couldn'tplay it normally.

There is no hidden negative in my review and I wish the developer success, because in theory, this game has some potential.
I would give this game a one star, but only because of the acceptable and pleasant art style in my opinion, I will add another point.

Hopefully someday this game will get something like a remake. In the meantime, I'll probably wait for a few more updates to come out to see if the game is moving in a more interesting direction or if this game turns out to be a misunderstanding that I wish I had never downloaded.

This game sucks even though the starting idea was good.
The alignment doesn't really matter outside of a bit fluff info, worse is the wall of text with no erotic build-up. I don't mind teasing /story but in a porn focused game should always be some form of little excitement for the player that grows over time. Unfortunately the endless boring textdumps where you can make no decisions kills the moot instantly.

If you click through the dialogues you are rewarded with terrible cliche dialogues and scenes.

As others have said, you don't have any real decisions the whole thing is a waste of time. Only the rather nice artwork brings it to 2 stars but maybe even that might be too generous.

I love the plot and the art work when I first started playing this game I had no idea of where it would end up at and I have to say I'm not disapointed with this fine game, looking forward to seeing how it all end.

Version 0.10. Played the neutral route because I've come to learn that in this kind of game, what constitutes "good" and "bad" really depends on the author's personal opinions (and fetishes).

INTRO
I originally downloaded this out of curiosity, primarily because of the art style. Sadly, that's about the only praise I can give to the game. At some point, I wasn't sure if what I was witnessing was the most clever meta-parody I've ever seen in porn games, or the worst writing known to man. It soon became clear that, alas, it was the second one.
The game spares no effort plagiarizing about everything there is on F95, to create the most awkward porn game plot ever made. Even the way they bypass incest censorship is a 1:1 copy of something else.
Are you ready for this journey into Dawn of Malice? No, you're not.

THE GAME
There are no actual decisions in this game - there is a literal autopilot, and the only thing you choose is, sometimes, maybe, whether you want the MC to be rough or gentle (or, that's what it's supposed to do: in reality it's more of a "complete asshole for no reason" or "cringiest white knight" choice).

The writing is awful really, there's no other way to put it. That your friend is "Chad" (from the meme) made me chuckle, but to call the way he and everyone else behaves "unnatural" would be an understatement.
First thing he does is tell you how to get his "sister" Ashley (we later learn that they're not actually siblings, more like close friends) to pimp herself out to you for some chocolate. Yeah, you heard that right. There's a lot to unpack here, but I'll let you do it yourself.

Fear not dear reader, the plot gets even dumber in a matter of minutes, though you might be thinking that nothing could ever top a girl giving you don't know giving her first handjob in exchange for some chocolate. At age (presumably) 18.

You are soon introduced to Hunter, this crazy redhead childhood friend you barely remember at all that really wants your dick. Well, she's not alone. Your mom wants your dick, your sister wants your dick, Ashley (Chad's "sister") wants your dick, the socially awkward goth girl from the library wants your dick... most of them are supposedly virgins, but they waste no time telling you they want to have sex (and, in some cases, marry you? has the dev ever even... spoken to a goth chick?) after like two five minute conversations, and your MC will promptly accept.
The thing is, the game then pretends to be realistic at the worst possible timing. Your autopilot has just hooked up with the entire female population of the town, and apparently they now all expect you to be "the only one". The way Autopilot MC addresses this is by essentially telling them to fuck off and that they are clingy. So much for neutral route. And, as far as I've gotten, there is no real consequence for this other than some minor catfighting.
Okay, game... but what's the point of any of this if you made all the choices for me? I shouldn't be getting bad consequences from choices I didn't make and I didn't want to make.
Despite all this, I could get behind it if the MC had a personality other than "i like sex". You know, because placeholder MCs with no personality only really work if there is a human (the player) making choices in their place. If there isn't (because autopilot), I expect the writers to take responsibility and fill that void.

Also, what the hell is "karma"? Maybe I'm just blind, but i seen to have affected it only once, at the beginning of the game, and then never again. It also doesn't seem to have had any impact on the gameplay. Maybe a feature they later scrapped and forgot there? Who knows.

And the antagonists... well, the bad guys seem to be a mashup of greatest hits from other games, featuring elder evils, blatant satanism references, government conspiracies and a mysterious mist with bad black monsters in it. Many of you will recognize these from other, more famous games.
Oh, and of course, the big bad is some tiny asian woman, and she also wants your dick. Because of a ritual, of course, not because porn game law demands all female characters must be bangable sooner or later.
The developer asks that we accept that this all somehow works together, and that we do not question it. I didn't finish playing, but if there were any explanation, I was probably going to see some of the most convoluted mental gymnastics in history.

After witnessing my sister go from hating my guts to demanding I breed her, and my mom going from loyal housewife to also demanding I breed her, and many other shenanigans from the girls, I started suspecting this might be a parody. But... no, it doesn't seem to be, not as far as I can tell.

FINAL THOUGHTS
For all its flaws, I can tell the author(s) is at least putting effort into this. It's a shame, really, but not everyone can be good at everything.
My recommendation would be to sack whoever is in charge of the writing... or to embrace the grand potential of this game as a a generalised parody of porn game tropes. It becomes that much more fun if you think the bad writing is being done intentionally for laughs, really.
Combined with the decent art style (although animations are crappy and clunky, but they could always polish and make them smoother later) it might considerably improve the game and its reception.
And I am 100% serious about this, I'm not kidding. Rebrand it as a parody. There's no shame in writing something light hearted rather than something serious. It's not easy to write "dark" stories for porn games in a way that is good enough to be taken seriously, and not everyone can pull it off.

v0.08

Around the time when the fog etc starts i stopped reading and started to skip. Deeper into the game all the text while fucking revolves around breeding here and breeding there.

Besides this i think the story had a great start but all the girls started to soon and to fast to jump MCs cook (even if it fits the story)
--> Sadly it just got boring rly fast...

Only plus is that i think the art is kinda good.

It's...interesting, but also interesting. It's very bizarre, but not in a way that gets too gross. It starts off decent, gets kinda bad for a little bit in the middle, but it takes some interesting turns in the last 2/3, and that makes me want to continue it. I ended up skipping through the sex scenes though. Yeah, I actually ended up skipping through the sex scenes of all things. They got so repetitive. Don't really care enough to see where it goes from here, but it was interesting enough so that I don't feel like I completely wasted my time.

Renders are little bit to cartoonish for me
Sister showing no pubic hair But then in a sex scene she has pubs
There is no real story There was a moment in the game that almost looked like a story But Then it went back to mc having sex with everyone around him

It really, really saddens me to give this rating for this game, because I absolutely love the artstyle of the characters. But that's about it and that's the only thing that's keeping me from giving it a 1* review.

There are three things that bothers me A LOT:
- The writing. That's something that really makes or breaks a game for me. Even if it's a porn game, I shouldn't be given the free pass on that. It is terrible. First, it is disconnected. A trope that's way overused should be easy to take inspirations from about what-to-do and what-not-to-do. The pacing is awful and there is basically no buildup towards anything, really. It is also not well written. In about five to ten minutes playing the game it's easy to see yourself losing interest in the plot and in the characters.

- The lack of agency in the game, even though you have choices to make. They are just not impactful at all. Not even your alignment of choice that you make in the beginning. It would be nice, if the plan is to make a Static Novel, to simply make the player choose the character alignment and adjust the story accordingly. But then again, the writer will need to step up their writing for that.

- The background. First of all, they seem like repurposed images. The dev didn't bother creating a background that fits the artstyle of the characters and that really, really kills the mood for me. I hope they have on their plans to create the art for the backgrounds sooner than later.

Another thing that really bothered me, but that's really not a reason to grade the game any higher or lower (for now) was the font of choice for that. In a VN I really hope that the font is easy to read and understand, and being simple is the best way to achieve that.

Again, I really wish this game succeeds and really wish to see improvements in the future, as I absolute love the artstyle and really wanna enjoy the game. For now, I cannot recommend it to anyone.

Edit: V0.07b

The game is pretty good for a fap game, the story might be abit weird and fast paced but nothing you won't understand. The scenes are hot and writing is also decent. I think you would love this game if you just want to fap or doesn't like long storyline and extreme kinks. I think the only thing it lacking is progression between the characters.

i think someone missed the kinetic novel tag because
you cant affect or change the story
you cant decide who you wanna be with
you cant even decide what you gonna say

story was too boring to read after 5 minutes so keep skiping until something happens

there is a untagged choise with a dead-end for some reason

only good thing about this game is okay-ish models if you are into it

Been putting off playing this for a while, but boy when I did! Really enjoyed it. Aspects of the Cthlultlutlutu and other taboos I enjoy. Great writing of the lewd scenes (maybe a little ham fisted), and I wish there were more choices to pick from both story-wise and during scenes, but great game. Excellent 2d art! Going to patreon right now.

I could see it growing into a 4 star tops. It's a click-and-read type game. I believe the "good/neutral/bad" selection at the beginning just changes some of the dialog options, which is fine. One problem for me is a felt a bit disconnected from the plot and characters. Some stuff seems kinda forced. But others are pretty good. The dialog during sex is very kinky, wonderful. The art is great. Animation definitely leaves some to be desired, but it is passable (in early game it's two pictures slowly flipping, later it's 3 or 4 flipping faster).

The story is also quite early on, however you do have penetrative sex with two characters, and get oral from 4 total (including the two). So, all in all, it's an early version of what may become a good experience, which boils into the average category for me. I did get a fap in so there's that. For those trying to do the same, here is a breakdown of content at v0.06: