VN - Ren'Py - DeadMoon Survival [v0.9.1] [Hot Tomato]

Im giving this a 5 right now because i dont expect it to get worse, unless the ending doesnt stick or the project is abandoned. However i actually say its a 4 right now.
This game is slooooow burn and tease scenes all over the place. These are make or break for some people, not for me though. The relationship between the family members are actually well written, or written enough to be believable(outside of the incestousness, no idea if people actually go through this). The maker has clearly watched his fair share of anime, especially ones that have parody esque serious moments in a not so serieous moments. An example is Prison School, in fact i think alot of the goofy reaction shots in this game are inspired by Prison School. Even in its actual serious moments, there is something reminiscent of it as well in a weird way.
The NTR in the game is avoidable, but you are given a choice between knowing what choice is NTR and not knowing, so its a nice balance for people who are omega anal about NTR, they can click "give me a headsup" and for a more natural experience, you can select no warnings. Even though i know most people are saving and checking every choice.

Overall good experience, dont expect to fuck or see fucking right away. Game has serious moments inbetween everything else, that yea, the lines and speeches can feel cliche or corny, if your the jaded type. Personally i found these building character on everyone. I recommend at least giving the game a shot

Yet another game that takes itself too seriously and will blue ball you with constant teasing. Of the three main characters, there's something wrong with each of them and not in a good way. First of all, the mom looks too young, and she has a fucked up face. After the time skip it's like she gets younger while the son gets older just so they can look closer in age. As for the son, nothing but walls and walls of teenage angst-ridden text. His every thought, and there's a lot of them thanks to tons of internal dialog for him in particular, makes you go STFU, nobody cares. And then finally as for the sister, my God is she a nuisance who doesn't need to be there. The game would have been 100% better if it was just the mom and son surviving the apocalypse and sexual tension. But of course, there always has to be a third wheel in these situations and that's where the sister comes in. Despite having some lesbian scenes with the mom, she's pure filler.

Ok this game came out of nowhere and it is amazing, There is NTR but its completely avoidable all the choices are in red . The game is a slow burn but I love the depth of the characters and the writing. Release 4 and I have been playing it for hours now. There arent any full scenes in the game yet for NON NTR but the game still has some really good teases. I am hoping the dev makes a good memorable game, everyone needs a refresher

Review of [v0.4.]

Deadmoon survival is a slow burn incest apocalytic vn, about a family of three dealing with their daily life in a world where civilization has fallen.

I must say that I unexpectedly enjoyed this vn, I didn’t expect such interesting experience and even with its tumbles in the first moments of the plot and some death note corny writing moments, the game as soon as it falls back it recaptures your attention.
It’s a really little beautiful marvel I must say, among probably the best in the developing of relationships between character and incestuous writing.
It’s never bad in fact, at his worst is average but at is best is actually great.
The game is more of a kinetic novel with some few choices that impacts the plot, aka “do you want your sister to have an incestuos relationship with your mom?” choices, and the occasional fuck up moments, where if you fail, you get some NTR or gangbang scenes or a game over screen.
I usually complain about games that give me few choices, because they lack of good writing but this one has a smooth english, with no hiccups, some actual touching moments, and engaging but not verbose lines that keeps you entertained.
After all a vn, is supposed to be a visual novel, and not really a game, so reading is to be expected.

But now let’s delve into the best quality of the game, the incest.
So few games understand what a taboo means, and slap characters that have family titles like “mom” or “sister” without actually understanding why incest works or is hot (for the ones who enjoy it).
The developer of this game actually understands the dynamics of it, or at least knows how a family works!
The sexual relationship is a slow taboo, full of temptation, and guilt, it’s not a game to fap immediately, it’s an erupting volcano that takes its time to work his way through the characters and player.
The relationship between the characters is very solid, sometimes even amazing, they act mostly naturally, the sister acts like a real one, with fights, jokes and discussion, and so does the mother.
She knows she has responsibilities on his sons, she knows the consequences and she is eaten by the guilt and sexual frustration.
I think as an incest game this game is top notch, it has a real quality in taboo and sex talk.

For the son (or MC) instead, I saw people commenting he has a mentality of a horny child with no reasoning.
And to that I say that they are kinda right but also misunderstood the situation.
MC has been strapped of his childhood since the zombie apocalypse, not knowing how to interact with the world or females around it, living in a glass cage built by his mother to protect him.
Of course he has a mentality like that, but thinking that is a stale character would be a mistake, he matures he slowly grows, he has to grow to survive.
And aside from that beginning bathroom scene that was kinda corny, the game takes always different approaches to make him develop into this mess of a world.

So as characters, it’s pretty great, as incest it’s top notch, how about zombies?
As with zombies it’s not as good honestly as its others main qualities, it’s by no means its bad, not at all!
But it kinda pales in comparison of the other moments, aside from the beginning and few events with zombies, the game feels yeah apocalyptic but never too much desperate or hopeless.
The main characters live in a school, have a farm, water and such, they even have a library, and aside from all the lost privileges of modern life, I never felt really desperately thrilled or scared.
They still have to go outside to find food and other resources and have some actually confrontations with the menaces, but these are few.
But as with the beginning plot the game is suddenly taking a turn to spice more the zombie/apocalyptic part of the game.
I can see that after one hour of playtime it is actually becoming more and more focused on the zombie mystery.
So I would say that even if it is not as great as the other two, it is slowly also becoming more interesting or scary.
In fact the vn is finally dealing with some lore about the infection and other supernatural twists that had revalued my attention and opinion on the apocalypse.
Therefore my theory that everything here is a slowburn even the horror and the desperation part will probably slowly crawl into your mind at some point.

There are also some scientific and literature quotes and explanations, like Eliot’s, that try to give another layer of deepness or interpretation to the vn.
Which they work, some better than others, but I do like them.

Graphics and renders are really good, they aren’t blurry, the game has some cool cinematic shots, focusing on the eyes, on the effects of light on the models et cetera.
I would say that is never ugly, it’s actually very pretty to look at it, especially during the moments of twilight or evening, the game plays really well with its ambience.

Sex scenes are few, and the buildup towards it is 100% deserved, lots of teasing and masturbation that always get more kinky and hot.

So do I recommend it?
Yes, I do, if you like slow building sex scenes, taboo and reading it’s a marvel.
If you are looking for a quick fap, look somewhere else.
Honestly I really liked it, and after replaying it, I give it 5 stars, as the games slowly evolves into quality and excitement.

C'mon! 4/5? This game deserves 4.6/5, at least. The renders are very good and a lot of effort is obviously put into them. The models aren't bad at all. The story is quite nice. Not 100% clear where it's gonna go, but it's very promising. The dialogues and characters are well written.

This is one of the games I've played that I was actually invested in the story and not skip and fap only. A game mixed with drama, horror and comedy. Writing so far is 10/10 and graphic is excellent. Totally recommended to play.

Actually surprised with the rating of this game. Unlike many other AVNs on this side, this one actually has believable story with no brain dead porn-like relations. Scenes have a lot of tension, the music is on spot.

Given how many stupid games are getting their 5 stars for nothing, I think the dev deserves praise here for at least putting some amount of effort.

Would love to see the continuation of this one

LOL, couldn't stand 10 minutes playing a 18 years deranged wimpy kid with a brain of 8, if you are into it by all means play it if not you better avoid it if you don't want to cringe with every dialogue of the MC.

WHAT is this dark wizardry?? The material is good, I several times stopped myself from orgasm just to see more. As with all other games, I did skip some text, but the script, setup and drama was very good, not a single cringe moment.

But BEST of all... The buildup, man. This is textbook mastery in authentic progression. One of the hardest things with these incest games is to provide believably conflicted characters, and it's done well.

And no BS time-wasting!!!

" Just ignore the bad reviews and play this game if you're a sucker for a good vanilla incest VN like me "

This game is simply amazing, the way the incest relationship went is so natural, very believable and also HOT AF!!, the two LIs (Mom and Sis) are very lovable and unique in their own ways, and we didn't see many games that touch on the relationship between Mom and Sis without MC. All I can say is that I want this game story to be a standard for any Incest VN. This one is now on my best games list.

The graphic of this game is good, I'm not a fan of a game with Honey Select models at all, but this one is an exception.

The NTR part, I know many will runaways solely bc of that tag but trust me at this point ( V.0.3.1) there's barely any actual NTR scene, and they all depend on your choice. Both LIs love the MC to death.

So to keep it short I'm a big incest VN fan and if you're like me you'll love this game as I do.

First of all, you should ignore most of the reviews from 2021 because apparently the game had quite a big rework in the last updates and I don't see any reason why it could be 1 or 2 stars for someone in the current state.

1. Graphics 4/5: they are good enough, not breathtaking because it's using honey select but there isn't any of that bad looking anime-like stuff. Lighting can be a bit bright in some scenes but that's the only issue. The character models are beautiful and the best part in this department.
2. Sound 5/5: it has some sounds in certain scenes to make it more immersive and the music choices are top-notch.
3. Writing 5/5: I saw the changelog about 0.3.1 with reworked writing and I didn't have the chance to play it before this but damn, it's freaking good now. The build up is excellent, I didn't see many mistakes, there's quite a lot of dialogue, which I like, and the lewd scenes are even hotter cause of this. Only small issue is a bit of repetition betwen some dialogues but I guess it's part of the starting build up.
4. Story 5/5: It's not sandbox so that's always a good thing, there's flashbacks, intense moments, fun moments... Overall its what you would expect from an apocalypse, grim but with some hope remaining. Character development is amazing so far thanks to the many different types and moods of the scenes. It also looks like the supernatural will have a big role in the future and that's interesting.

Overall, this game is currently a 5/5 for me. You can change your character name and relationships so if you are looking for an incest game, this is one of the best you'll find (it seems to be built for that too). If you don't like NTR (which by the way, it isn't really ntr, it's just tense choices that could result in zombie harassment due to lore reasons) you can easily accept a warning at the start and you'll see the "wrong" choices in red.

I'd say there's not a lot to unpack here, but at the same time it's a good amount of content for a 0.3. There's good renders and decent dialogue. Not the worst but far from the best. What you have here is a good effort and a Dev at least trying to make a coherent story. And that's better than 99% of the crap on here and it should be recognized.

Art: 4/5 - It's honey select renders, not exactly expecting anything too crazy, but the girls here are hot and nothing looks too crazy or out of place. There's a couple animations though I wish there was more. The H scenes you find yourself in are sexy and interesting from a story pov.

Gameplay: 4/5 - It's a VN. Not a whole lot of gameplay. However, I'll rate the only gameplay we have. And that's the choices. Early on you're given a free walkthrough of sorts (kind of) where you're told specifically what scenes will lead to NTR and what will not. Some unmarked choices lead to different sex scenes and that's great news as well. It's overall well done in making the choices you choose matter and not just be flavor text for 1-2 sentences.

Story: 4/5 - The story is above average and is an interesting look on the zombie story. You're a kid who's mom and sister are the only people you know left alive. You're sheltered, a bit wimpy, and overall just a teenager. Things in the story happen and you get to slowly choose how you want to react. The mom is the cliche overprotective but slowly opening up kind of person. And the sis is the cliche over sexual perverted tsundere. Cliche isn't always bad though if done right. And I'd say the Dev puts in enough work here.

Overall: 4/5 - I'd get give it a solid 4/5 from me. But I'm going to be rating it a 5/5 just because I think games like these need to pushed upwards. Sure it's great to be critical, but at the end of the day a higher rating means more eyes on the project which leads to better or quicker updates. It's not an MTL garbage game that someone made and is selling for a quick buck. It's a nice project that I'd be happy to see more of.

I know it's a zombie apocalypse type game... But these people are fucked. Maybe in more ways than one.


Renders:

It's okay I guess for a honey select style.


Characters:

Wimpy pervy teen main character - Check
Pervy instant lesbian Mom and Sis - Double check.

Story:

It shows the breakout and everything and the beginning, we get a glimpse and the father who seems like a badass but unfortunately, we don't get to have him as the main character but instead a wimpy, weakling kid. The mother is this cliché "I'm a mother, this is bad" shrew that probably has issues upstairs, if you know what I mean. She went Dom-lesbian at the drop of a hot, as did the sister. They seem to focus more on sexy time instead of survival, guess when the worlds gone to shit what else do you got to look forward to. The dialogue is what you can expect in this situation, should I stay or should go mumbo jumbo. "I'm spying on my Mom, I have a boner" stuff.

I'm rooting for the pervy zombies.

A solid 4.5/5 game but i will put it as 4 as the writing can be over the top at times, the characters are super hot and everything else is well written overall, english isn't really an issue, trust me this game will become one of the top earners on this site sooner or later.

Amazing game! I don't have any complaints about it, the renders look good, the characters are well written. Just I hope that we can see in a future more NTR (Maybe reverse NTR too?). I had fun with the comedy, and even though I guess I lose many scenes for my decisions, I'm not mad for that, I'm satisfied.

I really hope that this project gets the fame that it deserves! This game has a lot of potential, and the dev too!

Usually I don't write nor rate games, but this is one exception to that rule! Best of my wishes, Tomato, I hope you update the game soon!

v0.2 - So far I liked it, the characters present in the game are good-looking and original, and the plot is interesting. Conflicting scenes are avoidable which is a good thing, but not sure yet how it will affect the story later, not significantly I hope. Will wait for the next updates, good luck!

A good game. The characters are interesting and look good enough where my eyes don't bleed. The renders portray the situation and emotions well. It also touches on themes that are usually an after thought in most other games.

A bit rough around the edges but there is potential here.
Will be interesting to see what's here in a couple of updates.
It has some odd spelling and expressions but overall it's a good game.
The models look good.

For ver .2 excellent update! First, this update doesn't add to the end of ver .15 but it definitely makes it more beefy. There's tons of new text, new scenes and extensions of older ones added, I really enjoyed replaying it this time. It felt like I played it the first time all over again. The dev really gets more in depth about their backstory and relationships with each other and I really felt captivated at times just getting lost in the story, especially during the flashbacks. The writing is just *chefs kiss*. Honestly, I was expecting just to hold skip to see the new content of this release yet I couldn't because there's so much more to see. Animations were smooth when used, other H scenes were just as excellent without them. The music really adds to the immersion. Also that rape scene at the end, when you make the wrong choices, is just perfect.

Cheers to the dev, can't wait to see what happens next.

There is not much to say here: It's an excellent virtual novel.
There are minor language (English) issues but in general it's all fine. Despite of that it's very well written and I don't think it deserves less than 5 stars.