VN - Ren'Py - Completed - DeadMoon Survival [v1.0] [Hot Tomato]

Superb game, one of the best written visual novels I've ever played, I took pleasure to go through taking my time, worried that it would end at some point. Sadly the development has been shorten but stil an amazing game.
Big thanks to the dev

Decent game on paper, the "beginning" of the game is very long, while understandable, building the lore, the relationships etc...

The more the game advances it just starts to shower you with H Scenes, regardless of the setting, and as other reviewers pointed out, they are extremely chatty, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but especially as it is going forward, it just gets repetitive.

While I'm personally not a huge fan of supernatural related plots, I was getting in the story, as it introduces you many things that were the reason why I was continuing playing the game and even skipping some of the H scenes.

And that's where the game is deceiving, I'm playing mostly "Completed" tagged games as I'm expecting to get the full story while playing, and when the things gets interesting, you're just met with a "Sorry I have to stop there, look at these 10 renders of what it could have been".

I've put 2 stars for the effort, but this game is Abandoned, not Completed, so if you're expecting to get a full story, go for something else.

Plot- Same old apocalypse scenario.

Story- Same old incest scenario, with a twist. The mother landlady or whatever you want to call Her, is just another cheating Slut With false Morality.
Best part of their story I'm going to use that term loosely is the apocalyptic aspect.

Mother- I wish I had some choices here because I would have abandoned her ass outside. Due to the berating chastising and contradicting viewpoint she has, and always attacking the male character when it was not warranted.

Example: The son goes out to Retrieve medicine for her, and He gets ripped a new asshole for saving her life. So yes, for someone that ungrateful they better stick close if we're going out, because I will not be so inclined going looking very hard if they goes missing.

Sister- Typical nefarious siblings Rivalry. But not as cold as the mother character, meaning way easier to look for if needing saving.

Needs anew Tag "Sexual Acts"-- The gallery count is 46 scenes and 43 of them are simple Fap sessions. (Not counting the NTR content)

Sex scenes-- Three in total with NO Options on how to finish the scenes after 8-10 hours of reading. I'm not counting the NTR content even so that will be Seven in total. Really bad balance of Scales if you ask me truthfully, I don't care if you do or don't .

Renders--- Pretty good for honey select renders What can you do with that program away.

Overall, the story of hung on to, I shouldn't do this, I shouldn't do that, oh I'm doing it, but I know it's wrong aspect of incest thinking, I mean that bullshit played out before the first Gallery Page was filled.

This Walt Disney line of thinking of subverting people's expectations of not giving options during sexual content meaning strong sexual content if you don't know what I mean, I mean FUCKING, And not giving options there when you know it has been a long read for your audience(8-10hrs for me) In my eyes that type of choreograph of one scenes Will lose any future support.

TL;DR
Overrated, pretentious, cringe. I almost never use the skip unseen text option, but the action scenes here are simply unbearable. Bad visuals. Bad story. Only a few good H-scenes.


Story and writing — 1/5
The game starts somewhat okay — a typical zombie apocalypse — but the further it goes, the worse it gets. The world simply doesn't make sense. How do they still have running water? A city water pump station? Really? After six years of the apocalypse? On what power source does it run? Electricity, right — after six years? And when the pump finally fails, they fix it with bare hands. The list of small details that shatter the story’s believability is endless. In the middle of the game it looks like the characters themselves start to acknowledge that, but it leads nowhere — it’s forgotten soon after, and the author instead piles on fantasy / sci-fi / chosen-one tropes.

Writing is awful. The best word to describe it is pretentious. The author tries too hard to be poetic and philosophical; it feels silly and unnatural. Just WTF is this: “But she was there now, under him, vulnerable; ready to take the might of his triumphant cock.” Bruh — that’s the cringiest thing I’ve ever read in an H-scene; instant boner killer. Phrases like that are everywhere; they totally ruin both H-scenes and the story. Near the end, characters keep finishing each other’s lines constantly, and it feels terrible. Dude, we get it — they’re sooooo in love; please stop. Once would be enough.

Action scenes are pure cringe. Sorry, author, but this is a smut AVN, not The Matrix or John Wick, and you are not Michael Bay.

Railroaded choices. If you don't pick the MANNLY_MAN option, it’s either an instant game over or an H-scene is skipped. The LI’s have no real agenda; their lesbian behavior depends entirely on your choices, and it looks pathetic.


MC — 1/5
He is unbearable. He is weak at the beginning and it looks like there might be interesting character development, but no — he becomes an edgy badass anime-protagonist out of nowhere, and it looks pathetic, that's not how character development works. His inner thoughts are ridiculous, and the bad writing makes it worse. He’s the worst part of the game. I intentionally picked the “wrong” choices hoping for a happy mom-daughter ending without him, but in vain.


H-scenes — 2/5
Two out of five — only for a couple of decent lesbian scenes. They’re rather good and are the only reason the game is worth a shot. Pathetic MC and bad writing ruin them. The author tries too hard to sound worldly and not like others, which just turns me off — I don't want philosophical essays during sex scenes. By the end of the game, the dirty talk boiled down to the typical: “Fuck me hard with your huge cock” and “Beg for it, slut.”


Visuals — 1/5
I don't like HS, but it can be okey in some cases — this is not one of them. I have no idea in what universe that skin texture is “good”; it looks awful. It doesn't look like shadows or wrinkles or anything natural — it looks like corpse skin or dirt; just disgusting. The MC's pubic hair clips through his balls and looks really bad.

First and foremost, I'm pissed off.

It would be so easy to get a 5 out of 5.

Let's get started.

Sound design, graphics, animations, simply top-notch.
The game's running time is easily over 30/40 hours.

The developers, above all, have a very good eye for scenes and scene design, and I'm not just referring to the sex scenes.

You have to have a knack for that when you're telling a serious story. That really underlines the quality.

The story started sooooo well; to be fair, it's a zombie apocalypse scenario.
Since reinventing the wheel is practically impossible, a lot of it was predictable, but it was still written in such a way that you were always on the edge of your seat.

What I liked so much is that just because it's this engine, you don't HAVE to resort to the anime cliché.
While the story begins with a mature one, it unfortunately slides too quickly after a long, good build-up into this run-of-the-mill "I am the chosen one."

It occasionally jumps back and forth between a Resident Evil/Last of Us and a typical shounen anime.

Then I come to my two biggest criticisms. While the first one seems like a high-level nitpicking to me at the beginning, the second point makes it all the more annoying.

First, the actually harmless part. It's always interesting to see the narrator's perspective apart from the protagonists.

A bit of poetry and philosophy is also a nice touch, but my god, there was way too much poetry thrown into every little physical proximity.

While quite refreshing at first, after so many hours of play, it becomes unnecessary and at times truly cringeworthy.


Nevertheless, I have to appreciate this work
4/5

V1.0
Pros:

• Interesting plot, but never fully explored or explained due to the rushed endings.
• Good amount of renders, and content is not missable, managed to see every scene in game without a walkthrough.

Cons:

• Abrupt ending, majority of the game was slowly building up plot threads, hinting at a bigger narrative in between the daily life of the family, but ultimately zero payoff and no explanation regarding the deus ex machina moments during the danger segments of the story, only hints at what the plot wanted to do in the epilogues.
• H scenes being removed from the game due to the developer abruptly deciding to change genres, I would understand adding a disclaimer then not making new content for it, but why would you spend development time just to remove content that is already finished and unintrusive?
• Slow burn H. Normally this would not be a problem if the character development itself flowed well, but due to the rushed ending we went from the main trio mainly doing foreplay and teasing, tempted to commit incest but get angry when the other person is doing it, leading to the ending where suddenly its back to back creampie threesomes where everyone can shamelessly fuck and speak like highly experienced pornstars.
• QTE events during the action segments, there are zero hints to which is the correct answer, although it gets better in the later parts where it only requires single clicks instead of navigating nested choices under time pressure.

Finally complete. Been following this for awhile. I really liked the animations and the writing. It gets really hot. The story, I have no idea what's happening lol.

Props to the dev on knowing that he cant continue and gave us an ending. END 2 is the best IMO

2 points only for the render. The rest is nothing special. The story is a typical zombie apocalypse, with two endings. Before the end, you will be warned that the game will soon end, and you will need to choose an ending (the difference is only in about 10 renders and a few lines of text). The mechanic of clicking on a specific point does not make the gameplay better, as it is still the same default RenPy.
In fact, I wanted to write a review for another game, or rather, for another version (those who have been following the game from the beginning will understand) of this game, but things turned out the way they did.

First off, you should know that this game contains scenes of unavoidable femdom as the the MC is a sissy boy who is both emotionally and physically weaker than both his mother and twin sister. This is a zombie incest game that is both simultaneously slow burn and a blue ball simulator for 70% of the game. What's great about this game is that it's character focused: there's only 3 main characters which are the MC, his twin sister, and the mother. Most of the sex scenes in the first 70% of the game involve some sexual tension with a character only to be rudely interrupted by the other female.

With the reptitive format of the blue ball sex scenes, you also get a lot of repetition of the drama going on between the 3. Basically, there's some slice of life stuff and then there's drama. In fact, they fight and argue about mostly the same exact topics even though they fought about it and resolved it 30 minutes ago. The MC is an extreme sissy boy who wants to be stronger. The problem is that he doesn't find his courage until way late in the story and the way he finds it is not through actual growth but due to some weird amnesia/science fiction plot device which felt very unsatisfactory. What this game does really well is the progression of the sex scenes. The vaginal sex is basically what happens near the end of the game and those scenes are the best in the game. Unfortunately, the game ends in a massive cliffhanger. There's a lot of potential for this to be a great game, but it falls short in so many ways.

Good characters, nice renders, and a good plot. What I love the most is how story progresses. Rather than jumping to sex scene, there is a steady development. The problem I have is how I wanted more scenes after the build up. Also the story felt incomplete. At least the makers acknowledges this. They have did a good job and I wish to see more from them.

I came on just to leave this game a review, I've played a lot of games on this site over the years, mostly being incest and this is by FAR one of the best.

When it comes to an actual story line that makes you want to find out more and not just something that adds more tension to the sex scenes but is a boring story if it wasn't for the sex, this game has a brillaint emotionally driven story by itself.

I actually had strong emotional responses to some parts of the story, about 95% of stories for incest games are terrible in comparison.

The slow build up and mom resisting when on a bit to long but the scenes were really hot just a shame there wasn't more actual penetration and a proper ending. The rest of the game is so good in comparison to most games on this site thats why im still giving it 5 stars. I hope the dev comes back and adds an ending of a sequel.

I usually don't write review or anything similar for most games. But this was an incredible journey. Some of the best character writing, renders, animation, story I have ever seen in AVN. I wish it was possible to continue and actually complete the whole thing. I don't think any other zombie post apocalyptic game will ever reach this lvl. Love this sm

I can´t believe I haven´t found this gem sooner.

This is peak and I mean it absolutely without any exaggeration. This ticked all the spots I love about AVNs and the reason I fell in love with them in the beggining.

I am so much thankful (you don´t even know how much) to you both Hot Tomato and Ruykiru for making this literal MASTERPIECE.

I will forever remember this AVN and the emotions I felt while experiencing it. The beauty, the sadness, the hope, the truth, the reality...

Everything was done so perfectly I still can´t believe it...

THANK YOU SO MUCH...

Truly magnificent game. I could highly rate any aspect of this and cannot put in words how I (and a lot of other people) love this game and how sad it makes me feel that it is over (hopefully not for good).

Thank you author for this game, you are awesome (you both are). And thank you that you came back and finished it that we could have our closure (not sure that it is the right word), for that you are not just awesome, you are a legend and we will probably never forget you and your work of art.

This fame is nothing sort of a masterpiece, and I want to thank the author for it.

I don't know how the previous versions were, or what scenes are missing now, but for the most part and for what I've been able to read and experience so far, I'm really glad that the dev took the decissions he did, so he could focus in the story HE wanted to deliver, which is nothing sort of amazing.

I'm almost in a cloud now. It is like if Eternum, Now&Then and Desert Stalker had a baby together. The HS2 and storytelling of the first, with the setting of the second, and a bit of the drama and the taboos of the third one. A dream made true.

If anything, I have to say that I'm really sad about this being the finish line for this incredible game. After watching the two different endings, I'm sure there are still a lot of stories that could have been told in this game. But I'd gladly accept what I've been given. More than gladly.

The first half of the game is really super good. It is one of a few games on this site that I actually enjoyed reading at first. But the second part was a big letdown to me.

I think the slow-burn corruption was very well done. And sex scenes are really hot, and there are a lot of them. The author uses zombie apocalypse to motivate incest, and I actually believed that. I can imagine ppl being sexual unsatisfied during the pandemic like this and doing amoral stuff. Tho, to be honest, I thought there was something more behind this

Story-wise, although it is unbelievable that MC and his family live so well during the zombie apocalypse, the game was pretty self-conscious of its flaws. The characters were kinda charismatic and well-written (for a porn game, that is)

The second part of the game was super disappointing because something bad just happened to the story and sex scenes. Story started dragging a lot. The author has made so many interesting set-ups that hooked me up in 1st part, but they never pay off later. Like that secret farm where MC's mom goes, which turns out to be nothing.

As the story progresses, the MC fell into the standard pitfall for such games when he is a "good guy", but he undeniably, sexually abuses his family/females. On top of that, you get an extremely weird story of the "choosen one", which I didn't fully understand. As a result, MC seem super cringe to me.

Sex scenes also got weird because the developer postponed sex too much. There are way too many scenes with masturbation where females get no action. It seems very akward when the game tries to convince me that the girls go crazy jerking off to MC or being naked around him. He does even make them cum for like 4/5 of the game.

Unfortunately, I really could not bring myself to finish the story. I skipped the last tiny bit of the game. The first part was very, very promising. It is a shame the developer couldn't finish the game how he intended.

The game has a promising start with a somewhat logical slow-burn zombie story, but about halfway through it becomes extremely rushed. It feels like the dev gave up at some point due to the poor reception and just wanted to wrap things up by any means possible.

Pros:

* Slow-burn beginning that develops the characters
* Actual incest story that doesn’t rely on fan-made patches
* Good sex scenes (they improve over time)
* The dev actually finished the story instead of abandoning it, which is quite rare

Neutral:

* Models are decent for a honey select game, but nothing extraordinary

Cons:

* MC’s inner thoughts are extremely awkward (I don’t like using the word 'cringe', but that’s exactly what they are)
* MC spends half the game being a pussy; I like when characters develop, but here it just takes too long
* That sex scene — you can’t take it seriously because of how absurd the situation is
* Even though it’s technically “finished,” both endings feel open and unresolved — you don’t really know how the story ends.

Final Score: 3/5
If the ending hadn’t been so rushed, this could have easily been a 4 or even a 5. But as it stands, it falls short of its potential.

Well made game with a good story, well made scenes and sound
Usually I'm not a fan of Honey Select games. Most of them are pretty boring, generic and have no sound effects.
This game is one of the rare exceptions, even though it's not one of the best.
It definitely a 8/10 game for me.
Positive

• The story is pretty long and interesting enough for a zombie apocalypse plot
• The game is unapologetic an incest game without even trying to hide it, which is bold and rare nowadays.
• Female characters are hot (but it's pretty standard for a Honey Select game)
• Well made sound effects
• Well made sound effects in sex scenes

Negative

• Most part of animations are 2 looped frames
• No variety of girls. I wish you could at least do something with rescued girl
• The corruption progress is a bit too slow, which basically slowed down the story
• The story is unfinished and lack details around other survivors, I wish it would elaborate more on it

I love the story, the characters and the H-scenes, almost everything is top tier but the netorare part sucks because even if you decide not to watch it is still implied in the dialogue that whatever that has happened in those scenes has already happened in past as a fact, the choice is just if you want watch that scene or skip it, so the NTR really isn't optional because the character has done it either way, it would've cool if the choice was played out like we see her memories and decide there if we join them in their shenanigans if we decide in the first scene itself that we don't want to anything with them then there would no more scenes like those and the choice actually means something because we decided that the character doesn't participate in anything NTR'ish, other than that I loved the whole story especially the chemistry between juliet and the mc, even the H-scenes with elis are very good, would've easy 5/5 for me if not for the poor implementation of NTR scenes.

masterpiece. no words needed
story, drama, adult part. everything is on perfect level
dont think much. just play it.
one day we will have another one game from this author
MC's inner "evil" side in midgame is just wow
10/10