Ren'Py - Deathable [v0.3.7] [Meorless]

Insanely good game. Only "flaw" I can possibly complain about is the art-style and quality. But every other aspect provides more than enough compensation for that. Lots of great thing to talk about here but I'll stick to just Player Agency as it's the best thing about the game.

Well written characters naturally make interactions lewd or not, all the more impactful.

Has a lot of depraved shit you can choose to do.

"Choose" is the keyword here. It's not just simple binary dialogue choices. Most of the time as an interaction gets more and more depraved you're given the chance to wuss out. Just by not choosing to do so adds a lot.

During the interactions you direct how the encounter will shape up by clicking and dragging. It's really intuitive, what and how you do it, in which order you do it determine what type of "sex scene" you'll see. It's more like you're making the scene yourself. The end result might even have ramifications outside of the scene.

What you can and can't do, what you may expect next is subtly hinted by the dialogues.

As of v0.37:

Yo, this game is FIRE! Real talk.

Artwork/Animations - 7/5

These models are fucking gorgeous. I love the artwork, and the available scenes are chef's kiss. This might be top 3 artwork for a game I've played on F95. Real shit.

Story/Dialogue - 4/5

So, two reasons why I am giving this a 4. One, is the story. It looks like it is going to be good, but the game hasn't really shown much about how the game starts compared to where development currently is. So this may well just be my impatience. That, and I miss Alice. xD Another reason is the dialogue. Now don't get me wrong - it's not that bad. I am guessing English may not be the dev's first language, because there's a lot of dialogue errors that stick out to me. BUT, it's not nearly as egregious as I've seen on some other games. I can tell the dev actually tries with the dialogue, and the errors I've seen may just be simple misses. So A for effort.

Gameplay/UI - 10/5

Bro. BRO. I love the gameplay and UI on this game. It's so interactive. All the way up to the sex scenes. You really get to decide how you want to proceed on a lot of stuff in this game. It's not just some point-and-click VN - you really need to pay attention to what you read and what you choose. This ALL matters on how future scenes will work. This is easily, of all games I've played, again one of my top 3 games on gameplay and the UI set up.

All-in-all, this is just a wonderful game with so much to offer. It has probably more potential than most games out there. I am super excited to see where the dev goes with it and pray to whatever gods exist that it doesn't get abandoned.

Cheers.

Radical Dreamer

Deathable shows a rather depressing world in which betrayal, failure and corruption are rampant. People try to get ahead and it seems many of them fail and get corrupted or otherwise entangled in criminality and abusive relationships. There is little hope if you aren't living in a functional family like the MC when the game starts.

And there seems to be a second, more fantastic world, but we only get a glimpse of it. It is supposed to be a major plot point but we aren't quite there yet in version 0.3.7.

Deathable contains ntr and corruption scenes, depending on your own behavior and events in the world that surrounds you. You can either remain a standup guy with a clear conscience or you can become part of this wickedness, you can intervene and help your friends out or leave them alone in their struggles. You can be a beacon of trust and friendship or someone nobody can rely on.
In any case, it seems this is the main duality and most choices impact your allegiance towards one extreme or the other. Which makes it a corruption game with both routes feeling legitimate and enjoyable.

The way decisions are made and how relationships develop allow for a deeper connection to other characters. You not only shape their relationship towards you as the MC, but also to a great extent their relationship towards each other.
You want two friends to find love in each other? That's possible.

The art is simple but it grew on me. Some scenes are better than others and during the three chapters there is huge improvement both in terms of renders and the environmental storytelling.

The story has a lot of potential, especially the dark fantasy aspect of it, and I hope the game doesn't get pulled down by its slice of life and corruption elements too much. Because I believe it can stand on its own and maybe blend these elements together to something we haven't seen a thousand times before. The patreon roadmap is promising.

[v0.3.7]
-Graphics are 2D so pretty unique, although I'm not particularly fond of the minimalist style. The girls' face are quite similar. It's still better than Kokatsu/generic Daz games though.
-Story is bland. A bit more ambition would have been good.
-The really GREAT feature of the game is the sex mechanics. You have many different possible choices and outcomes depending on what you do. Replayability is amazing as a result. THIS is what devs should aim for in a sex game. Too often they throw a couple renders and it's done.
-For the rest of the mechanics, the dev has created what I think is an overambitious system, with many RPG elements and inventories, which look very complicated for a sex game.

Overall, the sex scenes are really top. The game is worth playing just for them.

This is the first game I've seen where you can engage with the sex scenes enough to make sure that the girl cums when you do. Not only that, but the scene and dialogue change to reflect that.

That being said, the artwork looks like it was done in MS paint. The dialogue has plenty of room for improvement, even though it's clear that focus and effort went into it.

It isn't without flaws, but the ultra hot scenes more than make up for it.

Snip snap bitch!
Time for a review and this is one of the best productions I have see (though it has a HUGE downpoint).

Anal content: So far I counted 3 hot and very well done scenes, it looks like will have the option of having anal or vaginal so far.

The story is interesting and the characters are well written, though the atmosphere is too gloomy to my taste sometimes. Its promising something about magic, demons and aliens but so far the story didnt progress to this point, so who knows.

The gameplay is a little different from the common renpy games, the author is implementing a LOT of features like inventory, stats, combat stance, interative map where you move around. Its impressive work though is just the foundation since you dont do much else.

The sex are kind of interative with clicking and dragging, the animation is nicely done and the scenes are hot.

The choices AND consequences are very well implemented in the game, since it can vary a lot from one choice to the other.

The game is promising BUT the overall feeling is the developer is trying to chew more than can take because this game has a LOT of choices which affects the development PLUS the art and sex scenes where is well done, this causes the development to be A DRAG, the guy launched 3 chapters in 3 years (and the chapters arent that long to begin with it).

POSITIVES:
- Interesting story;
- A lot of choices and replay value;
- Hot interactive sex scenes and well done;
- Good art and world building;

NEGATIVES:
- Too short;
- Updates are slow and pass of the feeling the game will be abandoned at some point or having chopped content;

So overall feeling is this game is good, very well done in the interactive part, a lot of choices and has a lot of promising but it takes a LOT of time and effort to develop this things which renders ONE update per year or even more time.

I really have my doubts if the author will really finish this game without chop some parts (like reducing the choices or the combat\interative map parts).

Wowowow, this is really impressive. Hot scenes, but more importantly it has such a nice, grounded setting with real-feeling characters. Draws me in when I'm the type to skip past shit real fast.

Pretty short on content at the moment, will probably take forever to be completed based on the quality and care put into the animation and shot composition of even the most basic moments, but yeah this is great.

My God I do not play such a good history in a long time, all the characters are captivating, very unique and so far developed personalities, the choices of to be felt in each dialogue, what a good game; The chart is very beautiful too, and the form that the animations were made became very good too, does not like to start a game where the MC is already in relationship but the game is options of how you can follow, I ended up continuing the Closed relationship even wanting to focus on Sara, but a game that I will have to be anxious waiting for more updates.
I'm in love with the narrative and the characters.

The pacing is a 10/10. compelling dialogue and visual storytelling interspersed with well made interactive animations not that are not too far apart. The only downside is that there is not more content. Really looking forward to how the story unfolds with the current foreshadowing.

Current estimated playtime: 4 hrs

This is a tough one.
If I'm judging by the quality of the content that is currently in the game, 5 stars. Art, animations, characters, mechanics; all top notch.

But, the game got its first release 3 years ago and so far we are still in the introduction phase. If this is the pace of development, I don't see this game being finished in the next 5 years.

I felt like I played thought an amazing tech demo of a cancelled game.

It is surely one of the best things I have seen. The aesthetic and art part, the attention to detail. (red knees when Eva returns from her meeting with Miguel) The good selection of shots, colors, scenes... It is a very mature project.

I hope and wish that you receive the necessary support to continue with the development.

Meorless has to me found some kind of special sauce, the fantastic artstyle, the scenarios, the relatively believable scenarios that the MC finds himself in when spying on his Mom and Sister is something I cannot personally praise enough. The only exception to this is really the Maria-stand in scene where I am more than happy to suspend my disbelief in the name of getting off.

The scenes involving the sister is by far and beyond the biggest reason I am so enthralled by this game as I am. That's not to say the other scenes are bad by any stretch of the imagination, I'm just an incest-tard specifically towards Sisters and sometimes Daughters, especially rape-y, blackmailing or coerced scenes, so If you've played this game - You may get a hint as to why my enjoyment out of this game is hard to overstate.

I discovered this true shining gem of a game two updates ago, and since the past 2 updates not much has been added to the game in terms of available scenes, There has been additions to the scenes available, further escalating (albeit slowly) with every single update. Considering that all the art is handcrafted, animated and with little to no encountered bugs in any of my many playthroughs of the same ol' content speaks volumes of the craftsmanship from Meorless and the effort put into what they are creating, I can respect that a lot.

While the short updates may seem discouraging in terms of actual content, this game has over the past 2 updates since discovery been the very embodiment of Quality over Quantity where each update has introduced and expanded upon the free-roam and the scenarios involved in them, moving from a decision based menu that we're all used to within Ren'Py to a much more interactive environment that Meorless has said will impact storytelling moving forward (for example; Stealing the Lube and Condoms out of your parents bedside table will have some form of consequences in updates to come, no ETA on when.)

That's not to say I am not a teeny tiny little bit disappointed with the length of the updates, Of course I am. But not to the degree where I feel like any criticism aimed towards the length of the updates is valid - Myself and I am sure a lot of others that can't stop wishing for bigger updates, more content, wishing that we could just get our hands on the finished product with Meorless' vision of the game fully implemented.

Of course I wish that was possible, but I also realize that the process getting there with the meticulous and Hard-Focus on Quality over Quantity isn't something I'd be willing to compromise in favor of faster, bigger or longer updates. To summarize I am happy to wait for an update every 4-5 months as long as the Quality of Writing and unfolding scenarios are of just as high quality up to that point, and I am sure a lot of others share the same sentiment.

It's perfect, down to the last minute details, perfect.

A game that gives you a lot of choices and it's incredibly interactive on the things you can do, there's hints of the possibilities on what you can do once this game updates such as clothing choice, "evil path"

Not a lot of content currently but the ones that are in the game are really good and I love the voiced scenes, there's times for the animation so you can play one handed, hints, starting points, cheats all free you can tell the devs put a lot of love and care into this

I'm playing on Android phone so it's a little bit wonky I see some of the interactions clipping and not showing on my screen but it's very minor, only happens when I'm exploring the rooms

This is one of the most unique games on the site, which is saying something. I love the interactions with the girls, the art style, the sister and the mother specially, but also the girl with the dark crystal glasses. Also, me and my GF prefer anal over vaginal and the fact that you can go all anal depending on your choices makes the game even better.

The game is very atmospheric, these unique interactions allow you to completely immerse yourself in a short but excellent story.

I'm giving it five stars in the hope that the author won't abandon it because of how much time it takes to develop such a game.

The storytelling is top notch, in the top 3% of good games on this site (not a reliable statistic), and I would recommend this game to anyone.

The story doesn't have a lot of ups and downs, but a good story often depends on the storytelling technique rather than the subject matter. I can clearly feel the author's dedication to the storytelling, the subtle changes in the character's expressions, the natural pauses in the dialog, the mother's natural way of smoothing out her daughter's messy hair, these are all unintentional details that are insignificant, but because of this they embody a sense of realism.

At the same time, I haven't forgotten that it's an adult game, and although there's not much progress to be made so far, it's satisfactorily choreographed, the author has his own taste, and it's gradual, but not appetizing, but rather intriguing, and the animation flows smoothly, which is a plus.

The only complaint is that it's short on content for the amount of time it took to develop, but I won't let that diminish my opinion, because good things are always worth more time.

(Using translation software, so don't mind if it looks strange)

Amazing game, great choices much potential just breath of fresh air looking forward to the many updates to come. Keep it up love it ask that you continue remaining efficient in your work ethic of providing an amazing gameplay storyline and things of that nature.

Five stars entirely on potential, as story-wise I still feel like I'm being introduced to the main plot . This is a very high-effort game so far, and I expect that development will be slow as a result. I love the animation and the sordid little details in the smut scenes. The art style is clear and full of character. The writing is intelligent and the characters are well-defined. The game supports a wide-variety of kinks, all of which are toggleable.

One minor complaint is that I do not like the time-bound responses. It increases the sense of realism and conversational flow, but I prefer to play these sort of games in a considered manner, so much so that even if rewinding was blocked I would then become annoyed at the "necessity" of save scumming.

Still, while I wish that there were more content available, but as long as the development team can remain consistent I think this will end up being an amazing game.

Game is short so far, but what's there is great! Love the art style, and as a personal preference really enjoy the amount of foot content that's in the game so far. I really hope the development continues to go steady and in the same direction. I'm excited to experience more.

I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game. It was It was a lot of fun. The plot is interesting and the characters are diverse. The UI is also different from a lot of the games on this website.
I look forward to the next update.