Deep Vault 69 by @bohohon is a personal favourite of mine. I'm rating current content as of version [0.1.14_a] which is available to Patrons.
Story: 5/5 - I never played any Fallout game, so for me this was all a new setting and atmosphere. I admit I really liked it and got me hooked. The character personalities are rich and different to each other. There's great humour and conversations feel natural and I enjoyed the different quests and dialogues implemented. Rating the highest score.
Art: 5/5 - The 2D artwork is simply excellent. All drawn by hand, the different characters have different attributes and physycal characteristics and are unique. I really like the use of the soft/pastel colours and tones over all the game graphics combined with the black outlines, it's all very attractive to my eyes and pleasing and fits the atmosphere very well. Great effort has been put not only on character sprites, but also on backgrounds, inventory, screens, combat cards and interface in general, it all looks really well done and customised. Rating the highest score.
Gameplay: 4/5 - The gameplay is enjoyable taking in consideration the Ren'Py limitations and the game in such early days. The built-in hint system works well, and the way the inventory and combat is handled is very robust and consistent. It includes the useful features to start a new game from the last update, avoiding issues with previous saves' compatibility. However, it is still early days so there's still room for improvement, especially in terms of navigation (which will be improved in future versions), the implementation of a gallery system (which is also to be implemented), so rating 4 out of 5 here which will improve to 5/5 as new updates are released.
H scenes: 5/5 - Rating also top tier because the artist/developer has focused on improving this aspect since the early v0.1.0 version, by implementing a much better Live 2D animation system on both H scenes and character sprites.
Future potential: 5/5 - With a great story and atmosphere, interesting characters, solid gameplay and gorgeous graphics, the potential of this game is top class. Also the artist/developer is very engaged and active with the community, provides regular updates, etc, and that also helps keeping players engaged.
Final rating: 24/25 - 5 stars
Story: 5/5 - I never played any Fallout game, so for me this was all a new setting and atmosphere. I admit I really liked it and got me hooked. The character personalities are rich and different to each other. There's great humour and conversations feel natural and I enjoyed the different quests and dialogues implemented. Rating the highest score.
Art: 5/5 - The 2D artwork is simply excellent. All drawn by hand, the different characters have different attributes and physycal characteristics and are unique. I really like the use of the soft/pastel colours and tones over all the game graphics combined with the black outlines, it's all very attractive to my eyes and pleasing and fits the atmosphere very well. Great effort has been put not only on character sprites, but also on backgrounds, inventory, screens, combat cards and interface in general, it all looks really well done and customised. Rating the highest score.
Gameplay: 4/5 - The gameplay is enjoyable taking in consideration the Ren'Py limitations and the game in such early days. The built-in hint system works well, and the way the inventory and combat is handled is very robust and consistent. It includes the useful features to start a new game from the last update, avoiding issues with previous saves' compatibility. However, it is still early days so there's still room for improvement, especially in terms of navigation (which will be improved in future versions), the implementation of a gallery system (which is also to be implemented), so rating 4 out of 5 here which will improve to 5/5 as new updates are released.
H scenes: 5/5 - Rating also top tier because the artist/developer has focused on improving this aspect since the early v0.1.0 version, by implementing a much better Live 2D animation system on both H scenes and character sprites.
Future potential: 5/5 - With a great story and atmosphere, interesting characters, solid gameplay and gorgeous graphics, the potential of this game is top class. Also the artist/developer is very engaged and active with the community, provides regular updates, etc, and that also helps keeping players engaged.
Final rating: 24/25 - 5 stars
