VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Depraved Awakening [v1.0] [PhillyGames]

countless ages and reviews exist for this, but had to confirm that there are in fact minimal choices and most gals (and choices) are sex
(often times sex is forced and choices are want any progress with them then do every dirty possible thing from groping too spying N jacking it possible and nothing else)

For more in depth review suggest just checking screen shots, accept "animations" are below average, and then mainly focus on reviews that are 2-3 stars.

They say a classic has a timeless quality to it. In my opinion, this game holds up in 2023.

People recommended this game and the score set expectations. While not perfect, this game does build a world, offer fantasies and engages the player in its story. Most AVN's never get there.

Story wise this game made me feel. I felt agitated, angry, saddened, surprised - but most of the time I felt curious and horny. Provided you take the time to sit with it, this game will take you places and make you feel things. The only thing is - the bad guys aren’t really fleshed out that well.

The beginning made zero sense to me, but you play a detective trying to figure out what happened to one of your clients. Crazy things happen as coverups become apparent and your snooping has its toll. The game does not shy away from pain, gore and suffering - which definitely helps ground the realism of the game in sometimes unrealistic settings.

The game is quite long with many paths to pick that don't always make sense. A 'points' counter has been added to let you understand how you are faring with a LI. But often times, it's quite a chore getting to the special moments. Not to mention the non-canonical ones. I’d recommend a walkthrough to find you all the sweet scenes for a second playthrough - go with your gut feeling on the first one.

Graphics depend on the beholder. Personally I liked the art style, the fidelity of the characters and the way scenes are shot. Dev has an eye for cinematic shots and goes out of his way to create some interesting perspectives. At times, things get really visceral - gore and body fluids - but I felt it all supported the story being told. Renders seemed great to me, animations were a couple frames long. Not buttery smooth, but I didn’t care for animations.

Most of the characters have their own quirks and there are a lot of intimate / sex scenes. Some might say a little too much, as it can hinder the story from progressing. There’s some serious moral stuff going on, although it never fully goes alpha dominant (apart from that one photo.. you’ll see it). Judy is basically forced on you story-wise which can throw some people off, but for the most part you get to handpick your experience - and the choices do matter as I’ve come to find out. And yes, Carli is top wife for me as well.

Should you play this? Yes. There’s a lot to take in: you get to be a detective, fuck multiple women, maybe fall in love, be chased by villains and potentially NTR a guy for life. It’s a rollercoaster, but one I wouldn’t want you to miss.

9/10 because of the minor points and the backtracking - but this is still gold in 2023. 10/10 if you like hot stepdaughters to corrupt.

Very good game, nice characters and original narrative. Characters are very nice build and written. An animations and sex scenes should be better, but this game is also old so i don't blame author. Really good game, and for characters worth playing.

Dark, suspenseful, and chaotic in its nature, Depraved Awakening exceeded my expectations with its excellent narrative and brooding setting. Some characters have good stories, others are a bit more underwhelming. The plot itself is the magnum opus, full of twists and turns that will keep you on your toes.

(Version Reviewed: Completed Game)

I consider Depraved Awakening to be an excellent game. Easily one of the best completed AVNs on the site. We have to always keep in mind that the game was developed in 2017, so it won't look as good as the AVNs around these days. However, the renders still do a serviceable job. The story is intriguing with several compelling characters. Carli is one of my favorite AVN LIs of all time. Overall, DA has been a standard for good games and it has inspired many games after it's release. Must play. 9/10.

Starts off compelling and then grinds to a halt, meandering its way through the plot while feeling that it is going too fast because of the high frequency of character interactions that serve little but to set up a sex scene.

I have the same complaint about City of Broken Dreamers, so lessons were clearly not learned.

Sex scenes have great ideas behind them, but the execution sucks because of the bad animation and ugly models. The latter can be forgiven as these are using very old Daz models, and I can't fap to any other game using them either... City of Broken Dreamers is much better here.

Like with CoBD, the characters are paper thin and I do not care about them at all. They are sex props - which would be fine for a porn-focused game, but DA clearly aspires to more.

Dialogue is great in this game though. If we ignore the lack of character, I can count on two fingers the number of times I was jolted out of the story by something unnatural in the dialogue. This is a problem with 99% of AVNs, and others do it at a far higher frequency.

I had to quit after the threesome with Lynn and Christina because it's just too boring for me, and without the saving grace of attractive models and animations. That scene was so dumb because it required a ridiculous interaction between the two women that is then spun 180 degrees fast enough to give whiplash. I have to think it's something to do with the awakening drug, but at this point in the story, it feels terribly wrong.

Very good and solid game, the first game of this great author. Im gonna put some things of the game that I liked and what I didn't:

- Good story. It's much better than the average H-games.

- H-scenes good overall. Scene level improves throughout the game, so much so that at the end you unlock the best scenes of the game (but they are not cannon).

- Poor animation. Some animation looks like to be done with just 2-3 frames.

- The pace of the scenes are a bit high. Every 5 min MC is fucking someone. I dunno if there are more lines in sex scenes or out of them. This maybe be good, but can make the story worse. At least, you don't have to "farm" to get early scenes like other games.

- Character design is really good. The girls are so hot and there is much variety. Who cares the boys?

- Poor sound. The only sound I remember is explosions and such. In the H-scenes, there are not moans or cum sound.

- Pretty good technically for how old the game is, still looking fantastic.

Doesn't really appeal to me. The build up feels all wrong and rushed. Also the way the MC instantly calls the women sluts in the dirty talk doesn't really do it for me. Plenty of people appear to like it, so give it a shot and if you don't like it initially, for the reasons I brought up, you most likely won't change your mind if you push through either.

I tried this out because I'd seen it recommended so many times that I wanted to see what the fuss was about (and to see the dev's first game as I was becoming interested in City of Broken Dreamers). That was nearly a year ago. I never got around to leaving a review because I was thinking I'd finish the only route I hadn't played and still have yet to do so.

My recollection was that the game started out kinda rough particularly with some visuals and looped stillshot animations that were only a few frames long and I got to a certain point where I really questioning if it was worth continuing to play. Beyond that point though I started seeing steady progression in just about all visual areas as well as the story/character development. By the end I was thoroughly impressed with how much progress the author had made.

The story aesthetic and storytelling worked well together. The story itself wasn't ground-breaking but it was effective enough to keep me interested. The characters were generally solid and I ended up caring enough that some of the twists involving them (I mean everyone, not just the LIs) really had an effect and upped my appreciation of the storytelling. The LIs were almost all great. There's a certain level of depravity and debauchery throughout the game and though you have a choices in who you're interested in and how you treat them, the level of sensuality only gets better as you progress and things just keep getting hotter. The progression was very satisfying. The only complaints I recall were (besides the rough start with visuals/animations mentioned) the bad guys were overly cartoonish figures that were cartoonishly bad (one of them gets fleshed out and has some humanity restored by the end but the rest not so much) and I didn't feel Mido was integrated into the story nearly as well as the other LIs were. I personally also never felt comfortable with continuing down Mido's route the way it was set up.

Anyway, despite having some issues and growing pains most of the game holds up quite despite becoming slightly dated by AVN standards. I highly recommended it!

God, most devs on here really don't have a single dominant streak in them.

As usual, the girls scream at the 'hardboiled detective' how he has to fuck them harder.

Then the hardboiled detective is so sorry he might have overdone it with the whore he visited, because he did a bit of dirty talk with her, and then he apologizes profusely.

And he is so afraid he might scare a whore a bit, so he tells her he is only a very littely bit rough because they might be watched by the bad guys, so he keeps cover.

And then he owns the asian girl because he saved her, and then he is really going to use her - by telling her in every second line how beautiful she is. Good god.

The whiteknighting is strong in this one.

No depravity to be found on MC's side. He is a simp trying his hardest to act like a dominant guy. Keep your left hand free for facepalming - would be my suggestion.

Waste of time and the male domination tag must have been applied by mistake.

Absolutely tremendous Adult VN.
The writing very good and a big step above 98% of the stuff you can find on this site. It's not a groundbreaking narrative, your standard hardboiled PI stuff, but it's something that wouldn't seem very out of place in a movie you could see in a theater and for a porn game that's saying a lot. Though it does borrow pretty explicitly from a few notes in actual movies the scene There are a lot of impactful choices for people that like those types of things, I don't really, but the game isn't super pathy and there is a ton of great stuff regardless.
The porn is tremendous, even with the dated and mostly clunky animations the sex scene writing is top notch especially if you like male dom.
The visuals overall are great as the dev has a cinematic eye and knows how to make scenes feel alive and kinetic.
Overall it's a game that anyone who has an interest in porn games should play as it is an example of what these games can look like at their best, even if some of the visuals are a bit dated.
Recommended for pretty much everyone

Played this game long back and after replaying broken dreamers the third time, I thought why not revisit this again.
I had forgotten the storyline, so most of the stuff seemed new to me.
But then 15-20 mins into the game, the story just forces the daughter into a sexual relationship with the MC!! I was like wtf and quit the game.

I really liked this game back in the day for other aspects of the story, but guess I am more picky or mature now and the forced incestual love interest was a big no no for me.
I am glad the dev has not repeated the same mistake in broken dreamers, which is 5 star game for me.

The game felt pretty average.

The story is not that interesting. The characters are pretty boring and don't really get fleshed out. The main antagonists of the story are so uninteresting.

The renders look pretty good but most sex scenes felt kinda boring because I didn't care about the characters.

The story is original and interesting, the sex is hot, the music is good, and above all the game delivers on its promise of depravity. There are dark themes throughout, and at least one truly depressing ending. (I only saw two endings in my playthrough.)

I played the unofficial Android port linked in OP, which worked well.

There were a few minor typos, but nothing too distracting. (I played in English.)

Definitely worth playing if the Tags/genre don't turn you off.

Reviewing info: How I rate/review and other info is HERE . W.I.P This sentence will not be included if review format is finalized and blog updated.
Review layout: Lazy/minimal format (others)
Review type: Game
Review format: Lewds
PROs
✅ Okay fetish variety as far as “bound to reality” fetishes go
✅ Renders are okay
✅ Choice driven narrative is okay
✅ Plenty of scenes and not too tedious to obtain
❔ Vanilla for most part I guess?
❔ The redhead was my personal fav.
CONs
❌ Characters are dull and very loose from get go
❌ Story itself wasn’t too interested in
Comments
What can I add. As far 3DCG VN type games go it was solid enough. Had nice premise and solid choices narrative, whilst the story itself felt pretty meh, but TBH as far as hentai/porn games go, story is the last thing I worry about. Nice story is good plus as long H deliverance is great. While this game offers plenty of scenes with various characters and some fetish variety, it still felt rather tame to a point where I simply was not in mood in most scenes. The renders quality is fairly good but “animated” sequences are quite awkward.
But yeah… solid enough 3DCG game with plenty of stuff… but wasn’t simply my cup of tea.
Total Score: 6/10
Game status:
✅ Finished

The game had a very good concept and had a strong execution in certain places, but I think it would have benefited more from leaning into the detective aspect and given the player more free-reign into investigation, letting us come to our own conclusion even if it's wrong, and have events play out accordingly. Obviously that's a lot more work, but I'm left wondering about the masterpiece it could have been.

More related to the content that is actually there, the art is solid and the story is well told, although a little linear and short.

It's a terrific game - a rare gift for anyone who can see past the fact that it's a Patreon-funded 3D rendered visual novel. It's slightly hampered by an unoriginal opposing force, but it's a minor annoyance in compared to all else it has to offer, and I wholeheartedly suggest it to everyone.

TL/DR Review: As the first outing of the creators of the superior game City of Broken Dreamers, it falls into many of the trappings of the “learning as you go” development cycle of adult virtual novels with the quality steadily increasing as the game progresses. The story is strong throughout while the adult scenes are a bit hit-and-miss with the best scenes appearing later on with improved writing, length, still frames and animations. Despite its faults I find myself playing through it a second time, and I feel no compulsion to skip scenes or dialogue. 4 out of 5.



Now, for the longer review.



As someone who found this game after having already played several chapters of City of Broken Dreamers, it was interesting to see how far the authors have come based on their previous, rather popular first title.



The renderings are a bit scattered in quality, though like everything else in this VN they improve as you progress through the story. Backgrounds are consistently high quality and varied while the characters themselves sometimes pull weird faces, like a render that didn’t process correctly but wasn’t broken enough to warrant the hours of rendering time to redo it. All of the love interests are attractive though the real standout is the Hooker-with-a-Heart-of-Gold. Near perfect body proportions and an excellent face. Her scenes are by far my favorites.



The music and sound effects are… well, they exist! That’s a selling point in and of itself. There’s a consistent noir soundtrack that plays throughout most scenes that sticks in your memory such that if you ever hear it again, this game will come to mind. That’s a good thing. The sound effects are rare but spot on, like the crack of a rifle, breaking glass, or the breaking of someone’s jaw. I would have liked more variation in the musical scores but that’s a nitpick more than anything else.



The story has a detective/film noir feel to it such that if you’re a fan of either genre you can probably pick out some classic novels or movies that the creators took inspiration from. There are some holes in the story but they’re not so obvious that you’ll pick them out in the moment. Rather, they’ll come to you upon further reflection after you’ve finished a playthrough. There are multiple endings that are quite rewarding, with lengthy adult scenes to signal your triumph.



Speaking of the adult scenes, as I mentioned earlier everything in the game improves as you work your way through the story, and this is especially true of the adult scenes. Some of the earliest adult scenes have animation so jerky it can scarcely be called animation. I’ve seen GIFs with better quality. There’s a healthy dose of… well I’m not sure if it qualifies as NTR, but unless you choose to turn it off you will occasionally see people other than you having sex. Two of them are with a love interest but they occur before you’ve even met them, and a third occurs with a non-love interest you get to enjoy once during the story and is one of the villains. All in all, I never felt that distinct “betrayal” emotion you normally get from NTR, so I would recommend leaving it on.



The adult scenes improve steadily with many of the later scenes worth revisiting in the gallery, especially the scenes involving multiple love interests. None of it holds a candle to their current work, City of Broken Dreamers, but that’s to be expected.



A few nitpicks aside, such as characters using the L word too soon in their burgeoning relationship or steamy but out-of-place incest that progresses far too fast and is accepted by others far too quickly, it’s a solid title with an entertaining story, strong dramatic elements, some truly breathtaking love-interests, and some steamy adult scenes. Definitely worth a 4 out 5. Not a must-play, but definitely recommended.



Final thoughts: It’s unfortunate that the authors themselves rarely make these, but the walkthrough by Maim Lain is essential if you don’t want to miss a lot of the content due to inadvertently making poor choices. There are numerous instances where it’s unclear if telling the truth or lying is the better course, and you won’t find out until many scenes later where you’ll have to reload a save to try to correct things, and there are other times where you won’t even know that you missed a scene until much later. On my first playthrough I ended up with an undesirable ending despite making what seemed like the common-sense choices. The walkthrough fixes that, but it’s unfortunate that a walkthrough is even necessary.

Excellent game. Plot is pretty good although it would be nice if villains would be more fleshed and had more influence on characters. Kira for example could corrupt MC and Judy more if she would keep herself closer to them.
Heroines most likely are the best part of this game. Especially Carli. In My opinion she is not only an icon of this game but also icon of all 3dcg visual novels.
Graphic part is still decent despite it's age. Of course there is no animations which is a shame.
Music..... Ok it's the worst part of this game, generic and repetitive

Came here because of Broken Dreams which was/is an amazing VN. Unfortunately, the only amazing aspect of DA is how far of a step back it is. The story is weird... not interesting or unique, just weird. The renderings are sub par, music repetitive and in general the whole thing feels like more of a treatise on entropy than an actual novel.