Ren'Py - Depravity [v0.62 Public] [Dante]

Positives:
Hot girls
Good sex talk

Negatives:
Story makes no sense
Sandbox is garbage
Girls obsession with MC is unrealistic
Theme of "Depravity" is mostly present in the cameo character's stories.
Ego of the developer is oozing through quite often. Like the cocktail name, frikken BOOK about the game that is 20% finished and a few more.
Snail progress with girls. My dude is working (milking) this from 2018, it's crazy.
Story pacing also makes no sense, with these "progress with other characters, then you can continue with the one that is interesting to you".

For me, the most detrimental thing was dev's ego. When I saw this book ad i couldn't stop myself from laughing. You know, when you navigate through the timesink that the dev has created with the sandbox mode, when you need to talk with the girl, sleep, EXIT THE HOUSE TO ADVANCE TIME or go to your room and advance the time by clicking a SPECIFIC PART OF THE BED - it's hilarious. Yeah, such a cool book about models that are featured in poses that are 80% made by other dudes, in backgrounds that are 100% made by other dudes, with VERY sub-par lighting - maaaaan, yeaaaaah, that's what you need to write a book about.

TL;DR - good enough for fap or two but nothing to write home about.

3 stars but absolute personal feelings I'm more at like a 2.75/5 for this, just selecting 2 stars didnt quite feel right.
Everything looked fine, the Characters were hot, animations seemed to work well, but I just kinda didn't care about anything else going on. I was following along just fine from the start; Sweet and Caring household, super lusty Friend, Encounters with attractive people, Hints at something more possibly going on! I was definitely intrigued but I feel like I kinda just got lost along the way, especially once i hit a pause in one of the stories and was only hinted with "Progress with others". I dont really mind but I also didnt really know if some were just Side Characters or if some were Progress necessary. So I just used the Power of Skipping to get through the "others" till I could continue with the like main 3. By then I was kinda over some of the story, maybe I was just too impatient or maybe it just really wasn't all that much for me

+Good Lighting, nothing was hard too see
+Feminine Characters looked nice. (Do have a negative here tho too)
+Animations were good, ran well

-I didn't really buy that the Milfy characters were really "older" kinda just looked the same except for body proportions
-The bitcoin app on the phone, Way fucking loud. I did turn volume down but damn bruh
-Something about switching between different characters, their events, and the specific times of day people were available seemed a bit clunky too me. I really with I had more of an exact criticism for this but I just can't mush my thoughts about it together enough

2.75/5 but maybe some of it is just this wasn't for me. I'm confident this will be just fine, to even perfect, for many many others!

It looks good, but it makes no sense.

It should be called "Romance and cheap Drama" instead of Depravity. Because most of the time characters keep talking about everything around. This game definitely needs some "skip the empty chatter" patch.

You will suffer as an idiot, because dev wants him to suffer. All the girls are practically jumping on MC's dick. But he pushes them away or does stupid shit because he is so unsure if its ok or not to have sex with a girl, thats asking to be fucked.

Half of sex scenes are happening in his dreams or alternate reality. You think "at last, some action". And then nope, it was just a dream.

Gameplay unpredictably switches from VN to sandbox and back. A small talk in the morning can lead to a full day event with wall of text, MC's thoughts and some ghost talking to you.

Money grind is broken in both ways. You can earn $50 a day, but if you know a small trick with bitcoin app you will get millions in a week.

So, is it good? Kinda, because of hot models.

I'm not that good with writing reviews so I'll just copy/paste what I said on the thread.
Bloody hell ! This game rockets towards the top of my favorite list, here I was enjoying a good slice of life with interesting and funny characters .
I'm so glad I didn't read the thread before playing and just went with my guts based on the decription, previews and high reviews score, it would have been a shame to spoil the twist for myself.
and im really love the art. The girls is so pretty. I love how you do this game.
This is the best game ever. hope you are healthy to keep going. tks you man.

The whole game feels like a sales pitch. That's the impression I'm left with after having played most of the current content. I've literally never seen a game have more links to a patreon page than this one. You're constantly asked for money. For example, at one point in a particular scene, the MC starts looking at an advertisement for the developer's merchandise page. It has nothing to do with the scene, it's just blatant product placement. There are no less than THREE links to the developer's patreon page in the main menu alone. That's not counting what's on his phone and his laptop.

I understand that game development is a job. It's difficult and time consuming and I absolutely believe that developers deserve some compensation for that. I don't even mind a gentle reminder of that once in a while. There's a limit, though, and this game is WAY over it. It feels greedy and manipulative, and the game feels like a soulless, uninspired cash grab.

i really tried that game but man Nicole makes it unplayable you just hate her and wth i came for management (i didn´t got that part) and leave thanks to nicole
can only give 1 * sad but thats my rate

forced in a "choice" game really

this is my very first review on this site and it is hilarious that it would be for such a bad game.
2 stars just for the models.
ten minutes in and the player has ZERO options. he doent just go with the flow, he just has no brains. at all.

his "sister's" best friend is practically doing whatever the fuck she wants, and you, the player are just the puppet to her wishes. I tried hard to keep playing because as I said the models are great but nah man.

I wish I could have slaped that nicole bitch but nope. you are her slave so deal with it.

if you are into games that all they have to show is pretty pictures, then go ahead and play. if you want to have some control on what you do, skip this game

This is an incomplete review as i couldnt make it past the third sex scene, the colour palette of everything is very bland, think easern europe, its so bad the game might as well be in black and white.

The MC getting raped/forced as the first and second sex scenes set a bad tone for the rest of the game, especially as both are not avoidable and once the MC had unavoidable sex again with the only woman i couldnt stand i decided that was it for me.

All the women are very domineering and the MC is a simp who will go along with anything.

At the point in the game i stopped at there was no hint of a main story and apart from one woman trying to force the MC to fuck his family there didnt look like there was going to be one.

Art is below average and i would say the same about the sex scenes.

Choices didnt seem to do anything as the MC still wanted the sis even when i rejected her and there were no choices to direct the story at all.

Story 1/5 almost nonexistent
Art 2/5 just passable
Sex 1/5 rape and forced
Fetishes 1/5 incest
Choices 0/5 did nothing
Characters 1/5 domineering

I just love this game.
I love these girls, the story is great so far, emotions and decisions are on point. Art is beautiful and music is always great too.
Im really curious on how this game will continue on.

Huge thanks for this experience tho!

This thing is a hot mess, literally. Sometimes it’s a sandbox, sometimes it switches to a VN for long periods. It feels like a kludge assembled from material originally intended for multiple different projects. Some of the scenarios it presents are quite hot, others not-so-much. It does have a good musical score, which elevates it somewhat.

I think I played through to the end of the 0.61 update (hard to be sure, due to the nature of this beast), but it didn’t hook me enough to come back for a future update. If you play it, be aware that one of the LIs has a dick….

It looked good and promising on the screenshots, so i decided to take a look into this game. But sorry, it's really not good. I couldn't make it to the end, even if i really tried it.

So far the best in this game are the female models, since there are surely worse honey select models out there. However the proportions are often totally overexaggerated with way too much curves. (don't know why some other review here declares them as "realistic") Absurdly fat legs and fat tits.

The story is a big question mark and i don't understand, what's the point here. You just play a schizophrenic cuntface loser, that for some unknown reason looks attractive to the ladies. The first love interest sucks you off - two times - because she finds out, that you're in your own sister, her best friend. Turns out, she is really cheap, so MC don't hesistate to inform her about that, everytime they have sex. In general MC often have tourette during sex scenes and starts insulting the females as sluts or whores.
Constantly you are dragged into parallel stories for the sake of a domination sex scene.
No idea, where the author wants all this to lead at, but i seriously don't care anymore.

Cause of this is probably the pointless sandbox world, where everything has to fit in. Completely unneccessary here - since you really don't get anything good out of it. Events cannot be tied together, to allow the modular approach.
The sandbox is literally just there to block the pacing and be annoying.
To get further on the path of girl X you have to be at location Y at time Z and do stuff. Then you get some lines of text about whatever stuff they're talking about and if you're lucky you get an event, where maybe something happens.
Sometimes you have to grind some money beforehand, to unlock certain prerequisitions.

Sex and animations unfortunately are somewhat underdeveloped. While girls even have a cum-animation, MC cumming is just the obligatory white flash and the applying of a cum-layer on the female model. When anal fucking for the first time, one cannot see anything, like in those old softcore porns. Often sex scenes are just one animation, that simply just gets faster until the end, while cuntface brabbels something about sluts and whores again.

I don't want to be disrespectful towards the surely hard work of the developer, but i would recommend to start over with a new project.

Grades on a 10 point scale [ v0.61 ]

Renders - 7
Animations - 6
Sounds and music - 6
Story - 2 (In the very first minutes of the game, your sister's girlfriend jumps on you and fucks you. Why would suddenly? Just because.)
Characters - 5
Gameplay - 3

Total - 4.8

When I play games like this, I understand why people hate sandbox games (I love them when they are well done).

Do you need money to join the club? Fine, go work in the cafeteria(only in the morning) go to sleep. Wake up, go to the cafeteria to work, go to sleep, repeat infinite.

You can also open your cell phone and buy crypto and pray that it goes up instead of down. You can also cheat and artificially raise the value, then what is the point of the system? why include it?

I do not recommend this game unless you want to play a VN because apart from this, which is negative, there is nothing remarkable about it.

A story with interesting twists and really hot girls especially Kaira and Caroline. At 23 years old with a girlfriend and an active sexual life, it is difficult for a game to make my balls blue. This game did it. Congratulations.
Waiting for future updates

For some time now, I wanted to play this game, on the one hand because of its visuals and on the other because of the tags it had and I must say that after playing it, it seems like a good game.


0----->5

-Drawing/3D modeling: 4 (They're well made, the FMCs arguably have real proportions that I can believe, and they're well made enough not to bug me for extravagance. In the same way among themselves, you can notice the difference of each one, that is, they are not all the same but with different hair color. I quite liked them)

-Music/Background sound: 5 (good music for each environment, that is, it is not limited to a single background sound, the effects also seem relevant to the actions that take place within the game.)

-Plot: 3 (For the amount of the game that I have already played, I could not say that it is an original story, but if it seems to me an interesting story, I think that it is well written to a certain extent, but yes, the story is acceptable in the sense that it does not bored)

-Map: 3 (The map is fine, when it gives you the option, nothing complex, nothing basic, it's well done)

-Animation: 4(If the animations, when they have to be animations, are fine, nothing out of the ordinary, I say I think it's animations of "honey select" in my opinion, but in short if there are animations and they are fine. I could say that at least it has animations and good ones, compared to many other games.)

- 18+ Scenes: 3.5 (IIt has enough scenes, which compensate for the amount of history, that is, there is balance (at least that's what I think). Because there are times when there are games that have too much text just for a 1 kiss scene... but this is not the case in this game. .)

-Gameplay: 3 (Since it's a VN, there's really not much to do in terms of what to do first, yes, it has its parts where you can tell what to do, but nothing extraordinary (from my point of view).)

-Interface: 5 (well done, nothing out of the ordinary.)

As a conclusion, it is a good game, the story is interesting, not boring for the most part. The characters are well drawn, their personalities, well, they're not the same but they're not that different either, anyway, it's a good game to pass the time, although it didn't meet all my expectations, most of it. This would be a game that I would recommend, of course from my point of view

3.8/5

Nice story, beautiful women (and one intersex) and a mystery. What else do you need from a visual novel?
There's also a freeroam element to this game, where you need to find places to continue the story and the relationships with the characters, plus making money which you will also need for the story. I quite like it, although the making money part was a bit annoying because it became a bit repetitive (work in café to get starting capital, invest when low and sell when high rinse and repeat), but it was relatively quick and if you start your money making journey early, rather than late as I did, it would probably feel better as a gameplay element (but at least you get to listen to wake me up before you go go by Wham! while trading which is amazing).

Interesting graphics but sometimes to light colours. Eventhough it is old game or appears as one, it has something to offer. The story is not one of the best and whole concept could be improved. Overall means average game.

Story - 2/10 Very banal and uninteresting, there is no emotional grab throughout the entire story. It's altogether boring.
The fact that there is very little to do throughout the entire story weakens the overall game. The home you are in has a few rooms, you go to each one at a certain time and have a few moments of interaction then nothing else.
It is the same with every character and location in the game. Everything feels really plain.

Originality - 2/10 There is nothing in this game that is original, done a hundred times in a hundred other story/games. A better overall story would definitely be an improvement.

Renders - 2/10 Outdated honey select stock stuff. Lighting needs improving. The characters are pretty cheap looking, boobs on a few are way to big and unrealistic.

Animations - 2/ 10 This is not a case of two second sex in scenes, this is three second sex with no real options for sexual positions or anything else. No realism in any way, although i have yet to see any game including the more highly rated ones, actually try for a highly realistic sexual experience. It's common place to just pop in a few animations and not try for a quality experience.

Grammar - 9/10 The grammar over all is properly done, although this does not make the story any more interesting.

Amount of content - 4/10 There is no doubt there has been effort to make content for this story/game. Although for the amount of time it has been out, there should be a lot more than there is. Four years is a long time for any of these adult games, four years should equal a hell of a lot more content than there is.


Personally i think the dev should get this one over with, take what they have learned from the experience and make a newer, more interesting story/game. Hire better writers and come up with something more imaginative. This story/game is past it's prime and has gone stale, the dev can do better.
Respect for what has been done, still i think he/she can do better if the effort is put in to do so.

v0.60.1

Can't really understand how this is like 4.5/5 stars.
Had to stop playing after fast-skipping, really. The writing is most of time really cringy, the story is ???, the progression is seriously a meme, and it's a grindfest (that I avoided by editing the save, but a grindfest nonetheless).
The female models are not bombshells, they're the next thing, which isn't always good, like here. The MC's model is a default one, but way uglier, I'm not expecting Brad Pitt, but don't do my man like that...
Some of the expressions frequently come across as unnatural and/or cringy as well.
The animations are stock ones, and even then, they're somehow bad.
The sandbox, boi, that's an oof alright.
There're several more issues too, like the crypto mini-game, but I don't intend on going full-detail, you can get an overall idea already.

Don't misunderstand me, there's work and effort put into the game, and that's the solid reason I don't 1-star it, but the end product is like halfway there, it doesn't achieve any of the things it proposes itself to do.
This can and should be polished. Until then, it'll stay as a big let-down, sadly.

Edit: I also want to add that while it's understandable to want to reward patrons, it's incredibly annoying and most importantly, immersion-breaking to see a character from a videogame or the bathwater gamergirl in the game. There are different and far better ways to say "thank you" to donors without pulling this kind of stunt. It shows a severe lack of respect and compromise towards your game's own story and identity, have respect towards your work or add them as side stories inside the game, not as full on features.

TL: DR - A fun game that plays well and has some fun story content.

First, this game has some flaws. They all do, but we aren't talking about some AAA big named studio.

What this game does right-
A fun story that keeps you wanting to play. Things are interesting, with minimal grind. Fun characters that has one for anyone to feel a connection to. ( Caroline is my fav.)
Decent progression without feeling like things are going by too slowly or too fast for me.
A decent open world, that makes you feel like you actually have a choice in what you can do.
I enjoy the music choices, and feel they actually help with some of the scenes.
Kinks.
Plenty and tastefully done for just about anyone.

H scenes-
They are there. Tasteful and well written.

What could be better?
Unsure. Some do not like honey select, I actually like the models but that's personal preference.
Maybe some scenes could be rendered better with better animations? but that could be fleshed out/expanded later.