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

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.

This game has some hot girls in it and it's not the worst writing. The story is clearly building something up that might explain why the girls are hungry for MC's cock without any effort on his part but...

It's a Honey Select game with Honey Select (the first one) animations.
The music gets so annoying. I eventually had to mute it.
The dudes look like shit. The MC's dick looks like a dildo (because it's Honey Select)
Development is at a snail's pace and that's not an inherently bad thing against the game but boy he's taking his time to actually rail his mom and sister.

And the nail in the coffin for me was the fake BitCoin trading app.
It has the most annoying music and sound effects when you use it. OH! And now I'm up the point where you need like $500,000 or whatever to buy some ridiculous vacation to advance the plot and you can only withdraw $50 at a time. I made a mouse macro to click for me and had to play on my phone while I waited to get all the funds I needed out.
Update: Turns out can change how much money you withdraw per click but it's not obvious.

Final Verdict:
There's better games to spend your time, at least until this game is 1.0 (fully completed). There are some hot girls though (excluding the dickgirl which is not my thing) so maybe instead download the gallery unlocker mod or use a RenPy image ripper.

P.S. The gallery is not at the main menu it's in the game when you use your laptop.

I'm confused by this game's rating and popularity. Nothing about this game is deserving of such high praise. The music is derivative and annoying, and the writing is average. Incest is poorly implemented: lazy replacement of "landlady" and "housemate" with "mom" and "sister", which doesn't make sense in all contexts and breaks immersion, and they are also instantly cock sluts for the MC with little to no buildup. The render quality is poor even for an HS game, and that's saying something. The one strength HS should have is its animations, but somehow even this is screwed up as they're choppy and low quality. I couldn't even get through the first couple of scenes before I started clicking through just to see if the lewd content could save this mess. Suffice it to say it promptly ended up in the trash after a few minutes. Not recommended if you value your time at all.

Only redeeming quality of this game is good Soundtracks and Beautiful Models. Everything else is very bad. Story is everywhere and nowhere... it feels rushed, bad paced. Wanted good romance, goted Whore simulator... if you want quick fap, this game is for you.

Edit:
3 Stars instead of 2 because there seems to be some kind of underlying story which could be good but sadly its so deep burried beneath meaningless fuckery, fanservice for patreons and other stuff that i started to skip most of the parts now.
BUT the animations started to be really good!
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tl;dr
Huge mess and all over the place - Literally just a fanservice for patreons

Holy shit, how does this get 4,5 stars?!
Played a little bit now and im struggeling so hard to play further since it gets worse and worse:

- Random characters from other IPs get sucked in because some one donated big. So far i saw Tifa from FF and Elsa from Frozen and Widwomaker from Overwatch.

- Alternate timeline stories because of someone donated big
-story not really existing.

-> First time MC sees his mom shes already eye fucking him. First time his sister sees him, shes eyfucking him. BF of his sister instantly accuses him of naughty thoughts about the sister and just blows him for it... twice in a row!
Couple of minutes later they both show up dressed like 2 dollar whores and feast upon MCs dick. Your new "GF" is an outgoing cumbucked which MC wants to tame for no reason.

-Animations consist mostly on one scene which is pretty grainy at the beginning of the game and only one set of moments. Dont know if it gets better later on.

- Dev clearly didnt know what he wanted with the game. The prologue had some options but after it and befoe the sandbox beginns you just got asked again, what answers you chose in the prologue.

- Ingame money maker is so wack that if you do it right, you got all the money in the world withing 2 or 3 days.

i will play this hot pile a little bit further but most likely drop it after the next fap...

Pros:

1. Good writing
2. Beautiful models
3. Decent animation
4. Somewhat good (For me atleast as i like slow burn romance) pacing
5. BITCOIN

Cons:

1. Too little sex scenes if you consider that this is Honeyselect based game. They tends to have enough scenes but not this one.
2. Somewhat grindy with very little reward for it if you ask in general.
3. Story is kinda confusing with girls being over the top horny/depraved*.

I think story has reached the zone where dev now can add many new sex scenes as these are the reason we play it. Story will be always in sideline for me. It's already a mid tier or lower High tier game according to game size but still missing sex scenes with mom. Dante you need to step up a bit.

It starts off strong, but the pacing gets all fucked up in the open world. It takes forever to get anywhere with the mom character or the sister character, and then a bunch of weird rapey stuff happens in a parallel dimension. I got all the way through with the trap character on the side while trying to focus on the mom and I got all the way to the end of that storyline. The trap never even gets hard, it's very disappointing. I dunno. I loved all of the outfits in the early game, but the rest of it is just so slow and disjointed that I cannot recommend this to anyone.

When I started this game I wasn't sure how I felt about it. The music was a little over the top and the 'famous' models dipping in and out of the game distracted from the story a bit.

However, as the game progresses it just gets better and better. The characters are beautiful, the story gets progressively more interesting, and the relationships with the various characters is developed very well. Once the trip begins things really start to heat up, and although I wouldn't mind things to go slightly faster at this point, there is enough action so you never really feel deprived.

I, unfortunately, feel compelled to mention that if you have arrived at this VN by searching for the 'rape' tag...you are unlikely to find that content. I'm pretty confident I've been through the entire VN and I couldn't find anything that qualified. Perhaps it has been removed. It's not really my cup of tea, so I wasn't bothered by the mis-label, but fair warning to those looking for that type of story, you may be disappointed.

Other than that, a very solid effort, I hope there will be an update soon.

Many people are into corruption style games, including those with blackmail, who are also very much not into violent forceful rape, especially without proper forewarning. Please properly tag your game, and learn how the tagging system actually works.

Edit: Rape tag was finally added after I submitted a report, not sure if it was the developer or a mod who added it, but seeing the responses of the developer about the subject in the past, I highly doubt the former. Even then, the game could be a lot better. The gameplay often feels like a slog, and an event locks you out of the rest of the game until complete, which it currently isn't. That and the art, specifically the male model, could use a LOT of work, as they look very out of proportion in certain scenes, especially their legs. The animation is also your typical 'impale this person's nonresponsive model with a penis-shaped object' laziness, so that could use work.

So there's a futa character in the game, and you can end that path before it gets very serious, but you don't find out who the futa is until AFTER the futa character has given the MC a blowjob. Not cool, bro, not cool. The model doesn't even have a bump down there under the clothes, so you couldn't guess beforehand.

Otherwise, I was a little pleasantly surprised, as the beginning of the game makes it seem like the sister and mom are going to be easy, but actually the game teases them out at a good pace. Not the best way to start off, I think, but I guess the dev purposely wanted to whet the audience's appetite at the beginning, then draw it out once the open world play begins.

Choice of music wasn't too much my thing. Pretty sure a couple songs are really famous and maybe there's a licensing problem here, but maybe they are just really good covers? Kinda doubt it. Anyway, the selection wasn't much to my liking, but it was a little novel.

Animations are okay, nothing spectacular. The first animation wasn't so good, but I felt like they got better, or maybe I just got used to it. Anyway, they are passable, but not great. No sex sounds in the animations, for those like me who care.

The story is okay, but it doesn't seem inspired or inspiring. It just gets the job done. The writing needs some work.

Overall, the game seems mediocre to me, not too bad, but not very good either, at least not yet. But for the futa blowjob before being able to kill the futa route, that costs an extra star, bringing it down to the two stars. Not cool bro, not cool.

Honestly, the front part of the story doesn't get me interested, maybe because there are too few interactions of emotions (e.g. I only remember being raped by Nicole and forced to cum on Kaira)
However, the trip really impressed me. It focused more on romantic affairs with Kaira, and tried to break through the gap between two of them, while the depiction of emotions is very detailed. Sex scene here appears after love basis. The developer really did a great job for this part. Totally worth 5 stars with that storyline (Personally I like little cute Kaira). Keep going

Don't know what I can write that already hasn't been mentioned about this great game.
This game is objectively the best game there is.

Every single lewd scene is better than the other. I don't have words to describe how good they are.

The story is similar to so many other games, you're a college-aged kid who is living with his hot mom and sister. I'm not too upset by this game using this premise. Is it overused? Sure, that's fine as long as the story and hscenes make up for it. Unfortunately, they don't.

Gameplay: 6/10
I had high hopes for this series because of the tags and the title of "Depravity" I had hoped this game would really get into the corruption of the female characters. But it really just falls short. Some of the characters are already corrupted by their first story mission and the "Depravity" choices left to the user is if they will watch the hscene or say "I shouldn't do this!" Besides that this game plays like your standard sandbox VN. There's a morning/afternoon/night cycle and you process the story of one girl at a time by talking to a girl at a specific time at a specific location. Nothing wrong with that gameplay style, it works well for most games. There is also a money system in the game but you can easily get infinite money so I don't see the point of it.

Story: 5/10
The developer made some characters non-canon and it just doesn't make sense. It makes zero sense that two characters from the "Depravity" universe have non-canon stories while characters from other games magically get teleported into the "Depravity" universe and that is canon. There seems to be some sort of fantasy element going on in the background with some girl talking to you in your dreams but that also seems out of place in this story. Overall I was not interested in the story and found myself skipping through the dialog. That's never a good sign.

Hscenes: 5/10
Some of the scenarios are pretty hot but like the story, it just doesn't make sense sometimes. It is a porn game so I don't hold that against the game too much. My biggest issue with the hscenes is the animations. Some of the animations don't loop correctly, sometimes there are frames missing. Overall it's just messy. The animations are just the standard animations from Honey Select, not a huge deal, but worth mentioning.

Music and Sound: 7/10
Some of the music choices are ... unique to say the least. But this game does have a decent soundtrack so they deserve credit for that. There are no other sounds besides the music, however.

Overall: 5/10
Overall, would I recommend this game? Probably not. There are better games out there that have similar gameplay and story but that do it better than this game.

story is excellent, character design may be a bit too out forward, but that's what I guess depravity means for this game
sound is awesome, and I definitely recommend you to listen the bgm, it's great
and the money system is well, never thought I would be sitting with my virtual million dollars

let's go that's the way!
Seriously a good job, not into the futa/trans/trap type of thing, but I think it's great you can avoid Caroline if it's not your shit.
Awesome renders and solid story. Loved the music choices and also the nice reference lol.
Give us new content, I can't wait!

@danteworks

~>The game is like a moon a beauty unmatched/untouchable everyone pass by without noticing or ignore but with ur hard work and dedication as developer it will be a rising sun that can be acknowledge by anyone.

~>The Story is unique, interesting, and most of all original on my opinion.

~>Will u succumb to pursue ur desire to love, dominate, degenerate, and take away someone unwillingly to follow u or will you let others decide how u live and dictate 4 u?

~>The music is unexpectedly perfect like a coffee brew 4 perfection.


~>free roam is a good choice however something is lacking feels like ghost town when u already finish the game.


~>variety of sex option would be good though which one to penetrate.


~>Good job and good luck to ur game hope many pple will support u.


~Hard work, dedication, effort, experience and take time to create more interesting game it is ur ally and self confidence.

~>My favorite girl/lady is nyx and maya atm.

~>Although it would be cool if it is not the same with typical mc male 3D model with other game

I really enjoyed this one so far. If the visuals were a higher quality, this would be a 6/5 for sure. The story is captivating, even though I am not big on the I-word kink. As a fan of general milf, corruption, and power-dynamic play I am very happy.

This is a good game. Not excellent, though. Girls are very hot, story is interesting, but the gameplay is quite repetitive and it gets a bit boring quickly. Sex scenes and animations are simple and there are not many characters at this point of development. Certainly worth playing.

very well made, excellent story, excellent animations, excellent attention to details with the characters facial expressions, pretty good script/editing, decent variance in personality types.

I am not a fan of huge breasts and butts, and only 2 fuckable characters so far dont meet that description. I would love to see some size/shape/color variances in fuckable characters.

bit of a grind getting money at the beginning, but once i figured out the laptop trick, i was finally able to focus on the story and the characters.

cant wait until finished. Thanks for sharing your hard work.

Top tier game. Incredible artwork. You should try it. I hope the author leans into the plastic surgery angle. That isn’t for everyone and there is a lot of variety but I hope to see more characters become more beautiful.