VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Depth's Revival [Final Stories Fix] [Seacth]

Its not BAD game, its below avarage.

-After playing this for about 4 hours, i felt like I had already seen everything in these 4 hours and didnt see a point to continue, every LI conqured with zero effort, nothing else going on other than going from 1 LI to another for sex scenes where they were all waiting patiently in a queue system when their turn is. Nothing else was going on. Just your classic collect your pokemons harem game where everyone lives with each other harmoniously and happy to share you. If thats your thing and u like this type of stuff, sure, whatever, but i think even if u like these types of games, its just OK.

-Its just another MC power fantasy where theres no friction and everything is given to you with zero effort where there is zero threat to the MC.

-All the LIs are either virgins or they have degenerate husband/boyfriend where ofcourse they assure the MC that they havent had any sexual activities in years so it doesnt come off as "NTR"

-One of the LI who has a boyfriend has allowed him to only kiss him on the cheek max and thats even a struggle, like why do u even have him as a bf if you ONLY allow him to kiss you on the cheek and then the same LI when basically u meet her for the first time gives you the FULL SEX SCENE.

-The husbands/boyfriends overall are complete degenerates and cucks = zero threat to MC. The boyfriends and husbands might as well be ghosts, they vanish instantly and add zero to the games dynamics or any real tension, friction.

-Theres no real conflicts, no real emotions, deep connections with the characters, i dont feel anything for the LIs, nothing, you just collect your pokemons and sex scenes and keep moving on from 1 LI to the next.

-Its a game that i've seen so many times now where everyone are virgins or havent fucked anyone for a long time type of game where there is zero threat to the MC. Another male is not even allowed to breathe near an LI or else its getting called NTR. Its all played out, its getting old, its boring, too easy, same predictable pattern where all LIs fall for MC first time they see him and they are all in harmony happy to share. Theres zero friction, variety, same patterns, same LI stereotypes.

-I dont mind if there are virgins or some LIs who have not been with another guy for a long time but for the love of god, have some variety, its literally EVERYONE who are virgins or havent been with anyone for a long time, even if they have an active partner, the LIs are "untouched, basically virgins"

-Theres a scene where MC is with 3 other LIs who you are in a relationship with already. MC then starts naming all the LIs he is in a relaitonship with, they all act like its not a big deal. "Oh.. this girl? yeah shes cute, i like her". "Oh that girl? i though she was a lesbian" They are all just casually pushing it aside like its not a big deal. "Oh, you fucking the whole city? Nice, lets include them to our harem", like wtf even is this.

-An LI who was a druggie when u first met her. Welp.. next scene shes instantly just a normal girl, u dont see any struggles or recovery stuff, she doesnt even act like she has any problems, seems completely fine, normal girl. The "drug" stuff was just surface paint but i dont get why even add this type of LI if you are not going to explore her story/struggles.

-Could u play this as solo paths? Sure.. kinda.. but the pacing is so off and u dont get any unique scenes as far as i know. Just some dialogue here and there, basically if ur on solo path, the MC just takes a nap or sleeps 90% of the time until u get your chosen LI scenes. If ur on harem path then instead of napping and sleeping, u get the scenes with other LIs. Needs some creativity instead of just, welp.. gonna go take a nap or sleep now while its daytime. Its just the most lazy/easy way to skip time until the next scene.
While i appreciate that the dev had solo paths and endings in the game, they feel unnecessary, the game is clearly designed as a collect them all harem fantasy and other paths are so undercooked and bare minimum.

-Overall the scene transitions are weird and messy af, not just on solo paths but even on full harem path. They end abrubtly, skip time weirdly, theres no real good flow or organic way of going to next scene.

-No fresh ideas, unique things, same old but im not gonna really dock points because of that, its devs first game so it is what it is.

-The blonde lady who was pregnant and saw her for like 5 mins the whole game and imogen who was a side girl were more interesting than all these other LIs who live with MC harmoniously in a harem where their whole personality and mission and life goal is to please MC. It was weird that Imogen has split personality though, where she can either be submissive or dominant. It did seem like Imogen was more of a dominant character by nature but to not upset some people, the dev gave option for Imogen to also be submissive. I hate this type of stuff, it loses character integrity, i want her to be who she is not what player chooses what she is. NPC loses agency and becomes fake, phony. Make the character who she is and let the player decide if he wants to interact with Imogen or not. Doing this split personality shit is not it.

-Basic renders, low budget but i cant blame dev on that, moneys tight, it is what it is, good PCs are expensive.

TLDR : Its a game that prioritizes effortless wish fulfillment that is shallow and no depth in characters or story, very shallow and bare bones. Just a very basic, predictable and contrived harem game that also has solo pathing....kinda and solo endings. I checked 2 of those solo endings after quiting the game midway (the game lets u see the endings without finishing it). The solo endings were very short and bare bones but at least it was there.
Every LI is virgin or "untouched" where they havent been with anyone for a long time, other male NPCs are irrelevant.
The game lacks real emotion, connection with characters.
Its not a bad game as i said at the start, just below avarage. Its definitely not some random slop that the dev just farted out, there is passion but imo its just an OK game. If u like this type of harem game then u can probably get something out of it.

Good luck on your next project Seacth. Making games is not easy and completing games is even harder. I know i was super negative in the review but please dont take it to heart.
The game just wasnt for me, im sure there are people who liked it. The most important thing is to create what u want to create, you cannot please everyone. If you try to please everyone then the game is for noone.

The story revolves around an angsty teenager who wants to change his life. This happens when his subconscious suddenly shows up as a female in front of him. For whatever reason, this magical subconscious entity can physically, emotionally debilitate and help him. The MC is pretty much correct in assuming he is gone insane. Hell, you can even argue that this is some extremely awkward pent up emotion that the MC is trans; cuz he is a man but strongly subconsciously sees himself as a woman. Also, he has fantasy sex with this subconscious. Pretty much anything this subconscious entity does is pretty much a reflection of the MC's innermost thoughts and urges. At least one of the women leads to unavoidable sex scenes. For the most part, it's just about some awkward teenager talking back and forth between his alter ego which just comes off as cringe.

Does not let you choose which LI you want and want not. Forces on player sexual scenes of unwanted LI, older women. One of them looks like she is 60, with bloated constipation belly. Dev autodialogue player into sexual scene with her, gross!

I myself am really into pregnancy and this game was pretty much build for that, so that's a big plus for me. I am not into incest but that's also a big part of this game.

Is it the best most engaging story ever? No it is not, it's a power fantasy type arch were you get all the girls and live out your life the way you see fit.

The female character models look good and diverse, The male characters look more similar, but that's to be expected from HS2.

Is it a difficult game? No, from the few choices you have you can pretty much only influence who get's to be in your harem. Those choices are also easy to figure out, just say yes to every girl if you want the biggest harem possible.

It has music but no sfx. Also has a gallery and custom fan requested unique scenes for extra content.

I would say that you should give it a go, especially if pregnancy is your thing, and if you like it, the future games Seacth is working on (DR2/Deathless) look like they are going to be even better. If you don't like it, that's fine and i do get there are aspects which can disappoint. Like certain empty plot points or that every other male character is an insert villian type.

In short, 5 stars from me, mainly due to the pregnancy and harem.

Review of Depth's Revival [Final Stories version] ...

... as a game:
* Decent story. A very simple plot where the MC gets all the woman too easily. It has some good moments, to be honest.
* Good dialogues.
* The game has music, but no sound effects or voice acting.
* Poor performance — it lags during almost all animations.

... regarding its erotic side:
* Character design is pretty good. There is a nice variety of girls with different body types and personalities.
* The scenes are nice. Maybe they are all similar since the main fetish of this game: pregnancy/creampie.
* Simple animations. The lag doesn't help.
* It has music but no sound effects or moans.
* It has Gallery mode.
* It has some extra post-game content.

Good game overall with their flaws that I would recommend to anyone who is into pregnancy or harem. I think the developers should fix animation performance before leaving a good porn game with a bad/decent story.

The game have some choices which affect 3-4 scenes and it has 10 chapters -- pretty decent length in my opinion.

Depth's Revival is a game that while not ever aggressively bad unfortunately doesn't do anything particularly well or even average. The characters aren't interesting. The models don't really look good. The animations are very basic and a little choppy at times. The writing struggles to hold your attention. And the story isn't much of a story.

The game follows the life of a generic guy that realizes every woman in his life wants to sleep with him... so he does so for a while until he's ready to settle down. That's pretty much it. There isn't really any of the fleshed out character arcs or storylines you come to expect. The only "hook" to this harem game is that he occasionally talks to his subconscious in the form of an imaginary woman. But this concept doesn't really go anywhere. They don't explain it nor does anyone find out about it. This alter ego is largely just there to replace the usual internal monologues with mindless chatter since neither have interesting personalities or ideas worth exploring.

On the bright side, the game runs without issue and does technically give you a harem to impregnate without any bad surprises (or one arguably). But since the characters in the harem aren't super sexy or interesting and the graphics are pretty lousy, it kinda defeats even that purpose unless you're down bad. Nothing against the game, but imo it was just not good enough to really scratch any itch.

Okay so if you're reading this just know that there are spoilers so in the original ending it's kind of a classical ending you know you die I pray to Lord games where that was the ending or something misfortunate happens to you or whatever but after getting so many negative reviews he changed it and I feel like that's for the better I know not every story should have a happy ending or whatever but I think we can all agree we come here just to have some fun so if it's fun to have those type of endings that's cool but I do like that he added a different ending I think it's super convoluted or like you know if you don't pay attention you would have missed out on how you do it I mean I sure did I mean I only know about it from the comments about it I know it's like on the front page but still you know some people just looking to download the other day and just play after A Hard Day's at work the story is a power fantasy and a good one very simple straightforward it does have some unique choices with certain characters in the beginning which I think people would appreciate what are you want to be a dominant person or like not so much a dominant person both are interesting and have unique scenes and it only really applies to one character go spoilers on that one and I just feel like even though some people might say the pacings a little fast with the way he describes the story it you should go into the mindset of instead of you having to grind to get these women to notice you your character has just been you know a decent person and because he's decent women fuck with you and I really don't want to spoil the part the game that much besides the part that I was talking about earlier but I really do think this is a good game to play it has a unique set of cast of characters that aren't two one-dimensional and it's just oh if anything the animations are great

Plot is ridiculous, and every character drops their panties for the MC immediately even though it makes zero sense given their relationship with the MC. This should have been a slowburn and instead its off to the races immediately. The writing is about average.

I would not suggest playing this one

Decent premise, some good incestuous talk early on but it just kinda peters out and the ending is just terrible. Awful, even.

Worth a playthrough only if you've played everything else. Here's hoping Depth's Revival 2 is better.

Summary: Long story short. We start out with an MC ripe with apathy, on teetering on the verge of ending his life. He is in his last year of school, living with his mom and having a few acquaintances in his class, but not being close to any of them. The center point around which the story develops, is the awakening of MC’s subconscious, who assumes the form of his childhood crush. She serves as the catalyst by which MC very quickly starts to get proactive and competent, sometimes to the point that she could be considered a supernatural element in the story, due to how overpowered her helpful acts can be. And truth to be told, there isn’t that much of a storyline to follow really. After Serena’s (that’s the name of the subconscious) awakening MC, with Serena help, wastes no time in further developing existing relationships and forging a couple new ones as well. Things are progressing disturbingly fast and we find ourselves in a classic harem power fantasy, but unlike most other harem VN’s, Depth’s Revival goes all in on its niche of incest, impregnation and pregnancy, introducing these much earlier and in larger amounts than usual. And to wrap up my summary, I must mention that, yes, Depths Revival stumbles with the ending. The tonal shift is too sudden and significant. Bittersweet elements could have been included in a far more elegant fashion.

Pros: The meta discussions between MC and Serena can be quite interesting.
- Animations for H-scenes are probably stock HS, but used to decent effect. Positions, movements seem natural enough and smooth. Exception is that there is a little stutter when animations loop, but I have seen worse. Animations also include a separate climax, rather than a still render.
Some scenes do have lower quality levels, but they aren’t trash.
And quality slowly improves with time. Animations in the last couple chapters are great.
- The AVN seems heavily focused on several of my favorite niches/tags/fetishes. It absolutely aces the concept of impregnating the LI’s and seeing them in pregnant form as time goes on. But this alone still cannot hard-carry the AVN in its entirety. There is simply too much slack and too many objective flaws in other areas.
- Dev did a decent job making the older characters actually look their age, at least by HS standards.
- Fine job with making a LI (Kailey) that doesn’t rely on the same overused “supermodel”-ish type of beauty.

Mehs and hit/miss:
- Soundtrack is serviceable. Generally the music matches the tone of each scene. Including lewd ones. But i will lose my mind if i have to hear that damn guitar riff main theme.
- High School setting, but the ages don’t seem to match.
- Scatterbrain MC who only remembers exams the week they happen. Or rather, the writer never mentioned them because he only wrote it into the story the moment he needed the plot device. Instead of, you know, planning ahead.
- MC as a cheap self insert. A no lifer. Seemingly no friends in his entire childhood, just barely living day after day with no purpose from the start.
- At some point in chapter 4, Serena calls you MC. Breaks Immersion.
- Good but basic looking HS models. Boobs in particular are way too similar looking. Same relative areola size and texture, same overall boob shape (almost perfectly round, except kaylie). Most other HS AVN’s have at least a little bit of variety between models. (Except the boobs does in fact change with pregnancy, so theres that).
- Different models used for MC’s dong. I suppose I can respect the dev for gradually working towards better looking models. Some of the early ones are very plastic looking.
- Not using Mrs. Bells real name Mary in the later chapters. It feels a bit unnatural.
It seems the name issue, or title issue, applies to other persons. Sarah refers to MC’s mother in the formal manner of Mrs. Heartwood, rather than her actual name or surname, or just “your mom/mother”.
- Dialogue that ought to be handled with care and seriousness (cheering up Kaylie) is just a few cheap compliments and bam, she’s happy again.
- Camera during the first H scene moved around enough to cause slight nausea.
- Occasional grammar mistakes. Things like Punches -> Punched.

Cons: All men are assholes, comedy relief, villains or goons. Especially Toni and his father. They are scarcely more than a plot device. Also Vlad. Pure power fantasy.
- The decision regarding telling Melinda about your relation seems to be a fake choice.
- The world feels devoid of people, I assume that render limitations based on the number of character models is the reason.
- I had several sections here that I decided to cut down to a much shorter and simpler statement.
Depths Revival relies far to much and taking shortcuts and duct-taping otherwise good individual components together in a messy narrative contraption. You need to have an extremely open mind to not find yourself rolling your eyes dozens of times as you read. The amount of contrived setups and outcomes in the first 2/3rds of the AVN is substantial.
- Awkward scene transitions. At some point early on you leave the locker room to go to the P.E class. But the P.E class is a single CG of a few characters standing in a gym. No, text, no nothing. Next thing you know MC is sitting outside waiting for someone. Seriously, a black screen with a few passages of text describing the basics of how the PE class went, even if nothing significant did, would be way more immersive. The single CG was nothing but a pointless distraction.
- Generally speaking, dialogue is very superfluous and there is rarely anything to be understood and interpreted between the lines of text. If the story wants to tell you something, it will do so in a brunt manner, spelled out loud.
- I do not like the way the Imogen route is handled. Out of nowhere, MC just becomes this dominant asshole. Ok, I get the domination part, that seems to be Imogens niche (that and subservience), but why does MC randomly insist on all this assholery and vile trash talk. This isn’t the kind of behavior that becomes part of a main character out of nowhere. It feels very much like the writer forced the inclusion of this type content on the reader without consent. Now that I think about it, we weren’t given an Opt Out with Imogen. It was either femdom or maledom. Forcing this on the reader when your AVN seems centered around the niches of Harem, pregnancy, lactation and lovey dovey adoration is not wise. Variety is fine, but femdom and maledom are widely considered divisive/controversial and should be handled with care, unless they are the main feature of an AVN to begin with.

Rating conclusion: I decided to give Depths Revival 3 stars. But ones impression of the AVN will be very niche dependant.
If you are indifferent to incest, harem, impregnation and pregnancy itself, then Depths Revival may be no more than a 2 star AVN in your eyes. If, however, your expections for writing quality found in AVN's isn't that high and you also likethe mentioned niches, then DR might even qualify a weak 5 star experience for you.
Myself? Well, i definitely dig the niches and they are handled well here, but DR still lacks in so many objective qualities that i can't give it anything more than a strong 3 star rating.

Okay, the scenes get pretty good. The renders are awesome by the end, not mind-bending, but still pretty nice to look at. Anyone looking for a pregnancy game, look no further. The latter half of the game is focused primarily on impregnating all of the girls in the harem. Not only that, there's barely ever a sex scene that doesn't mention some form of getting the girls pregnant.

And that's pretty much the end of my praise. The story is so insanely weird and disjointed like some sort of frankenstein with a bunch of random cookie cutter limbs. It revolves around MC being a schizo and having this subconscious being that helps him in his day to day life. It takes the form of his neighbor when she was younger, since he had a huge crush on her. And this gets out of hand, because she starts allowing him to do things that aren't humanly possible. Apparently if you're a schizophrenic, you automatically have superpowers. You can clear out an entire gang on your own, have photographic memory out of nowhere, and have an insane sex drive that can just get revved back up on its own. Anyways, the MC is pretty annoying and his dialogue is insanely immature. Basically, he only thinks about getting into EVERYONE'S pants and not much else. He curses so much that it made me feel like I was reading dialogue written by an angsty teen.

The girls are halfway decent. I think I liked 4-5 girls designs. The others look off-putting and turned me off to be honest. However, I think by chapter 8 or 9, the characters looked significantly better, but that may be the renders getting proper lighting to paint them a prettier picture. Their personalities....there's not much. They just all want to fuck the MC. And some of them are hornier than others? There's one girl with confidence issues, so it's nice to see her development. One of them works hard as a fashion designer, but the game is pretty surface level with any of these character traits. Hell, I think I enjoyed one of the girls outside of the harem even more because she actually doesn't show up and fuck the MC as often as the others. Everyone in the harem accepts MC in a flash. The people who are relatives to him are okay with incest within the span of a minute of him asking to fuck. The people he dates individually just say yes and believe all the other girls that he's "fair and equal" when they say so. No drama, no payoff, nothing. And I'm not saying a harem needs drama, but in my opinion - most if not all harem games have a bit more friction to them before accepting things.

Sound design is pretty bad. The same tracks loop for certain characters, and the overall OST just feels bland. There's basically no sound effects through the entire runtime.

This game is the equivalent of going to the 24 hour convenience store for a bunch of random snacks and the occasional midnight meal. You'll play it and feel very little enjoyment. It's cheap, desensitizing, and eventually boring. The sex just becomes too much at a point. I bet if you cut out the initial chapters of this game, you would get the same amount, if not even more enjoyment. Don't let that deter you though. You can get through the entire game in a little over 3 or 4 hours if you're skim reading like I do, which is pretty short for 10 chapters + epilogues.

Despite the controversial ending, this game is an all-around enjoyable experience, and is the absolutely best example of the pregnancy tag. Other games have it as a highlight scene at the end, here you have a full third of the game (if you're doing the only real harem path) to enjoy it.

The story is schizo in the wish-fulfillment fantasy-granting kind of way, but the protagonist isn't a charisma vacuum and the girls are mostly different and independent until deep into the story - though the chemistry is questionable with some (Mrs Bell, for example).

The ending people rant about isn't necessarily that bad - from a pure plotline perspective, I can see what they were going for, it just wasn't executed too well and comes across as coming out of nowhere. The ending slideshow (which feels very fallout 3/New Vegas) also had some very lazy handwaves, which blunted the landing.

All in all, would tacitly recommend, though it does feel like a work that's only reached 70% of its potential despite the impressive scope.

• The relationships are kinda too easy: the mother's kiss was too sudden and acceptance of their relationship came too fast, the teacher coming onto MC was too crude, Imogen is too comfortable with the idea of being a sex slave to someone who beat up her son, there is almost no resistance to sharing MC among all the girls, etc.
• How's MC beating up gangsters like it's cakewalk, with no prior combat or martial arts experience?
• Characters referring to their love life arrangement as 'harem' sounds cringe.
• Needed more music imo, the main track got really annoying.
• Sex scenes are okay, but nothing spectacular. Animations are fine, but the stage feels lifeless, idk.
• MC's dick looks weird. It was later remodelled, but became horse sized.

★★★☆☆ is not just for ending, the whole game has issues with pacing and plausibility.

Okay so I am going to give this game a fair review.
99 % of this game is perfection to me.
the ending is....bad in my personal opinion. It ruins the entirety of the game for me. Which is sad. Still outside of the ending its worth playing just end it at the wedding if you are going to play don't move into the wedding night bit. anyways I will be fair and nice considering my own opinion and distaste for the ending I will give this game (Minus the ending):
3 out of 5
its ending brings down my personal rating a lot. If the game had of ended at the wedding then it would have been a perfect 5 out of 5. Sadly that ending kills it for me as I said its personal opinion and I am not knocking the dev as they put out the story they wanted to ending included but its not my taste. I won't be downrating this to a 1 as I understand the hardwork and passion put into the project by the dev and that should be recognized. Congratulations on completing at least this one ending but I have a feeling all the solo endings will be just as unpleasant to me so this will be where I walk away from this game and dev. Still i wish you luck on your future games and hope you give them your all and see them through as you want to.

I love the design of the looking of the characters, which contain not only slender ones, but also the chubby one that is so sexy.
Since I can make so many women that I like pregnant and have sex with their attractive belly, my heart is satisfied.
The above is the main reason for me to give the stars.

The story is rich and complete.
Sometimes I feel that "This is not gonna happen.", but I guess after all it is a harem story and that's how it has to be worked.

Art is good, story is pretty good for a harem game and most girls are actually different and not just a copy paste with changed hair colours.
The ending absolutely sucks and fucks up all you liked about the game.

Version Extended Harem Finale

Well-built models and animations led astray by a developer who spins the helm randomly without direction. Depth's Revival never quite figured out what sort of game it wants to be from conception to completion.

Story
It's difficult to summarize the story because it swings from chapter to chapter. The starting chapter was interesting - MC on the brink of suicide and his subconscious manifesting as a girl who talks to him coupled with an unrequited love for a lesbian childhood friend, Sarah.

However, this was abandoned shortly in favor of incest with MC's mum and sister in Chapters 3 -5. Just as I thought this would be typical harem + incest, the game does an about turn in Chapter 6 trying to start a serious plot on Laura's situation with her ex.

Whatever potential was left unfulfilled as the story rapidly degraded and ended abruptly with no closure. Chapters 7 - 8 then went full steam ahead on ramming players with one sex scene over another with as many girls as possible without story or character development.

In Chapter 9, Depth once again goes off the wheels and transforms into a 100% pregnancy / lactation kink focused game where all the LIs become pregnant regardless of your choices in earlier chapters.

By this time, I was fast forwarding to see what sort of last-minute stunt could potentially arise. Boy was I not disappointed - Chapter 11 introduced ballistic drama in a crazy way. It felt like the developer lost interest in his creation and decided to end with a lunatic bang. Then came an anti-climactic epilogue which is about as generic as a harem game can get.

Game Mechanic
Standard visual novel with choices that allow you to reject certain LIs. Beware though that some of the choices regarding whether you are open to pregnancy content or prefer a LI to be fat or slim, heterochromia or not are false ones. They make no difference in the end.

Also, Depth has only one harem ending so if you choose otherwise the game will end prematurely without closure. The developer claims other endings will be added later on, but I doubt so since the game is already marked as finished and he has moved on to actively develop two new games.

Background / Character Renders
I like the background and character designs a lot. A lot of attention to detail, good post processing work on textures, lighting, dressing and facial features. The end result is a heavily modded HS2 which looks a generation better than default and would have scored 5 stars on this category alone.

Towards the last few chapters, there were also a lot of renders featuring all the LIs together with MC which kind of adds feel to the concept of a harem. Many developers cut corners by featuring only one or two LIs at any one time within a harem, so kudos to the developer on this count.

Character Development
None essentially. There were a few half-hearted attempts to introduce depth into some LIs, but they never got off the ground and slid back to the typical "hungry for MC's cock" syndrome after a while. MC is just Mr Generic without consistency i.e. he is whatever that catches the developer's fancy at that particular moment.

Sex Scenes
The scenes started off unimpressive with usual HS2 stock animations, but improved quickly along the way with many unique customizations especially towards the end which featured many threesomes during harem orgies.

In terms of absolute number of variations, it's respectable. The problem is the game packs itself with so many sex scenes one after another that many of the animations end up repeating themselves with just a change in model and background.

Most scenes also lack build up to create an overall erotic experience, it starts with 1 - 2 lines of dialogue followed by 1 animation. Another 1 - 2 lines, another animation; rinse repeat for a few times. It's the quantity over quality approach that plagues the game throughout.

A lot of great potential wasted due to poor execution IMO.

BGM and Sound Effects
Decent generic BGMs, but the lack of sound effects often resulted in confusion when it's not replaced by a description of something like "sound of crashing in the kitchen". Instead, there's a flash and then everyone starts reacting and I struggle to make sense of what happened.

Conclusion
Depth's Revival started off with an interesting concept and average graphics. The graphics part improved throughout development, but unfortunately all other areas like story, scripting, game positioning, sex scene presentation, pacing etc. got stuck in quicksand and dragged the entire game down.

I understand the developer is doing a Depth's Revival 2 sequel as well as another action-oriented story visual novel. I humbly suggest he firms up the sequel's positioning and avoid all the flip flopping seen here and also perhaps partner up with a good script writer for his novel heavy game.

Nonsensical story. Weird renders. Subjectively “meh” girls. Wildly inconsistent animations. The ending was thrown together with little to no build up. Kinda like watching jaws with no shark until the last 5 minutes. Story actually had some natural set ups for some light Netorare (not cuck), but since the Dev is so strident about that - missed opportunity. Harem games always push the envelope of porn logic - some execute it well or have decent renders and animation to ignore the insanity. This one does not. Hard pass.

I'm sure it took a long time to put this together.
For most of the game, the only choices you'll be making are which girls to have a relationship with. As per the dev's description, you can focus on one, or like a dozen.
It plays like a buffet, you just pick what you want.

The story was fun.
CGs are generally good.
Most of the animations are good, with some being surprisingly good. It does vary.

I went the maximum harem route, and had a good time.
Tons of breeding content if you go that way.
Tempted to make another run, and maybe this time.

4/5 would genghis khan again

Man, never have I chosen to opt out of more harem choices than in this game.

It's really astounding how the author manages to make almost every single character from unappealing to downright "get me out of here".

Long story short: it's boring. If you turn down your brain completely and just fast-forward to each animation I guess it's fine? Probably my mistake to actually read the story.

I don't know what to say, you have your half sister that just hangs around drugged out of her mind living with random dudes (and for some reason you expect me to want to start a relationship with her after that?), you have her mom, that has sex with you before telling you that she was your father's mistress and now has the hots for his son (cause sure, that's not weird at all), your mom that just goes out on a date with a really creepy dude and wants to have sex with you when you prevent him from forcing himself on her (cause yeah, sure), your best friend that is like a horny dog for every other girl and that wasn't interested in you to the point of you contemplating suicide (but now she's interested for some reason), the model chick that is almost killed by her boyfriend AFTER she starts a fight with his mistress and thinks a good comeback from that is "let's win a model competition against him" even though I have video footage of him beating me to almost death (cause who's heard of police or media)... anyway, the one character that is okay is the chubby girl, which isn't that great either, it's just that she's got nothing wrong with her story.

Can't recommend this one, I'd suggest skipping.