Ren'Py Desert Stalker [v0.19.4] [Zetan]

[Cynicaladm]

But respectfully, I do appreciate the honesty and the answers.

Feedback is always appreciated even when we disagree with its content, as is conversation that doesn't devolve into name-calling or worse.

 

[GetOutOfMyLab]

By that logic, this game is not appealing for NTR fans at all either. And, looking at it objectively, I strongly doubt it is appealing to them, really.

But the sexual liberation, including the acceptance of incest, on the other hand, is an integral part of the world building.
Without it, this would be a very different game.

I'll add, as someone who does like NTR games, I do like what content we get here. Each scene is crafted so well that it's usually incredibly sexy no matter what your preferences are.

Regardless, and I think more importantly, I don't consider Desert Stalker just a porn game. This is a story about survival, the various factions and how they might all come together (or not), and what really draws me in is how it is influenced by Fallout and Mad Max. This has world building similar to Fallout, which I absolutely love. The last update where Z could read Ivy's log entries on the computer, each telling a pretty neat story...I loved that. I would love more story-telling like that.

Easily one of my favorite games where I look forward to each release, no matter what kinks are explored in that particular release.

 

[Voez1999]

The game's been out for years. Why are people having the same recycled argument about ntr still XD. Don't like it? Easy just play something else. Bitching here isn't gonna do anything. The dev has been consistent throughout the years and i hope he maintains the quality. Like damn a hell lot of the good scenes overshadow the sharing scene by a huge margin not to mention it is completely optional so what's there to bitch about?
Just turn it off you ain't losing anything lol.

 

[Trickstar]

The game's been out for years. Why are people having the same recycled argument about ntr still XD. Don't like it? Easy just play something else. Bitching here isn't gonna do anything. The dev has been consistent throughout the years and i hope he maintains the quality. Like damn a hell lot of the good scenes overshadow the sharing scene by a huge margin not to mention it is completely optional so what's there to bitch about?
Just turn it off you ain't losing anything lol.

Because the people who love to scream how ntr is the worst thing ever expect everything to cater to them. They are your typical incels that like to harass devs and brigade threads if a game has ntr or plans to have any. Instead of acting like actual adults and just not playing games they don't like they have to act like that and it's truly pathetic and sad.

 

[Kellermann]

You mean questionable like fucking your own daughters but not wanting to see them fuck other people? Weirdo.

Glass houses mate. I'll bet there is some "weird" shit in your porn game library.

I believe she should be trained to be Ain's bodyguard, a fitting punishment and a chance to give her a better life.

I could get on board with that, but I really want Shani to at least go on a few more desert missions. Ain clearly needs all kinds of close supervision.

 

[Nobles]

I only like NTR when its the MC comiting it, corrupting and stealing (hypercritical as it sounds, But its the same argument of love winning and hate loosing ), But people scream about that too <.<
But funny enough, I dont want to NTR the wife sister back, I want to humiliate them more by showing them both how much their rebellious daughter loves and moans with us ^_~ Having the wife sister watch as her daughter recieves her cream pie. More content towards this would be apricated ^_~

So far the sharing scenes in this game (as far as I have played) I have really liked. He has the right conditions. Feel the like the dev hits the nail on the head. It proves harem and sharing can work. That one when the MC can offer his daughter for a friendly guesture of reward/friendship? , but when he started getting carried away, she really told him off. Reminded him shes not his bitch, but a gesture from the alpha ^_~.

 

[Antera]

Do we know when will be steam release?

 

[Mfka5]

I feel like the devs are testing how far they can go with sharing. Like the Ain and Igor one, imagine if he got the main course, you could expect at least 10+ pages of speculation and fighting. Not to mention Zahra lmao

 

[Phase_01]

I just make a save, fap to the sharing scene, then go back to my "every girl is mc's girl" route, I'm sure the silent majority is pretty similar
Its so simple to just not look at the content, instead of arguing over having it vs not

 

[Yngling]

I feel like the devs are testing how far they can go with sharing. Like the Ain and Igor one, imagine if he got the main course, you could expect at least 10+ pages of speculation and fighting. Not to mention Zahra lmao

No, that wouldn't fit the game.

The MC shares (if the player choses so!) from a position of power, not from a position of weakness like in NTR.

For example, Ain clearly doesn't want to get shared, but does so because her father orders her.

It seems as if Zaton doesn't get anything sexual out of it either. But, the game lore does imply that alliances are important and friendship between more or less equal men can be cemented by sharing women. It's a political thing, not a sexual one.

Edit: a somewhat similar practice:

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[Voez1999]

See? Some of them cant even reply and just keeps spammings reacts pathetically
Because the solution is very simple, just turn it off and canonically it never happens. But for snowflaks just avoid it completely. Dev already has a vision in mind and he ain't gonna change anything just because a couple of feeloaders here are whining about it. It's completely optional and doesn't even force you to do it.

but damn I hope we'll be making progress with Pepper and Yuna soon. Dev has significantly improved with designs when he introduced them. Even Kitty is cute asf.

 

[The Senior Perv]

It's the first time I'm going to play this game and I find this discussion. I hate sharing or the ntr but it's completely optional and doesn't happen in the story canonically if you choose to (unlike some shitty games where you don't see it but the story takes it as happening lol). The only fear with this kind of game is that suddenly the dev decides that it's not optional and say something like: It was already in the game, don't complain. I remember that something like this has already happened in other games and it would be a kick to the balls of those who want it to be completely optional xD. It's always a risk in these types of games haha.

Then why even try to play DS if you are always going to fear that ¨sharing will become forced¨?

 

[Blackowl97]

Then why even try to play DS if you are always going to fear that ¨sharing will become forced¨?

Because from what I read from several reviews, the game has a good story and good porn, taking out the sharing scenes that I don't like (for me obviously). And on top of that, it's relatively long, which most games here aren't lol. And I'm done playing all the games I had saved .

 

[Paz]

The only fear with this kind of game is that suddenly the dev decides that it's not optional and say something like: It was already in the game, don't complain.

Contrary to what some people seem to think, we are not making this game to purposefully fuck with players for some weird reason.
We're not having secret meetings where we high-five each other because we managed to lure people into seeing something they don't like after a couple of years. There are better ways to spend our time.

Any kink in the game so far is optional. Hell, even sex itself is optional. You can pretty much go through the game without getting your dick wet once.
So thinking that this will change purely based on a "yeah, but what if..." reasoning is something we can't argue against in any meaningful fashion at this point.
People have been yelling "the sky is falling!" every week for a good while now (it's almost a tradition at this point), and yet the sky is stubbornly staying in its place.

 

[Kellermann]

Because from what I read from several reviews, the game has a good story and good porn, taking out the sharing scenes that I don't like (for me obviously). And on top of that, it's relatively long, which most games here aren't lol. And I'm done playing all the games I had saved .

I wouldn't worry about that. One of the key features of the game is precisely that it does give you options. The devs are not going to change that and arbitrarily do a 180. Like you, I also do not like sharing, but I have no worry about being forced to see it, just like I am not worried about them forcing watersports, gore, etc. Imho, this is the top game on F95 and these devs know it is best to capture both audiences instead of just one. If you haven't tried DS yet, then I highly recommend it.

 

[Antherak]

Because the solution is very simple, just turn it off and canonically it never happens.

As someone who isn't into all the sharing / raping / NTR tropes, having it optional is good enough for me, as i much prefer playing a good game skipping optional scenes than skipping it for a minor reason. Knowing it is hidden in the game will never be a big enough reason not to play and i even agree that some specific uses of those themes are some times justified. (Well not rape, but by some more easily offended peoples standards. For exemple, i will perfectly accept non exclusivity with prostitutes, side girls, etc) Having those scenes skippable are indeed a big bonus, but if not, that's what skip unseen text tab key is for.

The only thing i would change to make it better, for me, would be to be able to pick ALL the toggle options at the start of the game intro, where they ask you about gore. Choosing yes or no DOES impact on your own interpretation of the story as when the choice pop on your screen just before a scene, you KNOW those precise characters will be shared even though you will not see it. Having the choice at the game's start would do a better job obfuscating that aspect by keeping it "secret" which characters even have the option to participate.

 

[srbot2016]

Contrary to what some people seem to think, we are not making this game to purposefully fuck with players for some weird reason.
We're not having secret meetings where we high-five each other because we managed to lure people into seeing something they don't like after a couple of years. There are better ways to spend our time.

Any kink in the game so far is optional. Hell, even sex itself is optional. You can pretty much go through the game without getting your dick wet once.
So thinking that this will change purely based on a "yeah, but what if..." reasoning is something we can't argue against in any meaningful fashion at this point.
People have been yelling "the sky is falling!" every week for a good while now (it's almost a tradition at this point), and yet the sky is stubbornly staying in its place.

Even if I'm not interested in some content, I love the fact that it exists in the game You guys are doing a great job so far giving players the ability to decide for themselves what kind of content they want to see.

 

[JaxMan]

The only thing i would change to make it better, for me, would be to be able to pick ALL the toggle options at the start of the game intro, where they ask you about gore. Choosing yes or no DOES impact on your own interpretation of the story as when the choice pop on your screen just before a scene, you KNOW those precise characters will be shared even though you will not see it. Having the choice at the game's start would do a better job obfuscating that aspect by keeping it "secret" which characters even have the option to participate.

Why are you saying it does happen if you choose not to? That's the same as saying if someone offers you a ride home and you say no and then you believe that you actually took the ride home with them. It is a choice to do something or not do something. If choose to not do something that doesn't mean the opposite happened.

That's on you to keep that in your imagination, thinking about it, believing it actually happened when it didn't. You can do that with any story or movie, doing a what if they actually did something they didn't do. Now, if you decide that in this game you're not going to share, but play the scene anyway just to see it, that's on you as well. Like it was stated before you can go through the game without it happening, ever.

 

[srbot2016]

Why are you saying it does happen if you choose not to? That's the same as saying if someone offers you a ride home and you say no and then you believe that you actually took the ride home with them. It is a choice to do something or not do something. If choose to not do something that doesn't mean the opposite happened.

That's on you to keep that in your imagination, thinking about it, believing it actually happened when it didn't. You can do that with any story or movie, doing a what if they actually did something they didn't do. Now, if you decide that in this game you're not going to share, but play the scene anyway just to see it, that's on you as well. Like it was stated before you can go through the game without it happening, ever.

I also don't get this argument, it's like complaining that there are different endings based on your choices in an RPG game.

 

[Antherak]

Why are you saying it does happen if you choose not to? That's the same as saying if someone offers you a ride home and you say no and then you believe that you actually took the ride home with them. It is a choice to do something or not do something. If choose to not do something that doesn't mean the opposite happened.

I am not saying it happens. Miscommunication as a non native speaker i will say? All i wanted to say is, while the scene doesn't play or happens in your game, you still are aware via the yes/no toggle that the scene you are gonna get next has the possibility of having some/all characters non MC to be in a shared scene for those who chose yes. While you do not have it in your game, it still implies said characters (ain, emilia, the wife, the prisoners' lady and the raider girl) you now know are the girls getting shared, thus removing from the full non-sharing immersion. That is why i suggested for the non sharing enjoyers it would be better, imo, to have the non sharing choice at the start instead of the scene itself as to keep the identity of the shared girls hidden from those like me. I didn't care so much about knowing which girls "can" be shared if you so choose as to go full apeshit on the dev, i'm not that extreme, but would have found it more tasteful personally to just not know in my game.