Ren'Py - Desert Stalker [v0.17.1.2 Steam] [Zetan]

Great game, I'm looking foreword to seeing more as it's developed further. Definitely captures the dystopian wasteland feel and has a setting that's both unique and familiar to anyone who has played stalker or fallout.

Incredible work.
I always wanted to play an RPG game with lots of p*rn in it.
This dev is going to be the top guy in this site,mark my words.
Even at this level (0.08c) the content in this game is amazing.
If you are reading these reviews, keep up the good work man !

If you are into incest and harem, this is the game for you!

Well i like this game a lot, unfortunately for me i have already caught up to date in a few hours and now looking forward to even more.

Great renders
Great Storyline
Great Models

I am sure this will keep getting better and better.

I have never wrote in F95 before, but this game made me. It's a work in progress, yes, but rich! Makes me wish to dive into its universe and lose myself, to know tha mc's past, his path to becoming a Stalker.

I can't wait to see wha this game will become.

This is a beautifully rendered dystopian masterpiece. It has lots of sex with very little of that blubbery slow grind nonsense so many games are plagued with these days, and if you think about how people would be forced to live in a world of this nature then it makes perfect sense to be so. Life is short. Death is around every corner, and tomorrow isn't guaranteed. If your looking for a game that has four hours of game play to finally get to one sex scene, then this probably isn't the game for you. There are plenty of those out there, but this isn't one of them. The only minor critique I have of this game is that the majority of the sex scenes themselves are a little lack luster/too short. Such as the "Knowing your place" scene. It cuts out and describes what happened with the two bandit women instead of actually showing it, essentially turning into a blow job scene instead of the all night threesome it was described as. I'd like to see more proper animation and for the "Oasis night" scene to be the standard going forward. If the old scenes ever get revamped to that standard, I'll have to update my review to 5/5 stars.

Well, to be quick about this:
The feeling of the game is of a good game, but there is way too much easy sex with little to no story, just given. I would rate it 3 stars, cause given sex, unless its specially well done and kinky, doesn't really work.

Visually the game is the same as others but it makes an effort at storytelling with camera work, some ocasions have more work than others but overall its noticeable, and makes the story easy to follow.
As for the sex scenes, this is also applied. Still doesnt make them ultra awesome and not all of the scenes work for me.

And there is a lot of easy sex, I would like to have onscreen story telling, instead of having easy "whores" given to me. cause you find that you are having vaginal sex with a main character and this means that this has happened offscreen before cause there is nothing in the dialogues to make those things new or special, its like that thing has been going on for a while.

I insist "sex" scenes are quite interesting, they could be better, a lot better, but they are good enough, but its a pity that the game having some decent writing as it has , could do character development for more characters and improve their impact. So far there is one character (the game favourite) and that story is done well, and kind of slow.

This game has a very good sex scene with this character, and I would say it adds value to the game, and even if its not much, the attempt at boob "physics" also adds certain value. Its a small stupid thing, but can't overlook someone who is trying to add something more of what everybody makes.

And these 2 things are why I add another star for a total of 4.
But for 5 I would need to see some of the work done in that mentioned sex scene in the rest of the sex scenes.

who loves hardcore, definitly will love this game
5/5 for all
render? u dont need to complain all its hq
story? go check ur self , heres small spoiler u kill one of the girls u end her story
ui? really comfortable
but theres one thing, its the bgmusic/sound, it can be really loud or even low even u have setting with decent volume, yes i know its just some effect, but really, do the high pitch sound with low/decent volume still cough u off?
i forgot i play on v0.08c, win win, but please those who hate hardcore dont even complain about the hardcore stuf, cuz dev have some put note,

Great game overall, the ladies were designed beautifully and the way you are able to interact with them is quite nice as well, everything looks great in my opinion and was very fun to play. Can't wait for more!

It's a beautiful work, I can't wait to see the rest. The story, the characters and the dialogues are interesting. The pictures are beautiful.
We can only complain about the fact that it is too short. Congratulations to the developer for this masterpiece to become.

Played version 0.08c:
-the women/girls are beautiful/pretty
-the story is ok, it's not very gripping but it's at the beginning, hopefully it will get more interesting
-the graphics/animations are good
-there is almost no seduction/build-up with any of love interests of the MC: he gets his wife and younger daughter from the beginning. There is a tiny bit of build-up with the older daughter but he bangs her quite quickly with almost no seduction.
The only possibly significant build-up is with the queen, the MC only gets to grope her tits in this version (which she seems to enjoy).
Overall, the game is good but not great, so 4 stars.
The main two problems are the lack of a solid story so far and lack of seduction/build-up with the women/girls he meets.
Hopefully the story will get better and there will be more seduction.
Good luck to the dev.

Wow, I have to say that it's a really good game. Immersion is very good, the universe is atipical and original, arts are high quality made (a few are animated), great sounds and good musics. There's a lot of good scenaristics ideas and artistic direction is really good.

Only things is that it's lacking of sex sounds, and choices could be more inpactful (implementing a dominant gauge for example, that could unlock special scenes or habilities depending on the choice you made).

Oh and, the game is quite low on contrast and brightness, I forced my nvidia control pannel to 90% contrast and 70% birhtness to get something interesting. When set up this way, the game looks splendind with high quality lighting effects.

This review for Desert Stalker v0.08c
=== Writing ===
+ great dialogue
+ likeable characters
+ great pacing
+ very believable setting & premise despite being fantastical (suspension of disbelief etc.; anything that's unrealistic is remedied with good aforementioned writing, so that it doesn't really matter)
=== Graphics ===
+ beautiful model renders
+ beautiful environments
+ amazing atmosphere
+ pretty good animations
=== Audio ===
+ pretty great audio (although, I usually mute games and play my own music instead)
=== Gameplay ===
+ tons of female characters to pursue
+ good variety of decisions and choices which are impactful
+ great genre content, some specifically avoidable (NTR, incest, urination, darker themes like rape and domination etc.)
+ most content is almost impossible to miss; a few are choice-bound, but that's ok because choices should be impactful
+ no mini-games, stats, or other things that weigh down fap games imo, entirely story & choice
=== Playability ===
+ bug free during my playthroughs

It is very rare that you find good games out there, but this is really a great game. 100% one of my top 5 games.

If you like games that doesnt push porn down your throat instantly and has good but not too long buildups, and dont like pages of text constantly, this game is for you.

I really find it hard to find games that doesnt have pages of irrelevant text you have to speed through, this game has the perfect balance of text and action imo. One of the rare games where you dont have to hold down ctrl for 5 minutes to get to the next interesting point.

PROS
- Good story, unique plot
- Not too much text, short and precise dialogues
- Beautiful women
- You decide the direction of the game
- Not straight out porn, but an actual game with a story.
- Great MC
- A lot of characters

CONS
- The game for some reason uses a lot of CPU in the menu screen, not an issue at all when playing the game. This is a very minor thing.
Cant think of anything else

I can recommend!


V0.008c

Edit 2023: The game constantly gets worse with every update. The behavior and character of Mc changed completely. what a shame

The game now is a cuck party and completely in tone different then the first update. Wimpy mutant shit and ntr gameplay is everywhere.

Not to come off. Here's how I can briefly describe this game.
Amazing. Bold. Addictive.
An interesting plot, wonderful characters, and more importantly, a badass MC.
A breath of fresh air, after all the primitive shit I've play before.
I wish the game only success and for a long time to please us with content and interesting stories.

For my personal opinion - one of the most Epic and Unique games i ever met.
Plot is great and characters are great and story is cool too. I very appreciate that your choices have consiquences, such as if to killing the lady in beginning of the game, you may not have sex with her in the middle of the game)) this is smart way to teach to players to humanism, LOL)))
wish all the success to Zetan! Great job, man!

v0.08c Reviewed.

This is definitely an ambitious take on a popular genre I've never found particularly appealing. That's not a critique of the effort in and of itself, however...In fact, it's a stroke of genius, really. Writers of adult games are often faced with two choices: Either pick a mainstream story and ask the reader to suspend disbelief about the girls' unlikely behavior, or pick a fantastic story and apply a different set of social rules to make the behavior feel less contrived.

Desert Stalker is a better story than it is a porn game, but many of the top-rated games fall into this category. The problem to my admittedly amateur eye is that Desert Stalker may have been too ambitious to leave much room for any erotica with any weight to it.

I would echo what others have said...The sex scenes often feel bolted on and lack heat or buildup, or are over so quickly they leave you legitimately wondering if you should roll back and replay them more slowly.

Add to that art that is somewhat hit and miss from a quality perspective and you end up with an experience that's entertaining, but somehow less than the sum of its parts. In short, the composition and expressions may be on point while the lighting feels flat and lifeless. I do try to give leeway here for the dystopian setting.

Having dabbled in 3D art, I will say that I understand the challenge any developer who chooses to work outside of a contemporary setting takes on to build and consistent and cohesive world, and that is certainly present within the limits of the available art assets here.

That aside, the game is interesting, if not riveting, and more than competently made, and simultaneously somehow leaves me wanting.

I'm doing my best to avoid letting the kink focus taint my assessment here, but I can't say with any certainty that I didn't find some of the dominance themes offputting. Even given the change of rules the setting of the game offers, it does make much of the sex feel completely unearned, which for me often diminished any sense of reward for consistent play.

I agree with others who say the character development and writing is really solid, which only reinforces my initial sentiment that this is a great visual novel that almost feels held back by it's lackluster lewd scenes.

To summarize, there's a lot here, and I don't want to penalize the dev unduly for simply creating content that runs afoul of my personal tastes. There certainly seems to be no lack of people gobsmacked by this effort, and I need to take that into account when I formulate my own score.

Desert Stalker feels like a solid 3.5 effort to me, but given how many have rounded up, I'm going to round down with the caveat that I will revisit this when it's completed and revise my score accordingly.

One of the best games. The world is unique and beautiful. A real blockbuster among the genres of visual novels. There are no colleges and vanilla stuff, just real hardcore gameplay.
Renderings 10/10
Music 10/10
Plot 10/10

Great Ren'Py game, one of the best that I've ever played, despite being so early in development.
In particular, I enjoyed the post-apocalyptic setting of the plot, with the coexistence of primal society ruled by power and fear alongside the lawless outerlands of Cairo.
The storyline was captivating alongside the game's homage to Fallout and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series, bringing back fond memories of familiar roles and archetypes.

This game absolutely is a masterpiece.
The story, characters, music, art, the writing everything is just magnificent.
i played it on my android phone and i just love it so much i played about 30 games but for me this one easily is the best.
i just love the MadMax style of this game the atmosphere of the game the graphics everything i love the whole idea behind it and i just can't wait for future updates.
Big Thanks to developers and hope you release an update soon.