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

[SPOILER ALERT]

Funny that the dev doesn't put the word "Mad Max" on the description because I can feel a big influence from that movie in this game compared to S.T.AL.K.E.R. Anyway, I'm not gonna rambling about that, let's dissecting this game one by one.

The Graphics:
I don't have much to say about it, it looks great. Quite similar with FreshWomen, Race of Life, and Chasing Sunsets. So if you care about it, this game won't disappoint you.

The Story:
Oh man, when I got introduced about this game on a subreddit, I thought this game looked cringy and wouldn't satisfied me. But no, this game is the total opposite of that. You started as a Stalker (no, you're not playing as Strelok) tasked by the Queen of Zeta (no, she's not Sidorovich) to get an old statue around post-apocalypse Egypt for her personal collection. On the way back from Cairo, you'll faced multiple choices, characters, factions, and your family which consisting you wife and two of your daughters. The worldbuilding of this game is also very great, it also has free roams, main quests, and side quests that you'll get along the way depending on your choices. As a honorable stalker among Zeta, you also have a personal house with multiple rooms and also dungeon that you can access. Oh I almost forgot, this game actually has gores and other disturbing contents, something that I haven't seen in a video game for a long time since the Manhunt series. Desert Stalker has approximately 18-19 hours contents at best so you won't get bored by it, don't forget that the game is still in production.

Sex Scenes:
The sex scenes are great, one of my favourites among other AVNs. My only complaint is that few sex scenes are kinda slow, like fucking a virgin for the first time despite the woman has experiences (gotta make them rougher, buddy). By the time I wrote this, there are multiple scenes that I haven't unlocked yet and I already finished my first playthrough.

Choices and Consequences:
Well this is the most interesting part, this game offers you multiple playthroughs. Some characters could be locked forever if you don't play your cards right. I just finished my first playthrough and there are multiple possibilities and sex scenes that I haven't unlocked yet by the time I wrote this review. So yeah, it's a must and mandatory, I will start my second playthrough later.

Verdict: 5 out of 5, just like that. I usually don't give five stars for still-in-development games but this one is one of the exceptions. Good job, you earned my respect.

This is a good non-linear VN, one of the better ones on this site. But I have to give it 2 stars.

• Story: The game's world and plot are intriguing, and the atmosphere and shocking content are top-notch. Personally, I didn't like Ivy's story and some inconsistencies here and there, including the pacing; too many anomalies in the game. The worst thing for me is that some story elements feel completely disconnected from each other. This game is a little too much power fantasy for me, and it's hard to choose an exact rating.
• Characters: Most of them are well written with a well defined personality like Shani (the bright daughter), Zarah (the too perfect wife) and PC. I loved the crazy raiders and the queen. However, I didn't like Ain (her character is too flat and basically feels like a second Zarah) and Ivy (mainly because of the story). There are also some 100% flat characters just to fill the harem. The problems with the characters for me start when the harem gets too big, new girls keep coming, but the plot feels too static.
• Renders: High quality renders. The animations are good, but some scenes don't have any - to me this means that the development is not fully focused on the visuals, and that's good.
• Music: Great music that fits the atmosphere.

So why do I give this VN 2 stars? Because I think there are too many 5 star reviews and I don't like where the story is going at the moment. I don't see enough story changes to believe that I will play this VN again.
But I hope this game never becomes "another incest harem game" and focuses on the setting, main plot, and gore, so I can change this rating to 5 stars one day. I would also like to see more focus on character development and exposition, and less on power fantasy.

While this game is passable, it falls short in terms of graphics and character models, feeling notably outdated. As someone who values a well-rounded gaming experience, I found this aspect particularly disappointing. However, I must commend the developers for crafting an engaging story and compelling dialogue. Despite its shortcomings, the game is still worth giving a try for its narrative strengths.

Edit: Played again about a week ago and didn't like it, as it doesn't hold up and the content is still a bit short. sorry.

I like the game but it still seems to be very lacking in content. A lot of side missions and faction missions remain unfinished. Missions start but suddenly stop going. Incomplete mission chains should not be playable in my opinion. Because otherwise, when the progress of the missions suddenly stops, you get the false feeling that the missions can't continue because of a bug. It's been four years since the game was released, but the development process seems like a few months. At this pace of development, unfortunately, I don't have much hope for the future. Probably Desert Stalker will be another game that will never be completed.

One of the best Games here, Desert Stalker has an in-depth story that has aspects from many categories for a multitude of different fetishies. But that's not all Desert Stalker Has to offer either, it has absolutely beautiful renders to go with the Story. if there's any serious negative to Desert Stalker it's the 3 month update cycle to how much more content this game deserves until Completion. This means it should get 20 more updates at minimum. That'd mean 5 years at minimum until completion and that's a long time for something to happen and never see such a great title be completed in the manner it deserves.

Pretty dam good game. Here are some of impressions:

- Story: Excellent. The World is very interesting as well as most of the plots we get to play. I'm not gonna say it's completely original since you can clearly see the "Fallout" influence, but still awsome. I liked that we get to see Shani's point of view on that mission about "The Zone", by the way I could see a lil bit of Silent Hill there, that was great. IMO the only plot that felt a little out of place was Ivy's and by the way I don't understand why she is on the Main Menu Screen.

- Characters: I think this is where the game shines the most. MC is very well written, He's is a badass that looks like Kratos (except for his weird cute eyes, that feels off xD). About the girls, most of them are well written with a well defined personality like Zarah (the perfect wife), Ain (the clumsy hot daughter), Shani (the intelligent daughter), Kyra (the crazy raider), Emilia (the perfect maid slave), etc... And their designs are fantastic, hard to pick which one is the best but I think I'd go with Ain or Asha.

- Renders: High quality renders.

-Animation: Some of the times they are great, other times they're average, and some other times there are none. Overall good I'd say.

- Music: Great music that fits the different scenes.

Overall, the game so far is great, however, we have yet to see how all these plots will conclude. So I'd go with a 9/10 and I'm not just going to say this is "worth checking out" I say this is a "Must play".

Incredibly impressed by this game. Very well thought out. I love the concept of being able to switch main characters for a short amount of time... that's a new feature I haven't really encountered.

Can't wait to see more!

This game is a masterpiece, there is no other way to describe it.
Those who are looking for a quick fap should avoid it (although there is plenty of amazing sex scenes): this is something meant to be enjoyed, not rushed.
There isn't a lot of good writing around here on F95, but this is one of the few great exceptions. Not only the writing is pretty great (in English, with no grammar or spelling mistakes), but it contributes to create a believable world populated with believable characters, back stories, lore...
Sometimes, one feels this could be a TV series -- yes, it is that good!
Some random notes:
- The music is atmospheric and contribues to the general immersion
- The "harem" theme is explored in unusual ways and dynamics...
- ... and the same can be said about "incest"
- The dev makes it possible to choose to rename the MC, as usual, but you can additionally choose to label MC's just as "You", which is interesting if your idea is to imagine yourself as the MC. Nice touch.
- The renders (and animations and cutscenes) are top notch. Not only the characters but also everything else
- Unlike so many VNs, this is a true game, with quests and relevant choices that can get you killed and end the game prematurely
- The interface is simple and contributes for the gameplay in a positive way.
- Grind? There is no grind!

Even if this is not your cup of tea (although it is mine), it is impossible not giving it less than 5 stars.

This game is amazing. It's been on my backlog for a long while, and I finally had the chance for a good sitdown with it. I went in expecting like horny Fallout New Vegas. It turned out way better than I expected.

The story goes like 400 years back, some crazy apocalyptic event happened and the world's all fucked up and trying to rebuild some form of civilization slowly. Your character is basically the courier from Fallout, but smarter and cooler. They call him a "Stalker", which is just a fancy way of saying some legendary merc/scout that goes out and raids caves/tombs/towns/villages, not looking for supplies - but whatever treasure and fancy knick-knacks he can get for the queen. Yada yada, there's lot of different factions and they all try to sink their hooks into you and get you to work for them/influence other factions.

MC is less badass survivor and more like a gruff, wise spartan. The setting was already made like 400 years back, so he was born into this fucked world and its customs. When you start the game, he's like 40ish? Looks like he's in his 20s still to me, though. I can appreciate that through your choices, he's a good father figure, a shameless pervert, and can be either diplomatic or ruthless. The game makes you decide what his relations are to his family, but tbh, I think them being your blood-related family makes more sense, since you meet and fall in love with your wife whilst she was still being sheltered - so your daughters being unrelated makes little sense.

To preface this, in the slowly rebuilding civilization, your culture allows you to have a very open relationship that even extends to all sorts of incest. MC goes for the wife, the daughters, the cousin, the aunt, the servants, his friend's niece. And even then, I think nearly every one of them is extremely sexy. Like astronomically.

The family is just insanely horny. Your wife and daughters are super exotic and sensual. The older daughter gives off Lara Croft, capable badass vibes. The younger one is more like a political princess, trying to figure out her role in the family. Your wife gives her all being the mistress of the house while taking care of everyone, and I think the flashbacks to your meetings with her are pretty nice. There's stuff with the aunt and how she was your Ex, but it mostly leads to her rediscovering herself and allowing her family to reintegrate into her lost cultural background.

The other side girls, also feel pretty special. There's like 2-3 girls that you can do stuff with in the other factions. The interesting ones imo: Ivy > Asani > Pepper > Fangs > Mantis > Kyra + sis. It seems like Ivy is going to be a crucial part of the story, since she's been getting more time with MC lately. Asani seems special, since she has a history of being a result of the weird breeding program in MC's city. The rest are figureheads in their own factions - so they're more or less doing quid pro quo stuff with MC.

Renders are beautiful, probably one of the best I've seen on this site. The animations are realistic and plentiful. Many of the women in this game are tan and nicely so. Their facial features are still apparent and wonderfully detailed. I've seen some projects do a disservice to darker skin tones, so it makes me really happy to see it done so well here! The lighting and textures of everything even highlight how erotic and sensual the game is at its peaks.

The music is nice. It ranges from exotic and cultural stuff to techno synthwave stuff. I even noticed some slowed + reverbed versions of older songs. At times, they even have really relaxing white noise play in the background, almost sounding like silent hill music. The game doesn't fall into any preconceptions you may have about it. There could be more sound effects in the sex scenes, but if you've played ren'py VNs before, the lackthereof won't bother you too much. They're mostly there for the main story and do well in emphasizing important moments.

This game's a 5/5 to me. The updates are few and infrequent probably, but the amount of content at hand is baffling. I hope the devs do their best to keep up the quality of content in future updates and wish them luck!

THIS. This is the gold standard every other adult game needs to be compared to. It has it all, professional writing with sexy dialog, great kinks, and sexy characters. The first game I actually am happy supporting financially

The epitome of VN games.

This is the one. Period. It has everything you could be possibly looking for. Story, character development, sex scenes, personality, choices that change the story.

This is what every other VN should be aspiring to be. I have found 0 fault in this game. I have spent at least 8-10 hours in it and maybe I am nearing the end of the content? But that does not matter. I am sold. You will love this game.

Story :10/10 ; inspired by my favorite games
Stalker shadow of Chernobyl and fallout new Vegas
Violent enough to be rated r my kind of story

Characters 10/10: mc is a badass stalker his daughter Shani
Is also badass woman and also yuna who is a compelling
Character and also fangs who is also my favorite

Music 10/10 : Music during badass parts is amazing
Also during emotional parts

Renders 10/10: great character models hot as fuck
All body shapes

Content 8/10 : not a huge chunk of it but the available is
Is great

I can’t even find the words for what I experienced while playing this game. No game of this format has ever given such feelings, the characters are not ordinary dummies with a minimum of character, but well-written and alive, as if it were a whole film with notes of NSW. I can’t even describe those emotions when the Eldest daughter returns home from the Zone and during Her nightmare killed her youngest daughter, which caused not only shock, but anger and pain in her heart. I recommend this game not only to fans of 18+, but also to ordinary people who are looking for games similar to Fallout, The Last of Us and Stalker.(The author of the review is not English, but Tatar, the author’s native language is Tatar)

How the fuck does a porn game have good writing? I'm genuinely baffled... Whenever I play a porn game, I expect subpar dialogue. Subpar scenarios. Anemic stupidity. But this... in the short time I've played this game, I got edginess that wasn't too edgy and enough story to stave my lust. It's... baffling.

The best porn fantasy game out there byfar.

I first played this game when i was really not into AVGNs that were set in anything but a parady of IRL. Desert Stalker really really surprized me in how interesting the setting is. Its a mix between Fallout, Mad Max, and Stalker. With a little bit of Egyptian mythology and Tomb Raider mixed in. All of these inspirations work really well meshed together and it creates this setting which is both very interesting and very bold.

The renders are so fucking good. Every character is top tier amounts of sexy in terms of their fashion and their body. I love the attention to detail on the female waist and nipples. I fucking love the strong abs on these characters and the dresses that they have on that show cleavage its perfect. My favorites have to be the family though your two daughters and your wife are so damn sexy its crazy.

Animations are some of the best in AVGNs. There are fully animated cutscenes that have action in them that actually looks really good. The sex scenes have to be some of the best ive ever seen. One in particular involving your family has to be some of the best animation ive ever seen in a sex scene.

Fantastic game. Probably the best sandbox renpy game ever made. This is how sandbox should be done. Couple of locations, all quickly accessible without the need of navigating a labyrinth AND TIME ITSELF

You are a guy in a post-apocalyptic setting and you go about your business serving your queen and banging your family and slaves as well as some other people along the way. Magnificent stuff truly.

Dialogue is kept to a minimum yet still has better characterization than pretty much any artsy fartsy modern-day relationship reconstruction VN.

Loads of sex scenes with different girls and the scenes are magnificent-looking, absolutely gorgeous. Some have animations as well, absolute PEAK.
There is some sharing content too if you are into that, but it fits the setting here and doesn't feel in any way forced or contrived. Perfect.

Such sheer quality leaves me speechless, making it difficult to leave a review. 100% recommended. Graphics are 10/10, scenes are marvelous, some girls have sort of a branching, no blueballing shit because of lack of h-content that you may usual see in renpy games. Idk really about story and overall game lore though, for now it sort of fades in the background. Wanna nut? dl now. Excellent, there's nothing that can go in compare with that. And while I'd never be mad about that, some must now - protag is OP machine that gets what he wants very easily, so no self-insertion here

Extremely promising story line with even better animations and character design. Even the non erotic scenes were cool especially some of the gory ones so be warned. cant wait until the story is finished and we see more of the unique characters

I kept skipping over this game because my first impression from the images was "redonkulous boobage". And yeah, now that I've played it, I do wish some of the body shapes were a little more realistic, and that there were some more petite figures in the mix.
But holy crap, the writing and world building and characters and lewdosity is top notch. This has rocketed straight up to might top five, and I cannot wait for the next episode.
The horror and ultraviolence moments are really well done as well; I hope the dev keeps those up. It's great to see a game that pushes boundaries (like that kiss after using the "dragon") without getting cartoony.
And then there are moments of pure strange beauty, like Julia or Ivy's hideaway.
If you're looking for a game with smokin' hot h-scenes *and* an awesome story. look no further.

Extremely high quality. Excellent character designs, writing, framing, animation and cinematography. A good blend of porn and narrative. As someone that started with 0.15, there is an absurd amount of content here. Even so, I'm desperate for more because this is just so good.