Ren'Py - Desires from Beyond [v0.1] [Chris Eman]

I'm afraid this is a game that didn't engage me with the story, and the non-standard UI and lengthy intro helped me lose interest pretty soon. The scenes are very repetitive and the final stage in 0.1 where sandbox mode is enabled makes it even more boring, as the best scenes were already played and it feels like filling material.

I think I'll pass on this one.

This is a very cautious four stsrs from me because I've enjoyed what I've seen so far but I think there's a lot of work to go to make this a truly good game. Thus far I've really enjoyed the art and I'm broadly interested in the story (insofar as I've been able to understand it). I'm very interested in the trans element.

That being said there is work to do; in all honesty the level of English grammar is poor enough in places to interfere with comprehension, at the very least the pronouns need to be consistent. Honestly a native speaker should be involved in editing.

Secondly as far as the story goes the pacing seems awkward- if (supernatural) lust and temptation is a centerpiece of the plot then the characters probably should be a bit more reluctant to commit incest initially? Just my opinion.

In any case hope to see this branch out in a few ways, keeping fingers crossed that there will be routes to seduce the different female characters but also a possibility of being pulled down the father's path...

Game suffers from an overly long intro and then some. 95% of this is the intro, with a few options and a fist full of sex scenes. This is a 0.1V but the dated 3d, and overly painfully long transition scenes for each location that you cant click to speed up, are tedious. Of that 95% easily 5% is what effectively is a loading screen that doesn't need to be there. [Feels like a loading screen, isn't actually loading anything]

Beside that, story has a nice hook, the horror parts were done fair well, and a few of the characters and scenes hang on way too long.

Most stuff past the intro is just will be added later place holders.

Amazing animations and artistic direction. Story unfolds nicely with a mystery element. Keep the good work going ! The sheer quantity of content and visuals you get on a 0.1 version is impressive. Thank you

game is amazing, one of the best starters i've seen,i played almost every single game and this one is already one of my favorites, i think it has huge potential
models look fantastic, animations are great, the story is also very good

Having played a lot of the other games this creator has made this so far has been the best especially at launch it has some weird choices for how to do narration with test appearing from top to bottom one sentence then a gap then the next sentence then normal dialogue boxes but this game also has none of the overcomplicated point and click emulated menus the other games have the main problem i noticed with the translation is She/Her was changed to He/Him. Graphics are slightly improved with animation being smoother and has a lot of content that has just worked with no errors showing up which is rare for first release.

As it is, i consider this game unplayable: you're met with constant "black screens" in between slides/scenes (i'm talking about one every 4 or 5 clicks) that make the game incredibly frustrating to play.
On top of that the way the dialogue is shown makes this game not fluid at all.
Cherry on top, the "engrish"... it's 2024 and even if you don't speak a speck of English, there are so many tools that can help translate and better structure your dialogue.