VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Devilish Business [v0.71] [Bawdy Baron]

Really did not enjoy the concept of the game and especially the GRIND. You have to do same things over and over to finally trigger a scene and if you accidently select something else, you might be missing out on a scene.
The art is quite good, but there is not enough H scenes to justify it as mostly its just standing pictures. Story and plot is promising but horribly fails to deliver as you can use one power, but even that is quite useless.
Overall really disappointing game and feel like was robbed of time.

Version 0.69...haha
Simply put, this game fails at everything it's trying to achieve. The story about a guy finding out he's the son of the Devil has some serious promise and potential, but just like everything else in this game, it fails miserably. Instead of being cool and dominate, the main char is weak, simple and a pushover, he's a total beta bitch, son of the Devil my ass. The story is bare boned and empty. It has nothing that grips or pulls you in, it comes and goes and leaves nothing behind. The female love interests are also complete garbage, The Mother was a former party girl slut, who slept around with more guys that she could ever account, but she's all religious now and proper, sounds like a great choice for a love interest right...NOPE. The Sister character is even worse, she nothing but a complete trash bag whore who fucks and sleeps around like it's going out of style, she even tells you the main char that she wont stop sleeping around even if your going out with her... WHAT THE FUCK, why would you write your incest character's like this? is that suppose to be sexy? or worth trying to attain? do people actually like the idea of working hard just to date hardcore sluts? Well I don't and I wont. This game is dookie.

Something else that I dislike and or thought that could have been expanded upon, is the whole son of the devil aspect. When you here that in your head you can picture all the cool stuff that you could do with that. The first thing that comes to your mind is powers. Think of all the cool powers that you would associate with the devil, now let me tell you how this game utilises this aspect. You as the character have the power to slightly corrupt some girls. So your telling me that's the best you got? yeah sure you also get some half asses mind reading powers, but that's basically all you get. No awesome abilities like full blown mind controlling powers, or transformation powers. That's such a waste of an awesome concept, talk about a let down. That's another thing that sucks also, the Father character/The Devil, he's completely useless in this game. He owns a crappy little bar and lets you run/work their to earn money, and maybe sends you on some crappy soul hunting quest that amount to crappy memorising games, but that's all he does. You would think that him being so powerful and evil, that you could use him to make the story more entertaining or unique, but nope. The devils just their chilling out drinking alcohol, talk about a wasted opportunity.

1/10

[ Review subject to change: Review for version 0.69 ]

TL;DR: The game is a slowburn, for sure. Sometimes if feels like you're losing a whole in-game week for an event with one character to update, but you don't want to persue other LI's because you might cause a scene to skip. Otherwise I really, really enjoyed the game as it is now!

The Good: First of all: INCEST! I love the mother and sister! The artwork and the dialogues are all great. At no point did I feel like interactions were stifled by bad writing, and the love interests are varied in type and are a treat to look at.

The Average: It's your typical slowly-progress-until-the-next-thing-unlocks with a hand full of sprinkled in hidden-content-that-you-can-easily-miss-and-have-to-reload-or-waste-in-game-time-to-get-another-chance. Sometimes progression feels good, but more often it is difficult to understand what you're supposed to do.

The Bad: Like I said above: figuring out what unlocks what progress is very hard most of the time meaning you're either quick-loading all the time to see what works so you don't lose in-game time, or you're playing vanilla and realise at at the end scene that you've barely unlocked half the scenes and have no idea how to get the rest of them.

I really enjoyed my hours with this game, but for that five-star I really want the game to get an updated UI and better directions for what to do to progress with the women. I find out I can take my mom to a weekend resort, but nowhere do I get the option to invite her. I can see that I can buy a uniform for one of the girls to wear, but I have no idea how to offer it to her.
It is good that the game has a 60 day time limit, and even though I didn't get all the scenes, I definitely got the best harem ending (if there is an even better one I will literally rip my **** off).

I recommend you try it but there are no good walkthroughs. I say you should just blitz through a 60-day playthrough and see what you can unlock and then decide if you want to see more when the game reaches 1.0.

Pro-tip, focus on getting relationships up to 50 for all characters early and go from there.

I tested the game a few hours and it wasted so much potential and was boring for me.
60 days (megaboring repeat repeat ..simptraing) to train the poor MC Schoolboy into a weak bluepilled allways paying Beta Simp. A friendzoned Loser with no selfrespect who allways pays for girls with more money then him. Like a ATM with 2 legs, makes chit chat and does unessesary chores with a lot of grind. Nothing special or awesome new and kinky ideas!
Gaphics are rare and meh, 2/5 and look all the same. I missed more and hotter h-scenes with sexy closeups.
The sandbox story 2/5 is mostly about paying for the girls Fast Foods and making chit chats. The only superpower was talking someone into, that was a nice teaser and i missed more of that.
I would have loved to play a real Badass like only the devils son could be!
If I was the Devil, I want my son to be Extreme good looking Chad, very Manly, Status, Tall, Experienced, powerful Top Tier wealthy guy and more Intelligent than the girls.
Normally easy treats for the only son of the Devil since 1000years.

It's close, but it feels just a little short on content. There's a lot of waiting around for events to happen and grinding girl approval to unlock events. While there's a decent number of events to hunt down, that's kinda the whole game once you find them all.

What is there is good though. The writing is good, the characters are interesting and the art is good enough to justify everything else. I honestly found the metaphysics to be the most fun. I like this world, where gods spring forth from belief and then live as their followers believe they do. Unfortunately, there's really not very much of it. One random scene with Odin, a scene or two with Nick and that's it. Frankly, it was just enough to whet my appetite, but not close to enough.

I firmly believe that the game would be improved greatly by fleshing out the MC's relationship with Nick. I want things to happen at the club instead of just talking to Emma and clicking through small talk with Nick. I want the MC to be able to go out and properly corrupt people, not just memorize a name, appearance, and location. I'd also like to see more magic, as charm and corrupt just seem like the tip of the iceberg.

Last but not least, it's a crime that there's outfits to spend currency on but no art to go with them. The scenes were great, but lost a lot of impact without art to go with it.

Devilish Business

Version reviewed: 0.64 Public

Positives

• good cast of characters
• quite a lot of content, interesting concept
• character artwork is sparse, but decent

YMMV

• the game has more text than visual assets to go along with it (not an issue for me)
• for a game featuring manipulation and corruption, everyone seems pretty "corrupt" from the get go

Negatives

• some minor sprite errors/weirdness (characters have a puzzling tendency to stand on furniture, etc; once or twice the outfit didn't match the script)

An interesting and enjoyable game that doesn't quite live up to its potential. For me it's not so much the lack of more visuals, but that it feels somewhat one-sided and doesn't really punish you for your decisions or create much interesting drama.

Throughout the story you gain "devilish" magical powers, yet there is no downside to using them and they even seem somewhat unnecessary, as you can get enough "relationship points" to do most things just by playing the game normally. The most puzzling character to me is Cassandra, who is creeped out by player's advances at first, only to do a 180 degree turn and reveal that she actually has a crush on him while also being a total sl*t. There's no tension, you can just flirt left, right and centre and the girls don't give a damn.

I wished the game raised its stakes and leaned in more on the drama / dark side instead of funneling the player into a harem ending.

Really good story, hot girls, and intimate scenes. Writing is top notch, good foundation for the context and characters feel natural. However, the game when it comes to sex, leaves a lot to the players imagination. Wish there were better CG's and the sex being animated. Still a very good game, if you have the patience.

No images for the sex scenes. Just text based, better off reading a book. Redundant repetitive grinding of influence with 95% of the time my finger is on the skip button. Gallery indicates there's a scene but it's basically the character just removing clothes from the sprite.

Ok so I discovered this game while browsing on Gamcore, but was frustrated it was the non-incest version, so i ended downloading on F95 with the incest patch to see all the content.

Overall, Devilish Business is a good game, and i felt involed with the various characters. Well except onebut i'll get to it a bit later.
If I had to point the good points of the game, it would be the attractiveness of all 5 girls, as well as the writting that isn't boring.
I would like to say that the gallery was at first a bit confusing, as i didn't really get what to do to reach some events, but in fact the game often suggest what to do to progress, so that's a good point.
And finaly definitly the best point of the game, which is the goddamn music!! Like yoooo there's only one music in the entire game, but it fits everywhere at anytime, it's long enough to not get annoying, and it's basically good by itself.

Next are the minus of the game, that get me a little distant to involving myself.
First is the lack of impacting visual, as a lot of people would have mentionned i guess. It is a text based game, so i didn't expect much to start, but even sometimes the text describe a color of panties for exemple, and the graphics show something else. But there are already a few arts that are interresting, so i just hope there will be more in the future, that would bring a lot to the game in my sense.
Finally the point that made feel really bad at a moment was Cassandra.
At the begining of the game, I had a mindset that a would build a harem of loving girls. Which is true for the remaining of them. The fact that Cassandra is just a girl craving for cocks had me really disappointed, especialy during the party. You could say that this content is avoidable, you're right and i'm thankful to you. But in this king of game, I need to go through every options.
Even at the ending where we can say No to Nick (I chose this one first) i was hoping to make her addicted to the MC or something like that, but then she brings the fact that she might a sucked a teacher or two, and i was like "Nooo girl you can't do that !!"
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the character is trash-tier and you should be ashamed of creating her. Just saying that in the long time i felt more and more dissapointed with her.

I think that's it for now, i wish you good luck with the future of the game

Great text and art.
I like the concept and story. With improved gameplay it world certainly be one on my favorite games. It still is, but the text and art could be taken to a whole new level with improved game elements.

Damn, this is a really great game. Especially if you install the incest-patch. It could benefit from actually animated or at least drawn sex scenes (some sex scenes are even text only), but the writing is really hot, so I didn't exactly miss them most of the time.

If you're into heavily text based, it's a 3 or 4 for you. Writing not the best, not the worst, depends if it's your style.
For the rest of us, while it has made some progress by adding some art if not much (better than how almost absent it was) and attempting an easy mode (which still doesn't make the game the funnest to play but helped) and other steps, well I didn't enjoy it so I can't call it a 3 but I can recall when I felt it was a 1, now maybe I'd call it a 2 so I guess, below average still but could maybe keep improving.

For anyone interested be aware this game is mostly text and dialogue based. There is enough images to keep things interesting, but you don't get the full experience if you power through hoping to unlock a new CG.

I think the dialogue is excellent and the writing is top notch. I did take a point off though for the limited number of images for a game in development since 2018. I only recently found the game, but that would loose anyone's interested if they had know about the game for a while.

This game just sucks, i should end the review right here, that's all that needs to be said.
But I'll elaborate some. The graphics and animations just don't look good at all, everything looks kindergarten level at best, just take a look for yourself.
The dialog and characters have no depth or personality, they're less that stock or cliche, they're comparable to cardboard or water, that's how bland and boring they are.
The story is empty and ridiculous, i know it's a porn game, but give me something to to immerse myself with, no this trash.
Verdict, i don't like it,

I'll admit to being a bit thrown by the incredibly limited graphical content, but try to be objective with your complaints lads. This game has its share of problems, but it's at least correctly tagged "text-based" and if you ignored the tag it's on you not the dev.

Having said all that it's a bit odd, the game genuinely seems to be trying to add visual scenes not normally found in text-based games. As an example, I noticed when the mom was dressed up for a dinner date, she dressed up. But the sis, for instance did not. So it's a bit odd how the game was inconsistent by it's own limited visual narrative.

As far as music, the game starts off with a nice song and I think one sfx (ringing alarm clock) but when I realized it was just permanently on loop it got tedious so I eventually muted the game.

What I feel makes this game poor isn't necessarily the lack of images or limited music. It is what it tries to sell you on the most: the writing and sandbox gameplay.

As far as sandboxes are concerned, this might be one of the easiest navigable UIs. Having said that it's also somewhat confusing in areas. As an example: every work day you'll be asked would you like to go to a diner -25 or eat a $10 hotdog and a middle 15 option. As far as I can tell there is no practical reasons for why I would get one over the other, exception being the hotdog is the cheapest option. I thought I'd gain some mana or something if I picked other options but it really was just that meaningless. If this really is the case the dev should just skip this scene altogether, and just say I spent 10$ on lunch and went to Venus (the other place you work). I also think there should be some consistency in the way he labels things. Some options end with a period, others, without. Some costs are labeled with a $ symbol others are not. The moment I began seeing all this is the moment I couldn't unsee it I know it's petty but it definitely needs some quality checking, especially if it's a repeatable scene.

But even in this state there's issues that deserve mentioning. Namely that the game has too much of a -rinse-repeat- grind nature to it. It feels a bit boring. I had my finger on the "ctrl" key 95% of the time I played since events kept looping.

I'll just use one character as an example for what I felt was fairly plain. The innocent and sweet at first glance but absolute slut sister has become a trope far too common. I mean... I get it. It's far easier to deal with a boundary breaking sexual deviancy if the person is extremely open about it. But I feel like she was changed to be a nympho last minute or something. I don't quite know how to describe it. It feels almost like she became the slut character just to include a total slut character. Obviously it would be unfair of me not to elaborate, so I will.


The game also has a sorry state of walkthrough-itis. The mom being an exception. For example: hints are given about her character and what you should do. But the sis for instance, did not seem to have an angle to approach from. I recall sending her a flirty message but she reasonably called it gross. I found out from another review this was the only way to progress.

There's what seems to be a randomly generated 'quest' you can do for your dad to make deliveries and stuff, which at first came off as interesting but later came off as boring. I have to remember name, race and description, and location and rollback if I pick wrongly. I also can't skip the event, I can only say "yes." Considering the usual pay was about 5$ it really didn't feel worth it when the boss is willing to pay you 10 times that value to fuck you.

As a small edit, I would like to say this much, the game does allow the player to have a vessel for his choices, such as when asked about working for your father you can choose between being excited or terrified and even whether or not you feel grateful for this work. However there's an odd assumption the protagonists are going to enjoy swinging/open relationships. You might wanna warn us ahead of time about this, because even when it's a woman fucking one of my girls I'm not cool with that. I don't think guys in general are. You might want to give some heads up that the girls are generally slutty or debauched from the beginning.

So a TLDR; Some characters are written nicely, others feel just a collection of tropes. I really wanted to give this game a 2/5 since I felt a very bored experience playing it but I also know other characters were written well (such as Ashley at work) and I think it really can appeal to others. I hope you make the game you're passionate about dev and I wish you luck in this regard, even if it's not for me.

Text only. No graphics except for a standing picture with clothes or single naked one.. that is it. Time limit. And random guess work to get a single text scene as even getting over 200 with mother no scenes you have to do some very specific action to get anywhere with them.. so what is the point of the lust score for them.. useless.

Devil tells you to buy a cosplay I did but never got an opportunity to give it to Ashley.. I hate random games that expect you to do one specific action or nothing happens and than to throw a time limit on top of that!

Rating based on 0.57

Sorry - but this game deserves just 2 stars!

Let me explain why:

- the worst game which you could rate is 1 star - all positive effects will raise this value
- the game has an amazing story telling and the scenes are really flashed out, so i give an additional star for that
- the game is missing animations, which are nowadays nearly a "Must have", so - sorry - i don't give that star
- the game hasnt ANY really not ANY SINGLE sexual render. All you see is a girl at side of the screen which shows you always the same pose. Sorry, bro - that's not how a VN works ( VISUAL Novel) - theres no visual inside here. If i want a good story, i just could read a book. Over here you should actually show something. So these 2 most important stars i also refuse to give.

=> overall, after 3 stars missing, there are just the 2 left (1 basic, and another one for the good story), no more

i found the story really interesting, its a shame thou, that it doesnt have much art on sex scenes, but the writer does an excelent job describing the sceces. cant wait to see what happens when he gets enough resources.

This is actually super hot, with some nice characters. There is, however, a lot of text and daily grind to get through in particular for the incestuous targets. If you can't stand waiting you will probably use the skip function a whole bunch.

Quite often one will see in this forum games get panned simply because they are different. They do not fit the cookie cutter pattern so expectations are dashed and 1-2 star ratings are given. A lot of time this will take place in a VN novel that is strong on story and art but has few if any gaming components. So the reviewer will pan it just because it's not what they wanted.

This is such a game. The author is an exceptional writer of porn stories, but because the visual portion of this game is not as strong, the unimaginative don't like it. I loved this game...it has a slow burn that leads slowly but surely to the three-way sex scene that is ultimately hoped for. Sure there is some grind but it never gets really tedious. All through the game the player is treated to deliciously described H-scenes that made me forget that the models were just sprites. I could see the action in my mind and it was hot.

I also really liked the well conceived metaphysical aspects of this game and as a rather spiritual pervert, I would really like to know what the author's actual metaphysical worldview is.

All in all this game was a joy to play and well worth the download.