VN - Ren'Py - Driven Affairs [v0.8] [Naughty Algorithm]

The game shines because of its absolutely S tier real art, with expressive characters drawn so well that you can tell them apart from face alone. It is fun to take choices and experience the branching story.

But, the game is greatly bogged down by its absolute lack of quality-of-life features. It is essentially the default ren'py project populated with the art and the dialogue. It doesn't have any adaptations that a highly branching story needs, like a story flowchart, or maybe a chapter select menu, or even a gallery system by default.

And the branches aren't very accommodating to the player either. Most chapters end with you having to ditch all the other girls for one, even if you took all the right choices before. At one point, the game makes you choose between two rivalling women through multiple decisions, and choosing the girl you are more familiar with leads to a dead end. What the game calls a single "ending" is sometimes a choice between up to three sex scenes, only one you can see in a single run. And despite the story being divided into chapters with finite endings, the choices do bleed over into next chapter, creating the feeling that you're always missing out on some content, further aggravated by the missing gallery.

Thus, the game, by its structure, is encouraging you to create a new save before each choice. That is made difficult too, since a lot of choice screens look identical to one another despite being worlds apart in the story.

If you have a high tolerance for things like these, you would be rewarded with some great content that is nestled within the technical problems

A hidden gem of a VN.

Actual competent and smart writing and sharp dialogue.

Good cast of characters that are actually somewhat grounded and have believable motivations, such a rare case among most VN's in this site.

Amazing art by Tekuho, you can see for yourself in the previews and well animated in the scenes.

I would like to give it a 5 star review but it's not quite done cooking in the oven yet.
-BGM is missing
-Sounds are missing
-Gallery mode missing
-Still using generic text box

But still even without all the polish the work itself is fantastic. Will probably be a 5 star game when they do add those things in.


Definitely a hidden gem, don't sleep on this one.

This game started out as something kinda fun with classic art style. It's now easily in my top 10 favorites on this site now. Good writing, great visuals, crisp and consistent style. 5/5 with ease. A tier all the way.

Driven Affairs [v0.7]
Driven Affairs puts you in the shoes of a young taxi driver who encounters some extremely hot scenarios with a lineup of attractive female passengers, with one of the best looking art in VNs.

Gameplay and Mechanics
It's a VN so nothing much in this department, but the paths are branched so you have to choose why path you wanna follow or avoid.

Story
Basic but engaging storyline of a driver trying to bang every passenger, who all are hot babes, for some reason.
The dialogues are nice, better than most games, you have to pay attention to the conversation with the girls to give them an appropriate response.
One thing that stood out to me is how easily the MC, who is a young driver, gets his way with millionaire babes way too easily. This aspect could have been expanded by making him hone in slowly.

Characters
Unique, interesting, and hot female characters who are better written than most of the girls on Netflix. Interactions are sometimes natural, awkward, but organic.
MC is just a reflection of the player.

Graphics and Sound
AMAZING GRAPHICS, ITS JUST TOO GOOD.
I loved the fact that the art and artstyle are so well done, it's the thing that appealed to me the most. The animations are rare but great too.
Sound is non existent, could improve a lot in this department.

Replay Value
The game offers different paths and endings based on your choices in each chapter. So you can be a perfect professional, or a degenerate perv.

Personal Opinion
Pros:

• Stunning art and animations that are pure eye candy
• Well-written dialogues that feel natural
• Multiple paths and endings for replayability

Cons:

• No gallery
• No sound
• Girls are too easy, bitches need to value the vagina.

Potential Additions:

• Addition of Phone interactions, selfies, spying etc.
• More random standalone encounters.
• Stats and gallery menu.

Starts off strong, gets slightly worse after a while.

The game has an interesting premise: you're a chaffeur, and you interact with your clients mostly through their time on the ride in your car. This means that the most important aspect of this game is the dialogue and the dynamic between the MC and the Passenger.

In the first chapter, we're introduced to two clients. Then, at the end of the chapter depending on your choices, you can choose (or get steered into) taking one of them into a date, which can end in a multitude of ways. This gives several different "endings" to chapter 1. This is great, because since the most important aspect of this game is the dialogue, you really need to like a character to be able to stay in their "route", because otherwise you'll find yourself spamclicking to get through the dialogue of the character you don't like.

Unfortunately, this structure does not last long. By chapter 3, it's mostly gone, and from there on, it's entirely gone. I spent an entire chapter just reading through dialogue of characters I didn't like. The character I've been uninterested in since chapter 1 still has a sex scene on around chapter 5, and I can't seem to not get it. The other character that's her friend has a sex scene on the immediate next chapter, which I also don't care for.

In other words, this VN starts off like it's going to give you a choice in what content/girls you want to see most, and then as it progresses, it simply goes on rails and removes that choice from you. That's not necessarily bad and I personally didn't mind reading through it, but it can definitely be annoying if you end up not into the character that the developer decided is going to get the time of day on this chapter.

Not only that, but like I said, the main strengths are the dialogue between the characters. This means this is a character-driven story; the MC himself does very little, and we're simply helping the women out along their stories. You don't care about the story of one of the girls? Well, too bad! Read it anyway!

That, paired with the fact that there is absolutely no sound at all, is the main reason for the 1 star deduction.

Onto positives, the dialogue is actually quite interesting when you care about what is going on, the girls are all fairly varied both visually and in character, which means one should definitely be of interest to you, the art is beautiful and the animation is fine. There's very little chance that you won't find something enjoyable during your time in this game, so I can only recommend it.

This is a 5-star game for execution, I'm not sure how you can say otherwise.
All of the girls are extremely attractive, there are plenty of meaningful choices. I am a little peeved my favorite girl hasn't had her time in the sun the last couple of chapters but that's okay, There is more than enough content for multiple playthroughs to see what you like.

The art style and porn content is great, some people won't like the lack of animations which is insane.

Games like this take a lot of work, and while there is a decent amount of content, this game has been in production and only has a couple of hours of game time, but because of how much work the art must take, I understand.

Play it if you are on the fence!

The story is very bland and without any real plot, MC just drives girls around and constantly have cringy thoughts which is what really ruins the game, i get dev knows the story cant hold up on its own so he/she is trying to put in thoughts making it feel like a b-porn movie where the MC cant stop commenting on big tits or ass or how he wants to click a link to a website of a girl only because she has huge tits, its something a 12 year old would write.

For the first chapters theres only 2 LIs where one of em is a gold digger that is married to an old dude, so i couldent really take her seriously, July the other girl was ok but story changes to shit for her as well, shes supposed to be this protected rich girl and now shes working for a porn company, also against her familys wishes, it dosent really make much sense.

Next LI you see is someone you would expect to be a introvert at she tells you her self as well, shy nerd girl type (red head with glasses on page 1) but shes nothing like that, she starts out by cumming in the backseat proberly from having a toy up her pussy that you ofc dont see, MC dosent even confront her about leaving the seats wet after cumming, but lets her do it again which makes no real sense if he cares about hes job and the car and the extra money he has to spend to clean it every time, not even when she gets nude and start using a dildo in the backseat does MC react.....MC just thinks how much he wants to flip her over and mount her....and yes thats how MCs though process is..0 chance of having any immersion with a mindset like a 12 year old sub and the shy nerd girl is not so shy shes a camwhore doing dildo shit on steams and such so her hole character really dosent make any sense.

The problem is you cant turn down a route your force to follow every single story all you can do is pick the worng choices to avoid any sexual relationships with someone, like take the camwhore i told her shes a slut and told her no to take any kind of pictures and yet she keeps coming back to MC and asking if he wants to see the shit she does on cam, i mean why? when MC clearly dosent approve why is this still an on going thing?

Its clear that none of you ealiere choices matters what so ever going forward, you constantly have to pick the worng choices no matter if you turned them down 50 times ealiere.

And if you do desire to be with someone you have to play like a submissive whimp bowing down kissing their feets which i just dident like either, theres soooo many times i just wanted the choice to say no but game never gives you the option, i also hate how MC/Dialogs dosent follow your choices, if you pick the "bad" choice none stop with someone and clearly not show an interest in a girl MC will still lust and want to fuck her, which makes for a really shitty story.

Game is also taking a turn for the worse and tries to push porn on you and having MC lusting for a porn bitch, following her every word and being extremly submissive, if she says jump MC jumps, again game is lacking in choices.

The art is really the best thing about this game but it alone cant carry a game.

Animations are pretty decent but lacking in cam views since you barely ever see anything.

Game is silent as well which dosent help it.

Choices can be weird and it can be hard to avoid people you want to avoid.

Also Jessica is forced on you at the very end of the current version, i tried everything i could to avoid her like never taking her side and never doing a single good choice with her and yet MC ends up fucking her which is the last thing i wanted in my playthrough, i even tried downloading the walkthrough and picked 0 points with Jess 100% bad choices and it changes nothing you will fuck her, so game is turning into a really poor game, its also idiotic since you have been able to avoid a girl all the way untill now.

I am not sure how I missed this. This is what I initially came here for. This is tight knit, smart story with EXCELLENT writing. It's a story with sex, not a Porn scenes stitched together by a weak excuse for a story.

The art is outstanding, the writing (as mentioned) is great and the characters feel like real people with their own needs and agendas. I particularly like that the women here are mostly independent, not some damsel in distress to be rescued by the manly hero.

Also, I'd like to mention that the male protagonist is finally someone interesting and sexy. He may be a bit of a blank space in most aspects, but what's there is great. If I was a man, I'd want to come across like him. He's great.

All around great game. Unique. Smart. You won't find something else like it here.

yo, the dialog is great, the style is great, the animations are great. Check out the art shots, if that is your style that gets you going play this game. Right now it is short, but awesome. Played throught chapter 3.

Great game!

I really love the art style! Animations are very simple, but enjoyable. From gameplay perspective it's your ordinary Ren'py game though.
The choices here really matter which is always welcomed! Not from Harem fans though, since you can't have everything in one single playthrough. Others on the other hand may perceive it as a plus, since it allows for more time with the characters you actually want to see.

If you are not the type of person to fall asleep after reading a couple lines of dialogue, then I really recommend this game!

Art is fantastic, what sex scenes we do have are well done narrative wise and incredibly sexy. Dialogue feels natural surprisingly, MC has their quirks and isn't a mindless drone for the Player. Story is genuinely interesting and has me wondering what's next. Probably my favorite VN so far.

Just finished playing the 5.5 version and it's honestly pretty good. The art is magnificent and all the dialogues are precise enough for you to not feel like skipping them just to get to the juicy parts of the game. Overall, an excellent game.

Awesome art, being a VN, choice is not really on the menu, you just have to find ways to trigger the progression of the story. Some of the comments look like a lot of folks are expecting this to be full fledged decision-making tree, something not akin to visual novels. The art is great, but what I truly enjoyed was the few Easter eggs and references to pop and porn. The MC does seem awfully clever and educated for a driving grunt, but also, this is 2024, it's a gig economy. I would love to be able to revisit the scenes and have some hint if I missed one. Other than that, I can't wait for more content.

The art is gorgeous. The dialogue is pretty bad, the gameplay consists of either properly sucking up to the girl or saying the wrong thing and having her completely flip out on you, so that you don't get any scene as a result. The choices don't really represent what is normal in that social interaction either, so you probably need the walkthrough mod.

There is no overarching story or sense of progression either. Just the boring chars getting driven around with the taxi driver either giving sage advice beyond his station or messing up and having his head ripped off for it, while the girls rant and rave over whatever excuse they are using for getting triggered. It's honestly amazing how insane they are, they have the mental and social skills of angry toddlers.

Excellent game! The story can feel linear at times but the art is one of the best and writing is also done well. The MC does not feel like a dumb or super naive person and the teasing from the girls is drawn well!

TL/DR: Very well designed game, but not really for me. Teku's art is amazing, but I really, really dislike the aesthetic of this generic af every-man anime protagonist. Kinda ruins the scene content to be such a wimp. The core loop is interesting enough, driving high profile customers around town as a vessel for learning about / becoming involved in their lives. A lot of the gals back-stories / plots are either too slutty or too closely linked to the porn industry for my liking.

+ Next level art. Truly next level.
+ Core loop is decent for delivering the narrative.
+Writing is decent
+Protagonist is a decent person

- You need to play the protagonist like a simp to get H scenes
- Protagonist looks and acts kinda wimpy
- Smut was less hot b/c of the protagonists weak aesthetic
- A bunch of the LIs jobs are tied in with or actually are pornography and the plot progression implies that will ramp up.
- Plot is rather aimless. The protagonist doesn't have a goal or a long term plot to pursue.
- The plot has a hard time getting back onto its rails if you piss off one of the LI. That was a bit of a vibe whiplash. It probably needs more connective tissue b/t those events and things being cool again.

Loved the girls (their characters and the graphics), the text is surprisingly good after seeing so much trash around. Also, the MC is a decent human being, not a self-projected 12-year-old moron, so he's likeable. Can't wait to see what's next.

The art style for this is gorgeous and yet somehow the writing matches or even betters it. I even got some genuine laughs. One of the best on this site for sure. Really engaged with where the author goes and there's excellent replay value.

Fantastic game. The art and animation is where this truly shines. The only negative is that we're only getting maybe 1-2 scenes per chapter which makes the wait unbarrable. I would love to see more scenes per chapter and a gallery since there seems to be different endings. But other than that, this is definitely worth your time.

The visuals are stunning, it's well written and the story feels somewhat... ok. It's getting better, though I think it needs some kind of twist. But in the other hand, it feels like you're getting in the daily life of a driver with some kind of huge luck.

All around, a solid game that you should check out.