Ren'Py - DropOut Saga [v0.10.1b] [LazyBloodlines]

I really enjoyed it. The story is interesting and the characters are quite well developed for now. I mostly played as good guy, so no idea of how dark can it get if you lean into corruption.

There are a lot of cliffhangers and open threads that have me wanting to go on.

The interface may need some twitching, but nothing major. There's no grind for now, and the renders are pretty good (except some of the tattoos, that are really pixelated and look weird). The narration is also quite well done.

All in all a game worth playing!

one of the best games I have ever played. the stories and the artwork all were fantastic. really enjoyed it. I can't believe that it is just a prologue. looking forward to the full game. great job developer.

I gotta admit, at first I really thought low of the game: "just a new game without any experience, the writing is ok for beginners, there's barely any gameplay, and oh my god, the renders! The lighting is so bad that I can barely see ! The only things that keep me are the ideas, the general story, and the characters. But after week one, everything improved drastically. The renders are now fine, but damn, your writing, the conversation, the cinematic aspect (especially with the prologue end), the music,..... it feels like a whole different game ! The quality suddenly went top notch. The LI suddenly got so much more depth to them. The examples are Ava, Sophia, Jasmin, and Asuna. Especially with the Jasmin arc and the conversation near the end with Asuna. The whole Jasmin arc gives us a clear view of who she is and a very very promising story line to her. and Asuna, with only that conversation at the cafeteria, go from a common loli character bland enough to be found in any game as a canon fodder to such an interesting character! It peak my curiosity with her and I can't wait for her storyline ! I already talked about the prologue's end but still... DAMN ! just DAMN !





With the potential you demonstrate in only 1.5 hours of gameplay, it is enough for me to give you 5 stars. it was that great.


(Still, pls rework the early part of the game sometime in the future; pls. tThe renders there are unbearable.)

Edit: fuck, forgot about the MC. He interesting asf. love him.

Amazing game with great story and good scenes. Absolutely loved it. Can't believe this gem is so hidden among the other popular games. Each of the character is amazing although Sophie and Ava >>>. Looking forward to more content and updates.

One of the best and, ngl forced me to write a review. MC, a mafia lad, quite a character, really authoritative when necessary, protective and quite a lovey as well. Story and the way they directed feels like some real effort goes into it with the every update.
I liked the way his character is shaping into and at the beginning when he chose to be the principal i thought this was one of those simulator games but boy i was wrong alright.
It's little different point and click at the start but once you get hold of it, gets pretty easy.
*Special mention has to be about Ava {{only thing disappointing here is that no option as Sophia force kisses her without respecting her or our personal space and future looks gloomy as well wrt her. I get it that she needs to be liberated towards that intimacy but fuck she just had hole through her skull and Sophia is like "don't care bitch I'm more important", hopefully the issue gets highlighted}} Looking forward.

Has a very cool, interesting premise. And not only that, but pulls off the premise very well throughout the first 7 releases. Good, compelling, psychological story with a dilemma about whether to be a good guy or bad guy. While many games have had this dilemma, this game does it perhaps the best (eg. the internal dialogue between the good guy and the bad guy of a split personality). Complemented by nice, cool, simple sometimes instrumental sometimes with singing music. I really like their look and interaction with MC in the classroom, school-related atmosphere. So many games have tried this but this game does it quite well.

The girls are super cute, interesting, unique in terms of personalities.

v0.6.9
It's an interesting game, starting with the characters, they're all different, both personality-wise as well as physically, most importantly they're not simple one dimensional mannequins with dialogues. This is especially noticeable as of the later releases, where the game and it's development has slowly found it's own identity and balance, the dev has been slowly settling down with hard changes, like the removal of the early hourly sandbox and stuff, and I believe it's reaching a pretty good spot now. The only thing left, aside from new content, is modifying the earlier releases to match the newly released ones, though it's likely to happen only when the dev believes the game has found it's final shape.
Continuing on the slow changes, the story, that has had only a few instances of progress, looks interesting, so I'm looking forward for more progress.
Regarding dialogues, they're well written and mature, not 12-year-old cringy exchanges, so, props on that. There're some grammar issues, but not that many, so again, good stuff.
The renders are quite good as well, not really many noticeable issues here, I like that the city is a city, with people and all, not a ghost town made out of mediocre quality resources that barely resemble houses and streets.
The weak point of the game are the scenes, the animations to be specific. I believe the build-ups are rather well done and fulfil their role very well, but the animations, especially earlier ones, are lacking, the male model doesn't budge at all to follow the female's movements, the dick is rock solid in the wrong way, and in all cases just clips into the female model, instead of having "physical contact", though I believe this is rather hard to properly achieve.
To finish off, there's a rather small amount of content, especially sex, at least for what I was expecting on an almost 0.7 release, but seeing as this is just the prologue, I'm eager to see what's next.

All in all, a good solid game, so props to the dev! Though, I'd recommend waiting for a few more releases so you have a good amount of content to go through at once.


P.S.: "... The silence is your answer."
Wasn't expecting this quote here lol, love me some Mass Effect references.

Love the girls and story. The choice of music is also great. More animations would be nice, but since this is the authors first work it can be overlooked. I have seen people complaining about a lack of scenes, but in my opinion the setting and story make up for it.

Review for v0.6.9a (updated)

I wasn't really feeling the game the first time I played it, but I decided to push further and see if I changed my mind. Unfortunately, I didn't. I did however come to a more clear conclusion about why I dislike this game.

Put simply, a lot of the writing surrounding the MC makes me mega cringe. Maybe it's my personals preferences, but I just cannot connect with him. This sort of hardboiled older mafia man cool guy thing does not work for me. He's portrayed as a seasoned professional/badass with a long history, finally looking to leave the "business." In reality, we got what feels like the personification of an edgy middle schooler in the form of a middle aged man.

You ever see those memes saying something like "I got a demon inside me... and you better not mess with me OR ELSE"? That is unironically the MC in this. He's got a split personality. While the "good" side could probably be considered normal, we've got this edge lord part of us in our brain always popping in to say something crude or unhinged. He can take over our body of course, but as the game puts it "sometimes... a monster is necessary." A real quote. Dialogue like that doesn't come across as cool to me.

My other real problem has to do with the plot. The game is trying to mesh two separate things: College sim and mafia. Our last job before we can quit is becoming the headmaster of a college to get blackmail material on the daughters of politicians and such. Queue very unrefined school sandbox gameplay. The beginning segments of the game are a mess really. Maybe it's a result of the game trying to figure itself out, but it's disjointed. At random moments we just jump away from that into an entirely separate mafia incident where the game turns back into a standard visual novel before again switching back later to roaming a school. It feels like it doesn't know what it wants to be.

The renders are rather average, but the animations were good. I had to actually turn the music off though because I couldn't stand some of the songs.

The only thing that made me want to maybe play more, and honestly probably got me to come back to this in the first place, was the love interests. A lot of them really grew on me and I could feel myself wanting more of them. But given that I almost can't stand the MC and the plot has yet to do anything interesting, I think I'm out.

I don't usually rate or review games, but this one just made me want to. Game is fantastic renders are good, story is a good interesting and a sort of thriller genre wise. Good stories are hard to find in these kind of games after all. The music selection for this title is a very good, the selection just fits could just be me though. all around a gem of a game so far.

Playing 6.9a

This is a game that has clearly improved with time. But throughout the entire thing, it's remained a masterpiece in storytelling. With a character who's his own worst enemy, and whose ghosts are haunting him constantly.

The girls and partners are not simply people to collect, they have their own motives, influences, and goals which affect the MC in various ways.

And a big congratulation has to be given for the music in this game, with specific tracks highlighting particular scenes or emotional tones in the story.

An overall excellent, if short at the moment, game which tells a compelling story and should be played with the music up.

Review for 0.6.9 - With spoilers so be warned

Overall impression - Very positive

Graphics - Decent level, nothing stands out, but I wouldn't say it's a bad thing.

Story - Interesting story, at least once in the game where we become headmaster it's not about scoring female students and we have an ulterior motive.
Gang involvement and the story of the rescued girl for a big plus.

Protagonist - At first I was annoyed by the split ego of the protagonist, but I got used to it and liked it after the bar fight, I like "playing him"

Characters - Diverse, interesting, well-run, nothing to complain about.

Very good hint system in the updated version, it is worth mentioning.

My rating - 5 stars.

Wish you good luck with next updates.

Probably one of the most interesting games on the site story-wise at the moment, offering replayability and a mass-effect morality system-type beat.
The scenes are great and the LIs' have tropes but usually, there are spins on said tropes that make characters feel decently unique.
Very solid.

Saw the high reviews and decided to give this a try since I hadn't ever heard of it before; while it does start slow and the gameplay loop changes a bit in the first hour or so it quickly gains traction and by the end of the prologue it became one of the best games I've read on this site in a while.

I quickly became attached to most of the characters after the second or third interaction with all of them, and my favorite character is still up in the air; which for a game with just a few hours of content being able to make 7 or so characters interesting along with a plot is pretty damn nice.

Sex, there's quite a bit of it, and while it currently (As of .6.9a) centers around only a few of the cast, it makes sense and it doesn't feel shoehorned in. Which I get a lot of people are only here for the sex but whether you are or aren't you likely won't be disappointed with what you find here.

If the rest of the game carries itself as well as the last half of the prologue this is going to be a damn good experience all around.

This game has excellent writing, decent graphics, a good plot, amazing cast of female characters with unique personalities, and I also like an idea of a MC who's coping with his past mistakes and also tries to deal with his split personality a.k.a. his "otherself," I just wanna know how the MC developed his "otherself." Sorry, if I'm going to deep on this.. but for now the girls should be the main focus lol

Review through DropOut Saga [v0.6.0a Alpha]

I'll be clear at the outset - I'm a big fan of this game. It's still quite early in development and there have been a lot of changes to the stucture.

PREMISE - mob-like character wants to get out of the game, but has to take over a school for wealthy youth and bend them to the organization's purpose.

STORY - Character is a very capable enforcer, but wants to turn from a life of violence. This results in a alternate personality who embodies the darkness within him (but, interestingly, not without standards or integrity). The basic premise is to become a 'good guy' (or 'not-awful') - the outcome will be determined by the player.

STRUCTURE/ART - It is still early in production, so the structure is both raw and fluid as the Dev adapts (and seems to be attentive to feedback). There has been a lot of rebuilding of tools and some aren't developed (grading, school resources, etc.). It's a little sand-boxy (less than it used to be), but with means to bypass unnecessary time-wasting through a neat device of consulting his alt personality.

Perhaps my favorite part is the internal consistency. The world-building is well done and not glossed over (although it's a slow reveal). The MC is very capable, but not God-Mode. Story elements get explained, although perhaps not immediately. Players will discover the world through the journey, instead of having it all thrust at the outset.

The art focuses on the characters and the background and environment are more muted and simple, but they are always present and appropriate to the scene. There is limited sound present in some scenes that will reinforce the scene.

MECHANICS - a strong point, which is odd because it's so incomplete. There is a LOVE/CORRUPTION (formerly Blackmail) structure, but it's more refined than "marriage/sex slave". The school has the seeds of DISCIPLINE/RESPECT that is starting to emerge. It's still very much in the development stage but already seems more thoughtful than the vast majority of games I've seen.

CHARACTERS - The PC/NPC are outstanding and appealing. The girls are all quite distin ct in appearance, and their personalities and emotions are extremely well portrayed. There is a lot of subtlety the the expressions - ex. from one frame to the next a stoic expression might change to a very slight smile. MC's eyes change color that often reflect the dual personalities.

The sex is pretty decent, if a bit simplistic, but it's noted that as girls' relationships develoop in one direction or another, so, too, will the sex scenes evolve. Fair enough.

WRITING - The writing is pretty good. It's never cringe-inducing and always appropriate to the scene/characters. It's a dark setting, but there definitely is humor, esp. in girls banter. However, it never takes over a scene. The English is pretty solid if not immaculate.

WRAP-UP - The dev is building a world and doing an excellent job of it regarding tone and story. The focus is on the characters and their personalities and the story. It's still very early in the game, and there has been a lot of changes, but every change seems to make it stronger. I thinki the key word is 'thoughtful' - the dev takes all aspects of the game seriously and tries to have it all make sense. I'm very hopeful for how it turns out.

As of v 0.6.0a
A really promising game , I played love route didn't try other one but I have to say the love route is well done and romance is great and female charecters are stunning . And like others mentioned bad ass Main charecter though his evil persona sometimes feels annoying , I enjoyed it overall . There is some sort of Sandbox / Free roam but it is not grinding and you can ask your other self what to do when you are stuck playing . I hope it says the same . Only thing that bothered me was me being a Medico , I found it a bit funny when MC did a craniotomy to save a girl but in reality you need at least 7 to 10 years of study to perform one . But I applaud the dev for the effort for trying and doing his research and how he handled the story from there and why that scene is needed for the story , Moving on music and sound are nice addition to the game . H scenes are well done . So to conclude really excellent game with a lot of potential , I hope it stays the same or gets even better with each release . Highly recommended if you're looking a bad ass protagonist with a good story .

Men...!
Very interesting story!
It is a pleasure to read and follow the development of the character.
Bad ass protagonist and who conveys the bibe of being the godfather
I hope you continue to work on this project...

There are a few problems with this game/story that detract from what it is trying to be.

1. The ui/gameplay was not thought out, and was not reworked. Old systems were abandoned and built over, which at first looks like there is no content until you get passed it.

2. The story doesn't know what it wants to be. A schoolcreep sim? A good guy with a bad past that liked schoolgirls? A vn about some criminal and his waifus? It's all of those, and none of those. Pick one, stick to it, and then make another. This was all over the place.

Story: 2/5
A little bit of a few story ideas.

Writing: 4/5
The english is fine. The dialogue is sometimes worth reading.
Kind of forgettable though.

Characters: 3/5
The characters are pretty shallow but not overly so. Some of them are a little... too plot influenced and less realistic.
What I mean is the story need x character to be something, so therefore... she just is. Rather than developing her via events and dialogue.

Sex: 4/5
The few sex scenes there are, are decent. Some ok animations, some ok dialogue. Almost zero meaning to it though. And
Sex Frequency: 2/5
Once you bang, you bang somewhat frequently.
Pretty dry til then though.

Enjoyment: 2/5

Review v0.5.9a

Cute models but the game is a mess. It goes in a million different directions and doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. Is it a dating sim? A visual novel? A kinetic novel? A management sim? There are also two plots: in the first you've been tasked with getting blackmail material on schoolgirls and need to decide whether you want to do that or betray your gang while trying to figure out if the gang is planning to backstab you. In the other you're investigating a new criminal group that's entered the city. And they don't mesh very well so that it's like trying to read while switching between two different books every 20 minutes.

At the time of writing it's only four months since the first release so it's still early and the game could eventually be something great. It's very obviously under construction and if I could review without giving it a star rating I would. But I can't so 3 stars.