VN - Ren'Py - Endowed [Ch.5 v0.4.5] [Expanding Universe Games]

I'm enjoying this story. There is a plot and that plot is interesting. There are details to learn and consider, there are choices which affect outcomes. There is a significant amount of dialogue which is in my opinion well written and seems realistic for the situations that are similar enough to my own experiences in life. The dialogues in situations that are not anything like I've ever experienced, well, the other players will have to decide for themselves. If there are typos or misspellings, I must have been too engrossed in the adventure to notice at the time. I congratulate the creators on their accomplishment. I'm looking forward to continuing the adventure.

Version Ch.5v0.4.5

A clobbered up mess that feels like the developer is trying to stand out by going against the grain of most common practices in AVNs. Problem is best practices while cliche, are popular for a good reason - they work most of the time if done correctly. Being unconventional can end up either iconoclastic when implemented judiciously or disastrous when it is not.

Unfortunately, Endowed belongs to the latter - it fails in every aspect of an adult game whether as an interesting novel, a nice dating simulator or even just good old-fashioned porn. This is teaching material level on how NOT to make an AVN.

Review is based on ~3 hours of gameplay as I gave up on it when there was clearly no hope of getting better.

Story
MC starts off with a will from his deceased uncle which necessitates him to move to a new town, manage a strip club + casino and get married within a year in order to inherit the estate. Interesting premise, but very underused in the end.

The club cum casino management and mystery surrounding his uncle's death felt peripheral as MC spends most of his time picking up girls at every opportunity, no different from a typical harem game. The really funny part about Endowed is much of the game centres around MC's in-depth relationship with his assistant Kassie who helps him to hookup.

It feels like a Romcom between MC and Kassie with some side girls thrown in the mix for sex. Problem is Kassie is 100% lesbian with the relationship fully platonic without any hint of advancement towards anything more. I'm unsure what the whole idea of such a setup is for - players spend the most time interacting with the hottest girl in the game as a "bro" and "winglady"? Unique perhaps, but an epic failure as an AVN...

Halfway through, the developer deviates and invests a significant amount of time doing a branch story ending in which you give up the inheritance and go back to your hometown to date another random girl. This lengthy deviation is like a DLC that has nothing to do with the main story and is simply jarring and uninspiring. Again unique, but what's the point?

Game Mechanic
Visual novel with choices of which most are tied to whether you unlock a side LI (I consider all LIs side girls in Endowed with only one main girl, Kassie, who is ironically your bro). One particular choice leads to the lengthy "what if" story mentioned above.

Background / Character Renders
Pretty standard HS backgrounds and characters. I believe these are rendered with HS1 which is severely behind times in 2025, a testament to how long development has taken to date without much to show for.

Character Development
Exactly the same issue as the story, the most robust and well-built character is Kassie, someone whom you have no way to romance. The rest of the "main" side girls like your ex, the red-haired girl you pick up in a restaurant, another one picked up in a bar and the last one a stripper who works in your club are mostly come and go types.

Their advancement to sex is fast without much emotional connect and these LIs are given neither the space nor opportunity to develop into solid characters that can stand on their own. There are some minor characters like your strip club staff and antagonists who are more interesting than even the LIs.

Sex Scenes
Another "unique for the sake of it" disaster. The developer has a penchant for selecting the most sterile and unerotic camera angles for sex scenes and animations. I am not exaggerating - you get blow jobs where you can see neither your dick nor the girl's face / mouth, just a bobbing mess of hair.

How about fingering an LI without pussy visibility? Just a blown-up focus on either a face, legs or boobs. Perhaps you like watching missionary sex alternating between side view of MC's legs, top view of MC's body or POV with half a face and bouncing boobs only?

Try doggy without emphasis on female butt and swaying tits? Hey and of course the signature orgasm that has no depiction of either a cum shot or facial ecstasy, just white flashes followed by words describing what happened.

Heck I think even poorly lit homemade porn with a shaking phone is more arousing than this. Unless there really are people who find this approach erotic, I'm going to chalk this up to yet another attempt to violate common sense depicting sex on film and games in order to be different.

BGM and Sound Effects
BGMs are generic and adequate enough for use, no use of sound effects in either normal or sex scenes as far as I can remember.

Conclusion
Endowed feels like a rebel without cause teenager i.e. it tries to approach everything from story telling, character development to lewd scenes unconventionally without clear purpose other than a vague idea to stand out.

The end result is a directionless and unplayable end product that seriously tests your patience. I persevered for hours hoping it would get better, but a quick read of online reviews convinced me otherwise and hence the decision to drop it halfway.

The story is good, the chooses really do nake a difference. The music is pretty awesome too. And pregancy content? Sign me in! Unfortunately though, this game fails to reach 5/5 status.

Why? Because why on earth did the dev choose to never show your dick in a pussy while fucking?! It's an impregnation game where all the cumming happens JUST of screen. Such a disappointment for an otherwise great game!

Not a fan of this VN, the story is just not there enough to keep me engaged. Small parts of the dialogue are funny but it's not enough to keep me going. I did finish up to the latest current update of Ch5 because I didn't want this to be unfinished and to be honest, where it left off didn't give me the "excitement" of waiting for the next update. I'm semi new to this game but apparently from other comments, this game has been in devolvement for 5 years and only has 6HRs of content. So that should tell you enough.

Sometimes I like the games that suit my fetish and has many great sex scene. Other times I like games that has nice premise and capture my all the way into their story.

This would fall in my second category. I feels like the story is really great even as a normal VN. Little but cringy, some serius and Lot of joke that I like. There seems so many Heroine too and feels like there could been some Replaybility (I admit I only write this after single playthrough. But definitely gonna try different choices)

Overall Eh not bad animation 6/10
Great story 9/10
Many variety 10/10
And nice music too 8/10
Very enjoyable slow reading but not recomend for some quick fap

For this VN, the dev said, "What about, instead of hordes of attractive and eager young girl next door types who worship him, we surround MC with trashy sex workers, ugly lesbians, women who have no interest in him, and disrespectful men who serve to highlight what a pathetic beta he is?" It's not a good formula. He can still throw in a funny line now and then, but the game isn't worth playing.

Really enjoyed the premise and the writing. I appreciated the fact that you are given a choice, and its one with actual consequence even if its only something I did for completion-ism. If I have any complaints its that for a game about inheriting a strip club you don't actually spend much time running it. I'm also not sure the magic dick stuff really adds anything to the story.

Self preaching garbage. Horrible models and story. It is definitely unique way of making a porn VN, by making it preachy and making it lecture those who are here to wank about the only acceptable morals and views to have. Never seen this before in any game. MC is such a lame duck.

Seems like this "visual" novel was simply an excuse for the author to try and flex their superior moralistic ideologies. You've heard of pickme girls right? The mc and the author by association in this avn are the examples of pickme guys. It's like every step of the way the author is trying so hard to convey how much of a green flag he is. Most of the interactions in this also come across as extremely preachy going on and on about toxic masculinity on so many different occasions. We are adults we know what's right and what's wrong and trying to lecture us on it through the excuse of a dialogue just comes across as an insult to the player's intelligence. The mc also gives off a overall weak limp wristed energy, he is a jobless self deprecating guy who still lives with his parents, has an overall "not caring" attitude towards life even though his life is clearly in the dumps. There's one sequence in which he gets literally grabbed and thrown to the ground by his own bouncer and mc doesn't even utter one word of retort against him, according to the game the correct choice in this scenario is also to make friends with him. This game pretty obviously tries to make some commentary about the "alpha male" standards but does it by going to the extreme opposite end of the spectrum and choses the medium of a porn game to convey that. Most people even if they might share similar opinions do not care to be preached about it in a fucking adult visual novel which you play mostly to relieve stress.

Also this game is extremely ugly to look at, even HS games from 6-7 years ago do not look this bad.

Review for 0.4.4
This was frustrating to play. Choices are sometimes missing when one felt it would inform how the player shapes the MC, for example his initial reaction to his uncle's will, even while keeping the general sequence of events, could be an opportunity for freedom of characterization... Here, we find the all-too-common weak-willed MC syndrome. From the ex who keeps him in her orbit, the ex's friend with whom we spend time to then not hook up with (perhaps it was possible depending on one's decisions, it was not intuitive and I did not care enough to check with UnRen or equivalent), the assistant who happens to be lesbian... I have to wonder if the author even wants to write a male-protagonist AVN, or how he views the audience. At some point, the MC is thrown out of his own club by its security, I supposed it was played for laughs but I realized it was not going to get better.
The girls are alright, I have nothing against HS models in general. It is regrettable that they weren't used in a well-constructed story with good erotic scenes, as the premise was interesting.

It's difficult to review this AVN because it has potential, but at the same time it feels like the Dev was too lazy to make it better. And i'm not only referring to the outdated designs; for example, instead of investing time in expanding the main story with different paths, the Dev preferred to create an alternative line where the MC returns to him city and separates quite a bit from the main story. It would fine as an ending, but to take up an entire update to add a story that doesn't contribute anything to the main one, for me that was a letdown especially because the updates take quite a long time.

The only way for this AVN to succeed is to make a complete remake, even starting the story from the beginning; that way it can create a more solid story, world, and characters... On the other hand, if it continues like this, it will not only be stuck with designs that no longer appeal to anyone, but it will also keep patching the story while the Dev continues to learn how to write, and I don't think this AVN deserves to fall into that, because this story done well, it could be a worthy rival to "Pale C"
But that's only if the Dev really dedicates himself to creating a good AVN; otherwise, it will end up being just another typical 3-star AVN that you only play when you're bored. That's why I gave it 4 stars, because with a remake, at least it would become a 4 stars AVN, at least... Right now it's a 3 stars AVN and only because the choices matter.

The setup's pretty solid: you're broke, saddled with debt and a useless degree, and suddenly get offered your dead uncle’s strip club. Of course, it’s not just a business, it’s tangled in mob connections and shady past dealings. Taking it on means stepping into a criminal world whether you want to or not. That side of the story mostly works and gives the game its momentum.

But the writing, especially when it comes to characters and relationships, doesn’t hold up.

One of the main girls, heavily featured in promo material, turns out to be a full-on lesbian. Not bi, not potentially romanceable just flat-out not interested in men. And the game makes it clear she’s never meant to be an option. That would be one thing if it were just her, but this happens again with other girls. For something marketed as a romance-focused adult VN, spending time building up characters who are completely unavailable ends up being a waste of player investment.

The MC also gets saddled with a nickname that feels like something a kid would make up. It’s used constantly and makes serious scenes land flat.

Then there's the ex plot. They broke up around four years ago, but she kept in touch until about two years back, then completely ghosted him with no explanation and never responded again. Now she’s suddenly back acting friendly like nothing happened. When asked why she disappeared, she says it’s because she “loved him too much” and wasn’t sure how he felt. Meanwhile, she’s dating someone else but still claims she “always loved” him. The MC doesn’t push back, he flirts, reminisces, and basically acts like he’s lucky to still be in her orbit. It’s hard to respect a protagonist who gets treated like an afterthought and just goes along with it.

As for the running “small dick” gag—it’s not funny, it’s not subtle, and it’s not even one-off. The MC brings it up constantly. The “Endowed” path eventually changes that, but it’s too little too late. By then, the repetition has already made the joke feel forced and borderline humiliating. It undercuts the story and makes the MC hard to root for.

The criminal angle had potential, but the rest of the VN feels like it was written by someone who doesn’t really get men or the harem genre. The tone jumps between forced emotional drama and awkward social commentary, and in the end, it just doesn’t deliver what it promises. Too many scenes go nowhere, too many girls are off-limits, and too much of the dialogue drags things down.

I'm not into growth and growing, or whatever, and am not totally a fan of having a small dick that gets bigger, or whatever, but I fucking love the way this is written. I like slim girls, but the author is so on my wavelength so I get his humor and love the characters. I want to see how everything goes. I want to solve the mystery. I want to be a calm wise ass enjoying this new life and exploring it. I came here from Hypnosis just to see his other work because I enjoy the story and the writing, and love the girls. Eager for more, and was disappointed to come to the end. Happy to hear he's writing the new chapter, I actually was surprised to like this more than Hypnosis.

You know, I get, soft- and hardware limitations, time constraints, etcetera.
The reason the genre is called 'Visual Novel' is due to a lot of information conveyed via visual medium.
Now, this particular program, how to put it, would be better off without the visual part. Lighting is off, shadows are off, textures are somewhere at the PS2 level, and I'm doing good old playstation a disservice here.
Just, I don't know, pick something else to spend time upon. Read a book maybe.

Got to say it feels like a very weird start, the story seems good and has potential, but first girl you meet and the one you talk the most with is a 100% lesbian and not BI, next you meet one of the strippers and guess what shes mostly a lesbian as well and being a male MC you do start to wonder if game is even a AVN since the girls want well girls, and you also have a rule forced on you that you cant fuck strippers....
Not that its an issue for me since i dident really find any of the strippers that hot but it just makes you wonder what your playing.

Some things i truely hate in a games and thats forced LIs and fake/pointless choices, and this one has both, your lesbian friend hooks you up with someone without a choice for the player and even if you say no to kissing the girl she hooked you up with, you still end with licking her and getting a BJ, why not just make the game kinetic and slap the tag on to warn people, you cant dump her either she is pretty much a forced girlfriend which kills the game to me since it removes the freedom of choice for the player, and my guess to why shes is forced on the player is that MC has to marry someone later in game and that will most likely be the one forced on you, leaving out choices to the players again, but time will tell if i am right or not.
Its kinda weird since you can say no to some i belive so why on earth do the forced LI shit at all, all it does is make storyline feel kinetic.

What makes it really idiotic is what it says on page one:
"Date a variety of girls on your path to finding "the one""
If a girl is forced on you right from the start, you have 0 chances to find "the one" since your already in a relationship.... so dating others would also be pointless when MC is already spoken for.....and having a harem tag and the game is about finding "the one" dosent really fit one another.

Animations are a mixed bag, a few looks ok but in most MC has a micro pencil dick, not sure what they did but when a girls hand is 5 times bigger then MCs dick something isent right and its probely also why you dont see much dick/pussy action, not even in a cowgirl scene since if they did you would barely be able to see MCs dick?.....

Music is pretty decent.

As for content its almost unreal how little there is considering game is 4 years old, it feels more like a first release then anything else right now.

Game would need alot of fixing in my eyes for it to become worth playing.
Remove forced LIs.
Remove fake choices, theres no point in having multiple choices if they all lead to the same thing.
Remove MCs pencil dick and make it right or animations wont be worth watching, which is bad in a porn/AVN game.
Improve content faster.

This was pretty dull, if you're going to go for some time without anything remotely sexy happening you need decent writing ,but this is the standard bland set up stuff where characters just give details about themselves and have no strong personalities.

I got to chapter 2 and some girl starts to dance and I just didn't care about what was going on.

There's a lot to like about this game. The writing is really good and the humor works well. The story does a decent job progressing while introducing just the right number of characters and not overloading the game with sex scenes. There's a fair bit of them and the branching out with choices is pretty good too. The only reason I took off one star is because all young female characters behave in a similar fashion here despite being different people. As in, they're all fairly quick to get on with the MC. Except Kass, for obvious reasons. So a little work on matching supposed personalities with actual uniqueness, or having characters not related to the club be a bit more normal and less cock hungry would be great to see.

Another good point, which I think deserves a mention, is how the MC is not some alpha, all knowing, all wise guy who is out there to save every girl he crosses path with, and the girls themselves dont' all have twisted pasts who need this dude to save them and give them cock. There are SO many games that have this syndrome, even the good ones to some extent, so it's nice to see that in Endowed!

When I read the name of the game, I thought it was going to be about an MC with a magic pecker or something. Then I read the synopsis and thought I'd try it out. So far seems to be a pretty good idea of where the Dev wants to go with it.
Hopefully I'm wrong in that the MC will have a magic pecker that causes the lesbian character to suddenly decide she likes to have sex with dudes. If she was bi, then should have made that clear from the beginning.
But instead, said she was all the way gay. So hopefully the Dev doesn't do what so many other's have done in so many other games.

The MC has a micro dick that is a major turnoff in this kind of game, you can barely see it in the scenes, and to add to that, there is barely any scenes as of this version 0.3, it is a more wordy VN that forgot what its primary audience are here for and is trying to create some Mexican soap opera instead of porn.

Just finished playing and I must say, I don't usually play Honey Select games, but I just had to because of the description and the setting of the game. I love the idea of mc now owning/working at a strip club. All of the girls are great and definitely endowed.