Ren'Py - Evalia: The Lust Kingdom [v1.26.01] [VelvetGene]

Super fun waiting to see where this goes, nice to see proper drawn art since there seems to be so many AI games releasing lately. Only improvment i can think of is more varied animations. Maybe characters get new animations the better they get at a skill.

5 stars cuz i always appreciate fjs

Okay, this game has all of the freedom you want, character customization, sex everyone while managing your kingdom. If i have to be honest, i just played it for about 30 minutes trying to get hang of the game and it feels like the game will involving a lots of grinding, for your kingdom resources and get along with your harems which im fine, but there's no goal and sex is going to be repetitive, i know it will. Im not fan of no goal, lack of story kind of game, moreover repetitiveness for each npc like the first sex scene i thought you have freedom but guess what? she refuses to do things, boi i sure love clicking to find out what she likes to do, tbh it kinda reminds me of the sims or old nokia miami game. to sum it up :

Pros
+You have freedom of customization
+you can woo everyone
+animated
+Kingdom management

Cons
-Repetitive sex scene and character relations
-can be grindy

Tl;Dr
Play this game if you like sandbox sex game that allows you fucks anyone in the kingdom and dont mind with grinding stuff.

I know that the game is in development, but in my opinion for the game to have a good score it must be at least playable, as soon as you start the game it breaks when entering locations and you have to completely restart the program (I have already had 13 restarts).

I don't know why they give it such a high score, so I'll give it the lowest one to balance it, people should understand that if it started badly it would most likely end badly, the developer didn't bother to test his own game before publishing it and this is the result (I've already seen this pattern many times).

time will tell if it is another infinite development with continuous bugs that will worsen the experience or it will be another abandoned game.

game is good.

Even if Blanche's face breaks during BJ scenes sometimes.
Blanche and Priestess are hot.
Wish we could get threesomes.

As it stands tho, not bad.
Art is pretty unique.
Hope this game gets developed to its full potential.

Keep up the good work.

What I see is a game with huge potential. The author is trying to design a true rogue-like sandbox game. Even though it may be a little bit grind to start, the animation stuff is great. Keep up the good work author!

As of v1.24.2(patreon version)

So, after FINALLY getting the hang of this game and playing up to the latest build release... here is where I am.

With the exception of endurance, I've maxed my stats after some low to moderate grinding. YMMV on this seeing as some folks have next to no patience, and others might be used to playing old school RPGs where grinding was just what you did and don't mind. I'm in that camp so I don't really mind grinding so long as it's not excessive. Interactions are varied, plentiful, and implemented well enough so it's just a matter of adding more over time so meh. Same with the sex animations and interactions. Verdict atm? Stable, functional game loop that's obviously early in dev but has PLENTY of room to grow.

Pros:
- The player experience has a fair bit of customization . From the PC's gender, appearance, and even backstory to what sort of relationships you have with the NPCs, right down to what genders and ratios you want to populate the game world... like all girls, all men, add in some futa, mixed... whatever really. Which is great if you love the idea of tailoring your experience to something fairly vanilla and tame... to utterly as degenerate as could be (with respect to the limits of what the game can do, anyway).
- Custom art and animations that are, at least in my view, charming.
- LOTS of room to grow and add in new/refine existing features/interactions/etc, etc. I call it a pro bc the game is in active development and the dev does their best to stay in touch with the fanbase, which is a plus in my book since it means the game will only get better and improve as time goes on.

Cons
- There really aren't many cons here bc it's still SUPER early in development... about the only one one might call a con would be that once you play for long enough, and because there just isn't a huge amount of content yet, the game 'can' begin to feel a tad repetitive after awhile. Again, YMMV on where your limits fall on this point as this will will vary from player to player. Overall, I didn't see it as an issue myself but recognize that others might think differently..
- Like with the above, this is less of a con so much as a sign of how it's too early to really complain about it... that is to say, there are minor graphical glitches that pop here and there that kinda mess with assets popping up when they shouldn't, not being there when they should... etc, etc.

Verdict
- If you like RPGs, sandbox style VNs, customization, and games with lots of options to live out the most debauched and perverse fantasies you could have... then this game is DEFINITELY worth giving a try, or at least keeping an active eye on.
Just, temper your expectations. Remember, this is an indie game made by just one person who is busy doing other things and offering up the fruits of their labor for free with the option to support if you want. It's got a ways to go but already shows a lot of potential and promise.

I'd give it a score if I could, but it's just too early for that so I just scored it based on what experience I'm having right now and its potential to be really something awesome in the future.

Pros:
- the plot is funny
- art is decent with unique style
Cons:
- grind
- repetitive porn
- repetitive events
- repetitive sex minigame

Plot and art is interesting, but thats it for the good part.
The game fails miserably at what it tries to do: VN spin off of XXXCivilization (kinda), there are only a few sex scenes in the game with the most common one being NPC sex where after grinding relationship with an NPC (doesn't matter if you are the king/queen or that they seem willing from the get go, you still have to grind) you can initiate a sex scene minigame, it will be the same for every character and if you got past the intro you have seen most of it.
The kingdom management is practically nonexistent at this point, throne room hearings get boring quickly after seeing all 4 or 5 interactions available.
Dungeon is pretty stupid, you can keep prisoners there and interact with them, but it's pretty much the same screen as with any other free NPC, they can refuse you if you have not grinded the affection with them.

TL&DR: After going through intro and 2-3 audiences in the throne room you have pretty much seen it all.

Review as of v1.24.

[1.24.01]

Definitly a good game and by far more than I expected. And even though it is not finished and stuff is missing, it is definitly worth playing. Keep it up!

Pro:
- great animations
- the way time works is just great! And please keep the pacing of
- options to do what you wish - truly sandbox - not just dealing with the court as i expected
- random NPCs and precrafted ones
- customization! (player, fetishes, content, inhabitant gender distribution, clothes,...)

Con:
- the court-scenes seem a bit repetitive, I once had the same interaction 3 times in a row
- a few bugs but nothing game-breaking

Side-Comment:
- Prisoners can refuse taking off their clothes but cannot refuse sex - if you command them? Odd.
- tooltips would be great
- labels in the clothing section please. i tried to take of the quiver accessory and just had to randomly click all the "empty" buttons to find the right one.

Bugs encountered:
- After ending conversations it sometimes loops and you have to end it multiple times (scene calling issue?)
- (rare) the overlaying char does not "despawn" while a new one is drawn, leading to a half rendered model in the background. Fixes after leaving the scene
- prostitues in the alley sex-scene don't have a background and their hair sometimes does not render
- punish the prisoner dialog starts randomly after some sex-interactions with that prisoner

Something new in RenPy mechanics game.

I see the game has a very good potential. The developer should continue.
Yes, the game is a bit raw. For me personally, it still lacks violent mechanics, but freedom of action, animation and will lead to a good result if the author does not abandon it. Please continue.

great premise and idea, good foundation, active and responsive dev thats truly passionate about their work and it shows evidently. he answered my DM's promptly..

however, even the latest patreon build is broken. interact with strangers in market *exception occured*, interact with prostitute *exception occured*, any interaction gave me the same. the game is extremely early into development, and it shows, from its lack of core content and features, to doing a conference and having 5 civilians in a row tell me how theyre arguing about a treasure box found on their land, then the other person argues its their aunts. more variety needs added in terms of dialogue, and just more general content tbh. the dev is very transparent, very open minded to critique and suggestions, so with that in mind this game could go from the broken and bare build it is today, to a 5 star in a years time. i have no doubts. his plans are phenomenal, and he answers your dms on patreon, so go give him some support and love, he truly does deserve it. with new weekly builds too.

this game will be on my watch list, however rn, its too early in development, and the content i want is there, but not fully implemented yet. however i know he's adding a fuck ton of OPTIONAL bi content, and also ass/anal related content too.

i will also say, building relationships are way to reptitive and tediously boring. i think some tweaks need done there. someone will claim they love me, but then refuse to take their shirt off. also if exploring non con stuff, and if that option is truly gonna be explored as an optional basis, explore it fully, expand on it. allow me to non con servants and staff, and civilians, but allow repuation to be tarnished over time over repeated actions. these are my suggestions. good premise and ill be waiting

The base of Roguelike Evolution but fantasy.

We will watch your career with great interest.

[v1.17.03]

Its a small demo with alot of missing content. But it seems good as a sandbox with procedurally generated characters. Honestly, graphics could be better, but since it has procedurally generated NPC's with animations - its a rare gem among other adult games.

Pros:
- Procedural generation, potentially infinite replayability.
- Fully customizable outfit, manual undressing in sex scenes.
- Slave training in the dungeon with punishments and rewards. Makes a good contrast compared to intaracting with free NPC's.
Cons:
- Sex scenes are too repetative. You have to perform the same action over and over like 20 times to make MC finish. I aborted sex in the middle most of the time, because it feels like MC cannot finish at all. Until it just happened randomly. There should a button for manual ejaculation, like in some other games.
- MC's stats dont seem to affect his convesations with NPC's, except a few special options in court hearings
- No info or tooltips about progressbars in topleft corner. They seem important, because they are shown all the time. But what do they actually mean, should I keep them low or high - its a mystery...

Bugs:
- One annoying NPC guard keeps bothering me with her shyness quest every time i move through the palace. It keeps repeating every day, no matter what optios I choose in convesation.
- There is an option to mark some NPC as VIP, so I can summon him later. But I dont see any buttons to summon saved NPC's to me. Maybe I'm just stupid, or its a UI bug.

So why 4 stars? Because I love procedurally generated sandbox games and I hope this one will get alot better.

Original art, plot and intelligent game line choices. This game is amazing! I'm happily surprised by it's quality and originality. Definitly recommended. I have great expectations for this in the future, and hoping that this will not be abandoned.

[v1.16]
Played it a little.

I will definitely play it again and change the rating, but now I am not satisfied...

The h-scenes are boring.
Art-style is primitive.
Plot... Plot is cool.

I just hope that there are more h-scenes and the game become better.
I know drawing is hard, but I am not fond of this art-style of characters.

For a project early in development this game shows promise. Gameplay is alright (talk to characters and do progressively more lewd stuff with them to get points to unlock scenes). What the game lacks now is variety. We need lots of body types because now the game just gets still very fast. More scenes and for me the most important is main story. Other than I believe it still needs some changes to the systems. For example if I start paying my military more it would be really cool to get some unique sex scenes with it.

All in all I'm curious where this game will end up. For now it's a 20-30 min adventure.

Art 3.5/5
Story 2/5
Gameplay 3.5/5
Fapability 4/5
Originality 4/5

At the moment the game feels barebones, there are a lot of empty spaces for more content and there is a lot of room of improvement with the current content. However, this game has a very good base already and was released with a ton of content already within.

The artwork is good, it need more polyshing but its good enough for the game and the procedural generated female characters ended up looking good all the time. Male characters aren't that good looking, (Coming from a bisexual person) but just having them as an option is something really good.

The sex system is simple and good, has a ton of space to add more dialogues and interactions, but as it is right now, is ok, just empty.

Dialogues are goodish, are kinda bland for generic characters except for Blanche the commander, who has an interesting background and personal issues that shows what would arrive in future established characters.

The world building is really good, not because the world is unique or detailed, but because all the gameplay revolves around it, making it very important for the game. Even if the core mechanic of being a King/Queen revolves around hear petitions in the court, is quite fun and put some interesting dilemmas. Hope to see this expanded in the future with different outcomes.

Overall, a good game already, waiting for more content and see the direction of the game in order to give those five stars~

It might be a bit bold to give five stars when the game is still in its infancy (a bit empty and conversations with NPCs lack enthusiasm)

But there's a lot of potential !
The developer also seems to have ambitions to expand his game, when it gets to a decent level (in a few months I guess) it will be amazing.

I can't wait to see future updates !

I gave 5 star mostly for the vision and planning.
I m a simple guy. when i see big tt i smash, animations are okey for now, and seems like dev gonna put a lot of work. world is suprisingly very big, there is a lot of npcs to interact. the potential is just amazing. and yes. it's pretty obvious that this game following some steps from Rogue Like the game and i really like that. I recommend the game no matter what, just buckle your seatbelt and let the dev put the performance.

10/10 would smash agane.

Another game on Ren'py. Thank you for not screenshots with 3d characters.
The dialogue and gameplay is LITERALLY the worst thing in the game! The dialogue interface is overloaded. Just awful. You see a huge number of buttons that do nothing. Why do I need several different questions to the character in the usual chatter. You can create a "talk" button, add ALL these dialogues there, and just run them randomly. Most of these dialogues do NOT affect anything, they are not interesting and boring. It's the same in everything else. There are a LOT of buttons in the "H" menu, pressing which you will hear a refusal, because your relationship with the character has not yet been pumped. Why can't these buttons be made to appear as the relationship progresses? - I dont know.
This is the main problem of the game! This kind of gameplay is repulsive. Developer, I hope you're reading this! You're doing the development process wrong. Move from smallest to largest. There is no need to add a bunch of buttons at the beginning of development, by clicking on which, the player will see something like "not yet available in this version", or a request for a condition that also cannot be met yet.
Make it SIMPLE, the relationship system. A simple pumping system (in the style of: "talk, flirt, foreplay, sex"). Simplify everything to the maximum, and only after that complicate it a little bit, if necessary. You will see how much faster the development process will begin to move, how much easier and more interesting it will become.
I understand that the game is still at a VERY early stage of development. That's why I don't take seriously either the plot or the graphics. But already now there is a HUGE problem, if it is not fixed, then you will either "drown" in a bunch of nuances during the development process. Either the game will be so repulsive that even the most interesting plot and the juiciest graphics of "AAA" projects (which this game is not, just a reminder) will not help.
I hope someday I will give this game 5/5.

As of i.14: Got potential, needs work.

The concept is simple enough: you have a fantasy type kingdom where everyone really likes sex and where they're pretty damn uninhibited about it, to the point where the kingdom's revenue can suffer because the people would sooner fuck than work. And it turns out that they've just appointed you as king of the kingdom, because that's the sort of weird shit they do in this kingdom.

In another game, that might well come across as lazy, but here the game plays it entirely deadpan and somehow gets away with it. It's not the most nuanced of settings, but sometimes you just want to chat and fuck and not think too hard about it, so maybe that's OK.

The trouble is, that's not what we get. Day one there's a royal guardswoman who turns up on your doorstep with the good news. Same evening she knocks on your bedroom door wanting to have sex. Only she won't strip down past bra and knickers because she doesn't know you well enough and when it gets to the question of sex, she admits she doesn't want to do it with you. OK, fair enough. There's going to be loads of pussy once we get there, right?

Well, sort of. The palace is full of female guards and maids, none of whom seem at all impressed by your Royal Authority. I missed the celebration feast because I was too busy chatting to one maid trying to get her opinion of me to visibly change. Everyone I met, it was the same deal.

Finally, I found the red light district and thought I'd try my luck with one of the ladies of the night. I fully expected to have to pay, but I thought I'd try a bit of banter as an opener.

"Say, that dress looks really sexy on you"

"That's HARDLY appropriate!"

OH COME ON!

Anyway, that's as far as I'm going to go with this version. It's early days, and the dev acknowledges that there's an issue with grind, so I'll look back in after a couple of releases and maybe review my rating. The game has flaws, certainly, but if you look beyond that, I think this could turn out to be one of the good ones.