Ren'Py - Completed - Family Life Unofficial Ren'Py Conversion [v1.0.0] [NightTrain]

Played VN edition.

absolutely inorganic gameplay

Story could be interesting if it wasnt destroyed by the totally unfriendly gameplay.

Grind fest at its best, event with cheats. Dont even want to imagine it without ...

Version includes all 3 additional event packs.

Gameplay:
+ Life Simulator with Stat leveling and money earning
+ Random events
+ Romanticize characters, trigger events and progression
+ Some cheats very helpful, like location jumping. Less clicks this way.
- Very complex. Missing alot of tips for further progression. Without cheats, it is hard grind.
- Hourly timed events make the game too complex and too hard, since there are barely hints, unless you use tips and cheats.
- Even with cheats, it still takes a while to complete romance pathes.
- Some locations have video+sound scenes. While main scenes are pictures or gif animations. Feels a bit wasted to give side-quests such big videos.
- big grind-reward imbalance

Frequency of Scenes:
+/- There should be alot, but at the start, it takes a long while until you finally get proper scenes

Dialogues:
+/- Amount of text is fine. It is enough to describe the personalities and relationships of the characters. That makes up for the general lack of story. It is more like a slice of life narration.

Others:
+/- The idea of cheats is nice. Especially the ability to free scenes, which were locked out due to different decisions - to avoid needing to replay from start. But at the same time, it can confuse the gameplay alot.
- Gameplay is too big for its own good.
- Videos can be very long, especially when all 3 event packs included. Sometimes feels more like watching a porno than playing a game.

--> All in one: The idea, the romancing and the random events with progression are nice. But the execution is too complex. I definitely recommend to play the base game first, before adding the three event packs. This way, you can get a feeling for the game first, before being overwhelmed by all additional events. Have in mind, I solely reviewed this game version. Not the older QSP one. Basically, the main inconvenience about the game is, that it takes too long to progress romancing and events. If one wanted to make a big game, it is alot better to make one-time encounters with quests involved. And only 1, 2 or max 3 romancing pathes. This way, exploring would be more fun, if there were alot more one-time encounters than romancing pathes. The game is just too big and complex. Would give 4 of 10.

The reviews on this one are split between judging the base game and the conversion. Of course, the base game is shit, it's an old-style QSP sandbox, which is unplayable by modern standards. But my 5 stars are going to the conversion because the dev made great work of passing that vibe of playing old QSP game while providing you with tools to remediate all of the troubles associated. There are cheats integrated, you have a database with requirements and order of events, and you have some hints on choices and a safety net for bad ones. I've encountered only one bug, where your charisma is not updated, but reloading the game fixes it.
Overall, I think this amazing work could be compared in importance to the modern remasters of video games from old platforms. There are a lot of ideas, stories, and experiences tied to some old, outdated platforms or engines, hardly accessible to modern audiences. Conversions like this help the community and industry, preserving history and continuity.

Very grindy. Story is serviceable. Gameplay is poor and does not do a good job from a desgin standpoint.

First, the grind. Even with cheats, the very fact that the stats are on a timer adds an unnecessary chore like feeling. Why couldnt I touch my daughter's shoulders today? Oh right, I didnt cut my hair. Or my Organic Gucci button up decomposed. Yes there is an expiration date for your clothes. Apparently it takes 14 days for it to be "out of style"

Now the story. The set up is fine. But the game revolves around grinding and working several characters. If you don't set up a proper routine, or if you dont work out several characters, the snail pacing is even more evident.

An example is the massaging scene or should I say scenes, with your daughter. Everyday at 20:00 if your shoes are tied and your hairs up high, you will be able to access the next progression of the massage story line. There are about 8 beats which is essentially you moving the towel a bit more out of the way than last time. If this is a game intended to get someone to ejaculate, breaking up this weak and slow storyline with no other parrallel lines will make you pull out your hair. You will never get hard because it's legit just one picture with one tiny ounce of progression.
As I said, this would be alleviated if you could focus in on one character and move along in different routes (for example, the next route is the lingerie one, but you have to do this one first) You can have a slow pace story, but it has to be filled with other moving pieces.

From a game play design point, it fails miserably. Now there is a bug that does not update your stats correctly (so you dont know if you have enough charisma to move on to next beat) , but even considering that, there is no in game indication on how to access new plots or progress the plot. No "Hmm, maybe if I didnt smell she would let me move the towel closer to her legs?" Or a "I wonder how she would look in lingerie?" No, you have to unnimmerse yourself and click on the story outline and read a robotic text box with binary information in red telling you, you shall not pass. It's the game designer's job to lure players on the right path with hints of smells and subtle aromas, not pinch them on the nose.

One of my favorite qsp games, so glad so see a renpy remake, makes it allot easier to skip the grind.

Even has a quest system so you always can check what to do next. Awesome job. Hope to see more like this.

No idea how this has such good ratings. It's a mess of an experience. Mediocre writing, poor UI, the cheats are not there to make your life easy, theyre there to make you not want to kill yourself. H content is far and few between, really unsatisfying content as well, imo.

It's a grindfest! Do massage TWELWE times! And it's the same scene all over.
A lot of unskippable cuck shit.
Bizarre pitfalls when if you ask a girl for an oral, scene ends but if you pick wait she will give you oral next scene.
The action luck any variety. You can have sex with your wife ONLY in bedroom in the morning and at 2300.

i didnt finish the game yet as i am still working through the second event pack
but i can't delay this review any longer
this is probably the best renpy conversion on the website period
QSP games are very tough to get through and very tough to get all scenes and endings
but in this remake you can get all scenes all scenarios and all endings in one play through
and i really think all QSP games should be renpy converted like family life
because this remake is simply perfect and easy for the player
some of the videos which are only late game is kind of long and boring for me
and some of the girls had too much content back to back at one point in time
but other than that i loved the game and will enjoy it for quite sometime until i finish it since its a huge game full of content

Writing: 5/10
Imagery: 6/10
Gameplay: 6/10
Kinks: 5/10
Overall: 5/10

Let's get one thing straight, I'm not saying the effort put into making this available on a far easier to use application is misplaced. This score is only based upon the base game, with a supplemental note on the improvements.

That said, this is a pretty average sandbox game, with all the annoying bells and whistles of one. Brush your teeth, take a shower, and eat your vegetables. Otherwise how would you be able to pursue hitting on your neighbor's wife, fucking your own daughter, or making your bitchy wife fall back in love with you? Stats. Ugh. A grindy waste of time. Clean the house, play with your little boy, and write up reports. Oh goodie, I come home from working a full-time job just to start another one.

Yeah, outside of the sandbox mess, the story is so piecemealed I feel like I'm starving for content between the good bits. It takes forever to get through all those "just a little more" routes with the girls you can fuck, that by the end of it the reward feels underwhelming. Oh good, I get to tail the babysitter again? Will I get to see two more scenes of her eating some chick's pussy this time? Needless to say, the end result is lack luster.

The one saving grace that made me really try to make it through the slog, was the introduction of a "cheat" system. Lots of help here, pointing the way to progressing story and routes, keeping those stats nice and high, and of course, paving the way to focusing more on the girls and less on the work. However it does not save the game from being a 5/10.

Never played the original, but really liked this RenPY conversion. It follows pretty standard formulas for the genre and is definitely a porn fantasy, not realistic in any way shape or form.

But the sandboxy way this game works and the cute characters, and the huge amount of content for most of them, makes it really hot and engrossing. I recommend this to everyone who likes a sandbox type game.

I came into this expecting kinda of little, I got a fairly nice premise for a game but the execution is lacking. I feel like most of the game involves the Nanny which is super hot but it progresses very strangely. I suspect it might be the cheats or something but things are pretty disjointed. At one moments I can be pretty crazy with the nanny and the next she's "Oh no I'm not good with that" and she gets mad. I think this game is kinda strange in many ways, one being that the different threads feel so disconnected from eachother. Only at one point do I remember MC worrying about getting caught with the another woman (not wife) in the guest room. I guess that's up to the writing being kinda lazy.

I feel like the game is a typical porn game (stupid story) with grindy and slow-burn pace. It's not really a good mix in my book. Basically you have to spam gifts, talk/flirt with all the characters about a gazillion times with no meaningful dialogue, from the look of it the dialogue only changes based on WHERE you are (room) with the girl you talk to. You don't get to know the people, their thoughts or motivations. It very often is just description of what is said and done. Not actual dialogue.

The three stars come mostly from the excellent choice in women featured in the game. Only one nasty looking woman (Nikki, bad fake tits). Like I said a promising premise but the execution is very strange and beyond the weird grinding of relationships with people I feel no connection with the clips used in this are usually in like 240p or something. Pictures are fine but video clips are often in very very bad quality, even for gif quality it's bad.

After writing this I feel like 3 stars may be a little too generous but yeah the women in it are very nice I guess. After playing a few hours I find myself asking myself... why am I playing this game rather than finding the porn videos with these girls? Cause you really don't get a chance to connect with the "characters". Make of that what you will.

Really like this game even if it were more difficult on QSP. And to see it converted to a more playable version...is the best. The game is now much better compared to the previous one, with more accessible playthrough.

Kudos to NightTrain for doing this

I'm loving the continuation of a good game, though the code still needs a bit of work. Gina's story is currently broken sadly, but there is a lot of the old content so hopefully this is a good sign for everything to come.

Family life is finally playable! An incredible job from NightTrain!
This game always had amazing choice of characters and content, but an unplayable mess of a maze gameplay.
Now you can finally enjoy this game and follow the progress and conditions for next scenes. All the menues are abit overwhelming in the beginning but you get used to it fast.
Recommended to anyone

The only reason I gave this any stars is to recognize what must have been a monumental effort from the dev to port it in to the vastly superior Ren'Py.

That being said, this game is a nightmare and takes a good 15 minutes of clicking to see 2 pictures. Then out of nowhere a video plays in something like 180p but at +100Db making sure to blow out your eardrums and/or give your cat a heart attack.

Management on top of management on top of repetition makes this an unfocused, undigestible mess. This is with cheats activated that reduce the pointless grind by 50% and it's still way too much.

Good sandbox, excellent cheat system.
Very hot girls, Anjelica is my favourite.
Perfect game to spend a few hours with 1 hand on the mouse
Flesh out some parts ( or remove the unfinished parts from the game so it' s more streamlined )

If you played the original, then you will know why this remake deserved 5 stars. Kudos to the Dev for not only converting this magnificent mess but also implementing an in-game easy-to-use cheats and walk-through to ease the grind.

The game itself is a real game with multiple paths for multiple characters with many contents which were meant for multiple playthroughs. Although in this version, you can complete all in one playthrough. (Thanks again, Dev!) You can also choose which content you want to see or not.

Don't let the size of the game discourage you if you have the speed. This is a good game.

I have played the original game and it's a really great remake for old and new players ! A lot of content, almost all kinds of fetishes and a walkthrough/cheat mod very useful and easy to understand, good job !!!

Tried playing the original a few times and found it too aimless and grindy. This remake is excellent. The in game guides and cheats do a great job of directing you and allows you to track your progress. A feature that is almost a prerequisite of mine for any sandbox game. Much love to NightTrain for remaking this classic into a playable format.

Thank you for such present. Few moths ago couldnt play this game vecause of griding. But i will play it. Thanl you again. So i have question. As i understood this game has interactive sex. But as i mentioned only with your wife ?