Ren'Py - Family Trouble [v0.9.28] [Goth Girl Games]

Review as of v0.9.4

It’s pretty good. I wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did.

MC: Pretty cool. I like him. He’s no pushover and you can choose to have him be an asshole or a pretty alright dude.

Model/Renders: I really like how the models look and they’re all different which is also nice. I will be real though the quality isn’t that great graphics wise but it is passable. It’s good enough for me.

Story: The beginning was sort of average, maybe even a bit below average but it really started to pick up as it progressed. I do like the dialogue between the characters during sex though, the best part dialogue wise for the game. It also has some nice comedic moments. The story is pretty average at the moment overall.

Options: The dev definitely knows what to make optional which is a big plus from me. Good stuff.

Sex Content: Shits hot, there’s a lot, and it doesn’t take long to get to it. Usually I don’t like really fast progression to sex but I think the dev did it pretty well. If you like to get to the sex quickly give it a shot. Rough sex galore.

I look forward to see how the game goes.

I tend not to do game reviews, but I have felt this game has recently received some unfair criticism...and I want to chime in and express my satisfaction with this project

STORY/GAMEPLAY: So when I first played this game, I had joined GG's discord, and was told by the CM that if I was a JoJo's fan (my name is Robert EO Speedwagon) I would love the "Hamon-like" element to this game. I completely forgot he mentioned this, and for the first hour or so, I thought this was going to be a pretty cut and base "guy builds harem in a normal world" story. Then, the game took a sudden turn and introduced the paranormal/fantasy storyline and I was FLOORED. This was such a nice plotline to separate this game from the hundreds of other cut-and-dry plotlines. The combat system even was one of the better ones I have played of the hundreds of AVN's I have downloaded from this place.

TL;DR - The game takes a very pleasant shift about an hour into gameplay, and introduces a very fun and interactive fantasy/combat plotline

VISUALS: When I first played the game, I had no idea what to make of the visuals, as it did not look like traditional Ren'Py renders. Again, after joining the community, I learned that the team LITERALLY films the game in Second-Life, which I was not familiar with (I was aware of SL, but that was it). So, while the graphics and visuals in this game do not meet the same quality standards as Ren'Py or DAZ models, I found a certain special charm to this project knowing that these are live-produced and filmed scenes. Sure, you wont be getting the sexy and beautiful 4K or HQ renders you see in other projects, but I absolutely enjoy and appreciate the change of style that this game offers

TL;DR - This game is filmed in Second-Life. Do not expect HQ/4K renders like other games, but there is an absolute charm to this style


END NOTE: I have been part of many communities and discords for various devs and games from this website. Goth Girl and her team have been hands down the most welcoming and interactive VN team I have encountered. GG actually has the IRL women who model and act out the various girls AVAILABLE TO RP CHAT. This project is absolutely unlike any other one I've seen. GG really aims to find a way to implement her vision along with the feedback and interests of the players to keep pushing out content that is desirable for ALL.

TL;DR - Goth Girl and her team are by FAR the best and most interactive project team I've encountered in over 2 years of playing VN's.

Story: The story itself is simple enough, it's not a novel, nor new to the Genre of Erotic VN. Sex, humor, and a touch of Supernatural in the later updates. It won't be for everyone, but the grammar is improving, as the developer are not native English speaker.

Gameplay: Fairly typical for a VN, using Karma/Perversion, it's somewhat meant to replay the game to unlock the content. So that might not be for everyone who just want to play once and have everything.

visual: The style won't be for everyone, but for once, it doesn't use Daz, The meshes are from another platform that is akin to visual chats. They aren't high poly meshes, and have their flaws, what makes them apart is all those character have been made by various people using their game characters. So you get a few different styles here and there and a personal touch.

Animations: The Animations are janky, and that's pretty much a limitation of the platform used, you'll get clipping, and so on, odd twisted body parts. But the developers are putting effort to minimize those issues. There again, it's subjective, some people might find them hot, others not so much.

End note: With the game being in early development, it can be difficult to give a truly objective review. In my opinion, I'm enjoying it, it's a lite VN with a bunch of kinks, and mix bag of characters. If you're looking for something with sex, crude humor, and that doesn't take itself seriously. Go for it.

Have been playing and supporting this game for over a month.

While initial thoughts can been seen as bland, the developer has been making strides to improve all aspects of the game as problems arise.

While it is a VN the look and feel of the game is quite excellent.

I have been playing this game since it started. If you are just here for a quick fap this game might not be for you. If you have no sense of humor then this game is probably not for you either, but if you do....you cannot stop laughing. The humor is fantastic. The renders and animations are improving really fast. There is an update almost every week or so. When this game started it had some Trouble (pun intended) and not just the Family kind. But the game just keeps getting better and better. It is possible to have trouble navigating some of the new parts of this game but it is easy to figure out (this is part of the fun). This not a mindless VN but an actual game. If you are having any kind trouble the dev will be happy to help (here or discord) from what I have seen. This dev is very transparent compared to most. There is no other developer out there more dedicated to improving a game than this one.

I want to see more from these guys. For a freshman project, into game development, they use novel assets, novel game mechanics and a novel business model. Instead of DAZ renders recycled to exhaustion, they are including models in second life. It's not just a bunch of renders by a guy in his basement. It's a whole community of like-minded people having fun making fun content. Please keep it going!

Story 1/5
Its just a shitty story and its pointless, theres no relationship build up or romance, its a mindless fuckfest with close to no choices other then saying no to a few things like femboys or futa and such, but some fetishes is still forced though and as for normal relationships you cant really do anything.

Girls 1/5
Its just to low quality in renders so none of them look hot.

Animations 1/5
They are just not good, sex scenes are boring on top of that.

Choices 2/5
Forced LIs, forced kinks/fetishes, only reason i give it two in this is due to being able to say no some things like femboys or futa stuff.

Overall qualilty is simply not there, how it goes so high reviews i dont understand either, i mean some reviews say everything is bad and still gives 5 stars how does that even make sense....so think of this as a real review.

As a VN with a few choices is not extremely bad, as the animations are of poor quality some times but the story is at least somewhat interesting. Let's see how the game develops once it takes into the sandbox part.
For now I'll put the average score in here

Its disapponting because of bad gameplay decisions.

+ Sex scenes are cool
+ Models look hot
+ Conversations are short and meaningful

- Its NOT A SANDBOX! Its just VN with brances. The difference is: if you fail any stat test, there will be no second chances. You cannot visit gym a few times and try again later.
- There are no hints what stats are more important or will be checked next. You have to choose random options and hope it works.
- You will be locked in a Saint\Perverted carma trap. If you dont do stupid perverted shit from the start - you will be locked out of most kinky content later, because there are perv requirements for almost every choice in game. Only a few of them give perv stat for free.
- Random fights. I cannot plan my moves because every move can fail. And there is just a slim changce to win the fight if you trained knowing what you will have to face later in game.
- You can die in a fight and its game over.
- Mutually exclusive choices of girls to have sex with. You cant have all of them.

I've played this game once. Got to fight werewolf and had ZERO chances to beat him even with 3 allies by my side, so it was game over for me. It seems close to end of current content. Guess how many sex scenes I unlocked in gallery? Barely 30%, because a ton of them were locked behind perversion stat or it was exclusive choice, where I had to choose one of the girls and drop another.

There is no way I'm gonna waste my time to complete this game 3 times. This is unacceptable. reading same dialogs just to make a few different choices and see a bit more content.

[Update]

I've killed the werewolf. And then the sandbox starts, but most buttons and quests are not implemented yet. I'd say this game is 95% VN.

Review for v0.9.2

I mean this game is pretty much exactly as advertised. It's a sort of fever dream fuckfest that objectively doesn't do much of anything that well. What it does have though is some personality, and because of that makes this game kinda fall into that "enjoyably bad" category for me. It's a game where I could see why someone would give it five stars just as much as someone giving it one star. For me it falls in the middle.

What's probably the most unique thing about Family Trouble is that it's using Second Life as the base for all the renders/characters/animations. This is actually a pretty huge positive. For someone who's played hundreds of AVNs, a switch up from the usual Daz/HS/Koikatsu is pretty refreshing. It all has a sort of new feel to it simply because it's not being used in a hundred other visual novels.

The overview is pretty accurate in that it really is just a lot of random events. There's some semblance of a timeline but I couldn't tell you much about the story because A) It's all over the place and B) I just didn't play that long. The MC is essentially gigachad guy which I just find funny more than anything I think. I'm not a fan of a lot of the cruder dialogue and jokes, but there's some surprisingly decent banter in moments. Characters don't really feel lifeless either which is nice.

The game also uses a Karma/Perversion system that I'm not a huge fan of. It seems like a lot of shit is locked behind having high enough perversion and very few moments have used karma to sort of take the nice guy approach. Sure it's easy to get perv points, but I didn't like a lot of the choices that gave you them. I had to restart once since I basically fucked myself over not choosing those options. There was also a lot of situations that made you choose to go do something with one girl while missing out on something from others. With a game that's already a fuckfest, I found it more annoying than anything. Just let me see it all man.

I didn't play super deep, but it's really not the best fit for me. If you're into lewd games with a huge focus on sex this is likely more your style. It's filled with different girls and fetishes, and is pretty direct and to the point with all of it. I do think the dev is taking the fun approach with how wacky it is, and that's something I can respect regardless of how I feel about the game.

review for v.0.9.2.

10/10
Peak fiction right here.
girls look great, lots of variety in looks, scenes be proper degenerate sometimes, lost way too many nuts to this, almost died of dehydration.
would risk dying again for it.

Story is nothing interesting but its not bored you with unnecessary boring dialogs.

Art is not great but it still looks please the eye. Girl models really look nice.

Musics well enough.

Sex scenes, animations are look little clanky but scene overall looks sexy enought to enjoy.

Overall this game nothing but average and yet i still played the game until the end and enjoyed a lot. That in my book deserve 5 star.

Note: I hate sandbox. I hope author remove it or make it optional.

The perfect balance of ridiculous and sexy. Renders not great + animations not great + writing not great + characters not great + sex not great = somehow a great game! Because it knows it's not great, it doesn't try to be the best fighter or story or emotions. It's just fucking hot. Sexy characters with sexy models having sexy sex. Sometimes that's all I want from a game. It doesn't drag out, it doesn't do pages of monologues, it's to the point and hot. 0.9 was over too fast. I need more content with everyone!

Goblin girl. I mean, gOBLIN Family Trouble is a pretty average game story and animation wise but the dev works hard to upload every week, and the main draw of it is the gob the girls' models and the varying personalities, body types and fetishes available in thegobg game. It's definitely worth trying

Based on the current reviews I expected more, a lot more. I almost want to give this a 1 start to balance the average score out but I'll refrain.

I don't want to sound too harsh so I won't go into detail; but the dialogue is real bad, animations are quite poor, the renders only saving grace being that the characters are already textured.

Damn good use of the assets from Illusion. The characters all look different from each other and have actual distinct appearances. The dialogue is stupid, but is good enough for fapping. The MC is a absolute giga chad. It is not surprising everyone wants to fuck him.

Family Trouble 0.6 Review

I didn’t expect much from this game when I was downloading it for the first time, especially with how early it is in its development, but it has really won me over.

If you like butts and anal sex, then Family Trouble will certainly deliver on that front. While many games seem to offer some anal scenes, they are usually few and far between, often being relegated to the very end of the game or the very end of a relationship with a character. Even in this early stage of development, Family Trouble features two butt sluts with at least one more on the way, so I'm very happy about that.

The game's not just all about butt stuff though. It has something in store for a variety of fetishes, with some of the more "controversial ones" being optional, which I really appreciate.

I also like the wide range of characters available in Family Trouble, with a variety of body types and ethnicities. They include petite girls, incredibly curvy girls, chubby girls; there's some futanari and an upcoming effeminate boy. It's safe to say that everyone should find at least one character they'd like to fuck. The GigaChad main character looks cool too lol.

I also found myself enjoying the humour in this game. It doesn’t take itself too seriously and many characters often throw mild insults at each other. I really like reading all of Nina's propaganda lol.

While the game does have a story, which can take an interesting turn in 0.6, depending on your choices, the game doesn’t waste your time with it. You can access lewd content early and consistently throughout the game. There is no grind or long periods of time without any sex.

Since anal-abundant (dare I say, anal-focused) games are so rare, I decided to subscribe to GothGirlGames' Patreon. I also purchased Family Trouble on Itch. Patrons can vote on some design decisions and the developer is really friendly, so I recommend subscribing if what I've described so far appeals to you!

I hope we continue to see more butt-stuff, GothGirlGames, more butt stuff!

This game is phenomenal as one of the only quality ANAL FOCUSED games out there.

Contains masochistic buttsluts; a concise plot with lots of well paced, frequent, animated scenes; and amusing writing that doesn't take itself too seriously which actually makes the game more compelling.

Highly recommended to you pervs out there that like games that prioritise anal. Tickles an underappreciated itch within the H-game industry.

Will be keeping a keen eye on the development of this. GothGirlGames definitely knows what they're doing.