UPDATE: I haven't played this game in a long time but someone liked my review, so I checked my review and noticed that I only gave it two stars. Not sure why I only gave it two stars. I'll give it five just because it is a unique game and it kinda nice.
Free Use Planet 0.19.0
I only played the game for a couple of minutes. I saw two sex scenes. There are more sex scenes, but I don't feel like playing any more. But I do like the game.
Here is my feedback and I will share some information too.
1.) There are 22 events. I experienced two "free use" sex scenes and "breakfast with everyone", so that is 3 out of 22 events. As you can see, not every event involves sex.
2.) The Save and Load Save system is so stupid. On the Save screen, there is no way to switch to Load Save. So to Load Save, you have to see and use the tiny Quick Links at the bottom of the game. Something that I have never had to do before after playing around 1,000 Ren'Py games in the last two or three years. Why the developer decided to take out Load Save, an inherit default feature in the game engine, is beyond me. Not only that, but most Ren'Py games have a lot of Save slots per page, I think around 12 by default. He reduced the number to 6 Save slots per page. Not sure why. It's not like the Save screen is short on space. The thumbnail previews didn't get any bigger. So what was the point?
3.) The game is EXTREMELY laggy. Not just during sex scenes. But just navigating, moving the mouse cursor, or changing rooms.
4.) The sandbox navigation was not fun to use when I first tried it, but I guess I am getting used to it now. The lag was killing me, and I didn't notice the tiny black popup windows on the top left of the screen when you hover over an area in the room that you can click on to enter. See, when you first start the game, you have white arrow icons on either side of the screen and that lets you change rooms, but only some of them. Then you have doors. But you just hear beeps when you click on them and nothing happens. Turns out there are black popup windows when you hover the mouse over the door, and they tell you what area that leads into. And if you click it and nothing happens, the black box will change to let you know "Nothing Happens" so basically an area you can't enter yet or not at that time. And then there is like the kitchen, which I would not have known I could enter because I didn't notice the black popup boxes before. This is a confusing system and the lag doesn't help.
5.) A pure sandbox game where you can go to a dozen different locations in the morning, but only one or two specific locations has sex scenes. Then you have to forward to later part of the day, and once again you can go to a dozen different locations, but only one or two locations has sex scenes. And repeat for the following morning, following night, mid week morning, mid week night, late week morning, late week night, weekend morning, weekend night, etc. until you reach all the sex scenes. Each time, having dozens of different locations that you can go to but check your "guide" to know where you should go exactly to find that person for the sex scene. This is really boring gameplay. It should be more linear visual novel with a bare minimum of sandbox mechanics. Like you have a story where you interact with different characters, choose between different dialogues, and the momentarily you might get the option of choosing the order of two or three rooms (but not all dozen of them) for some events, and then back to the linear storytelling, and so on. That type of game is more engrossing.
6.) The sex scenes were done right. Each sex scene has like half a dozen positions you can do, and a half a dozen places you can cum when you are done with the sex. But very laggy, probably because Ren'Py can't handle much compared to other game engines like Unity.
I want to play and enjoy this game. I think it's worth playing and enjoying. But two things keep me from wanting to continue. One, it's a sandbox game. Two, it's laggy. And I guess because of the lag and not knowing where to click and not being patient enough.... I don't know if I will finish it. I might or I might not. To be determined. I'll give the game an average three stars because it isn't trash but it's a bit infuriating also. I read in reviews how dry and boring the dialogue is, so honestly this game probably deserves two stars. But despite its many flaws, the game has some charm and it has potential. So even though it's not going to suddenly get a makeover and improve, I will still grant the game three stars. Oh, and I really like the theme "Free Use". It's nice.
EDIT: Nevermind, I can't continue the game. Sandbox games like this are so boring. It would have been better to just put the Progress List on the screen, and you click which one you want to "view" and then it loads. No navigation required. That would actually be more fun. Going to drop this to two stars and not finish it or play it again.
