VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Freeloading Family [v0.32] [FFCreations]

I'm not a fan of harem games, but I have to admit I had a pretty good time playing. Mainly because of the eye-catching models and the girls' quite diverse personalities.
The downside is the plot itself, a bit like a teenager's wet dream: Suddenly, a whole bunch of women throw themselves at him, no competition (the only male characters besides the MC are two fathers, the mysterious Hercule Poirot, and the gay boy from the hotel reception), no female feuds over the only man in their lives, and a millionaire aunt financing their nest egg. Other than that, the animation is poor, if you can call shifting between two images animation, and the sex scenes are sparse for such a long AVN.
For my taste, hitting the lottery would have been more likely.
But once we accept this "reality," the story itself is quite romantically enjoyable.

Great character writing.. I felt something for each character. I loved the story line and the overall dynamics. The incest was not over kill and the harem was well played. I did feel the ending was rather abrupt, time skipped pretty quickly after college.

I have may hours in this VN, It has a solid start, but after a while, I got the feeling that the story was going nowhere, I'm not gonna say it was boring because the writing is somewhat good in my opinion, with a few funny situations (ocassionally). However, there are no animations and only one tune, also the renders are a bit dated. I'd give it a 7/10 (being generous), but there many VNs that are, at the very least, similar.

Amazing game for the most part. The LIs were fine, story was good, scenes amazingly written a lot of the time.
Except, there was a relationship development to a point and then it just kinda stopped. I wish we explored Karina and Aunt better, there were not a lot of scenes.
I didn't check all the endings yet but they felt kinda disappointing. It felt like the game was properly done and then spoiled at the end. There could have been more rewarding endings with half the text, I felt bored and spammed through most of it just to see some half baked, kinda open ends.
Still glad it's completed and there were some very sexy scenes, emotionally involving and all that. Alice was great for the most part, Haley was also amazing, a pity we didn't get more of her. Certainly worth playing, among the better games on this site.

Overall a good experience minus two glaring problems.

Could use more animations, or at least pictures that are more tied to the situation going on. There were many times when the text was saying one thing, but showing something else. This showed you spent a lot more time on some models then others.

Also no real choices other then if you wanted to continue with girl or not. At least nothing that meant anything other then maybe a scene. This is a common problem though and so I am just mentioning it.

TLDR: All in all, a tedious slog without much hotness, and super full of itself. Played this game waiting for it to take off. It never did and I only completed it because I was halfway through and have OCD and want to be fair on my review.

Story:

Really not much here. Slice of life I guess, maybe? But super low stakes even for that. Sets up challenges and obstacles that really just go away by talking about them ad nauseam.

It also teases a lot of potential that would be actually hot but never get to it.

The dialogue:

It thinks it is so clever and witty with its dialogue. At best it is fine until they beat it to death. At worse it is unbearably cringe to start out with and then they keep going on about how funny it is . Same for sexy dialogue.

Example: (sex in a tub)
“Good. Cum for me, baby. I want you to come right here for me. And don’t worry. We’ll be draining the dirty water when we’re done.”
“Dude!. You ruined it. That was so funny though.”
“My funniest joke ever?”
“In my opinion, yes. That was your best timed and most humorous joke ever.”

From this you can probably imagine how inane much of the rest of the dialogue is and how that affects gameplay when dialogue should be the strength of an AVN.

Characters:

Since the dialogue is also how we get to know the characters you can imagine how meh the characters are too. This is when they aren’t outright loathsome.

Example:

One character is constantly doing what would prosecutable under revenge porn laws but apparently it’s fine because she is hot?(not really) Or Crazy? Or willing to bang the PC? Like something is psychiatrically wrong with the person but everyone ignores and claims she is really sweet deep down and a legit LI for the MC.

The renders/images/H Scences:

Compared to other kinetic novels the characters barely change position throughout a conversation. At a minimum other AVNs will cycle through 5 or 6 standard images averaging every few frames to fit what is best going on with the dialogue but these don’t change even when the dialogue is begging for another image.

Examples:

"I grab hold of the hand cuffs." (using them has a hold for doggy style) He never grabs hold of the hand cuffs even as he keeps making repeated references to having grabbed them.

Or the screen will go black and still present lines of dialogue even when they have a screen for that. e.g. several lines about him walking home. They have a walking home screen but instead the play several lines still showing the school hallway or go to black screen for many lines as he talks about walking home.

Choices:

Sure being a kinetic novel they aren't many real choices in terms of branching. They may change some immediate dialogue but don't change the endings. That's fine but again they take it to an extreme I have never seen before.

Examples.

Maybe 20 percent of choices have any game effect at all. Another 40 change the immediate dialogue only, even when it seems like they should really matter. Finally 40 percent make exactly zero difference. Why bother?

This isn’t even counting when there is literally no choice. Stopping the dialogue to offer a single choice of "ask who she is dressed as." You click. Then it displays MC “What are you dressed as? " WTF is the point of this? Might as well have just had the dialogue play. Other AVNs use this single forced choice sparingly, if at all, and towards the end, for emphasis. e.g. "Tell her you love her." This one starts using them very early and with increasing frequency. There are parts of the game where more than half of your choices are non-choices where there is literally only one choice. Useless and annoying.

For sure one of the greatest imho. I played with incest mod myself, im always happy to see those included. Finished it more than once over the time of its development. Story is good, characters looks good. Overall simply amazing.

I can give both positive and negative recommendations for this game at the same time, because physically the girls are really beautiful, the whole story is very interesting, but visually there are very few slides and even animations are almost nonexistent. That's why my personal rating is three.

I really liked it, the sex scenes are hot, the girls are beautiful and sexy. it's a good AVN if you're looking for something to make you horny.

I recommended this to anyone, I think the art alone makes it worth to give it a try.

I'm really torn apart of how to grade this AVN. It has amazing characters, nice models and a nice MC (if you compare it to some other games). You get to really care for the girls, and each one of them has their own personality

However, this game basically has no story. It's just some random events of their lives, and then the game ends. I particularly did not like most of the endings (specially the sister one), which had a big impact in the grade, unfornately.

Most of the decisions you make have little impact, which, in my opinion, makes the game less enjoyable. Still, is a nice game, and I recommend it if you dont't mind the lewd scenes having no animations

⠀ All characters are vulgar sluts with no personality. The teacher and her classes are absolutely ridiculous. Game doesn't provide meaningful choices where it actually matter, and instead gives you placebo choices where you sound either like a dork or a pimp......
⠀ ....Or at least all of it would seem that way at first glance. Turns out girls have more to offer than their facade that they keep would suggest. Choices do lead to different content and outcomes. And contrary to what I initially thought, there is plenty of not half-bad romance. Standalone and harem endings are satisfying.
⠀ Though sex scenes are lacking. There are very few of them and maybe 3 or 4 are animated, the rest are static images.
⠀ Idk, I enjoyed this much more than initially anticipated, definitely a pleasant surprise.

Based on the title, I was expecting this to be some trashy sex farce (which is not at all a judgement - trashy sex farces are fun diversions) but instead found an intelligent, sensitive story about a group of people who were incredibly lucky to have found one another and make a poly-amorous relationship work. At first I thought it implausible that two half-siblings could be allowed to have a sexual relationship by their parents but then I did research at the end and found that half-sibling marriage is legal in Sweden, much to my surprise.

The characters were beautifully rendered, though I would have liked to see better and more animation in the sex scenes, but considering the game was started in 2017 I cannot really find fault. I also liked the characters themselves and how their relationships unfolded over time. I chose the Alice ending because I could not see any other making sense but will revisit them in the near future. Also, I saw people talking about "being forced to have sex with the aunt" but that never happened in my play-through, perhaps because I had too much sympathy for a lonely, grieving woman who was struggling with alcohol to take advantage.

Anyway, well done, FFCreations!

I found the music of the soundtrack haunting, only adding to the level of sensitivity.

I wanted to like this game but, unfortunately, can't. The story is just bad. Girls throw themselves at you for no reason, and yet MC doesn't really become confident on himself for a while even if you choose that path from the get-go. Choices do matter to some extent, which is great, but since characters have no interest I ended up not caring at all for anything that happened to anyone and just skipping through all dialog. Because it's not terrible dialogue, but often it wants to be witty and ends up being bland, and more often than not it's just serving the excuse for any girl to just jump on you.

Character models are great though, and reasonably varied. Animations are not that good and not that frequent. And I personally don't like a full POV game in this genre, there is too much you don't get to see, but that is a matter of personal taste so I don't count it.

So, all in all, I unfortunately think this game doesn't reach the potential it could with some better story, time to develop characters and so on. As it is, it's just worth a quick fap.

A visual novel that is actually finished?! With several endings!! What is this? Bizarro land? AND A HAREM ENDING?!?!?!?!?!!!!


The game follows the protagonist who, naturally, has a big dick, and uses said dick to fuck any women who comes along. There isn't much plot here, the game focuses more on the characters. The dialogue skates on the edge of being too drawn out, some editing could probably tighten up the script and help the game a bit.

Visually this isn't an impressive game, but it serviceable none the less. Oh and there are only a tiny number of animations compared to stills.

As for the sex, its all pretty vanilla, with a little bit of spanking, light bdsm, and squirting to lively things up, but that about it.


Overall I think its an OK game. Harem ending is great. 7/10

I wanted to like it more than I did. It's not entirely without merit. Visually the game is fine and I liked the girls - though maybe more for their vibes than because they're actually well written.

And the writing generally speaking wasn't even that bad. Spelling and grammar was all over the place but it was generally legible and I think there was the foundation of a decent narrative, but I wasn't pleased with what was built on that foundation.

I think by and large my issue is one of pacing. The first two thirds of the game were kind of meandering but I'm fine with a slow build if if it pays off and I don't feel like it did.

It kinda feels that like they got bored and rushed an ending. It would explain the increasing frequency of time skips toward the end and why the big drama kinda just disappears almost as soon as it were introduced. Ultimately I didn't outright hate the ending, I just wish that last third weren't so rushed.

Good game, despite being a little dated - first release was over 6 years ago. A few good endings, a couple disappointing. A couple endings took much longer to come out, because a writer had left, but a new one came along so it could be finished. Great story overall.

The story is fun; not very original, but with a lot of cute and fun moments. The girls are diverse and fun so it is really a good time to play. For the sex scenes, most are very vanilla and there is no animation, so one could say that's the weak point.
Also, I felt that from some point, the desire to end from the author/dev is quite perceptible, and it starts going very fast, in a way I would call "too fast" for the story itself and especially for the aunt story which seems like almost cut from all the rest of the story. Even the big "final" sex scene (for the "everyone path" doesn't include the aunt (for story reason okay but...) and nothing is really done after it to give her a time to shine in her own as the other girls did. In the epilogue, some girls get a new look for time passed, and it's good, but not used enough, and no special sexy time to conclude.

So a good journey but with a perhaps inferior ending trajectory? Hence 4 stars

plot was was thin nicknames were used on the wrong character Mel called nile at the from of the Cafe at one point. charicter points chart didnt seem to be working. did enjoy the sibling back and futher till the beach scene was boredwith it from that point. other 2 girl charciters I enjoyed but Again I dipped out from the beach scene after the firt bowling arcade date.

I think theres others vn that acomplished what Freeloading Family tries to do, that doesn't mean it's a bad VN. The LI have are well written and the dialogue is decent. The renders are good and all, but the little sister it's my least favorite of them all, not the worst, just not my coup of tee. I think my biggest problem is how the story develops, especialy the time skip, kinda breaks the flow of the story. Besides that I like the endings, a vn with a nice enough harem ending it's a win in my book.

Freeloading Family is (or at least tries to be) a pretty balanced game in terms of dialogue, romance and adult content. There is basically no plot here, it's more of a character driven game. We spend time with different girls and build relationship with them. There is enough amount of buildup and romance so relationships with the girls feels pretty believable and organic. We have 5 main girls here, every one of them have different, very distinctive personality. I would say all of them all pretty good and loveable characters. The nice thing here is that, all love interests and MC are a group of good friends. Banter between them is really good and you can feel they generally like each other. Very nice dynamic in this group. What i didn't like about the narrative was the time jumps. Only in the first half of the game we already have few time jumps and in my opinion there are completely meaningless. They add nothing to the game, after 2 month time jump literally nothing changes, we still are in the same exact spot as we were before. They technically serve some story purposes, but that mostly affects things happening offscreen and without MC input. I only did one ending; the harem one. It just makes sense to keep all your close friends together. It was ok, but nothing too crazy.

Visually unfortunately it's not good, even for 2017 standards. Back then we already have games with better looking renders and models. And sadly renders quality doesn't really get any better as the game progresses. I counted only one animation. There is just not enough sex scenes for a 10+ hours game. Two out of five main girls, excluding endings, only have like 2 or 3 scenes. That's just not enough. And the sex scenes in general are not that good, the dialogue is nice but visually game is severely lacking and thanks to that adult content is not very entertaining. All this leads to Freeloading Family being not very good fapping material. Only one music theme looped for the entire game and no sound effects. This could be better.

Freeloading Family is a pretty solid game in terms of writing, dialogues and love interests, but with quite disappointing adult content. Around 30 scenes for a 12 hours long game is not much. And visual quality is pretty bad, even for an older game. Ultimately the game is better then 3/5 but worse then 4/5.