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

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There was this new fantasy author in the 80's and I picked up his first book when it came out.

It was... okay. It had all the common tropes of the time, but that's really all it had. It wasn't bad, just not that inspiring. I read the book because I was voracious and I had pretty much read everything else that may have sparked my interest. It helped that it claimed to be the first book in a five book series so I would have more to come, but I didn't expect much.

Well, the next book came out, and the next book, and I got this amazing insight watching a decent writer become... fantastic. Now I'm a huge fan.

The author is David Eddings by the way...

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This has been my journey with Freeloading Family. It's a near-complete story of 27 chapters (only one of several endings written at the time of this review). This is several hours of content.

WARNING: I make many assumptions about this based upon my impreessions and any facts I get wrong is my own damned fault.

The first couple of chapters are... pretty pedestrian. They hit a bunch of the basic tropes and immediately jump into what can only be described as a "shock jock" style of adult VN concerned more with titilation than story.

So... something I'm generally not interested in. YMMV, but I like immersion above all.

Still, after (many) false starts, I finally just bit the bullet and played through. What I discovered surprised me.

It's a slice-of-life novel, but I don't think that was how it was planned at the beginning... again, this may make or break something for you but I have had good experiences with these. It's not the only plan that seems to have shifted over the course of the story as the actual gameplay and point mechanics seemed to wander all over the place as well.

The thing is, the writing just kept getting better. The version I have let me watch the author really grow and it turns out that this had an unexpected side effect of making this story all the more intriguing.

By the time I got to the end game, I really cared about the characters and genuinely wanted to finish every possible outcome. The one I have was... unexpected. It's a "good" ending, but it plays out true to the character so it doesn't actually feel like it is good until you get the full conclusion. This made it much more satisfying. No more simple tropes of "let's throw in a dozen sex scenes and call it a night" endings.

Of course, I could be totally wrong. Everything may have been written years ago all at once. Maybe I was just too damned jaded at the beginning.

If I am not wrong however, these earlier versions may one day be collectors items if the writer decides to re-edit the beginning chapters to make something like a triple-A game here. I kinda don't know how I feel about that.

Right or wrong, it does suggest that I need to get over my initial hangups with some games, and if anyone else feels as I did about starting this game... just give it a real try.

Now, I eagerly await the release of every path. I wonder if any of the rest can match the bittersweet conclusion of the first.

Writing is off the charts awesome! Seriously, there were times I laughed so hard, I spilled my coffee!
Character development is good, sometimes seemed a bit rushed, but c'est la vie. Rushed thought they may be, they are truly unique individuals, and it's easy to become attached to them as they make you laugh and cry with them (Mel is by far my favorite - her attitude towards life is amazing).
The girls are sexy as hell, too, so there's that.
Overall, one of my favorite games out there.

Really amazing game!

The models and renders in general look really good in this game. The story is solid and that's mainly because of the variety in the characters that you get to know in this game, they all have very unique personalities.

The only thing negative I have to say about this game is the lack of animations, with animations I feel like this game would be up there with the best. 7/10.

story is weak
sex scenes boring asf
graphics are mediocre

i would suggest if you dont have any other game to play.

My scoring was based on this :
Pros :
+ Graphics ( its neutral but i had to find pro )

Cons :
+Story (weak)
+ sex scenes
+ unrealistic characters ( even more unrealistic than average adult game)

Point : 2/5

It builds nice. Theres a lot of text. Other games do better supporting text with images. It has 20 chapters in my opinion that are worth playing. Once everything is settled nothing changes much and theres nothing really new or exciting.
I would say 4 of 5 until the beach event, and 1 of 5 after that, in the current 0.27

Starting out with the positive. The girls look beautiful. I particully like Alice, Leah and Susan. The game looks great andi s quality with almost no errors in writing. With the last update you get to chose one path. I think that path was really well done. A lot of depth and effort was put into it. Well done. Allthough in that path and that is the problem in the entire game: you choices really don't matter or you have no choice at all.

Some examples. Firstly I really was hoping the passive answers would lead to different outcomes or paths than the pervert choices. Like the passive choices would lead to a more submissive route and the pervert choices to maybe a more dominant one.

But even if you make only passive choices the relationships with the girls stay the same. Even after making 20+ passive choices you can still be a dom towards the girls. That just does not make sense to me. Also with only passive choices not one of the girls picks up on it.

The mc is passive and submissive as hell but that does not lead to any kind of dom/sub relation with the main girls (except for Susan but she is just a minor part in the story). Also with all the passive choices the MC is still like the only guy on earth, making cringy alphalike jokes. He just thinks with his dick all day long and all the girls are fine with it. Even if he fucks all of them, there is nog jealousy whatsoever.

You are practically forced to have sex with all the girls even if you do not like them. I did not like two charcacters at all but had no choice at all, the game forces you to have sex with them. At one point I choose to have one of the girls as my girlfriend and a few seconds later I am having sex with another girl even after I said I did not want her as my second girlfriend. Like how?

Also at the end you can make a choice and I could not choose my favourite girl? I am pratically throwing myself at her, loving every minute but at the end she is not a possible choice.

This game has a lot going for it but could be so much better. So my rating is 3 stars. I hope the paths that are still being created offer more choice. That maybe your choices actually matter.

For a game that kept its pace up to update 25 or so in which Mc fucked certain Milf which charmed many fans and right after splitting up the story into many alternate endigs.. without her included. Damn.. after getting frustrated by this fact I have seen with clear eyes the shortcomings of this Title.
- Lack of depth of characters, especially MC seem bleak and without substance
- General lack of jealousy
- lack of reason for love and affection from many harem members
- lack of continuation of story for many characters. After several fucks here and there, many events are skipped and narrated without any renders to show them. Which lives much to desire
- lack of proper animations, which conclude sex scenes in several renders each. Which Lives MUCH TO DESIRE
Those were the cons which are the most eyecatching
The pros are :
Graphic and models of all characters. Especially Haley and Alice. Both are dream girls/women
Pretty reasonable story up to the end of Haley side story. After which all reason left dev and let this game became garbage by ending it too abruptly, yet gives Us promise for conclusion in next updates for each character... damn you! No Haley ending is a sin!

What a way to ruin a good game since you lost interest in it but had to keep the patreon money flowing! A chapter or two before the dev decided to end it all an old character is reintroduced, before that another character makes her appearance who is then used to keep baiting the playerbase just to say nope, this is it.

The renders and 3D work is fantastic in this game. Girls are attractive in casual settings too. Teasing scenes are quality work. Choices are kind of simple there is good and bad points for it. Hard to stop this game easy and fun to play.

Well I couldn't get too far into this one. Stopped somewhere in chapter 8. It's just not very interesting in my opinion.

The dialogue is pretty stiff. It doesn't sound natural at all and the interactions are pretty far fetched. Quite a lot of cringy moments. I mean Eiffel Tower as a nickname is... passable I guess. Not very original or as clever as the characters make it out to be. But then we get into Niagara and Nile... and its just... cringy.

The characters are pretty one dimensional with not a whole lot of depth. Not sure how much more I can expand on that. They are just pretty boring and mostly defined entirely by one characteristic.

The game lacks a main plot to keep players interested. There is nothing going on under the surface other than MC's interactions with these girls.

The model for the sister is quite good, but we are mostly just looking at floating sprites except during scenes. The characters have one single set of clothing and never change.

Music is basically a single mediocre track that loops indefinitely the whole time.

It's just very average all around. If the game has no plot, the characters and dialogues better be spot on to carry it through. Sadly, that's not the case here.

Excellent history, excellent scenes and perfect graphics. Excellent game overall. Waiting for the endings!!!! It could have more scenes with Hailey, Leah and Karina. Nice job guys, keep going!!! Loved the scenes with Melody in the cafe.

Important Note: This review is a modified version of my 0.26 review. As such it doesn't follow my current review format and may not even make sense. I simply do not care enough about this game (see final section) to want to put in the effort of writing a full review. I just want to download another game and forget about this one for a while.

Game Version: 0.27GFU

Game Length: I honestly have no idea. I'll guess about 12 hours up to the ending sequence, reading every dialogue line you'll run across through in one play through. The latest update (ending for one path) was 2 hours.

TL;DR: A game that I once loved but suddenly barreled into an ending with a very lazy method of literally just telling the player to chose a path rather than having them chose it through dialogue choices. I am very disappointed in tat choice.

Renders: They're pretty decent most of the time, but there isn't anything too special. They just don't look like shit in almost all cases. (Dev, if you're reading this: that hotel on the beach has no ceiling.) The game only has a single animation, and it's just a very simple one. While I would have preferred to see more animations, I will not be holding that against the game. However, this game also doesn't have that many renders either. That comes with the advantage of the game being very long for the amount of disk space used, but also the disadvantage of scenes not changing for far longer than I feel they should.

Renders (Characters): The characters actually look really good. You only ever interact with a small handful of characters and all their models look good. The game does swap between the characters being sprites and being baked into the renders a lot, but I think it works and is done pretty well.

Story: It's certainly far from the best story I've ever seen, but it's not bad. I'd say it's sightly above average. The game starts off with you disliking every character (except the step-sister) and as you progress through the story, you start to like each character as they begin to show a side you didn't see when you started. This game's major problem is how linear it is. There are very few choices. Your choices also don't seem to have much impact on the story outside of immediate effects.

Ending (NO SPOILERS): The game made me fucking furious back when I played 0.26 with how that as the story was reaching it's peak, it bailed into a time skip to a long time in the future and you are in a video call with your dad where you chose your ending. After seeing the one ending choice added in the latest update, I believe my anger was very justified. At the time, I felt the game was no more than 3/5s through the story, yet rather than speeding up slowly, it had a few time skips before just skipping to the end. Also while you have a choice in ending, I'd argue that choosing from a list of endings is arguably much worse than just having one ending, or the best call, having it play out in real time through multiple dialogue choices.

My thoughts: I will not be actively following this game's development anymore. I simply don't care. It will go into my archive of games I mark as "completed development" to come back to when it's properly finished. I am not as eager to play through the story nearly as much as I was during the first hours and that is simply sad.

Since the Safer at home orders started ive been looking to find games to take my mind of the nonsence of life. I stumbled onto AVN's and found some Great storys.

This is one of the Great ones. The story and Char's are well written and enjoyable. the story and art were very well done. A truely enjoyable story.

Version: v0.26 GFU

PROS:
- Good renders of female character models
- Good sex scenes
- Have gallery mod / Chapter mod / Extras

CONS:
- Choice options are bad
- Boring story

Review:
There are a lot of positive reviews on this game, because the game is not bad, but I don’t mean it’s good. Some things are good and some are bad, a little unbalanced. To better understand, the game has some things that end up having a low rating, like the options of choices, the history... anyway, there is not much to say.
History:
The story begins with the MC's father giving him a large apartment for you and your sepsister because he had to move from country to work. The MC and his stepsister live together for a short time, less than a month and are living together alone. from the moment the game starts, I noticed that the MC's stepsister has a bit of a slut behavior. By the way, most of the history of this game the girls behave a little like sluts and also as if you were the last man in the world, so they all want the MC. I arrived at a moment when I stopped reading the dialogues and followed the script of the story, because I started to lose interest in following, the story is quite boring.
Gameplay:
It is a simple VN with bad/awful choices options. Well, you can't really understand the term pacifism and perversion. If you choose pacifism options you will lose some (not much) sexual content, but you will also have submissive options. Perversion is the opposite, you some scenes and will be more dominant. I honestly didn’t see much purpose in that, you’ll notice it because of the dialogues.
Graphics & Sex Content:
I thought the regular graphics. The renders of the female character models are good, the sex scenes too. This game only has an animation, it's not bad but it's not a big deal, it's a simple animation, I thought it was good. The sexual content is good, moderately, but there could be a little more, I mean, some characters have a lot more content than others, but that doesn't make it bad. I really liked Karina's model, I expected a little more content from her. Because she is the only model that has a different body, the others have similar bodies.

So, why I gave 2 stars?
It's a game that I ended up getting bored with in the middle of the story, because there was no excitement to continue.
The relationship with the characters is a little poorly worked, maybe it’s because there’s no organization of days or weeks, because the game gives you a relationship with Alice, the stepsister of the MC but it also gives you other girls to relate. But that doesn't make the game bad, but for you who like a relationship a little worked, things that make sense, it will be a little missed something. I don't know how to say it, but it's something that you felt that the MC was the hero, that he was a conquering guy and that the girls around didn't act as much as if they were excited. So, the game has good renderings, and also sex scenes. Anyway, it's not a bad game but it's hard for me to keep up with it. So, I saw this game with a little bit of potential, if there was a point-and-click gameplay that we could manage the day and choose the way to go it would be good, that way we could lead a slightly better relationship with Alice and other characters, but I think it doesn't matter that much and maybe it wouldn't make a big difference. Overall, a 2 or 3 star rating is more than fair.

Started off rough... and by rough I mean I didn't like the first few characters I met (besides the step-sister) and the whole forced 'school' trope. But as the game went on it got a lot more interesting. Characters got better, more likeable, introduction of more girls (side note, gahDAMN is Hailey hot as fuck) and it's setting up for a great ending where you can either choose one relationship or perhaps all.

A few of the girls feel a bit shoehorned in and there aren't too many choices that lead to huge diverting trails in the story, but at least you can choose who you ultimately want so long as you get enough 'points' in that relationship by doing good things. That didn't really make me care as much.

Bonus points for FULL GALLERY OF EVERY SCENE RENDER which should be more commonplace

Well done, anticipating the endings

Beautiful renders, each girl is unique is feels amazing, great story. People are complaining that the latest update feels rushed but it fits perfectly with how the story has been progressing. Can't wait for the next updates for each character ending path.

This game is a huge surprise when the famous ones are not updating, I found it. No words can describe my love to it,

the girls' face, boobs, ass, waist design are masterpieces, each one can be a central girl character in a popular game, but this game has collected them ALL, damn, how perfect it is.

and the script shows that the developers are very funny, the MC jokes all the time which are good ones, I even learnt how to talk to girls in a funny way from this game

but lack of animated CG is quite a loss, but I won't demand more since what the game has given, damn, again, THE GIRLS ARE SO FUCKING HOT!!!!!!

the music is sad though, I hope it won't end tragically, or my heart will break

Just updating this review that went from a 5 to a 2
I mean I'm honestly just disappointed, because the story started to go downhill right after and just went south from there. In the end I was only playing the updates for the endings and though this game still has great renders and hot babes it ultimately falls short.

The renders are great, the characters are funny. There isn't much animation, so you're stuck looking at the same image while clicking through lots of dialogue. But the dialogue is pretty well done, very few errors that I came across.

Was on track to give it a 4 out of 5 until the Aunt character showed up. It's one of those terrible plot twists that makes no sense, and no one acts or responds to it normally. People move into your house without notice, live there for 2 days without announcing their presence, and somehow you miss that entirely. Ok..sure. When you do find out they live there, you don't even confront them, you just go to sleep and put it off for another day....Nope. New person starts immediately prying into your life and forcing you into uncomfortable situations, and you just accept it....Hell No!

I get that all games require the suspension of disbelief to some extent. There are other plot holes in the game that I was willing to overlook but the Aunt twist absolutely feels forced and that ended things for me. I hate drama created simply for the sake of having drama. Put some effort into it and make it make sense. Make characters that react to it like real people might. That in turn will make more likable characters with real agency over their lives. Not pushovers who accept every half-assed bad thing that happens to them.

Realy love it. Good plot, always goes to action. Your choice do the difference. Graphic and charecters great, all they difference and all looks good. It's perfect game for faping, you can concentrate, dont waste time on useless clicking and just spend time with plesuare