VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Game of Hearts [Ch.5 R2] [SparkHG]

I don't think I've ever reviewed a game, but I suppose I can't pass up the opportunity to give this game 5* in basically any category you can think of!

I have played many visual novels shared here, some good, some bad, some because of graphics, some because of boredom... You name it, I've tried it... But what sets this game apart, in my opinion, is that besides having great graphics and a great plot, the story telling is incredible, the dialogs and thoughts are amazing, almost as if you were watching a moving.
While I've seen many games with excellent graphics, none has left me wanting for more like Game of Hearts!
To some extent I'm sad to have found it so late, but on the other hand I'm really glad about it because it allowed me play the full game instead of going to sleep with the feeling of "wanting more". At least as far as this episode goes, because... I definitely wish House of Hearts was already out and completed!

I will be keeping an eye out, for sure!

@SparkHG I have no idea how complicated it is, but I know others have do it. I urge you to upload this game on Steam, because, just as me, I bet many other people are unable to keep up with a monthly fee but still want to support you!
And thank you for the time and effort to create this masterpiece!

Damn near perfect. Definitely deserves all the support. Models are beautiful and the sex scenes look amazing. Story is interesting as well. I highly recommend playing this game for the gameplay alone, reminds me of Chain of Pleasure (a great game but incomplete and abandon).

This is review for Part 1.
Story is good and it was enjoyable to read everything.

All women are beautiful especially two Milfs Maxime and Meredith and they have different but loving personalities.

I am playing Love route thanks for putting that in the game. I like how relationship between MC and Milfs is based on their feelings in this route.

Mc is good character he is a good guy i like how he is not abandoning his human side and having inner conflict about what he is doing that's what's making him a great character to me personally.

You have done a great work with this VN
Good luck on making part 2 i can't wait for it to get released.

This is one of a handful of AVN's that I read every word of. Really, from the sharp dialogue to the micro-expressions on the models' faces, impressive work. Really well done.

There are some very steamy scenes here as your subject slowly succumbs to desire.

For once a game that actually mostly deserves it's rating, almost refreshing to see. It's not perfect and i will get to the downsides but it's a fantastic experience with some outstandingly strong points. Couple of things to note however.

First of, it's unfinished. Overarching story is only beginning and god knows how many more parts there will be. If that is a turn off there you go.

Second, this game is absolutely THE best among Renpy novels in terms of meticulous, long and very sensual scenes. If you are a fan of those this will ABSOLUTELY be your thing.

Third, while it says harem and technically isn't a lie, story is essentially a slow burning netori (you stealing a woman from a husband) with one woman and couple others participate at times. If this is up your alley, it's great.


Models are great, for once milfs actually look like milfs, writing is for the most part very good, story moves at a reasonable pace, i was surprised that also for once songs were used sparingly and with care.


However there are certainly... weird and bad parts about the story too. Ruby and Brie might matter in the long run, but were introduced awkwardly and barely mattered by this point. Several parts feel like developer wrote the story for them but kinda... forgot to put it in? Feels like we are missing entire arc with Ruby accepting us for who we are, one scene with Brie moved way too fast, sometimes events are written out of order and things that didn't happen? For example when we talk with Brie we randomly go "yeah you can help us take down our mother too" which was NEVER mentioned once before and i didn't even know we are doing this. There was a funny moment when we think "Hmmm, Rafael is an asshole" and literally next sentense we ask who is this guy and get his name.

Those are just notable examples but a script could use cleaning up, that and completely unfinished story that will go on for who knows how many chapters don't allow me to put it at 5.

But regardles sof any negatives this is a very well thought out product of very high quality, if it grabs your interest absolutely do try.

one of the best games at the moment. the story is not something complex at the moment, but it gives enough space for plot development. absolutely gorgeous models - both mature and young. characters' emotions, thoughts etc. look realy generic and there is no urge to skip through text. lewd scenes are great and very sensual.
really looking forward to sequel and to see how it all ends and hope to meet LIs from the first season further down the road along new ones.
thanks a lot and my best wishes to the dev

Top Tier visuals and face expressions. Meredith and Maxime are one of the most beautiful MILFS up to date. Cannot wait for a sequel. And I think we will need wait around 6-7 month to get new release

Nice graphics and animations, Story is a bit weird but its a good game. For me personally the prettiest girl doesnt have enough scenes which is a bit of a shame. Its a bit of a shorter game , i wish the whole system of arousal points ect wouldnt be in the game - its very annoying to play with. For me it made the game experience much worse.

Definitely one of the more unique VN's I've ever played. Well written and the amount of control you have on the lewd scenes is truly top nootch. The only slight negative for me was the focus on Milf characters. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy an older woman as much as the next guy, but I do also like variety and would've liked more scenes with the younger (or at least younger looking) characters as well. All things considered that's really my only drawback. It's not much of one, so that's why it gets such a high score regardless. Truly one of the better games on this website in recent memory.

Not your typical game, the plot is wonderful, ther characters art is very good, not many fetishes or big choices yet but so far a great game, would recommend any who likes to have dark powers yet be a good guy (atleast the choices I made)

Most underrated game on this website, very good writing,scene and the atmosphere is really good as you corrupt the woman, the updates are frequently quick for its content, hope it gets more popular as the dev deserves it.

Game of Hearts [Ch. 5 R1] - 4.5/5 ⭐

This game has very hot corruption themes with build ups. The story is a bit odd and fantastical, but it is done better than most in the genre. I think some things could be improved like the storyline and animations, but overall one of the better games I've played on this site in a while.

One of the few I will come back to and look forward to updates.

Review of Chapter 5 R1

Pros

• Magic-based seduction/corruption is hard to get right. But Game of Hearts does it very well, and it's very hot. It worked for me because it always felt earned, as the player has to carefully select choices in a seduction gameplay loop which plays during most sex scenes, and because we hear the thoughts of the women and see their many orgasms.
• The visual quality is high, as are the animations.
• The story is good so far.

Cons

• I wasn't a massive fan of the choice of models for the girls. I simply never felt that attracted to them visually. However, this may be partly due to SparkHG's choice to keep the lighting almost always dark and moody, even in scenes set in the day. While I respect this as an artistic choice, it, along with the reliance on ultra-close ups, made it harder to appreciate the womens' features.
• The story felt like it's only maybe 20% of the way finished, distinctly in the first act, despite the game having been in development for 2 years. This is partly because the vast majority of the runtime right now is devoted to very long seduction and sex scenes - which I'm not opposed to, but I felt like the balance was off as the game also wants you to take its story very seriously.

Other points

• The older woman LI, presumably in her 40s or 50s, legitimately looks her age, with visible wrinkles, albeit a toned body justified in-universe as due to exercise.

⠀⠀Nice soundtrack, a rarity.
⠀⠀The scenery is gorgeous. The lighting, reflections, blur, angles, focus work and overall post-processing is top tier. You can use some screenshots as wallpapers, that's how good it is.
⠀⠀Sex scenes are the VN's center of attention. They are long and detailed, focusing heavily on eroticism and intimacy and featuring a great variety of choices to suit player's preference. Though, as they're manipulating stats, I guess there are objectively better options, which is tied to this whole demonic power-up system, that I'm not sure how to feel about, it seems a lot like a WIP for now. Animations aren't great and erratic camera movement makes them look even worse. Which does work for the detriment of the experience, but not enough to be a deal-breaker.
⠀⠀Some of the most sensual dialogue I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Albeit, Vocabulary is quite "advanced", there were a fair few words that I had to look up the meaning of, and I'm not sure if they're used correctly given the context. This may be a "me" problem, being the uncultured swine that I am, but coupled with the script having abundance of typos and grammatical mistakes made it hard for me to read at times.
⠀⠀Sizable chunk of the audience expressed their contempt towards models of 2 main characters. I find those very subjective as Maxime with all her features and Meredith's body appear quite attractive to me. Meredith's face on the other hand does have unappealing features like curvy jawline and puffy cheeks, but not a big deal. If anything, it does add to her innocent housewife charm.
⠀⠀Story is good enough to be curious about what's coming next. Usually not a fan of urban fantasy settings of angels and demons and other fictional creatures with magical powers living among us (ඞ), but in this case such premise synergizes well with heavy emphasis on corruption, so I'm all for it.

Edit: the last update rolled out. Conclusion to the first story arc is satisfying, answers just enough questions and invokes certain emotions. All in all job well done, I can finally recommend everyone to acquaint themselves with this project.

Concluding, I liked what I saw and looking forward to the updates sequel.

A surprisingly good game, the story is light and well presented with a pretty good focus. Excellent rendering quality and very sexy and long h-scenes.
The author managed to create excellent setting and atmosphere where the story fits quite well.
A good twist is that there is a detailed taboo relationship in the form of Netori which is quite rare, most games would go for incest instead.

This is one of my favorite games. The slow burn corruption is fantastic. It's not just a wham, bam, thank yah mam kind of a game. The character development is great. I'm sure some people just want to get to the sex, but this one has both. Great sex, great characters, great story.

Wow, wow, wow!

This is what I called a quality adult game. The game is primarily about sex, but it is not a fuck fest.

How to explain.... 80% of the game consists of sex scenes, but not one of the encounters is cheap or inconsequential. Every single one of them is deep and very emotional and tells us a 100 little things about the character in question and their relationship with the MC.

The mechanics during the sex scenes is also meaningful and actually makes the already great sex scenes even better!

And then the female characters themselves. One MILF (that is not a MILF) that really looks like a MILF and not some young model where we must just accept that she is an older woman. We can see she is a bit older.

Then a young woman that is not conventionally beautiful but turns out to be superhot with all her flaws. She is to die for.

Then 3 sexy little Devils (or could they be Angels?) that could double up as super models, all with very mysterious pasts.

The way this game approached intimacy is very unique and I have not seen another game that even comes close. The intimacy is driving and is telling the story. It is the main process of storytelling in the game.

Even so the game does not feel like the story is just an excuse to fuck. No mindless falling in love with the MC's magical dick despite the MC being an average Joe.

No, in this game, sex is the agency and medium to tell a very intriguing story. It's not a game to rush. I actually took my time with it and took 3 days to play it with regular breaks in between. It will be a waster to FF any text as there are no boring parts to this game.

Easy 5/5 from me. A very unique AVN that really impressed me. In general, I'm not a fan of harem games with lots of LI as those games tend to become one huge fuck fest with the MC's magic dick causing girls to fall on the guy's dick 5 minutes after meeting him.
I'm pleased to say that it's not the case in this game, despite big percentage of the game revolving around sex.

I am giving this a 3 star due to the situation created in the story. I like corrupting one of the main LIs by giving her and her husband money for porn shoots. Turn on! The dialogue is not great, very stilted and just not the way two normal people converse. Maybe that is an ESL thing, but it makes the characters have less meaning. The renders are great, but the animations are average at best. The bjs scenes are not great, everything is a tad dark, and all the sex shots are close-ups. Why do that? Let's see a pussy, tit, and face in the same GD shot. The story is every other my dad is a high demon blah .. blah .. blah. Easy ignore.

If Corruption AVNs had a perfection category, Game of HEarts would be at the the top of this game, It is a game that not only does perfection right, but makes you discover feelings that are generally not found in this genre i.e, both deep regret and arousal , amixture I never thought possible in this corrupt genre and that too with plain s*x . I mean everything here is near perfection till now, I just pray it doesn't fumble , because as of now I feel this game doesn't have any clear long term direction just immediate goals.

I don't want this game to loose its overarching development i.e, gradual control through influence and magic. The biggest challenge for developer would be to expand cast beyond girls and gradually developing these relation, so that they all feel natural corruption

This is the kind of game I’d call “absolute cinema.” The dialogues are deep, intimate, sweet, and so smooth that I can almost feel Meredith’s presence. Her facial expressions are incredibly lifelike, and the lighting and colors in the renders are perfect. Sincere congratulations to the developer or developers behind this masterpiece.

As a player who isn’t a sponsor and whose only contribution is this review, here’s my humble request: I love the focus on Meredith. While I’ve seen others ask for more female characters in the game, I personally believe that keeping the spotlight on Meredith is ideal (just my opinion). I understand it takes significant effort, but I’d love to see the game explore themes like pregnancy and related elements—things like adult breastfeeding, intimacy during pregnancy, and other aspects tied to this theme would be a welcome addition.

These are my two cents. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is that it’s still a game in development, and I’ve seen some promising games on f95 end abruptly or with poorly developed conclusions.