Unreal Engine - Abandoned - Girls Next Door [Update 8] [Layman Bot]

3/5 stars largely for the models and some of the game that works ok. I thought it was going alright and then suddenly a lesbo blackmailer shows up and turns the game into something kind of dumb. There is no explanation as to why everyone just accepts some random chick in the house let alone why the sister suddenly becomes a lesbian. As usual with these games these kind of characters make the story stupid the moment they show up.

The art is pretty decent and there is some content with a few characters. However the game jumps into top gear almost right away so there is no buildup with most of the characters. Even the lesbian is just grabbing handfuls of tits in the pool and the sister is like "oh giggles". I'm not sure how far the lesbo blackmailing is going to go as she offers you a choice between working with her (she shares) or you can moan a bit but she just keeps coming over and the women in the house treat her like she has been a friend forever. Maybe 2 stars would be better but it's too early to decide it's braindead without more choices in the story. Personally I hate lesbo shit in general and a lesbo blackmailer you can't stop would drop the game to one star for me.

As I said though I think what little there is could be decent if the dev doesn't
throw out the story so people can have lesbofest. For now 3/5 stars.

What started out as a game i didnt want to carry on playing 10 mins in, Has now become one of my most anticipated 'want the next episodes of'..
The characters are extremly pretty, even the Milf's (for once) and the episodic style content is an easier way to follow the progress at your own choosing..
The story is funny while maintaining the erotica buildup feeling that when 'something' does finally happen you feel like it was well deserved at tht moment..
The Alice and Redfox (no spoilers) characters are by far the ones i'll be enjoying my time with in future content.. while Angelica is a close 2nd..
I like how the story features a 50 shades-esq sub plot via the mothers writing career and hope there will be more of this 'dream state' story unfolding too..
All in all there is barely anything for me to complain about other than the initial feelings I had during that opening 10 mins.. MC eyebrows are a bit off putting and strange.. I didnt get the skill building at first but on a second playthrough and choosing different skills and seeing how the same scenes played out different was fun..
My one negative is the Save Window.. I guess i'm more used to the Renpy method but it just felt harder to track the various different playthroughs without getting confused as to what method each save window used..
Eitherway looking forward to more and I'm glad i decided to come back and try again till the end of the current episodes as was worthwhile..
One last note - The game needs more animation as given the quality of the renders it feels lacking to not have the same level of detail in that department..

First proper Unreal Engine game for me, the rest were pretty buggy and/or unplayble for a multitude of reasons.
And I'm surprisingly pleased with it! It's not as easy to navigate as Renpy, but then again, there isn't any platform there is. Rate this higher than Unity for sure.

Now the game itself. Some people might feel it's your run of the mill incest harem game. And while it is, sometimes it's just fun to play the same type of game with a different storyline and more content. And since it's a crowded market, good ones aren't as common as you would expect.

Girls Next Door does exactly what it says on the label and delivers it well. Recommended in my opinion, but there's also some cons.

It's very hard to find a balance between "choosing your own story" and just outright being a VN. The game is slightly in the "branches too much" side of the graph for me personally.

I've completed all available events, but haven't play enough times to know if a trait I chose in the beginning locks me out of content 20 events down the road. Because if it does, then it's serious problem. I've read reviews that mostly says it doesn't. But the fear still remains, whether be it now or in future updates.

Though many people dislike meaningless choices(which this game does have) and being unable to decide the flow of the story, I am perfectly fine with choices just changing flavor text(which is the situation now) and it deciding what kind of MC you are.

Branches, to me, simply slow down the development process where content can be pumped out much faster if it was a simple yes no choice of whether you want to see this scene or not.

That's just my suggestion going forward in this game, and good luck for future updates! I'm looking forward to it!

You are pretty much playing the typical MC beta, and the gameplay is pretty much the illusion of choice.

For example:

Pretty girl: "Do this stupid thing."
You choose "No."
Pretty girl: "That's not how this works."
Your character: "Okay, I'll do the stupid thing."

Your character is easily tricked and weak-willed, but all the women seem to want you anyway (although I suspect it's mostly to get the MC to do things). He even refers to himself as a "push over". The plot/characters/etc. are pretty derivative, the gameplay is almost non-existent, and the only things it really has going for it are a nice UI and rather pretty graphics and female characters.

I would give this two-stars for being pretty dull and derivative, but I like the quality of the graphics and the overall neatness of the UI, so I'm going with three stars. All in all, though, not very memorable.

Review for Girls Next Door v8:

This update seemed weird. Just a few short events with minimal story progression. It's been so long since I played that I forgot most of the story, and the events didn't to a lot to help jar my memory. I guess it's a downside of this event-only play system.

[Edit] Now I'm reading that there's a bug that prevents players from accessing a bunch of content in this release. I'm not going back to play it again. The game just isn't THAT good. If the dev doesn't care enough, then neither do I.

Previous review is for v6 v7

I just saw this game for the first time at v6 and I'm glad I found it. It's a decent game with good visuals. There's nothing really unique about the art and the story, but it does have some unique gameplay.

Story: Average. The story's basis is cliché. You've got a rather dumb and naive MC that's growing up, the hot MILF mother with huge breasts, one mean older sister, one nice younger sister, and a hot oversexed MILF aunt who sells sex toys and lingerie. This game adds a cute, mischievous, and somewhat slutty cousin to the mix, but other than that, there's not really much else to the story, yet.

Visuals: Very good. Models are very good. Renders are excellent. Animations are poor where most of them are fake with two renders that fade between each other.

Content: Very good. There's a lot of interaction and scenes that come together really well and are hot. There wasn't any explicit lewd content until v6 and there's more in v7, so it's getting better. Given the game is 1 year old and on its 6th update, it's progressing fairly normally. It might be slower than average, but I wouldn't call it an excessively slow burn. Still, the v7 update seemed small for taking twice as long as the average for previous updates.

Writing: Above average. It's a typical adult VN with far too many spelling and grammar mistakes, but it's better than most.

Gameplay: Average. The gameplay is a mixed bag.

The good gameplay. I was worried when I started seeing all of the tutorial info (tips) when I started playing, but the gameplay is trivial. I've never seen a game like this but what it does is take all of the shittiness out of the typical garbage sandbox and replace it with just what's necessary to play the game. No grind, just story-driven events. However, you then have to wonder why it's not just setup as a normal visual novel. The only thing this interface does over a VN is allow the player to change the order of some events. Maybe some additional reasons for this type of gameplay will be more evident as the game matures.

The "meh" gameplay: There's an in-game event tree that shows the player which path was taken through an event. I haven't figured out exactly the reason for it, but it seems like it allows players to go back and replay events and potentially take different paths. I only used it once in v7 and it was helpful because I couldn't get one event to trigger so I replayed the previous event (from v6) only to find out I had to continue advancing time to Saturday to get the event to trigger. It seems like the tree allows you to replay events and paths without using save-games, but I'm not sure. The event tree feature seems to have been re-worked between v6 and v7 and maybe there's some new tutorial information that I haven't seen. Also, the traits screen is just a big head-scratcher. There appears to be some reasoning behind the organization of the screen, but it's anyone's guess as to what that is.

The downside of gameplay: The big turnoff of this game is the laggy transitions and lack of skip feature. I literally hate it when clicking doesn't result in an instantaneous response. Instead, every time the game changes renders the old render fades out and the new render fades in. This is where the developer has lost touch with players. The existence of the character traits and the event tree are proof that this game was designed for players to replay the game and/or go back and try different things, but that requires players to repeat a lot of things. Nobody wants to do the exact same thing multiple times and have it take any longer than necessary. Players need to be able to turn off the fade in/out transitions and there needs to be a feature to skip things the player has already seen. Another downside is feedback of the player's decisions. If the player makes a choice, there's usually no way to tell how it will affect (or did affect) gameplay and frequently, the choices are worded so that any potential effect is not obvious. Maybe this is intentional to put some guesswork into gameplay or maybe it's just the result of bad translation, but either way, it's not very fun.

This is a great game in the making. I love the dynamics and teasing with the girls. The games feels fun and not shallow at all. I like the development of the MC from boy to real man (but there is still a long way to go, I hope in future updates to come). Great renders and nice story. I also like the mechanics, which gives you a feeling that every choice really matters. Well done so far, but far from finished.

This was the first time I played a unreal engine game. I enjoyed the interface, but i think i still prefer the Renpy stuff over it. But that does not affect the rating for this game.

As for this game, lot of potential seen. The graphics are pretty good and most of the girl are very well made.

The story was not bad but it also wasnt great. The romance with 'Alice' (black haired girl) was very cute and fun to see but what i was missing real story. Right now it feels like its just a bunch of small side stories bundled together, there is no greater thing which is happening. In most games there is a particular setting and story, in which the events/romance with girls take place. Here the setting is mostly at home or at the boutique, basically the story isnt going anywhere. Maybe also because of the interface which kinda ruins the flow of the story in my opinion.

Im curious if something is going to change in that regard. And i think it is going to interesting how the creator is going to progress the romance with Alice furhter as they have not really talked too much about it, it has been purely lust up to this moment (V5).

I surely can not give this game five stars, but four start to me seems to be the correct rating this time around.

Review for v.5

This is my first Unreal Engine game so this was a new experience for me. It was very different from the Renpy games that I normally play. Anyway, moving on....

This game is good. The story has some depth and I even laughed on a few occasions. I have played through the game twice to discover the different event branches. This event branching system was different for me, but I found myself enjoying it. At least I wasn't roaming around the gaming endlessly sandboxing.

Characher models.... like them. However, the first time I saw the "landlord" character, I was a bit turned off from her overly massive breasts.....But wait....let me explain why. I have seen a noticed in recent games that I've come across that the developers exaggerate female characters' breasts. It just gets old. HOWEVER, this gave does NOT have that. There is a good mixture of body types in this game.

The playthrough of this game was enjoyable and easily repeatable. I look forward to the future updates.

I consider this game is a hidden gem, it's my first Unreal Engine game I played so I was a bit skeptical and didn't know what to make of it. As soon as I started the game I must say I was impressed with the simplicity of everything.

Renders:

Pretty good no signs of gain, just well done renders all around. I will point out that the MC's teeth and eyebrows bother me sometimes. For instances in some scenes his teeth looks sort of a grayish color.

Characters:

I like the Main character overall, his attitude, his demeanor, he has a very relaxed personality and style about him.

Alice is my favorite so far, I like romances that develop sort of naturally and the relationship between MC and Alice is great. They're very playful and are always ball busting each other so everything just feels genuine.

Jessica going from the bossy big sister to a little more submissive was hot. I don't like Sub stuff or Dom at least that heavy content, but if it's light then yes, I can enjoy that.

Angelica is another hot character the baby sister, so you can guess what that means content wise. I do enjoy her though very much, she has a pretty cool vibe to her.

Mom Don't see much of her but when you do you feel her presence. She's a confident woman and I love that, amazing figure also.

Aunt fun loving middle aged woman not like the Mom at all, I look forward to seeing more of her.

Gameplay:

I know it's not Renpy but the game play is great, rollback features, hide text/interface, quick save, quick load and there's plenty of save space. It's easy to locate the saves afterwards, the game itself is pretty easy to navigate.

I'm really impressed by the game and hope it's around in the near future, but most importantly continues to reach new heights and DON'T force anything let it happen naturally. Lastly don't rely too much on this Redfox character, players would like to be the one in control of how to pursue the girls, you don't wanna have the MC looking like an errand boy or total novice.

This has to be the first UnrealEngine game that feels amazing to play. So if anyone thinks "uh UE hate that shit dont wat to try if its not RenPy". I strongly recommend you do. Its a visual novel (no sandbox) you just pick what event order you want and the dialog is effected by your choices to so extent (dont know how much). Also renders and story are really good.

Honestly the only thing that bothers be is the fact that there are no cheats as I like to play with all option open and not having some traits really pisses me off. And i hate multiple playthroughs unless its NTR On / NTR OFF scenario where its major differences.

Overall 9/10.

I'm giving this four stars.

I would have rated this 5 if there had been more content. It's been nine months since the initial release and there's no sex yet. That seems a little slow but at least the content that is included is slick and well done.

Pros:

• I love the game UI. TBH, I am getting a little bored with all the ren'py vanilla games and this one is a breath of fresh air. The dev has created a very nice interface for this type of visual novel. I especially love the event system.
• The sound effects and music are also integrated perfectly
• The renders are top notch and I love the characters. If I had to complain about anything, it would be that I wished there was a little more age on the MILF's. The characters are almost too perfect.
• It's nice to play a VN that is focused mostly on the "here & now" of sexual tension and eroticism in the MC's immediate universe. Most VN's on here tend to fall on one of two opposing sides.. either very poorly written porn style fap fests or games that try and be the next Godfather (with porn) . Instead, the dialogue in Girls Next Door is humorous, intelligent, flirtatious and thoroughly enjoyable to read. The DOM direction with Jessica is particularly hot

Cons:

• Content
• Content!
• CONTENT!!!
• .. oh, and a faster update cycle!

Seriously, this game is begging for more content. I think it has a great foundation and I didn't see any bugs in my complete play through tonight. About the only thing I did notice was a few minor grammatical errors. So hopefully the dev is happy with the root foundation and over the last 9 months has established a process, so we can finally get some real content to continue this game.

Overall though, it was one of the very few games on here that, when i started playing it, kept me hooked until I finished it, 2 and a half hours later. Heck, I even missed the last 10 mins of my Hockey game, lol.

ok, I really like this game and where it is going even though i had issues with Nopy & mega downloads on f95 and the other downloads were blocked by my antivrus, so i had to download the public release from the patreon page, but i think its an older version because it ended at the pool with mc & Alice fooling around with bratty sister interrupting us.

So im also not a unreal fan, mostly cause my laptop doesnt handle it well, always has the fan racing and heating up the battery, but thats for all unreal games i try to play.

This game has beautiful renders and i like the layout where you dont miss any scenes cause there greyed out until the right time or day, theres alos some choices that are locked out, not sure if they unlock later in the archive replay or its from making the wrong choices, so will problynhave to look for a walkthrough

So my favorite ladies in this game are obviously the milfs Helen & Carla, but i do like older sister that wants to be a judge (shes really cute)

Im interested to find out when he gets to read moms book to see if its like a "50 shades of grey" or about being a mistress, something sexual since its rated R.

Alsolooking forward to more Carla content, she is giving off vibes she works either at a sex shop or a strip club, something she didnt want to tell mc where and at dinner mom tried to change the subject.

Im definately impressed with your game, just wish i could have download the most recent version, but ill be following this one

Finally gave this game a go. Never really liked the Unreal engine, in fact, this is the first game I've liked using it. Superbly put together, well coded. People underestimate that aspect of VNs etc. Superb renders, great character atmosphere. Looking forward to future developments.

It's a good start for the story.

Images are good looking, story is progressing, would not mind to see more.
The music is nice.

I have 1 bug in this version, when I load a game I can do that scene but then the screen blacks out.

So this is actually my very first time playing a game on Unreal Engine. I don’t know why it took me so long, but I’m happy I did.

I could definitely get used to playing more titles using Unreal if it’s as good as this particular game, easy to navigate, the saves aren’t a problem, no issues triggering events. The story isn’t complicated to follow, nor the paths. I’m completely sold on Girls Next Door.

The models are hot, the Mom is the best girl. I hope this game blows up successfully, and people jump on the bandwagon because it’s worth it.

The game has overly annoying Li that constantly fucks you over - but you cannot do anything about it. The game also railroads player to being intimate with her. Could not bear that and had to stop playing. What a shame.

I think this is the first "Unreal Engine" game I have liked.

Story -- Not much to it, but the story is open enough the writer can go anywhere with it. Hopefully it is all written out or the writer is going to have a hard time finishing it. 4/5

Renders -- Not the best, but the best take a long time to do them. That's Philly Games and Dr. Pink don't come out with a monthly update. They can afford to do that with all the support they have. 4/5

Animations -- Didn't notice any, but I haven't taken all the path's yet. N/A

Other -- This is where the game earns it 5 star review imo. I really like the setup. Everything is broken up by "events" which is going to make it so much easier for the writer to create as many "paths" as they want. Of course I'm not a programmer so I can only assume based on the logic that I see. There are quite a few games out there that let you choose the relationship you have with each individual, but I don't know why all don't. 5/5

Edit as of V6 -- I still feel this is an underrated AVN. So many AVN's repeat over and over get up, eat, shower, eat, go to bed. Even some of them have you review in bed what you just did 2 minutes earlier in the story. It just takes away from the story and makes things so monotonous and detracts from the story itself. There is no risk of that happening here.

One could say this is a generic "cest game", but it does it very well. The girls are gorgious, the renders are beautiful and everything feels fresh. The unreal engine UI is doing a good job too and doesn't annoy you like it it does in other non-renpy games. For now I'm giving this new game 5/5 stars and will vouch for it.

While the story feels a bit generic, this game features one of the best interfaces I have seen so far. As of now, there isn't much to write an in-depth review about this game other than the renders and writing. The renders are very good, No animations as of now. The writing is okay but contains a lot of broken English and spelling mistakes. The Interface is minimal, yet noticeable and creative. The menu / interface transitions are smooth and sleek and looks like imported straight from some high budget game.

The story revolves around your family ( mom & 2 sisters) and your Aunt & cousin who move in your house causing a lot of sexual tension. The characters are quite attractive ( specially Jessica, who kinda looks like pornstar Elsa Jean.... Win win for me ) . The game is very limited yet shows a lot of promise for the future with several unimplemented content like the trait & graph system which probably will affect the decisions and choices of the game heavily.
This one definitely has caught my eye , cant wait to see more of it.