Ren'Py - Goddesses' Whim [v0.4.4] [Ncrow]

I've been playing this for a little while, veeery slowly. This game is absolutely amazing. Might be my favorite game of all, even above Cosy Cafe, and that's from someone who usually doesn't like the KK engine. Somehow the dev made all characters look very good and makes excellent use of the more anime-ish expressions and quirks (like bumps on a character's head).

The humor, for me, is absolutely goated. I just played through a section with Shika and was laughing out loud.


This game is super cosy, incredibly wholesome, has some pretty decent writing and great worldbuilding, excellent characters, great visuals (for the engine) and, again, excellent humor.

Goddesses' Whim was a very pleasant surprise.

Love it, and heartily recommend it to anyone.

I mean, this is the fantasy isekai lovers' dream. Top notch selection of ladies, incredible animation, and decent enough story to not be a deterrence. I'd love more updates, obviously who wouldn't for any game, but the quality of this game is up there with the best in the Koikatsu genre. Definitely worth a try.

Realized after a year that I haven't rated this game with the 5 stars that it deserves. This crime is fixed now!

Beautiful, simply beautiful! One of the few H-games that still hooks me after a year. I'm waiting a bit until I play this again just because the updates come slowly and they often change things in the middle or even at the beginning of the game, so it's better to play it all again to see it entirely. But that shouldn't change even slightly the rate for this wonderful game, really. I'll gladly play this thing entirely again.

Talking about the game itself, I don't think (or remember) nothing that's not 10/10 or at least 9.5/10 here. Design, story, characters, gameplay... everything in this game looks perfect, or almost perfect, and it really stands out compared to most famous 3DH games and, sincerely, a bunch of famous 2D and 3D games too.

Congratulations, Ncrow, you've caught my single ass craving for wholesome things smilling with this one. Hats off for you.

Character design, character interaction, animation quality, artistic direction and visual quality are top tier, probably the best I've seen. There is nothing weird like NTR, body dismorphia, gore or vore. Story isn't particularly impactful but not boring at all. Overall the game deserves 5 stars.

One of my favorite games on this site. Characters are gorgeous, deep enough to feel attached to them, there's a BUNCH of super well animated scenes which make any mission pretty rewarding... The story is pretty cool too, definitely in my top 10 ever !

Played version 0.4.3 on android and had a fun and smooth time with a good amount of content.
The game is mostly based on harem isekai and anime tropes and makes an enjoyable work of executing them, the plot starts off with a mostly slice of life feel but starts setting some overarching objectives for the narrative later on, without losing its original direction, which I appreciated.
Renders and animations are really good, with some nice facial expressions, body language and general details.
Sexual content is mostly vanilla with some optional footjobs and anal here and there, which is not a bad thing, just don't expect hardcore bdsm or other very kinky stuff if that's your taste. There is still plenty of variety in the scenes and situations.
There are quite a few avaiable girls, covering a lot of archetypes of body types and personalities, I liked all of them so far and was interested in their stories and personalities.
I liked the humor of the game, finding some of its jokes and gags quite amusing and not minding the rest.
I didn't encounter any instance of annoying grind, there are a fishing minigame and a woodcutting minigame to gather resources, which are fairly simple and didn't require more than a few minutes of my total playtime, some events also require farming some affection with the girls, mostly early on in the game, this didn't prove to be an issue because I was already rewatching new h-events and interactions after unlocking them to see the changed lines once they became repeatable.
Some simple combat mechanics become avaiable later in the game, but they're still very simple and only used a few times so far; overall the game plays like a typical sandbox without branching choices or mutually exclusive content, which is my preference.
To sum it up i'd suggest anyone even vaguely interested tries the game out, unless you particularly hate anime and isekai tropes, are only interested in hardcore or kinky content or only play heavily gameplay and main plot focussed games.

Games like this always make me wish I found it after development finished, instead of right in the middle. Story is really solid, a major plot point that happens genuinely left my heart racing for a few minutes, but you can see a good amount of the twists coming, if you're perceptive and can remember certain things anyway.

The girls personalities are really solid, and the comedic relief often helps the fact that there are a dozen girls who fall in love with you and are for whatever reason okay with you absolutely laying pipe like its your job. Tomoe and her 4th wall breaks are always fun. Looking forward to the rest of this development

a really good game, if you like a more anime asthetic this one is a must play its one of the best on the entire site

adressing some of the criticisms, it has some grind but its not excesive, the biggest grind is that sometimes you have to repeat some scenes like 2 or 3 times before you can continue with a girl and there is this extremely simple minigame that you can play to gather wood, the minigame goes by in less than 5 seconds so its not that big of a deal
I honestly found the finishing minigame to be somewhat fun, its nothing extraordinary but its entertaining, but to each their own.

I have played and completed games with 100 times that grind so maybe its just me but it felt pretty light, you can progress really quick.

about some more solid points

Visuals: 6/5
well this is a porn game and I will say the scenes are really well done, all of them are animated and there are both a ton of girls and each of them has at least 3 scenes, some have more and that translates to a metric shit ton of scenes and each update adds more and more
in regards to content this game isnt lacking, it does take a small time to get going but after that is an endless flood

beyond sex scenes the game is just very well made, one of my favorite parts is that each girl looks adorable, they are soo squishy and animated its one of the best model works I have seen on this site, the faces, their expresions, the author would even add extra effects like sweat when they are nervous, the usual "anime" eyes or like their cheeks would squish against the camera. its spectacular

also speaking about the camera, the camera work is inmaculate, the way the characters are posed and how they are set makes some of the renders look like something straight from a profesional anime or a manga page, some action scenes have speed lines, movement blur, foreshortening, etc.
it also has actual image composition, how the subject is arranged using tricks like the rule of thirds, how negative space is managed, etc

from all the 3D anime games in this site this is the one that manages to reproduce that "anime" look the closest, its honestly pretty impresive.

Story: 4/5
I have seen some people say that the story of this game is generic anime trash and I have to say that this is probably the most underrated part of the whole game

yes the game its not going to win any awards for its story and it starts in a very generic isekai anime fashion, you get killed on your past life (but instead of getting run over by a truck the protagonist gets killed by a jealous competitor at a Kendo competition) but after that the story gets more interesting and deviates from some of the usual tropes

First of all the characters are very well writen, even your protagonist despite being the usual "good guy" MC that wants to help everyone still has an interesting personality (like being a little bit of a pervert, not enough that it overpowers his personality but enough that its fun) and he is not an idiot that is just coasting on the story, he thinks things through and analyses what is happening around him, he can be a little dense but also surprisingly smart, and he himself has some secrets that makes him interesting
its not at the level of other MCs like the protagonist of corrupted kingdoms but its enough to elevate him above most cookie cutter protagonist from most other games

the rest of the cast have even more development and there will be situations where the phrase "I came here to masturbate not to feel" will apply, specially with Ryokos backstory its something that you expect but it still managed to surprise me in some ways like discovering that her mother is the one that put the slave collar on her, and since one of the only ways of getting rid of the collar is by killing the original owner that means that she is still alive somewhere, I also love how the MC has the exact same though that you have once that plot point is discovered it makes you feel in sync with him
each of the girls has a unique and fun personality and while some of them can be cliche its a good kind of cliche, its endearing and fun and they can be surprisingly layered

and the plot of the story itself is intriguing, without going into spoilers but one thing that this story does that deviates from most isekais is that the original world its still somewhat important and the MCs past is not inmediately forgotten once he gets into the new world sorrounded by pussy like most run of the mill seasonal isekai anime. there is a big mystery related to the MCs mother that had me inmersed specially since its related to the goddess that sended you to the new world in the first place, and lets say that she likely didnt send you just on a whim

again its not going to be winning any awards, but even by the standards of a more conventional no porn game its still decently good, not the best story I have read on this site but above the average

Gameplay:3/5
It pains me to say it but this is definetly the weakest part of the whole package
its not bad bad but it could use a lot of improvements

first of all the weakest part is the combat, for a game that has stuff like stats, and where you level up, and that it has a very videogame isekai feeling where you have enemies ranked by levels the combat system is out of place, its a quick reaction minigame where you have to click a specific part of the screen, it feels disconnected from the rest of the game
honestly either eliminate that part of the game entirely or create a more involved combat system that would be my recomendation

the exploration is decent, nothing out of the ordinary sometimes it can be a little confusing what you can interact with but besides that I have no real issues with that aspect of the gameplay

the interface could use some work, in the game you have two ways in which you can track your progress the quest log that tracks the more general path of the plot and the character cards that give a more personalized explanation of how to develop your relationship with each girl, the issue is that that isnt really explained to you its something you have to discover on your own and can be a little confusing, because some quests require that you advance with some of the girls and some girls require that you progress or complete some quest so its a constant back and ford that can be annoying

besides that the interface is good, again a little confusing and could use some work (I discovered that you can level up your skills in the minigames almost by accident since the option is a little hidden for example) but its not beyond repairing, I think what is underneat its pretty good, I specially love the style of the UI it feels profesional and while the game is made in renpy it feels like a cut above the rest of the games that just use the generic renpy UI

Conclusions:
a good game with great potential that is unfortunatey being hold back by the gameplay or more like the lack of certain features, I think it seriously needs some reconsidering in that regard, but besides that I recomend everyone that likes a more anime asthetic and some nekomimi girls to play this game

Perfectly serviceable game for what it intend to do.

The only thing to keep in mind is that it is a walking japanese fantasy world hentai cliché.

Isekai, godesses, classic japanese virgin protag behavior (with no personality who keeps the virgin vibe even when he's farmed the full cast), mom issues, heroines with a little bit of a backstory and being in the classic categories, monster/animal girls, the bath, toilet, sleep, panty scenes and much more.

It's not bad, honestly it's really well done, the majority of scenes are nice and/or wholesome, animations are very good. The story...exists. You know where this is going after 20 minutes of playing. Already "talked" about the MC, the heroines are the same, although a little less "virginy" than the MC.

But the feeling is generic. If you love the genre you'll love the game (probably), if you don't, well as I said it's not bad, a perfectly serviceable game, but at some point I guess it's "skip unseen text", use URM for ressources and let's advance the quests and story.

So to sum up in one word : classic.

Major criticism is that it's WAY too grindy. The mini games aren't difficult but are monotonous, and it takes an absurd number of plays to progress through the game. Other than that it's a pretty generic Isekai. Main character is overpowered, all girls fall for him for no particular reason, etc.

English/Grammar: 5/5
Story: 2/5
Characters: 2/5 (Pretty generic stereotypes, nothing unique)
Renders: 3.5/5
Creativity: 0/5

I'm writing this review more about the story than anything else, because that's how I rate stories and games.
This review as written for 0.4.2.

The story is a collection of intertwined character stories. It's not so much a sweeping grand narrative (at least not yet), as it is a collection of overlapping fragments, using the characters to weave it together. Because the game is very well constrained (you cannot trigger things too early), you will unlock the story as you play through.

The universe design is a sandbox. There are some 'chore' tasks you need to do, in order to progress things. Using the internal systems, this can be quite tedious for some people, but most of those chores can be done in one of the day slots (morning/afternoon/evening/night), giving you time to collect resources instead of skipping the time window. As grinds go, it isn't as bad as many have made it out to bed, particularly if you use the skill system (which is fairly light by gaming standards).

The story-linked combat system in the game is annoying (at least on PC). It's a 'click here' quick input type deal, and it's probably the biggest (if not only?) major issue the game has. Given how infrequent it is, it's not a huge problem. The gameplay-linked combat system has a simplistic design (basic turn based attack type system). There is insufficient in-game gameplay-linked combat to really comment on the system beyond saying that it works, and that it'll be fine.

The major quality of the game is the writing. I would say that the story is easy to read more than once, and the desire to skip is only likely to come up if you remember it well enough, or dislike a particular character or interaction. It's written well enough that I didn't feel the need to skip through anything on the first pass.

As with many games, the number of love interests increases over time. There is a menu showing them, with hints on how to unlock scenes (which are also how you progress characters). At times, the story will block until you unlock scenes. Yes, this means that most characters need to be progressed, at least in the early stage of the game (there is only one exception that I am aware of). I don't know if this will repeat (if it has been said somewhere, I've missed it), but, as designs go, it's fine.

The quality of the individual stories is somewhat subjective. Every character (up to 0.4.2) is different enough that they're interesting. Some stories won't appeal to some people, and some people may not have the patience to deal with uncovering the histories/stories of some characters. Because the game forces this, it's going to be a problem for some people.

Personally, I'm giving it a 5/5 because the story plays well on repeat. The interactions are well considered. While the lore and style of the game bleeds into the generic anime tropes heavily, it creates a cosy enough atmosphere that it's a light experience. There are some emotional moments, but nothing that will derail the game/story in a way that should make it unplayable for people.

The H-scenes are fine (though I tend to skip them, as with most games). They are replayable through a gallery system (hidden under the player's inventory/stats, it's the clapperboard icon). You can use various repeatable scenes to increase affection, and in some cases must (though this behaviour is limited to the first handful of love interests, and I suspect has been retired). It's quite probable that people will find the scenes too vanilla, or similar, but, again, I tend to skip them, so I don't really care much here.

Audio and visuals are well done. Sounds lean more towards overdone than underdone, but they're about perfect for what the game needs to drive forward with the text. Visuals are well rendered (from Koikatsu), and animations are smooth. Use of animations doesn't the the gameplay, nor does the story lean too heavily into it.

This is one of those rare games where I'm looking forward to the next release, and where my interest in certain characters drives my desire to progress the story.

I have literally never posted a review, not even for amazon or anything like that, this game was that good that I have to write one. BTW: I will not spoil anything in this review, I think, idk, but I was careful.

#1 BEST thing I love this game for is the fact it doesnt have a time limit for anything, meaning if you really wanted to you could quite literally spend the entire time chopping trees if you like have a tree fetish or something. Some of you might like the pressure of a time limit, I call you all crazy masochists.

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This is an amazing game. Just download it, but dont get scared by like the first few images of the game because granted they are not the best to look at, it gets so much better fairly quickly despite a slowish start. Amazing unique characters, good sense of design, not pre-built backgrounds. Many more characters than shown, developer still adding more content.

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The only thing I really hate is how they kind of force you to develop a relationship with EVERY available character before you can go on to others, in some rare cases like unlocking a new area it's necessary for character dialogue but I just wish the dev would actually do some interactions between characters to make building up each one worth it. HOWEVER, do not despair as honestly if they didn't make me develop a relationship, I woulnd't have known how amazing each one of them is written and how unique each character is.

The grinding cant even really be called grinding, you have to chop trees for wood and get fish to sell for money to build new parts of the house to unlock scenes, but its kind of random what you get each time. It is kind of annoying but they give you a better way to get money later on and wood you can just keep chopping for cause no time limit.

Animations are great, granted they do repeat, but each scene has multiple and you can move on at your own pace (I don't remember any that has only one), and some have like 10 scenes its insane.

You will basically never run out of content to do until you get to the end, I have no idea how people on here can finish games in like 6 hours of total playtime cause this literally took me like a full 2 weeks.

Fucking adorable characters, like damn, like double damn, like tripple damn, the person who made this KNEW what they were doing.

Each one of the characters has a unique quirk, all of them are easily distinguishable, and have features that allow you to easily tell them apart and ways of speaking that you can use to tell them apart even if you were blind.

The page (first post) for this game on does not do it justice, there are many more characters, they all have a good amount of scenes, if you are ever stuck I have no idea how but this dev made like the best hint system I've literally ever seen and it is super specific to your situation.

Only downsides about this game is that you have to talk to a character a lot to get affection up, and also the part about how you have to level multiple up to unlock new scenes (explained why this isnt terrible in p4). HOWEVER you don't actually HAVE to keep talking to them, there are natural events usually that give more but if you really want to go for one character you have to which I find slightly annoying but its understandable as it's not really how you're supposed to play the game.

The main character is cool at times, kinnnnddddaaaa overhyped by everyone else, but honestly it makes sense cause you would want to make your players feel good about themselves. There's no other like relationships going on, no cheating at all, no ntr, it's really just a very wholesome game for the most part.

The story is meh, HOWEVER, I feel it does not detach from the game as, well, yk, I kind came here for a different reason. That is not to say it is bad in any way, the story was obviously at least planned out, however it is not exactly the most unique thing I've ever seen. Though that is just for the MAIN STORY (Like im talking about world lore yk?) for the side characters it's very good, like surprisingly good for some of them (cough cough shop keeper).

There are not like any easter eggs, I guess there's an event 3/4 of the way through the current game that isn't exactly explained or like shown/told to you exactly how to do it but it's pretty dang obvious.

The developer seems to actually develop, and he is getting a scary amount better at it, I doubt he will abandon the game.

Conclusion?
Download Immediately

One of the best games here.

H-scenes
5/5*

Vizuals
5/5*

Game setting/game idea
4,5/5*

Gameplay
4/5*

How much content
5/5*

Really good game. Tons of interesting different girls. Tons of positions. Really good looking video game, borderline AA title.
The gameplay is not perfect but considering what others games are doing this is still above average.
The Dev sure knows thet they are doing

It's alright but has some glaring points.

I hate the combat system on pc, unexpected quick time "click here fast" segments really just suck. I mean seriously why even? I typically like to read these types of VN's while drinking and use a 16k dpi mouse so these "pinpoint 3 sec click windows" are just obnoxious. Hands down would just suggest dropping the unnecessary combat all together it just feels totally out of place.

The Fishing, Logging etc feels incredibly pointless. Its 100% just a lazy way to pad out the time it takes for progression and doesn't really add any sense of reward or anything its mostly just a nuisance. I dont see any reason to add pointless grind to a VN it doesnt add anything to the experience and only takes away from the story progression.

There are ALOT of very seemingly pointless interactions that don't really add anything to the story or progress the story at all? Honestly they'd be a little better if they were more evenly paced within story progression but you hit a point where the story leaves you on the verge of SOMETHING happening but then its locked behind a large amount of seemingly pointless character interactions and conversations that in no way really add anything to either character development or story progression. In a way it feels like its just dragging things out for the sake of teasing/delaying actual story progression with a bunch of disjointed random content.

The story has some odd pacing, it throws excess story (or filler) one moment, and then just back to back to back H-scene content. It would be more rewarding if the non H and H content were more interlaced and less "bunch of side content/bunch of nsfw content". The H-scenes themselves are alright, they use a lot of shorter loops which is kinda less exciting without some scene transitions to make it flow more natural. Props to the effect usage and more "flexible" or "squishy" content.

Menu interaction and general "quest" hints/writing needs a lot of work. The character menu is kind of annoying to close out of the other content is as simple as just click his face again, while the character info can only be closed by the option at the bottom of the menu which just seems a bit unintuitive? Mostly just a personal gripe on my part, just seems like it should be less of a hassle to find WHAT you need to do and also not have so many clicks just to enter or exit a manu. Having the quest section but then just using a generic "check the gallery to mark progress" just makes the quest section seem pointless/frustrating with how vague many of the quests are. Especially around the point of getting to the 2nd town.

This has a lot of potential depending on how the story continues to develop, but really needs some polishing here and there.

After having 100% completed up to 0.4.2, I do not think there is a single thing I can hold against this game, apart from maaaybe the overuse of generic anime language. But other than that I don't have any issues. Scenes are great and well animated, girls are cute, I personally enjoyed the story too, if a little confusing in places. I play with all audio disabled so I can't comment on that. I did find the hints useful, they're not cryptic or too general. Technically they're not "hints," just instructions for what to do next, but it's far better than games with outdated or vague hints that barely help at all.

I have really enjoyed the game up to this point and I look forward to seeing where it goes. Absolutely in my top 5 Adult games, but I may be biased towards this visual style. For now I'd give it a 9/10 and I would 100% go for a 10/10 if it was "completed."

This game contains absolute love from the creator, every scene/ text that has been written is amazing and they make references to certain jokes from anime to memes. The story is simple yet also serious in some ways but there is a good balance in between, what also important is that every sentence that u read the characters are a dynamic so basically u don't see still standing images but actual facial expression and body movements! The only issue that I have with the game is that around middle the story that u need to grind for no reason but later u will notice that the developer removed it in some way but also returned it which is confusing? |

But hey, please keep the great work NCrow!

Story is bad and not very interesting.
MC is beta and a pushover character who let's girls do what they want to him.
Game is really grindy.
And having MC getting beaten up by Akane one of the main FL is not funny. Also choices don't exist in this game.

Imo the best animation in any game period, not buggy, clean and easy to play, best scenes, characters, etc. I have tried out maybe 8 other games and I just cannot get behind the animation especially the regular old 3d look, the animations are janky and stiff and just quick easy loops, maybe like 1-3 variations. This game is a work of art.

Over the top grind is killing it for me. No, its not fun doing the same minigame for 10 minutes to progress the story, and no, its not fun to have no agency whatsoever but still needing to farm gold, wood and fish just because you decided to waste even more of my time.
And no, movement in this game is not fluid or fun either, its getting old to farm girls affection with the same scenes for 2–3 times before you actually progress. For the love of god, why would I need to progress with everyone to continue the story...? Considering the grind that the author forces upon you for each one of them, it's atrocious.

And finally, even if all that wasn't present - the story is boring and cliché, the MC is a pushover and the player has no say in his actions.

At this point, why make it an RPG like game at all If it has no "role-play" part and only the boring mechanics to it?

Otherwise, animations are pretty good and characters are wholesome. that's about it for the pluses.

Game is very grindy
you got to score gold that you can get 70 per day and its usually 200 for 1 progress thing 1000 for chapter 2 in total
Wood which is the worst as you need 500 for chapter 2
and 30-100 for 1 thing
wood you can get 2-10 per try and you can try 3 times a day
its tedious slow and have awful minigame
there is also worst minigame fishing which is absolute crime
but you only need like 15 fishes and later they never came up

Minigames aside a lot of girls looks like kids in this game
catgirl, slavegirl and silver hair girls are awfully too young looking for game like this
also your character is beta receiver with no agency in sex scenes
i can not dominate silver hair girl or own blonde
also game demand you to progress all characters, not just the ones you like