Others - Goodbye Eternity [v0.13.0] [RNGeusEX]

This is a tough one, on the one hand the characters are varied and fun, the art is incredible, and the story is decent-ish enough, but the sandbox gameplay is truly F-tier and the engine is unstable and unoptimized.

The sandbox is completely pointless and annoying. The plot is 100% a railroad - you only have one place to go, or to skip time - and the only breaks from that come in the form of having to click on every location on the map in order to find someone. The UI is awful too - the location buttons are tiny, the labels for those locations are miles away (on my 32" 4k monitor) at the top of the screen, and very frequently when you click to move through places the buttons to continue in a direction (like going from the street to your room) are at the entire opposite end of the screen. Luckily there's a "shortcut to bedroom" button at least.

What makes the tedious clicky hell sandbox even worse is that because of the love/corruption pathing, you have to literally start the entire game over from the beginning to see both routes for the characters. God damn.

The character progression works by you making a ton of progress with one character in a very short amount of time, then completely ignoring that character for several days of in-game time as you work on other characters. The sex scenes tend to work by going straight from standing in a room talking to fucking at full speed in the space of a single frame. Lame.

Lastly, the engine - normally Godot should be better implemented than this, but this game has the habit of freezing on me whenever I try to rollback in certain situations, it doesn't let you rollback to change choices like Renpy does, if I click anywhere on the map that's not a location marker my mouse teleports somewhere else, and it's just generally slow. Renpy stays winning.

I thought this was a game; it had all the ingredients: sandbox, different characters, training, earning money by working..., but no, it was all a joke.It's a disguised visual novel. During the five hours I've "played," thinking that at some point the tutorial mode would end or something like that, it was all just: go to the park, go back home, go to the park again, go to your best friend's house who has actually been deceiving you for 18 years, go to the restaurant to eat soup from inside the toilet, go back to the park to get beaten up by three idiots, go back home to get yelled at by your little sister... screw it, I can't take it anymore, it’s more linear than an infinite line.


By the way, I was very surprised that people in the ratings said the story was very good. Let me summarize it for you: God or Superman or Bob the neighbor, it's still unclear, sends you back in time because you're a worthless piece of trash. Upon returning, you decide to fix your life, but since you're still a worthless piece of trash, everyone treats you as such.
Highlight: All the girls around you were murdered, raped, or disappeared...

Now that's some narrative depth... best story ever, 10 out of 10.

Goodby Eternity 0.11
to quote Markiplier review of Emilt is away <3 "why this game makes me feel"
Story develops nicely. Few choices determine routes for 3 major characters.
Game is bit long with dialogues and new update really turned into Romance VN.
Still it's one of the games that should be on "must play" list.

Goodbye Eternity - is a visually pleasing game where you take on the roll as a young adult, given the chance to right the wrongs of the past. You're thrown into a chaotic time where the drama is just starting to unfold and it's up to you to decide who to engage with. Form new relationships and take advantage of your opportunity by gaining someone's trust in more than one way. Or don't. You can ignore them and watch their persona transform into something else.

The art - is beautiful and perfectly reflects Japan. It has a lot or bights and darks to properly differentiate each location whether it's daytime or night time. The characters pop in any location they're in and their facial animations show what they're feeling during conversations with the protagonist. Apart from being visually pleasing, it also feature a wide array of native art and objects that makes locations appear realistic and down to earth.

The characters - have depth and wits about them. While most appear cute and friendly, some of them also have a dark side as well. You'll learn rather fast which ones you should stay away from, and which ones deserve saving. Each characters is unique and prefer doing different things to one another. Whomever you choose, you'll be more than busy to learn more about them.

The dialogue - is the only way to get to know yourself and those around you, and it does a wonderful job of giving you just enough, despite wanting more. Engage with everyone you see and learn things about them as they gain trust for you gradually. During some dialogue choices you can choose to go left, right or forward, for a lack of better words without spoiling the game. Meaning that you create the scenarios which you'd like to see. It's clear what each choice does when you hover over them.

The intimacy options - aren't thrown in your face and you're not forced to engage with them 24/7. They're there, they happen during the story. Apart from that they're visually pleasing and indicates what I'd consider vanilla. While passionate, they're rather short, having barely 5 screens and being over rather fast. But one can choose to engage with them but clicking on various characters at specific points in the game, or start them in your bedroom directly from the bed.

The main menu features - in the game offers a Gallery where you can view the music, characters, backgrounds and animations used within the game. By default, it will be empty, but one can download a persistant.sav file to complete the gallery without playing. Do keep in mind that it contains spoilers for those who have not yet touched the game. I highly recommend playing through it properly. Several playthroughs (different dialogue choices as well) are needed to fully unlock the gallery without third party downloads.

The playtime - varies depending on if you read everything carefully, or if you speed through it just to unlock the spicy scenes. I finished the latest version in about 12 hours, which seems rather long, but I was heavily engaged in the game, wanting to see everything I could and take my time without rushing it.

The story - is somewhat of a sad story. You feel as if you want to fix everyone's problems, and by doing so, you put yourself into uncomfortable situations. But despite that you come back for more, trying to find out what's happening around you and those you care about. It has humour, sorrow and complete chaos if ones choices lead to that.

Goodbye Eternity - is a game that will pull at your heartstring. I found myself feeling sorry for people in the game, being unable to help them right away, despite wanting to. Days after I still feel low, reflecting over the game. During my playthrough I chose to support and love those around me. I managed to achieve what I set out to do, longing for the next update to see how it unfolds.

Very good art. The storyline was fairly compelling as well, but unfortunately, all things must come to an end. Looking forward to more. I'll likely end up supporting this one on Patreon, just because it shows such promise.

TL;DR Excellent game, with excellent story and excellent art held back by questionable decisions.

All Hail Makumba the Anal Bencher.




The game is about isekai, where you get reborn from an otherwise miserable life with knowledge from your previous life, not the most original concept, but an interesting one nonetheless.


MC is somewhat a wet blanket and decent man at the same time, I don't feel neither hatred nor love for MC, he is just there.

As for characters, they're well-written and detailed.
While I am not personally interested in every single one of them, I can still appreciate the finer details that went into their creation.


Now for the visual aspect of the game... do I even have to say anything?
Top-notch art. I am scared to even imagine how much it must cost...
I needn't say more, but that it's ∞/10

Sexual aspect of the game?
The scenes are nice, if not a bit short. They're rather vanilla, only delving into slight netori, BDSM and yandere.



However, dev for some reason decided to go for Godot engine halfway into a development cycle, and after 4 years of working with ren'py. Wasting time on both learning the new language and learning the engine. Updates are rare too.

8.5/10 - Do better or Makumba will put a
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This game sucked me in far more than I expected. It has great music, good writing, actual impactful choices and very nice looking character.

Good games like this are honestly rare. Having such a beautiful game with a interesting story is actually refreshing when looking at all the low quality games out there that all have the same 5 character models

Solid adult game with lots of routes and to choose from with cause and effect scenario,
story is engaging , the art is very good and characters have their distinct personality .

I was thoroughly impressed by the game! The plot is captivating and keeps you engaged from start to finish. The artwork is beautifully crafted, showcasing stunning visuals that enhance the overall experience. The animation is incredibly lifelike, adding a level of realism that truly immerses you in the game world. Highly recommend it for anyone looking for an engaging and visually appealing gaming experience!

To be honest the art is major reason I keep playing despite the game still having annoying bugs that crash you and making the save file not playable cause if you load it, the game crash, but I was kinda hoping for major update tho the game is kinda dry to be honest and Im kinda curious if the dev will add like x-ray feature or pregnancy feature in the future, and I'm hoping the game don't get abandoned and get finished, it would be a shame tho if this get abandoned the art is so frickin good ngl

This was a pretty good game. It's unfortunate that I have to use the past tense. The decision to switch engines years into the game's development is baffling. The game now feels worse to play and my save files are obsolete, so it isn't really worth the time to invest in this game again.

This game was great! I really liked the art and the animations. The story wasn't bad either. The only bad thing that made this game a little bit worse was how poorly optimised it was. I was getting 50% GPU usage on a 4070 super while playing this game. So be careful. But other than that its great!

It has amazing animation, quality, and story! Highly important to save often because the game may crash randomly, but its good everywhere else. The story drew me in well and the characters have actual substance. Can't wait for more updates in the future!

Game has potential in terms of art and to some degree but thats it. The decision to switch engines to one dev/s barely know how it works delaying updates only to release half broken releases makes this a skip in a long run.

This used to be one of my favourite games on this site, that is until the dev switched to Godot.

After switching to Godot, save files between each versions are now incompatible, so you have to restart from the beginning every time the game updates. To make matters worse, each update so far doesn't really add that much content into the game, especially when it comes to the story. Really demotivates me to play the new update. And if i'm being honest, the only good part about this game is the artstyle and h-scenes. Everything else is average or below average. Whenever a new update comes out, I just watch the animations in the gallery, bust one out, close the game and never look back again until the next update.

Either the dev switch back to Renpy or improve the QoL of the Godot version for an overall vastly better experience, persistent save data for future updates in particular. As of now however, I can't really enjoy this game to the fullest as a returning player.

The gameplay is fairly basic, and the lack of save compatibility between versions is a major turn off. Much of the story is linear and realistically this would be better as a kinetic novel with a few minigames slapped in or something.

Switching the game engine mid development is also a weird choice, especially when you're making a visual novel. RenPy is very much the gold standard for these types of things for a reason, it deals with most of the heavy lifting including the quality of life features people are used to.

If you swapped out to GoDot because you wanted more flexibility, that's fine. But you needed to at least have feature parity between versions, and you very much could have spent the time making a save migration tool if nothing else.

It seems like save compatibility is just a running issue for the dev at this point though, which makes me think that they should probably look at having a different person handle the software side of things while they focus on the parts that they're good at. Mainly the art and writing, which really isn't as bad as people are saying it is.

I see a lot of new posters in the replies here often saying they don't know why the game has bad reviews, it's not because the bones aren't there for a good game. It's because it feels like it's been stuck at a standstill for ages, releasing new updates that break save compatibility and introduce very little to the story and more often than not just introduce more bugs.

was there even a need to change it from a Ren'Py to a Godot if any thing it made some people unable to play the game and I actually like playing it sad that I cant play it anymore but at the same time it was your choice so I wish you luck with future development and hope it becomes a game you enjoyed making

Wow, this is unbearable, what the actual flip.

ART: 5*. The art here is top notch, no doubts. The artist carries this project on his shoulders, no cap. It's arguably the only good point in this game so far.

GAMEPLAY: 3*. I mean, it's a point and click so in theory you can't go wrong but... it's just missing so much stuff honestly. I feel that the gameplay is just clunky and, again, this is a point and click game ( mostly ) so it shouldn't be like that at all. Plus it's missing so many QoL features. Tbh i could just be dumb but sometimes it's just not clear what you need to do and everything is painfully slow to go through.

STORY: -5*. For real, dude, no! It's just trash and i'm deeply sad to say that for a project with such potential. Every single character here ( besides the park guy and the main girls ) are a pain to deal with. The MC is more often then not being ostracized and for someone who came back in time he manages to sometimes make things even worse than they were before.

Tl;DR: Amazing potential. Everything wasted. A waste of an amazing artist with a VERY poor story writting.

It's an excellent game. I used Summertime Saga as a reference for this type of game, which, in my opinion, is one of the best eroge out there. After playing Goodbye Eternity, I believe it's a game with a lot of quality and content, just like Summertime Saga. It has good animation and good characters. Maybe the pacing is a bit too fast compared to Summertime Saga, but that doesn't make it bad.

Goodbye Eternity (Formally known as Extra Life) is The Last Of Us Part 2 of adult games.
Or in layman's terms: The best worst game I have ever played- and that's saying something.

Also since I am writing this shit at work I will not go into too many details, but we will see about that.

The premise:
You, as if the player character, is a loser nearing his middle age.
But somehow managed to pull an 18 Again and got his continuousness transport back to when he was just of age, with his stepmom (I assume) and not blood-related sister, because of course, this is an adult game.
Knowing how their future will end up, you decide to change it- for good or worse.

The Gameplay:
It is point-and-click most of the time, unless the story happens, in which case it is in VN format.
Mostly about going places on the map, and finding stuff that the character wanted to advance the plot, it works fine.
There are a fair share of "actually matter" choices, which is a plus compared to a lot of games in this genre-
but they don't actually matter enough, sadly.
It changes how some plot points happen- but...let's just say that another 1-star review by Reco cover eh has a point: Although you can change how some things happen, the overall choices have this Terminator-level "ultimately X will happen" level bullshit- more on that later.

The Artstyle:
I mean, it is good. Just look at the title pic.
The story is set in Japan, and it sure got that grounded but still anime feeling nailed down.
If anything my only complaint is despite how varied the sex scenes are, they kind of lack description in comparison to the vast majority of adult games where is all words under 1 CG, this one is a bunch of CGs and a bit fewer words.

"Gee look at this wanker nothing satisfied him" ~ Literally anyone who read this.
Granted, that is not why I give this game the worst rating I ever give- assuming anyone gives a shit about his random jackass's opinion.

The Story:
Remember I call this game "The Last of Us Part 2" of adult games?
Well, it is because the writing fucking reeks.
Like it has a good art style, and good gameplay (by adult VN standards) but the story is just like someone taking a shit on a wedding cake that is the other non-story element of this game.
No offense to the writer- assuming they even read a review from some nobody, but fucking hell what is your problem?

The protag is just the punching bag of this universe, everyone who is not a potential romance option either acts weird, is a rude cunt, or will eventually become a rude cunt to him.
Like based on impression I assume the protag is just some loner who never gets laid or has many friends because he keeps his mouth quiet and prefers to be alone- but somehow, everyone decides this is a prime real estate to be an absolute fucking twat.
This is supposed to be set in Japan right? The land where the social norm is conformity to the masses- why is everyone either weirdos or such rude assholes?
Everyone that is not on the shagging list that is.

Granted, I am aware bullying is also a problem that exists in Japan- but I will say more than half of the bullshit that happens in this game can not only be filed under "bullying/being a cunt" they can also be filed under "crime", and somehow no one thinks of getting the laws involved.
Not to mention, this is Japan, a country with the lowest crime rate.
I am almost sure if you run to the cops when some random thug is trying to beat you, they will gladly do something about it.


Oh and remember when I say " the overall choices have this Terminator-level 'ultimately X will happen' level bullshit" well here is the thing:
The prime example is your stepmum: Despite all the "choices that matter" I mention above, I am almost sure there is no way to stop her from getting into either blackmail or drug rape with the most stereotypical fat bastard character ever- like why?
The original fuck up timeline your protag wants to change is one of her working herself to death- and somehow, your involvement just makes this shit like 10 times worse.
Sure, you eventually stop it from happening- but still.

Yes, I am aware there are millions of counter-arguments fans of this game can stick on my face and call me a retard for not getting it- but here is a thing:
Granted, chess club member Todd Howard once mentioned something that goes like this: Knowing you are the underdog that eventually rises up and wins is more satisfying.

Except, fuck no.
The amount of cunts in this game who constantly give me shit throughout the entire process just makes it numb- is like you got beaten to half death, but at the brink of your life, someone throws you a gun and you capped all the mfs that beat you- sure some will say this shit is satisfying, but you are still beaten to a pulp, and those guys get to take the easy way out.

Shout out to that guy in the park tho.
In this world that should have been fucking nuked, he is chill asf- along with all the girls.
Yeah I should also mention the girls are mostly fine- is just in your process to do the standard adult game thing, you just got so much shit thrown at you and so many jackasses you have to deal with, it is not really worth it anymore.

Oh and finally, guy who has a ramen shop and a daughter who is probably crazy (Never get to that point before I quit):
You are also semi-decent, if not for the fact you cooked fucking toilet ramen and expect me to eat- if this is real life, I will get your fucking store shut down from health hazards and maltreatment of workers, dipshit.
Remember, this is Japan, they take this shit seriously.
Maybe then I can blackmail her daughter and be the bastard myself.

TL;DR:
Goodybe Eternity is a game with a great art style, and good gameplay, but the story fucking sucks.

In the end, this is just my opinion anyway:
I am aware the review below this one has this legendary quote: "if you got such an issue with a game teasing NTR, then play something else and don't give it a bad rating because of it. You don't go hating on Call of Duty because you cannot barter with cock-nosed villagers, do you?"

Well, yes, you are right- I have stop playing it.
This review is purely based on what I played back in early 2023, because no thanks, I am good.
For me, the ending of this game is I get with my stepmum and we have sex every day, the end.
Fuck everyone and everything else.

But I am still going to give it a bad rating not because I am not a fan of NTR, but because everyone in this game the protag can't shag act like cunts.
Plus let's face it, is not like what I write here even fucking matters when the average rating of this game is already 3.42 stars with 202 reviews, so take it or leave it I guess.