VN - Ren'Py - Grandma's House [Part 4 v0.61] [Moonbox]

Did I just play my favorite game yet? I probably did. Here's why. (V 0.11)

Story:
As the author describes it, it's a classic homecoming story. The MC tries to restore his family ties, while meeting hot girls along the way. Although that synopsis doesn't promise much, the author manages to deliver a rich and engaging story for each of the MC's love affairs, which are optional. There are a variety of lifestyles for the characters, and each story unfolds differently from the others; from casual encounters to step by step grinding. Surprising kinks are revealed along the way, and I think there's something for everyone. If anything falls short, it is the incredible luck of the MC. I'd like to see less complacency, a little more unfortunate consequences, and a nemesis or two to add realism to the story. Sometimes it feels like the MC lives in a fantasy where nothing is going to go wrong. In short, I appreciate the author's work in adding so much content for each character. The choice elements of the game are numerous but quite simple.

Characters:
This novel has as its main focus maternal relationships. However, there is room for other kinds of corruption and even master-slave relationships. What stands out most about this game is that it has dozens of characters, but even so the variety continues to surprise as you progress. It has everything from barely legal to grannies, from skinny instructors to BBWs, different races, personalities, proportions, backgrounds... I could go on and on. I fell in love with most girls, some were nice and some were absolutely gorgeous. There was only one character I found rather ugly, but that's personal preference. The "acting" of the models is believable between gestures and poses. There is no way to get bored with so much variety.

Technical:
Although it has no animations or sound, the game surprises with the massive number of renders. As usual, these start out okay in the early stages, but improve substantially with each installment. The hot scenes in particular feature a large number of cutscenes and renders, so I think there was no need to add animations, and that would probably have slowed down the progress of the deliveries.

All in all, this is a landmark game by any standard. Congrats to the creator(s) and I can't wait to see how it will unfold.

Love this game, I eagerly wait for new content. The character development, storyline, and models are all excellent, especially the relationship between the mc and nana. Looking forward to seeing how this story unfolds.

There is a lot of characters with different personalities, but there is a common trait for all of them: they just melt, when they see MC. That might not necessarily be a bad thing, but there is too much cheese in the game. In fact, there is so much "sweetness" / "rightness", that it really made the game unplayable for me. A good story needs some struggle, some conflict, some plot, which keeps you interested. Not just everyone constantly hugging and saying only the "right" lines.
The renders / character models are mediocre at best.
The number and quality of sex scenes are ok.

Absolutely one of the best.

Pros:

• Affection of relatives/family/close friends
• There is no rush for main love interests
• Great renders and graphics
• There are many character to interact with (only few of them unavoidable)

Cons:

• There are too many character to interact with, your fav one can have smaller part in eeach update due to number of them.

Update 61 edit:
Dropping my rating to 2 stars. I was invested somewhat in the plot because the sex scenes are mid but I'm considering dropping this altogether.
At this point it's done nothing but milk the "maybe sex with Nana" bit for almost 20 updates straight and every time there's a chance for plot development some basically unneeded character pops in wanting attention suddenly.
Combo that with the updates being less than 5 minutes of actual dialogue at this point and it's getting more and more obvious the dev's just milking the game at this point

Update 52 edit:
Second update in a row that had very little plot development and was just a lot of random unneeded sex scenes, and only a single day long

Verry little fap material.

Sex 2/5
Models / renders 2/5
Story 1/5 : just a porn scenes collection. no real story.
I mostly skipped the text (boring).

No real characters.
Writing 1/5

After all, ill give it 2 stars because of the potencial i see .
Ill check again in 5-6 months

Pretty good take,
a lot to read through, way to many npcs, hard to keep up with all of them,
but I did really enjoy the trip, hope this game gets finishes to the end
writing a 200 letters review is a lot harder than I first thought, but I guess im getting there

Hyper recommended game, it has many fetishes, beautiful story (it made me cry in some parts) very fluid, slow as it should be, giving each character time to get to know them and get attached, the most alive characters I've seen in years a game, not to mention the models. It has tremendous potential both in history and in characters, I hope it continues to maintain such a good rhythm, I feel a lot of love for this game from the creator. I love it (to the game xD).

This is kind of a unique game.

It's really not impressive from a technical standpoint. Renders are anywhere between gorgeous, basic and freakishly ugly. No animations. Backgrounds and assets are placed haphazardly and without much care. The story has been seen in AVNs 100s of times. The writing isn't any more then passable.

Now that we got that out of the way, why 5 stars?

This is made with heart, and you can tell. The number and diversity of the women is enormous and you can include/exclude almost any of them instantly (except for direct family members). There are no bullshit minigames, drama or other forms of playtime padding.
If you want to turn off your brain and play a lovey dovey power fantasy, this is the game for you.

Not always in the mood for games like this, but if I am, this is a really good one.

Review after v0.10

Pretty average i guess....

I was intrigued by the premise, but it didn't really lived up to my expectations.

Pros
Nice renders
beautiful models
variety of models, ethnicities and fetishes
a lot of content
if you're into harem this is a game for you

Cons
no animation
no music
no story
no background people or settings. There's literaly a wedding scene and there are no other people or food on the table or other people dancing, etc. Just an empty setting and this happens all the time. You go to a bar, it's empty. You go to a restaurant, it's empty. You go to a cafe, no surprise it's empty. Hell, you can even get stopped by police and jerk you off in the middle of the road on broad daylight and there's no one around. I don't know if this is because the dev is lazy or he doesn't think having a more realistic setting wouldn't add to his game, but it's definitely a turn-off.
gigantic penis. there's a difference of MC having a big dick and a comedy dick and this is the latter.
Everybody hugs MC all the time. I know he's the ladies man, but every time he says something sweet, they immediately hug him as if they never had any normal interaction in their lives. Especially the grandma. It's like a minimum of 10hugs and 3 "wipe the tears of her face" a day requirement.

Overall, this is a game for a quick fap without overthinking about it, but if you want a coherent storyline and more in-depth characters you won't enjoy it so much.

A wholesome VN that brings smiles and laughs with a MC that isn't a loser or a creep is always more than welcome and MoonBox's Grandma's House tick all the boxes right : great graphics, very good to astonishing models with a lot of variety and pretty good writing.

If you're still fond of vanilla content, give it a try, you shouldn't regret it.

I rarely rate game but this one I had to do it.

Pros: Pretty solid game. Good amount of content, can play for a while (no pun intended), nice models, perfect facial expressions, great body proportions, good story (although half way through I got bored pretty fast and just started skipping and only slow skimming bits that interested me)

Con: And with that one con is TOO much text, literally there is a lot more lore and story then actual sex in game. Although the characters got good chemistry it's still pretty boring seeing two folks talk for this long. But I know some people are into that.

*SPOILER for some characters*

Fav ladies :
Definitely the grandma she is just a sweet wholesome soul not even anything sexual her character is just really well written/made.

Jamila: I just couldn't keep my eyes off her model, also the chemistry and everything for her very well written.

Love Tanya even though we only got to see a little bit of her at the end, I would of loved a ark/lore on her.

The cop: Where do I even begin on her? she's just hot even though there was like only 2 encounters with her

Fiona: Hopefully there will be more of her in the future other than teasing.

Liz is a fine woman even with her hardships she is a very nice woman.

and all the other characters they were pretty fine.

TL;DR: no real story, just some fap material.

Pro et contra:

+ Sex scenes are OK.
+ A few faces are relatively cute.
+ Models and renders are OK-ish (esp. if you like huge asses).

+/- Large variety of sex partners. (But not much content with the best of them).

- I would prefer to skip the non-optional contents.
- The story is mostly just a collection of porn scenes.
- I mostly skipped the text (90% not interesting, even boring).
- Every character is just an empty cliché.

This a unique ren'py title. The writing is unique, the characters jump at the first chance to suck the MC's' cock (both figuratively an literally), and the renders aren't average. This is popcorn porn true an true - not bad definitely of any type of quality.

Review for v0.10
The good:
The renders are good as are the models used in the game.

The writing fulfills its purpose and makes the game fun to read.


The not so good:
While the renders are good the game doesn’t have animations which makes the sex scenes boring.

The game has a wide variety of female characters with should be a good thing but it is too much. There are so many girls in the game that it is hard to remember all of them because their screen time is so low. Furthermore, I’m not a fan of splitting them into different groups, family-harem, young girl-harem, and side girls.

The Tanya situation.

Grandma's House is yet another game with a family setting and potential harem. The MC's parents are dead and the sister is also believed to be dead after an airplance crash (I call it now, since the body of the sister was never found she will return eventually) and after college the MC returns to his grandma who has the face of an older woman but the body of a very curvy 30 year old, as grandmas usually have. Then there are two sexy and curvy aunts, a very young cute cousin, her equally cute and petite friend, a milf neighbor, a pretty girlfriend from the MC's college days (who is potentially pregnant based on player input!) and a few others.

Grandma's House starts out somewhat misleading. Early on you may feel this is yet another game where things will escalate very quickly. But over the course of the game you will realize that the game has two very different patterns:

- extreme slow burn and lots of teasing with almost any character that may mean something - so basically all the main love interests
- extremely superficial sex with irrelevant side characters, the action here is almost always more or less instant and more or less pointless, these scenes merely exist to balance out the lack of action with most main characters

So if you hope that the game will focus on the main love interests then be prepared for lots and lots and lots of teasing and lots and lots and lots and lots of dialogue.
There are a few heavy petting scenes with the cousin relatively late into the current build (0.9) and her cute friend, at the end of the current update also with one of the aunts and the cousin in a kind of threesome (but not really). For the most part it's your typical progression route that so many VNs use. Which means as late as update 0.9 there are still 0 (!) actual sex scenes with any (!) of the main love interests. Only some intense fooling around with a select few of them.

Slow burn is not necessarily a bad thing of course, but here it feels a bit forced since all the characters are 100% into the MC (of course) and there's zero doubt where things will end. There is no reluctance really, I feel the game teases things only to spread out main content and to keep people waiting. And to keep people somewhat happy the game throws random girls at the player that mean more or less nothing. I don't care too much for that approach.

In my opinion it would be a lot better to focus on the actual main love interests, but that of course means that things would need to progress a bit faster and that in return would mean the game would overall be shorter.

This game also features yet another MC who has a horse among his ancestors. I really don't know why devs keep doing that. It looks silly. It is silly. Oral sex looks ridiculous, these women all need to have jaws they can unhinge like a snake does when it swallows prey. It's neither sexy nor good looking, it's just silly in my opinion.

The female characters are a mixed bag for me. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but several women here are very unattractive in my opinion. At least you can reject everyone you don't like. The game tries to give the females wildly different body types, petite and cute, curvy, more or less chubby and even very overweight. There is also a very short older woman.

While kinks are almost entirely optional, especially with the main characters, certain side characters have mandatory and unskippable kinks like anal sex and you will only find out when you trigger the scene. So if you don't like that you will have to avoid a few side characters like the literal Karen in the coffee shop and the Asian masseuse who, in a later scene, is fixated on anal sex with no alternative to choose from after vanilla sex before that.

Again, with main characters you always have a choice (so far), which is commendable. I wish the same could be said about certain side characters. But at least the main characters always have options, not that you interact with them all that much of course.

The game has no animations and no music, which is regrettable. Especially the lack of animations is surprising.

You will also have to REALLY like the grandma, since the MC has many, many scenes with her but zero action so far. So it's lots of dialogue with her. But of course characters (including the grandma) are fine with sleeping in the same bed as the MC and cuddling etc. and the MC even sees his grandma naked here and there. And yes, there are massages etc... you know the drill.

Grandma's House is the archetypical ultra slow burn tease that literally makes no sense given how super thirsty all the females are for the MC.
And if you don't like the grandma then you'll be out of luck, you can't avoid any of her numerous dialogue heavy scenes. So check out her character model and see if you're ok with her.

Overall Grandma's House is a game that mostly disappointed me. The action you get is more or less of the pointless variety, and the lack of animations doesn't make things better. There is little progress with the actual main love interests, the intimate scenes are just static renders with very average narration and dialogue and you will have to play your own music in the background unless you prefer the silence.

On the plus side Grandma's House is almost entirely a very wholesome experience. The MC is "nice", unless the game makes him spank or "punish" a few side characters, but you can avoid these interactions by rejecting the side character.
However, the game never really tells you what's coming and thus you may see things you don't care so much for. As mentioned above only the actual main characters have optional kinks here and there, so nothing is forced upon you with them. Only some side characters have options here and there and you never know when you may get options with them.

If you like extreme slow burn games with teasing for all the major love interests and if you like to read lots and lots of slice of life dialogue about nothing (the game has no story!), then Grandma's House could be something you enjoy. Especially if you like wholesome games where (so far) all major relationships are based on love or at least romance.
However, my advice is to maybe wait for the next few updates so there is more meaningful progression for the main characters. I would guess that at least one of the aunts and her daughter have made good progress as of chapter nine, since things have gotten really close at the end of the current update and there's literally nothing left other than the final step. But you will get that scene only close to the literal end of the current update after hours and hours of content. So patience is required.

If you expect animations, a tease and slow burn that don't outstay their welcome and a game that focuses on the main characters instead of frequently adding inconsequential side characters (to give the player some action), then Grandma's House may turn out to be a frustrating experience you have little fun with.

And if you want only very traditionally attractive women in your game then Grandma's House may offer you a few potential love interests you may not care for at all - but you can reject them. If you don't always need traditional beauty and if you like lots of variety then Grandma's House has a lot of different body types, ages and skin colors to choose from however!

As always it's best if you try it out for yourself. But I would guess that people who prefer a game to have a story, animations and non glacial progression for the actual main love interests may have a hard time enjoying this.
If you don't mind or enjoy slow burn, teasing, lack of scenes with major love interests in favor of interactions with irrelevant side characters and if no animations are ok for you then Grandma's House offers hours of wholesome content.

This reminds me of WVM, same pattern different environment. It started well and interesting but after some time it gets annoying and tiresome, especially with the cringe dialogues, every MC joke and flirt are poorly written. I like the variety of women but since they are pretty stupid and act like MC is the only male on the planet, they get tiring as well.

So far this game seems to be going great. Updates are regular and in good size (I guess it can be better in the case of size, if the dev decides to hire some help at some point but it's his choice).
Story is lovey-dovey so that gets a lot of points in my book.
Renders are gorgeous.
There are ballance between teasing scenes and sex scenes, and thanks to this ballance sex scenes have a lot of impact when they eventually do come.
I wish the best to the dev and I hope that he can continue in this path, not succumbing to the temptation to exploit his supporters.

Awesome, there were so many ladies and its easy to skip a few that are not in your tastes without feeling that you're missing so much content, and there's character development so its not straight to doing the did that way it feels way more rewarding getting to it. I love what you're doing, please keep it up.

Overall, an okay game (changed from 5 to 2 stars).

Pros:
Wide variety of girls that are good-looking.
Graphics are good

Neutral:
Different fetishes for different characters. While this does allow different fetishes, too many LIs are defined by them and that alone.

Cons:
No story
Too much forced content (around 9 forced character, and forced unvanilla fetishes)
Characters that do not know the MC fall for MC way too fast
Fetishes for characters are not always obvious