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.
