VN - Ren'Py - Grandma's House [Part 5 v0.69] [Moonbox]

This game never ends and story progression has basically come to a complete halt over the last handful of updates.

If all you want is a harem fuckfest this delivers, except when it comes to the Grandma that this game is supposed to revolve around. Shame too because it's starts off pretty promising.

If all you care about is scenes and don't care with who, basically every update delivers something so there's that.

Great game! It's not the deepest AVN by any means but the game doesn't take itself so seriously and I still find myself interested in what happens next. It also has something for everyone, kink-wise. Give it a go, I don't think you'll regret it!

Version 0.33
Grandma's House is your stock standard harem romp that has you playing the Gary Stu who has free reign to woo every women you come across, as they're all conveniently never in happy relationships and are a ok with sharing you with dozens of other women.

The game is perfectly willing to eschew realism to serve the ultimate male fantasy to the utmost degree, and includes an MC that is already a player at heart. Sex scenes come frequently and a variety of your usual kinks are explored (watersports, lactation, spanking, dom/sub, CNC, netori). However, there is no sound or animation.

There are some characters (the grandma among others) that have a slower progression while many others jump your bones at the first meeting, I think this is usually a good idea to keep the pace of scenes consistent but this game suffers from character bloat. There are 39 different characters with sexual content either in the game or planned (though 2 are twins and are always together so effectively 38) and of those I'd say 4-5 of them are on the "slow burn" route. The issue is that most of your time is split between this huge catalog of characters who are all willing to put out with no build up so if you are into slow burn content most of it won't appeal to you. But these 4-5 slow burn characters also hog most of the non sexual scenes where they are building their relation with the MC so if you are only into quick sex then a lot of your time will be wasted.

That being said I do appreciate the focus on physical intimacy between the MC and the various women in non sexual sense. I think that is just as much a part of many men's fantasies which is often neglected. I also do like most of the characters and the writing even if there are too many side characters. The game has a wealth of content and definitly fits within the "comfort food" category of games in this genre, the only choices you make are what characters and fetishes you want to engage with (the intro with the girl on the plane is the only exception).

Edit: Recent updates seem to be focusing on bringing the slow burn characters up to speed which I really appreciate. I'm giving it an extra star for that as these more recent updates have been much more enjoyable. Hopefully the more one dimensional characters can sit on the back burner, only appearing during group scenes as there isn't any progression to be had in those relationships.

Probably one of the best Harem VNs I played!

MoonBox really provides constantly updates and communicates clearly, when things take little longer, looking forward what future brings.

wonderful mix of dark humour and lewd lustings of the ladies and those we can't bone yet, we extremely eager to.

EDIT 11-13-23:

From two stars to one. I don't know how far into P2 I am, but I quit. After railing the black amazon I just can't with this shit. It's the same problem every long-running harem game has: the more bimbos you add, the less you care about each one and the less "glue" there is to hold the scenes together. It's a rush to fuck the next and any semblance of giving a shit has been tossed out. I only cared about Aunt Amy after the first couple hours but I have to keep dealing with the annoying and titular Grandma every morning ("Breakfast," "so cute!" "morning hug!" "bacon mmmm" etc etc etc etc etc etc e....t...........c) and she's not worth it.

The only way this game could be solved is twofold. One, make the women look unique from the neck down, and not just with body dimensions. How about some with fat labia? What about some of the women with dark nipples, or pepperoni nipples, or oblong ones? Birth marks? Scars? Stretch marks? Second, make it open world and let me pick who I want to bang. I don't care about the dwarf granny, the housekeepers, the amazons, the grandma........the lawyer, the neighbor.........the cucks....the other grandma...........like literally just let me do the aunts and I'm good, maybe the cousin too.

Fuck this game, I'm out.

PS. The two objectively amazing things GH does correct are that NO ONE HAS PUBES, and about 85% of the anal content is totally optional. Nice.


Sadly this is a four star game that's just gone on too damn long; the more updates it gets, the worse it is.

1. Zero character development of any kind
2. Another harem game that adds new bimbos rather than progressing current bimbos' stories
3. Too much sex to the point where it's meaningless
4. TOO MANY BIMBOS
5. The last few months of updates are utterly nonsensical. MC travels to Paris for two days, stays for like eight; Paris suddenly has an oceanside beach with taxi service?; for literally no reason at all, another side character is in Paris and it's not explained in the slightest; MC and Aunt get arrested then just leave?...that's not how the law works my dude
6. The dialogue is stale and boring, because every day progresses the same: "Good morning Nana, love you to bits here's how much I love you" "Oh wow son I love you too this is how much I love you!" [Whichever bimbo is there that day]: "I love you too! See how loving this family is! Wow we love each other!" "Do you want an omelette son?" "Wow thanks Nana it's the best you're so good at these omelettes I love you so much!" [Bimbo]: "Damn [mom/Allison/grandma/whatever] these omelettes are incredible it's almost like I haven't had one every single morning! I love you!" "Haha remember how MC's dick was out this morning?" "I know we all talk about his dick is out all the time!" "We love each other so much, and his dick! Haha!"
7. It's just too damn long with the same shit every day
8. The big objective positive, and the only thing that saves it from one star: all the women are shaved. No pubes at all! Even the MILFs are clean. Shame about the rest of it really, but FINALLY there's a game that doesn't pander to old men still stuck in the '80s.

There's ZERO progression and ZERO development. I don't hate this game, because it has its charms and is nowhere near as bad as some AVNs on here, but it's not good either. It needs a serious trim of the content, the bimbos, and another person to come in a rewrite about 90% of the words. And after all that it needs to end. ASAP. Make a sequel with a time jump I don't give a fuck, just put this game out to pasture.

Grandma's House - A Cliche Story

Annnnd it's another harem game with your host, the man with a conveniently-absent immediate family whose main superpower seems to be attracting cookie-cutter women with zero real life experience and personalities as deep as a Skyrim fetch quest.

I believe the attraction is pheromone based (although this is currently unconfirmed) as every character in the game immediately falls for the MC and plays olympic-level mental gymnastics as to why it's okay that she should stunt her personal ambitions to merely being an increasingly-irrelevant part of his harem.

4* still because it's a porn game and I try not to judge it too harshly based on the story. Not every game needs a house fire forcing me to choose which harem member gets the happy ending. Scene dialogue and renders are quality, as well.

[v0.24] I'll be honest. Didn't really pay attention to the story when I played this. Basically, your parents and sister die and your grandmother takes you in to raise you. You grow up with her friends and daughters (your Aunts). Move back in with her and start seducing every woman you see, including your whole extended family. Lots of incest fetish, MC's dick is ridiculous, and there are lots of weird fetishes and non-standard body types for the girls. The variety is great, all kinks are optional, and each sex scene feels substantial as there are multiple positions, animations, and dirty talk sections for each. The story is probably entertaining enough, but the smut content and fetishes makes this game great just on their own. Also, Grandma is Best Girl!!

Love this game, was hoping to see a bit more fun with the family, perhaps a little bun in the oven, but it is really a nice story, just slowed down a bit, maybe things will get spiced up soon. The content has been really well mixed, but as I said before, a bit more family sport would be great.

(v0.24)

This is your standard porn setup of a guy moving back to his hometown where every woman throws themselves at him for pretty much no reason at all. It would be fine if it weren't for some annoying characters that you aren't allowed to avoid.

The strangest thing about the forced characters is how random they are. There's not really any sort of a main plot, so you can't claim that they are required for the story, and at least one of the goes directly against the choices you make in the game. You can choose to be a complete asshole to one character, and then the game just forces your character to apologize and he then starts fawning all over them for the rest of the game.

The characters I'm most interested in keep getting dangled just out of reach, while the characters I want to avoid are shoved in my face constantly. It's reached a point where I'm skipping more scenes than I'm watching, and it's only getting worse as the game goes on.

You either really like this game, or you think it's complete crap. I personally choose the second.
Yes, there is a lot of sex in the game, a VERY lot of sex, it's not bad if before that there were some interesting moments and the disclosure of characters, but this was not here!!! They just fuck, it's literally popcorn porn.
If you like VN, then you will bypass such garbage. 0/5

[Reviewed for v0.23, subject to change]

TLDR:

Yes.

A bit more context:

We, people who play adult videogames, are a funny bunch.
If a game is too wordy and verbose, we condone it for being "too pretentious and Shakespearian" and say "I'd rather read Tolstoy!" and if it is simply worded it's "disrespecting our intelligence".
If the game is sex-abundant it's "meaninglessly horny and cheap" and if sex is rare, it has "misread its audience" and is "pointless".

I think what most of us suffer from is 'unwillingness to meet a game on its own terms'. Some games are story-heavy. Some are simple. Some are very horny. Some are complex.
They each require their own yardstick for measurement.

In that regard, Grandma's House is a great version of what it is.
People who find it difficult to enjoy are mostly imposing their own arbitrary metrics on it, unfortunately.

I will do an in-depth review of this game sometime in the future, but for now it has been a fun experience.

All in all, this unfortunately seems to be a case where it would have been better to choose a different medium. This VN is actually a porn film disguised as a VN, but without the strengths of the film medium and also without even beginning to use the strengths of the VN medium.

If you want a fast fap, why make a VN? If you want a VN, why does it have zero story, zero character development, empty shells as love interests that fall on the MC without any effort. No real choices, no immersion, no engagement or player agency.

I don't understand why it's rated so highly. I guess the renderings are decent or good. But the developer desperately needs a good story writer. Or should switch to a medium that is better suited for what he/she has in mind. Or improve their story and dialogue writing skills.

I'm not sure how to rate it. It's not using the potential of a visual novel, except for the visual aspects. I can't give more than two stars because of it.

v0.23
It is what it is, it offers cookie-cutter content with a twist and it delivers, plus a wholesome, albeit still gary-stuey story.
The renders are good, models are good and varied (godbless Liz), story, though development would be more accurate in this case, as I said is quite good for what is to be expected, dialogues are fine as well (maybe too much heavy breathing tho), and they have a good bit of gary-stu spicing, the grammar is very good, unfortunately there's no sound nor music, and neither are there animations, these being the reasons for taking away a star.
Still, it's a good game to kill time and just read some wholesome gary-stu stuff, keep it up dev!

1.) I have not finished the current version 0.23. And this is my first time playing the game. So keep that in mind, while reading my review.
2.) This game may not appeal to you, if you are looking for a deep story. From what I've played, there is no endgame to strive for. No specific goal to reach. And I actually don't mind that.
3.) The characters are lovable, including the MC, which is rare for me to like. Some characters you may find to your liking more than others. Shizuka and Aaliyah are my personal favorites so far.

And finally: Give the game a shot, it's far better than I thought it would be. I am now a fan, and will look forward to future updates.

another example why the ratings on this site are either faked or trash how they work. that this game is rated so high is ridicolous. story doesn't make sense at all, i wouldn't even call it a story.

way to much girls are getting thrown at the mc without any background or relationship building. to argue about that his dick size would be over average is ridicolous as well, it's absurd big and looks pretty ugly.

even if some girls are looking interesting and hot, there is no real backstory or some deeper story behind them at all.

Just love this game! Thank you dev to share your good work with us!

The story, render, woman, it´s just very good.
The updates are quite fast and with the correct amount for that time till release.

May the jedi be with you and finish this (not so soon please)

This game is Harem and shows many sex scenes.
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Updates are consistent and fast.
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The advantage of this game is that the characters have various descriptions, and this is why I like this game.
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But it's a shame that the main dish hasn't come out yet.

I really enjoy this game. When a new update comes out, I will start playing it as soon as I can. Updates are regular, and reasonably meaty (I believe we are shown two new days every two weeks, with each day having multiple encounters if you choose.

People point out that there are too many women; this may be true, but it does seem like the dev is starting to better show us who are the main girls, and showing them to us regularly. While some plot points (the MC's super-potency, local drug stores running out of pregnancy tests, etc.) seem to be developing slowly, they are developing. My expectation that the MC will have at least 10 buns in the oven before Tanya delivers may not pan out; we'll see.

It's also true that if you're primarily here to see the MC and his titular grandma get it on, you have to be patient still. That said, one can't say that there's no progress there.

The MC, generally speaking, is a Nice Guy. In the real world, this isn't a magical pass to all the sex one can handle. To the best of my knowledge, this story isn't happening in the real world. Some women fall for the MC as a sequel partner immediately. Others (Amelia, Allison, Shizuka) love him dearly, without immediately falling into the sack with him. There is some balance.

Grandma's House is good example to show what happens when you sacrifice quality and good story for quantity and subpar lewd scenes , it doesn't deliver anything valuable , I can't feel sympathy for any of characters ,because none of them are sincere and genuine , it's an amalgam of fake characters with most perfunctory story .
As soon as MC chose that interested in certain character , they start to beg him for sex without any effort , first encounter of MC with realtor woman and policewoman are among worst scenes I saw in any game , it lacks proper taste and sense , there are quite a lot of these tasteless scenes later on.
I liked Fiona and Amelia character and for these two I think game deserve a 2 star!

Poor, MC has a monster dick, he bangs random people like it's a natural thing, story is pretty average. I like the idea of grandma, but it looks so unreal. Plus, all mature women completely shaved. Too many Characters and renders are not that great