VN - Ren'Py - Grandma's House [Part 5 v0.70] [Moonbox]

Ridiculous wholesome debauchery would be my short and sweet review.

To elaborate on that I feel what Grandma's House does best is the interactions and relationships between the different characters. And there are a whole bunch of them. By sheer amount there will likely be a character or two that you will vibe with. This is also what I feel is the biggest flaw and could be the downfall of this game. Simply too many characters. If you aren't one of the players that likes them all you could find yourself in a situation where you are waiting multiple updates in a row before seeing any new content for your favorite character. It is essentially in the devs hands to say who the main love interests are and who are simply side characters. And if your personal favorite is relegated to a side character well tough break you'll just have to get over it. This also works against the previously mentioned strength of the well written character interactions and relationships because we are constantly moving from character to character to try to get them all enough screentime to appease everyone and the depth of each relationship suffers or feels rushed.

The same can be said about the list of fetishes offered in this game, it is truly expansive and has something for everyone in the same vein as the list of characters. The same argument can be made however that it is too expansive and if you aren't into all the fetishes provided you may be waiting a while before an update has something to offer to you.

All in all I do still like the game and I will continue to check out every new update but just over the course of writing the review I found myself contemplating how much "better" the game could of been if the scope of the game was narrowed and more focused. Of couse that is very subjective and I can't hold that against the game. Also I'm not naive I know why this was done, cast a wider net to catch more fish, or supporters who give you money in this case.

P.S. MoonBox if you are reading this give us more Mila content she is a good girl and needs some more love.
P.S.S. Betty is probably lonely in her shop we should stop by and say "hello"
P.S.S.S Why isn't Tanya in the banner of the game? She is litterally carrying MC's child but is left out? Harsh.

Alghough I had my fun with some girls and would have loved to capitalize on those good moments, and give this game a really good review, I can't because of one main flaw: this game suffers from the "every girl is there only to be fucked by the MC and every genre of girl will appear".

That is making the game a repetitive experience to play.
And it's too bad because I liked very much some interactions we had with some girls:
- aunts and cousin, for starters
- the fiery bartender and her mother who have red hair.
- a bit of the other petite redhaired girl

So if you are in fo a "pure porn game" you may find some girls which appeal to you; it should since it covers plenty of girls diversity.

But if you would also have some kind of story, even a simple and already too used one... expect nothing.

Also, the fact that the game is in two parts is not a good point, but it's just a technical matter as long as you install both on your computer.

Oh man this game is amazing. The insane situations and encounters just make me laugh, but the actual content is pretty good!

The characters are fairly unique, the bodies are similar but different enough that it doesn't feel copy/pasted and there's a wild range of characters. It's a classic case of "Superhero Main Character out to solve every problem and get rewarded with sex!" but the problems are solved somewhat reasonably.


The dialogue is honestly okay, it's a porn game what do you expect?

Overall I'd say it's a 4/5, whether you want to take it seriously or not is up to you. It will be a good experience either way.

Look, I do understand people who like these sort of games. They want quick experiences and the "what you see is what you get type of deal". That's fine.

However, its due to that exact fact why so many devs just do games like this one that the current market of AVNs its mediocre at the best of times. What I mean is, if you don't get tired of pressing the skip button to the good stuff you're not going to have a good time because its overall that basic terrible design of just giving you lewds after a bunch of paragraphs that don't really mean anything. You don't have to be original to put stuff like this out.

There's a story somewhere, I am sure... but I got bored of it within the first 20 minutes of reading. Then I decided to skip the story and see how fleshed out the mechanics were. And surprise, surprise... press right to bang, press left if you don't care. Its beyond my comprehension how people like to play stuff like this. Again, it's okay to like this but... here just for the faps? Any porno movie would do the trick faster and better, and you wouldn't have to sit through thousands of worthless paragraphs with nothing interesting to read.

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)