VN - Ren'Py - Grandma's House [Part 5 v0.78] [Moonbox]

OVERALL REVIEW
Would've given this a 3 if the amount of content wasn't so MASSIVE. The dev is hard working AF, it would be a CRIME to give this game a rating other than a 4. Also, YES, this whole game is a slow burn for the relationship between the MC and Alison (Grandma), you will have to wait...A LONG WHILE before they "have their fun," but I like the journey a lot more than the destination, I know plenty of people won't like that, but giving this game anything lower than a 3 is hurtful to the devs' hard work ethic and just frankly INSANE.

The four biggest flaws are as follows:
- The MC is a Gary Sue and has the personality of a broomstick

(I've played many games like this, but I've never seen someone have it so easy. It's extremely immersion-breaking, the things he gets away with. I've grown to accept that's just the comedy of the game, just how ridiculous his luck and advantages are. He's also just a dumb nice guy who truly believes he's God's gift to women.)

-There is not much interactive storytelling
(This is completely fine due to the amount of content the dev puts out, but it would've been nice if my choices had a bit more weight to them.)

-NO ANIMATION OR SOUND
(Again, this is probably due to the amount of content the dev puts out and would be far more time-consuming than people realize. Maybe they'll add them once everything is finished.

-Too many girls
(I like that there are a lot of options, but geez, you barely get much time to spend with any of them before going to meet with a chick you're less interested in. I understand that it's to build the world and show just how overpowered the MC is but MAN do I wish there was more storytelling for more of the girls individually. It's basically impossible to do that now because the dev is currently on a roll creating this wacky adventure.)

This game is what I call the lovechild of Sorcerer (dev Talothral) and WVM (dev Braindrop)

It's a cast of a thousand different girls and they come in all shapes and sizes and wrinkles. Sorcerer also did this and made sure you fucked every 'beautiful-in-their-own-way' (ugly) woman you encountered. They hit their cultural stereotypes as hard as possible so you get the full 'variety'. There's are 2 Japanese girls that run around in Kimonos just to hit your Asian fetish and cover the East Asian spread. Got them Latino women and East Indian women too. Poor East Indian lady has no wardrobe beyond her cultural attire. MC also has the personality of a doorknob but has a magnetic dick the girls can't resist (maybe that's the best POV for coomer self inserts?)

Half the game is either Sex (which is ok, if it's the fetish you're into) and girls looking at the MC with their head tilted or hugging him (this is where the game is like WVM where half the game is the girls doing duckface at the MC ie kissing him)

I'd probably rate this a 2 star because of its sheer content, which is a lot - however this makes it pure hell when I'm skipping 80% of the content. But I give it 3 star because there's a lot of breeding/impregnation fetish which is nice when coupled with the visuals. There's also a little waterplay which is also nice. I'm generally pretty picky with my games but I'd say about 2 or 3 sex scenes per chapter get the thumbs up from me. Which means I'm skipping about 8+ other sex scenes per chapter.

I downloaded the game because of Alisson, but I had the displeasure of having to play until part 4 to be able to have sex with her, the worst of all is that she is the poster girl of the game, a terrible game for those who just want to masturbate, if you are downloading this game because of Alisson (and remembering that she is the poster girl of the game), make a save and download part 4 and then you will have sex with her, otherwise don't even download this game, it has A LOT of dialogues and a lot of imposed sex scenes with women that you are not even interested in.

There's no story and characters aren't very well written.

But the reason I'm giving it a 3 star is because of the amount of content and the rate it's being updated.

If you're just looking for something to pass the time while another project updates, give this game a shot. If you're looking for a game with a well written story and characters, look elsewhere

a springing giant of a game :
- no animations
-its get reptive after a while
- one magic dick to rule them all
-lack of taboo
but
- monstrous amount of content
- its fun
- fills kinks (mostly later updates)
but
- too many women
-zero story
but
- consistant updates
-galery

As another reviewer here put it, this is really "cute, honest and fun"!
There is A LOT of content and the game is always consistent – good writing, sometimes really funny, but always wholesome.
This is a harem game of the consensual type (as it should be) that never tries to be more serious than it should.The story is very linear, but the choices makes it possible to avoid "harder" fetiches, such as watersports and lactation, for instance.
A solid 4/5 for me, because there are no animations (besides 2 or 3 frames on the H scenes) or music....

This is a great game! There are A LOT of women the MC interacts with, though as a visual novel style game if you have favorite girl, you have to wait until the story includes her again. This game has one of the best and most regular updates time frames! Personally, I love games that have pregnancy mechanics, and this game has a good one. The story may be a little belabored but there are always great scenes in each update that keep you engaged when the story doesn't.

For what this game is trying to be its an easy 5/5. Lots of great harem content and the writing is fun. Good amount of fetishes explored and staggeringly consistent updates. Will continue and follow and play this game for forever.

This game holds a peculiar spot in the landscape of adult visual novels, at the very least for me, but I believe for other people as well.
This is the comfort food of porn games. Lighthearted, easy going, consistant. Cosy, homely, and never disappoints. Sure, it ain't the best, but it was never the goal, it's about endearing, honest work. The game fulfills its promise, so in my book it deserves these 5 stars. Let's get into more detail tho.

The vast majority of the girls in this game are insanely hot. Special mention to the O'Reilys, Amy, and the namesake matron. I would also mention Kayla from the spinoff but she isn't in this game yet.
However, the amazon-type characters do look kinda awkward. I usually find muscle girls attractive, but Jasmine's and Sandra's proportions seem more akin to a manikin's than to actual muscle girls.

They aren't just pretty empty husks tho. Thanks to a straightforward but careful writing, the women are endearing, and the scenes who cause significant character development manage to be heartwarming.
My only caveat is Minnie, who for now is nothing but a fetish on a stick (albeit not a tall one). There's also Annabelle, but she was made to be stupid and infuriating so she don't count.

The renders are serviceable. Nothing groundbreaking going on as most of them are still images of the women looking at MC, but it's enough to reach their goal : conveying feelings of love and warmth through the monitor.

The sex scenes are hot and manage to not get too same-y after 3 and a half years, despite the near constant pornathon. Although, I do remember thinking sometimes, after updates that had few to no POV sex , that the difference between normal gameplay that's mostly POV shots and the third-person view during the sex scenes was jarring. I believe most updates strike a good balance though.

I also have to mention I encountered something weird on my save. I'm on the Tanya route, I get her double pregnant, Anne is born, so far so good. I don't know if I made a wrong choice or if I hit a bug (and if I did, when) but I don't get Tanya scenes on my main save anymore, I see them missing in my gallery. I don't see it being talked about in the main thread so thankfully if it's a bug it's not a common one, but it's annoying and I'll have to do some console wizardry to get back on track.

To conclude, I'm going to paraphrase my introduction. This game will never be the best, it won't be some Bocuse gourmet meal, and it's not trying to be. But if you want cute and honest fun, Grandma's got you, always.

This game takes a core theme of VNs and throws it out the window. Choice does not matter and if you don't like that then you should not play this game. There are seven characters who you cannot avoid, the granny, the blonde/brunette aunts, redhead cousin, the two asians, and the lady with a headscarf. If you dislike any of them and don't want their content, don't bother downloading the game or its updates. It is exactly because of the content being forced that my last played version was part 4 and will always be such.

The writing of this game barely exists, you get enough information to know who the characters are, a few fetishes and if you're lucky the dev has even given them a bit of backstory to flesh out why they're the way they are. There is no story, you leave college and return to your grandmothers house (shocker) because your parents are dead (you orphan) and then you fuck everything within 25 miles that isn't already married (and some that are). Characters are, at best, their fetishes and their current position in life. They aspire to get more of your dick or watch another girl get more dick.

The majority of the game is sex, that doesn't mean the scenes are long or very good rather that there is barely anything in the game that isn't sex. You don't like a character, you like their tits. The world revolves, much like your cousin rotates, around your cock. Anything that happens that you believe is not directly related to sex actually is related to sex, its just that you haven't got to it yet.

There are many characters, you can have sex with most of them. The sheer number of characters means that they have some overlap in fetishes and what little character some have. The variety is there for age and appearance but it feels like most of them could be ignored and you wouldn't notice a thing. There's little depth to any of their stories and it feels like the reason some have a past is as justification as to why they act as they do, not because they're supposed to be fleshed out main LIs.

For example, you have a dog. You barely see the dog. The final part I played, I don't believe the dog appeared at all. Why even have a dog. Much to the same effect, there's a male character who's supposed to be the best friend. He is merely a vessel to enable pseudo-incest/im-fucking-his-mother content and an introduction then (optional) sex with the local bar wench. He is attracted to women who are comically hideous to prevent any feelings of competition and barely appears after fulfilling those requirements. He is not a friend, he is a tool to enable content. He could have been replaced by anything else in the latter role with minimal change.

The choices on content in this game are simple, do you want to see a fetish or progress with a character. Choices exist for very very simple reasons, nobody wants to suddenly see something they don't like. The developer seems to have forgotten that or changed his mind later on and not cared about informing players. The game starts with a simple choice, do you want to progress the hags path or not. At no point does the game say it ignores this despite plenty of chances, like the multiple different EXEs. You could take every single choice to prevent her path and the game, nor the dev, would care and then force you onto her path.

I did not want to see hag sex. Had the game told me it was forced, I never would have downloaded the game. No, its not justifiable to point to some outside source to say X is mandatory when the game itself is giving the option to refuse. Its not even good, it goes from "Dance with me" to "fuck me" instantly. I knew it was going to pull some shit at the restaurant but I expected a little more build up but no.

The renders are fine. There's nothing especially good or bad.

The game overall is mid. The sole reason I would expect people like this is because of the vast variety of girls or maybe the update schedule, there's nothing else that would result in a recommendation of this over other games. The exact opposite actually.

TLDR:
No story, characters are barely people, the graphics are standard, the choices are fake and you can find better. Just go find a models leaks or something, you'll have as much connection.

Renders are good, story is fairly straightforward porn fodder, everything is in a lighthearted tone. Writing something of this scope is often the most difficult, as the renders are high quality but not groundbreaking. As always, a lot of low ratings are given by people who misunderstand that the author is not beholden to them, and just because you don't like something doesn't mean that a low rating is justified.

This game is a Gary Stu, kinetic novel that is over-saturated with too many women.

"But DocJones, more pussy = more sex, how can that be a bad thing?"

Well Billy, I'll tell you why, you have to wait updates and updates to have sex with the characters you actually want to. The plot doesn't matter at all, everything is just filler between sex scenes, and therefore I don't care about any of the characters.

The MC is a just a chick magnet to an unrealistic degree, every woman in a 5 mile radius is just wet for him without him doing anything. The harem plot in this game makes no feasible sense.

Someone said this game was better in the earlier chapters and while I agree, you could see the writing on the wall. There are no positives for this game besides the fact I think the author is good at maintaining regular updates, which arguably could push it to 2 stars, but the game is unplayable for me.

Would have been 5 stars if not for forced hags on you.

I don't want the old scarf woman. It's not my fetish and her design is bad/ugly/unappealing.

The game should let you choose.

It ruins the whole game for me to the point I'm leaving a review.

There are so many sex scenes and i know that its a porn game. They are too much even for a porn game. At some point they are being so ordinary.
MC is banging anything with two legs, two boobs and a pussy.

The game was pretty good until chapter 4. Since then the game is just long for nothing. The main plot is stucked, the game is just a fucking simulator or a pregnancy simulator as you wish. The author should work on ending the game and adding animations that would be more constructive.

This game is definitely on the list of the worst I've ever seen. Seriously, its story is very silly and childish and many things don't make any sense. This game is the kind where the protagonist gets girls simply for existing. In addition, it has no challenge or difficulty whatsoever. Everything is too easy for him. The game offers no excitement at all and only some boring, cheesy moments. If you're looking for a game where the protagonist is practically a god who doesn't need to do anything to win, you'll like this game the most. If you're looking for a game that cares about a good story and character development, then stay away from this game.

I have played this game multiple times and I love the story it tells. I also love the detail it has. The only thing that would make it better would be to add in animation during the sex scenes. To me that's really all it is missing

I feel like some parts of this game are severely underrated. The game opens up really well, in the sense that the introduction paints a very good picture of what you'll get in the game. Characters are introduced quickly and sex follows soon after, but I can't stress how good the writing is throughout the game. The game is not really trying to tell a particularly compelling story, and that's perfectly fine so long as the game knows it and doesn't try to force it, and that gets well handled in this one. Sadly I'm not much into the MILF kink, let alone going even further back in the family tree, but there are plenty enough characters to leave almost anyone satisfied, and all characters are optional(at least as far as I know), so if there's any you don't really like, you can just skip it. I will say I find the lack of bgm strange, but that's easy to fix, either by using the jukebox mod or by just playing whatever you feel like on your PC. The apparent focus on the more aged characters kept me away from this game for years, which means now that I've finally given it a try not only do I like it a lot, but there's also plenty of content to enjoy. Overall I think this game is very good, but as with everything, it depends on what you're looking for. As long as you don't expect a highly dramatic or overly complex plot, there's a high chance this game will be enjoyable at worst.

The Dev compensates their inability to write more or less interesting story or live believable characters with the ridiculous number of LIs of all colors and races and with elephantine MC's dick.
Basically the game is just a fuckfest of Gargantuan proportions with no developed relationships.

This game is all about SEX, SEX, little story, SEX, SEX, sleep, then repeat. It has an above average story, but if anyone is looking for a game were the MC having sex with anyone and everyone, this game is for you