Ren'Py - Completed - Greener Pastures [v0.13.6] [arcaos]

played v0.13.6
6.5/10

Animations
animations are mostly stock koikatsu animations which is very meh. lotta male dom which i find a plus (there is a dommy mommy for the reverse too). The scenes start off hella bad but do get a bit better towards the end. Lots of breeding/pregnancy content for those that like that too.

Characters
Didnt seem very deep, changes to them kinda happened spontaneously. Models arent very great either, but atleast the characters were likable

Story
might as well not exist

Gameplay
Loop is work the farm, do the one character that is available event, then sleep. (dunno why but for whatever reason the game really only lets you progress events for one character at a time.

No bugs atleast through my playthrough. and as an aside i found the mc to be kinda ugly (model wise not ugly bastard wise) but atleast props for it not being the stock feminine male koikatsu model.

I really liked this game and not just because of my pregnancy fetish. The story was fun and each of the girls are sweet and unique in their own ways. There wasn't much grinding (as far as I remember) and the in-game guide worked well. If you want a nice story about found family and are into or at least don't mind monster girls, then I recommend this game.

Story could have been fun if you had more choices, but its a 100% linear sandbox game, so if you dont like a girl to bad your going to fuck her which is pretty awfull in a game with monster girls, some might light the bimbo cow girl type others wont, personaly i really dident like the spider girl in any way and she wasent the only one, so game shoots it self by forcing you to be with everyone making it turn-off and nothing but a mindless fuckfest which just arent fun.

MC has an ok personalty but hes ugly as fuck, why dev picked someone looking like a total idiot i have no clue, you would think there where better options, since girls faces looks fine for the most part.

The girls look nice enough and have diffrent personalties so thats pretty good, but its really the only good part of the game.

Animations are very short and low quality.

As for choices there arent any its 100% kinetic/linear.

Sandbox is boring and it dosent feel like a finished game, hint system just dosent work so you have to constantly click each location to see if something happens, quests seems bugged, like i wasa asked to buy some cream and tuna which i did, but nothing happened when i got back to the girls with it and never heard about it again.

It could be due to sandbox being pure linear since girls are tied together so you cant progress with the ones you want untill you have made progress with everyone, its truely the worst kind of sandbox type since it gives you 0 freedom to do anything you want and this is pretty much what kills the fun of playing the game.

I had higher expection for this game considering the reviews and from the first page saying "will you make anyone pregnant" which leads me to think i would have a choice, but you just dont.

When you make a kinetic/linear game why not just say it page 1, just put in the word fuckfest or say forced harem game, its that easy.

Great, fun game. Well worth a play in my opinion, just wish that the dev would make another Gane like this. The monster girl aspect is well done, and the story is interesting enough to keep you engaged for the entire story.

This game is great and more people should play it. There's a really charming and straightforward story here that knows what its doing and doesn't get too crazy. Its very wholesome and feel-good while exploring various kinks. I think people overlook this game because the art isn't quite as good as some competitor games, but as a full and completed package it executes what its trying to do very well. Big points for not having ESL issues in the writing and otherwise having good dialogue that will have you smiling instead of cringing.

For a sandbox game! It's really good game.

Story wise its all good in the hood. It highlights each and every girl about their personal struggles/issues about their lives. Also about their fight against the organization and plans to overcome, it was really well written and kinda sweet and warm feeling a bit in the end when they overthrown the organization.

As per the visual/graphics. The MC looks weird, its like the face is not well drawn. I think that;s the only prob IMO. However for girls visuals i like Sophia, Milibelle and Penny the most and other are good.

Overall i could give this 5/5. Easy to play as a sandbox and also kinda bias about pregnancy fetish. lol

Thanks for creating this game! Hope you could make a game like this!
More power to ya developer!

Loved the game played it through when it was mostly done and made
Sure to come back for the finished product would love to see
The story continue or maybe a spinoff of some other species of the other monster girls

Review for 0.13.6

i'll keep this one rather simple.

I have to admit, this game is surprisingly much better than i initially thought it would be. While there is definitely room for improvements and the game overall is "basic", it concentrates on a particular fetish (pregnancy) and does it really damn well.

The beginning is really damn rough. The dialogue, visuals and overall story is really quite basic and mediocre. But i've stuck around since this game apparently gets substantially much better over time in terms of... well, everything. And it does. Dialogues, characters, story arcs and sexual content all get much more interesting in the mid and late game. Most monster girls have abilities/features that are reinforce their types (Cow girls make milk, Bunny girl is all about getting knocked up, cat girl is feisty and tsundere, etc...) basically they act like actual monster girls.

But more specifically, the game does pregnancy content extremely well. First of all, it's not just some ending where you see the girls get preg and there's that. There is a lot of interaction with them as they are pregnant, you can easily choose who and when they get pregnant, there is plenty of sex scenes with them, etc... They are also repeatable, integrate quite well with the story and you get to name the kids and see what they look like later, it's really adorable.

So if you like pregnancy related content, you're in for a massive treat.

Have to remove a star tho for the entirely unnecessary money grind aspect it has. You basically work once a day to gain 11$, and at the beginning you have a negative upkeep to keep track of. It's wholly unnecessary and doesn't anything at all to the game since there is absolutely no money management mechanics at all, it's purely there to lengthen the game time and require money to buy items necessary to progress quests.

And also, like mentioned before, the start is really damn rough and quite poor. It was actually laughing at the shit quality of it and that's what kept me going, thinking i could at least amuse myself with the trainwreck, but that never happened.

Overall tho, it's a good game that shine for it's amazing pregnancy content, funny and not too serious story and characters and is overall pretty laid back.

Can't believe I didn't rate this sooner...

Now, this is absolutely biased in the sense this game speaks to a lot of personal preferences... well, basically all of the preferences I have that don't get you kicked off patreon. Not just monstergirls, but in tremendous variety, pregnancy fetish that's actually explored and not just lip-service at the end of the game, varied skin tones which is done in criminally few games, and a story that's, if not necessarily compelling, fun as hell without getting so full of itself that it forgets it's porn.

This is up there as one of, if not the best, games I've played off f95, but again, take that with a grain of salt, because that is very much because the creator and I are on a very similar wavelength.

If you're on the fence, try it. No reason not to.

Kinda interesting plot, not prefect but good. Many cute girls in every taste, My personal top: doggy, bunny, kitty, others. Simple mechanics, just farm gold and follow hints. btw I already saw places from background in like 5 other games, why authors use same bg?

It's a realy nice harem game there. Likeable and diverse characters, nice MC and okay hint system. Completed plot is another big plus for me. Graphics are not best but good enough. I realy liked that game so 5 stars is well deserved.

really solid sandbox game. the sandbox isnt grindy at all, theres a good variation of girls, the scenes are hot, the animations are pretty good (aside from the dick looking weird and causing some animations to look off)

main complaint is how fucking goofy the mc looks. main reason i gave this 4 stars instead of 5 is bc of how dumb he looks

Greener Pastures
Version: 0.13.5
Type: VN - Dating Sim
Content: A LOT
Pacing: Steady
Plot line: Hide monster girls from persecution - solve persecution once and for all
Setting: Farm - Monster girls living with MC falling in love over time
Story: Goes pretty well with the game even though there are mainly H scenes

Character Models: Better than expected - there is still room for improvement
Personalities: pretty well developed for this type of game

Animation: Really Good

Best part: Each main character has a TON of content.

Note: Such a functional UI rarely seen across f95 (complete gallery, good progress indicator and map mobility has all necessary features)
Thoughts: Turned out much better than initial impression (3* -> 4*)

My review of Greener Pastures [v0.13]

A potential 3-4 stars game, ruined by its poor sandbox implementation.

The game's story is already nothing special:
Monster girls are forbidden or something and you're a farmer that gives them shelter.
There's also an organization that hunts monster girls and pays you a few visits... but that turns out to be a big nothingburger with zero suspense or drama.
Basically a generic porn plot.

The waifus itself are actually decent (best part of the game).
They are the usual anime tropes, but all of them act differently, which is pretty nice.

Graphics are well... like you can see in the previews... and background music is present.
Sex scenes are short animations with the usual Koikatsu clipping errors.

Where the game really falls apart is the sandbox:
To progress the game you have to constantly go event hunting and visit every single location, because the hints menu (showing you what to do next) is still buggy in the completed version and gives you wrong information.
But even if it wasn't buggy, it would still be completely pointless and annoying, since there is only one way to progress the story.

I tried to finish this game because I like pregnancy stuff, but the event hunting just got too annoying, so I had to drop it before getting that far.

TLDR: Linear VN with buggy tacked-on sandbox and uninteresting story.

Like it. Good models of cute girls. Fascinating H-scenes. I didn't like it. The plot, or rather its ending. Very strange. Closer to the beginning of the last third of the game, the grind exceeds the fun. Or I did something wrong. Four points (7/10).

Solid Game. It's no masterpiece, but it excels at what it intends to be, which is a wholesome and comfy game about monster girls. The story was simple and the girls were all nice. For those apprehensive about "sandbox" games it's hardly got anything to grind except money and at worst you will have to sleep a few days straight to get to certain events. There is plenty to spend your time doing if you don't want to just sleep all day as it does the free time of a sandbox game well in that you have numerous activities to do with the girls to pass the time at your leisure. Overall the game isn't anything particularly unique, but it has that special something that made it a very worthwhile experience. For those who enjoy sex positive games, this one is easily one of the best I've played as consent is constantly enforced making all of the kinky activities very wholesome (shown explicitly and expressed in the dialogue).

I'll start by saying that, although I may have a lot of nitpicks about the game, I consider them to be so small that they don't affect the rating. Except 2 things of course, but I'll get there.
The game keeps true to what it proposes itself to be at the beggining, a simple porn adventure with monster girls. The plot is nothing to write about, but it gets the job done, and the game has a sense of self and humor, which is already a very good thing.
About the nitpicks I mentioned before, it's nothing big like I said, but it's something the creator might want to keep an eye out for in future games. Stuff like the UI, progression of the lewd events and such.
Now, for the reasons this isn't a 5-star for me:
1) the sudden hit on the brakes as the game gets to the end. The beggining and middle parts of the game usually had you working on at least 1 girl per day (sometimes more) with very little dead time between events. But the end just slows to a craw, so much so that, during a character's pregnancy, very little or nothing will happen (so it's basically 1 event, 14 days you can just sleep through, birth, wait for the next girl. It gets pretty old pretty quick). The creator should keep this in mind and do their best to fix it next game. But the real deal breaker is now.
2) for whatever reason the MC's dinner date just wouldn't start. I made sure the girls weren't pregnant and bought everything in the game just to be sure, but nothing, it just wouldn't start, no matter how many days passed. I tried everything I could think of, and nothing. As far as I'm concearned, it's a game breaking bug and the reason why I stopped just before the end.
But other than that, the game is surprisingly long (for what I expected at least) but pretty fun. If you're considering this one, give it a try.

For a game auto declared not interested in telling a story, it was actually very wholesome. and fun. The dialogs were very amusing. the girls are nice waifus and the animations are very nice. For someone that lies dum horny dialog, this is your game. Also for animesque monster girls.

The saddest positive review I've ever given. Why is it sad? It's sad because after a little under a year and a half, the game has come to conclusion, and we're officially at the final update. It's a solid game for people who love to breed, these girls will literally beg you to impregnate them. The story doesn't get in the way of the reason you downloaded the game which is always a plus, and the story itself was pretty decent. Comedy can be the harder route to go story wise when making a porn game, but luckily it didn't de-rail the good times. I said this was a sad review, but ultimately it's better it reach a conclusion than be let unfinished or updated forever with no end in sight. It's a bittersweet thing, finality.

Its good, one of the games in F95 that actually has an ending, what a legend. Best Girl is Tabitha for me, but Impregnating the Rabbit Penny until i can outpopulate an entire country is what made this game so good for me. For anyone that is into pregnancy, monster girl, and actual plot i recommend you try this. It also has in game walkthrough which sometimes can be confusing but its still good enough in showing the next direction to take.