VN - Ren'Py - Growing Things Up [v0.45b] [Kinkbr]

Discussion Reviews (84)
  1. Y
    2.00 star(s)

    yeetermcgee123

    Nice models but thats about all it has going for it. MC is possessed with two personalities, which is thrown on the player out of nowhere, and the plot is not advancing. There is a couple of hours content in the current edition

    Its one of those games where every character throws themselves at MC for existing. Every woman MC meets has their panties down after "hi, Im X"

    Not engrish, but the word choice is poor if you are a native english speaker.

    I would also remove the sand box parts, there is no reason content should be gated behind a minigame like that

    Plus is there is a good amount of user choices and they do impact the story, without branching too far off (which would require the creation of tons of content for each path)
  2. aFairReviewer
    4.00 star(s)

    aFairReviewer

    Overall: 4/5
    Gameplay:
    This dev understands the meaning of choices in VN's. I really appreciate that it gave me a choice within the first 5 min to make me feel like I have control over the scene. Another gameplay element are mini games (Beer pong and Blackjack) and these don't feel intrusive to the flow of the game at all. They make sense and they aren't a bore to play.

    Cons:
    My only gripe with the gameplay is that I wished there was more buildup and more variety with the choices. There are some flavor choices already ...I just wish there was more.

    Story:
    The story does feel a bit cliche. It ticks the boxes of youthful male moves in with hot landlord and other hot females that audiences see in other AVN's. Some of the girls have an initial disgust but then start to fall in love with the MC. The emotional buildup of these relationships feels terribly rushed, but I am glad that it gets straight to the point without forcing the player to read walls of dialogue that would further sour the experience. Overall, it's not a bad game/story.
  3. Daniel3333
    5.00 star(s)

    Daniel3333

    I really enjoyed the story, the depth of the characters, and the drawings and animations of the other characters. Also, thank you for the Turkish language support. We can't wait for the next update! I hope there's plenty of foot fetish content :)
  4. VinnneV
    4.00 star(s)

    VinnneV

    I played the game, and so far, I’d say it’s a pretty satisfying experience. It doesn’t bring anything truly innovative — a lot of the elements you see here are pretty common in +18 visual novels — but you can tell the developer actually put real effort into it.

    As for the story… honestly, I’m still not sure if I liked it or not. It hooked me in several moments, but it also gets pretty confusing at certain points — especially during that scene with the four-day time skip, where neither the MC nor we, as players, really know what happened. Still, the mystery surrounding this “fox” character and what actually happened to the MC’s sister kept me curious. I also wonder if the dev plans to add her as a potential romantic route in the future. :unsure:

    The other characters are great — I genuinely liked all of them without exception. And without a doubt, my favorite is Anna. The protagonist works well; he has personality, and I really appreciated that his “dark” version isn’t just the typical edgy guy who does bad things for no reason — there’s actually something behind it.

    The animations are really well done, and the soundtrack and sound effects are equally high quality. My only real criticism is that I wish the choices had more weight — it wasn’t very clear how much they actually impact the story.

    In the end, I think it was worth it. Honestly, I was expecting something way worse, especially after reading some pretty negative reviews. I thought it was going to be a total mess, but I was actually surprised. I had fun, and most importantly, I didn’t feel like I wasted my time playing it. It just proves that you shouldn’t rely solely on reviews — whether positive or negative. Are they helpful? Sure. But nothing replaces your own experience. The story got me curious, I liked the characters, and I definitely think it’s worth playing. (y)​
  5. qljrnt6jc4eh2
    2.00 star(s)

    qljrnt6jc4eh2

    Game version: 0.41

    Good start, nothing special though.
    The typical "guy living together with another family"-harem-game.
    I like it that way.
    The story is light and approachable, all of the NPC's characters serve the typical order of these kind of games, too: Milf, sassy queen, athletic built sex monster, almost under-aged princess...

    The overall visual quality is good, a lot of details here. The scenes are okay, pretty standard stuff. Only a little variation of positions per scene and no control over them.

    The story starts innocent, just like the MC. I was getting a lot of simp-voyeur vibes while "playing" him, he is overly shy, careful and, at the same time, horny as hell.
    It's not entirely clear if the MC lost his virginity to one of the girls once they have their first sex or before, but this clearly marks a new chapter. He's banging one after another (which is good, because that's why I play games like this one) and gets bolder and bolder.

    The reason for the bad rating comes with another, brutal and unreasonable change of the story:
    The forced introduction of the MC's schizophrenic condition.
    After this, everything went down the drain for me. The former story doesn't make any sense any longer. Although it IS possible to develop such conditions at any time at any age in your life, it felt like a spontaneous idea from the dev to put it into the game. Without reflecting about it one second. Just like "Screw the immersion and everything I've built until here: I'm just gonna "rape" the story and reshape it.
    I lost all interest in the game and stopped playing.
    It's such a shame, because the game had a lot of potential- even though it's already from 2023...
  6. Dybbuk
    4.00 star(s)

    Dybbuk

    Reviewed at 0.41.
    Really liked the game, despite being not really original on its premise (Young guy going to uni, getting mixed with the housemates, etc)
    The Story is relatively well written and tries to have a bit more depth than the usual VNs I have found lately. Nothing Award winning, but quite decent.
    Graphics are good, very good. Models may not be 100% original, with variations of the usual faces around, but hey, that's what you get on these types of games and DAZ. There are animations, that are quite well done.
    Content wise I was quite happy.
    The scenes are a bit cliche but so far no one has been stuck in the washing machine. Yes, everyone is jumping on the MC dick with little to no effort on his side, but I don't think a tremendous build up is needed on a light VN. Variables do not seem to be used much. As long as you are favourable towards the NPC, the scenes seem to be available.
    All in all, I liked it. I will keep an eye on future updates
  7. grayhounds
    5.00 star(s)

    grayhounds

    Excellent game, I look forward to future updates. Despite the seemingly simple and common premise (young guy moves to city alone for college) there's enough different parts about it (and pretty unique characters) with excellent execution and depth to make for a very entertaining experience.

    Renders are A+ I loved how all the girls looked and I really appreciated the plentiful eye candy, revealing outfits and sexy poses. Sprinkle in a few (admittedly short) well-animated scenes and I had a great time.

    Choices were mostly straight forward, which I really don't mind at all. Some people might have issues with that. Music was a little repetitive/stock, but there were some decent tracks.

    Overall, I really recommend. Eagerly looking forward to future updates.
  8. louisamay
    4.00 star(s)

    louisamay

    I like this game!
    Okay, now I'll get the title problem out of the way -- it sucks. Really, probably one of the worst titles ever; I feel bad for the dev, because this game has real promise.
    Very cute LI's (even one or two with normal-sized boobs, woohoo!), a story that balances a zany, hormonal energy with some very dark vibes as well. So far the tightrope is being managed.
    And there are moments of real erotic potential, where eros meets emotion, and actual relationships are born. Also, where depictions of kink have a bit of depth. I like that, keep it up! I just hope now that once the MC has begun to find his true dominant self, the story doesn't veer too much into BDSM latex land. That would also kind of suck.
    I would also leave off giving "choices" where none exist, i.e., having one choice to click on saying "agree". Hey, since most of the game has been pretty much kinetic anyway, why do that? It's stupid.
    But all in all, a game worth pursuing. Maybe it'll eventually make my Most Immersive favorites list. Thanks, dev!
  9. O
    3.00 star(s)

    OdinTGE

    The title has a grammar mistake. The first line of text in the game has a typo/grammar error. There are non-native English issues throughout. The writer does not know what the word "delicious" means. In one of the very early scenes a bed magically gains a sheet and pillows from one line to the next. Essentially, despite having high quality renders, the attention to detail is shit.

    There are a ton of women throwing themselves at MC, and you can mostly dodge the ones you aren't interested, but I couldn't dodge Sarah, which annoyed me.

    The game also suffers heavily from the very common affliction of Boobus-Gigantus. There are 3 women (2 LIs and a side girl?) in the game with reasonable tits. The rest are all trying to contain weather balloons in their shirts and mostly failing.

    Despite all of the above, I still played to the end of the .34 update. Mostly because the visuals are very good, and Reina and Anna are extremely hot.

    I see other reviews talking about forced lesbian content. Perhaps that's an older version of the game? I did not encounter any lesbian content, forced or otherwise.
  10. D
    1.00 star(s)

    Dbbballs

    Started good, good models acceptable MC etc. But like... why does every 2nd dev feel the need to add fucking magic or schizo shit like in this case out of nowhere. Like why? The story was fine now it's just hot garbage. The whole schizo "plottwist" was so unecessary
  11. Kapycs
    4.00 star(s)

    Kapycs


    Review of [v0.34a]

    GAME     that PROMISES BUT...

    Typical story of a young man who arrives at a house full of girls who want to sleep with him... the scenes don't make much sense but oh well.
    There is no good argument as to why girls want to sleep with him, although in other aspects it improves.

    Then the part of the cameras and the knife attack that takes you to jail make the game a little more interesting, although it is not well explained why you get out of jail.

    PROS
    • Excellent Renders with high quality
    • Nice animations with good movement
    • Nice ambiet music
    • Story is ok
    • The first animation does have sound
    CONS
    • There are some sex scenes where there are no animations, just images.
    • The animations have no sound, just a moan from time to time.
    • The last scenes when the mc cums, he simply inserts his DICK into the vagina and cums, no animation follows (it's WEIRD)
    • The supposed click&point is only based on touching 2 or 3 objects but there is no FREE ROAM as such...

    RATING :

    Content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Sound: ⭐⭐⭐
    Renders: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Characters: ⭐⭐⭐
    Animations: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    Final conclusion: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ GOOD GAME that is still to be polished
    RECOMMENDED
  12. AnyName'llDo
    3.00 star(s)

    AnyName'llDo

    The girls are all attractive, they're all throwing themselves at you, and the graphics are top notch. The story's an acid trip, though. I mean that metaphorically. Good luck to anyone seriously trying to get invested in it.
  13. R
    1.00 star(s)

    rvlfycpydgdcttfren

    Fantastic renders with two good models (and a bunch of horrible btba ones)

    Unfortunately it's ruined by nonsense minigames and every girl throwing themselves at you. The MC is just a submissive loser who has to do whatever he is told and that's awful

    The UI is pretty standard renpy except the menu screen has ridiculous icons that you have to guess their meaning, not even well chosen icons, especially for load - which you will need a lot thanks to the asshole minigames

    The writing is pretty well done, the mystery plot doesnt detract from the girls like it does in so many vn's. Surprising given the writing that the title was so royally screwed up with an out of place apostrophe

    The minigame took enjoyment went from "average despite the girls throwing themselves" to basically unplayable.
  14. E
    5.00 star(s)

    epicdudejoe69

    Really wishing this doesn't get abandoned. Need more of Bella, she's the main LI for me. The pacing is great.. just keep going. Lot of curves. Need more tease and outfits. Shopping booth scenes and more events where the girls can cycle through different costumes would take this to the next level
  15. P
    4.00 star(s)

    Pudel77

    just played 0.33, It started slow and not very interesting but it gets better, than the twist, hope to see more from this game, story is getting interesting, hope to see more with all the girls. character models are good, scenes are good to.....will come back to the game when there is more to play
  16. I
    3.00 star(s)

    Ilovehateporn

    The girls mostly look good, the scenes themselves are also pretty good, both in quality and the angle of the shots themselves are nice.

    Also some pretty fun mini games!

    However the plot is a bit of a mess. I guess the MC has either one of these problems:

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    I dislike both of these options, so i really hope i am wrong. Anyway, for now this means the game is pretty average for me.
  17. CCrusader
    1.00 star(s)

    CCrusader

    This game has been a major letdown. The story is mediocre at best, and the pacing is dreadful—it’s been 1.5 years, and we’re still stuck in the beginning stages.

    The main character is a lifeless puppet and the forced lesbian content is unavoidable. If you're into submissive MCs and forced female-dom content, this game may appeal to you. The only redeeming factor is the character models, and somehow that’s enough for people to give this guy $3k a month.

    I honestly don’t understand it. You're paying for minimal effort while the developer takes advantage of stretch goals like translations for an unfinished game, voice dubbing (which most players will just mute), and vague side-game ideas (how about finishing the main game first?). Meanwhile, updates are slow and lack substance, doing nothing to address the glaring problems. The developer seems to think they’re doing something groundbreaking by adding "three exciting mini-games" as an update, likely just to pat themselves on the back.

    If you only care about pretty renders and don't mind the lack of quality in the actual game, keep spending your money. For everyone else, save your time and look for a developer who truly values their players.
  18. J
    5.00 star(s)

    Justth1sonz

    Wow, this is loaded with babes! It's not necessarily challenging to unlock fap scenes, and the story seems to guide itself rather than your decisions, but sometime it's nice to just enjoy the story without having to save dozens of times for different LI paths. I'm really looking forward to the next couple of updates.
  19. EyeWish1
    3.00 star(s)

    EyeWish1

    Pros - Beautiful girls, nice renders and terrific sex animations. A well made game. The opening scene with Milf Brenda was superb.

    The cons- I do not understand what the title means at all.

    The story is okay, but not the type of story I typically prefer. I'm not a big fan of dark themes in adult games, and I felt the story went downhill after the final handyman scene. I prefer lusty games that don't take themselves too seriously and I wished the game focused more on the relationship between the MC and Anna.

    That said, the opening scene with the horny Milf Brenda was, IMO, the best part of the game. I would have enjoyed more scenes like that throughout.
  20. ubira
    2.00 star(s)

    ubira

    I was interested in the game and I started to like it from the beginning to the middle, then the MC's mental problems and some TAGs that I don't like very much were introduced, such as psychological problems and blackmail.
    There was a murder, LIS left the house because of the MC's actions and we didn't see her again.

    Graphics are good, they are something that weighs heavily on the value of a game... but the MC's actions weigh even more, if the MC's actions don't match the player's tastes, the game itself can become very unbearable... since every time something good happens... right after the MC freaks out and ruins everything.

    The game may be good for those who enjoy a game with a "psychological drama" theme... but it wasn't for me.
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