VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Haley's Story [v1.1 Pre-Patched] [Viitgames]

Haley's Story might as well been called "The brat and the beta".
Guys, if someone treats you like Haley does the MC, grow a spine and kick her out.

This game contains plenty of sex- and erotic scenes, if that's your main reason for playing these games, you'll be satisfied. If you're looking for actual characters and a story arc, you'll be left wanting.

Graphically, the game is pleasing to look at. Its scenes are generally well-done, and the animations are fluid and mostly look great. Some animations have very jerky or unnatural movements, but these are the exception.

Spoilers below.

This AVN is much more on the kinetic side of the spectrum. While the early game offers choices, they're mostly for players to choose which paths and endings they're on. Other choices are meaningless in the progression of the story, except for the choice if Hailey should grow her pubic hair or not. This choice is respected for the rest of the game.

The first mistake this game makes, is forcing the MC into a relationship with Sandra. Haley will make her move on the MC, cheating on her own lover, and the MC will cheat on Sandra. Not only Haley, but every love interest requires the MC to cheat on Sandra with them. It's only halfway through the game where it's possible to break up with her, but by that time all other paths will have been closed.

The game's second mistake is not incorporating Haley's trauma from sexual abuse into the actual story. We could've learned how it shaped her personality from a young teenager until now. How it still influences her decisions and behavior today. We could've learned to understand where her brattiness and abrasiveness comes from, why insulting the brother she loves so much gets her off... But that's not what we're getting. The middle third of the game deals with her abuse in a very shallow way.

The third mistake, is that the game isn't consistent with Haley or the MC's behavior. Except for the constant that Haley will always get her way (unless she drops the issue herself, or changes her mind), she'll switch between being dominant and submissive. She'll hint toward the MC that she likes getting manhandled, but the MC rarely mans-up enough to actually do it. The MC also switches between being a doormat and being assertive. Though he'll only be assertive in favor of Haley. Like standing up to their father, and pushing Haley towards therapy. He'll never actually put his foot down against her, and can't even sleep one night alone without pining for her.

I'm conflicted... It was awsome at the beginning, with a touching plot I must say, sadly, it looks like at 60% of the making the developer decided to abandone it for some reason leaving many things unanswered. I just don't get it. Even with that, It was an enjoyable experience. Haley's personality is very unique, I understand now why it is so recomended.

Overall, I'd give it an 8/10.

The interactions between the two siblings are the core point of the game. The romance is adorable: they talk with tenderness and joke around; you can see it through their physical affection, like playfully biting a nose, hugging, kissing a forehead, or giving a foot massage.

The story feels more like a slice of life: the drama is minimal, and the plot doesn't have significant developments, which is fine. Still, the scenes got a bit repetitive, and the ending felt rushed.
The dialogue is written very well. It's not cringy, has good humour and few mistakes.

The visuals are nice. Our main girl Haley is beautiful, in particular her lovely red hair with that braid. There are a few other attractive girls, but, unfortunately, I didn't get to see much of them. The sex scenes are good, but not very diverse.

To conclude, this game is far better than your run-of-the-mill ones, where you fuck a girl after barely talking, and everyone has an enormous dick/boobs.

I really enjoi the game i play this game far back when it was not done.
now i just played the full game
i like the story of these game its nice and enjoyable.
Pros: good story, solid characters, the graphics are pretty nice to i like them not the best or worst there are fine enough.
Cons: sex animations are bad and boring this is a adult game after all so thats importante, the endings they were very weak could had been better for sure most endings looks like the game end out of nowhere.
Overall solid game i enjoi playing the game.

The first thing appreciated is that the game is complete, which can't be said about many games. That being said, the game's plot starts to decline at the halfway point with the "twist," which is entirely unnecessary, and by the end, it becomes a drag to get through.

The visuals are nothing spectacular, but Haley's model is excellent, so I give it that nod.

That being said, the best part of the game is the characters. Not all of them are hits, like some side characters (only Sandra and Adrianna have any depth to them), but Haley and the MC are what save the game, despite the "twist." The connection between the two feels genuine, and both are likable. It can't be stressed how bad some main characters in these games can get, especially the MC character, but this is one of the few MC characters that doesn't come across as an asshole and/or a complete moron. Unfortunately, both of their characters take a hit at the "twist," which is unfortunate, and it takes a while for them to bounce back.

While this is not a masterpiece, I can appreciate how a COMPLETE game gives likable characters that make the game worth it despite the story's decline.

Haley is a really lovable character. She can be a bit selfish and imposing, but it's always focused on keeping the bond between her and the MC strong (and it is her story). I enjoyed the day to day events and banter with the characters, even when the choices were fewer and far between towards the end (on the Sandra/Haley path, but I felt most of the decisions were set once the ending autopilot kicked in). Loved that the story worked in poly relationships rather than just having a "choose one" final choice at the end. It was also fun to see Haley and Sandra bond and become more intimate over time. Like many have mentioned, I wanted more depth and follow-up to some of the side plots, as well as at the ending/epilogue for some of the routes, but I still enjoyed the story enough to feel that it was worth the time investment.

This is probably the best game on this site and the fact that it took this long for me to find it is criminal. I think I might genuinely be done with f95 because its been a week since I finished this game but I can't stop thinking about this game and how it makes me feel. Jesus christ.

The story and the characters are absolutely phenomenal. The game is called "Haley's story", and yet the dev managed to fill a world with lovable characters but never forgets who we're playing the game for.

There's a bit of lag when animations load up but I think my laptop just sucks

To keep it short and simple: there is a surprise rape* revelation in this game, yet it is not present in any tags. Heavy gut-punch out of left field that completely shifted the tone of the game.

It is not shown as there are no scenes of it happening, but it is canonically stated as something that happened and is thus completely unavoidable.

Also stated at some points as it being "consensual" though looking at the circumstances things get very murky. Add to all that the fact that the game's resolution to events are woefully underwhelming and this game managed to go from something I was enjoying quite a bit to becoming a complete shitfest.

To someone like me, the broken expectations hit so hard that it made me lose trust in the developer, as a couple of other devs have as well due to how the contents were managed. And I'm honestly sad to say this, but there it is.

My rating is a reflection of how the content was presented and how it made me feel as a reader. For deeper analysis of the game, please refer to the other ppl that have reviewed this game and go a lot more in-depth in their takes.

Still, I do feel that my low rating is entirely justified due to me coming into this game expecting one thing and then receiving a visceral gut-punch out of the blue. Had it been tagged with the appropriate rape tag, I might've still played the game and given it a much higher rating after adjusting my expectations (despite my utter despise of LIs being raped or having a rape backstory, regardless of if it is shown or merely stated).

Solid game. Bearing in mind the game started development half a decade ago, the art is not bad. Writing is pretty good and the plot isn't overtly complicated.

If the game had finished how it started, it would easily be a 4* star game and I might have given it a 5. Unfortunately the first half or so of the game is of much better quality than the last half. I also wasn't a fan that you are forced into dating a character for a while. The back half of the game was clearly rushed to completion, especially noticeable in the path endings. The back half of the game also has spelling mistakes and wrong character identifiers whereas was not so much an issue with the first half.

The blonde neighbor also should not have been included in the game given how little content there is with her character, and how much content exists for other LIs. There is a ton of content in this game, to the point where about 25-30% of it could be cut with no impact on the story or character development.

Short version: Not worth your time!

Long version:
The plot starts off strong. As an incest story, this VN tells the classic "forbidden love" story between two siblings that slowly take their relationship to the next level. In the beginning, the game tackles this moral and ethical issue decently well, but soon enough, several gameplay & narrative problems overwhelm it.

1. The incest plot briefly takes a backseat to heavy subjects like pedophilia and sexual abuse - something that can be made into a centerpiece is taken for granted in this particular instance, where that specific plot point is resolved too fast to be satisfactory to anyone, and begs the question of why it was included in the first place.
2. The "Visual Novel" completely forgoes asking for any player input after a certain point in the game (about halfway through). At least, it does so for probably the longest possible path you can take. I don't think I need to explain why that completely goes against the point of making a VN game, but people deserve to know. Absolutely shameful.
3. Apparently, there are quite enough of grammar and spelling mistakes in the final stretch of the story. I can't personally vouch for the intensity of this particular offense, but what I can say is this: the second half of the plot dragged on pointlessly for so long, that I was skimming over the text as fast as I could in hopes of reading something that can even remotely be considered plot-advancing. And once it did, the story actually ended several scenes later.

With all this said, I can't in good conscience give this game anything above 2/5, if only for the sake of well-done renders (not spectacular), as following the story feels like watching a plane get shot-down mid-flight - nothing but a burning mess nose-diving into its grave.

GREAT GODDAMN GAME suffering with shit-the-bed syndrome towards the end.
Lemme tell you there was shot where they were walking towards their home at night and they are looking at eachother in almost pitch black darkness, I knew it then and there that I am gonna carry this in my mind till the day i die.

Enough said.
By the way the abuse angle was almost bungled, hate it when it happens in any media.

A great game, Haley is very nice and great build from narrative perspective. The only minus is that after a while is getting boring with too much same dialogues. But if you are for visual than i would recomend to play it though.

v1.1
It starts out as a 4-5 star game, and roughly between the second half/last third of the game, it starts taking its spectacular nosedive.

The slice-of-life story revolves around incest, and it was well explored at first, through a nice, slow burn, with frequent timeskips of days and weeks to keep the story from feeling rushed and the game from feeling like a slog, all of it accompanied by a mood of upbeat cutesy set by the music, the characters, as well as the situations themselves.

And that evidently wasn't good enough beause the positive air was poisoned by the revelation of the title character's history with paedophilia/rape.
Not only did this come out of the blue, and pretty much changed the tone of the game irreversibly DESPITE continued use of upbeat cutesy, it was also poorly explored, inconclusive, and wholly unnecessary to the plot.
We (the players) never learn exactly what happened or how exaclty it ended, only that "Mom" (yes, that's her name) somehow "put a stop to it". That's literally all we're told.
We don't know the effects it had on the victim Haley short term, because it's never even mentioned, nor can we confront Mom, not to learn about what happened, learn how she "put a stop to it", why she started treating her own daughter as the unwanted child after the incident, or how there were evidently no consequences for the rapist, as if the topic wasn't important enough to varrant a discussion.
And as we play catch-up with vague, bare bones of past events, we also meet potential new victim(s), the rapist's new wife and step-daughter, whom he has been likely grooming, and who may or may not have been molested already. And also whose fate remains a total mystery because it's never mentioned again, after all, it was just a plot device to get Haley to begin addressing the problem.
We're also introduced to some super secretive high-class mysterious badass criminals (soo kewl) who can "deal with" the rapist.
So they do exaclty that.
What did they do? "Dealt with" him. What that means? No information given. Did anyone realize something happened? No information given. Consequences of that for sister? No information given. Consequences for the rapist's step-daughter or her mother? No information given. It's a bare bones addition, lacking close all the details, and was an absolutely unnecessary arc to the sister's character as it literally didn't change shit about her, or even play a remote role in the rest of the story, including all the endings.

The story of other characters aren't much better either.
One in particular, who potentially becomes the girlfriend/wife of the MC, whose mother experienced something similar, which also affected the girl in question. Even if you go down that path, you'll learn almost nothing of their story, after all, who cares, it's just your girlfriend and her mother, not a topic worthy of discussion, much less actual resolution.

Another girl, who was introduced as a free-spirited semi-slut collegue student got the ending where, disregarding everyone's established character, all sexual acts with her stopped, and she was essentially demoted to a roomie and "adopted" by MC and his sister. Until out of nowhere you just have a threesome with them the end thanks for playing bye.

In any case, Haley, the title character and MC's sister, is always going to be in the picture no matter what (not that I'm complaining about this fact, "Haley" is literally the title after all). Unfortunately it looks like the author ran out of ideas on how to make this (polyamory between 3 characters) happen naturally, and reached for convenient tools, like excessive amounts of alcohol to jumpstart things, simply and forcibly inserting sister into the relationship and blaming it on/justifying it with her antics, and/or straight-up manipulating characters to accept the brother/sister combo as part of the deal of being with the MC.
And while it looks like Haley's character develops slowly (at first anyway), it's undone by some of the endings, and in others her character is just arbitrarily changed.

Gameplay was, at first, typical of what you'd expect of a VN game, that is, choces are presented on a semi-regular basis which affect the story/characters.
However by the second half/last third of the game, choices became extinct and the game turned into a lengthy kinetic novel (with some endings being so...so...SO much longer than others).
There is also a problem with the routes themselves. You can get on any available character's path, however it is not made clear to you whose paths you are on.
Here I would also like to mention that this is NOT a harem game which is not a bad thing, but it IS tagged as such when it clearly isn't.
Anyway, you will ALWAYS end up with Haley, and depending on which path you're on, you may end up with an additional character also. Even if you (repeatedly) step on every available characters' paths, you will get the ending of only ONE of the paths, with the (singular) character associated with that particular path. The rest of the characters, and their (until that point, often half-finished) stories just fade out of existence and aren't mentioned ever again.
It is also not made clear which path superseeds which. Meaning fuck you, figure it out, or don't.

Grammar/spelling also started out quite well, no complaints, but then errors started piling up, it looked as if it wasn't even checked once it had been written.

Visauls are...okay overall. Model quality is good, they are fairly realistic, aren't exaggerated, fairly varied also, no complaints here. Lighting is usually good also, except for a couple of night scenes where you can't see shit. Those aren't very frequent thankfully.
Animations, on the other hand are bad. Just...bad.

Sounds boil down to music (and maybe some slapping sound effects? I am unsure). There are maybe 3-4 tracks overall, and while they are fine, they got old fast. They were used appropriately at frst, but their use to set the mood became half-assed towards the end (like everything else was), such as using upbeat music when discussing abuse. Talk about tonal clash.

Overall it's pretty obvious how few fucks were given by the end of it. It feels like nothing was really fleshed out or even finished, not even the title character's story. And by the time you reach one of the endings, it also becomes a "lonely" experience, because aside from Haley (and maybe a 2nd character), interactions with other characters all but cease.
So while I could applaud the author for wrapping it up despite the evident lack of interest or care, I won't, because I don't think running it into the ground is any better than abandoning it while it's still good.

When I started this AVN, I had it at 5 stars, but by the end, I was disappointed.

This title starts out very strong with great renders, one of the hottest main LIs in anything I've played, nice dialogue without too many grammar or spelling issues, terrific models with great expressiveness, and a story that is truly engaging.

Then, about 70% of the way through, they seem to lose their mojo: the dialogue/spelling/grammar QC goes right out the window, which is something that is bothersome for me. The renders and scenes generally stayed decent, but lewd scenes that were long and engaging early in the VN became more perfunctory and brief as the VN neared its end.

The endings is where things really trailed off. The Dev had started working on another project and this one became neglected, as though he lost all interest in finishing strong and just wanted to finish.

The endings aren't bad, but they feel rushed and aren't very engaging in the story arc areas - certainly not up to the same bar as the beginning and mid-game. There's also an underlying arc related to Haley's molestation in HS that was being explored reasonably well early on, but it was never properly resolved - you knew something happened to the teacher, but not what, and not how it impacted the stepdaughter that prompted Haley to finally come out of her shell about it and stop hiding her trauma from her brother. We know mom probably knew about it, but it never got handled. If you're going to bring up something so weighty and integral to a character's development, you need more than a goon calling you and saying "it's done" without knowing for sure what "it" is or the aftermath for all the affected.

One final thought is that the music seemed to become an afterthought at the end as well. It was matched reasonably through much of the VN, but there was this one "ominous" track that would play in places where it just didn't seem to fit, or overplayed will after it should have stopped - it really broke the mood.

This AVN is still worth the play, but be prepared for an unfulfilled feeling in in the end.

One of the best incest games ever. The way the immorality aspect is handled, the choices and the jokes just does it for me. I recommend this 100%. The sex scenes are very good as well and Haley (the fmc) is so beautiful. Idk if its thats shes ginger but shes smoking hot

The dialogue is beyond boring, I couldn't bring myself to play it anymore. It's a shame since everything else looks great, I would like to get to the meat of the story but I just can't sit through this.

I have a younger sister and we never tease (verbally) each other this much, at some point it just became too much to the point of it becoming annoying, and I just don't believe it.

One of those games that you play for the story and not for the fap. Believe me, the sex scenes are barely worth it if that is your priority for playing these type of games.

The game is good, AS LONG as you walk into its world with the right mindset. I didn't. I actually was more interested in other heroine routes. Mistake. Should have taken the hint when it said "Haley's Story" but you don't actually play from her POV. So, no matter which route you pick, as her twin brother, you're pretty much locked into the incest route by default.

Thankfully, the heroine routes are well done. Both Sandra and Adrianna routes were unique and appealing in their own ways. However, Lisa, Diana and Alana routes are just.. dull.

Not because they are bad, but because they are pretty much nonexistent. Lisa is a sex crazed teenager, Diana is a fitness crazed minx and Alana has her own emotional baggage having an affair with a married man. Intriguing settings, only the dev doesn't really explore them further or in detail. Just a few night stands that amount to nothing in the end. Given how the dev is able to flesh out good routes, I can only presume that he/she burned out midway and just finished off the game quickly. It also becomes a bit more apparent when a lot of questions remained unanswered. Some being: What happened to Mr. Klaus after Victor's help? Or what's the story behind Adrianna's scar? Or what amounted to the threat that Jack made about getting to the bottom of the breakup reasoning? Nope. Instead all focus went into Haley and her story, which I guess makes sense given the title?

All in all, I wanted to give the game three stars. One lost for coming off as incomplete and one lost for unappealing sex scenes and bland animations. Even the character development is a bit bricked with the MC trying to distance himself from Haley but then couldn't, but then feeling guilty about cheating on his girlfriend(s). The choices are simply useless.

But it does well as a story overall once you adapt to that mindset. I especially don't want to knock on the clear effort the dev put into this game. Overall, a very fine read. Especially since I'm not into incest. But it kept me hooked till the end anyway.

Going with realistic approach is always daring and laudable, this is definitely a rare gem in its own class.

Depiction of characters and their traits definitely is flawless, relationship parts is another excellent point for story, and there is ample amount of choices and plenty of tasteful scenes.

There is a good deal of comic moments inside story that making playing more enjoyable, also approaching sensitive topic of Hayley’s past done adeptly.

Overall this is an excellent VN, splendid job really.

Really tried to like this game, i would even have liked it if this game had no forced routes, which it does. I find it funny that you have an option to kiss her which opens the sandra route based on the walkthrough, but the next day you are dating her again? Like c'mon, why cant I say no?

This game should be named Sandra's story.

Eugh... I really wanted to give this one more of a chance, because there's so much to like about it, but like so many that came before it, the ending just didn't quite make it.

So, to end on a good note, I'll start with the ending because that's my biggest gripe. It felt rushed. There was a lot of stuff that was planted, that just wasn't paid off. The place where the story ends isn't some fulfilling climax, it just hops into the epilogue, wrapping everything up and leaving you dissatisfied.

And that's REALLY a shame, because there's so much to love about this game. The models are good, the writing is fantastic, it really gets into the way a relationship like this one might play out, with the angst being real without overstaying its welcome. Calling it 'realistic' would be a stretch, but it's, for lack of a better word, complex. You're never going to be pulled OUT of the story by something that seems out of place. It keeps a level of fantasy that stays consistent, so once you're in it, you're in it, and you can go along for a damn good ride.

Hopefully in future games the dev keeps their ability to tell a compelling narrative, but gets some notes on how to end one.