VN - Ren'Py - Halfway House [Ep.11 - Bonus 7-9] [Az]

Beautiful adult visual novel with excellent graphic design and rendering. The girls look stunning and incredible sexy, each with well-defined and distinctive personalities. I really enjoyed the interactions and dialogues throughout the various situations that arise in the everyday life in “halfway house”. It might sound boring at first, but trust me, the flow of the story and the hilarious scenarios will change your mind. The girls are so sweet, and even Ash, with that bitchy facade, is surprisingly lovable. You can’t help but get attached to these characters.

Perhaps one downside is the excessive teasing and the lack of more hardcore scenes. However, after giving it some thought, it makes sense: the main character is just an inexperienced virgin who suddenly finds himself surrounded by all these gorgeous women. So, of course, the lewd situations build up gradually. While having only two penetration scenes in eleven episodes feels a bit light, it’s actually fitting for the story’s progression and the development of deep friendships among the characters.

It’s been a while since I had this much fun with a graphic novel. Congratulations to the dev! I can’t wait for more episodes of this gem.

In over 6 years in production this project is a major disappointment. I'll start with the story. It caught my attention early on because I was expecting a great story and the characters being in a Halfway House was very interesting, but boy was I wrong. The story went to the traditional perving on roommates, cliche character traits and personalities.

The MC himself looks as if he's 39 not 19. He seriously has this old man face and it's hard to get into him as the MC. Lucky enough, we get the POV treatment most of the time.

Character wise, Samantha and Emily are okay enough. The models themselves are beautiful and that's the biggest bright spot the creator has going for him. As I stated, the game is rather... dense. We have juvenile antics, the typical build up with Emily and Samantha. They threw in a fat greasy sidekick and a mentally and emotionally destroyed "former" prostitute that probably should be seeking professional treatment but instead... you have to deal with her. Part of you wants to use her and the other part wants to drop her off at a Psych ward. Seriously, she's enabled by everyone and its rather gross.

The chapters are short so don't let the number 11 fool you. I'm sure when the Dev is bored he's going to bring back the bald rapey guy and pretend it was all part of the plan.

⭐⭐☆☆☆ | Just like Ashley. Looks good but its disappointing

1 star for Emily, 1 for Samantha, and -3 for Ashley.


I came into this with way higher expectations. The models? Gorgeous. Some scenes? Genuinely well-crafted. But that’s where the praise ends.


The main character has zero development. You’re telling me this game has been in development for how many years, and the protagonist is still just a lifeless shell? No personality, no growth, nothing. The stat system feels like an afterthought. The route handling is sloppy. And for a game that advertises choice, there sure aren’t many meaningful ones.


Emily and Samantha are the saving grace — they’re genuinely likeable and decently written. But then there’s Ashley.


Oh brother, Ashley.


I get she has trauma. I get there's a backstory about her time in prostitution. But interacting with her is actual TORTURE. Every scene she’s in is emotionally exhausting, and not in a compelling way, in a get me the fuck out of here way. What makes it worse is how everyone around her is so endlessly understanding, like she’s just misunderstood. No. TAKE HER TO THERAPY, not to a tattoo parlor with another slut. Samantha, who’s written to be respectable and intelligent, suddenly can’t see through this fact? It’s nonsense.


And don't get me started on the protagonist’s supposed “anger issues.” That subplot vanishes after the first chapter like it never existed. If you're going to introduce a character flaw, commit to it. Don’t just forget it when it’s inconvenient for the plot.


The dev clearly knows how to animate. The visual polish is there. But if story-driven VNs are going to be your thing, then I do not see that here as this is too incoherent. So maybe, just go for a shallow fuckfest and call it what it is. At least then, expectations would be aligned.


I love slowburns. I live for story first visual novels. But the fact that this is the result of years of development? It’s honestly tragic.

Had potential, but like most of the games on this site, money and laziness killed any potential that was in the game. If you're expecting a story that progresses the narrative with a cohesive storyline, you will be disappointed. If you're just looking for hot scenes with the characters, you will be disappointed. If you want to blue balled for years while giving away your hard-earned money, this might be the game for you.

Halfway house 5/10, but rounding down as it is closer to 4 than 6

If I had to describe this one in a single sentence it would simply be Not outright horrible, but incredibly bland.

Interesting enough premise, although very basic, very clunky and extremly repetitive dialogue. MC will call Samantha hot, she will flirt back. Call Emily cute, she will get angry or flustered, Call Ashley hot, she will call him a pervert. Cue internal monologue about how Samantha is hot, Emily is cute, Ashley is hot but a queen bitch. Fuggin hell. Every other line of internal monologue or dialogue will just reiterate what someone else just said, often what the MC just said. Basically, no instance of dialogue feels like a conversation that humans would actually have. Just constant reiteration of their assigned mixed personality trait, Motherly/flirting, Cute/angry, Berating/sexual.

Just outright repeating past scenes in flashbacks that frankly has not needed it even once. And why is that?

You couldn’t possibly need it because very little actually happens between characters in most scenes. Calling this a slow burn is misleading because a slow burn might take time in advancing relationships but that does not mean it just repeats every single interaction between characters.

Every single scene is just the same. Same observations. Same reactions. Same conversations. Same dialogue. The fact that any sexual acts happen in between feels more incidental than anything else.

Fantastic and Very Engaging Game. Enjoyed every minute and Following on Patreon for Episode 12.

It has a lot of different elements and some meaningful choices Along With Several Beautiful Girls that are entertaining as well as having vareied opinions on the goings on at the Halfway House.

I particularly like the Choices that you get to make and opportunities to use some wisdome in makeing them.

10 / 10

I like this for the most part, but there are a couple of things to note:

• There's only one "real" love interest — Emily. You can get a couple scenes with the other girls, but this isn't meant to be a harem. I enjoy a relatively simple, one-on-one romance plot, but I know not everyone wants that.
• The development is SLOW. The most recent update as of writing this (Episode 11) gave me maybe an hour of gameplay after over a year of waiting. And that's made more noticeable by my last point:
• This story is a slow burn. It's not just porn, it's romance. Again, I like that kind of thing every now and then, but it's not for everyone.

To reiterate, I do like what's here; just know that this probably won't be complete for potentially several years at the current rate.

Episode 11 + Bonus 1-8 (Emily Love route)

This game and that path in particular was great! I really like Emily and winning her over was a very heartwarming journey.

The writing was good, the characters are very interesting and deep, even after 11 episodes I still feel like I want to get know them more. The main story is also original and engaging.

The art started a bit average then it got a lot better as time passed by. The music does the job it supposed to do and adds a good background to the story. I particularly enjoyed the sound effects, they add a special flavor to this AVN.

The 8 bonus scenes are pretty cool. The later ones are high quality stuff. I am not sure if they are worth the time that could have been spent on the game proper or not, but the Dev can use the break from that to make something fun and light on the side. I think in the end, that helps him work better on the AVN in general, and we get some excellent bonus scenes. So, it's a win-win... lol

All in a all, a very solid game and AZ should be proud of his work. I am looking forward to the next update.

Early on this was one of my favorite games. Unfortunately there are a few details that made me demote it to just average.

First of, the development time. I understand not every dev out there can dedicate fully to their game... But in this case it's hard for the players. You either do fast, small updates or slow, long ones. Slow and small updates just don't go well together.

For example, in the last chapter (EP11) barely nothing happens. You're in the house... and that's it. I mean, I think the update starts and end in the same morning within the game. It was the same with some previous updates. I don't know how the rest of the people feel about this, but in my case it takes away my hype to play this game.

Secondly, I don't know if I didn't do my choices right, but I feel like I keep getting dragged into the redhead. I don't want anything with her and I find her attitude a bit annoying, however it seems like MC is constantly onto her. And then every other character reacts in the way or 'oh look at these two blabla', like, I'm trying to avoid her but it feels like the game is setup for MC to end up with her no matter what you do. I want to say again that maybe my choices weren't the ones I should have taken, but it doesn't feel like it.

To finish this, I would like to encourage the dev of this game. I don't know if he reads this, but if he does, I really liked this game in the past, that's why I'm still giving it 3 stars. I think it still has potential, and I understand if he cannot work on it as much as he would have liked. I hope he continues to work in this game, hopefully change a few things here and there and see how it goes.

As much as the main game lack in sexual content the girls are good looking enough for it to get a 10/10, even if one of the three main girls look like a goblin to me, and tragically most of the very few sex scenes being with her, sadly enough the cutest one gets the least bit of action with only a finger bang almost at the end of the thing, the second best only giving a pair of hjs and bjs, but at least the plot is nice, the background is superb, it even get's a first ranking from me in the sidekick department, that luis guy is just too awesome not to be mentioned even if he's not part of the action, ik it would look a bit weird but he should be in the pic with the girls, not the mc tho, that dude's too slim shady lookin

This was a very fun playthrough. Interesting characters despite being pretty typical and familiar from many other stories, I don't mind it when the game is this good overall. I'm really looking forward to playing more of this, and Emily has caught my heart for now. Still looking forward to seriously pursuing Ash (and Lynn too!) in a future playthrough.

Shit is taking too long, - star.

Consistency is key, and if this game is anything, it is consistent. Episode after episode it delivers. Episode 10 saw an improvement in animations. Episode 11 improved on facial expressions. This dev seems to always look for ways to improve. So although updates take very long I am sure there is more to come from this dev.

This game is back in my top 3, together with being a dik and pale carnations.

Upon reading the other reviews, I too support the sentiment that there are too few updates. More updates dev, stop dragging your feet!

i never really gave this a chance the models on preview shots looks fugly as hell ... but i finally thought cant be bad with the scores .. so i got it and took a look ... god dam this is a real gem of a game .. the character development is top notch .. the animations are all top notch ... just far and few between ... the main story is great ...

I gotta say, the more you say "check failed", the more I say "fuck you". I've been following this game from the start, and its pluses keep being undermined by its many infuriating minuses. Sure, at the start I was willing to go along with the completely arbitrary choices -- including the maddening one-choice banner wins -- WTF with all of those?? But really, the interesting story continues to be upended by the strange UI choices. Who comes up with these? Can we please follow an actual story line, or lines, and either stick with a visual novel, or NOT? It's too bad cause it has some interesting characters. No... I couldn't even get to the disco, there was just too little control. DELETE

Play this only if you have a Humiliation Fetish.
(As in you get Humiliated, not the other way around)

The premise was interesting. in a rehabilitation house instead of 'returning to family after a decade' which was a refreshing take.

I was decently invested in the story. Relations with Sam and Emily were good. I could feel this being an affectionate story rather than a corruption one.

But I fucking hated Ash. She is such an entitled narcissist brat who leaves no opportunity to Insult MC at any point of time. And it's not one of those friendly banter type insult, it was straight up Humiliation, like she hated you with her last ounce in her body.
And the MC just tolerates it like a fucking pussy, barely making any attempt to defend himself.
But I still gave it time, I assumed its one of those Tsundere characters that hate you at first but eventually fall in love with you later. So I slogged along with the story.
As hours went by I was expecting Ash to get friendly and calm down with the humiliation. But it never ended. Majority of the interactions MC had with Ash resulted into Ashe insulting him or making a smug remark.
When MC saved Sam from the attack in the Toilet and got hurt in the process, I thought this was the turning point. THIS is the moment where she softens up to MC, praises him for risking his life to save Sam or at least tone down the hatred towards him.
But no. First thing she does after meeting MC in the hospital is humiliate him over how he got hurt while saving Sam and eventually Sam had to save MC from the attacker. Something along the lines of questioning his manliness.

This was the blade of grass that broke the camels back. And I straight up deleted the game.

HOW CAN A CHARACTER BE SO FUCKING ANNOYING? HOW CAN YOU INSULT SOMEONE WHO SAVED YOUR PSEUDO-MOTHER. AND HE GOT HOSPITALIZED SAVING HER, GIVE HIM a GODDAMN BREAK.

That was extremely frustrating. I deleted the game afterwards.
Whatever emotional investment I had in Sam and Emily was destroyed by how infuriating it was to deal with Ash. Did not want to play any further.

The Dev clearly has a humiliation fetish. IDK why he mentioned in the Tags section that Humiliation is never going to be there in this game.

Another good "Story based" game not other games that gives you fap per minute. The game is good that giving you a chance to not corrupt samantha or emily I mean why would you, you can feel there affection towards the mc except for ash she is the one to fap for and Im still in ep 4 so lets see but overall its so good that the game is not fap per minute where you fuck a girl then another girl for another scene and another girl like games c0ll3g3 k\ngs or col3g3 b0und if I say the games gives you fap per minute. Even this game has only 3 girls (ep 4) you can feel them as a character and not a FAP A MINUTE CHARACTER.

Ugh. The only reason this gets 2 stars and not 1 is for the dev including a girl with piercings and ink. Unfortunately her character is just horrible, pretty much like the storyline in this.

It started off not bad in Ch.1 and I thought the MC might be a bit of a bad boy, which are the only type of male protagonists I like to play if there's no female one. Fast forward a very dull 11 chapters and the MC is such a pussy with the 2 bipolar pitbulls...I mean girls...he shares with. Em often takes out her anger on him unless he sucks up to her (ever heard of anger management girl?) and Ash just acts a massive bitch and fucks with him.

Em caaan be sweet at times when not doing her mini hulk impersonations, but most of the time she just got on my D cups! she just came across as an irritating, childish brat.

She is also the only love interest...don't ask me the reasoning behind that...*shrug*

The story is like watching my nails dry...riveting stu....ZZZzzz

Having an obese cop as the probation officer is hilarious and the model is gross as fuck.

To sum up this incredibly dull teen melodrama: bad boy from juvie lives with bad girls from juvie in a halfway house and becomes their toy to tease, humiliate and play mind games with. Bad boy too dim to realize he can just tell them to fuck off. Random characters come and go in between, adding very little. All caught up! whew...

In fairness you can "romance" Em a bit, when she's not screeching like a harpy or throwing punches. MC can also get frisky with Samantha the resident Milf who runs the house, if that's your thing. Should you be a sadist, you can fool around with Ash a bit too...and by Chapter 11 MC can briefly hatefuck her before reverting to nice simp boy again. Awww!

Anyways, I spent too long typing even this, I mean I have my toe nails to paint which is ininitely more entertaining.

Would I recommend it? Nope! sanding my tongue with a cheese grater is more fun. 2 stars from me.

V.EP11 Bonus 7-8

didn't even bother with that bonus crap as it holds zero appeal. just fluff to obscure progress. if it was any good it would be IN the game.
nobody with sense buys DLC for a game yet to be released dev. try the horse before the cart

Halfway is right. this parody of a VN is halfway to being a VN.
art is fine but the plot/story is about as interesting as talking to a mortgage advisor. essentially just a pretty slideshow and very slow to progress, despite chapters being somewhat short.

the latest 'episode' is itself a parody as nothing happens. hardly an episode unless i count the paperclip falling off my desk as i clicked through. that i remember that happenstance says it all.

not a backable project for me and not one to follow. maybe when completed tag gets added i may look again but i will need to visit with that advisor first to set the mood.

Good renders, not too many characterse which I like. Slow burn, but each updates progress with one more characters is made. Updates take a bit and in the latest updates there wasn't that much content for the amount fo time it took, but I still like the game. Will change the review depending on how the next updates go

A fine game with humour, a good story and very good looking girls. The artwork is good and i like the young girls ( i was thinking first the 2 girls have a secret love relationship ,but sadly no. ) The Landlord is hot too and the cop funny ( about the dream of the MC on the way to the house ) I was hoping that Ashley was more dominant to the MC and not so fast submissive ( she like rough sex but why must they so submissive to the MC ? , only my opinion ) The background story about Emily and Ashley are good and Ashley sister is sexy too . I like the little jokes from Ashley for Emily in talking between the 2 .So i like your game and now i will it play again .