VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Heart Problems [v0.9] [Xenorav]

⠀⠀Completely agree with the previous post in regards to teasing the audience with the prospects of sex scenes but never delivering under ridiculous pretense. And to clarify this IS NOT a "slow-burn", just terrible writing with retarded characters.
⠀⠀This protagonist is insufferable. How does it make any sense to be assertive and making the first moves but when is comes to action to back down with "it doesn't feel right" or "this is wrong"? How is it ok to seduce an aunt but a cousin is off-limits even tho you literally were the one be hitting on her? You grew up together? Well, doesn't that apply to literally every other member of that family? Dad is in the house? Bro, you just throat-fucked the other sister a minute ago!! Speaking of the older sister, that has feelings for MC and wants sex herself but refuses because "I've never done it out of relationship", even though she already does every other sexual act possible. "If we do this we can never go back", bitch please, either all of it is okay, or none of it is. The aunt as well with her impenetrable logic of tongue kissing her nephew and allowing to overtly grope her, but nothing else, because "I'm a married wuhman" and "you're confused about your feelings", even tho he confessed his love to her like a hundred times. She just plays dumb whenever he makes advances on her, but officially she's "loyal loving wife". I really like her and other girls, but their intentions don't match their actions. I swear none of these characters know whatever the fuck they want.
⠀⠀Getting rent-free apartment plus welfare from uncle as a "punishment" just to return home a day later is a pretty comical plot device tbf.
⠀⠀Game doesn't have "true" choices that represent variety and branching, and instead just lock you out of scenes if you chose wrong. The general direction of the novel is the same, some could even say kinetic.
⠀⠀It's a shame gorgeous animations, camera work, modeling and great renders are sullied by god-awful script. They all got even better with further development, so the author was learning on the go. Unfortunately he never bothered to learn how to write.

Note: I don't believe a complex opinion can be properly represented by a number but I do understand some people are impatient so I don't use the star system normally, my ratings are as follows. 1 don't recommend, 3 unsure please read review, 5 recommend.

Heart Problems might have some of the best 3D animations on this site, very fluid, very striking and soft looking, The artist (who i assume is the dev) is very talented. Most of my opinions are neutral, some are negative so I wanted to start with a big positive.

At the time of writing the game is tagged with "abandoned" but the community seems certain this is inaccurate as it's happened before, the dev is just a poor communicator and takes a long time between updates. Now that's a negative but why specifically it's a negative will be made clear further down.

Here is the problem with Heart Problems boiled down and condensed for the uninitiated, there are 5 women you can sexually interact with in this game, your aunt(Amelie), her eldest(Kylee) and youngest daughters(Stephanie), your friend(Mia) and her mom(Lauren). Throughout the 9 chapters of this story you fuck 3 of them, Mia, Lauren, and Kylee. The other 2 Amelie and Steph are effectively being held for ransom, to the point of genuine absurdity. They are the carrots on the end of the stick the developer is dangling to keep you coming back.

The story of this game is weird, you almost accidentely fuck your cousin so you get kicked out of the house and sent to an apartment to live but that only lasts like a day or somthing because your aunt comes and saves you and her marrige is falling apart and the younger one wants to fuck you, it's kind of a mess, and to be honest with you I've played through this a few times with updates to make the gallery accesable and I have started to just skip through because the dialouge becomes retarded after like the 9th time your aunt says you can't fuck her but you can do literally every other sexual act besides pentrative sex. The mental Gymnastics it takes to be playing a man who is despratly trying literally anything he possibly can to fuck his aunt convincing her to suck him off regulrarly and dry hump everytime they're alone, who at the same exact time is trying to convince himself not to fuck his younger cousin who is THROWING herself at the MC, straight up molests him like 4 times, sucks him off all the fucking time, is olympic platnium level, I had to introduce a whole new fucking metal to the equation because golds too low!! It is genuinily exhausting and it doesn't make any sense either, you cannot orgasam from a man rubing his penis on your vagaina and claim you haven't crossed a line or aren't cheating it's too fucking late at that point just fuck.

When I say they're being held hostage this is what I mean, Amelie and Steph are clearly the fan favorites and for reasons unknown to me the developer is dragging out the forplay for as long as possible. It creates a frustrating blueball like experience where I'm skipping through scenes just trying to see if he finally fucks ONE of them, he never does so it ends up being a shit experience where I'm stuck at the top of a roller coaster and they refuse to let me go down.

This is why the dev being a shit communicator and taking forever between updates is a negative where it would normally be neutral. If you take 10 months between updates but the new update has tons of content and feels worth the wait then we're chillin. You should communicate better, hit me with the once a month "hey I'm alive working on the game here's a blurry phone picture of a thing I'm working on, see ya" I'd be happy with that. But to take 5 months to deliver the same content you delivered last patch but with minor dialouge and setting changes, fuck off.

It’s a Visual Novel game with chapters instead of updates so that means it’s a poorly written book with top notch animation and a cyclical and repetative structure that makes you want to die. Don’t worry though I’m sure after chapter 5 when the 10th almost sex scene hits you’ll probably start skipping around like me. There is also no gameplay, I talk a lot about how I don’t like a lot of gameplay in my porn games because it distracts from the porn, but there should still be SOME gameplay. You could argue that the choices you make throughout the game are gameplay as they would be in other visual novels but you’re wrong. In other games the story branches, you make choices to follow certain branches, you’ll know which branch you followed because it will have a different ending, the gameplay is following the branches and getting all the endings. In this game every choice is the right answer or the wrong answer. The game might “end” if you make the wrong choices but that’s fake, it’s not an ending you aren’t gonna stop playing now it’s just a fail state, go back and make the correct choice dumbass. It’s not a game, it’s a picture book deisgned to blueball you.

In conclusion right here, right now I do not recommend this game. The neverending blueballing and the annoying ass narrative mean I can’t right now. But I am a sucker for good art so in the event that chaper 10 comes out and the MC finally fucks those carrots I will revist and update my review. No idea how I’m by no means saying I’ll recommend it then but I’ll at least have some catharsis and wont that be nice.

A terrible cliche game. The characters behave illogically, and the hero stays with the blue eggs simply because "it's not right" is repeated dozens of times during the first 5 or 6 episodes. There is no plot, this is a typical novella from 17-18, with an increasing sexual progression in proportion to the number of patrons. Fortunately, now there is something to compare it with, and the developers have learned how to make amazing works of art that include adult content, unlike this game!

This game is mega unoriginal but what it does, it does very well. The execution is near perfect. My only problem with the game is that there aren't enough actual sex scenes, and because of this the pacing of the game is way off, and it keeps retreading the same ground over and over and over. I still give it a 4/5 because it's so good. The characters are very likeable and human, and the scenes and renders and animations are all top knotch. Give it a shot.

Very boring game, I didn't liked the renders nor I liked how only 3 characters were present in the game, and nothing beyond , I heavily dislike game where setting and characters are monotonous , Feels like a sim,ulations and hence not for me.

This AVN is soo cliche and has absolutely nothing that sets it apart from other VNs, basically It feels like this was copy-pasted.
Especially the MC, He's so fucking bland that even water has more personality than him.
He has no problem being a borderline creep towards the milf but when it is the youngest girl being involved then its all of a sudden immoral and bad because they're cousins or whatever... So retarded.

There's also often grammar errors, misgenderings, etc.

And where the hell is the "Kinetic novel" tag? the choices has no impact whatsoever...

The only thing that might be good about this is that the renders are really good, but beyond that? It's meh.



My advice to the dev would be to find someone else to write the story and characters, while the dev should focus solely on making the renders.

If you could sum up a porn game with one word. Then without a shadow of a doubt, Heart Problems word would be "edging". The lengths this game goes to deny a fulfilling scene with any of the LIs for no reason whatsoever are impressive. The quaility of the renders, the scenes themselves, sex positions, and more is supreme. Despite the fact that they all end before peak satisfaction.

I do not mind the wait between updates so for me that isn't a factor that pushes down my score. As long as this quality is mantained, and the game eventually reaches a conclusion I'll support this game.

Spoilers below.

The writing is fucking atrocious bro. Kicked out to an empty studio apartment as punishment? Weird, but ok. Maybe the dev has something great planned. Just kidding! Guess what, you come back home a day later! LMAO it's one of the worst written AVNs I've ever seen. People calling this "once in a lifetime masterpiece" are just plain trolling

MC's seduction skills are just letting his dick slide out, groping, sleep molesting and dry humping

I'll still play it for the renders but the writing and plot are comically bad. It's disrespectful to other devs who actually write decent stories to call the writing here good

this game has a stupid plot and awkward dialogue and terrible porn logic and unrealistic scenes and it starts out slow and it really shouldn't be ranked highly but then...

the three girls' faces are rendered so well and the sex scene animations are simply epic. Stephanie in particular is one of the most annoying characters you will ever see in a VN but her facial expressions are so great - innocent then wicked then lewd - you can't get enough.

Mom's ass is way too big for me, almost grotesque, but that's a design choice by the author so I can't criticize him for it

Everything you love about a harem incest game is here. Sweet caring mother figure, Hot and slutty sister figure and cute and affectionate younger sister figure. Whatever you desire is here. Great renders, hot sex scenes with fantastic animations. Everything is just perfectly well balanced. A bonus point to Amelie the aunt for being one of the best MILFS in this website.

One of the best image, graphic and texture qualities. It has a very good story progress, there are a lot of teasing but it is only a build up of the rest of the story. It has a great future prospect. Just the updates are slow. I hope it is completed and we get regular updates. A very good VN to be recommended. Loved it. Hope the devs give us a new update soon, eagerly waiting for it.

Game version: 0.9

What can I say... the game deteriorated badly in terms of story/ writing/ pacing but increased greatly in terms of lewd content, render and animations quality over since its first release.

Man, the choices you were forced to do during the earlier chapters could even block future scenes with the ladies; and now (chapter 7 or 8+) they are mostly reduced to one possible answer, that will progress with every woman anyway.

While I feel a bit sad about this change, my third leg feels much more entertained.. just being honest.

In the later chapters you can already choose between different speeds and angles during the scenes- amazing!
It's gonna be a fuckfest at some point in the near future, huehue.

TLDR; Quality scenes/ animations and renders, mediocre story = Came for the story, stayed for the fap. Recommended.

I like the game overall. It's right up my alley of genres I like. I like the models, especially Amelie. The story is engaging, in my opinion, and it makes me look forward to more content. I love the animations and it is really appealing and mesmerising. Keep up the good work and I'll be waiting for newer, better updates.

Fantastic porn comic. The camera angles are just perfect. They really capture each characters ASSets perfectly. The writing is pretty good. The models are hot however the mammas tattas are a bit big for my preference.

Did i already review this? not sure if I did. and even if i did. Hecc lets do it again, dam. the woman are beautiful and it doesn give too much of blue balls. I like it. thanks for sharing this kind of work.Filling the extra word count

I would love to give this game 5 stars but I just can't. The story is better than most adult games, the models and animations are much better than most 5 stars game. It's just that the ''game'' part doesn't actually exist. Yeah I could give the excuse that ''it's just a visual novel'' but even in most VN you at least get some control over the stories. It's basically like this if you are looking for well done 3d renders with vanilla sex you will love this game, but if you want some actual game-play in your adult game you might want to skip this one.

I rather liked the animations, and the models [at least their faces] were, you know, wow.
My problem comes from the lack of true choices in the game. I am not into chubby-chasing, and so gals with a lot of junk in the trunk do not turn me on. I get that others like a big badokadonk, but give me a choice to sidestep or pinch off that relationship path. Unless I was a cruel bastard to the Puerto Rican Mum, I railroaded into sex with her. As well, I cannot be the only one who kept noticing how Amelie's ass kept getting bigger and bigger with each update. It kinda reminds me of what DC artist Wally Wood [wot a name, that] kept making Power Girl's chest bigger until someone noticed.
We have noticed that Amelie's butt keeps getting bigger. For the love of God, please stop before she explodes or has a stroke or something.
The plot of the game is interesting, but with the MC pledging his etrnal love to at least two of the women living under the same roof and being forced into sex by the third, this is going to end horrifically. And that knowledge keeps pulling me out of the game; I'm unable to appreciate the sexy stuff because I am worried someone's gonna bust down the door and then There Will Be Blood. Get a hotel room, for cripes sake.
So, the reason it didn't get a 5 is because of the pandering to the FatAss crowd as well as the mismanagement of the story arcs. Apart from those things, the art and the lewd scenes are great.

Fake choices. Some LIs are unavoidable. The plot summary should point out that the story is on rails in regards to certain characters, so if you're not into MILFs you're gonna be wasting a lot of time reading about the MC who just can't keep himself from going after her despite you choosing not to every chance offered.

Awesome game! Great CG + animations, interesting story line. The graphics/character models change over time and are significantly improved in the later chapters. Worth sticking around if you are on the fence after the first couple chapters.

The game is average at best in most aspects. As many other reviewers already wrote, the story is our standard porn-logic family fuck party, the girls are stereotypes to the bone, nothing exciting to find here. Render quality is good, but most characters look pretty pale, the whole render scenery looks pale, don't know if this is some kind of a more "realistic" look, if so it doesn't work.

So why 5 stars?

This one simply is the best game I've ever seen when it comes to groping physics and body part animations! The dev clearly fancy the touching, fondling and groping of tits and asses, and he puts every attention of detail into the touching, squeezing and sucking. Where other games' sex scenes look like to logs rubbing against each other, here literally everything moves and wiggles, it's fantastic! And it gets better with each update.

So if you aren't interest in these things, this game won't be for you. But if squeezing attractive busts and behinds is your fetish, look no further, this is the one you were allways looking for!