VN - Ren'Py - Homelander [Ch.5 P1] [JabbonkGames]

WOW!! Didn't expect the game to be this good, i love the design and the direction of the story it is going, and each chapter is quite big, so love that too, i'm always down for medieval DND type game but very few have been at the level of this game, absolutely love it kudos to dev, if this is his first game then i'm excited for how he will do in the future ones

So far my favorite game I've played. Love the story and characters.
Well-designed they are beautiful, especially the trans characters.
Keep working on this, please.

My only criticism is that it's not long enough, I need more, but please don't rush it. Take your time. I also love the story development, it's unique.

Huge fan of this one so far (as of Ch5 pt1), great writing, interesting story, big cast with lots of variety but characters don't feel too shallow or stretched.

On the surface it's basically a cross between WVM and Ataegina but I think it's smarter and less self-indulgent than the former and more focused and grounded than the latter. It's a pretty straightforward harem game (choices are mostly either yes/no to certain romance paths or minor roleplaying adjustments) with a gentle-giant white-knight MC with a cock that is about 20% too big to make any sense, all of which I know some people don't like, but when the writing and the characters are this good then I think there's absolutely a place for games like this.

I have some concerns about the scope and scale of the project given the glimpses we've seen of the story ahead, and I hope the dev is able to upgrade their equipment and scale up development soon or (based on current rate of development) they will simply never have time to complete the story they want to tell, but I'm hopeful!

I'll get right to it : MC is a simp masquerading as a chad, has the usual silly plastic monster dildo attached to him, all the women throw caution to the wind and act like amateur pornstars in his presence.

Now on to the biggest problem, the forced LI. Developers really need to stop writing in forced LIs then throwing loopholes like harem or the main girl being a "cuckquean" to justify their terrible writing. Give at least some power to the player, these types of stories always tread the line of kinetic just enough for it not to be tagged as such.

TL;DR - You play as a friendly giant with a rubber cock who has a cuck girlfriend.

I wanna like this game more, but It's a mixed bag that made me wanna face palm multiple times while playing.

Good stuff
1) Some hot lewd scenes.
2) Chill power fantasy.

Meh stuff
1) Girls appearances range from hot to get paper bag ASAP!!
2) Choices are so so. They're mostly view/skip scene, dialog flavor or for choosing fetish content. Haven't noticed any meaningful choices that affect the story or MCs personality yet. Hopefully that changes...

Bad stuff
1) MCs personality sucks. He's one of those virtuous dense doormats that requires guidance or permission to accomplish anything.
2) Writing gets very long winded and repetitive. Especially when characters are repeatedly circle jerking each other with complements.

Version at time of review: CH5.1


You name it, this game does it well. Writing, Story, Renders, Character variety.. easily 5/5 stars.

Story gets serious at points pretty quickly so brace yourself, but there's plenty of lighthearted (and ero content as well.).

Trans thankfully can be disabled

LI's and side girls are mostly hot, could be more harem action IMO

But this really isn't my type of AVN but if you like fantasy settings you will probably like this one

It's a very good game already, 4.5* atm. With the potential to become a 5* down the line. It does alot of things right already. Such as boasting an interesting world with some good lore to go with it. I dig the whole vibe and setting quite alot.

Good enough graphics, nothing groundbreaking but still solid enough to be enjoyable.

Some pretty good LIs also, such as the Queen, Gloria the shopkeeper, her daughter Kaela and Ariana, her especially turning out to be a Massive Cuckquean was a pleasant surprise as I feel like we don't get many of those generally speaking in alot of these AVNs and I'm a great Cuckquean enjoyer.

I am very eager to see how this one develops further. And I would consider myself very much invested

This is a pretty solid game clearly made with passion. The transparency and constant updates on the dev progress made this a 5 star when it could just have been a 4.
I'm not the biggest fan of some models. Mc has a dick as thick as an arm and most girls have boobs defying physics (Ariana also seems to be stuck in a constant duckface). After saying that there is enough choices in design for it not to be a deal breaker. The possibility to choose a cast with more variety is also welcome.
The setting, while not unique, is a fantasy world that seems to have some thoughts put into it, the main nations have enough history to not just be a set dressing and the magic system could reveal some more depth than your typical elemental spells.
The royal family interactions however feel more like your average porn game step family than real royalty and it's a bit weird. While the writing is above average and there is some competent mysteries around the mc survival and origin, the story often does not wish to be taken too seriously.

There isnt much choice, and the MC is a Gary Stu with everyone falling for him immediately. Enough of the world building is interesting to carry it. Writing is above average but not superb, but for whatever reason it just works. Good game to play with a cup of coffee or tea on a rainy day

Set in a medieval dark fantasy world this games good, not just nice but good, with great plot wonderfully different characters

Pros:
Story
Art
Veriety of wonderful cast

Cons:
Long update cycle
The pacing could be good(preference)

EDIT FOR 5.1:

I'm going from 5/5 to 3/5. Everything I said below I still stand by, but this second playthrough including the new content really reinforces the bad parts. This AVN is drowning and will continue to drown in its ambition. 3.5 years of development and we're still in prologue territory; nothing about the "main thing" has been revealed and it's simply a "deal with later" kind of issue. There are "le mysterious" important characters are glimpsed along with the cryptic "main thing," but it will be years before there's any consequences. And I mean IRL years, as in, don't hold your breath.

Also, along with the hair randomly on two LIs, all of them fall into two categories with no exception: ridiculous '80s bimbotits or A-cup boards. Also also, and I don't know why I didn't mention this before, but there is no family action, because there is no family at all. Two side characters are introduced as sisters in a relationship, but within sixty seconds it's thoroughly explained that despite looking nearly identical they are completely unrelated. Cucking to Patreon pressure.

Only recommend now with serious caveats



Yeah, this is a fantastic game. Faults are plenty, but it's absolutely worth the time and patience to play through. Not even going to bother ranting or complaining, really, I'll just do this:


PROS

• All but two women are fully shaven (all but one main character).
• Besides the queen and Selena most obviously, all the faces are incredibly attractive and not deformed or stupid looking.
• A pretty tremendous amount of content in two years, it puts 99% of other games to the sword in this department. Six or seven hours at least.
• Very decent lore and worldbuilding. It's a bit weak in the beginning, but by chapter four it's more and more fleshed out.
• I was totally immersed in the story and the blank slate protagonist. His face is totally hidden besides some tight side angles, so you can self insert as much as possible.
• Obviously ymmv but I was glued to my screen, which is pretty rare for any game, AVN or not. I'm not saying it's the strongest plot or the best characters but it was the right amount of interesting for me to pay attention.
• No stupid scenarios or dumbfuck situations that the MC finds himself in.

CONS

• The unshaven main character is the one I'd least expect to be so, and it's very disappointing.
• A huge amount of typos. I don't think the script has been spellchecked or proofread at all. The saving grace here is that it's not engrish or ESL, so it's clearly just lazy editing rather than illiteracy.
• Honestly it didn't really bother me considering how into it I was, but there really aren't a lot of sexy parts. It heats up later on naturally, but we're still talking half a dozen full sex scenes in a lot of hours.
• In two specific scenes I felt the "revenge" or payback was cheap. I wanted to cut those assholes into pieces or burn them alive or something, but it's just a stern talking to.
• Even though the amount of content is above and beyond what I'd expect, unfortunately this one is going to take a long time to finish. I hope beyond all hope that it doesn't fade away and become abandoned.
• Too many of the women have cartoon tits, and it's out of place. Obviously the MC is packing a footlong meat cannon so that's unrealistic, but for so many of the women to be otherwise realistic and then have ogre boobs is jarring and unwelcome.

Absolutely worth your time. This should be one of the most popular games on here and I'm sad that it isn't. I rarely even bother writing reviews or ratings on things I enjoy since my prime happy time in life is shitting on people, but this one deserves it.

Ok, I have to admit that the renders are a bit dated, all the girls look fake, like doll-fake (Selena is the best example), but the story so far (Chapter 4 part 2) is excellent, full of dramas, mysteries, romances, humor and sex (from Chapter 2). And more importantly, there is a big secret behind what really happened to the MC from when he was 5 (when his dad and brothers died) to when he was 15 (when he saved Ariana), because realistically, it was impossible for him to survive 10 years in such a wild and hostile environment with no house, no family, no friend and almost nothing to eat.

There is no real major choice in the story itself, it’s quite kinetic, but apart from 2 love interests who are crucial to the story, you have the choice to reject any other LI if they are not up to your liking, and that is a BIG plus for me. The MC could be a little more Alpha from time to time, when the situation needs it, but he’s not a wimp either, except in front of the queen because … well she’s the queen after all, but she’s also a softie and a mama bear inside so it’s not a big deal.

The game is more than 2 years old and already has a lot of content, so give it a try and form your own opinion, you might be surprised. A very nice discovery for me, not in the top 10 either, but I still can’t wait for Chapter 5!

Story just dident do it for me but what really killed it was the MC, im just getting to tierd of submissive MCs with a mindset of a 12 year old thinking everyone he sees is hot, it breaks any chance of immersion if you hate the person MC is lusting so hard for, also the getting a boner like a kid from nothing what so ever is again childish and not like a grown up man.
The dialogs are to bland and writting to cringy way to often.

I know dev said there was 2 forced relationships/sex scenes which was needed for story so i wouldent hold that against the game, but its just not true, first one is the queen and he could have told her no very easy, theres no story related reasons for her to do anything with him, if anything it should stop anything from happening considering shes hes mother figure.....

MC thinks about if he should protest or just run away, then he thinks about how shes the most beautiful woman hes ever seen and to me personaly she was ugly as hell so yeah broke any immersion very early in game.
He also constantly question him self but does absolutly nothing about anything, in other words very submissive and 0 backbone.

Next a weird scene with Selena where she walls on him and starts grinding MC while shes out cold? makes 0 sense and MC thinks "oh crap im already hard and shes holding me to thightly to wiggle out" i mean he is a man? atleast i think he is? but apprently hes arms dosent work so he cant move her away? this truely feel worse then a b-porn movie and its all just to cringy.

Theres also little to no romance build-up, you meet girl you can fuck girl which also makes for a very boring game when you feel absolutly nothing for the girls MC is fucking since they just trown them selfs at him for no reasons what so ever.

If game dident have forced relationship and weird forced sexual encounters then it would proberly have been a better game or if it atleast really was absolutly needed for story but its just not, also it would need real choices or atleast trow that kinetic novel tag on so make people aware that main story is kinetic, when i search for games i exclude kinetic novels so would never have played this if i knew before hand.

MCs dick is ofc also over sized and in some animations it looks absolutly idiotic, where a girl cant even do a BJ since once just the tip is in she already has her mouth fully opened as much as possible.

Girls are a bit meh, theres a bit of diversity in builds but ofc the forced stuff is only bimbos and not having a big tit fetish that dosent help things.

Animations are a bit bland but proberly around average looking, not bad but nowhere near great either and some are just weird.

Music is very low and it dosent really suit the game either, sound effects are just kinda weird.

As for choices there arent really many, theres a few girls you can turn down but overall you should think of it as a kinetic novel.

I am so tired of having to switch my brain off to read these VN's. I am also incredibly tired of writing that's completely out of its depth for the setting chosen. The queen and her family talk like a bunch of sorority girls.

The story is just a back drop for the MC getting his dick wet at every corner, which once more is completely, entirely unbelievable unless you just had a lobotomy. But then he seems to be the only guy with a dick, so maybe the "women" (using that word generously here, because they barely make it past cardboard) really have no choice.


Stories like this is why you perverts can't have nice things. Awful.

Homelander is a mostly kinetic harem-style AVN based on an open relationship set in the Middle Age, with optional futa content where you decide on the spot if you want to be on the receiving end. Models are nice and varied (youngsters and some sexy MILFs) and sex scenes are decently animated but somewhat conventional and uninspiring for the most part, at least to my taste. It's funny that the optional futa content, Gloria and the sex scene with Cordelia are the highlights of Ch4 P2, seeing as Selena isn't yet beddable. Miranda The princess isn't exactly attractive, she looks like a doll made by Pixar. Even Cordelia looks smarter and her sex scene feels less generic too.

Some facial expressions are weird, making a character to either look 15 years younger (you can see this with e.g. Olivia in her first sex scene) or deformed.

Also, this has all the looks of becoming (if it isn't already) yet another game with a silly number of LIs which you can mostly fuck once. I appreciate the fact that I get to decide which girls I want to bed, but for a kinetik novel it would be a lot simpler (and more believable) to have less fuckable girls. For example, you could get to bed Abigail but only be able to kiss or grope the other halflings. This trend to make every single character a target for a fully-fledged sex scene only ruins games but hey, what do I know...

There are two versions - All women version or Mixed types version. I played the mixed version.

All the characters are cute and sexy, with various body sizes and shapes. There are two confirmed futa characters so far, and both allowed you to only be on the giving end if you don't want the MC being dicked. So far there are no 'gay' love interests, as in strictly male on male content, which is personally good. I love dickgirls but don't enjoy sexing normal males.

Sex scenes feature solid animations. Most sex scenes feature women cumming multiple times, creampies, facials, and sometimes even multiple cumshots from the MC. They don't feel short and forgettable!

The themes of HAREM and INCEST (adopted family relations for MC, but some characters are blood related and play with each other) are kinky and prominent. Building a harem is incentivized and even pushed on you by other women. There is NO JEALOUSY or BREAKING HEARTS by pursuing hot women!

The love interests are all sweet with interesting backstories, but have various different archetypes they fit into (shy, strong, dom, sub, love, fling, etc.)

I love the variety in the characters, the world building, and the focus on HAREM and incest. Fantastic quality game!

It's...... just not a good game, in any way. Everything from the writing to the visuals are bad.

When it comes to the story, it's not well thought out at all. The MC is supposed to be an orphan whose family died when he was 5 and survives 10 years in the wild on his own, as if that wasn't unbelievable enough, MC for some reason is extremely naive and civilized and talks like a nobelman despite living in the wilderness for the vast majority of his life.

That brings me to the writing of the interactions in this game. The only way I can describe this is that it feels extremely manufactured. 90% of the MCs dialogue is giving positive reinforcements to other characters, it just gets extremely cringy. There should be more to a dialogue than just being nice to each other, there should be normal conversations, small talks, tense moments, friendly banter etc to make it seem like you actually care about what the other person is saying.

Just like his dialogue, the MC is also extremely bland. The stereotypical Gary stu Mr perfect. Even though he spent all of his childhood alone in the wilderness, he has nothing to show for it when it comes to his personality. He seems to be perfect at everything he tries his hands at, girls fall in love with him at first sight, it's just extremely boring.

The visuals are bad, the models are not that good looking and that's not even the biggest problem, it's something about the color grading, it's very orange, like the Mexican filter you see in movies. It hurts my eyes, everything is extremely dull looking.

Kinda hard to rate... If you are looking at this like a game, then it gets zero stars.
As far as a kinetic novel goes, it gets about 3 stars I guess.

Graphics aren't too good. I mean, certianly not bad but really bland after awhile as it mostly takes place inside a castle....so you are just looking at stone walls and floors the whole time.

Like most other mc's around here....all the females fall in love w the mc pretty instantly.

I quit sometime in chapter 3. By then I think there were three choices. One didn't matter what you chose and I'm not sure if the others did either... They weren't important though.

Females aren't that great looking, though, considering the style I guess they fit in well.

Anyway... Wish I hadn't downloaded it as I was looking for a game. If you want a story to read, you could give it a try.

Damn it. I hate this. First of all the MC is godlike perfect at everything he does/is. Every woman falls for you and you cant do no harm. Your only choices are if you are interested or not.
What makes this really annoying is that everything else is awesome.
World building, story, characters and writing. On par with the best games on this site. It´s a pity the dev wasn´t brave enough to resist the whiny bitxes.
Since an agregate star rating system isnt very precise i´ll have to give it a 4. Here´s hoping the dev makes a "grown ups" version with real relationships in the future.