Ren'Py - Hornycraft [v0.22.1] [Shadik]

pros:
art is great,
writing is serviceable,
bestiality?
corruption, a bit
cons:
mining blows.
hunting sucks
you can't properly break alex yet.
herobane!!!! (unless u are into vore... but u ain t getting my cow.)

Artwork is great but that's essentially the only plus.

To start with, the developer is incredibly self-important and has been since the game's original "april fools you fuckin weirdo" release that he backpedalled on in favour of an actual game the instant any interest was shown and abandoning previous projects to do so. This wouldn't normally matter if not for it also reflecting in the game's actual content, leading to a horrifically inconsistent experience that jumps back and forth between the poorly-advised "I'm doing it MY way because I'M the one that knows best in the world!" type of approach and the equally-questionable "oh you guys want (thing)? sure (thing) is the best!". This is a developer that has been openly transphobic, both in terms of being hateful to trans community as a whole and expressing severe disgust at the concept of a feminine body having cock (and pushed a scene into the game expressing that disdain that served to do nothing but disgust *both* parties?) only to double back almost immediately with another update that gave Alex a cock.

The unapologetic yet (poorly) disguised developer ranting about specific fetishes and persons present in more than half of the updates is also paired with the herobrine route of the game which features high levels of gore and permanent ends to otherwise liked characters for no apparent reason. Originally I thought this was an excuse to stop developing specific characters to pave way for new ones (although even then you could just stop updating them in case you ever felt like throwing them a new scene in the future for whatever reason? Holding more cards is more sensible than flushing them just because you can) but every herobrine bad-ended girl also has a romantic themed game-end option for them too which would be just as tidy of an excuse. On that same note, outside of the possibility of the dev just being a disturbed individual which I'm going to refrain from actually commenting on, I'm entirely unsure why the herobrine route leads to gore at all. The herobrine creepypasta stuff was always about "you are not alone and it hates you" with a side focus on data corruption, the ~photorealistic blood!~ was more along the sonic.exe and tails doll stuff instead. Given you've got the data-corruption type thing going on with the image puzzles already, herobrine's route being one that kills off the girls- leaving you more alone than you started- feels backwards. I would suggest having it "reset" the girls into not caring about you whatsoever- so that they're there but they feel wrong anyway.

Also, between the newest updates adding the silverfish girl who for some reason needs to drop slurs in every other sentence and apparently the introduction of a gacha-like machine using significant portions of artwork scraped from the web, it strikes me as the dev using people directing hate at him as a means to gather attention rather than actually being his point of view- it's hard to tell what he actually does/doesn't like when he bends over backwards for the audience while simultaneously insisting he's not. This would make give me zero hope about the game's future- bouncing off into seemingly random directions to gather up some people's distaste so he can pretend he's superior to them in some fashion- if not for that there's already no real hope with the gameplay itself also being fairly grindy.
Resource costs are all over the place and things have periodically- sometimes even repeatedly- gotten knocked down in price because it's dull as shit to replay the same barebones minigames several dozen times to craft something, so the next update or maybe the one after that drops the price only to introduce a new grindy thing. It seems fairly obvious the game is tested using cheats, and most of the feedback that any attention is being given to is primarily the paid audience who, in turn, are also probably just using cheats. The minigame gacha having over 100 images costing an emerald each with no duplicate protection, each emerald costing multiple of another resource? There's no way that's not a "cheat for emeralds or sit it out" type of bait, and when cheats are one of the benefits of paying that's not subtle.

I've checked into this game four or five times over the more-than-two-years it's been being developed and while the artwork itself remains high quality (except the gacha machine which sticks out terribly- which I suppose is fitting), the rest of the game appears to be degrading in quality and being patched over with tape. I also have no doubt that, like just about everyone before me with any complaints about the game, I'll be ignored or the complaints in question sidestepped or strawmanned, and the game will continue to be yet another glacial-yet-empty game that survives when it shouldn't and exist as a waste of an otherwise serviceable premise and a waste of an artist's talent at actually doing art.

cool and fun game , thoroughly enjoyed , hope the updates keep upping the quality of the experience. something i would like to see be more explored is more animals having beastiality sex with alex , maybe in a future update.

it was fine until the game's creator started putting weirdly preachy homophobic/transphobic messages in the dream sequences. really should've come with a disclaimer about smoothbrained 4channer npc bullshit, jfc

This is an excellent VN, it had more content than I expected, but it's biggest weakness is that it needs even more content (which shouldn't come as a surprise with the version numbering).

It's other potential weakness is the minigames. It has a lot of minigames. Some of them, like the mining one where you find matching tiles is fine, some of them, like the monster hunting minigame and the potion shop minigame are truly awful (though luckily you do not need to play those 2 very much).

True to the theme, you get the minecraft experience of starting out in a dirt shack from where you'll have to farm wood, stone and other materials and upgrade your gear and your house gradually over time, once your gear is fully upgraded getting those resources is extremely easy but until then it's a gradually decreasing difficulty curve.

I liked the gameplay loop, it was a smidge too grindy at times but overall I thought it was decent.

And I liked the art too, art is great.

You get what it says on the tin, minecraft hentai.

As for the story... I barely paid attention to it, it didn't really grab me.

I've Never played Minecraft
I don't get the bad rating for this game, It has original unique art, consistent updates, each girl has her own story that's pretty independent, and there really isn't even any NTR since as jesus_fucking_christ said two reviews back, only Alex has any relationships with others and she's more of the neighborhood hoe, your not romancing her, your fucking her. You romance the other girls.
on the negatives, I've experienced bugs, The most recent one I got was when Alex comes to your house to ask if you want any resources, if you go to sleep and get the second watermelon event, it tells you you've done all of Alex's events. Just make sure to do the watermelon dream event first.
Another potential downside is that some of it is a bit weird like the cake, watermelon, horse, and female pony. but this is a game fucking Minecraft characters, what did you expect.
each individual character's content is pretty short TBH.
lastly, its kind of grindy at the start, once you get your gear upgraded though it's a nonissue.

In conclusion, it's a good game, and if you don't have problems with cartoon watermelons or hoes you should give it a go and rate it if you like it.

This game was peak minecraft porn, nha kidding but still pretty good its has a lot of Cg animations and content, it was pretty fun to play and a hella good wank.
The desings are very good and it has a lot of potential since it sin´t finished yet.
Kinda grindy well its grindy but still fun to play but sometime kinda frustrating, But it lacks of content for now so i giving it for now an 6,5/10 Good game Nice wank.
(Sorry for my bad english)

So far, so good. Really like most of the content
(the herobrine route is really and there sould be more info before starting it).

The "NTR" isnt really ntr and more like "free use slut next door" which is quite nice for a change.

There are also a few characters that call themself "Mommy" during h-scenes which just proves that the creator is a man of culture.

While i do love some trap content from time to time i also like the integration of lgbtqxyz characters in this game.

Overall im quite happy. Cant wait for the next update.

My Russian friend from Barnaul loves this game because of this game he now wants to fuck watermelons. Thank you developer.
But I will tell you personally about this game. I don't like Minecraft. But I love my Friend. We haven't had sex with him yet, but I hope for the best.

Game is good. Excellent art style. But there is not too much H-Scenes and they have too simple animation. Also grind prevents from enjoying. Yeh mini-games are good but when they are repeated over and over again it is just annoying.
I would rate it 3/5, but for the wildly transphobic scene I put 5/5. absolutely based dev.

It's got a lot of content and the art is much better than I expected for a Minecraft parody. the humour is a bit juvenile but it did still get a chuckle out of me here and there.
I didn't find the game to be particularly grindy, but I guess if you do things sub-optimally it might be, so you should put a little thought into the order you buy upgrades.

Gameplay wise it's fine but very grindy. Personally, I only found some of the scenes hot, majority just weren't it for me, shame cause the art style is pretty hot. But the actual contents of the scenes were very off-putting. Zoophilia, rape and gore with no warning whatsoever but there is a warning for futa content. The mc raping an asleep character is fine, watching Alex get fucked by a horse is fine and is treated as something to look forward to by the MC, watching a woman get crushed to death with her intestines spilling out is a-ok, but a chick with a dick is too far? Seriously? Tbf the zoophilia stuff is skippable but there is still rape and gore for no reason and no warning. Coupled with the completely random transphobic dream sequence it just put a bad taste in my mouth.

Also the Herobrine story line just feels like it's trying too hard, I'm not even that squeamish when it comes to gore in media, but this wasn't even the fun kind of gore. Gore shouldn't even be in a game like this. It's just needlessly cruel and the inclusion of tits in the gore sequences made it feel even nastier.

The Herobrine route isnt even interesting because it's just ripping off the Monika twist from DDLC, even having a lame pun about someone getting hanged. It just makes the gore feel even more forced and tryhard, at least in DDLC it served a story purpose, it's not even shocking after the first scene, all i could think of during the Endergirl scene was the end of the Wizard of Oz, its just boring and tryhard.

The rest of the game was fine, endings were cute, art is good and things are well animated, but the gameplay was tedious & some of the stuff in the game is just appalling and nasty. Whoever made this game is, at the very least, a weirdo. Like no one wants to see Steve Minecraft fuck a My Little Pony character, c'mon man what're you doing.

I though the cartoon design could get me in but CG are bad, nothing really juicy, poorly drawn, you go through the grind and the scene without any concern .

Story.... Well, I was already cringed by the incel position of shadik, the more you progress it gets worse. Even the free bullet against trans, wtf ?

In short worth it. I first played it for the memes, but this game has gotten MASSIVELY better overtime. The creator stays true to a lot of the story and game lore/legend as far as characters. Highly recommend to anyone,

Coming from a veteran minecraft player, this game is amazing, the art is unreal with the amount of characters that are provided as well, such a nice game. 10/10

I also love the minigames, nice and easy, nice and tight like the enderman.
W game holy.

The dialogue in this game is very fucking cringe I don't know how people are tolerating the cringy dialogue. The game treats you like you are 12 you get wood "winner winner chicken dinner" when you get cobblestone "winner winner chicken dinner" like can you just stop with the cringe, please.

The game is too grindy and I like grindy games but this is just too much for me.

"A couple of weird notes" Apparently Dev added some incel and transphobic dialogue I didn't get to that part because I wanted to rip my eyes out because of Steve's cringy dialogue.

Also according to people, there is a gory herobrine route that turns this game into horror (I haven't experienced it myself because I deleted the game thanks to cringy dialogue) if true that would be a nice twist but I won't waste any more of my time on this game there are other porn games out there that are miles better than whatever the fuck this cringe.

Great game, hardly complete but I think if it maintains the quality until completion it will be a real gem. Some might see it as a little grindy, but I think it works well. Funny dialogue as well. Give it a try!

I'm a sucker for unique art, and this definitely meets that.
The dev decided that the 'game' part of porn game needed to be focused on, and I respect that. Some of the minigames were all right. I liked the fact that they got easier after upgrading your gear, that was a nice touch.

That said, it's still grindy as fuck. Throw in the incel-like attitude/inner-monologue from the MC, the random as hell transphobic dream sequence that exists just to display the dev's politics, and the surprise herobrine storyline gore, and the game becomes an unfortunate miss for me.

The game was passable, charming style at first might hook you but the story gets simpler and simpler. The grinding aspect made it nearly impossible to play without falling asleep. All of this up until a random transphobic rant out of nowhere. This was completely unprompted and made me delete the game. Remembering this as one to never pick up again.

the game has a cute story and good art but the blatant transphobia out of left field is a little annoying, also there really needs to be a warning or a toggle for the gore and the permanent character lockout (which can fuckup other routes not including the character killed) on the herobrine route.
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