VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Hot Sand of Antarctica [v0.09] [Grinvald]

Really glad I discovered this game. It's now become one of my favorites.

The pacing is excellent.
It manages to balance a lot of sex scenes so that you never have to wait too long for the next one, but at the same time, the story is actually interesting and keeps you intrigued.
There's cool mystery, that is introduced at the beginning of the game that hints at deeper worldbuilding.
In terms of writing, you can clearly see that English is not dev's native language, but otherwise it's competent and gets the point across.

Renders are crisp and not grainy like in many other 3D VNs. They are great where it matters. The environments are kind of mediocre, but girls look really great, attractive and unique.

I love how there're a lot of frames per scene (multiple angles, poses, expressions), which makes them feel much more alive and dynamic.

Even outside sex scenes, you're almost always in the company of one or more of your LIs and see them at least half-naked a lot, which is awesome.

There's one avoidable sex scene at the beginning of the game with another character and a girl who is not an LI.
But there's no NTR, and the dev doesn't plan to introduce it later.

I think the screenshots in the OP should be updated since they are exclusively from the beginning of the game and don't even show most of the main LIs.

The dev is really talented, and I hope the game becomes much more popular since it seems to fly under people's radar.

- Review for version 0.04.

Oh gosh, this game immediately became my #1 .
It hits my kinks perfectly and help discover a new one.
I really like storytelling, dystopian postapo setting and enigmatic atmosphere.
Smooth animations, renders and dev's ability to create lewd scenes are strong points of this game.
Can't wait for the next update.

0.04 review:

Hot Sand of Antarctica is a game taking place in post-apocalyptic wasteland. By looking marketing renders alone this game look nothing special, just another Ren'py project. However, behind average renders and clumsy beginning is a good game that has good sex scenes and quite merciless plot.

The main problem why this game does not deserve 5/5 is completely lack of lore. The game takes place in Antarctica, yet there are ruins everywhere. Characters and place names are most unoriginal you can imagine of. While I understand Antarctica is unmapped, it is not unnamed, so even the current sector names of that continent are not used. This game heavily revolves around incest, yet is incest accepted or just MC's family thing is not explained. In other words, there is no story behind the world.

Anyway, this game is good. The action is solid and sex scenes are well made. If you like Father-Daughter incest this game is must. The game goes a bit too much in grooming in my mind, but if you fetish is mom teaching sex to her twin-daughters while dad bangs her this is your game. When action starts, someone always dies. There are no morals, a life of kid can be exchanged for a few rounds of ammunition. Then there are some supernatural elements which make the plot more interesting.

I think the dev is rather inexperienced story teller, yet good with making renders and creating action. Like, this is only few games where females scream. For some reasons this caught my attention, that you know females behave like females. In how many games or shows females scream nowdays? Currently there is playing material for a few hours which is great. But to be excellent this game must be remastered later adding some meat around bones.

Try it anon.

Fantastic start to a game! The game has a very nice mix of sex and story. The visuals are good and keep getting better. There is quite a bit of mystery going on as well. Should be fun to see where it goes. Definitely deserves some more attention.

Extremely well done. Interesting story, good art, sexy sex, good writing. I'm very much looking forward to the important choices and possible branches in the future. Until then, this game deserves more support IMO. Just 42 patrons is silly.

There's just 1 imperfect part in 4 episodes: the video doesn't work well with 'auto forward'. It should repeat a few times and then continue. Absolutely love all the rest.

I will give the dev props. They do have some skill and they are producing regular updates so you have to support and appreciate the hard work, because creating these games is not easy. The renders are good and the women are beautiful but that's about as far as the good goes.

The writing is mediocre at best. There are places with original names like "Rotten Town" which is run by Skull. The MC finds mysterious sisters who were captured by dudes named Monkey and Hog and both of these women drop trow in the first 5 minutes of meeting them...

Not to mention this whole area used to be covered by ice and yet now it is covered by ruins. Not sure where these ruins came from . Oh, and all of these new territories are run by bosses who all have harems and also control all the women, because I am sure all the dudes would be perfectly fine with that arrangement.

It's obvious English is not the dev's first language, but I would be okay with that if the story had some substance and some depth, but it's really not good.

I hate being this negative as I am a failed developer myself and this dev is at least working hard and trying to put something out there, and I do applaud the effort. It's just that there are so many good VNs coming out these days and just having good renders and fapping content doesn't cut it anymore. A good story is essential and this just isn't one.

I would encourage the dev to rethink the story before getting too much farther down the road. All the renders can stay and still be used, but, IMO, the story needs to be tightened up.

↘↘
↘ Impression for this game : Apocalypse hell i'm in ! love it ↙↙↙

★ Gameplay : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Story : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Spelling : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ renders : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Animations: ✭✭✭✰✰
★ Potential : ✭✭✭✭✭
★ Overall : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Girls physique : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Graphic : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Sex Content : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Creativity :✭✭✭✭✰

Note :
this game more contents than others apocalypse games , i hope the MC will become a boss and build he's own harem .

◉ All the best for the developer , i love ur game .

Great story and pretty engaging. Artwork is beautiful and smooth. The animations are done pretty well, but still have room to improve.
Overall I give it a very high score because there aren't many game like this, most games just render a few images and call it a game but this one put some work on the renders and came up with a amazing story.
Can't wait for the next update

Very solid start here with a lot of potential. The story is a solid post-apoc and has plenty of kink setup along with optional hard-coreness. Renders are solid, models are good, only the animations could be improved (they are solid, but could be more dynamic/less static here and there).

Pros:
- Great renders with beautiful models.
- Very unique story and plot.
- Pretty fast updates despite very few patrons and support.
- Dialogue is great

Cons:
- It's a pretty basic VN. Not a lot of features and cool animations, but that just means the updates are coming faster which is cool for me. Not all VNs have to be Being a Dik with 8 month between updates.
- Updates a bit short.

One of the very few developers i support on Patreon despite my lack of money. Definitely deserves much more support than he currently does!

If you like the other top game in this same genre you will surely lik this game. Renders are what you see in the screenshots it's good. And girl's model are not that gorgeous or different its usual models you seen in daz3d games. But the game is good got a good story. In v0.01 there is a sex scene with a girl and MC's male companion. You can't avoid that on v0.01. but in v0.02 dev fixed that mistake now it's players choice. Game got nice sound effects like vehicle's sound, gunshots, fighting sounds, people screaming. In the wasteland there is hyenas. Hyenas growling sound is there. Also lewd sound effects. There is no animation in the game.

This one is worth playing

v0.02
It does a good job so far with the dystopian setting and some basic world building. There are things teased about the future to get your attention. The models are great and the dialogue is nice. Will definitely look forward to updates.

"A promising start to a post-apocalyptic harem adventure."

Story: 4STAR
Regression back to a feudal society is both realistic as well as horrific. Main Character fill the wish fulfillment tropes but also has enough choices to be molded into a more interesting character. Side characters vary in quality. The sidekick reacts to danger and states his grievances where the player can then change the relationship using choices.

Visuals: 4STAR
Multiple Animations in the first release can either be a good sign or a bad omen. Hopefully if quality and quantity of each update remains stable then this is a great draw for this story.
Character models are nothing special with little modifications from base but it seems that there will be a plethora of models. Hopefully there is one for everyone.

Game: 4STAR
Consistent Gameplay mechanics with seemingly affective choices. Hopefully this is more impactful as the story progresses.