Wolf RPG - Completed - Imouto!? Life ~Monochrome~ [v2.01] [inusuku]

Imouto Life Monochrome v2.01 is a management and life simulator made by inusuku. As the older brother, you are tasked with spending your days living alongside your younger sister with the purpose of improving your relationship. The art does the heavy lifting here, with many images and sprites brimming with cuteness and innocence. To progress the game, you interact daily with your sister, very slowly increasing the many metrics through actions like talking, head patting, hugging, and so forth. On weekends, you can perform a special act for more points or go shopping for consumable items or improvements. The game has many semi-hidden mechanics and interactions directly dependent on moods or numbers. It can be quite frustrating trying to properly learn what makes the game tick for efficient progress, since everything feels a bit janky on this engine. The biggest problem is the excessive grind required to access the intimate mechanics. You need to raise stats that are not quite clear on how they work while in constant risk of messing something up and losing bits of progress. That, in conjunction with the incredibly slow dialogue, unnecessary loading, and overall lack of flow, significantly hurts enjoyment. When you finally reach the required numbers for night activities, the game shows its limitations in interactions padded with gorgeous anime artstyle, wrapped in every anime trope your mind can summon. If Imouto Life had gameplay that respected your personal time more, this little game would have deserved much higher praise.

nice concept but poor execution: it's way too grindy and very shallow interactions, it's only enjoyable if you break the game with mods. really basic animation and no sound , good drawings with correct proportions

I didn't like the game. The gameplay is very monotonous and grindable. To get to the scenes, it takes a very long time to do the same actions that raise the sister's trust. In my opinion, there are games that are similar in idea, but with better execution.

The sequel is the same concept but better. This version of the game doesn't really have a story line or anything, the purpose of the game is just to gain enough money to have different interactions with the sister. If you play the game normally, it's a bit grindy, so I just recommend cheating in money, since all the features you're interested in will probably be the bathroom scenes and the night section, and having extra cash around helps a ton.

Overall, it's best to just play the sequel, but the game is nice either way.

Just play the sequel. It has all the content this one has plus more. It's almost the exact same game but has more content outside your house (plus more in the house).

If you do play this, just use a money cheat to save some time all it does is gate content.

It's a great framework for Inosuku next iteration of game, the sex scene really gave the tension of sleeping rape activity
but this is a review for this game and I have to say that it's really clunky.

Before update, the game use WASD to move the cursor, which gave it very rigid control and even if that's fixed, the game still defined by that control with it's slow life theme.

Player have no option to gain more money or energy since every work day would leave player with quarter of max health and fixed income, this make "Bonding" with Sister, the very cohabitation aspect of the game limited on average playtime, making her very shallow and lacking in characteristic.

"Take off your hat boy, this is a legend" well.... legend in the sense that it spawned and started this sim genre where you interact with a little sister/girl. If youre gonna compare this one to monochrome fantasy then naturally this one will come up short since its the prototype for monochrome fantasy but it still holds up on its own quite well and you can actually beat it faster than monochrome fantasy so its still worth a try.

Any fan of imoutos should consider this game a must-have. It's a simple gameplay loop: interact with her in the evening to build up her stats, then at night you try to do sexy things.

The monochrome imagery makes the game look really nice, and it spawned a lot of imitators. The interactivity of the sex scene is also great, and allows you to really make your experience with imouto your own.

The game's not particularly difficult, and doesn't really have a proper ending. But don't let that stop you from enjoying this masterpiece.

I thinks it just boring.

The concept is okay but nothing more, you have a little sister living with you so do perverted things.

The art is okay I like the sister, the backgrounds are meh.

The sex scenes are okay.

Dialogue is very shallow.

But the gameplay is just way too grindy and repetitive.

If you don´t mind repetitive gameplay try it but otherwise don´t.

The game has incredible, cute art and comes with various activities. The fact that it's without color could be considered a downside, but if you think about it, it's kind of like reading a doujin but with added gameplay.

It took me 6 hours to get the bad ending now, which is kind of crazy because I wasn't really slacking off, but I guess b-ish stats aren't enough, or I just suck. You get to start over with added bonuses, kind of like a new game plus, but I can't be asked to play another 6 hours just to get the good ending as of right now.

Gameplay over all isn't anything new; I'd say it's the average jrpg style combat, but the fact that you can choose between various activities for the day makes it a little more refreshing than other games.

Overall, a pretty decent experience, but also not life-changing; nonetheless, I can recommend it, and I do think I'll try it again sooner or later to get the good ending!

This review is for v2.01

TLDR: grindy in the worst ways

This game uses RNG, which always means that save scumming will be included as a necessary aspect to be able to actually do well in the game because 99% chance of success with RNG usually means that you will fail more often than not because RNG is always a terrible concept.

Now if it was just some light save scum stuff, that would be fine, but this game lacks a very essential function...the ability to load saved games from within the game itself.
That's right, if you want to load a saved game, you have to completely close out of the game because there is no ability to load a save or return to the main menu, so you are forced to constantly relaunch the game, readjust the window size, and then load the last save...just to have to do it again another 15 times for the same events because choosing a specific action at a specific time will possibly just cost you severely without giving anything in return, effectively wasting your time and energy.

Now add onto that some terribly executed mechanics that just don't work well or aren't even explained and you get maybe one good fap in before you decide to never waste your time with this again.

Seriously, this game without cheats and mods is just a grinding headache.

Overall good game

Story:
nonexistant, doesnt really need one, fully invests into being an hgame only

gameplay:
good interactiable scenes, positions and options, like any cohabitation game, you gotta grind that affection alot (especially for anal) but aside from that, nothing to complain about

Character:
Honestly, she doesnt have much of a personality aside frombeing your nice and cute little sister who loves her brother, though, as i said ealier, i guess they didnt care about developing her more as they went all in to being an hgame

First of all, it's a really slow start. It takes quite some time for your sister to actually be interested in doing sex with you, but honestly it's worth it in the end. It's a really great game. Don't let the lack of color fool you, the scenes get really hot.

Honestly though, there's a real lack of scenes, and admittedly that's a valid point of criticism. I'm strangely satisfied, though.

The game is ok, but not worth the grind.
It's a really repetitive game, and the issue is...not much change. No matter how much you raise affection and lewdness, dialogue doesn't really change; it's just that you unlock new things you can do. So the daily gameplay loop is 95% the same from one day to the next and you'll do that for...100 days? or something like that.
So yeah, pretty repetitive. And not just repetitive: it's annoying. The whole thing feels so slow.
Oh, and yeah...RNG event. RNG events aren't fun. It's a really flawed game design that should really be removed from games, at least the ones that are full RNG with no control at all. Because when you essentially get "great failure lol, try next day", all it encourages the player to do is save scum in order not to waste days or weeks stupidly due to RNG.
What do we get out of this annoying gameplay? Not much. What little there is, it's good, but there isn't much. Actually, wait. Is that really good?
Thing is, there is a lack of transition between the different unlock. Taking her virginity was such a letdown. It just...happened. No real scene. No emotional moment. It was just another random lewd prank on the sister and dick kinda slided in somehow and she didn't complain about it. Apparently, telling lewd joke to her for 2 - 3 week is enough for her to spread her legs and let you fuck her silly. Might be a weird thing to complain about in a H-game, but it was just awkward.
And since I'm talking about weird things to mention in f95zone, I might as well add that this game kinda creeped me out. I mean, this is a game about corrupting your sweet, innocent little sister (14? 15 years old? maybe less?), in which your main activities are:

• Stealing her panties while she is taking a bath
• Peeking at her when she is taking a bath/going to the toilet
• Telling her lewd joke and randomly flipping your dick out at her in hope she will become more interested in sex
• Molest her at night until she is lewd enough to just spread her legs and let you pound her silly
• Don't worry though, you are a perfectly normal loving pair of siblings and your little sister just loves her older brother!

Put in another way, as degenerate as I am, I can't help but be disturbed at how the game seems to portray as being "normal" the way the protagonist sexually harass, rape and basically groom his little sister. For me, there is nothing heartwarming about any of that, yet I feel like the game is trying to pretend it is. The fact some people describes is as a "sweet, vanilla romance story" is just weird. Molesting sleeping little girls is not vanilla romance.
This is more a disclaimer than anything else. If that sounds appealing to you, I'm not here to judge. But I know I was taken by surprise and didn't expect it. I do wish that the "which kind of brother will you become for her" in the synopsis actually meant anything though, because if you want to see any H in this game, you don't have much of a choice.

Imouto!? Life ~Monochrome~ [v2.0.1] [inusuku]
A particular game that managed to win me over.
A game with black and white drawings, I never imagined that I would have liked a game like this, yet in its simplicity it does its duty very well.
The scenes are few but each one is very beautiful, to get these scenes you will have to spend a lot (too much) time grinding stats and money. Unfortunately this is a game where hacks completely ruin the game, so I recommend playing the vanilla version.
There are games where hacks help improve the experience of the game, but not this one.
The biggest flaw remains the grind, the very slow cursor is very annoying, scenes that last too long, the game is too repetitive.
Despite everything, I recommend the game.

Attempted this game twice so far with a year between attempts.

The interactivity with the girl is awesome, but unfortunately, the game feels like it falls short everywhere else as there is a long list of things in the game that can drive you nuts.
- I'm a gameplay > poon person, but unfortunately it isn't really that fun. You will do an extremely repetitive routine in order to advance in this game. If this is supposed to emulate real life, well guess what? Real life is boring, repetitive, and takes forever to get anywhere. You're going to spend several real life hours on this game and it could very well go nowhere.
- No gameplay. There's no minigames or anything of that sort. It's a button clicker, kind of like a visual novel.
- Trust/Interest building. It's an extremely slow process and interest in particular rapidly drains everyday which can set your progress back quite a bit if you are not determined to constantly push ero onto her. Depending on your character creation (which makes absolutely no sense) this can be extremely hard or easy.
- Controls. Yeah, the mouse is terrible which only exacerbates the repetition.
- RNG. RNG on scenes. RNG on trust building. RNG on panties. RNG on shopping. You can game the system by saving beforehand but there's no load button meaning you have to reboot the game every time you want to load that save.

IDK what is wrong with those people who give 5 stars review so easy
i only tried that game based on the reviews and now ..

v2.0.1

A life sim where you live with your sister and try to get dirty with her. The gameplay though is very simple - spend every day trying to grind her trust and lewdness up to get to the point where you can access "the good stuff." I felt like I spent most of my time watching animations of my character going to and from work. Unpleasant and tedious though the art is very good.

I actually bought the official English version yesterday for dirt cheap off another site, but was curious if there were any better fan translations and or tutorials for the game. Checked out this thread and not only was there a better fan translation, but there was also a modded version that functions a little bit better than the official one. Anyways, on to the game review itself.

This is one of those simulation games where it is a very slow burn and grind to get to the juicy lewd stuff. For me, the gameplay is quite addicting and it is very similar to a lot of management games in this particular genre. Do not go into this game thinking you'll get the juicy stuff right away.

PROS

• Artstyle: The art is cute and very anime. What makes it stand out that it's also completely in monochrome. For me, I like that style and it's very pleasing to the eyes. It's basically a manga.
• Mechanics: I like the mechanics behind this game, raising your trust and sexual attraction with your sister in order to achieve lewd things with her is fun. The midnight section is easy to understand and can be better if it was further expanded upon with different features.
• Animation: There isn't much of this in the game, but it's done very well in my opinion. The multiple images that pop up when you're interacting with the sister is cute and visually stimulating.

CONS

• Grindfest: Many people may not like the fact that this game is going to take some time out of you.
• Lack of positions: There really aren't much positions you can have sex with her in the game, they're mostly restricted to the bed (missionary & doggy) and the bathroom (doggy).
• Bugs/Glitches/Hard to get scenes: I'm just gonna lump all of this together since I've seen some posts in the forum stating that there were some bugs that could prevent you from getting certain scenes (like her cowgirl scene).
• Locations: This could've been even better if we were allowed to go to different locations without it costing so much money. Unlocking special sex scenes there would've made the grind so much more worth it, but most of the locations are only there to add to your memories book.
• Story: There really isn't a story, which isn't a bad thing. But, it's sad that there isn't much dialogue between the two or anything resembling drama. I guess the special events you do on the weekends can be categorized as story, but then again it's just screenshots of the sister having fun where ever they're at.
• Crappy mouse controls: Yeah, the cursor movement is kind of bad and seems laggy at times, even with the mod. It's something you'll have to get used to unfortunately.

I've listed way more cons than the positives, but it is still a very good game. It is a small game that is the start of a new franchise/series though, so I'm cutting it some slack. It's an extremely addicting game and I love it regardless of all of the cons I listed, the artstyle is great, the sex scenes (although varied in positions and interactivity) are done well. It is extremely vanilla and I'm a sucker for vanilla love. I just wish I had more time to completely play it through and try to unlock anything left that I haven't.

After 3 days playing this game must say, is a good game.

Pros.
- Nice vanilla romance story.
- Multiple endings.
- Some mechanics to work with.ç
- Art is simple but nice.

Cons.
- Needs more events.
- The color mod is needed to inject some life in the game.
- Art is good, but is too simple.

All and all game quality is good. I recommend it to vanilla romance fans, but do not expect a long developed story. XD