VN - Ren'Py - Imperial Chronicles [v0.11] [Lazy Monkey]

4.5 / 5

Pros:

HAIRY, Women have the bush for the cush.

Milfs look like milfs

Wincest

Great story

Solid branching story lines

Wincest

MC is written good

Elves

Thicc booty

Mom is the best love interest

Tons of content



Cons:

First few chapters have a very rough translations but its worth sticking through trust me.

Sex scenes are on the short side.

A couple awkward animations.


Overall this game is a hidden gem and is one of the GOAT WINCEST and Fantasy games on the site.

Everyone is hairy.

I wish I could stop the review there, but I suppose I'll have to continue. Well, besides all the nasty hair on literally everyone, there's a huge plot turning point a couple hours in that really twisted my bungus in a knot. Had it happened like seven or eight hours in, after I'd come to appreciate the characters and world more, it would have been appropriate. But it's just dropped somewhat out of nowhere and it changes the entirety of the narrative in a direction I'm not fond of. Of note, I tried both routes and was not impressed.

I could deal with that, but I don't do hair IRL, I don't do hair in porn, I definitely do not do hair in games.

It's not a perfect game but there's something special about it that allows it to easily overcome it's faults.

-Mediocre sound, graphics and animations. Some scenes are very interesting but others aren't sexy/arousing.
-English translations have gotten better but writing is still a bit hard to follow at times but it's still a very good story.
-Quick updates. You are in charge of your destiny even though pathing is quite complex.
-Interesting and strong protagonist (not a simp or sub except in rare instances if you really want to be).
-Not a harem game but in some ways it feels like one more than most harem games do.
-It's very rare but finally we have a game where the MMC isn't a third wheel and doesn't get cucked by lesbians!

[Rated version: v0.11]

Let me preface this by saying I'm not really huge visual novel enjoyer, but this was genuinely incredible and at certain point I became really invested in the story in a way I didn't expect.

This VN can make you feel as if your choices really do have consequences and there are interesting events, characters and plotlines to keep you hooked throughout the whole game. If I had to nitpick and find some criticism I think visuals and H-scenes are not necessarily the absolute top-end of this site, but as I said the story and characters and how it manages to keep your attention is such a commendable feat that not many VNs manage to achieve.

Can recommend this for everyone. Incredible work thus far and excited to see completed game in the future.

To be honest, this is truly a masterpiece. It wins me over in every aspect—modeling, plot, character development, and the interactions between characters. I hope the creators keep updating it, as this is really an excellent game.

Imperial Chronicles [v0.11] - Chapter 1 Full

This VN easily ranks among the better ones on this site - as long as you’re fine with a fantasy setting and the kinks listed in the genre tags. It’s not perfect (what is?), but it comes pretty close. If I have to dig to find flaws, the dev clearly did a lot right.

The story hooked me from the start. You play as a prince regent ruling your father’s kingdom, with the opportunity to build a harem of stunning women - including your own siblings and mother. There are mysterious forces plotting against you, which keeps the story interesting and gives it a sense of tension. What I’d like to see a bit more of is character depth and emotional dynamics between the women involved with the MC. A little more jealousy or conflict between the love interests would make their relationships feel more alive.

Choices matter. The dev has clearly put a lot of effort into creating meaningful branches and side paths. Some decisions steer the story’s direction, others affect your relationships with certain girls, and a few simply let you skip specific kinks (like NTR or femdom).

The visual quality is excellent and up to modern standards. Scene assets are carefully chosen, and the characters look great. The MC is genuinely handsome, and his love interests are gorgeous - Cassandra (or Cass) in particular caught my attention I also appreciate that the body proportions are natural. I’m one of those players who get turned off by exaggerated body-slider proportions - when breasts or butts are pushed so far that the shape just looks off and unnatural. Thankfully, this VN stays far away from that.

Animations look smooth and natural. I’d only wish for a few more close-up shots during sex scenes - facial expressions, breast movement, creampies, etc. Most scenes are shown from roughly the same distance, which makes them feel a bit uniform. But overall, the execution is excellent.

Music and sound effects are well used and add real atmosphere to the game.

All in all, Imperial Chronicles feels like a 5-star piece of work to me - polished visuals, an engaging story, meaningful choices, and clear passion from the dev behind it.

Its quite insane how good this game is.

With the patch, it is a MUST play for incest story lovers.


There's another game that is my all time favourite, but this game might actually top or match that its hard to really choose but this game offers so much more in a lot of ways.

Was waiting for completed status to give a review but it's clear the quality has been maintained throughout it's cycle and I hope it finds a completion stage soon so more people are likelier to see its ending.


This dev is crazy sticks.

This is one of the greatest AVNs ever made!! It's a perfect blend of plot, intrigue, adventure, and lewd scenes. The world and characters feel alive and fleshed out and the game gives you a baffling degree of choice in how you shape the main character - you can play as a goody two-shoes with a hero complex or a power-obsessed sociopath and everything in between.

It goes hard on the power fantasy, letting you make major decisions that have far-reaching consequences.

The best part in my opinion is the writing: some scenes will make you laugh your ass off while others will send your heart thumping and there's even some genuinely thought-provoking philosophy about the nature of power / mankind mixed in once in a while, along with mind-fuck prophecy sequences which I loved. Sometimes there are hiccups with typos/word choice, presumably due to translation but the recent update was flawless in that regard as far as I could tell so I think the dev has figured it out.

The lewd scenes are top tier too with great animations/angles/buildup/sexy expressions. And the renders are often wallpaper quality, with a ton of attention to minor details, hair styles, clothing, framing, etc. Sometimes the renders are a bit on the grainy side but as far as I'm concerned that's a minor nitpick, barely worth mentioning.

I could literally go on and on about how great this game is lol I 1000% recommend everyone to play it

I'd 100% recommend that you try out this game it's one of the best you can find on the site. Not only are the renders above average, offering you a wide selection of beautiful ladies, but the plot of the game can actually keep you hooked. I actually looked forward to making choices and shaping the world our MC in ruling.

My only complaint was that you couldn't marry both the southern and northern princesses, but I suppose we can forgive that, as it would cause some dynastic infighting.

[Ver. 1.1]
Intrigues, intrigues and more intrigues with new flashforwards and more sex. The author make it marvelously but if he will continue at this pace we will get bored soon. Hope it won't be like endless tv show.
Ah and there are a lot of typos in this version again.

[Ver. 1.0]
Really cool vn.
Was very sceptical about this one. Russian with machine translation with a lot of engRish, missing texts, texts beyond screen, awful ai images in intro and chosen one story. Good set for a start isn't it?
AI images were only in intro, missing text and engrish encountered not so often but plot is captivating and i spent almost full 2 days to complete it.

Visual is good, animation is simple, sound is where it needed.
Author made the narrative very smooth with a lot of good jokes. Wanted more screen time to minor characters and less flashbacks or make it more informative not only "you will understand it with time".
It's not 5/5 in current state but you will enjoy if you like fantasy.

I think most people agree that this is a pretty nice game overall.
It has a good plot,
with some interesting characters that you care about,
with some important choices that you make,
and unfortunately, with one of the worst English translations we have ever seen in an AVN.
Yes it's that bad, I'm not sure if it's done by a machine, an AI, or a lazy translator but it is awful indeed. I mean in some cases nothing appears in the dialogue box at all, you literally have to guess what the character said.

Nevertheless, it is a raw gem among AVNs that makes you wonder how much more you would enjoy it, if only you could speak Russian.

[v1.0]

This has one of the best political and faction based storytelling in any western porn VN that I've played thus far.

It's legitimately well written how all factions are presented without a clear bad guy (some are obviously more questionable than others though). Each faction has their justifications, ideals, pros, and cons. And the overall narrative is set up in successive story arcs that build up to a pretty satisfying conclusion to each arc.

The real beauty is that the choices make a huge impact on your run. It's coded quite brilliantly with various branching pathways that converge back to a common story path while keeping track of all the major flags so it can be called on later. And there can be some significant divergences, from allying with different factions to your relationship dynamics and even the eventual fate of major NPCs.

I do have a lot of critiques that I will get to, but the above points were so well done that this is a solid 4* for me.

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The main issue with this game is the translation. It's clearly not written by a native English speaker. Whether it's machine translated or done by some ESL dude, the nuance of the dialogues are probably getting lost a lot of times. There are a lot of silly and incorrect word choices that take you out of it as well. And even if the characterizations and mannerisms were not completely lost in translation, it still leaves you with the thought that this game could have been so much better with a better translation. Also, throughout the entire game, you will regularly run into blank dialogue lines that I guess is some kind of error in translating mechanism they used. You will miss parts of the story and have to just guess what was said in the blank text box.

The second most annoying thing is the fact that the dev pretty much drops the impact of the MC's class right after the intro. You can choose whether the MC is a warrior, mage, or bookworm. This trait is called only when the dev feels like it. Most of the time, it's just ignored in situations where it should make some impact logically.

For example, the mage MC acts like he has no idea how magic works most of the time (let alone use it effectively) because the dev doesn't bother calling this variable.

The third issue is that while the models are pretty attractive all around, the render quality itself is pretty low quality and grainy at times.

The sex scenes are decent. There are some decent sex dialogues and kinky aspects to it that elevates it above some other games that have 2 second sex scenes that end after you click a few times. That said, the camera angles and visual framing leaves something to be desired a lot of times.

Where it is now, IC is a very good AVN, it's our guess as to where it will end up but why I would recommend this, if you browse through what has came before IC, they blur together, I believe IC stands out from the crowd and delivers us something I'd say we didn't expect and for those willing to try this game, falls for the game. Good visuals, but the storyline is where it gets you, at least gets me. Of course it has a engaging cast... Just try if you haven't and I don't think you will be disappointed.

Let's be honest, we don't often play this type of game for the story...So at the beginning I pressed 'skip' to get to 'the good stuff'.
But then I realized this game actually has a good story that is worthy of reading, a mystery and most surprisingly...replayability (choosing different classes will unlock different scenes).
Besides, the graphics are good.
So, 5/5 so far.

Worth 5 stars even where it's at now - worth playing right now if you're looking for something, even if it's not finished.

Very incestuous and with a few options on how to get there. Mother, older half-sister, twin sister, and a little sister. A cousin and aunt have also been introduced but not further, though I'm sure we'll get there.

-1 star because the translation is truly ass - pay someone, don't use AI! - but it's got decent graphics, good LIs, lots of incest, and a great story, so check it out.

Lazy Monkey is just one of the GOATs innit?

Interesting story, interesting characters, great comedy and top tier incest. I didn't think the comedy and incest in 'Monkey Business' could be topped but LM has only gotten better.

Add in the regular and consistent updates (a couple months per update) and he's truly cemented himself as one of the best creators on this website.

A full 5★ so far (Season 1 end)

There are a lot of choices that affect the game, but they start to feel shallow as the story goes on. At that point, it feels like you’d need completely separate routes to keep things meaningful. I played both White and Green, and I thought I was heading toward a dom Cass path where she makes every decision for the throne. But I was disappointed by how little the White and Green routes actually differed for the protagonist.


The game is still solid, with a well-thought-out story and satisfying family relationships. It just got a bit tiring when sex scenes kept popping up at points where I wanted the story to move forward. I wish those scenes also pushed the plot along instead of just being there to satisfy patreons.

It ain't perfect, but damn is it good.
Interesting enough story to make you wanna pay attention. Very easy to get attached to the people around you. Grammar can definitely be improved, it is quite bad and distracting in the earlier parts.
Overall tho, one of the best games here. I check the page almost daily to see if it's updated.

[v1.0]
TL;DR
Overrated. Not bad story. Not bad visuals. Meh H-scenes.

Story 3.5/5
First and foremost, it's a story-focused game. It's pretty long and has a lot of branches. Sure, it's not GoT, but with suspension of disbelief the story is rather interesting. There are some ridiculous events and character actions, but the plot is still above the average fantasy AVN. Characters are mostly not one-dimensional, but there are too many of them, and some don't have enough screen time. For me, there are also too many choices. Personally, I don't like doing more than one playthrough, but here you can't get the full picture with just one. When the game is finished (if ever?), it will be interesting to play it without full information.

Visuals 4/5
Renders are good, both technically and stylistically. Armor, weapons, clothing, and environments mostly look authentic — no silly two-meter-long swords or weird armor. Some backgrounds are made with AI; I'm not against it, but most of them look out of place. Animations are bad at the beginning of the game, but they get pretty good later.

H-scenes 2/5
Again, story is the main focus of the game, so if you're not interested in it, don't waste your time. Sex scenes are sparse, short, and just not hot enough. There is no narration, often no dirty talk — just chatting about random stuff. Too many side LIs: they appear for one or two short scenes just to tick boxes. Main LIs are sisters and Mom, but most scenes with them aren’t good either. Not enough build-up, not enough tension, and mostly no sense of taboo. It feels like nudity and incest are normal in this world — the elder sister just starts jerking off the MC out of nowhere like it's an absolutely normal thing.

LM leads with excellent writing and it makes for a excellent AVN.

Models are fantastic, lore keeps me engaged, and the choice based narrative offers the right amount of choice and branches I love in an AVN.

I was having a tough time finding something to scratch my "To be a King" itch and I am glad I found IC. The lore that guides the story is intriguing and being on chapter 3, I very much look forward to seeing how the story progresses as the MC is seemingly faced with perilous paths no matter what destiny he chooses.

I very much look forward to completing the game (as 1.0 was recently released) and urge fans who enjoy choice based narratives to give it a try.