VN - Ren'Py - Imperial Chronicles [v1.0] [Lazy Monkey]

Awesome game honestly, my only complaint is I feel like the English translations could do with some cleaning up, at least earlier on.

But the good things you can say about it are close to endless honestly.

Really interesting world, great plot, very nice graphically and some great LIs ( your sisters and your mother especially )

And something that will be a massive plus to some or a negative for others. A LOT of replayability with some nice branching. It's a toss up between the White and Green coronations for the best paths personally IMO. As I could never do the Red one because.

--RED PATH SPOILERS-- I could never kill Cass... I am going to fix her.

But yeah, overall a brilliant game already, with a bright future

Pro:

• Plot heavy. Always a choice to be made after a certain point.
• Lots of characters, some that can be killed off, which is always nice in a story.

Neutral:

• This family is bonkers. Which may be the point of a royal family.

Cons:

• Little sister fucks you at breakfast, on your lap. No one pays attention, despite everyone being gaga for princey and can't stop thinking about sex. The hell?
• Although now that I think of it, everything seems to be Cass-plot heavy, as if anytime something happens, she's involved. I wonder what would happen if you can try to get rid of her? (Which is an option, so I hope that plays out.)
• Some of these plots -- the coup, taking over the west -- are so ridiculous, you just turn your brain off and accept everyone is either scared of losing their family, or retarded.
• I do find the MC to be a ridiculous horndog. I get that he's in charge and can do nearly anything he wants. But whoa! Almost no female is safe. How many bastards is he siring? Doesn't the family talk? There's a lot of talk about iron blood this or elven blood that, but apparently he doesn't care and gets to impregnating. I can only imagine the group photo at the end of this.
• Would like to see more involvement with the 3 origin of scholar/mage/warrior be used more. I'm sure it's scenario dependent.
• Confused about white blood, how it's a disease, and a drug to take for hallucinations, and now suddenly has a potential cure. Like the MC needs more headaches and visions to confuse everyone even more.
• Some of the magical creatures, and visions, are heavy handed and unclear. I get mystery, but even mysteries have to be consistent; having two voices in your visions rambling on and now fighting each other is ridiculous. And then there're more voices? What is going on here?
• I guess half-elves don't get facial hair after weeks on horseback.
• The alternate world/B plot portal stuff seems very tacked on and unnecessary. Unless this is going to be relevant later, just dump this crap.
• And it seems there's so much hard-coded or un-translated Russian language present, even when set to English during the transition screens of each character. Sloppy.
• Art and assets are not bad, but definitely not of high quality. Animation is relatively good, but can use some more work and need to be cleaned up.

I don't see the point in talking much about the game. All its advantages can be read below.

I can say that this is one of the best games in terms of plot development, relationships, and character motivations.

The cons include a very small amount of music, grainy renders, and extremely poorly chosen camera angles in some scenes.

But despite this, it's a solid 5/5, at least for now.

PS: Elin is the best girl.

Imperial Chronicles [v1.0]

This game fooled me. At first, I thought it was just another erotic game with a bit of lore slapped on. But it wasn’t. It was something else entirely.

It was the kind of game I had wanted to play for years—deep world-building, real political stakes, characters with scars and secrets. It was smarter than it looked. Smarter than it had any right to be. And the biggest compliment I could give it was this: by the time the sex scenes showed up, I didn’t care about them anymore. I just wanted to see what happened next.

But with ambition came mess. And this game was messy.

There were too many choices. Too many plotlines. Too many forks in the road that all seemed minor—until hours later I realized I had missed something important. I found myself second-guessing every little scene. Replaying it all just to catch what had slipped past. It wore me down. But it also pulled me in deeper. The writing had this poetic, cryptic, Russian soul to it—“Runglish” that could trip me up, but when I let it flow, the scenes landed hard. Some of them stuck with me. They hurt in the right way.

Still, the tone was scattered. One moment the MC was knee-deep in courtly betrayal and sorcery, and the next he was watching the little sister play games like in a slice-of-life anime. It was hard to square those moods. Ophelia suffered from hybrid fever. Elin was a top-tier sorceress. But they acted like giddy schoolgirls half the time. Meanwhile, people were dying off-screen, and empires were shifting.

The deeper the MC got, the more surreal it became. Prophecies. Entities. Future visions. One told him to trust his reflection. Another said to kill it. Then he was told to break the wheel, which someone else had just warned him not to touch. It spiraled. He had seizures and fever dreams and barely understood any of it. Neither did I. Not really.

And the court mage? She was in on it all. No matter which origin I picked, she slinked off untouched. She was the spider in the web. And the worst that happened was she teleported away with no consequences. That stung.

The multiple origins were where the game stumbled most. The scholar got a vampire bodyguard. The mage got spells. The warrior got brute strength. Each path was good—but fractured. It felt like the main character should have been all of them. Or each origin should have been a full game of its own. Instead, I got parts of a whole that never quite fit.

Some characters seemed important but never spoke. The mother was supposedly revered in her homeland and part of a secret order, but she said nothing. She was just horny because of reasons. The elder sister wanted revenge, but her motive was paper-thin. The alternate realities Elin could open? Sometimes goofy, sometimes gut-wrenching, never explained. They just happened.

And yet I played for days. Dozens of hours. Every night. My pants never came off. That’s how good the writing was. The erotic content was rare, and honestly, it didn’t need more. The music was repetitive, sure, but when it hit, it hit hard.

What really threw me was how the story handled momentum. Just when the main character started making real choices, just when it felt like he was stepping into his role—bam. A coup in the capital. Suddenly, he was sent west to settle some diplomatic crisis. It felt like the game pulled the rug out. Like the dev was afraid to let him live in the castle and deal with the consequences. Afraid it would turn into just another porn game, maybe.

The mentors? One turned into a cat. One died chained in a dungeon. The third ran when the MC asked her hard questions—even though he had seen visions of her crimes. Visions that never came up again, no matter what I did. Same with the visions of his future daughters. He saw them—little girls from different wives. One more adorable than the next. Then it was never brought up again.

The game felt torn—between heavy political drama and weird, dreamy fantasy. Each part worked on its own. Together, they sometimes clashed. But even then, it still worked. Against the odds.

It was a beautiful mess. Wild. Flawed. Overstuffed. But still one of the best games I had played in the genre. It shot for something huge and didn’t land every blow, but damn, it got close.

The game is absolutely amazing. It is definitely one of the best games on this website in terms of sheer quality.
It has the best visual, very good writing, interesting characters and story, a ton of choices for ppl who like it, and a crazy number of sex scenes.
I found hilarious a negative comment from the guy who blamed game for being too Russian because the MC says that "It is not rape if she gets wet". But the thing is that you made the choice to rape someone lmao. The story and MC's worldview depend on your choices.
I should warn ppl that it is not a harem story where you collect all girls. Dont play it like Eternum. Dont just chase after all girls and make meaningful choices if you dont wanna ruin your game experience.
Also, the game revolves around incest. Almost all girls that you can get in this game are your family. For some ppl, this is probably a disappointment.
All in all, I recommend this game because it is simply well-made.

shitton of choices that matter, loads of paths, you get to decide how you wanna act, along with good graphics and an interesting setting with good overall story.

wish more devs put this amount of effort into their games

It's a good story and flow. maybe mc could be more bendable like more dominant dialogues or any other type.
Still I think better than most of vn games.
They are a lot of choices, like it should be that is also a big positive.

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v1.0

Fun to read teen fantasy novel with meaningful choices and lots of sexual content. What more could you ask from AVN.
Interactive story is almost good enough alone. Sure it has the normal problems of drifting off, before returning back to the main plot. But even if there are lots of characters and stuff to happen, it never feels like the story is moving aimlessly. There is good amount of stuff from the past, so that you feel like past decisions do matter (don´t care if it´s just an illusion, just that it feels like they do matter).

Writing is good. There is lots of different kind of characters and conversations. Writing and decisions gives great flexibility to "roleplay" a character you like. Dislike someone, love someone etc. It never feels like the game would force MC to love, fight and die for someone. That is just one of many reasons why characters are more likable.

Sex scenes are good. Not visual masterpieces, but good. There is well made love scenes and spicy lust scenes. And sometimes your decisions affect what kind of scene you will see. Game does so many things right to make sex scenes more meaningful and effective.

The man knows how to make some good incest fantasy games.
Good updates, consistent, hardworking
If all the devs were like him, porn games would have rivaled the triple AAA games by now.
Wish his next game will be a space fantasy

Probably the best game I’ve played on this site - and the first one to convince me to support the developer already out of sheer gratitude for the experience.
Visuals are great. While bodies are rather standardized around conventional beauty, they are made with precision and care, with special regard for my personal Achilles heel - faces and their expressions. You can actually see the emotion: from mischievous curiosity to shameful rage. And that is just the beginning, as beyond succulent flesh author also actively using a variety of hairstyles, habitual and exotic accessories and a lot of exquisite costumes, which actually utilized during scenes - and I think most would agree that a true man of culture prefer some subtlety. Even unimportant objects on the background are given some care, although backgrounds themselves tend to be rather plain. The weakest part of the product is animations - they are present, done without overt mistakes, yet simple and not very impressive. All in all, there are better visuals on the market, yet it is close to the point where it’s mostly a matter of personal preferences.
Characters are awesome. Truly. Genuinely. They are THE hook of this game. Even MC, despite all the confinements bestowed by his role - and genre - is still very much not a blank slate and has a lot of both vices and redeeming qualities, regularly shining throughout the narrative. And he is the second weakest of the main cast. The author generally done an excellent job in endearing characters to player - I was touched in a small way even by the conclusion of a rather unimportant and banal episodic character with no intimate scenes, dying because of his own stupidity. While main girls and player’s interactions with them are truly top-notched - I repeatedly felt my heart strings tremble. Even dialogues during intimacy tend to be meaningful, although sextalk is probably the least memorable part of the experience. I also want to stress, that male characters, while overall being less developed than female ones, still interesting and aren’t played just to make MC a hero at their expense.
Narrative. Not perfect, yet still quite compelling. The most important thing to say here is that most places where suspension of disbelief suffers the most seem to be done for the sake of brevity and keeping the rhythm of the story. Especially near the start, where it is so important to capture the attention of the reader. I think it’s a right choice - as much as one may enjoy a bit of a wordy fat, everything is good in moderation. Between a proper flow of dialogues/events and infodumps for largely not critical context I would have certainly preferred the former. There seemed to be a lot of hooks in the story - like a LOT - so I sincerely hope, that author made an extensive plan beforehand, otherwise there is going to be a lot of cutting and trimming. Humor is not overabundant and usually fit the situation. Worldbuilding and its demonstration is significantly above passable.
Interactivity. Choices matter - and not just in a way “you won’t see this particular act of intimacy”, but has the ability to provide a significantly different path forward, even thought the end result for the world will be mostly the same. Think Telltale Games and their Walking Dead. However, here lies an issue demanding a mild criticism: it’s rather hard to understand when and why you missed something and so it’s either resign or annoying and grueling work on checking all the possible sequence. Thankfully, such things can be relatively easily be patched by QoL additions like gallery or in-game tracking of variables.
Sound. Present - which is already a significant step forward from previous project. And it’s done nicely. Music appropriate for the moment, opening doors, apple crunching, laughter, pounding and moans. It’s not particularly spectacular, yet undoubtably adds a lot to the overall experience.
There is much more that could be said about this game - like how, to my delight, I felt a bit of Crusader Kings vibes - yet I would hopefully make a full review after the game is finished.
Sadly, a significant chunk of this product’s charm could be lost in translation - I played in Russian. But, this also can and almost certainly will be helped.
You definitely should try it - your first playthrough wouldn’t demand much, yet it would be sufficient to check game's correspondence with your tastes.
All in all, the game made with love and talent - 10 out of 10.

good incest game , i very like in scenario , i hope author can continue make likely game. I will all support. The story include mom,sister , any family role who your can think. I special love mom who so sexy and excite in this game.Long time to not see incest game that impressive.I recommend everyone.

The quality of the renders and animations is, alas, worse than average, BUT the plot and dialogues are beautifully written and read with interest, plus there are significant fetishes for me. I look forward to any subsequent update and hope that the author will improve his rendering skills!

Up to about .3 this game is a 5. But then it's a downhill slope.

You start out as a ridiculous prince with a lot of character growth to do, and that's compelling, that part of the game is when it's at its best. After that, all the character growth is just kind of handwaved as taking on more responsibility and the character becomes 'king' in affect - if not in effect.

After that, I just got bored and uncomfortable. There's too many of the hallmarks of the Russian first language writers I often see here - "It's not rape if she gets wet" "Democracy is a nice idea in theory", "It's easier to make the main character look like a good person by making everyone else in the world worse", which all became a lot more front-and-center when the character started to hold power.

Also, I'd have liked it a lot more if the game spent more time on characters outside of the main characters immediate family or, at the bare minimum, gave a bit more agency on who to spend time with. I like that it's a linear story rather than a sandbox, don't get me wrong, but it ended up feeling simultaneously myopic and unfocused.

The game hints at a much larger world but, by spending the whole time trying to bone your sisters, you only ever get to see one family's view of it - and only through their bedroom window.

I really enjoyed the story in this one. The pacing was excellent but I'll be honest, if you're just looking for a quick wank, then this isn't for you. There's a whole fleshed out history and world in this game. The sex scenes are secondary.

best Fantasy VN I have ever played, with so many choices that branch off to so many paths in the stories that guarantee so many hours of entertainment. Not only the story is exceptionally good, the models and choices of character outlooks are carefully picked as well that created an interesting fantasy world with many intriguing personalities.

I wish I'd known about this game's existence earlier. It's a pretty amazing fantasy VN, and the empire building interests me almost as much as the relationships. The LIs are great, especially for an incest lover. The dev releases frequently a good chunk of content. This is a straight up upgrade over Vis to me.

Few concerns for the future however: Russian is the main language of the game and the English translation really suffers. There are multiple parallel paths that make me worry about the overhead work for the dev on branches that few will play, and it will get harder to keep track of them. The scenes with the Queen are starting to get repetitive. The choice of wife nearly does not matter as we have so few scenes with our wife. Now there's a risk our relationship with one specific LI isn't allowed to have a positive outcome. And the MC tends to be a cunt even in the most heroic playthrough.

Many areas that cause me to worry, but very satisfied with the game so far.

5/5
1.Your choices REALLY matter. There is so many different paths to explore so many options and i still doesn't discover them all!
2. Characters with personality and a lot of sex content with them
3. Story is very interesting. In some games you just press skip and wait until next sex scene but this one hooks you.

One of the best games ive ever played hence my first time giving a review it has fantasy, royalty, politics, outstanding dialog(with the script mod), incest, prophecy, a crazy amount of promised pregnancy, a horndog protagonist with a somewhat moral character highly recommend

What can I say, great story, excellent flavour, many paths you can take and the game is very dynamic, your choices actually affect the outcome. Might be one of the best games I have played here if we are being honest.