Ren'Py - Inanna Revenge [Ep.2] [AtemX Games]

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[Ep.2]

Already much better and a huge improvement over AlwaysFan, which, no offense to that game's enjoyers, I couldn't play for more than an hour because of cringe.

⠀⠀⠀The fantasy setting is executed nigh perfectly where players aren't bombarded with basic ass lore exposition dumps right out of the gate. Everything seems organic and suspension of disbelief holds the bar.
⠀⠀⠀This game probably features the best HS2 sex scenes I've ever seen. The camera movement, the dialogue, the poses, direction, the sound effects, the animations, the music, the moans, the climax, the postcoital bliss and OMG the jiggle physics! - everything is top tier. Even the fucking bed moves with the thrusts! The only negative for me are those abrupt camera angle changes, where it actually flies from one position to another, instead of just switching between recordings. I like the idea, but it moves so nauseatingly fast and does it often.
⠀⠀⠀It has an advanced character glossary with lots of useful info, relationship traker and a convenient scene gallery.
⠀⠀⠀There is a turn based JRPG-style combat and rpg systems, even some kingdom management, which although are very primitive still make this VN a more of an interactive gaming experience, where at least some decision-making is required. It's super easy by default, but you can turn the difficulty down to make it breaindead if you can't be bothered. There are some minor UI/UX issues, like when you can't see hp of enemies in the back row, but nothing too bad.
⠀⠀⠀Great sound design with an abundance of environmental sound effects and unique soundtrack that fits the mood and setting.
⠀⠀⠀The game if relatively new but there is lots of content already and it's all very high quality too, props to the diligent hard working dev.

⠀⠀⠀The choice system needs to be reworked, it rewards players leaning heavily into one side or another, while additional options are locked for those don't pick only 'nice/kind guy' or only 'tough/mean guy' choices. I don't really like that, for obvious reasons, because it punishes you for actual roleplay and forces you to choose for points, instead of whatever you feel like choosing. Like some "good" choices are MC literally being a cringe "white knight" for his "queens", which I don't want to choose but they give me points, so tough luck. The choices to be rough in sex, or any perverse action decrease LI affection points, which supposedly makes them less in love and more submissive. Not sure what exactly affected by this stat, but why can't we have both? Affection and submission should be different stats. Like I understand why sharing/swinging choices deduct love points, but I do not, when being rough in bed or sexual fondling does so as well.
⠀⠀⠀The relationship with FMC (the slave girl) progressed way too fast. MC and her were only together for literally two days, before they swore eternal love to each other. I mean being intimate and affectionate is fine, but for making plans to live together for the rest of their lives is a bit too early, no?
⠀⠀⠀What bugs me a lot is when MC goes out of his way to help some random slaves escape their masters, when it was clearly explained that their magic seals work like tracking devices, and these seals ARE NOT REMOVABLE. So what's the point?

I like it, giga-potential, not a lot of glaring flaws, already more than 5 hours of content PLUS some replayability as well, so why not give it a try now?

p.s: sharing is caring and all that, but please add netori or at least let us steal some one else's slaves in the future, thanks.

PROS
+ Story progress of revenge plot against Princess Regina was well-done, it's something a lot of fictions out there does terrible job, but here we had decent job, they didn't hold back for sure, even tho it turned out Princess Regina wasn't really the culprit, it was all ordered by the king, and in fact she had to endure all that torture herself before they moved into test subjects instead of her, so I we can say revenge of the MC is not yet finished, we will only have our revenge when he caughts the Lucuis, and the King, and can give them the pain he suffered back, so I'm hoping they won't hold back when MC had chance to take revenge against the Lucius, and the king as well. But turning into princess Regina revenge plot; after all hardship he overcome with the plan he suggested by Carmen MC challanged Princess Regine to a duel, he beat her, and even pressed his boots on her body in front of whole arena, and show her where she belongs, and with winning the fight by the laws MC become the duke of the city, and punished her according her crimes, giving her the worst punishment can ever give to any human, enslavement, which makes her MC's slave, and later we had oppurtunity to talk with her, or straight up torture her as well, talk revealed all stuff happened to the MC wasn't really her fault, so revenge part felt bit short. Aside from the story details the fight had some cool QTE events as well, in fact all fights should be like this, the ''combat'' the game has looks awful, and not fun at all, meanwhile these QTE events looks cool, has small animations, and enjoyable to watch/play. And aside from them MC had chance to show the world he can use multiple elements, it was cool crowd shouting ''Even the king himself can't use multiple elements!'' etc. And for future revenge plot we have Lucius, and the king as well and we will see how things will went.
+ The details about seals, how unique they are according to role of the slave, etc, was quite interesting, especially Soma thing.
+ How MC was able to learn new magic affinity after having sex thanks to Innanna's blessing was cliche, but interesting considering no one in their world can use more than one affinity.
+ Female character designs looks good, especially Cindy, she is one of cutest characters I have ever seen in adult games, and Carmen, some other were looking pretty good as well, but they were wasted on the characters they belong (details on CONS)
+ Sex scenes has animations with different positions/angles, their physics, and visual quality is quite decent.
+ Choices do matter, and even tho they are too restrictive, and need a lot of improvement, they still offer some variety with different dialogues, and scenes.
+ The game has a lot of content, both story, and sexual-wise.
+ That investigation scene at woods was interesting, but cliffhanger we had wasn't.

CONS
- Some main details about the story doesn't really make sense, and feels quite inconsistent, first of all we have been told Ea was good goddess, and she told the MC the world she sent him is peaceful (which is not peaceful at all especially with that corrupted king, or whole slave stuff going on) place where magic exist, yet she didn't give him any mana/magic, any means to protect him in this new life, etc, and straight up sent him into this world, let alone that's terrible, but like it's not enough right after he went into the world he got summoned into Princess Regina's throne room because of the dark summoning magic used by her right hand Lucius, and MC sent into prison, and they tortured him for month while trying to undercover any way to make him get mana/magic to use same method to give manaless Princess Regina mana as well. And if not for the evil goddess Innanna, which is literally goddess of hell, a goddess who loves war, lust, and wants to make whole humanity, etc, her subjects as goddess instead of letting them live free MC would be tortured to death, but thanks to her MC gained mana/magic by getting chosen as her avatar, use her powers to kill, take revenge, take pleasure with women, etc, which will weaken the bars of her prison, to free her, so she is like time tickling bomb. Not to forget Inanna's goddess sisters (including Ea) imprisoned her, and made sure she can't have help or communicate with her people who workship her, etc, yet Ea sent MC, someone who is not from that world with no mana into world mana exist, one way or another she should know MC could end up wanting revenge from someone, and it can connect him to the Inanna, I mean seriously no one, especially a goddess should be this stupid, it really doesn't make any sense at all.
- The whole how ''lesser'' species like Elves treated is too overboard, there is big racism going on, they are already slaves because of their ancestors mistakes, but it's not enough their freedom is taken away, they can't wear good clothes, and merchants refuse to sell good clothes to them, they can't eat good food or eat like human while siting, they have to eat from dog bowl, most slaves never even had proper meal ever, they have to sleep at dirty rugs, they can't be loved, liked, treated good, they got blamed for even stuff nothing to do with them, and not just Elves, even people/merchants treat Elves good faces with thier business getting boycotted or even destroyed... And then there is problems revolved around how other species treated like how Catian slaves treated, how the ones will sent to the arena have their tails cut, ripped, and burned with no proper surgery, and this could kill them, and this seen as ''strong ones meant to arena would survive'' etc. MC especially after becoming Duchy started doing things might affect view of people on ''lesser'' races, but still the whole thing from start is too much.
- Some stuff never properly explained like how MC had his phone with him, he died, and he reincarnated, so unless Ea decided to give him his phone while reincarnating him his phone should have stayed at his dead body, at earth.
- The point system rather punishing towards to making your own choices rather than sticking to Ruthlessness or Compassion, and blocks you from making certain choices, and that's really bad. Neutral mindset is treated really bad, in fact choices doesn't even have neutral mindset at all, all choices always either on full bad side or good side, like either saying ''I want revenge'' or ''justice'' meanwhile it's actualy both, anyone in MC's situation would say they want both, but you can't. Secondly some choices disables the path open-close option you have on main menu, and that's nonsense AF, we already have menu option to close or open, and there is no need to force people to choice a bad dialogue option just because they don't wanna close the whole feature.
- Some character designs feels wasted because of certain reasons. For example Carmen, she has great character design, and her current character is interesting as well, in fact she could be the hottest woman in the game, but her past is not suitable for a love interest. And same goes for that dogian girl MC meet close to castle. Then we have amazing looking maids we first saw at slave house, they looked amazing, but for some nonsense reason writers decided to make their soma incompatible with the MC, so their character model got wasted, and the one writers decided to choice instead of them looks way worse than those, they should have chosen one of those models instead of current one.
- The whole ''saving as much slave possible'' doesn't really make sense with how their seal works, if writers gonna give MC opportunity like this they should give him power to remove the seals as well.
- MC become a Duke, but yet some people can come, and insult him, or his girls, etc, and get away with it, writers really should have added some choices about these, especially that dude with long hair calling Sylivia ''elven whore'' shouldn't just leave without any punishment for sure.
- There was no option to put money/coin from MC's own money/coin to castle treasuery, would be great if we get option for it.
- MC should have bought Sylvia a combat outfit, even after becoming the hand she still wearing those torn clothes while fighting is nonsense AF, especially writing using excuse of clothes sentimental value is even worse, if those clothes has sentimental value she could just keep them at somewhere safe, she don't need to wear it.
- Combat is not really great, menus looks too old, enemies constantly floats in air, or moves sides, which looks stupid, attacks has no real impact either, no picture showing attack happening, etc, the QTE we had in Princess Regina fight was pretty good, developer should remove this combat, and change into QTE system with small animations that scene had, and with some skill choices, that would be way better.
- Some of character designs looks really bad, like Ea's, and Inanna's hair, it literally looks like bald person wearing terrible looking wig, or Ea's robe. And MC's design looks awful, his base design is already not good, despite some characters has good designs like Troy, if Troy's design was given to MC it would be way better, but even we ignore his base look things he wear terrible as well, his whole costume looks like from steampunk universe, and not from fantasy universe, but that's not the worst part, the worst part is his hat, it looks dumb AF, soo small, and he doesn't even wear it, it's sort of floats on his head, he looks like clown, and not someone isekaid into another world, his design needs some serious changes, or at least hat should go. Then we have princess, meanwhile her body looks good, same can't be told for her face, it's not terrible, but not great either, with small changes she could look way better.
- Animations constantly change between positions, that's really annoying, and distracting, it shouldn't happen automatically, and instead they should change with text progress or there should be a button to change it.
- There are some AI pictures for some flashbacks, they are nothing like the art style the game has, and they really look out of place.
- Some of scenes visually looks bad, examples I can give are, sky, flowers, terrain, trees, etc.
- That text with black screen shows when MC explaining things looks weird, and cheap, instead using pictures showing what's happening with text on bottom like normally would be way better.
- The game feels like translated from another language, it's not really bad translation, but there are some hick-ups here, and there, and sometimes it's visible.

VERDICT
In the end despite the CONS it was enjoyable game, with some CONS out of the picture I can see it's deserving 4 stars rate, and with most CONS gone it could be 5 star rate game for sure, but with current rate I will be giving 3 stars, and I do believe it's worth playing for sure.

tldr Enjoyable read, just don't expect a masterpiece.

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The bad:

Character inconsistency/Missed character development.
Two memorable ones, first is Sylvie before and after branding. Before she acts as field Negro, afterward as house Negro, this change in character isn't supported by the writing and feels off.
Second is the MC, who was held in prison and tortured, yet at the mention of injustice/racism/bad stuff happen reacts in a "How could something like this be, it's not fair" every single time. This case of character development feels forgotten.

Moral system.
Mostly problems arise from moral and affection systems being tied together, so If you go for affection you'll also become good, submissive - evil, prevents you from being affectionate with LI's and evil with others and vice versa at the same time. Also, neutral locks you out of both good and evil choices while giving nothing in return.

Very shonen-anime take on sexism/racism/social class/slavery.
This one can be fixed, if it's the characters who don't understand how and why it works, and not the author, by including character(s) who have this knowledge. But further down the line, the story can fall apart when those questions a tackled and fixed "because the plot needs it".

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The good:

The main story.
Despite the mentioned problems, it's intriguing, coherent and well-paced. If version 0.3 doesn't mess it up, this game will become one of the better ones on the website.

Character writing.
Currently it's solid and well-made. There are archetypes, but characters don't feel the same.

Author isn't afraid to tackle dark themes.
Those provide the most interesting conflicts/decisions, and after BS there aren't a lot of games that scratch this itch.

Big updates.
Version 0.2 took about 5 hours to complete, on average it should be 4-8 hours.

This one is subjective, but there are also flag-rising in the code, particularly in chapter 2, so I think there will be interesting choices down the line.

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I didn't like character from previous game being reused, but it's a very subjective opinion.

Currently, I don't think that the author will disappoint.

All in all it's quite good in its current state (ep2), and if you want to wait until the game gathers some versions to play, I'd recommend trying it on (Ep.3).

version - (Ep.2)

Absolute Top Game. It's only the second update so far, but the amount of content is huge. The Story pathed away from the generic revenge-isekai Route, makes it more entertaining and they even added some Management-Elements. U wont be disappointed.

Really impressive game—excellent quality throughout. The female characters are all appealing and genuinely interesting. While it includes some shared content, you can choose whether you want to engage with it or not. The plot is solid as well.

The developer added a small point-and-click element (I hesitate to call it “sandbox”), but it’s minimal and well-integrated. The overall management system is also very nicely done.

All in all, a solid visual novel. Keep up the great work, dev!

TLDR: It's been a while since I last supported a patreon, but this one's convinced me easily. More updates, please!

Is it a very original story? No, absolutely not. It's one we've read a thousand times with some minor changes.
BUT you'll hardly notice it.
The storytelling and writing are excellent, and so are the images, animations, and sound effects. Honestly, I usually don't like sound effects during sex scenes, but these are done exceptionally well.
Furthermore, you actually have the option of choosing between ruthlessness and compassion, as well as love and submission, which is a little rarer in a story like this.
Technically, I do feel like the ruthlessness and compassion routes sometimes go a little too far in their respective directions, as I generally prefer a more mid-way, but ruthless leaning approach.
But, I'm not taking a star away for that, and honestly, I don't even really want the dev to add a third option. I'm plenty happy with the current routes, and I don't want the dev to split his attention too much. Too many great games have crashed and burned because the devs tried to do too many things, and I'd hate for that to happen here.
Either way, AtemX has earned themself a patreon supporter.

Really cool story, which yes we have seen version of it before true, but the animations are very good and my favourite part is the sex sound effects, I love a game that has that, then you have some combat which is fine as well. I hear the game has some questionable scenes later but still this is AVN that you have to try

Storytelling is pretty good, manages to keep you engaged throughout. Netorase scenes are great, although I wouldn't mind a couple more along the lines of the blacksmith scene in Ep 1. Highly recommend.

I love it ! It share a lot of thing that i would love to put in a game if i managed to make one. Adventure, choices that matters. And a few hint of future kingdom management. I will follow this one with great interest and you should too !

My Thoughts on Inanna Revenge [Ep.2] by AtemX Games

I played and really liked the dev’s previous game AlwaysFan, so I figured I’d give this one a shot too — and I wasn’t disappointed.

A lot of what made AlwaysFan enjoyable is still here. Choices matter. You decide how your relationships evolve and how the content plays out. Like NTS? Pick it. Not your thing? Avoid it. Want to be gentle and caring with your LI? You can. Prefer a dominant or even rough approach? That’s an option too. Even when dealing with enemies, you can go full vengeance mode or take the high road and forgive. It’s all up to you.

One of the things I appreciate most about AtemX’s games is how appealing the LIs are. They're cute, sexy, passionate, and at times obedient — in a way that fits the tone of the story. You’re actually motivated to pursue them, which isn’t always the case in VNs.

That said, Inanna Revenge introduces some supernatural elements that I wasn’t fully sold on. For example, Sylvia — who I see as my main LI — ends up magically bound to the MC through a slave mark. On top of that, we learn she was trained to please her "owner" through sex. This raises a major question: is her affection for the MC real? Or is it just a result of the magical bond and her conditioning? That uncertainty stayed in the back of my mind throughout the first two updates (yeah, I’ve got trust issues ). I’d really like to see that dynamic explored more in future updates.

Another thing that bugged me is the points system tied to choices. You’ve got two main metrics: relationship points with potential LIs, and the MC’s character score based on how you treat others — whether you’re being ruthless or compassionate. The character score isn’t cumulative either; it’s a sliding scale. Gaining points in one direction (say, being more ruthless) directly subtracts from the other (compassionate), which makes it even harder to access certain scenes unless you commit hard to one personality path. The same goes for LI relationships — miss a few key points and you’re locked out of content. Even at just two updates in, I’ve already hit those walls a few times.

That creates a weird conflict: do I play the MC how I want to? Or do I “game” the system to access scenes I don’t want to miss? Having to make that kind of trade-off is distracting and honestly a bit frustrating.

All that said — the game is still fun and there’s definitely a lot of potential here. If you liked AlwaysFan, you’ll probably enjoy this too — just be ready to save often, or you might end up missing content you didn’t know you were locking yourself out of.

Rating: 4/5 stars — Really enjoyed the game overall. Choices matter, and there’s a lot of potential here. If those rough edges get polished in future updates, this rating will easily go up to a full 5 stars!

The animations are fluid and dynamic, the combat is somewhat persona inspired but could use some more diversity in terms of combat options its quite simple and straight forward even on hard, there is some relatively nuanced dialogue and world building with decent music selection looking forward to what this shapes into, so far so good.

I really liked the game, the plot is good, the characters are beautifully made, I especially liked the girl with ears, the world of the game is also well made, which is what I really liked about the game, I will wait for chapter 3.

This game is off to a pretty good start, well designed characters that all feel unique and interesting with properly thought out pasts, plus an MC who's not a pathetic loser(thank you for that creator)

Art work is good with some nice smooth animations, sex scenes are also great.

The story is simple but plenty for this type of game and interesting enough to keep you playing, plus plenty of world building which makes it feel full.

While the writing is good it unfortunately leans in one direction(MC being a "nice guy") during the common routes and doesn't represent the non "nice guy" choices at all, which also makes it seem like the choices are not going to be impactful later in the game(its still too early to tell).

Obviously the game is still in early development so this might change but at the moment there is little in the way of kinks and the character models of the nun-human species are pretty bland, so far the only difference between 3 species is there ears.

Story 4/5 (great)
Sex 3/5 (nice animations)
Characters 4/5 (a great selection)
Art 3/5 (good)
Choices 2/5 (still early but seems like they wont matter)
Kinks 1/5 (none even through there were opportunities)

I seldom give out 5 stars but dayum, this avn really deserves it!

It starts out really polished already;
- background music
- sound fx
- animation and render quality are amazing
- actual sexy moaning instead of robotic or ripped from a pornclip
- a good wholesome revenge story
- some hilarious moments that made me laugh so hard, it hurt xD

In short; you can see how much love the dev put into his work, it's *chef's kiss*

First of all, if you're hesitating to download it, don't. Just do it right now. This is the first game from this website that's actually made me want to write a review — and that's because it's simply amazing. Sublime, even. It starts off like any other game, but as it goes on, it really develops its own vibe. Sure, it has a few clichés here and there, but nothing over the top. And guys... the girls are hot. The sex scenes? Absolutely top-tier — godlike animation, moans, positions, and they last a good while too. Honestly, it makes you wanna check out the gallery. Solid 100/10 for now."

Really nice start to a kind of interesting premise. There's not much content to go through currently, you can probably get through it in one sitting of around 1-2 hour read, however, the renders for sex scenes are done exceptionally well and I personally love the models for each of the LIs.

Just like their previous game, AlwaysFans, there's going to be a branching between a more loving relationship and the corrupted slave-master relationship where you end up sharing your gals. It's interesting to see that there's a stat for the LIs as well as the MC now - choosing one particular path won't lock you out of making certain selfless/selfish decisions, at least in my experience. I think with enough time in the oven, this could create some really unique scenarios/paths for each player.

There's light combat/jrpg mechanics, but nothing that's too hard either - you can get away with auto-saves anyways. It's pretty cool and not annoying/intrusive as far as AVNs go. If the dev starts asking for players to grind, then that might change.

Definitely looking forward to more progress on the game. I geniunely hope it stays with the episodic route, and not divulge into a massive sandbox that doesn't update the main story after super long while focusing too much on sidestuff that so many other games tend to do.

This is really an excellent first release of a game, with more content pushed out than most other releases! Well written, good animations, good physics, interesting story concept. The love interests are varied and have interesting stories. Really looking forward to the continuation of this one!

I definitely recommend this one; it's a high-quality game with an interesting setup. The heroines are cute and wholesome, at least if you choose to be selfless. I couldn't bring myself to do the asshole route, so most of my point of view is going to be from the selfless route. The MC himself isn't anything special; he's kind of just the generic isekai dude obviously intended for self-insert, but that's fine, as I think the main draw is the characters that you, as the MC, interact with. I'm also interested to see where the dev goes with the whole goddess and revenge plot.

I believe the game uses HS2, and it's pretty high up there in quality among the HS2-based games. The scenes are also well done and hot, which is important to many people, so that's good. The scenes have good sound design, but the sounds go even past the H-scenes. I'm of the opinion that sound design, especially for AVNs, is a craft that is severely neglected by most developers, which is a shame because putting the effort into it can improve your game by several times all on its own, as can be seen in this game. Ranging from ambiance like chirping birds in the forest and patrons mingling in a crowded tavern to actual sound effects as a direct result of the characters' actions, like stirring a pot or casting a spell, I just wanted to say the effort is appreciated and noticed on that front.

There are some other things of note, like there is some gameplay, a turn-based combat system, which is alright. It doesn't particularly stand out for me so far since we're in the really early game and the fights are trivial. There is also swinging/sharing, which I'm not particularly into, especially with wholesome characters like this, but the good thing is that it's optional and obviously indicated, so it's impossible to accidentally stumble upon them. After the first choice, the game offers you the option outright to completely disable them from even being offered to you. They aren't really, forgive me for saying the taboo word, "NTR" scenes so much as the MC is using his slaves' bodies to help him achieve his goals, which is why I think it fits much more on the pragmatic route rather than the selfless one, regardless of the reasoning the MC may give. One last thing is that the menu that shows all the girls in the game kind of worries me by the amount of girls it shows. I'm hoping most of them are minor characters and not intended to be heroines, as there are quite a lot of them if they're all intended to be part of the core cast, so hopefully the developer doesn't bite off more than they can chew.

That's all from me. Good game you've got going here. Hope to see more.

I have virtually no complaints about this one, it's solid as can be, the first episode is very long, the dev has a proven track record, the story is good, the sex scenes are top shelf, the characters are well written and world is interesting. Definitely worth 5 stars.

Chapter 1 of this VN was incredible, there is a lot of content for the first release of a new game which is surprising, and every moment of it was great.

I am huge fan of the Isekai genre, I always have been, and the setup for this felt just like any other good Isekai LN but, when you actually get into it, the story so far is very good. The characters are also great, the renders look great, the music is great, the voices are great, and the animations are very well done.

For me, my favorite characters so far are probably Sylvie and Carmen - I like the catgirl as well but, we just met it so we need to learn more about her. I also like that both paths (pragmatic and selfless) both feel different to play but you also don't feel punished for making certain decisions. The RPG mechanics as well don't feel cumbersome, they actually felt like a nice break in between the scenes, similar to Sengoku Rance.

I have nothing but praise for this VN, and when Chapter 2 comes out in June I will be there!