Ren'Py - Indecent Desires - The Game [v0.26] [Vilelab]

Simple rating system, - 1 star for each of the 5 categories (plus a bonus category). I round up in each category, so as long as the category leans hard towards positive, despite what I felt was lacking, then the category gets a full star.

Version .26a
Story: There isn't much of a story, it's just a typical sandbox with tasks that advance traits (love, lust...etc.) with the characters in the hope the MC gets some action. The problem is most of the potential love interests don't want anything to do with the MC. The MC struggles with most of the expressionless characters, they walk all over him. Nothing within this game is engaging, it's just point and click whack-a-mole.

Character Development: Attractive models but most of the characters are bitchy and/or bratty... it feels soulless.

Writing: Lots of grammar errors and weird phrasing, the writing is a mess.

Render Quality: Again, typical sandbox with minimal renders that get recycled.

Immersion: Without a story there's no immersion. It's just paint by numbers and trying to follow the walkthrough without fail... too mechanical.

Navigation: There isn't a lot of locations so getting lost isn't an issue. The biggest problem is navigation within the MC's house. Many times I'd get to a room within the house at a specified time and the event wouldn't trigger. I'd back out, go somewhere else, then return at the same time and it would trigger. I was only able to get approx. 2 hours into the game before I got stuck. Trying to trigger a specific event would eject me to the main menu. I gave up and started a new game and the same thing happened with a different event about an hour into the game. Navigation in this game is a nightmare, so I happily quit.

Final Note: I spent most of my time searching the game thread trying to find workarounds to make progress... not fun.

Some great femdom moments,and interesting stories about blackmail,the female characters are really hot,renders and animation are really well made a lot of different fetiches and each update leaves you wanting more

(Review of 0.26 alpha)

I'm afraid visuals is the only positive here, and even then the composition of the scenes could be improved. The camera angles aren't the best and the characters look in random directions. They feel like bots pasted on a background, or bad actors saying whatever comes to mind because they forgot their lines. Detached from whatever you say, careless. The first conversation with your aunt is an example of these problems. As soon as your older cousin opens her mouth I want to leave the place and forget about the game entirely: since they don't care for me and I don't give a fuck about yet another brat either.

The story is so incoherent that by the time the barman at the beach left for his errand (about 15 mins of real time spent playing from the beginning) I decided I had enough. I mean, first I decide to listen to him ramble about aunt and the cousins, then the MC decides he won't tolerate him badmouthing them and then he thinks he wouldn't mind doing him a favor and become friends? Is the MC bipolar or WTF is going on?

Renders are scarce and plenty of dialogue and endless thinking go on while looking at the same static and uninteresting scene. Storytelling is truly bad, within minutes from the start the MC sounds and thinks as a potential rapist, living only to perv on any female nearby. No character introduced upto the aforementioned beach scene is believable or likable (for example, aunt's thoughts ruin the character for me right from the start) so I really have zero interest into what happens next. I sincerely suggest to abandon the project and start from scratch because nothing here is done right.

It's a game that ultimately fails at everything except for doling out gratuitous sex scenes. While that usually wouldn't be a problem would be more than welcome at this point since I've grown tired of devs who try to write above their skill level and end up writing some melodramatic shit, the downsides just keep adding up to the point where I can't give this a higher rating.

My advice is to just grab the gallery mod and look at the scenes. There's too much crap to try and sift out anything good. Just to be clear, I'm saying the gallery MOD since the in-game gallery is useless and I'm not even sure what purpose it serves. There's effectively no built-in gallery for replaying scenes.

Bugs
- Missing image errors
- "Phone" not being defined
- "Navigation" makes it feel like the game is going to crash sometimes so I don't bother using it.

Sandbox elements
- Only way I found to advance time is to take a nap in the bed.
- A lot of clicking which the "Navigation" would solve if it wasn't buggy.

Grammar/Spelling
- A lot of "WTF"s, statements that are punctuated with question marks, questions that are punctuated with periods
- Misspellings
- Like, damn dude. Writing a game for an English-speaking audience for this long and still no improvement. Why?

Misc.
- Weird game design where you can just get an automatic "Game Over" and get booted to the main screen. Thanks. Thanks for that. Now I'm going to be filling up my save slots even more with a game that already requires a lot of save slots (to keep track of the unknown amount of variations) out of paranoia that I'm going to accidentally choose something that's a "Game Over".
- I'm told to earn money by playing mini-games but 2 out of 3 are WIP and the 1 only allows you to bet 20 dollars at a time. I usually wouldn't cheat for money but that's just asking you to do so.

Paths/Branches and Scene variations are vague
- It's like trying to navigate in a pitch-black maze with a flashlight that only lights up one square at a time.
- Choices and quests/tasks are unclear on what path you're on until way later and you'll have to start all over again.
- It seems like other quests aren't just blocked off automatically once you're on a path which makes it even more confusing.
- Quests for different characters are also not in the "Hints" until you randomly decide to try and talk to a character at a time and place you previously thought was a dead-end.
- Seemingly innocuous choices in a scene can lead to wildly varying results
- Stats don't seem to serve a purpose other than for the different variations in a scene but you have no way of knowing which combination of all 6 stats are needed without the walkthrough.
- There's just no real feedback to help the player understand the cause-and-effect from choices. Until, again way later and by then it's too late to go back.

Walkthrough
- The official walkthrough is also a joke and seems like the dev even halfasses that at some point. "Multiple outcomes from choices. Play as you like."
- It also just reads like a changelog rather than any guide for the different paths and unknown variations for scenes.

Cherry on top
- This game's been in development for 6 years. All that time and no noticeable improvement from the dev other than maybe the render quality. That's pretty crazy.
- Think about it. No personal growth shown after all that experience other than I guess the dev has a better rig now for renders.

This game had nothing to offer just horrible renders and no animations at all, girls are ugly, plot is really basic and corruption is unrealistic, playing tetris is way more enjoyable than this game. I dont even understand the people who are giving this any higher rating than 1 star

I was counting with this game being mediocre due to reviews... but it is well below that. The story and writing quickly lost all interest to me, as did the characters. Most choices at the begining stages (I quit pretty soon tbh) don't matter at all, either you chose whatever you want and it goes on, or you choose the wrong one and game ends.

Render quality is pretty bad in many cases, there is a clear lack of animations in the early game and character models are pretty generic and bad. I turned of the music as I usually do, so can't judge that, but other than that no sound seemed to be present. At least, no bugs were found in my brief time playing it, which I guess is nice.

So, all in all, a quick abandon for me, and you would probably do well and skip it.

God damn I hate sandbox, some are ok but this game is one of the worst. Hot characters, but I'm at a point where I need to borrow Kate's car, so where TF is she?!? Do I need to refer to a walkthrough, because if I do the dev has failed miserably after over 5 years in development.
What a waste of my fkn time.

v0.24: 51% rating (the number consists of an average of outliers at both extremes; good and bad)
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this game is in alpha state. Quite a few events are already implemented. However, the whole thing doesn't quite fit together. The hint system is well done and a great help if you get stuck. Unfortunately, the many existing dates with different LIs are almost identical. I assume that this serves as a placeholder for the time being before it is supplemented with real content at some point.

The game is partly a walking simulator. Many repetitive footpaths have to be completed manually. This can be exhausting in the long run, but increases immersion. However, places with many locations have a shortcut option.

The game has its heart in the right place, the direction is recognizable, but it is not yet clear whether it will be a crash landing or a hyper-sonic flight.

One of the first quests requires you to get a weapon ... I'm curious to see how long the game will provide me with events before I dare to take care of something like that.

Greetings, I think it is a great graphic novel with an interesting plot and many options. I worry that some of my favorites are not important characters in the story, but still, one of the best graphic novels I have seen and I have seen many.

There are only two good things about this game:
1- The renders and the character models are well done.
2- The trans on male content (If it's your thing)

Otherwise the hints and event system is such a mess you're unlikely to discover even half of the content before losing your mind. Assuming you don't accidentally lock yourself out of a couple characters by making one degenerate choice, without warning.

There are some good hidden scenes I found by forcing the choices, but I have no idea how to trigger them normally, since 10 minutes into the game, the hint system abandoned me, and said "No hints available".

If you play this you should be prepared to click A LOT of random locations every time, every day, until you run into some trigger that isn't written in the hint code. I myself am done with this game, after 2 years since I first played it. I kept hoping the dev fixes it, but nope, they just continue to build on top of crumbled foundation.

Pros:
Beautiful characters, good renders.

Cons:
MC is a spineless schmuck, one of the worst MCs ever.
There are some bugs, game crashed few times.
At some moment one of future LI gets raped and MC is forced to watch it, whether it is NTR or not, it is a huge turn off for me.

I started liking the game (first versions or chapters of it) but then it started going downhill right from the point where the aunt forces Aiko to please her.

For one, I have to agree with all the reviews that the MC is one of the most spineless and stupid cowards I've ever seen in a VN.

While the models look great, and even tho the sandbox is kinda annoying, what in my opinion wrecked the ship is the lack of coherency between events, the main story, and the different paths you can take.

For example, it doesn't matter how much you wanna play as the good guy, you will end up being abused, and then you will try (very stupidly) to blackmail into sex with the ones that mistreat you with certain success only to end up in another side event where you're abused again.

The story is very loose, and it honestly doesn't make sense. For example, after certain events, you have all the possible evidence to blackmail your aunt, but even after you do so, she blackmails you again due to your grades, and after these scenes, you can actually blackmail her into domination.

So... they dominate mutually, and both "have" the other party under their domain... which doesn't make sense at all.

From the point I made earlier, it seems as if the dev was trying to please all and every possible public there is, throwing kinks, sexual preferences, and fantasy elements with no connection between nor any sense into the story, effectively destroying any sense or coherency there could have been.

It's a shame because the renders/models/art are really good, but the story spoils rotten everything.

This game is close to being something and I am immeasurably disappointed.

A lot of the earlier content is pretty great. The stuff we are all here for, the sex, has some well done scenes - one of my favorites being the scene with the maid where her hand is stuck - and that raw sexual content is good for a while. My first issue comes from the lack of proper buildup, things feel disconnected and disjointed to an insane degree, as if the dev literally just doesn't know what the word "pacing" means.

For example, here is a small summary of the general main sexual plot in the game. You get an intro which establishes the main cast, particularly the lesbian relationship between Aiko and your cousin Kate where you can choose to try and blackmail them, along with minor scenes for other characters. You get a nice pool party where you can have sex for the first time with Karina. Then you find Aiko in two different world events throughout the house where you can escalate from a handjob in the first one immediately to sex in the second one. Some minor stuff happens, then you get the scene where the MC's aunt forces Aiko to be raped by an old man, effectively forcing NTR onto the player with basically no recourse.

The MC takes a pic like the apparent cuck that he is which can be used to blackmail the aunt or the maid for sex, not both. Why? Because the MC is now incredibly stupid, and both paths end up with the girl deleting the picture from your phone. Granted, Aiko's route is actually somewhat more involved, because in it you plan to have sex with Kate, who has barely shown up and gotten development. You hatch an elaborate scheme, bang her, then Aiko reveals Kate was in on it and they had sex with you to get the blackmail and turn things around on you by making their own blackmail. Funnily enough, it doesn't have the MC's face in it so idk why the MC is worried but oh well!

Another issue related to this is the springing of unwelcome content with little way to stop it, which happens at multiple points due to the MC's apparent insane lack of sense and courage. I will not knock anyone's sexual preference's here, but to force things like NTR and male humiliation in a game that touts its options for male domination, rape, and blackmail is just so incredibly fucking stupid. The MC, so far, can get assraped by a shemale, forced to suck the cock of/give a handjob to the same shemale, become dominated by the aunt and her coworker in a currently ongoing plot to help him get his grades fixed, of all things, has to watch Aiko get raped by a businessman, and can get blackmailed by Kate and Aiko which is in its beginning stages.

This kind of stuff has been done before in other games, but if you want to do that you have to make the domination very very quick and enact serious payback to make things feel satisfying, otherwise it is just a really hard turn off. There are a few examples of this being done in a way that isnt a huge turn off but I can't list them here.

To the games slight credit, the shemale scenes are avoidable. Well, the scene where she fucks you was always avoidable by just refusing to participate, but the handjob/blowjob scene had to get a way out of it patched in on a later update because of the amount of people who complained. Part of the reason it is so egregious is because she shows up in a totally unrelated plotline where you and Karina blackmail Aiko. I can almost excuse the scene where she can assfuck you because you aren't technically forced into it even though she purposefully does not reveal that she has a penis so you are getting tricked as a player, but the hj/bj scene just comes out of nowhere.

This is now the road the player is being lead down. No power, no control, you are a very stupid MC who is getting abused by the same women you were plotting to abuse. Were Vilelab trying to make some kind of commentary or something? If the idea was to subjugate the player to their own fetishes good on them I suppose, it worked, but it isn't going to keep people sticking around. What they are doing is dumb, actual suicide, and unless they go back on it in some manner I cannot give this silly porn game a very good review.

Holy mother of sandboxes, this is it. One sandbox that overshadows them all.

Want to visit a girl in hospital? Sure.
Click to open doors - click to enter first room - click to enter hallway - click to enter elevator - click to exit elevator - click to enter hallway - click on doors to enter room where girl is - click on girl to talk.

Do it all in reverse to exit.

But surely those other 7 rooms serve some purpose, have something in them? Why no, no they do not. There is literally NOTHING in them. It's 7 clicks for no reason whatsoever. Maybe realism?

And it's only one such example. All other locations are the same. Multiple completely empty rooms serving no purpose at all except to force player to click, click, click and click some more.

There is only 1 reason this game is not 1 star and it's because girls are hot. Some genuinely look great and it's a saving grace. The rest is one gigantic mess not worth the time. Think I've spent 3-4 hours playing this...thing, before deciding life is too short to spend it on clicking simulator.

Don't bother people. Move on. Trust me, it's as bad as the overall rating it has.

The game is a time-wasting, badly implemented sandbox game, one of the worst of its kind.
With completely obscure triggers, no correctly working hint system, idiotic grind, and so buggy that it actually becomes a hindrance in continuing what passes for a story.
And it's not just that you have to search to progress, the sandbox is set up in a way that you have to click endlessly just to get from one place to the next.

There might be people who have a problem with the game, because of its content, my problem is the lack of content, the lack of story progression and in general the horrible and faulty way in which the existing game mechanics (pathetic as they are) are implemented.

This game started out perfectly fine as a visual novel. The sandbox came, didn't work as it was supposed to, and stayed that way.
The slow progression is testament to all the problems this game has, and of a dev unwilling to accept that you need to be able to do something to actually do it. You can't fake skills in using Ren'Py or actual factual new content. Even if you hide it behind a barely functioning sandbox, it becomes apparent how little content is added each development cycle and TBH the quality of said content.

Visually, while of course by now basically all models are also used in other games, this still isn't bad, but it's literally the only not negative thing about the game.

Due to the various side tales, the overall event is somewhat nonsensical.
Bugs and lags.
The game's page's tags are outdated and do not accurately reflect its actual content.
MC has nothing to do. Horrible MC for terrible game.

i really like this game, can't understand the bad rating at all. i really enjoyed playing and look forward to each update. a job well done in my opinion, great work. keep it coming. good renders and nice quality overall. some grammar mistakes but that is to be expected, no one is perfect.

I couldn't figure out why the game crashed when I entered the corridor at the University. At first I thought that the problem was that the mods included with the game on the first page were used. But no, everything repeats even if you reinstall the game and go through it again until it crashes... This is an unforgivable mistake, a waste of time and nerves! Because the models are beautiful, the plot is interesting, and the implementation is simply disgusting! There are no words to describe the irritation and indignation. Super bad! And it almost happens at the beginning of the game! I noticed that the bug happens after the second communication in the evening with the girl from the bar. After that, all quests related to the university - by. the main player simply cannot enter there, an error message constantly appears that cannot be ignored - the game goes to the main menu ... Not only that the game has not been updated for a year or more (I remember the game, I remember some points that I reached earlier FURTHER than now), so even now it is impossible to go to where it was already in the story, not to mention finishing the sequel. The game was tested very badly, there should not be such blocking bugs! Drink hot lead instead of tea, you bastards!

The overall event is largely incoherent due to branching side stories.
There are a few technical problems, e.g. lags and bugs.
The tags on the game page are out of date and do not reflect the actual content.

OMFG Why do I do this to myself? Saw incest and nice Daz renders = yay. Saw sandbox, and automatically assumed the worst (ie can't figure out what to do next without it taking an hour of repetition and blindly searching to unlock a scene that would take maybe 5 minutes of reading in a normal or kinetic AVN, not much of a story between scenes, etc). The render previews made me try it anyway. I should have went with my gut instinct and paid attention to other reviews. Remember the Tidepod challenge (basically eat concentrated soap/bleach/poison because it looks like tasty candy)? This is basically the AVN version of that and I regret it almost as much (assuming I was foolish enough to eat a Tidepod and end up in the hospital).