Ren'Py - Influencing [v0.1.17.3] [Golden Crow]

Is it just me or is this game improving? The sex scenes seem to be increasing, with some nice new variations of some. The bugs have been getting less and less common. Even playing on android seems to be more stable than it used to be. This game is truly one of the few games I find worth following on this site as far as sim games go!

It's very promising game,it has so much freedom and has great sex positions.I think this game needs more content like new jobs ,new sex positions,pregnancy and raising the baby (like sims),random events,and after talk about when you or your partner caught cheating. That's all I can think rn.

good sim based game, alot of potential. dont let the art style put you off, the only thing ill say about it, is its lack of consistency during scenes. one minute my partner has pubes, the next they dont.. i think the consistency and quality of animation should be reworked to match all round.

more gameplay styles should be added, non con, slave routes which can open up an entirely new form of gameplay that adds to his replayability value, kidnapping, non con, and then add trainer type features.. so are you a master that is gentle and patient? or are you a master that is brutal and takes what you want regardless? do you bathe them, feed them etc? or dont you? all should give you a positive/negative, or just simply a negative stat that helps your style of gameplay.

also, more animations need added for male partners, more foreplay animations, all round. ass related stuff, ass play, gaping, cum dripping, pubes, ass eating on the giving side, fingering, worshipping etc.. spreading asses.. just general ass play features, and just more sexual activity and positions.


the openness of allowing male female or trans characters to be your partner, buddy, etc is cool. expand on it. this makes this game unique with its sim aspects, so expand on that too.. give faith to your players, and allow them to pursue what routes they want, as explained above with either legally abiding or none legally biding, you could make profit from breaking slaves and selling them, or breaking their mind with a more brutal approach and selling them, or using them as sex workers. which having said brutal routes could also expand on the use for the police force, do you bribe them, do you try to keep under their radar etc? does a slave escape mediocre security that you've not upgraded and tarnishes your reputation around town, affecting friendships, spreading rumours, and also gaining heat from the cops in the meanwhile? i think it could suit this game.

pretty fun game, thats why its three stars for now, which doesn't mean its bad.. just needs longer to cook, with more to do, more to explore, and more options with sex, and career paths etc. could see this being five stars if the above is added. alot of grammatical errors need fixed too, as there's alot of broken English in there, but you can still understand what they intend to mean. this game is really fun and unique! give it a try!

Influencing [v0.1.12.2]

Pros:
cool concept

Neutral:
Artstyle (will change in the future)
The World looks copy and pasted
Customization (will change in the future)

Cons:
Bugs
No rollback
Gameplay
Sex Scenes
Stats

Now, I know that this game is far from finished and that the game will be polished, but I can only rate what I see.
I think it´s a very ambitious project, but it´s still far away from being a good game experience.
The game feels too grindy and overwhelming with it´s countless dialogue options and things you have to keep in mind all the time, like your money, stats and kinks of your partners during sex. The sex scenes feel annoying because of that and you need to fill a bar which feels frustrating.
I really wish all of this would be simplified. It would also be cool to add a cheat menu.
I first tried to play the game with joiplay so I can use URM, but I couldn´t go past the world generation because I got an error.
The Android version runs decent, but the rollback function is needed because you have to save all the time before an error occurs.
I wish the Dev all the best in his development of the game and will follow his future updates.

Never have I found a game so simple in art form yet so tempting to play! Influencing is a game that may look unassuming and plain in art and animation, but holds extreme potential and as of late is becoming much less buggy. I find myself drawn to this game for it's overall features and not for any specific feature, plus more is soon to come in the near future.

Pros:
- Mechanics are diverse for 'influencing' characters
- Help system explains almost any mechanic you're not fully understanding
- cheat system accommodates for anything you're struggling to control
- sex animations are simple yet kinky enough for a fair sized audience
- Sex sounds and moaning are a plus
- Ability to customize character and customize generated world
- Rather broad variety of options to mess with for generated worlds
- Game isn't difficult, and made easier through help menu
- Game allows you to have residents who you can 'control'
- artwork isn't super detailed, but enough to be enticing
- New modding section has been added to their discord!
- Dialogue between mc and npc can be diverse, if not a little repetitive

Cons:
- Customization of characters is somewhat limited, however this may change
- Limited choice of clothing relatively speaking
- Can't customize character while in generated world (so make save before starting new game)
- Can't roll back time on game so make lots of saves/quicksaves
- Limited number of sex scenes, though they do vary based on gender/pref
- Sex animation and sex sounds can and will be improved in near future
- Dialogue can become a bit of a grind
- game can lag more or less based on your pc specs
- sometimes game can crash. As gamers just remember that save instinct
- jobs are limited and not fully fleshed out yet.
- The dev is working by their self on this project. Not bad for one person
- Updates are typically every 1-2 months (refer to previous con)
- locations are copy and pasted, could do with various rooms generated

There's absolutely a lot to say about this game. It has a lot of positives, and a few things it needs to improve upon. Sure the game has an 'Archer' art-style and some limitations, but you'll be pitted against 100-300 npcs, so you will be more busy with quantity over quality in interactions. I've been tracking the developer's discord and they've been making big moves lately on bug fixing and improvements. There's even big a big announcement about a change to the art style of the game which may involve some new 'flow' to the hundreds of npcs you could meet. This game is not bad for what it is currently, and any issues with it are heard and read by the dev, which is more than some devs' actually do out there. There is a lot of potential to be had here as it is improved and patched in the next year/s to come so I will be updating this review when I find things have changed in any way. Thanks for reading, f95 .

"Influencing" seems rather promising. What's currently implemented is fairly rough around the edges, but in a way that actually shows signs of what's to come as opposed to being deployed almost totally devoid of features like far too many early-in-development games.
My largest criticisms would be that the UI is somewhat unwieldy, sex scenes are lackluster and tedious to go through, a fair number of the characters will generate with rather off-putting visuals, I couldn't find a way to change my or anyone else's clothes, and there's little if anything in the way of influencing people with fear

As the game continues to be improved, my review score will likely follow.

My review of Influencing [v0.1.12]

An extremely barebones unplayable shell of a game.

My first gameplay impressions
Need some money for... nothing really, so I apply for a job as a college professor.
At the interview, after insulting and groping the female college director, I get the job immediately with no experience.
Get to work right away, masturbating in the girl's bathroom and fucking a female student.
Go to the police station to turn myself in.
I can't turn myself in because the police station is just a placeholder.
Enter the slutty tutorial girl's house and fuck her instead - she loves it.
Fuck her again on the next day (making her cum multiple times) - she suddenly hates it.
The game bugs out and throws an exception every time I change location now - have to restart from the beginning.

Some more details about the game
- The "65+ locations" is more like 5+ locations where you can actually do something and 100 identical apartments.
- Conversations are extremely incoherent, repetitive, and boring
- You have like 50 dialogue options but getting someone to love you just requires spamming the same one for 10 minutes
- Sex is just clicking a position to make a bar go up/down instantly + watching small animation for some positions
- The game can randomly bug out, so you have to do frequent saves, since rollback is disabled
- Simple stuff, like opening a specific menu, is enough to softlock the game because the Close button is behind another UI element
- No background music, but has some fake moaning sounds (bound to the Music Volume slider)

I initially wanted to give this game 2 stars, because it at least has some basic gameplay, but releasing it in its current state is honestly an insult.

The game keeps making improvements by leaps and bounds! First the character creation and now the generation AI ! Amazing. First of its kind!
I am as an amateur coder, very intrigued with the inner workings of the game, and as a player happy with the playstyle.
A sims-style 2D game that has left me impressed. Well done dev.
I will change the ratings as the game progresses.

After playing games for about 5 or 6 years, I have never seen a game so ambitious as this, I think in a few years this could be the best porn game ever.

Only the graphic side needs to be improved, but the creator is transparent with his work and is working on it.

I love Influencing, i play it since June 2022 and it keeps getting better, from Update to Update!
Crow really keeps in Touch with the players, to improve the game!
I know the Graphics are not for everyone, but it really feels like a Real game, cause your choice matter!

It does not deserve to be as low as 3.5 stars for what it is, so let me fix that a little.

Don't misunderstand, this game is not finished, it's not enough for a person who really wants to fap furiously. It's more like the bones for what will come later, it's a demo that shows all the basic stuff, and i judge it as such. And on these bones the flesh will be placed... which can be called "the game just needs to be fleshed out".

Now, as a demo it shows that it will be somewhat like Lifeplay, but 2d. Your 2d avatar will even be able to participate in sex scenes, which is kinda more impressive than 3d. There are apartments for npcs to live in, there's customization for what npc you will see, there's a job system, random movement for npcs, random personalities... so yeah, Lifeplay. The only complain i have is that in this version i need to show initiative with every single npc for anything to happen, and i love it when they do it first, and i answer. Sure hope they will be able to talk to me first in the future.

Art quality might seem "low", but i'd say a different style is better for the eye, plus it's easier to make more content. If it were any higher quality i'd imagine it would've been abandoned, so consider that if you're looking at it and think it should look better - it would've been too ambitious to have both content and great looks, and you would've never seen it being finished, just adding another game into [Abandoned] pile.

Is it worth playing now? Not really(And as of 0.1.11.3 it seems you will have better luck getting laid IRL than in this game, good luck trying to earn something to fap to). It needs a lot of stuff added, and a lot of bones too. You can check it out for a few hours, imagine all the possibilities with this system, and close it.

Is it worth adding this to bookmarks and watch this thread, though? Absolutely. Which is why 5 stars, i sure am looking forward to seeing this game much more filled with content after a year or two, provided the dev will not get "life-circumstanced".

I've been following this game from it's early days and I have to say that it's already grown quite a lot and does not feel like it'll stop anytime soon.

This game is a true sandbox in which you can do whatever you want to, the game can feel a bit overwhelming at first until you learn the ropes and can also feel a bit grindy as others mentioned if you don't come in with the right mindset as each character comes with different stats in which some are easy to have sex with while some are actually impossible as they're loyal to their partners.

In case the grindy aspect is not for you then you can always enable the cheats and cheat character's stats to speed up the process as well.

As for the developer himself, I have to say that I absolutely love how friendly he is and how he listens to everyone's feedback and actively responds both here and on his Discord, it's a quality that not many have which is why I'm rating this game a 5/5 even though there's still plenty of work to be done to make it a perfect game but I'm sure we'll get there sooner or later.

The game definitively has potential, the character customization is great and allows for a lot of variety. The influencing part is cool once you get the hang of it but can be a bit grindy sometimes.
All in all I like it, this game gave me a lot of content!

A real sandbox game, looks very promising. The developer is very nice, active and open to suggestions.

The GUI it's easy and very intuitive, the gameplay is dinamic and the world is reactive.

It's very easy to start a sex scene, you even have a cheat menu if you want to skip all the grind.

Awesome game must give a try, has all the elements that a good games should have , a good map ,wide variety of npc , good mechanics , well make character coustumisation , god player and npc traits that actually matter, variety of implementable options ,

I think it's a very promising idea if it gets polished and gets more content. I'd like to see it more.

It would be good if interactions could be started by the others and if MC have some pyhsical features that could be evaluated by other characters to determine wheater they find us attractive or not.

A weird one to review because it's definitely got the potential to be a 4 but it suffers from the issue so many adult games suffer, it's too ambitious a project. The game mechanics badly need simplifying, it's genuinely cumbersome. The concept is great and it's not necessarily 'bad', it just tries to layer too much stuff that's just wasted mechanics or grind on top of what was actually a good, if already bloated, adult game concept. Sometimes the game feels like a 3, sometimes when all the burdensome parts are in play it feels like a 1.
Really solid concept which isn't totally 'bad'.
Really in need of trimming the fat, refining mechanics, and isn't totally good.

A 2 for me right now but if diversity/sheer number of women in a game is your thing or you like overly complicated games, the game would be a 3 or 4 for you.

Edit: Raising it to a 3, was reminded by an old post that there is a built in cheat menu to the game. Look it up in the forums if interested. While it doesn't solve the issues with the game directly, did appreciate the dev includes it as a QoL feature and it does reduce many of the issues while the game is in development. Game deserves an extra star for that.

So join in and everyone was buff af oh well.

Choose one that looked half decent and started seducing , turns out she is married , proceed to fck her in her house anyway.

The dude show up during oral , proceeds to grab some popcorn and take a seat to enjoy the show, his word of encouragement keep me sharp during the event and end up exhausted , he probably escort me to the front door expecting me to come back for dinner next day.

10 / 10 will play again

I wish there were more updates this year and more location. And interaction if the players character is naked in public places except beach. By the way how to have a GF or BF in this game if its possible.

This game have a great potential. I love it. It looks unique to my knowledge. Each NPC have memories and personality. It's like a The Sims in Ren'py in terms of NPC. The possibility of customize your char in anyway you want is pretty cool as well. It lacks content, but acceptable, since the game in under development. I like the consistency of the updates in this one as well! I see a great potential in here!