Ren'Py - Influencing [v0.1.17.6] [Golden Crow]

C-Could it be? Have we finally stumbled upon the hypothesized synthesis of LLM AI models built from datamined erotic neckbeard roleplay chats and coomer life simulator games made by developers who have been doing the programming equivalent of banging rocks together on Twine and Ren'Py?

I'm not sure. But the recent AI update for this game has made me start to believe. What we have here is a life sim game that generates random characters that you can talk to by connecting a LLM chatbot API that keeps several paragraphs of context in its history for each character. Crucially, your chats with the AI can affect in game events. It's not comprehensive, but your responses in the AI chatbox can change NPCs' opinions of you and even take actions on some of them that lead to you changing locations and start sex scenes. This is a big breakthrough in my opinion.

This is big folks. While it's not perfect, the current implementation offers a massive amount of replayability thanks to the AI text generator doing a lot of the writing work that the developer would normally be saddled with. This game at least partly solves the issues that people would have with both roleplay chatbots not being able to transition between scenes in a consistent manner as well as the issue in life sims where players would run out of content quickly because the NPCs only have a pre-determined amount of responses.

Like I mentioned before, there are issues. The LLM sometimes can't keep stories straight and there's varying delays as the LLM generates responses. The art is not exactly my cup of tea. I actually like western artstyles but the art here is lacking, especially when you're just exploring the game world where the flat characters just stare at you like NPCs in a South Park flash fan game from before 2010. The animations aren't bad but they leave a lot to be desired.

But the game works, mostly. And even if this game happens to not improve as much as it could, it stands as a proof of concept that this idea can be implemented in other life simulators. And that's a great sign for the playerbase of life sim games, both h and non-h, since the genre as a whole has been wracked with disappointment from failed and stalled projects.

I must say, I love where this game is going. Since pregnancy and AI was added, it took this game to an uncharted territory. I love how NPCs remember what they did with my character and the flavoured text generated by the AI is very interesting to read. Too bad there's no way of properly parsing the text and a scroll bar is very much needed to read all the text. Also, it would be amazing if the free AI chat would tie into game actions (maybe create new actions that way), it would bring this game to the next level.

Game version 1.16.3

Influencing is a deep sandbox game with a lot of relationship mechanics as well as game mechanics. Jobs outside of teacher are not really fleshed out, but that's not you're here for anyway, I'd imagine.

Character customization is a big plus. You can tweak a lot of physical and mental (character likes/dislikes, areas of interest, relationship factors) variables and create multiple characters in your starting household. Initial world generation is also highly customizable, and a quick redo button if the results aren't to your liking.

I like the slow build of relationships and the uncovering of information regarding potential conquests. Character art has gotten better over time and the number of outfits and hairstyles has increased, which is nice. I'd like to see some more positions available with trans female characters in particular, but many sexual positions have animations.

I'm really looking forward to the AI update which will allow for more dynamic conversations that work within the existing framework where conversation topics affect relationship stats. I can see this becoming a huge time sink for me and I fear I may not need other porn games after it is released. But time will tell!

Honestly, I know this more a sim game than a strictly cuck game, but it has some of the best cucking mechanics I've seen on this site. NPCs (optionally) have full autonomy to do whatever they want, and they all have their own personalities.

And if they DO decide to cheat, if you catch them in the act, you generally have options like busting in on them or peeking through the door to watch (which is incredibly hot and a super-cucky thing to do).

Honestly I love sandbox/life-sim games, but the NTR aspect really pleasantly surprised me.

The graphics aren't great, some of the random-gen NPCs are silly (e.g. black dude with long, platinum blonde Fabio hair), and the gameplay is fairly basic. Also the English could use some polishing.

BUT... this is almost all I've been jerking to lately. 5 stars.

Good game, I was a little put off by the graphics, but the gameplay, openworld, and management is fun, and if you don't use the cheats it's got some challenges. I hope the author continues to develop out the domination scenes, the more the better :-D

I will add, that I'd like to see blowjob in the interaction area with hug,kiss, etc. It's foreplay, and maybe the NPC is not ready to go all the way.

This is pretty good for a Renpy engine game! It's basically a life simulator game based mostly around sex. It's in the earlyish stages, so there's not too much to do besides to screw, but it shows a lot of promise.

Also if anyone is into these types of games, I highly recommend the wicked whims mod for the sims 4.

I played on 1.16.2.
Simply almost perfect. There are still many points to improve.

The most negative and notable point is the art during sex. However, apparently the dev is making an update based on this and it will be the next update of the game. (1.17)

The game already has a good foundational concept and great use of the renpy engine for a sandbox type game (normally used for visual novels).

Currently has a bit of a repetitive nature and blandish art style but the developer has said that these are mainly placeholders.

Concept is great, reminded me a lot of Artificial Academy 2 on a much larger scale.

The game is just very lacking when you go beneath the surface. Every interaction feels like the same thing despite there being up to 300 NPCs and as a result they barely feel like characters in any way, instead serving more as different looking models to spam the same things on to seduce for the same sex animations (most of which don't even have visuals).

A good base but not enough depth to seriously enjoy for more than a couple of hours. Needs a lot of work.

Really good game, especially given the engine limitations. It's basically Renpy Artificial Academy that you can run on your phone; it's rare to see a sandbox game where NPCs actually go around doing their own thing.

Game with a lot of potential, very simple and fun. Great for people who love non linear games, there is no story you do what you want. I can't wait for new updates and features. I always wanted game with good character creation and this is good enough.

My go-to game to get me going. It's fairly simple but there are a lot of implications regarding the risque situations and getting caught. I really hope this keeps going on, would like to see some gloryhole action as well and a couple of more options for the male on male acts.

this game has so much potential, but the concept is very interesting, love the sandbox that it provides, a lot of freedom to play with many combinations and generations, i absolutely love it, can't wait for more content

A really good game that shows a lot of potential for the future.
The character creation is quite complete with a lot of details to adjust to your taste, you can even make several characters and select relationships between them (married, parents (be aware that incest is not available), sex friends, etc...).
The map is pretty big, with enough location to do different things, either shopping, sport, or even working. A few of these are still in development though, but most the vast majority is already working.
The influencing part works very well even though it is a bit repetitive but it's clearly better than some other games I've played (and if you lose patience, there is a cheat menu available to change your character or PNJs stats)
For the sex part, the animations are very good and contain sound effects (moans, cumming), and there is already a few of them (perhaps 25-30 for the whole game), more are planned in the future. Even with this amount of animations they are quite replayable as they take account of a potential PNJ watching you and integrate them in the talking between animations.
To be frank, I was quite sceptical in the beginning but this game shows a lot of qualities and its future looks bright. I recommend you all to give it at least a try.

Good game, nice design, poor animations, poor update quality sadly.

RPG System: 7/10

Update Quality: 2/10

Development Progress: 1/10

Content Quality: 1/10

Animation Quality: 3/10

Map Design: 3/10

For 3 years of development contents are too low and it not good for 3 years old game. If developer will speeding up about producting contents I can give 5 star for supporting. There is unique events or content for now. There is not many things u can do in game. Only one job, not many places and not many events u can encounter.

Best procedurally generated sandbox game out there. Still has a long ways to go, but shows a lot of potential. If you were disappointed by LifePlay, but still like it's concept, give this one a try. Hopefully the dev doesn't abandon it.

After countless (same old) virtual novels I found this game.
It's hard to find Ren'py games with such detail and complexity as this one. I am not a coding expert but it's easy to see that there is a massive work here - So many things.
I haven't tested v0.1.15.2 and have found few bugs here and there, but nothing massive that stopped me to continue.
The F95Zone is full of people who like those novels that you simply click on the space bar throughout. In this game they won't be able to do that so for sure this won't be their cup of tea.
The game is great but I would like to share some ideas which I believe could help it become even better.
- Visuals: The first and most obvious one is the visuals. I wished this would have 3D renders which the best quantity, instead of these current 2D.
- Diversity: The game has some diversity but it would be nice to se even more. More clothes, different bodies and body features, more faces, more facial expressions on the animations, this to help creating more distinct and unique NPCs. Being less repetitive and with more unique characters is something that will make this game even better. Another thing that would help would be diversity of sounds and voices.
- Shops: It would be nice to see more objects/items available in shops
- Map: t would be great to have a bigger map, with more locations.
- User interface menu: It could be improved. Sometimes it's difficult to control the NPCs' questions.


Well done Mr. developer!

The TLDR; short of a big overall update, this game is in dire straits and I foresee future problems. Bad gameplay, Bad emergent story, and poor erotica.

Gameplay
There is hardly a game here besides “talking” to characters. But dialogue isn’t intriguing or interactive or fun, it’s a slog. Go up to a character. Spam the same dialogue option until desired result or they say that you’re saying the same thing and then switch to a different option to spam. In a game where you’ll be seducing/being seduced you would’ve thought this would be abstracted to a mini game or something to make it engaging and non-repetitive. There is very little in the way of non-sex things to do as well. I’m not totally bombing this project for the fact that there’s an impressive amount being done on the Renpy engine here, but at the same time, I can feel the jank of the engine show through. Things like buttons not responding until I click them multiple times or lack of QoL conveniences like being able to press tab to select different options. QoL here is generally not great. Lack of rollback on a Renpy game is odd, I get they’re trying to go for a Sims-esque approach but the difference there is that sims you can set a conversation going and then leave to forget it and pay attention to a different character and it’s fairly easy to get back in a characters good graces. If you put on auto mode conversation there can be problems like the dialogue going by too fast, inability to see what the question was, or just generally clunky/uninteresting dialogue (a natural problem that the Sims avoided with Simlish). That is to say, if my Sim says something stupid in dialogue then I can remedy it or play along and it feels good. If my Influencer says something stupid in dialogue, I’m forced to do more of the thing I don’t like… engage in dialogue. Very ambitious sandboxes NEED content and large amounts of it. I understand this is a small-time developer, but that’s the problem. If this game is to shine, it may need a team helping pump out content faster and implement more QoL stuff if possible. And also fixing dialogue to either make it a “set it and forget it” kinda thing or an engaging mechanic.

Story
Being this is a Sims-esque game, the story here is meant to be largely emergent. I should be able to tell fellow sex fiends about the wacky adventures I got into this game. In this genre of games what makes emergent story-telling is the usage of “Yes And”. As said before there’s a lack of gameplay here and for what there is there is a lack of consequence to gameplay. I joined the discord to see if I was missing stuff and it seems key consequences are missing. No pregnancy. No fighting. No rivalries. Which means there’s no “Yes And” moments. There’s never a point where you do something and it causes a major shifting alteration later. Playing for about 6 hours, I felt nothing really happened. I just sucked a lot of wieners in the gym bathroom and that’s it. No drama whatsoever. I think the developer again needs to improve here by making more emergent systems that have big life-changing consequences so that the player feels they truly have a story of their own. There’s already hints of this with other characters getting jealous, but they don’t do anything about their jealousy. They don’t try to sabotage your relationship or fight you or try to reconcile with you or blackmail you or anything that would create intrigue and tension.

Erotic
It is truly impressive how the developer was able to use their talents to make it so that you have a wide range of bodies to have and have sex with. That is the games saving grace. Otherwise, sex in this game is boring. You have sex in one place, you’ve had sex in them all. The sex mechanics are clunky and not engaging. Also I can’t see what a character likes in H-scenes with them so I have no idea how to improve sex until it’s over. The developer needs to make environments interactive and restrict the amount of sex positions in an environment. Example of what I mean: in the gym bathroom stall, there could be only 3 available sex positions, the toilet could be integrated like a character using it as a chair or something to get their leg up (even something more taboo involving water sports or grossness). Additional mechanics like sound or cellphone calls from romantic partners could be integrated. There is an overall lack of taboo content. I understand Patreon restrictions and all that, but this may just require moving off Patreon because it’s such a severe damage to the game. You have to go to the discord to get a mod that enables incest, but it may as well not be incest, no character comments on it whatsoever. In my incest-run, my Influencer’s mom walked in on her dad creampieing her and the dialogue was just the same as though this was normal cheating which she was okay with (which before I spammed at the Influencer’s mom to be okay with being cheated on). I understand I can’t fault the developer for the content in a mod, but this should be content shipped with the game instead or in one of those “unofficial patches”. Any game that wants to be a sandbox sex simulator needs taboo content so that there can be a level of progression into degeneracy noticed and for there to be player freedom. So the developer needs to make certain sex positions/scenes exclusive to the environment, change and add sex mechanics, and needs to add taboo content that the game world recognizes as taboo.

Love this game. The only problem with me is that everybody is insanely jacked even if you try making a chubby character. Believe it's gonna be more customizable in the future, unless the lore here is that it's the universe where every day is a leg day or something.

Otherwise, great stuff. Looking forward to what's it gonna become.
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UPD: the legs are fine now and are only jacked for muscular characters

The game has potential, but as of September 2023, it has one big issue, it's poorly optimized. I have a Ryzen 7 4000 series CPU, a GTX 1650 Ti GPU and 24 GB ram, and it forces the game as much as Skyrim, and lags a lot.

As for the game itself, it's a good starting point with something that is missing in these adult games, which is family customization. I couldn't play for much due to the lag and load of the game on my laptop. I suggest optimizing it before increasing its complexity.

Again, it can go very well, or like life play, but good job and good initiative so far.