HTML - Inheritance [vB12] [Aftermath Team]

This review was done on the A46 version of the game:

So who likes being the owner of a huge mansion with 2 cute maids serving your EVERY need? If you do, then you'll love this game.

Pros:
-Maids. You have maids. You can even get more.
-Anna while she is lovey dovey is heartwarming
-Eve is the most adorable girl in existence. The MOST.
-Play hide and seek with Eve for all eternity. It's glorious and makes Anna question your sanity, which is another plus.
-Go out and find more maids for your collection. Feed the HAREM
-Tons of interactions based on your relationship and trust. They'll be an excellent maid with high trust, with low trust just walking around them will cause them to freeze in existential dread. How can you be a tyrant around such adorable maids?! You monster!
-Plenty of events! The characters all actually interact with each other as well, unlike most other games where they only have penis vision (Only for the main character or NTR Man. Like seriously what happened to just plain having friends you don't have sex with?!) for some reason.

Cons-
-People will find this a plus, but holy smokes you can do some messed up stuff to your maids. If you enjoy being a total monster, this is a plus.
-Bugs. This is actually expected though since it's nowhere near finished.
-Some events take literally forever. I'm talking about valentines and christmas. The realism in this game is something else. (This would be neutral for me, but I'm still salty it took me forever to get them Eve scenes during the holidays)
-Not enough events! THE GAME NEEDS MORE CONTENT! MOOOOORE!
-Not nearly enough hijinks with Eve. Eve needs all the events.

I'm just gonna say it. This game needs more Eve. And yes, I'll totally admit I'm biased lol. Game gets 4 stars for Eve alone. The other star is for Anna for putting up with my hijinks without complaint.

To keep it short, this game has no gameplay or narrative. It's just clicking a bunch of different areas of the mansion hoping something interesting happens, which is usually a small event featuring one of the two main girls. The game's 'How to play' literally states that you should just randomly call the girls into different areas of the mansion and visit them at different times of the day.

The small events with the girls are sparse and repetitive. Many are contributed by the community; so, many times you're not even seeing the author's interpretations of the characters, you're seeing a few different renditions of the girls. It has the dialogue feeling a bit inconsistent.

It's infuriating how awful Inheritance is compared to The Allure of Wanton Cove, which is made by the same developer. Allure had a focused narrative, with 'tighter' gameplay. Meaning there was less gameplay but more story to partake in. In Inheritance, there's tons of locations with nonexistent content and no real overarching story; it's just a bunch of boring events with specific triggers. There's no depth to the events either; girls reactions in events don't seem to change based on other events or their stats.

Good luck making it to any of the events that the Wiki describes. There's not much to really enjoy here that you'll likely be bored before getting that far.

A huge complaint I have is that, other than the premise, there's nothing to really grab your attention to make you want to continue playing and searching for events. After the prologue, the game sets you off to begin exploring a huge, empty map in search of rare events.

Lastly, I've played this game several times and am finally leaving a review. I played the game at version 12, 18, and 30. That's one years worth of development and I saw the flaws I saw in version 12 that I see today. I don't expect the game to fundamentally change at any point in future development. I hate leaving bad reviews when the developer is active in the thread, but I feel like it's well deserved in this case as the gameplay hasn't improved since I first played it.

Its not a game for everyone, thats for sure. If you dont like mostly text-based games you probably wont find much pleasure here. Even when the creator is already adding supplementary art for a while.

But for everyone else, have a look. For me its a great theme, having the rulership over 2 female maids, paired with interesting characters. The current and future planned options to handle the situation are very extensive. You are, and will be more so in the future, able to go from heartwarmingly nice and caring to quite the opposite. And probably have the option to change nearly everything about the two characters. And im not talking about the clothes only, no.

So you can either help them grow and overcome what happened, or even play them out against each other just for your amusement.

Reserving the 5 Star rating only because its not finished, but as soon as it gets filled with even more events/possibilities it probably deserves it.

Game with great potential, I'd love to see where the story will develop into and the various different events available with the current framework of the mansion. The writing is well done and the current H events make sense to me with the progression of the relationship of the two girls currently in the game. The main drawback as others have said is the lack of content currently in the game. It does genuinely feel like a grind at times and the variation of dialogue in casual conversations is lacking but I don't feel like this will be an issue in the future.

It's still pretty much a non-game. You basically hunt around looking for scenes that are almost impossible to find, with time moving at a crawl, and generally having nothing to do but stalk your maid or summon her for some of the dullest sex scenes I've ever seen.

This game has been around for a long while, and the creator is getting FAR too much on Patrion. You think they could actually give it some actual GAMEPLAY.

*edit*

Two years later and little to nothing has changed. There is far more content, but still no actual game to go with it.

It's still the same aimless wandering simulator, moving from empty, pointless location to empty pointless location without any real rhyme or reason except hopefully stumble across a new scene you might have previously missed.

IMHO games like this are examples of everything wrong with Patrion adult games. There is no deadline, instead the author is encouraged to make low effort update after low effort update, adding superficial content to placate their fans while leaving the game shallow and empty...

Major shame too because Wanton Cove was actually a good game with a tight narrative, good game-play, and while it was also something of an wandering simulator, every location had a reason for being there and your exploration felt like it had a point rather than being aimless.

Double disappointing me because the premise hits me right in the Fetish...

Classic Patreon porn game scheme.

*edit*

Another year and still jack and shit.

From what I can gather the development process on this game works as follows.

Dev is either volunteer outsources or is paid to add quirky little fluff scenes, 99% of which are gated beyind a massive grind barrier in the form of being in the right place, at the right time, with the right love/fear/trust stat comination that 99% of players will never see because the only way to get the "Cheat" version that is locked behind the patrion wall, where you have to shovel money into the devs wallet so they can go nowhere, like shoveling coal into the firebox of a steam locomotive that is on a continuous loop track.

They need to stop adding fucking characters and finish the ones they have . Make generic sex scenes for all of them (yes, Virgina, you can do a little of your own writing), maybe by building them all on a single foundation template, add some goddamned keyboard shortcuts to cut on on the grind fest, actually work on the transformation content, and generally figure out a way to streamline the damned gameplay.

For example, rather than completely random events have them go off more often and have actual impact but be, I don't know, dependent on the character actually being in the fucking room and don't go off 35 times in a row. Perfect example is Mitsuko's photo. It's apparently the most important thing in the world to her but I've seen the "she dropped it" scene at least five times in a single day and returning it to her seems to have almost zero impact.

Basically, this is a shit game by a developer who really could do better, because they HAVE done better in the past. When given an actual focus and premise that requires tight construction they can do well... but as it is now this game is the poster child of terrible patron porn game, if you can actually call it a game, which is honestly debatable in its current state.

A54 as of latest review.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is A5...

Not much content once the grind game begins, but it's an interesting introduction...

What little visuals there are, not all of them properly size correctly to the screen (I used Chrome)... The visuals that do exist are primarily black and white 2D hand drawn pictures, but even then they look very well made... Can't wait to see how that aspect evolves...

The script does have the occasional spelling/grammar error, but nothing too bad... The plot revolves around a male protagonist who just inherited his great uncles home, money, and 2 slave women (they are labeled as slave girls in the text, but technically they are women)... Both of the women are sisters, with the oldest being very protective of her younger sister... Both had been poorly treated and subject to chemical enhancements, with the oldest being extremely mistreated by the uncle... The uncle apparently liked to play mind games, sexual assault, and torture his slaves... And before the protagonist arrives apparently there were originally many more slaves, who were taken away by some mysterious slave trader...

In any case, the protagonist has several ways in-which he can treat the two women, to include being just as sadistic and controlling as his uncle was, or by treating them with kindness/respect, and possibly other things as time goes on... As once the introduction story is done, a grind game begins... All you can really do for the moment in the grind, is move around inside the house, with a few interactions available with the oldest woman (Anna)... You can also engage in sex with Anna, and change a few settings for Anna and her sister Eve, such as their sleeping and eating arrangements... There really is not much to really do beyond that, for the moment... So the playable grind content is extremely limited...

Overall, I'm not a fan of the mistreatment portion of the game play, so I opted to go with trying to reverse the damage and maybe go down a more love/romance path... But for the moment the content is so limited, there are actually more harmful interactions available then good interactions... There are random moments where you can interact with Anna while she is attending the home's cleaning, but they are repetitive and don't really seem to do anything at all... As when you have a casual conversation with Anna, her reply is always the same, no matter how many dozens of times I helped her during random encounters...

How far the author's plan to go with the depraved portion of the game, I don't know and probably don't want to know... But I am looking forward to the love/romance and fixing them, aspect... The game does show some potential, but only time will tell... This game is very early in it's production, so it will be a while before we start seeing a bunch of content for the grind game... I'll most likely revisit it, once it gets a bunch more content patches under it's belt...