VN - Ren'Py - Innocent Witches [v0.11 Alpha] [Sad Crab]

Really good game, one of the best there.

There is hot stuff and regular gameplay like in old point and click games

Also there is variety of kinks. Some regular stuff and sub/dom scenes

Only problem is this game takes ages to get any updates

if your horney do NOT play this game you will have lost your erection long before you find anything saucy even in max skip ez mode tell me where to click until jk lol now you have to read the book instead

The art is top notch. The setting is obviously fascinating. The music is pleasant too. After watching the trailers I was mesmerized... unfortunately the gameplay is not really that interesting. For a game that has been out for so long now (and with an impressive backing) I expected a lot more

Story : 6/10
Originality : 8/10
Renders/Art : 7/10
Playability : 2.5/10
Performance : 7/10
Sound : 7/10
Bugs : Bug free.
Animations : 7/10 - live2d

Blue-Balls : 10000000/10 INSANE

>The game is 8 years old.
->0 sex scene with one of the main girl.

Don't waste your time on this crap. It takes literally hours to get a single sex scene.

Gud. The art in "Innocent Witches" is one of its strongest points. The character designs are detailed and vibrant, with each character having a distinct and memorable appearance. The backgrounds and environments are well-drawn, immersing players in the magical world. The animations, although limited, are smooth and add to the overall visual appeal.

Story : 5/10
Originality : 10/10
Renders/Art : 7.5/10 - reminds me of Akabur.
Sound : 8/10
Playability : 3.5/10
Performance : 8/10
Bugs : Bug free.
Animations : 8/10 - live2d
Voice Acting : none.
Grammar : none.
Amount of content : For a game that has been in the work for 8 years and some... it's barebones.

Gameplay is insanely boring and infuriating, just use the notepad cheat to unlock the gallery to view the scenes and then uninstall it.

Story is kinda ok but its very very drawn out, as for sex scenes they are very rare and barely ever with any a main girls, first one is some weird vampire that looks more like a harpy? its really not worth playing this one if you want an adult game.
I mean at one point you see a cat girl...you would think oh cute right....fuck no its more like a freaking granny?......and just one of the teachers dressing up....

Game is also a sandbox with quite a bit of grinds which is boring, quests are also tied together so you cant progress with the ones you want untill you progress all.

That also means its a mindless fuckfest where your forced to fuck everyone even if you hate them in one way or the other and that is a huge turn-off, theres no choices at all so cant say no to fucking an ugly granny which im sure isent in good taste for alot of players.

Never really understod why so many sandbox games force shit like LIs and fetishes onto the players, why not just add a simple no choice for sex scenes it dosent really matter storywise if you fuck em or not anyway which makes it even more idiotic that you cant say no.

Animations are really good and custom which makes it even more annoying game is a kinetic novel hidden behind a sandbox.

Music is pretty decent as well and suits the game.

So yeah game did have alot of good things going for it, but it just gets ruined by the lack of choices, forced LIs and fetishes and a very very drawn out game on top of it all, not a single sex scene with any of the 4 main girls you start with which is kinda crazy for a 3+ years old game.

I would have given this one star but added one for the animations since they are really nice.

Don't waste your time on this crap. It takes literally hours to get a single sex scene. It wouldn't be a problem if gameplay wise it wasn't the most boring point&click shit in existence, where you need to do the same thing over and over again just to get a simple nipple peek. The only good thing about this game is its art but you wouldn't be able to see most of it if you're not crazy

Besides the relatively slow updates this game is great. If you're looking for a parody game about the HP universe you aren't gonna find much better then this game. The characters are well made and really resemble the characters from the movies.

I'll chime in on all the other 1 star reviews as of late because I've always despised this game's treacherous grindfest and finally getting disappointed by intentionally mediocre h-scenes that range from ok but boring to straight up blue balling. Not fucking cool. Also, LET ME BANG SUSAN ALREADY

Begin with a great scene, but the follow-up content is just an endless tedious operations with too little reward, and this is kind of suffering. A great game for torturing.

By "great scene" I mean the old versoin, the new one is just an torment.

This is game is utterly frustrating, because the art is great and the game mechanics work very well (not the gameplay mechanics, I mean UI system etc.). There was clearly a lot of commendable effort put into this. But the writing, oh boy, the writing...

There are 2 main problems here:
1. there are walls of text that are entirely boring and non-sexy. At first I tried to read them but at one point I just started skipping through all of the monologues and Sally and Snape stuff, which was the worst.
2. my biggest complaint is the MC - I hardly ever encountered such a badly written MC in a VN. One moment he seems like he's interested in some sexy time, but in the next it seems as if he's allergic to sex/girls and avoids contact at all cost. And he complains about his situation all the time like a little b*tch. Oh yeah, being a headmaster, getting paid for doing minimal work and oogling sexy witches all day, what a terrible job, I feel so sorry for him.

Many complain about the slow grind, which is another problem, but to me it would be less of an issue if there would be teasing and stuff like that happening before the "real" action starts, but instead we get this dreadful writing (see point 1 and 2).

Ironically, there are some Larry references - the complete opposite of this game's MC, Laffer is an actual horndog with clear motivations...

If it wasn't for the good art, I would give 1 star.

The art is good, way above average and so are animations. Moreover, there were no technical issues on android version of the name. Overall it is a solid base for a game. However, the game lacks content hard. There are barely any erotic or sex scenes in this supposedly erotic game. I played for hours and only encountered one.

Damn I want to love this game. The art is amazing and I enjoy the story and setting. The only problem is the grind. You have to replay the same events until your eyes bleed and pray that you get a slightly longer version of it each time. The time between updates is a little crazy too IMO.

Pros:
+ Beautiful art
+ Fun setting
+ Nice world building

Cons:
- Mindboggling grind fest

Holy shit, what a mess.
I have been following the game for a while - hardly a surprise, considerting it is over six years old. How does the game development normally go? You get a chunk of the story, wait for the next update, and the story continues from the same point. Rewrites, if any, are minimal. Well, not here.
The game fucking starts from offering you to choose which version of the plot you want to play. Who does that? Why should I know the difference between the plots and why should I care? If you for some reason are unhappy with how the game turns out, rewrite a story and delete the old material. That's it.
The amount of content that's getting deleted and moved is shocking. I've taken a good year from the game, return to it - and I don't recognise the fucking project. Instead of moving forward, the story stands on the place, with chunks of a plot being forcefully put together. Full chapters are outright skipped - you finish the third chapter, and then you go right to the fifth, and a little warning window pops up, telling you that the forth chapter will be added later and explains what will happen there. Complete interesing minigames are for some reasons deleted. The sex scenes that the developer says actually will belong to much later in the game are put in. Then why the hell would you write them now in the first place? It is not a game - it is a six years old alpha, which showcases main mechanics and general idea of the plot, instead of giving a pleasurable gaming experience.
The rest of the game is questionable as well. Art is great - yet for some reason, not sexy at all. Characters look a bit wooden, sex scenes are very plastic like and not exciting. Characters are a bit tropey and flat with any characterisation ruined, again, by a completely broken structure.
If this game ever gets finished, I will play it again and my opinion will probabily change. But by now it is a mess that the devs should aim to salvage as quickly as possible. Take time off, write the fucking story as you should have done from the beginning, delete all the old plotlines and the game can become good, because the production power(i.e. sweet Patreon money) is obviously there.
Oh, almost forgot, there are like five different sex scenes - one for each character. Six years of development everybody. Instead you have two plotlines. Smh

In short: too many words and not enough action.
The art is beautiful and the story is kinda interesting at the start but it gets more and more bloated.
I wanna read the stories but the dialogs in this game are unnecessarily long. On top of that you have to click too much. You want money? Click click click and wait. Want skill points? Click click click. You wanna progress the story? Click again and again. All of these are absolutely unnecessary.

I expected more from the game. I really liked the style, the animation even has several interesting places in the plot, which unfortunately do not develop in any way along the way. There are to little sex scenes. And the grind of characteristics begins to bother after you reach 10-11 units

There's almost no actual "content" in this game. There are *two* sex scenes, a few blowjob scenes here and there, but mostly, for how long it has been in dev for, there's barely anything here. The game has really good art, but that's it. The writing is hit or miss, mostly miss, as I've said before the sex scenes are too few, and the MC is an unlikable bastard even for the trainer/corruption genre.

All in all, this is just sad.

Not bad but far from great.

it's odd, this game starts out like an adult game with a full on pseudo rape including penetration then proceeds to be literal hours of slow, blueball, grindy cock tease game.

It's mostly requiring you to click the same documents, sleep over and over or just get fed up and load your save file into an save editor to escape the mindless tedium that is "working" to get money to progress at hogworts, read book sleep, next day, read book sleep, next day read ...

also This game if FLOOODED with missed opportunities...

this is Hogwarts !! HOGWARTS where the fuck is all the sexy magic shenanigans, it isn't until one of the most latest chapters (around version 1) you finally get to mess with polyjuice potion, which is also scriped as part of the story so you can't really just use it to mess around make a likeness of your choice go masturbate or get the into trouble, also where are the spells? partial / object transformations, body swap, mindcontrol, remote viewing private moments, body attribute +- size spells, remote genitals / portal sex, invisibility cloak! etc or what about getting students involved in mythical creatures ? centaurs anyone? maybe even fluffy?

any combination of those things!! like fluffy portal sex Hermione and see how well she can concentrate knotted in the middle of class ? while its their game they can choose whatever they want, the point is it isn't heavy on magic sexy things for the world they chose to set the game in.

There is some kind of curse in place that was supposed to prevent intercourse, also was this funny promo image where they replaced the main guys cock with a picture of a sandwich, girl ready to blow him, I was so sure they were going to use this as a fun way to get around the curse, spell to make his cock appear as a sandwich to bypass the curse ? but nope that would require creativity! kept waiting it never happened! it was only ever a random way to censor an image for the site.

there is a part where Luna teases about tentacle raping your character but that also never happens (not for everyone buy why the fuck not?) no its just some throw away comment they added to try be "funny"

there is a mini game as part of the story where you can go into the girls dorms and steal their panties.. an unconnected part in then afternoon you can call Hermione in while having the phoenix burst into flames and Hermione bend over to inspect the ashes for upskirt panty flash, when I steel all her panties why does this not make this interaction a NSFW one?

one of the side halls is off limits, completely flooded with some kind of plant tentacle, later you get to send Hermione around the school, why the fuck couldn't you send her to this corridor to get sexed ?

anyway back to the review, there are entire mini-games that feel like they take way too long and the only thing they do is softcore, show a bit of nipple and time again this is mostly ever recycled stills, the nude version of static image when you are talking to a character.

It actually plays like it wants to be one of those 80s point and click sexy adventures that has very little real or hard sexual content but also has hardcore porn opening, so maybe this game is a bit confused about what it wants to be ?

Game has potential to be great, the setting, the artstyle is amazing there needs more action with unique supporting art and a lot less 'padding',
also the living self portrait is kind of annoying...

It has genuinely good parts too, like drinking by the fire at night with Snape (I dont know why I like that) and a bunch of well done sexual interaction scenes provided you don't mind slogging through the thick crusty pie to get to the actual meat of the game.

Sadcrab seem to be working on it and already have done a rework to make the game less grindy and to better organize the story, while it seems to be in development at time of writing, I keep checking back to this and updates come at a snales pace.

If you like Hogwarts give it a go, you might have a bit of fun?

At this point, it's a bit of a mess.

I last played the game back when it was just the old plot, and quite liked it then. I have to say, I feel the new plot is actually a step-down in many ways, particularly as the old plot had more impactful changes with the few personal decisions you could make.

Right now, the game is sort of stuck between the two stories, with remnants of the old still clearly visible and contrasting greatly with the new.

The lack of player-driven gameplay and interaction with the girls is my primary gripe with the game as it stands. I want to be able to choose to put Daphne in her place, lock her in the cuffs for once. I want to be able to manipulate Hermione into changing her behaviour. I want to make decisions based on my own preferences because with the game's current state, effectively all the player does is complete tasks, dragged along with no input. It's tiresome and eventually annoying.

Technically speaking, there are some issues. The game sometimes takes a long time to make transitions between scenes, leaving you waiting there awkwardly for many seconds before the fade-to-black happens. There are a lot of typos and misspellings scattered throughout. The chat log doesn't store a lot of things, such as progress on training skills, so if you want to track your progress you're not able to skip through and have to slowly click through the same repeating dialogue.

In the end though, the game features many mechanics, things to do, and beautiful art. It's not a bad game, but very limited for the amount it pushes onto you.