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

(reviewed based upon .5.1f)

Despite the rating, this game isn't really average. It has some high points and it has some very, very low points.

Probably the lowest point in the game is however long it takes you to get to chapter 4 or 5. That's the point where the main character stops being an absolute twat waffle and starts resembling an actual character. Before that, he's the most miserable piece of garbage I've ever had the misfortune to play as. Despite being given a dream job on a silver platter, he spends his days wallowing in self pity and alcohol. Then, around chapter 4 or 5, he finds his balls and decides he wants to fuck some girls.

Some of the parts of the game aren't understandable and the transitions are difficult to recognize. Some of the story elements are dream-like sequences. Or are they? I don't know. You see scenes where Snape absolutely destroys Marcus in a duel, but did it really happen? Who knows? No one talks about it. No one mentions it as a thing. The border of the screen had a strange look to it, so that must mean something, right?

Further complications come in the fact that your main character has three names. Marcus Redblack(ugh), Salazar something Riddle(commonly called Sally), and Lord Rattlesnake. People will call you Sally, people will call you Marcus, you'll call your portrait Sally. It's a mess.

Beyond this are gameplay elements picked up and dropped for no discernible reason. You have an assistant that shows up and helps you, but then she says she can't help you anymore and you don't see her anymore. Why? Who knows. Early on you're told that you can pick up blue glowy things that you can use to buy outfits for her. This exists for all of 5 seconds and then you never see it again. Even supposing you spend time doing the minigame to get more outfits for her(like I stupidly did), you entirely forget about her after the 4th chapter.

Also, Minerva is hot. She's drawn to be hot. Why the fuck isn't Marcus/Sally/Rattlesnake bending her over his desk at every opportunity? It's more than obvious she wants it and it's not like he has other takers. Marcus comes off as more of a ephebophile unable or unwilling to bed anyone over the age of 1x. Which is dumb, because he's also supposed to be a horn dog wanting female flesh.

Speaking of, Minerva is the only one you can have any sex with and you can only do so in the first half hour of gameplay."

So, starting at Chapter 4, everyone hates you(especially the player if they're anything like me). This isn't a bad thing. This is actually a really good thing from a story-telling perspective. This allows the ongoing corruption of the female characters to be more meaningful and shows a character arc that can absolutely make sense. I liked this part. It wasn't until I got to chapter 4 that I started liking the game.

Until Chapter 4, the game is a 1 star. The visuals are nice, the gameplay is non-existent, and none of the characters are likable, enjoyable, or entertaining. After Chapter 4, you start to see some minigames, and some life and character enter into the different people. It starts to be somewhat enjoyable, with some good looking girls.

Chapters 4-5 are 3.5 stars out of 5. Not the best, but a lot of grinding for not a lot of payoff. Scheduling conflicts are extremely frustrating, especially when you have to do certain things on certain days(I'm looking at you Susan and Luna!), but still want to progress the story on multiple characters. So, often, I spent a week doing nothing waiting for the opportunity to do what I wanted to do last week, but couldn't because Susan wanted to show up at the same time as Daphne.

This game has great art and a promising start for a good corruption game. Currently, I wouldn't suggest playing it for the lack luster rewards and huge grinds.

This game was very disappointing

I'll be starting with the positive.

No doubt that the premise or concept behind it is phenomenal. The Art style is pleasing especially the characters, each character aside from your own is astounding and I admire the work that went into the making of the settings, all the locations look up to par and are done quite decently. Moreover the UI is also done very well in my opinion. And oh baby the amount of Saves you get is Amazing and the game even saves flawlessly, I appreciate the time that went into coding the Save system.

Now the Negatives

The story seems alright but not fleshed out enough, which is ironic considering how much useless text there is, the sheer mountains of speech that get bombarded onto you makes this game unappealing, I wish I could skip most of it but there's even a bug that doesn't allow you to skip certain dialogue.

Some dialogue and the way some characters act or react are unrealistic and outright idiotic, like how Snape lays onto you a story on how your sister/cousin got destroyed by her Werewolf Husband, then when you meet him after a confrontation you're all buddy buddy now drinking together, it's as if nothing ever happened, like hmm idk getting absolutely Fried by Snape when you duke it out.

All the spelling errors in the dialogue can obviously be fixed at a later date, but some meetings conflict with each other, so in my First Play through I walk Hermoine back to her quarters and she seems to enjoy this, but in the morning she must've drank a mind erasing potion or something because she acts like nothing happens, the continuity in this game is little to non-existent this is also one of the only times I liked playing as Marcus although he does come off as pushy.

Now the character, this guy is the most unlikable pieces of scum to walk the Earth, he treats most Characters like horse dung for the introduction of the game and it makes him very slap-able with his personality, a rootin tootin banger of women, he screws his Sister/Cousin and traumatizes her, he pisses off almost everyone we meet but also doesn't seem to have the balls to chase off some students even after becoming temporary headmaster.

The game is very Linear in terms of character, imagine if you could choose whether or not you could be an asshole, or pick your own house and customize your Character, this will give the player an emotional attachment to the character but also more freedom.

I have no idea what they were thinking about when they made Sally, he is the fugliest Skank I've ever had to play as in a game, like God Damn Marcus has a really shitty look but also a super janky name. If you give me the freedom to customize my character there's no doubt I'm dropping $50 on the Patreon, I don't wanna be Marcus Redblack which btw shitty name, I wanna be DJ Moist or Alveron Slayer of Thots not some dookie Dickweed named Marcus.

Bugs are to expected especially in a playable BETA, so I'll let you off the hook for that, but there's one certain bug that always seems to crash the game and it really gets on my nerves, especially if I didn't save.

The amount of Adult content is especially Dissapointing considering the amount of dialogue in relation to Images. This game has blueballed me to such an extent that I got bored and just beat it to some random Video on PH. 5 Hours before I saw so much as a tiddy from someone who isn't a Grandma Chararcter, I'm sure people who have a thing for GILFS will enjoy the first 3 Hours before also joining the Blueball club. This game has a lot to say without saying anything at all.

The Story, my oh my, the story starts off decently but slowly decends into Chaos as we find out more about Sally, he is a huge douchebag and his Portrait is annoying as well. Needless to say the Story requires an overhaul and a lot of changes, I couldn't go 5 Minutes without questioning why my character or other characters are doing things that just don't make sense at all, I appreciate a Prefect showing me her swim suit but it also takes you out of the story and you start to realize how out of character it is for that person to do something of the sort. My Immersion as "Marcus" is broken and now the story just seems shallow or for show, I can see how much the devs care for the Story seeing as the Dialogue in this game exceeds 20000 characters in estimation, and it's admirable, what's also admirable is being able to beat my damn meat, the Gallery is very Minuscule compared to the text, you've built this massive wall around your content so that when players finally scale it to the promised lands we're granted with milk and honey. But there is little reward for what the Player experiences, for example the Swimsuit Meetings, I was expecting to be able to peek at this and see the different varieties on the different days judging from how the dialogue was progressing, but we get nothing dammit. The greatest feeling for a gamer is Pride and Accomplishment but when you offer no content at all for it, nothing but disappointment and expired seed contained in my Baby Sack.

This game needs more locations, Hogwarts is such a massive school and you show nothing for it, the locations could make for an interesting and more immersive experience.

Alrighty boys I hope you at least read my review and wipe your ass with it then not read it at all. I feel passionate about your project here and I'm excited to see where this heads. I wouldn't write this whole essay because I hate your game, no far from it, I love this game and I wish to see improvements come to it, I'm a fan of the art style and characters (besides Marcus of course) and I just hoped you guys can stretch this game to be in the Hall of Fame for Adult Games. Thank You for this experience and I hope things become better.

With Love
Jesus Christ

Pretty much the best adult game I've ever played. As a GAME it's not all that, but it's significantly better then anything else with naked ladies that I've ever played.
I guess the main fault of the game is the grind during the first third. Most of the puzzles are illogical, or at least require an amount of mind-reading that does not befit an adventure game. The very nature of the progression is problematic as there are either too many things to do, or you have no idea what to do, and there is a lot of just waiting around for the next oppurtunity to try things. About 50% of game time is spent just waiting to be ABLE to try somthing, when it doesn't work another 3-5 minutes is spent just making time pass. Some times you're left bewildered as to what to do, and you'll just keep trying things, waiting, trying things, grinding to get money, spening money, trying things, waiting..
But the artwork is fantastic, and some of the dialogue and characters are genuinely good, but there is WAY to much dialogue. The writing should be much tighter. It's as if the designer(s) cannot decide if this is interactive fiction or an adventure game, and you really shouldn't end up somewhere between those two, you end up sucking the fun out of both genres.
So why the excellent rating? Well, after having played MANY of the "games" on this site I can say that this is by FAR the best. It's the most professional, polished and well produced game here. It's even the best designed game I've come across so far.. And that says something!

Devs do not care about their customers at all. Milking since 2016, not a single worthy thing made. All started from "Witch Trainer" mod. But in time, they understood that this can bring some money, and who can blame them. But the way they started doing it, how do I explain it...
Consider this: they once had a forum of their own. It was removed due to the amount of people critysising their way of development. They banned users for ANY different point of view, and in the end we have this

Actually love the pace of the game. Following the story and the puzzles the teasing just keeps increasing. It is still lacking in content, and I'm looking forward to what comes after getting down with each girl more than getting down with them. Not sure what they have in store for the story, but the potential is huge.

I'm sorry, but this game is just getting worse. I used to like it actually, the idea and the story was fun and having multiple characters to interact with, having a detail hogwarts and all, they were all good things, and i was expecting for those things to expend, maybe adding more characters, more areas and places and such, but with every update, my hopes kept sinking. First of all, there is too many unnecessary dialogues, plus they are extremely long, this is not some AAA game where the dialogues or the choices matters much, so there is no need for such intensive dialogue, plus the devs could use the effort they've put into the dialogues to actually expanding the areas, expanding hogwarts, adding more characters,. Secondly, the actions, the animations, they take about 3 to 5 minutes, where you don't get to do anything but just to watch, and you can't even skip them, given the fact that you have to repeat some of them multiple times, the game turns into a bother rather than something fun, if the devs are with us on this forum, my advice, cut down A LOT of the dialogues, expand the world, the characters, and add the ability to fast forward or skip all together when it comes to watching the animations or make them fun, like make them interactive, so at least people can do something fun and interesting, rather than watching a boring animation of Luna masturbating for almost 5 minutes

Again, at first i liked the game, it was interesting, at least the plot felt like it was going to go somewhere fun and that the world would expand with new actions, new areas, new characters, but instead it just turned into a game where you have to suffer through bunch of unnecessarily long dialogues and where you have to do lots of grinding to get nothing out of it, i mean, it a sex game guys, yes the teasing part was fun for a while, but it is getting boring now, seriously, there was so much potential to this game and i feel like the devs just killed it, please try to improve it before you sink it to the bottom like this

The art is stunning, but it takes too much time to get scenes. And the scenes that are in the game aren't amazing, which is a shame, because the artstyle has a lot of potential.

It's madness that such a game has been in development for about 3+ years, and there's still no real progress since version 1.

An awesome visual novel taking place in Harry Potter's universe. Well documented, plenty of things to do, served by wonderfull arts. Came for the arts, found a solid story which works pretty well thanks to the lore and credible characters development.

Grindy sometimes but seems to be reduced as the games move on as the means to earn money and up your stats slowly starts to gets numerous. Appreciated to be given the possibility to win a certain minigame after many legit tries. Same goes with the possibility to select the chapter you want to begin.

In one word : great visual novel, avoid it if you're just looking for a porn game.

Good job dev, and thanks !

Fantastic art, but the game makes incredibly slow progress. It's been around four years and there's only one sex scene, and it's with a side character no one really cares about very early in the game. There are plenty of issues with the gameplay, the writing is terrible, it's extremely grindy, and updates regularly reset your progress. The art is so far the only redeeming quality, and it is unlikely that future updates will fix that.

Pros: Great art, desing of characters and scenes.
Cons (Nothing more to add to the other rates): grindy, bored, and a lack of sex scenes (if i remember it has 4 in 5 chapters and none of it is actual sex), there are a LOT of bugs, and it needs to be optimized.

It feels like there is a clear intention to lengthen the development of this unnecessarily to take advantage of donors, and it shows in the fact that in YEARS of updates there is nothing that fans have asked for why? who knows. I hope i'm wrong but dude, come on!.
So to end this, sorry for my english (i can't even speak my native language correctly) and i hope the devs put some passion on this, it has a great potential

This is a really great game. Great art/visuals, good soundtrack, decent UI, 10/10 scenes, character design, and writing. It is slow to start but you have the option of skipping ahead (although i recommend playing through the full thing). One issue I had with it is how slowly you get money (especially in part 1). This can be "solved" with a save editor, but I wish the devs had a legit way to afford the stuff in the catalogue without cheating or spending a year grinding (maybe some form of gambling, like the bet with snape but always available?). Overall highly recommend if you're into corruption.

Let's start with the positive things. This game is gorgeous, easily one of the best looking games I've played in a very long time. The drawings, even the little surprises that pop up in the background, it is excellent.

But that is about it. The game is slow and grindy, as many users have pointed out, but the thing that strikes me the most is how asinine so much of the dialogue is. It is long, repetitive, often going in a direction that just makes me want to log out of the game and never come back. The thing that bothers me the most is how the game tries to give you an illusion of choice, while in reality it is just another way to embarras your character. This game is a visual novel, in which you follow a strictly laid out path, the few choices you get not having any impact on the game whatsoever. I do not expect much complexity from an erotic game, but at least I want to feel like my impact reaches beyond simply clicking as fast as I can through dialogue.

Such a wasted opportunity and such a waste of a wonderful aesthetic.

Art is good, devs - not really.
The game is years in development. Old devs were milking their patreons.

New devs took over, promised monthly updates. Then switched to bi-monthly. Now switched to an update every 3 months. Trend is visible, using example of previous devs.
What's important - each update includes 1 scene - for a moment we've got spanking, watching how a heroine masturbating, etc.
The only sex scene was added years ago.

If you want walls and walls of text of bad fanfic quality and barely any sex - you can try it. Otherwise - move along.

Not enough content yet, development speed is glacial. The patrons should really find more worthy projects to shower with cash.

The devs keep finding excuses for the lenghty development cycles, discussion with the fans/patrons is reduced to just one man answering complaints one at a time. There is no dev diary, no transparency, no reliability, meanwhile they rake in almost 13k dollars every month at the time of writing. Things will only change once the patrons have had enough of being treated like shit.

This is one of those rare games where the history actually affects the gameplay. The premise is interesting, the adaptation makes sense and the art is superb, yet it has most of the annoying things in these kind of games: is slow and grindy. The suggestion system only helps to get yourself familiarized with the UI and basic element of the game, after which you are alone. The stat system shows promise, and isn't the grind most are.

The grind is actually advancing the story. It makes sense in the context of the story the author wants to write, and frankly, I can't suggest a way to improve it, since it is adequate. That only makes it a shame. Sex scenes are, as of version 0.5.1f, mostly non-existent, which, again if you read the story, makes sense.

I presume that the author wanted actually a VN instead of a freeroaming rpg, but that wouldn't allow certain story techniques to shine.

The other annoyance is the fact that somehow, saves aren't backwards compatible. I suggest the creator to establish a save structure and stick to it or at least make the migration seamless. Timeloop hunter creator does something similar with story rich elements (and the game punishes you for not paying attention and read carefully with grind).

I will be short. The game has amazing drawing and interesting characters, BUT it takes way to long to get the erotic scenes (or porn scenes). I have played for a few hours and I only saw some swimsuits and topless pics.
And most of the time i was solving puzzles.
So if you´re searching for puzzles this is your game.
It´s way too grindy and not rewarding.

Another in a long line of games around here with amazing art that gets buried behind questionable to bad game play. At one point I was giving games that would be better off as comics 3 stars for such good art but realistically they're just getting so common I have to start going with 2 stars. It's an adult game that isn't fun to play. I'd say it needed a walkthrough but even when it had one the effort to get a few good images was too much given how many good games are available now. The art alone would be 4 or 5 stars but when rolled into game play that would be better served as an adult comic, I've got to go with 2 stars at best.

I can't enjoy this game much, the game confusing always get stuck even with guide idk it's bugs or not
It's frustrated taking heavy amount of time to seek another task
I only get one scene with minerva by consuming so much time almost 5 hours i won't play it again i swear
I'm still human need to maintain quality of sleep

What happened? I check back after 4 years and the game has made basically no progress, theres 2 new sex scenes and like 18 hours of filler crap that doesnt need to be there! Such a let down.

I can't make my way through it. I legitimately can't. To start with, why did you basically implement two different story versions into one game? thats confusing as hell. Just have two seperate versions of the game and call the new one Remake. The fact that theres a different chapter option each time you start the game anew tells you all you need to know. There's not just too much filler, theres nothing but!

Such a let down. Character models are beautiful as always, but its not like you see anything of them beyond the normal standing still. Daphne sex scene is dry and reptative, she just lightly moves up and down, its just a switch from image 1 to 2 and back again. If you cant animate, then put the effort into making totally different images for the scene. You clearly have the time, judging by the amount of pointless extra stuff.

Its just a slog for days to get to two mid sex scenes and a handjob. Come on, i had really high hopes for this. Just play Witch Trainer Silver and use this one for the nude gallery, thats about all thats worth doing here.

Massively shat the bed. It is fixable, just remove a bunch of the tangent storylines that take forever and basically dont further the main story or characters, then take some time to put in some real sex content, because there is about 1% of actual sex content, 10% the same topless render youve seen before, and 89% unecessary fat to trim.

Just start again, to be honest. Brand new version of the game, only take the stuff you actually need from the original and build on that. Only way to fix it, honestly.

[Review as of Innocent_Witches-0.5.1B-pc]

Commendations to the 2D artist, visuals are very pretty; up there with my favorite games [Akurbar, etc]. The progression through the story dialogue to corrupting the girls feels rather realistic and rewarding, even if it's far, far more 'grindy' than I'm used to.

My primary concern, and critical feedback I can offer that's holding back a higher score, is this game's English. Please, please, please, have someone fluent in English with a strong grasp of spelling & grammar review the code. I stopped writing up suggestions after my 55th note, only a few hours into the game.

A lesser thought, yet an impression non-the-less that may help improve the story; was the thought that the main character was written to be rather wishy-washy towards corrupting the girls. Was this intended?

Keep up the good work. Hope this project makes it to completion.