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

There is blatant misinformation being spread in the review section and I am here to warn people to save their bandwidth. The game has been in development for over 4 years with zero sexual content to show for it. I see massive false claims in the review section claiming this is because the author is trying to build "believable relationships". There is no believable relationships as the writing is extremely amateurish and laughable similar to that of porn parodies which this game is technically is. For 4 years to pass by with almost no sexual content is simply inexcusable. Gameplay consists of tiring grind and fetch quest, pixel hunting and the usual sandbox flair but the difference between this and the other sandbox games on this site is that finishing those quests leads to no scenes, just more dialogue diarrhea.

Just wanted to add a one-star review to balance out the inexplicably good average.

This so-called "game" consists of you clicking endlessly, skipping interminable text, and seemingly never showing you the goods.

The only good parts of Innocent Witches are the images you'll see teased on the front page. My recommendation is to google innocent witches and see the best part straight away without wasting your time.

Sorry... Im sure there are ppl that will like this type of games but im not one of them.
very small number of ero/porn scenes, too much complex for an ero game, very small number of girls to itteract with (4 + a teacher?), you are a headmaster but you are dumb af, cowardly af, boring af. Boring quests... you spend several hours chasing down stupid pieces of girls swimsuits and if you dont get them in time, you go again from the start...
Good overall art though... not that good character art (for my taste).

Its great that someone else took over the project and hes trying to make it more ... LESS boring but hes trying to expand the game, make more content while the looong, uninteresting parts are still there and you ahve to go through them to get to the "new" stuff.
(ye there is an option for skip stright to the new stuff, but if you do so, you have absolutely no idea whats going on in the game).

2stars for the art. the art deserves more stars but the game doest not.

One of the best artstyle, but also one of the worst writing.
The protag is the personification of bullied middle schooler fantasies.
Big tease, though i assume, it's because it's trying too hard to be legit and not a mere porn game.
Gameplay is fine, Music is good, Art is the best bad plot and unlikable MC.

IW is one of my favorite wegs right now, not only for the art which I think is one of - if not - the best out there, but the number 1 reason for me is the progression with all characters. What really kept me thinking about the game while I wasn't playing it is the sense of progression that you have with the main girls and the side characters as well. I felt like I really built a relationship with them, rather than just completing events X and Y to unlock a new lewd option. In most games I feel as if the lewd stuff is just there as an unlockable, at the end of a storyline or mission. With IW I felt that all the girls - including McGonagall - liked me more and more as I progressed in their stories, and that's why I believed when the girls were willing to let me peek at them while they changed or accepted my unofficial requests for haging out.

Crafting believable relationships and characters is by far the hardest part of any kind of narrative writing in my opinion, and I'm glad to acknowledge that (especially in chapter 5) Innocent Witches excels in doing just that. If you never played it or did it a while ago, I totally recommend you try it. My compliments to eveyone on the team putting in the effort to develop I nice, beautiful game that we all hope gets a ton of naughty stuff and keeps all the character and heart it already has!

10 out of 10 Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans for this game!

The best game of the future. Mark my words.
Art work-15/10
Story-before Joe Banks 2/10
Story-after Joe Banks-8/10
Development-10/10 new update each month
overall 10/10
The future of the game is really good and promising

Amazing artwork. And while the game might feel like it's a bit slow, specially when it comes to actual porn scenes, I believe Sad Crab team is building towards something excellent.
The writing in the game is really good as well, it's one of the very few games which I actually read dialogues (even though there is a lot of dialog in this one)
If there is one thing I personally don't like about it, it's the fact that it's a bit grindy at times, such as when interacting with a specific girl.

Artwork 10/10
Futureproof 10/10
Playability 8/10

hijacking my comment

This game always got my attention. Nice Universe to lewd, nice girls and superb art.

Since there is a lot going on in this thread, mostly negativity, i hesitated for quit some time.
But now i tried it ... and honestly its pretty good!

Like i said before, the Art is one of the best ive seen, cant complain at all. The girls are beautiful and the environment got an awesome atmosphere. Thats it, 5/5.

So for the game itself, its really a Game.
You have to do things, do quests and minigames to get something. you have to earn your rewards.
I kinda like this (as an long term mmo-player). That's what a lot of games here lack. Gaming-Content.
This here is one of the more game-Game you can get. You have to play it.
And i think this is what a lot of people strangely dont like.

As for the Lewd scenes, its getting hotter, i get more revealing clothes, sexy dreams, and a very well done BJ scene. Overall pretty good in my eyes. Can be more ofc, but we are promised the first sex scene with one of our girls in near future, so im waiting patiently.

This game is not for somebody who wants to have a quick fap (go to pornhub ffs), instead for people who wants a game to play with and be rewarded for it with awesome art.

Thanks for this one, keeping my eye on it!

First off let me just say that I have just read some reviews and yikes! Whose baby did the dev punt? It baffles me that too much plot and not enough sexy payoff is enough to make people ignore everything else and decide 1 (or even 0) stars is what this game should have. Harry Potter wasted that invisibility cloak in the movies by not hanging out in the girls dorms or showers, so how the fuck did the movies do so well if people think like this? Lol
Personally, I like bikinis and lingerie and getting girls to play dress up, so for me at least I feel like there's a lot of content in here.
"I'd give it 0 stars if I could" lmfao.

Art.
5/5
This is where the game shines brightest but also likely causes the most problems for development time. Environments are incredibly detailed and stuffed with easter eggs and humorous touches.
The characters are skillfully drawn with no noticeably janky anatomical issues beyond intentional stylistic choices. Initially, the body types of the girls on offer seem a bit samey with them mostly having that perfect hourglass shape and large breasts, with only the curvy Susan offering much alternative while somehow fitting a similar description but with added thickness. The introduction of a flatter more petite Ginny later into the story offers some more variety and, to me at least, seems to promise a more varied selection of body types with the introducion of the new prefects that the game hints at.

Story.
3/5
What a lot of other people say is true. This is a wordy game. It will hit you as hard as it can with exposition and then hit you again just to be sure. But that isn't necessarily a bad thing, in my opinion, it depends how deep you like to sink into your lore.
The game takes place in the Harry Potter universe, sure, but not as we know it. For one, Harry is a student at Hogwarts but nobody seems to give a fuck and he's barely mentioned by anyone. Secondly, things have forked somewhere in the past, Voldemort doesn't appear to be Voldemort at all and instead Tom Riddle was almost called in to be headmaster of Hogwarts.
There's a lot that this narrative throws around, and despite the protagonists initial openess about perverted goals the game quickly becomes less focused on immediate perversion and more on our hero finding a way to get back to the role he had planned for himself. Which I guess still involves eventual perversion, but it completely (for the most part) places his deviant intentions to the side for now and any ensuing lewdness can seem almost incidental to an extent. Depending on whether you believe what Redblack tries to convince himself sometimes.
Getting to the point, this means that this game places a deep narrative first and drops sexual content to the bottom of the list of what it's offering for at least the first few hours of gameplay. And even when it does start getting lewd, it may seem pretty tame depending on what your particular interests are. Before you start getting to any real content with the main girls the game become more of a paper doll experience with you playing dress up with the characters. You'll find the main story having you find ways to put the girls into various swimming costumes and lingerie as the main event as far as lewdness goes, with actual sexual content coming much later.
As of writing this I believe that Minerva sex was shoehorned into an early moment of the game while an oral scene with Ginny as a part of a side plot is found much later. Nothing else beyond some voyeurism and nudity has yet to be added as far as I can tell, the devs appear to be on a long haul tease.

Gameplay and mechanics.
3.5/5
I love that this game feels more like a point and click adventure than anything else. The exploration and puzzle solving using inventory items is fantastic and the game can be just as punishing as far as figuring out how to proceed in some places as point and click adventure games used to be. It feels like an actual game, and while I feel like that's a good thing, others looking for something more akin to a porn piñata are likely going to hate the experience and call it a grind. Only in a porn game can actual gameplay be considered a grind, huh? Well anyway, it is what it is, if you don't like having to work through the content then it isn't going to be for you. Especially since you're working to progress the plot and not specifically to reach any kind of lewd scenes.
The inclusion of quiz minigames and timed sliding puzzles is also something I enjoy that I also think others might hate since the game makes no secret about there being the coveted lewd content just beyond them. Again, I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment where others might just want the lewds handing to them. So that's something to keep in mind when deciding if this game is for you.
One thing I have had an issue with, and a game breaking one at that, is the time system. I like the time and day system and how the school has it's shedule. But I don't like that characters can try and visit at the same time and if you miss them then it just cancels the meeting completely. There are instances where a meeting is vital and if you somehow miss it then it halts progression. Susan bringing her first cake to you to try is the instance I personally found game breaking, her visit apparently coincided with another meeting I was having (I assume) and since I failed to meet with her and it was not a repeatable visit, I managed to lock myself out of her minigame and ultimately out of progression in the Helena Ravenclaw main quest. This feels like a pretty big oversight to me.
Another oversight is the save system. While adequate it's far from convenient. It has no naming system for saves that I can tell and you're forced to save on the same screen with only the time of day to indicate anything different from other saves in the thumbnail. Moving back to moments before you made any vital choices such as which girl to focus gaining trust with or to points before any game breaking mistakes (like the one I made) becomes very very difficult.

Music and sound.
4/5
I can't give this full marks entirely because I can't remember the music. If I'm playing a parody game where having any official music in the game could cause issues for the dev then I'm very likely to queue up the soundtrack from the original property in Spotify if I can, in this case (since books tend not to have soundtracks) I stick the Harry Potter movie soundtracks on to add to the mood while playing. I do remember playing for at least an hour the first time I fired the game up without turning the music off in favour of my own so I know it was at least adequate and not annoying.
The game does do very well with it's sound effects though. The sounds are suitable for the actions that are taking place, aren't annoying, and sometimes even add to what's happening in a noticeable way. I genuinely laughed out loud when a sound effect was used for humour in reference to a popular stealth game series.

With all those point in mind, I'd round that score to a 4 out of 5 for stars.
The quality of this game is high but the depth and difficulty in places can be a double edged sword and impatient people playing for the pornographic content aren't going to like it.

The last Update really turned the game around.
Still a lot of grinding, but the artwork is superb!
I can finally see where the story develops to, it is no longer totally strange/quirky or simply not logical. But still a long way to go!

This game might include the most grinding I've ever encountered in an H game. The art is the only redeeming quality and even that requires an enormous amount of patience to get any sort of reward with that beautiful art. Such a shame, the work required does not equal the time invested.

this game give me headache with his puzzle . I cant give more than one star to a game which clearly says to you : " give me 4 hours of ur time to just resolve a puzzle "" retry and retry and more save and save and save bc there are also many games with just luck " .... i dont know if they understand the meaning of " fun " and " game "

This is the best parodic sex game ever. absolutely flawless graphics and challenging gameplay. The few sexual scenes are made anyway with a logic. Only to improve some aspects of the fluidity of the game. But I'm sure they will be improved later.

graphics quality is good. UI is good but the experience sucks. it has a great concept but man, its so grindy and so unfulfilling. its not fun to play because you do all the leg work and then nothing. i would appreciate a good grind if there are worthwhile scenes to look out for but man, there are just nothing. all teases that if you compare it to other games, its very poor game design.

Extremely length narrative, very little erotic content, repetitive. People keep saying "potential" like that's a good thing at this point. "Potential" is an adjective that can be applied to every unfinished game on this forum. It is not exactly a "positive" thing any more than "uses a common game engine" is positive. And anyways, it's wasted breath. This game will never be finished because it's clear the authors are just trying to jerk off their English degree with a condom called Innocent Witches. I rate 1 Star because they've been given time to add content, but then they didn't. No thank you, you can bribe me with positive, enriching updates, not 30 pages of useless dialogue (which actually turns me off from wanting to learn about the characters more than wanting to immerse myself). A waste of time, if you want the CG, just rip, don't play for the erotic content.

This. Game. Is. Boring.

Bad fan fiction is bad. No matter how many words you put into it to explain.
The writing is childish. Nothing is thought out properly but still the writer is trying to explain everything.

The length of the dialogues is not the bad part, the bad part is there nothing interesting in them. It makes the game seem pretentious. Characters are written in a way that all the students and teachers are sex maniacs but trying to hide it which is never good in a corruption game.

Art is good but that's about it.

1 star because 0 stars is not a possible rating on f95.

If I had to describe this game in three words I would say it's a rambling pretentious teaser.

There's a real disorder called logorrhea, which is a compulsive excessive wordiness, or in other words inability to shut the fuck up. This game suffers from this disorder (and many others, but logorrhea is the most prominent one). There's so much text! Look, I'm not against reading; one of the best porn games in my opinion is a text-based one, without any CGs. Something something lust sovereignty, something something Mount Li. But this... this is some trash tier harry potter fanfic that is several megabytes long. And I'm not exaggerating here, the translation files are several megabytes in size. The main character is pathetic. I mean, he talks to his self-portrait, how more pathetic can you be? Really kills the mood.

The plot is nonsensical; you will need a walkthrough because it's just... not connected to anything you need to do. Not that there is a good reason to do anything, because there's hardly any lewd content, and I'll point out that this thread has been created in September 16, over three years ago. This isn't snail pace, this is tectonic plate pace, really. Or, rather, it would be better to say the game has a shit-ton of bells and whistles that are obviously taxing the development process, and therefore it has next to no lewds. Did you know renpy allows a splash-screen? Well, now you do! Who the frick would be pretentious enough to add a splash-screen to a porn VN? This dev, apparently. I could probably list a few other flaws and personal pet peeves like the UI, but these are minor compared to the problems with the core content.

But hey, there's some good, too! The backdrops are indeed god-tier quality, I'll give them that. These are the most detailed backdrops I've ever seen in an adult game. (Too bad I'm here for action be it CGs or writing, and that is sorely lacking.)

TL;DR: my advice, stay away from this game. And when your kids become of age, tell them to check out Innocent Witches. They will probably enjoy all the 10 sex scenes the game will have by then and pass on this advice to their kids. Then, the technological singularity will happen and this won't matter anymore.

P.S. You know, people have been wondering if my rating was overly harsh. Turns out, I wasn't harsh enough; this dev is threatening F95 users for "pirating" their precious game. https://f95zone.to/threads/innocent-witches-v0-5-1b-sad-crab.330/page-314#post-2895596
Stay away from this scum, people.

This game is very nice cashcow for devilopers. Whitout progress since years. you rarely find the game where the developers work so little. For those who support the game, my condolences. i supported the game a year ago, then i canceled the support due to lack of new content. Now I have now seen that there is still nothing new. a shame.

A lot of people give this game crap, and they're not invalid, the puzzles can be confusing, getting through the plot to see content can be a grind, it could use some stream lining.
But all that being said, I love the artwork and writing here, the art itself is simply the best on this entire forum, the sultry looks of Luna are so damn hot. I know this game is taking forever, but the art is probably why, as soon as theres actual sexual content in the coming months, this will be one of the best games on the site, I have faith, the current developer took a dead game and is breathing new life into it, pro bono, cut him some slack.

This game had more con's than pro's. After playing for near five hours, I'm still on swimming suits. The MC is trapped in a tower by a one female and according to the walkthrough you have three ways to get pass her and none of them work.
If you like to waste time this is the game for you. Thumb down!