Unity - Isekai Bastard [v0.1.3b] [Bastard-Sama]

It's the slowest grindest game I have played in this forum, 40 days into the game almost 2 hours of playing nothing interesting happened game plays like a yapping simulator. horrible sandbox when this should clearly be a visual novel instead, keep doing the events but nearly any progress is made.

Version Played: v0.1.1d
Time Played: 8+ hours, probably did not see all the content since the game is piss poor about letting you know that
Gallery Mode: Planned, but not currently implemented
Walkthrough: Mild hints that aren't all that helpful

Argh. This might be most frustrating game I've played on here. While the setup, story and characters are all well done, the slow moving text and scene grinding are some of the worst I've experienced.
Setting-wise you're a fat loser with a victim complex who finds a way to get holodecked into a fantasy world. While you retain your unpleasant looks, you become an incubus and get women to lust for you, becoming your thralls. These powers extend to the real world as well.

Positives
+ Setting change between the real world and fantasy world is genuinely awesome. I really loved seeing what was going on in the fantasy world then having that balanced against the mundane real world.
+ YMMV, but I generally enjoy the look of the LIs. Options are currently mainly curvy, but a couple more petite ones as well. (Youngest sister's wrinkles make her look the oldest though.)
+ Still very early on, but there are fantasy creatures as well like gnomes and a deer-girl thing and it's all pretty hot
+ Sharing!!!!!

Neutral
= The whole incel-y thing is very take it or leave it as is the lack of the dude's hygiene that gets constantly called out. It's honestly gross, but it might be some people's kink, so you do you.

To talk a bit more to this, MC is a fat, lazy, slob of his own volition. He seems to think that no one likes him, but in just about every instance, his family seems to genuinely care about him and his well-being, wanting what's best for him -- even before he gets his incubus powers. I'm not entirely convinced that this isn't actually subtle commentary on the incel mindset itself.

Negatives
- Grindy.as.hell.
- Slow-moving text making the grind even worse
- No text rollback
- Poor in-game hint system and method of knowing what content you've seen
- Content given buttons, but when clicked says "Not implemented yet." Then just don't put it in, please.
- Not a lot of sexual content especially weighed against the grind to see it.
- Far more content in the "real world" than the fantasy one at the moment

So, the bad news is pretty damned bad, BUT the upshot is that all of this is fixable.
The lack of content is forgivable since that will take care of itself with updates, but the other issues are glaring and greatly take away the enjoyment from playing the game.
I genuinely like so much about this game and the fantasy stuff is very engaging and enjoyable, but this game is extremely hard to recommend at the moment.
I will happily update with a higher score in the future if these issues are addressed.

Note to devs: I think there is really something special here, but please respect your players' time more! Reduce the grind. Make text scroll and be skipped more quickly. Put in clear goals for scenes and how they can be reached. Don't tease with prompts for content that isn't implemented yet.

Amazing game, love the story so far and all the kink. Just some tweak to the grind system and having a walkthoruhg and this will be a masterpiece. The artwork is just on point. I hope we get to see more of the trap devil in the future and more corruption of the family

Got my attention as I liked the models, so decided to give it a go.
The first hour or so has quite some content to play, then becomes a nightmare.
The dev say will change the system, well my ass, when I personally get into a game I like I tend to finish it.
After playing many grindy games that at least reward you, this one is madness!
One has no tell wtf event gives affection points, what doesn't, what to do or where to go next, while bumping into 'in progress pop up' bullshit too often.
I am really pissed because in trying to see all content I came back every other day hoping to finish it, but you find yourself spending 7 8 hours forced to fucking rewatch events 40.50 times, as LEFT CTRL is your only skip option available and it sucks badly.
Lastly, the mc is ugly af, makes me puke with his yellow teeth, which yeah show he's a big loser, but also is a next level pervert smelling and licking sweat, which for fuck sake, I am down to most kinks, but this one is just awful.
I regret and maybe I'll save time to people who care about not wasting it!

ungodly grind with no real directives. If you are playing it right now you are literally wasting your life, I wouldn't play it again even if you pay me. First of all, all events are repetitive without the ability to skip, secondly, you literally could not increase relationship points from any event and one event would need 30 points so you are literally stuck.

Extremely tedious game play with long, pointless transition animations. Could be good but currently such a grind.

Animations and renders are interesting, but the characters make odd choices with practically now story-backing. The butterball protagonist is already convincing a housemate to get intimate despite having no powers of note and no appeal.

Insane potential, good models, good plot and world building, but also, insane grind, it sucks not being able to skip scenes that don't have anything new and don't progress the relationships.

I give a 8/10, 9/10 if the animations were better, just wanna add that I also hate the forced cuck stuff.

Firstly, sorry for my English, it's bad and I'm using Google Translate.
About the game, it's been a long time since I spent so many hours on something like this. The idea is very different from what I'm used to seeing here, the renderings are good, the text is good (I don't speak it very well, but I have a good idea of writing in English), the characters' personality is very particular and given the MC's deliberately ugly appearance, we even feel empathy for the cause, as if it were ""revenge of the ugly" xD
The bad part, which is why it doesn't get 5 stars, is because this sandbox style is quite boring and tiring, the RNG of the events in the real world is somewhat boring. I read in the game's FAQ that the author intends to change the style of the game from season 2 onwards, which will be very assertive. But so far, great work. The economy here in Brazil isn't the best and I'll be in debt for financial support, but anyone who likes the game and can help will be a great incentive for the little pervert who wrote this!!
It was my first review, I'm a little lazy to write and the language barrier prevents me from expressing myself easily, but I think this project has a future and I decided to write what I thought about it.
Hugs!!!

Love the visuals, love the plot, love the whole RPG aesthetic.
Hate the forced sharing, hate the tedious and slow mechanics of the game (takes forever to skip after u have read stuff.... forced cutscenes etc..)
could have been great, but in my opinion is below mediocre.

The visuals are GREAT, kudos!
The story, is enticing!
The sharing..... Not my cup of joe...

Unique very cool game loved it overall. Very perverted and odd MC, wish there was some more hardcore content, but, the game is clearly a start not a finished game.

Go into this game knowing it's not completed and is rough around the edges while being an excellent start OR I recommend waiting if that's not your speed, you'll be disappointed if you expect completion to a happy ending lol.

Very much a slow burn game.

1. Love the corruption mechanic, even if it's very slow burn. I'm sure this will improve.
2. Very immersive.
3. Enjoyed the Isekai aspect and feel it captured that pretty well.

Well done Bastard Sama, looking forward to the progression of your work!

So much grind for even basic things, transitions are sooo long that it's not playable at the moment. Game design is bad. The only good thing are the renders. Needs lots of polishing in order to solve these problems.

dont even bother playing this game in its current state. it takes about 3-4 hours to get a below average sex scene(a shitty footjob with laura, spread the legs of laura when she is working out....) with a family member. Spare yourself the torture. Wait until he addresses the terrible game design. All that grinding for nothing lmao. Also the game doesnt tell you how to advance with characters, you gotta figure it out yourself. Such a waste of my time.....

massive grind for pretty much no payoff. description says he'll be a villain but actually doesn't follow through at all. for someone who's sex crazed, he doesn't actually take the opportunity if he can. he refuses to fully corrupt his family even though he can and that's the end goal. very stupid

I started to play before you made the changes to skip time faster and after that fix is way better, the only problem we still have is the grinding, but the art and history make it one of the best nsfw games I have ever played and the potential this game has is amazing, I have also seen how fast you update the game listening to your audience, excellent work

Review Update:
Fairly quick update rate so props for that, the amount of content is great (for the time between updates) but is very slow paced in terms of both progression and actual play-through.
The grind is just too much rn, either make less of it or make the actual game move faster.
Everything else is pretty dope,kudos.

Great game, good graphics, interesting and original story.

Honestly was was pleasantly surprised by quality of game, for which I was skeptical at first. Nice take on mc that is not a jock with baseball bat between his legs, but is rather a growing underdog. Good selection of LIs

A bit on the slow side but dev said that he is already working on it.
Some quality of life fixes are needed like gallery and options to skip through seen, and also more save slots, but, are also promised by dev, so I am eagerly awaiting next update.

My review of Isekai Bastard as of v0.1.1c

I have to say that I was quite pleasantly enthralled when playing through the initial release of Isekai Bastard. I am a fan of playing ugly bastard characters as the MC, and more importantly, the Netorase (NTS) elements of the game I found were executed quite well.

On that note, I am outlining some more of my thoughts below (pros vs cons).

Positive selling points:

+ The overarching narrative/plot and world-building elements were quite intriguing. The whole Isekai format and being thrust into a video game environment and observing the MC's adventures in the world of Necronomica were quite exciting to see.

+ Colourful/Delightfully eccentric cast of characters. Incidentally, I found the different FMC interactions quite charming to observe from a character relationship-building perspective. I especially liked learning more about Shezebel's backstory (i.e., the pinkish-skinned succubi-looking demon girl). I believe she will be a very staunch ally of the MC for future adventures.

+ The choice of music and ambient soundtracks used at times were also nice to listen to and fit the setting of the environments very well.

+ Renders/Models were overall decent. Some characters could use a bit of polish here and there, but overall I love their design (especially Laura) being one of my favourites. I think her model is quite something else (body proportion-wise)

Areas for improvement:

(-) There is a need to fully implement/enhance some quality of life features in the game. E.g., fast dialogue skip option, message backlog function so we can have a log of past messages to read through if we skip too fast and miss what was said in conversations, adding more save game slots, etc. The dev is actively spotting these errors and working to resolve them, so I have confidence that these quality-of-life improvements will be implemented in future updates.

(-) Repetitive/Grindy gameplay at times. Sometimes, it can be a bit of a grind-fest needed to unlock certain special events with some female characters in-game. As such, perhaps the requirements to meet certain FMC events can be lowered and/or offered in some way where players do not have to go through a repetitive grind to attain such scenes.

(-) Opportunity to build upon more linear-styled gameplay. For me personally, I do not mind playing through sandbox-styled AVNs, but if there is a possibility for more linear-themed narratives, then I would prefer the latter more so than the former on account of ease of gameplay value.

Final thoughts:

In summation, I believe that for an initial release, Isekai Bastard hits a lot of positive marks for me. E.g., ugly bastard-themed MC/male characters, hot women, harem-themed gameplay, Isekai world-building, etc. I believe that the dev should focus their efforts on fixing some of the pre-existing bugs and improving upon some of the quality-of-life elements of the game to ensure smooth gameplay moving forward. Perhaps even a switch to the 'Ren'PY game engine might help enhance a lot of the quality of life aspects of Isekai Bastard from a gameplay perspective.

Albeit, I am confident that this game has a promising future ahead of it. Bastard-Sama has my full support, and apart from the occasional bugs/quality of life features/enhancements, the product so far is quite favourable in my eyes.

Greatly looking forward to future dev updates, and wish the best of luck to you @Bastard-Sama!

TLDR: Veryyyyyyyyyyyyy Sloooowwwwwwwww...

I've been clicking through the dialog for probably 1,5 hours now. I can't get my time back but I can save yours. There was only one short x rated scene, that isn't really great either. The more I played the more I came to despise this game. It's painfully slow. Every scene has a fade in and fade out which takes 2 seconds. You can't click through the dialog because it's programmed not to allow that.

When I reached free roam I accidentally clicked on the same dialog I'd been through before. I CLOSED THE GAME. I refuse to click through a 2 minute dialog AGAIN.

It's just BAD. The renders are good, but the game is BAD.

game has a insanely high quality from my standpoint. Unique characters and actual personalities in them, a interesting story i want to know more of, and a fun protagonist.

It sure does have its bugs and technical issues as of writing (version 1.1c), like the slow pace, the grind, not a lot of saves, repeating scenes not skippable and the transitions being slow when you seen them a lot of times, BUT unlike a heap of other devs this one acknowledges it, prioritizes the work on these flaws and agrees with bug reports/wishes from the community.

Im in for the long stretch on this one, def worth looking for the future of this one.

Bastard-Sama, keep up the good work my man, this is a gem in the rough from my (depraved) standpoint

Content of the Game seems excellent with high quality renders and mulitple angles even to just general conversations. From what i have played so far i would be giving it 5 stars if it wasnt for the time it take for transitions and conversations you have already seen and taking about 10 minutes to get through them again for no benefit. Game really needs a fast forward or skip button.