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

This game deserves more than the 3 stars it is currently sitting at.

Many of the complaints the other reviews have brought up are legitimate. The grind is rough, the necessary actions to progress are vague and require a lot of trial and error, and the MC's refusal to practice hygiene is a little off-putting. A feature like renpy has where you can set the ctrl skip feature to only skip already seen dialogue would be quite helpful, and a way to skip the repetitive exposition scenes for every transition would vastly improve QOL.

That's the negatives out of the way. Everything else is absurdly good. The premise of the story is awesome and engaging. The characters are relatively well-written and I actually care about the LIs for more than just seeing some sex scenes. This is one of the rare (for me anyway) games that I haven't found myself wanting to skip unseen dialogue to just rush to the naughty scenes.

The character designs are pretty varied, the textures for the LIs are high resolution, and it's clear that effort was made to have the characters look realistically flawed with skin imperfections, wrinkles and/or cellulite where appropriate. As opposed to most games whose characters look like the result of airbrushed modeling photos with perfect skin.

I'd like to give this 4.5/5 stars due to the legitimate problems I listed, but since so many other reviewers docked the game pretty hard for those problems I'm comfortable giving this a 5 and letting the others balance it out.

The introduction hooked me, but once the sandbox starts is a horrible tedious asincronus game. It is not only that the game is grindy as hell, but the game allows you to watch interactions with other characters that references previous interactions that have not happened yet completely shatering any inmmersion. Additionally, I lossed some character and chores progression and I cannot still figure out why.


I really liked the visuals, they are different from the rest of the games out there. I also found interesting the game's premise and story. However, as others have already mentioned this game should be a VN not a horrible Sandbox where you are completely lost even when you look at the "walktrhough",


I whish the best to the developper, but they should try to convert it to a VN imho.

I'm only giving this game 3 stars for now and the why will be in the pros and cons as I think this game actually have the potential to be fully 5 stars.

Pros:
The plot is actually good, interactions between the characters in the game fits the story without either going over the top, being too slow paced or way too fast. I'm not even a fan of sandbox games which is usually a big negative but it's not an issue here and makes sense, although with room for much improvement.

The models and renders are absolutely top notch and is without questionthe biggest draw of this game and keeping it alive.

Cons: Sadly now for the cons and there are many.
Animations could definitely use some polish but overall not bad and is at least 1 scene with somewhat animated orgasm in it. Also definitely needs more angles.
The grind is too much, normally not an issue in games with getting a point score for the characters but too much in between and oh my fucking good the speed of the skip button is so insanely slow compared to other games especially when you go through the same events many many times.A few more hints of prerequirements would be nice instead of going through snailpace speed trying to figure out what they are other than the points system.
Maybe not a flaw per say but personally I'd like to see a bit more normal sized dick (bigger, like 20 cm or so but maybe something for future updates with his magic).
Non WIP gallary.
Game kinda runs like shit even on a good gaming pc.

But yeah overall just a game that has immense potential but in the current state is halfway over awfull to grind through.

A generous 3 Star Review!

The story, like the title assumes, is an MC who can teleport betwen reality and a fictional gaming world. He gets powers so his cum has magical and addicting abilities. Lucky for him, he can bring that power into the real world.

Time to corrupt the family, and build a harem!

I like the concept, the story, and even the ugly main character. It's nothing new, but it is defintetly not bad. Just "okay".

But the open world.... Oh, boy! The grind is real, slow, and painful! The player has to find specific events to grind relationship points, and all those scenes repeat themself.

The good, the text can be fast-forwared, but sadly too slow. Entire repeated events should be skipped completly. Add a button or hotkey for that. Unity is a great engine, and better for Open World Games instead of RenPy. But Unity has always slow transistions, which is bothering due to the repeated events.

The visuals are good! And the intention to submit the ugliness is well done. The MC is tiny, fat, has a bad hygiene, unpleasent body hair growth in zoomed scenes. ven facial skin imperfections can be seen. Seems like the artist has a knack for MILS. Even the younger sisters look like 40+ cougars with their heavy make-up. But every female looks like a doll with wax skin. Can look great in some scenes if well done, but in this game it's a bit over the top.

The Dev has to work on QoL! Skip repeated Events, and/or lower relationship point requirements. Speed up the transistions, speed up the fast-forwarding of the text.

I'll tell you what, I love very hot girls. It bothers me how long it is, a lot of text and little action, but when you see the results you say excellent, very good blowjobs, sex, etc. But for me the most annoying thing is the small penis, which is ugly. but I love the game I'll give it 7/10

Love a lot about this game but I absolutely hate the skipping speed. It would easily be a 5 star game for me if the skipping wasn't so slow.
I love most of the content and I hopefor more futa content.
The family is also insanely hot

It promises a lot and delivers nothing. There's a lot of potential potential for a very good female character, but the development wastes everything with an extremely excessive and exhausting Grind and in the end it's not worth it

Interesting concept but way too slow and way too much trial and error. If I have to watch the same scene 50 times, at least let me skip through it after the first time. Not worth the time I spent on it unfortunately.

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 (like any fat, lazy slob). 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.....