December In View
And with that, the 2025 season of AVNs comes to an end. When I first set out doing this at the start of last year, it was a way for me to combat my ever-growing “to play” list. While I have actually enjoyed playing like this, it has introduced me to some games I wouldn’t even have noticed. December and a couple of other months have told me I really need to change, or rather, tweak the way I do things.
December, for example, given the Holidays, was actually quite the busy month and with my household suffering from illness for a period of two weeks, the folder was actually left with 11 games in it, with 5 more in the download folder awaiting extraction.
Going forward I’ve decided to keep a backup folder, for those months that are a little quieter – obviously I cant keep adding to it forever, so it will only have a set number of games in it and older ones will be lost to newer ones, but I am hoping a few less games get lost this way – it’ll also handle the problem I faced when big updates drop on the last day of the month.
Anyway, as I said, due to varying factors, December wasn’t as busy as other months, still a bit of games, but no where near what we are used too. But let's see what f95 brought us to end the year.
New Games
Our Quiet Temptation – Right, so it seems I am becoming quite fond of these AI games, as it doesn’t seem like a month goes by without me picking one up. This one was an absolute solid start, though, based on that cliffhanger and what we got, we could make a few educated guesses. For now, though, we got a nice introduction to our characters, A nice flirtatious daring girl, a big dicked male who gets little “alpha”, A MILF Neighbour. The stage is set. The art here is great, I’d say it's been touched up in Photoshop, as everything seems on point, there are always 5 fingers, hairstyles remain constant, clothing does too. I’m interested to see where this one goes.
Cursed Pleasure – So this isn’t bad, but it is not really good either. I’m going to give our dev the benefit of the doubt here, because the Dev is a beginner. But the plot is one of them wank fest games, our MC is an absolute shithead, who has decided to take his whole family as his own. To be fair, the whole family seems to be shitheads, so it’s one of them. The renders aren’t exactly earth shattering, but they are the right side of average and the AI animation all though obvious, is not as obvious as some are these games. I can already tell this one's not for me. I may pop back in later, just to see the lewds, but for now, it's a pass
Milfheim: The Twisted – Well, this was a nice, pretty debut. We don’t get a lot, but we get enough. An orphan of an MC returns to his hometown during a break from Uni and begins a journey to discover some truths about not only him it seems, but others around him. It's not an entirely new concept, but it is not one that is done a lot either. I won't lie, it seems to be a slow start, and there were a few times I was zoned out of the game, not sure if that was just my mood or the flow of the game itself. I’ll pop back into this if I have the time, but until it gets a few updates behind it, I don’t think it's one I will rush to.
Cases – Well if you ever watched that TV show Suits you know this game already – Honestly practically the same as the first episode from the law school drop out failing a drug drop in a hotel, hiding in an interview, impressing the boss with his memory, etc etc – this will obviously and hopefully deviate a bit from suits, it has too given its an AVN, but for now its not very original – I’ll give it the time of the day, as I actually enjoy the source material, but I wouldn’t be shocked if I dropped this fast.
Irys – This was one of those debuts that is hard to gauge. Not coming out bad or good, despite the renders feeling a bit flat, I would say some are on the right side of average. The story, however, doesn’t seem original… we seem to be walking the “shady company” side of things – it was relatively short and had to “force” a lewd. This might go somewhere, but I am undecided on it myself
Secrets Between Lines – So this is from the dev that brought us Tangled bonds – a game I didn’t rate to highly back in February. This one doesn’t seem bad, but I can't tell you if it seems good either. While there is a bit in this one chapter release, we are only getting the bare bones and hints of a story, the renders do seem okay, though, and the story does seem interesting enough. For now, I will stick with it, but I am not expecting greatness.
Operation Rio: Blood Trails – I honestly don’t know what to say about this game. I am struggling to even justify its existence. It is a sequel to a game I have not played, Life in Rio. Checking that games thread, it doesn’t even have the completed status, so why this has dropped is beyond me – anyway, this is nothing special. It might be, but it's hard to tell with the content we got, while not exactly a five-minute wonder. You could knock this one out in about 20 minutes. The writing is okay, considering English is not our devs' first language, the renders are all right, our MC suffers from the curse of being too busty, so her clothes don’t hang right. But its got those annoying AI animations devs are becoming such a fan of using. I’ll be passing on this game until I at least play Life in Rio I think
Finding Mia – Well, I would say on the surface, this seems like your typical Family Harem game. You have the Mom, one sister who seems shy and overly close to you and the other sister who looks like she hates you – I guess it's a formula that has been proven to work… There is a bit of mystery element added here and maybe some supernatural thing, but the release didn’t give too much away… Its not a bad release by any stretch, but its not good either… somewhere in the middle, some of the renders need work, and the script could really do with a proof reader. This one could go either way.
Updates
Price of Desire – So this was actually one I had forgotten about, not in terms of the narrative… that soon came back to me, I just had forgotten I had played it. The fact that it did come back to me at least tells me its just I’m playing too many games and not that it didn’t leave a lasting impression. This was a slightly weird update, though, in terms of story, it brought us to what could be considered a nice turning point, though it is given as a choice, so I am interested to see how that plays out. Considering I have said before that there are a lot of the genre of NTR/NTS games out there I like how this one is a little different. Time will tell if this capitalises.
Laylas Shattered Hope – Okay, so the split in story here has result in two very distinctive storylines, however the dev time needed to manage two very distinctive narratives is obviously showing. While, yes, overall the content remains constant with what we have got before, the two paths are considerably shorter than what we have gotten before. One path also lacked some lewds, while the other was a bit more open with them. I think this game is now at a turning point, and I am interested to see if both of our paths get the attention they deserve or if one or the other is the way to go. Time will tell on this one.
Wedding Roaming – Well, I think we are coming to an end on this one. Our MC sounds like he is arriving next update. Luckily, the narrative has given us a nice way to keep the couple apart (if needed) and also our bull's phone has been damaged, so we can't look at that anymore (we do get an option as players to look at his new one), but going into the next update, our MC is really blind. The setup is quite good here, and given our devs' last game, I think the landing will be stuck. Time will tell though.
Fiction Paradox – So this was a weird one that showed up way back in May, and I couldn’t tell you anything about it then, now? Well it seems that we are going for a dystopian future with one man trying to save the world, or at least himself. I still cant work out from that as to if it will be good or not, but I feel more confident going on with this when I first played that choose your preferences demo. I’ll pick this up again.
Blairewood – So I won't hold up much hope for this one at all. Seems this one has been in development hell for sometime and we didn’t even get all of what the dev wanted to do, leaving us yearning for another part to come in Late Dec/Early Jan – I mean, from Oct 2021 to Dec 2025 to remake half a prologue, I just can't see this one going anywhere. I can't even be sure if time will tell on this, as that prologue didn’t tell us anything, hopefully part B will, but for now, all I can say is it's a very pretty game that has a history that doesn’t give me hope we will get regular updates at all
Welcome to Port Heaven – This felt like a real step backwards compared to what we got in July – the art is no longer consistent, I noticed the stripper's hair, changing shades and styles and a female character's underwear changing throughout scenes, there was also a problem with shading. Added to the fact that these updates are just too short for the period we wait (granted, I am only playing one route, but still), there are better AI games than this out there, and this one really is struggling to keep up now.
The Big Step – I think its actually time to drop this one now, I wont lie its been a fun little jaunt, but its not exactly going anywhere. It just seems to be more of how we can get our FMC into more pervy situations rather than progression. I still think there might be something here… I just want it to move forward rather than be in this horny, stalled state it seems to be in
Hot Prospect – This was terrible, and given the recent information in the Dev Log, it’s not going to get any better at all. First things first, it looks terrible. The dev has chosen some quite average models, which, when rendered in the quality, they are just do not look good at all. There are times they are very flat, other times they look incredibly fuzzy, and the lack of any texture just makes them look weird a lot of the time. It felt like I was looking at them through dirty spectacles or something.. The UI needs some looking at too – its extremely amateurish, and when you get to the end of a day, it makes an already daunting task, the sandbox sand building, more tedious than it should be. The narrative seems to be that of a basic corruption story, but it's less than inspiring, and when added with the previously mentioned sandbox skill system – that by the way, seems very unbalanced and doesn’t scale right just makes the whole experience a chore.
In Security – So a contender for Octobers Game of the Month returns with an update of decent length, while I’ve seen longer, I have seen shorter too. This update was just dedicated to getting our couple used to the kinks they are about to explore and the much-needed talk there after. It may have come across a little fast, but it always does, these stories have to be told after all. It’s no different from a lot of the NTR games out there. Now that the cat is out of the bag, this will probably run, and the quality will show. We shall see what happens with this turning point.
Hard to Love – So I last played this in July and came out of it a little confused, suggesting I needed a full play through of this, which is what I did this time and I have to say, I think my review from way back when needs updating. This game really seems to be coming into its own now it's gotten into Act 2. The premise is coming out – the story telling still needs a bit of improvement as it is a bit jarring and jumpy in places, but other than that it is okay, definitely not up there with the best of the best. Still, it no longer deserves the 4 I gave it a while back, will have to re-look at this once we get a bit more of act 2.
Time Heels – This was one that had been on my radar for a while, but I never got around to it for one reason or another. Anyway, you’re probably best off reading my first thoughts
here.
Heven’s Door – Well, this game seems to be some pathing now – and it also seems to be ramping up a lot. It was a nice little update. I felt it was just a general filler episode until the end, but those ending scenes were enough to tell me that, despite feeling like filler, we did move the story on a lot. There was an issue with one of the renders in this update, though, honestly quite shocking really and I expect better from this dev, it doesn’t take away from what a good game this is, but it was worth mentioning.
Law School - So we are now into a new season and there are changes afoot – we are no longer dealing with the building of a personality, but instead now building relationships with the set girls available to us on that personality path – It’s a little disappointing really to go right back to square one with the girls, esp when you have one sneaking into your room right at the start. But other than that, I cant really fault the update, 6 lewds spread across all 3 paths means multiple play throughs are a must – the season 1 cliffhanger hasn’t been resolved and is still dangling with a few more questions asked this time. Really coming into its own now this one.
Siren Song – So I got dating my daughter vibes from this game, which was weird because despite the similar premise (a daughter and father getting nasty) they are executed in a different way, where as DMD seems to be a build up, this one jumps straight into it, we are already 3 chapters in and the deed is done, yes I get its an AVN and we cant go too slow, but the act doesn’t feel earned at all. The game is pretty enough, but the story (the daughter and father travelling for music shows) seems a bit weak. I don’t know if now that the core characters have opened that door, there will be enough to go on. I’ll pick it up again, but I’m not holding up much hope
Secrets and Promises – This is a GEM. I don’t know how many other ways I can say that. It's simply fantastic – yes, it may not be the prettiest game, Heck it may not even have the tightest or neatest story, but my god, this all comes together in greatness. Love it.
My Bimbo Dream – Well, it looks like we have finally got pathing here, and the consequences of not using your Season 1 saves come to light – while it's nice, I guess, to give us the shortcut to choose a path with our girls, it doesn’t feel earned, and my season 1 play through now feels wasted. The story definitely seems to be turning into something I usually shy away from. But the handling of the Moms feelings as she accepts and embraces the bimbo life, well, on the path I am playing, I think its done well… This is a game that’s still on the edge of being dropped, but the most recent update at least told me they can step back from the edge. We shall see if the GAME nose dives or saves itself.
Blast From the Past
So this little feature hasn’t brought me as many gems as I would have liked. So far, the 11 games I have tried so far have a nice average score of 4.72 so just wrong side of 5. You can read all about what I thought about
Breeze of Passion here. Though the game did not do much to move that average score at all. Next year I’ll be doing something a little different, though there will still be some trips through dirt, I think, but hopefully it won't be as demoralising.
The Fappies
So I have been liking these fun little awards, but I unfortunately do not think they are working, the “girl of the month” folders have been full of images and it has often been hard to knock them down to three, and there has been multiple months I really struggled to even pick a game that even deserve “best game of the month” the “worst game” generally hasn’t been a problem – but similar to how I mentioned in the update, I am going to have to look at the way I do these, but just to bring the year out, we can do one more
Best New Game – here we have sort of proof of what I was just discussing, when you look at what I said about the 8 new games this month, none of them really stand out, with a lot of them being described as “not bad but not good” None of them show greatness like say “My Husbands Boss” or “Heaven’s Door” did – still to end the year we have to pick something, when writing this up and checking my notes two games actually stood out. Secrets Between Lines and Finding Mia, I think on the surface though,
Secrets Between Lines was the better production and deserved the nod
Best Update – This one was a little more easy given the amount of updates, but still had a bit of difficultly, there were so many that could have got this one, but not for reasons of being a good production or anything like that. Mainly just because it was great for various reasons in my opinion, Wedding roaming, for example, isn’t the most flashy game, but it is and has been up there constantly pushing out great updates. Time Heals and Hard to Love both have absolutely great production values and a good story, but in terms of story, it could be argued that they are lacking. The award this month though goes to
Law School. While I will admit, there were some choices by the developer in this new season that I would argue are very questionable, I can't deny it was a massive update, full of great renders, story and replay value
Best New 2D Game – Well, this one wasn’t hard, was it? I only played one, and this is what I mean when I said I need to change it up – winning by default seems wrong. Never the less
Our Quiet Temptation was good, but it wasn’t going up against anything.
Best Updated 2D game – Like the above, this one is another win by default, but this time I’d question if Welcome to Port Heaven actually deserved it, especially given I said it felt like it was a step backwards. I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, though, as it does have multiple paths, and I am only really playing the one that interests me.
Best Girl in a New Game
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Best Girl in an Updated Game
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Best Girl from Blast from the Past
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Worse New Game – Okay, this is when the awards get unfair, this month, for example, there wasn’t a game that was truly bad for the right reasons, for example, having missing images, syntax errors or typos. It was genuinely a case of being the worst of the bunch. And while I thought his one would be the easiest with my mind going straight to the “suits” rip off cases, but when checking my notes I suddenly remembered
Cursed Pleasure. While I wouldn’t say it's bad for the right reason I mentioned, it definitely has its faults, and if your game slips from my memory, well, that’s telling to me
Worst Update – This one was easy - in terms of the standards we can measure games with, this one fails on quite a lot. Renders Poor, Dialogue Poor, Sandbox elements poor.
Hot Prospect is not a good game by any measurable standards
