Ren'Py - Life as an Innocent Waitress [v0.1.0] [Frisson Studios]

HUGE debut. Really one of the most fleshed-out, robust v.1's I've ever seen on the site. As a rule I don't try v.1's of a game but I'm glad I broke that rule this time.

PROs
Corruption mechanic
Lots of venues to explore (home/train/work/online) would love to see school too!
Lots of cute voyeuristic touches. Panty peeks, etc. I LOVE little touches like that.

CONs
Personally, not a fan of the Honey Select aesthetic. IMHO it looks more apropos to Silent Hill than to a fun sex game..
Some events get very tedious and grindy without any apparent reward (house cleaning, sitting with the customers)

SUGGESTIONS
Add backstops or "Under Construction" when the player fully explores a branch or mechanic.

Hard to see patrons in their seats (birds eye view) so just a little graphic contrast would help.

Add one more female to the game, just to season her corruption. A rival waitress that sabotages her, the landlord's curious daughter or jealous wife that loves to prank and tease our MC.

The online story and the waitressing story intersecting. Maybe she eventually gets the ability to livestream her shift, so sub will try to bribe her to bend over in front of customers, work with no panties on, sit on customers' laps, etc.

The comparison to Corruptions Town (which I also love) is warranted, so look for ways to differentiate your game.

More outifts, of course! Gotta spend all this money on something!

Absolutely fantastic first release of a game. You have seriously shown more promise in a 0.1 than others have in years of "development". Truly, what an entry! I agree with the others in not getting bogged down by open world etc. Focus on adding to the existing formula with additional scenes and cutins and you have cracked the code right here.

As far as caps go, I did certainly try to go as far as possible, and think the following is the limit, correct me if I'm wrong:
- Exhib - can remove up to underwear, anything further and she redresses
- Harassment - I only ever got breasts and butt, I don't think there is any harassment for mouth, pussy or extended beyond light touches unless I completely missed it or bugged out, I did see a dream for mouth harassment but they never did it.
- Drinking harassment - thigh touches and she touches their thighs, nothing further
- Subway - Shorts dropped and fondled down there until she cums, but she never returns the favor in any way.
- Shower and rest of house scenes have a very clear "more coming soon" so no need for those. As for sleeping, stripped topless and being bukkaked by the housemate is the furthest I saw.

Again, THIS ^ is from a 0.1. And nothing bugged out for my entire playthrough, legendary.

Great game
I liked the AI photo stuff.
The bar stuff is good but it gets a little repetitive.
The stats is not that clear what they do so could be more clear.
The dreams where you agree to something (showing underwear is ok) I also liked.
There was some clothing "bugs", pictures shown with wrong clothing.
Hope to see more!

Its like you took my favourite part of Third crisis and made it into a whole game. I love it. Just wish the cleaning mini game was a bit shorter or more interesting. As t feels tedious to do every single day.

Really good take on the "naive girl in lecherous town" trope. Story is simple and light but well written, same with MC, good renders and I personally like the gameplay loop (although It needs to be balanced). I'm really interested in the future updates.

Really good game, can't wait for the next update. The heroine is cute and likable, which makes you want to protect / corrupt her, depending on your preference.

Currently, there isn't a lot of variety in the bar scenes, so I can't wait for the dev to add more. More interactions with the house members would be nice, but we know that's coming.

Overall, a really solid first impression. Can't wait for the dev to cook up some more!

Life as an Innocent Waitress is exactly the game you think it is. Cute girl living in a world of pervs is sexually harassed by literally everyone alive.

If that's what you're looking for, it does it well. The bar minigame is reasonably entertaining, the events are hot, the girl looks great, and each step down the road to hell seems paved by necessity. It's definitely well executed.

There are downsides though. You definitely have to believe the devs when they say grind is a feature, not a bug. While trying to play the good girl, I found the most corruptive influence to be boredom, as I kept pushing the girl just because I desperately wanted to see something, ANYTHING new. Five instances of the maid minigame is too damn much a day, especially when a single failure fails the event for the whole week. Save scumming is also a feature, not a bug.

It also sucks that basically every character in the game is awful except the protagonist. The world is just filled with unfuckable losers. The game really needs a win condition, whether that's an attractive guy for the waitress to snag (with or without money) or simply a path out of slowly losing all self respect simply to stay off the street (or worse lol). Corruption works better when there's a reason not to be corrupt.

Balance could use a bit of tweaking, but I'm willing to let it slide so early on. I managed the first payment while keeping most of her clothes on, but things are looking dicey moving towards payments two and three without progression for the cam site.

Overall, I'll keep an eye on it going forward. Life isn't perfect as an innocent waitress, but further patches should really improve the game.

What this game does very well (for the first version) is focus on specific elements of corruption and add lots of details that make it immersive. There is already plenty that can be added to the existing system of MC's reactions, clothing, choices and surrounding characters. Rather than expecting every single game should be a sandbox (silly notion), it's good the developer is not trying to create one. As long as there are consequences to the MC's choices (and this can be refined as the game is developed), there is something good here. Looking forward to next versions.

Genuinely one of the best adult games I've played in a long time. The waitress mechanic is basically perfect, the groping on the train is well thought out, and the choices are immense. If the development continues at a steady pace, this could be up there with the greats like Karryns Prison!

Fairly overrated in my view. The core gameplay loop and premise are solid enough but VERY generic. You have played all these different elements before. One of a million games about a hyper innocent but impossibly beautiful girl with no real awareness of her situation plunged into a highly contrived scenario that forces her to become gradually corrupted.

In that niche it is competant but not great. The main girl looks pretty enough but the style isn't ultra to my taste. HS graphics are nice because they allow devs to make more content faster than Daz, but visually it suffers a bit imo. Sadly there isn't THAT much content or variety yet. The game is new, sure. It will come.

The gameplay is inoffensive, but repetitive and slow. It is dinner dash if 60% of the complexity and 90% of the difficulty was removed. With a very tedious clicking minigame for the maid content jammed in that you have to do about 1,000 times.

This has been very negative I know. I was simply bored by this game but I can recognise the competance on display. That girl is pretty and not grating like some of her peers. If the game did ANYTHING original or weird or unique it would be a 3. As is, 2 seems fair.

Very early days, no sex yet but a reasonable gameplay loop so far. Looking forward to more story content but good effort!

Grind can be slightly reduced, or some more scenes can be added to cleaning mini game, because TBH it's the most pointless part rn

Bro really put together the train groping from Pizza Hot and the serving minigame from Corruption Town? Two of my favorites making a new favorite, easy 5 stars for my taste.

I hate it when the game let us progress to fast, and some of the content gets inaccessible because of that or when we come across some content that was suposed to be found earlier, it loses its value because the level of corruption we are at is much higher than that content.

This game's"slow"progress (which doesn't feel slow at all) and sometimes replayed scenes makes it so that doesn't happen, every content from the multiple fronts of the game progress at the same time and so every content is enjoyable and feel like actual progress. Maybe that is only happening because of its early development stage, but I hope the dev will keep it (and it feels like they will, based on their comments inside the game).

The perfect combination of slow corruption and beautiful artwork. Watch as the beautiful waitress submits to slightly more exhibitionistic and degrading things to keep the rent paid. It was heartbreaking to reach the end of this version!

The game shows a lot of promise, with a reasonable plot and good writing, but suffers from some design decisions that make it less fun than it should be.

Graphics here are old school, but serve well enough that they don't detract from the game. The way the game allows the player to create their own names for what is obviously the father and the brothers is cute and allows for some amusing touches at the player's discretion (set the dad's title to "motherfucker" and it comes across like a Mad Lib).

The real weakness of the game is in the minigames (as is so ften the choice) so far I have run across one twitch minigme (the cleaning) and one somewhat-strategic decision-making game (the bar). No game has ever been improved by including a twitch minigame and this game is no exception. Besides being tired and hackneyed (there are actual good twitch games widely available for anyone who wants to play twitch games) it is also poorly done: in several rooms the contrast between the background and the momentarily-appearing click objective is insufficient to even see the click points, let alone doing so quickly enough to click them.

The core of the game is good enough to make me want to see more, but the inclusion of unfun elements makes me wonder if the dev is really thinking about the purpose the minigames are supposed to serve. 3/5 for now, with an intention to revisit this rating when the game is further developed.

Extremely good start. This game doesn't waste your time with useless grinding and watching the her slowly get corrupted over time is chefs kiss. If the next updates are as meaty as the initial release, this game will easily be one of the best on the site.

Overall Gameplay
This is a very promising game with a very charming protagonist. She is extremely charming and very shy and timid without being obnoxious. The build-up is very slow, but still very well-paced and satisfying. I'm not sure if there's any penetration in the current version, but that does not deter from the experience at all.
I love the build-up of exhibitionism stat, the slow increase in groping and its intensity, and the occasional sexual encounters.
Overall a very solid game where I get very jealous of the protagonist and want to be in her shoes all the time.

Potential
I don't really use discord, but from a cursory look on the developer's server, they are very active and enthusiastic about the game so the prospect looks very promising.
Development aside, while the content itself leaves a lot to be desired, it also didn't deter from the experience.
I'm looking forward to more non-consensual content, encounters in the apartment (shower, kitchen, laundry room, living room), and sexual interactions with other tenants.
The game left me wanting to get groped and used by the overweight ugly neet tenant, get taken advantage of by the landlord, get used by the guy on the train, and get much more sexual acts in the waitress mini-game.

Highly recommended

While not anything new and very incomplete rn, this is definitely a very good execution of the waitress genre.
The girl is hot, the scenes are hot, the game is easy and fun, but as of 0.1.0 there is still no sex scene, but it knows how to set the mood, so the second they are in the game in future updates this will be among the best porn games around this website.

This is how the creator explained it to be, and I'm pretty glad they done so.
The slow burn is worth it, and the physiques of Angel's rack is outstanding, I thoroughly enjoy when detail is place into breast squish be it in clothes or against objects.
Will be looking forward to the development of this unpolished gem.

An excellent corruption game in the making. I have no complaints , down from renders, story, build up and system. It's well done.

Although I may be bias due to my love with corruption games, but if you have similar interest of mine. I really recommend having it a go.

I love this game! Easily 5 out of 5 for me. What a great first release. Good graphics and images. The pacing is perfect and all the mini games are fun. If you love Corruption Town, you will love this game. I supported on Patreon after my play through. I did not want it to end!