Ren'Py - Life in Santa County [v0.10.1] [Bold Bash Studios]

The story is painful to read, it makes no sense and is in very poor English.
I tried to stay with it but left me mostly confused and when I actually did jnderstand what the developer was trying to convey I just thought it was garbage.
I feel like no dialogues or characters are realistic atall.

The positives are the design of some females are pretty good, so if you want to skip to sex scenes only it's a fairly decent game.

Great game, it even has a plot and high-quality animation) We wish the developer success with his project and look forward to the next update))
One of the most promising projects on the Ren'Py engine )))))))

This game is really good if you are into very sexy scenes with very hot characters, like to explore free roaming sections with hidden secrets and colectibles and a nice branching narrative system.

The Prologue dont make justice to the game. It was long with no real consequences to your choices, no free roam, no branching narrative, story felt mediocre with too much reaing character thoughts, and the only good thing about the prologue was some hot sexy scenes. Then the 1st Episode starts and all the game mechanics are finally introduced and the game becomes really good.

The story is just ok, but everething else is great. Its an easy 5 star for me.

Congrats to the dev.

I can summarize my experience with the game as the following: The characters are generally unlikable jerkasses, including yours. You get coerced by a lot of people, including women who suddenly want to have sex with you and husbands who suddenly want you to fuck their wives in front of them, your character is utterly stupid and unrelatable, and the plot is utterly nonsensical.

I added a star because the graphics and female models can be pretty good at times.

This game is one of the best. Why???
It has the perfect .
1. Quality
2. Variety
3. Sense of detail
4. Choice
5. Lot of more...
1+2+3+4+5 = Perfect game GLHF
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a lot of luck for the future.

In general, the game is fantastic in the renders in the animations, it is above the other games that I have tried, hopefully it will continue with the same intuition, the story does not matter, it only matters the quality of the game that is rarely seen in this forum, what can you say that it is the first for that pingo 5 stars

It's kinda hard to review this properly as I've not gotten far into it yet, but also mainly cause right from the off there's wee points that annoy me about it.

Immediately, I'm left thinking the MC is a dick, he's quite unpleasant to his step-dad as soon as he appears and there's nothing to suggest it's warranted. The step dad makes a stupid dad joke and suddenly the MC's saying he hate him. It could be warranted, but as there's no real backstory to explain why the MC is being a dick, it's quite jarring.

The other problem I have is the fact the MC seems to have a square head. The renders look good for the women and it seems the efforts been put in to make everyone unique but with his hair and his cheekbones his face looks like a perfect square. Honestly, check it out. The scene where Ron says "I thought I would go back and get the bag after a while". It's a square. And once you see it, it's kinda hard not to see it you know?

All joking aside, the renders are ok but there's a bit.... unsubtle? Within the first few minutes of gameplay you meet 2 women and both basically have their nipples out. But hey, it's a porn game, it's to be expected.

The plot seems ok, a bit airy at times. Like the dialogue doesn't seem to marry up to the seriousness of the plot at times. The game starts with your friend needing your help cause he botched a job for some drug dealer or something and as you're going to speak to him he's kinda vibing, makes jokes and what not. Like bitch he could kill you? But he doesn't cause it's a game but still, read the room Ron. Maybe it's just his character and the others are a bit more grounded but again, it's a lot of wee things adding up as soon as you start to play.

Great renders and animations. Most of the girls are really great (Lauren/Mom, Iris, Sophie, Karen and Aunt/Chloe are all 10s).
But this game has some of the worst written dialogue I have seen.
I still enjoyed it just because of how great the girls are but still had to knock down 2 stars for the poorly written dialogue.

played this game at the very beginning but didn't really enjoy it, thought about giving it another try while looking for femdom games and wow, it has developed into such a great game, amazing renders and an interesting story, can't wait for the next update

Anyone else feels like that the stuff with Karen is too damn hot to handle (fetish part calling her landlady)? Also, very good differentiating between Landlady and her Sister. Love this game to bits and pieces.

Honestly, this game has loads of potential. A lot of the complaints here are directed at obvious plotholes and the fact that the MC turned from dorky virgin to sex-god in the matter of seconds. While that's true, I don't think that's the main problem with the game.

First off, to start with the good stuff. The LIs, renders and scenes are absolutely top-class. Dev and team definitely knows what they're doing there. Sexy, kinky and irresistible. Even with a slightly inconsistent and maybe far-fetched story, it makes you want to continue playing.

The girls have distinct personalities and designs, but I'm afraid that's it. It's between buxom milfs or buxom teens in the game. A bit of variety in body types may go a long way.

Now though the prologue was going pretty well, it certainly changed when the game actually started. Now maybe I'm wrong, since plenty of people enjoy "choices" in games, and to "write their own story". But I just can't see people enjoying free-roams every 5-10 mins. Especially when it's sequence-sensitive and extremely easy to miss out of scenes as well as plot flavour.

It's just not fun to either replay it over and over again wishing to unlock scenes and find something different, or resorting to a walkthrough where you have to look at every single step of the way.

While I personally dislike multiple playthrough/endings/saves, the same can't be said for others. But at the very least, I'm sure it kills some interest when certain paths and LIs are locked out based on certain choices.

Despite all its flaws, I cannot deny enjoying the game, which is why I'm giving it a review. This game and studio can certainly evolve into one of those that's worth investing money in. Maybe it's not there yet for everyone, but the potential is certainly there.

A good-looking package, with nothing inside.

To get the good out first, the game looks really good. You can tell there is a lot of effort involved in the visuals. Too much effort even, since it even has details like animated blinking. The UI is sharp, the sandbox is not overbearing and it does have some of the best daz models out there. Some of them look very familiar but that's to be expected at this point.

But when it comes to the meat, not much to go on. It's yet another i-story, with landladies and roomies inexplicably breaking every social norm to jump on MC's dick. Why? Because. There is no rhyme or reason, just like every other game of this type, MC just gets everything handed to him on a silver platter. An inexperienced dork with max charisma, max fighting skills despite being a midget and a sex master with a huge dick that hypnotizes every female in sight.

That bitchy cousin? No problem just order her to do anything you want and she will do it. Why? Because. And it gets even worse when it comes to the landlady. This is a mature bombshell of a woman, who apparently saved herself untouched for years to wait for her tenant's dick. That partner of hers she starts with? We get rid of him right away no problem. And to make sure we don't hurt the sensitive psyche of the anime pillow-humping crusaders, he was gay too. And probably an eunuch asexual just to make sure. I'm surprised we don't find out MC just willed himself into existence to make sure landlady is a pure waifu.

The game gave hints of a smarter plot at first, with landlady seemingly being a closet perv who would risk her job for some fun with young bucks in her workplace. That would at least somewhat justify her willingness to break every social norm in her eventual relationship with MC. She's fucked in the head like that, can't help it. But that would be too smart and grounded for this type of game, so that plot practically got rebooted to appease the same crowd.

In the end, if you 've played one of those, you 've played all. If for some reason you aren't sick of that same recipe, knock yourself out. At least it looks good.

Story/ - 1/5 plot sucks, for some reason everyone likes the mc, why they like him ? if you want to add incest at least give a backstory believable enough

Hud/Menu/Map/Navegation - 1/5 half of the rooms are point and click and other half trhough menu thats suck

Sandbox - 1/5 feels weird and don't have a track of lost scenes, easy to miss scenes, freeroam ends with no warning

Renders - 4/5 good shit

This game has great potential, excellent modeling and scene setting. The author has done a great job of organizing the storyline, and it would be perfect if it had more efficient updates. But time is exchanged for excellent quality, and in my case it's definitely 5 out of 5.

Well another visual novel , that has some NSFW elements. Graphics are awesome and visuals are good , some work needs to be done on soundtrack and some characters are the neighbour, as well as some other side characters.

Extremely attractive models, appealing story and secondary characters, good backgrounds, great game mechanics ( Mc routes and sandbox are much appreciated). Very fun to play and decently immersive. This game is going places.

This game is a hot fucking mess. I finally managed to crawl through the prologue after several patient attempts due to how insanely creepy the MC looks (literally like a future molester), the little rat friend who I just wanted to shoot, and terrible writing. Not to mention all the dumb scenarios that could easily have been avoided by anyone with an IQ above thirteen.

This game is 100% style over substance. The women all look pretty great, the animations are top quality for AVNs, everything is all flashy and crisp...but it's put together nonsensically. I don't mind the sandbox aspect at all, which I know is an unpopular opinion, but the problem with those is that even if a player does something out of order it still needs to make sense--otherwise there's zero point having a sandbox. This game doesn't do that at all, and it's worse on top because the scenes that do flow outside the sandbox are jarring and feel as if they've been built by random contractors reading off an outdated spec script. I mean whole conversations about events that hadn't happened yet, and then I'd accidentally stumble across that scene later and think "oooooohhhh, I was meant to do this first." It just defeats the whole point of freeroaming.

...not that a spec script would have helped, because the dialogue and descriptions have definitive machine translation stink all over. Lines make actually no sense sometimes, and even when that is the case, the things characters say are so utterly dumb it made me physically angry.

Also, I don't like feet. At all. Every kinky scene involves feet. No option to skip it either: you will see the feet and enjoy feet. Every woman also has pepperoni nipples but I like that; still, all the tits look identical.

The overproduction ends up being a curse too. Why can't I quicksave? Because the dev made a flashy menu instead. I constantly got locked out of rolling things back because of how scenes are designed, and if there's an animation you can forget it altogether. Which led me to restarting the whole game, but then half the time autoskip wouldn't work. Why? No clue.

Don't bother. Just look at some screens or check a playthrough on xhamster.

This review was made after playing the 0.4.3 version.

Impressive visual quality, stunningly beautiful girls, very nice story, tits...what else can be said?

It needs some minor adjustments, but nothing major. I'm positive about those adjustments being made soon.

Brothers, heed my words: Bold Bash Studios is going straight to the top!

Played version 0.4.2
Qualities:
-the female models are sexy to very sexy, especially the Mom, the Sis and the Aunt
-the story is good and engaging
-the seduction process of the Mom and Sis is well constructed and not rushed
Problems:
-the free roam mode breaks the story and one needs a walk through to advance faster
-for many choices it is not obvious what the best alternative is so one needs a walk-through
The game is very pleasant to play when in story mode.
Unfortunately the free roaming mode breaks the story which requires a walk through.
Because of the problems above it's a 4.5 stars game in my opinion.
I'll give it 5 stars because it has a lot of potential.
Suggestion for the developer: reduce or eliminate the time spent free roaming.

Best game I’ve played. Potential to be amazing if the developer keeps this up. Updates have a lot of content and the renders are absolutely outstanding. Great characters and models as well. And the plot is nice, not like a lot of the other VN games I’ve seen out there