Unreal Engine - Abandoned - LifePlay [v2023.04 Stable] [Vinfamy]

It has everything. With more polishing and more content it would have been an incredible game. It's always to sad to see incredible games getting abandoned. But I enjoyed it and had hours worth of fun. Thank you for creating this game. You thought big and you created big. And it has endless potential.

This game is definitively the definition of quantity over quality.

Keeping throwing stuff into your broken game wont make it better...

Fix it, improve it, make it looking good.

Then after that you can add more content.

Well I guess it will go nowhere since it's abandoned

Literal game breaking bugs that now won't be fixed. Game loop gets boring after about 20 minutes and you'll have experienced pretty much all that is in the game by that point.
Had brilliant potential but unfortunately the dev couldn't back it up and now is either dead or refusing to communicate at all.

Initially, many people were willing to give this game a 4 or 5 due to its potential, usually expecting this to become something like Sims 4 with Wicked Whims/Devious Desires. With the developer being AWOL and the game seemingly abandoned, this is no longer the case: the final version doesn't feel like a game, it is more akin to a game engine.

There is practically no AI, something echoed in many reviews. Heck, there isn't even collision, something a basic WIP game would have. It is common for animations to play out under the floor (e.g movie theatre map), leaving the user confused about where their character vanished.

A standard playthrough of LifePlay would be getting a job> suddenly in a relationship with the boss' daughter > getting a huge raise from said boss because you porked her precious daughter, all within 2 to 3 minutes. There are some other routes, but they are really half-baked. Other than that, the player is spamming the same action, waiting for an event to occur. There is no immersion or logic behind most events, leading to rather bizarre results.

That being said, the game is free, and there are plenty of mods to spice things up. I think you can still get a few hours of fun messing around with the sandbox and wacky sliders, and the models with cel shading applied actually look somewhat decent. However, I would recommend people just get the Sims 4 with mods instead. It might not have your fantasy/fetish, but it would be a far more enjoyable experience.

I played this for years and it used to be my main porn game. Heck, I even made characters, scenes and a fan signature for it. It really seemed on a good track to be one of the best porn sandboxes out there.

At start it looked like a more realistic and adult-centered Sims. At that time, the porn was better in LifePlay and so were the character models. Every year the game would go through an overhaul that would make it that much better.

Sadly, after a while the progress began to throttle down significantly and recent developments have convinced me to snap out of this dream and face the truth that it's probably as good as it'll ever get.

What the game does good is the sex-focused content that tackles pretty much any fetish. What's not so good is everything else. Graphics are becoming very dated and so are the models and animations, the performance is laughable (you will need to start a new save periodically because the more characters are generated the laggier it gets) the mechanics are extremely shallow and inconsistent, the gameplay loop is very boring and all this is wrapped up with a plethora of bugs and one of the worst UIs ever.

The gameplay is pretty much spamming "actions" until you trigger "scenes". Those are also the moddable aspects of the game. Scenes vary in quality significantly and some of them make use of some variables/stats to give you the most basic sense of consequences to your actions, some of them straight up ignore everything. AI is pretty much non existent, you'd have characters doing random actions in the background.

Sex is a separate scene with a minigame of selecting your partner's preferred sex positions to bring them to an orgasm. Sadly, the interaction itself is only as meaningful as you make it out to be in your imagination and as impactful as the scene which starts it dictates (you usually get a stat increase).

The only hopes for this game are either modders but most of them seem to have given up, either the dev going back to improving mechanics and fixing bugs but seems like years of adding more of this pointless content instead of actually upgrading the game have crippled his will and even ability to do so; he even stated in a previous update that he forgot how some game mechanics even worked lol. The most recent attempt was at a "pregnancy revamp" but it's been over a month now and the only update we got was about real life issues. Real or not, I've followed enough porn games to know this is a pattern that leads to abandonment more often than not. I really hope I'm wrong and that the future updates will have me edit the review but we'll see about that.

Meanwhile, Sims 4's sex mods got way better and despite the cartoony models and annoying speech, it is a proper life sim with sex. How the turntables... It might seem unfair comparing a one man project to a AAA title, but at the end of the day we're just wankers looking for porn game with life sim elements so we might as well pick the best option available.

I could not play this for more than 15 minutes after the tutorial.

I appreciate that it has futa and a watersports mod because those are my top 2 things I want in porn games, but they are not enough to distract me from how ugly the game looks and how ungainly the UI is. It's also got plenty of bugs, such as placing my character in the wall when she was trying to masturbate and failing to disrobe characters when they start having sex (you can do this yourself but it really should be automatic, this isn't Ride to Hell Retribution). The map is confusing with all the buildings looking the same and the icons disappearing at random. You also can't pause during sex, which is just bizarre.

I quit after two things: 1) I tried to call up a hooker so I could at least get a look at the lesbian sex scenes, I got interrupted by no less than three random events that involved my ugly landlord and each time I had to start the call process again because it takes over 20 seconds; and 2) when I did get a hooker over and started the FF watersports scene, there was just an occasional spurt of liquid that didn't look much like urine. Lost me right then and there, uninstalled after that.

Look, I know it's not got many people working on it, but it feels like 5 years on there should be more quality than this. I tried it on the same day I checked out The Lustland Adventure, and while that game is pretty much a tech demo at this point, it at least has gorgeous graphics, hot player models with pretty good customization, and the features it has so far work for the most part. It seems the people behind it actually care and want to make a good experience.

I cannot say the same for LifePlay. You're better off just getting Sims 4 or Skyrim and then loading them up with whatever sex mods tickle your fancy, this game is just a waste of storage space.

Vinfamy has both an "add, don't fix" mentality and a "quantity, not quality" mentality, treating the game content as indefinitely disposable and placeholder. Once features go in, they are almost never revisited for forward compatibility with new features that are added later.

As a more egregious example, the "sex talk" interface which produces floating text above characters' heads was designed in older versions for a system where both actors always reached simultaneous orgasm. There was a single variable, imaginatively named "ToCum", which measured how close to orgasm the scene was. Characters would then say (extremely cheesy corny) lines of dialogue (with poorly written and horrifically bad English) indicating how close they were to reaching climax, and once they reached climax (again, simultaneously), a message would discuss that fact.

Later, the developer made sex into a minigame by adding both position preferences and proneness to orgasm. Characters could then proceed through sex and the player would be encouraged to find positions which got both their character and the non-player character off. (Sort of... we'll visit that in a minute.) The characters would even have their own preferences for gentle, vanilla, or rough sex (all under the umbrella of the -100 to +100 "Likes rough" stat), so the player could play around with the animation speed until they found a sweet spot that satisfied both partners, rather than just being done to satisfy the player's totally inconsequential voyeur experience.

A brilliant feature... matched only by the sheer fucking audacity of implementing it without even bothering to update the talk system to accommodate ANY of those changes, or to extend any of that new functionality to the scene scripting language. The ToCum variable is now completely ignored, dirty talk is as corny as ever, all complaints about going too fast or too slow are hard-coded, all orgasms are still treated as simultaneous, etc. It's a bunch of potential that's completely and utterly wasted by being so obviously full of jank that it might as well not have been done at all.

...Yeah.

The sexual system was at one time expanded to include such things as condoms (with the Pregnancy module) and birth control -- except NPCs don't ever even use birth control (nor even condoms unless you explicitly ask them to or they ask you to), and as far as I can tell the system of using a condom during sex is completely isolated from the purchasing of condoms during actual gameplay (I'm quite sure you can use a condom even if you don't haven't bought any). Not to mention that because of the same aforementioned problems with the sex talk system and scene scripting, once you wear a condom, there is literally no way for the designer/mod author to make any mention of that fact whatsoever. For instance, in some module content, if a male character puts on a condom and then has sex with a woman, she will still react with horror that he "came inside". The scripting language can't even make a character who's already pregnant; if you meet a character who is "already pregnant" and they try to coax you into having sex with them to pretend the baby is yours -- which due to godawful design, occurs almost once every three to five minutes of playtime -- then you literally impregnate them as part of that encounter.

It utterly boggles the mind at how badly the game's systems interact with one another. The sheer totality of it reaches proportions of such an ineffable scale that no matter to what degree I only half-jokingly rip on the game here, the reality is even more galling.

And none of it matters, because not a single thing you do during sex, with the exception of pregnancy, is even known to the rest of the game. You did it raw even when the hooker asked you to use a condom? No way to know it. Didn't give them an orgasm? Game has no idea.

Nor the other direction: modder wants to force the scene to use a condom? Nope, can't do it, that's hard-coded. Don't allow it to stop until you have an orgasm? Nuh-uh. Disallow the player from doing anything which results in a creampie? Can't happen. Force the player to do only a creampie? Actually that's all you can do if it's filtered for Vaginal. Want to disable only one type of animation? What fucking game do you think this is? Of course the answer is nope. Filters are whitelist only, and only a single tag can be whitelisted.

...Ultimately, the game's nothing more than a bunch of loosely associated systems that throw rocks at one another and hope they manage to hit once in a while. It's built like a cathedral where the foundation is a bunch of matches and popsicle sticks, and it's the width of an ocean with the depth of a puddle. Any scene or system is treated largely as a microcosm, with does not interact with other scenes or systems, and rarely even take into account identical scenes that are already there. NPCs have no memory of past events, everything is extemporary, and eight or nine times out of ten you'll run into encounters that simply didn't even conceive of the possibility of the player being in the middle of something, even if that ends up being what 40%-60% of players spend most of their time doing (like being on dates or working)... so you'll routinely get friends seducing you while you're in the middle of the office, which would be fine if they were even aware that you were at work and did not simply assume you were at home getting drunk off your ass until you deigned to pick up the fucking phone.

NPCs have no object permanence, literally or figuratively; all NPCs, even your contacts, are simply pencilled in to fill holes in reality. Nobody knows where you met them. All NPCs behave identically because all NPCs have roughly equal weighting to appear for vanilla events which were never balanced or tweaked to accommodate personality variables. All NPCs don't even *have* a personality, other than "horny or not". It's impossible to develop any genuine affection for anyone when all they are is literally sexual objects.

When you explore a store, its employees are generated once, and reloaded again whenever you come back, or used as background characters in other random places if you've ever met them and made them a little more permanent than that. When you interact with your family and friends, their friends are generated on demand from time to time, but only to satisfy a random event pulse that literally has no more nuance than "enough time has passed to generate a new friend". Because of the way the game lacks almost any concern whatsoever about what is contextually going on at any given moment, these friends are generated with the same frequency no matter how many friends your acquaintances already have.

But hey, maybe the writing makes up for it.

Ha.

The only thing that exists in the game is fetish fuel. This is particularly evident with the "Mysterious Modder" content (which seems to fool some people and works well enough for legal purposes I guess), where doesn't matter whether your family members like you or dislike you; they're eventually going to try to bone you (or vice versa) one way or another as long as they're at all interested in your sex and the incest module is enabled. If the corruption module is enabled, then everyone will try to seduce everyone with alarming frequency. And so on.

LifePlay on the whole is, for lack of a better word... lazy.

When you look past the graphical environment, the game is simply interactive fiction where characters exist only as lines on a page... and once the scene is over, their existence fades, possibly to be revisited later, most likely never to be seen again. It seems like a majestic creature, but it bites, and it will probably tear the skin of your hand off if you rub it the wrong way.

On the other hand, pun also intended, it will probably hit your kinks often enough that it can tear the skin off your hand in other ways, too.

Most of the writing, scripting, art, programming, and design is fucking godawful. But sometimes, just sometimes, it manages to come together in just the right way to produce a situation that is well and truly hot. That's the underlying potential of the game... and you have to fight the game at every turn just to find it. This is a game where I can only really say, "Hey, at least it's better than Superman 64."

Fun game, but would love if we were able to build our own business or like hire people to manage our business. Sometimes its random with random paths, if we could focus on one path that impacts the others it would make it peeeerfect!

If you were looking to have a Sims like experience, have a household, see your family members walk around, see them do house chores and do everyday activities, forget about it. There's none of that in this game. In fact, where you live is divided by cells and you will only ever see a relative that lives with you if you decide to spawn them to where you are. Even if you want to have a peek on your masturbating sister she will just spawn in front of you and use the same room where your character is at and you are supposed to pretend or something because this game ain't even capable of generating an actual interaction just "simulate" one, and even saying that is being too generous. I don't even think anything happens in this game without player input. I don't even think NPCs have an actual AI and is all based on random scripted events and RNG. On top of that what little gameplay there is in this game is unplayable. 5 minutes in and I was already experiencing bugs. Do yourself a favor and play The Sims 4 with Wicked Whims instead of this. It does everything this game does but way better, even incest. I will give this game a couple of points for having good character models and very detailed skins and feet. Is also very good at covering a lot of kinks in one package. Is a shame that the package is such an inconsistent mess tho. The idea is great, but this game needs a massive overhaul. Latest Beta version review.

It's been a few years since I last looked this project up, and I'm sad to say nothing of importance has improved at all.

The UI and camera are still bad, performance still bad considering the graphics.

The faces look as soulless as ever, easy to make characters with hair loss and so the randomly generated NPCs have that problem, some clothes still clip and the bone structure looks abnormal as always.

I'd vote this 0/10 if I could, this is not a sex simulator in my opinion, it's an uncanny valley horror game.

Previously played version 3.14 and since then nothing really has changed. How disgusting the camera control was and remained. As there were tons of actions on the menu, so they remained. As there was practically no point in the characteristics, pumping, development, there is none. They added some additional content, but for me personally the game is still unplayable and not interesting, you can spend a maximum of 2, well, maybe 3 game weeks in it and that's it. Sadly, perhaps the situation will change by version 10+, but I doubt it.

This the game that I wish for. Perfect. Pls, update often, I want to see new contents. Excellent experience and one of the greatest adult game of all time. The scenes while generally excellent, does also have some interesting stories and quests.

For a sandbox game with no real story, this is surprisingly fun. Customization features help to make the experience more personal, which definitely helps overcome the limitations of the graphics / animations.

Just a couple bits of constructive feedback:

• Feels like it's designed by men for men, which is probably ok for the majority of the audience, but it did little for me as a woman
• The male NPCs, whether they're total strangers, in contacts, or have some sort of relationship with my character, almost never take the lead on anything. i.e. All the things that the player has the option to do (invite out, friends with benefits, host group sex party, sex instead of paying a lost bet, attempt "non-consensual", etc. )
• That might be fine for men playing this game, but again as a woman, I rarely take the lead on any of those things IRL, so it would be nice if I didn't have to in the game
• So that's my major piece of feedback; the other thing that would improve the experience would be real consequences for not paying the rent or not coming to work, etc., and maybe that could enable opportunities for sexual interactions that minimize or at least delay the consequences; just a thought

Overall, fun little experience. Hope it continues to evolve.

what i tried was boring. wants to have story with work and job but plays like illusion game but worse. no point to anything you do. posting this because 3.4 is too high for this game to be rated and it deserves to be 2 stars or less

Usually I don't write in forums but I have to make an exeption. Started the game in January and am totally addicted!!!

Finally a game where I can do whatever I like . Plus a lot of mods for nearly every taste. Sure, the graphic is only enjoyable if you play in toon mode and still buggy (a lot of clipping, chars at wrong spots, terrible autochanging of clothes...). BUT: the real fun is always in my head and not on the screen.

Vinfamy, you trigger my kinks so good . Compliment for this great one man show and your enthusiasm to hold this project on life.

There are too much really great modders to name them here. They also spend so much time to increase the fun and help other players with their posts here. But I can't write about LifePlay without mentioning RaiderKnight who lift up the entire game to a higher level. I love the launcher. Thx for your great work.

Back to the game: It would be good to have a better help file or small manual for beginners. St like what to do to increase stats, some more explanations about the effect of using sliders in settings and things like that. This is also a suggestion for the modders: Give your files a name related to the mod and put a little txt file wth a desription into the archive about what the mod is for.

A great plus of the game is the possibility to change nearly as much as you want. By editing the files in the modules folder you have the opportunity to make it nearly your own life play

So usually because of the issues I wouldn't rate 5*... BUT because you made me playing day and night (I really played more than 36 hrs in a row more than once) you definitly earned them!!! Keep on with your game!

I mean it was okay, but it's just too slow for me with too many features to really be focused on one thing. I'd rather play a game that hyper focuses on one thing specifically than a game that has basically everything but done kinda mediocre.

So this game is both absolutely amazing and also plainly bad.

It's extremely ambitious, but it doesn't quite work exactly because of that. There's so many damn things it attempts to do, but it's really janky and buggy. I spent a good deal creating a character due to all the options, but it took me only about 15 minutes of actual gameplay to realise this just wasn't for me.

It's highly unintuitive and the awful interface doesn't help. If you're looking for a fap you might enjoy the animations, since there's a pretty decent variety. That being said, I don't really think it's polished enough to be enjoyable.

The game has bugs. I personally have to start over quite often because the NPCs become invisible. Restart happens quickly and became my reminder to save. If I start a relationship to a girlfriend too early, fatal error occurs.

Still, I had a lot of hours of gaming fun. Everything that bothers you can be switched off via the module. This world is so complex that you live in your city for a long time without a quest. Has the flair of SimCity and many professions, many events, many NPCs, many extras to choose from. The sex animations are also very complex, I don't know of any other game that is so complex in it. However, also without physics and without collisions.

Pros:
-The dev of this game has strictly adhered to the rule of porn games being first and foremost about porn, and the wide array of sex options reflects that
-Random generation of characters is good and customizable
-There is an extreme amount of immersive potential in that real life city maps can be used and generated with many places to interact with

Cons:
-Because the dev focuses primarily on porn, expansion and improvement of the life simulation part of the game is limited
-The actual depth of interactions with places and characters is quite shallow and repetitive. Don't expect to be able to customize your home/business
-Very grindy for the sake of extending playtime

TL;DR it's a solid porn game but a mid simulation game

Mental gymnastics , The Game, should be tittle of this game. A mile wide and a centimeter deep, a big world with irrelevant interactions between generated characters, you are thrown in it, without any idea what to do.

But obviously this is a sex game, and your goal would be to get laid, but what is the point of getting laid if there is no depth in the relationships or in literally the place your character interacts with. Listen here, a world in a game, must to some extend "feel" real, for the characters that interact with it. This game is the complete opoisite of it, nothing "feels" or makes me give a shit, it's worse than an actual sim at this point.

The controls are confusing and the UI is completely unacceptable you won't know what's what and what is happening, there are stats that are supposed to mean something.

In conclusion the game is a barren empty sim, not visually impressive either, you'd have a better experience slamming two barbies together.