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

I want to preface by saying this is a really cool idea for a game. I love life sims, especially ones that feel real. The premise for this game ticks all those boxes really well and has great potential. The problem unfortunately is in the execution.

I'll start with character creation. It's easy for me to say this since I'm not the developer putting undoubtedly hard work and a lot of effort into it - which is most certainly visible - but the fact of the matter is the visuals simply aren't that great. The models aren't terrible - I've certainly seen worse - but they unfortunately can be somewhat uncanny. The hair feels the worst part - some of the hairstyles are downright horrid, and the game feels lacking in variety - there's only one or two ponytail styles, and there aren't any hairstyles appropriate for black characters (such as fades, afros, braids etc).

The clothing leaves a lot to be desired - there's a lot of issues with clipping, the patterns on a lot of the clothes are ugly, and all of the clothes feel generic, without any particular styles. To make matters worse, both clothes and hairstyles seem to change to something you didn't set them to; custom NPCs will randomly be given a different hairstyle from the one you set, and even your own character seems to randomly put on clothes you didn't choose for them, mere seconds after you put an outfit on.

The maps themselves are a highlight - it could definitely do with a lot of fleshing out and in general polishing, but it's still a great concept to have an entire real city to walk around, and at relatively realistic speed. It's a bit weird however how your character always seems to be displayed indoors, even when travelling between two locations. It's also weird how everything seems to take place in bedrooms (not sure if this is a bug or intentional).

All in all, great concept, great effort, but unfortunately greatly lacking in necessary details and visuals in order to be a fully enjoyable game. I will continue to follow though as I am sure it will get better as time goes on, and I look forward to seeing what more can be done with it. I'm hopeful that I'll eventually be able to give it a 5 star rating!

Nice idea, terrible execution so far. This needs time and a lot of polish. Interface for starters should improve in some way, this is more tiring to play than simcity. I cant imagine anyone trying to casual play this game, it requires actual intelectual effort from you in order to understand some basics.
Visually just sucks, i understand this is supposed to be a big project but design is just bad. Breasts and faces are decent, some hairstyles are decent also, but everything else is quite poor. I tried myself for years and i know there are struggles with nude models in certain areas, but this is IMO hard to look at.

There are some good parts that i could see the 30 minutes i played, but are hard to enjoy in the actual state.

Lets see in future releases how muhc it improves.

I've finally managed to run this, but only on Linux, not on Windows. While the many configuration options look promising at first, I have to agree on some major points of criticism. The first one is the UI, which could be much clearer, better structured and provide faster access to the different options. Also, some of the texts (especially help texts) have a small font which makes them difficult to read on small screens. I also agree that the scope of this game is simply too big for one person to get everything right: graphics, UI, texts (some of the typos and grammatical errors could be easily avoided), etc.

Someone used the beautiful word "numbery" to characterize this game, which hits the spot: many stats to set, but you are tempted to manipulate them since it is always possible to do so, which removes any sense of progress. Despite the efforts to give the game some soul it sometimes feels rather like an Excel sheet to me. Rather like work than a game, actually.

Then there are some annoying smaller issues like clippings, furniture blocking the view, and others. This brings me back to the beginning of this review. Probably it would be better that one person could concentrate on fixing such issues, while another one could improve the UI. Theoretically, this would be all possible to tackle, based on some basic sense of realism I frankly don't see it happening here.

If this game is analyzed in the context of the mainstream gaming industry, it is a mixed game, but the analysis of the game should be done on top of the actualy adult games dev (indie), and with that game is great. It is a good job done by a one person who focused on his game to extrapolate general pornographic themes in commom situation from day-to-day, and giving this possibilit for the player to play the way he wants, here "choices matter" and it very rare to see games like that. The LifePlay may feel The Sims like, but it doesn't have depth in this theme, which sins a lot in the gameplay when it's on "fun with lifeplay" and it's the name of the game, but this is because the developer of the game don't focus on "life simulator", but in the primary theme, that is to be "a pornographic game" and in the porn execution, the game performs good and deepens very well. So if you are going to play it, for now expect a more in-depth game on the pornographic theme than on the life simulator, it is hoped that this second point will be improved with time, from porn (first main theme) the game is already well served. And in the end, the way things are going, I believe/hope that the game will walk to the second point, will be better "LifePlay", and with that, improve more and more, with the time. And I think the time has come to focus on that, in my head, it's a con need be fix.

Pro:
• Good community (dev, modders and players);
• Don't is a paywall or abandoned;
• Have more/extra themes of adult porn games tag like "Choices matter" "Sandbox" and "management";
• Fun porn game choise.

Cons:
• It does not deep into on the theme "life simulator" in general (character, actions, etc), and that is the name of the game "LifePlay";
• It depends use the mods to improve the experience;
• Need more design;

Consistent updates and a wonderfully customizable sandbox. A project of epic proportions! Easily spent dozens of hours in this world, shaping it to my every desire.

Almost like the Sims but dedicated towards a sexy-fun time.

I've given games bad ratings before, and in each case it felt justified to me. With Lifeplay instead, i do for the first time feel sorry for trashing a game. The Creator spent a lot of work on this project, he seems to have all the best intentions at heart, and appears to be a talented developer too.

And yet, Lifeplay is a failure - not just in its current state, but as a project: The scope of this game simply is too large for a one-man team. Let me explain...

Lifeplay is what happens, when a developer sees the Sims adult-modding community and thinks: "You know what? Let's create an open-source Sims clone, that is designed for adult-mods from the start, so we no longer need to use all those ugly hacks!"

Just one problem: The Sims was created by a big-budget devstudio, not a single developer. And so, every feature of Lifeplay feels like a shallow placeholder. This is a game where you can do almost anything, and yet nothing has any meaning, depth or quality to it. It's "Placeholder: The Game".

You might think: Maybe the dev will eventually replace all those placeholders with "the real thing"? Yeah, i thought that too for a while. It's why i've installed and deleted Lifeplay multiple times over the years, each time thinking: "Maybe now it's gotten better?"

Unfortunally, after 3 years you have to draw some ugly conclusions: Those aren't placeholders - it's how the game will look like for the rest of its service-life. Some rough edges and glitches may be polished over time, but this game will never have any depth or meaning to its actions, because a single developer simply cannot do it. Think about it: You want to create a fullblown 'life-simulator', and have a single guy design, code, write and animate everything in 3D? Sorry, but this idea was doomed from the start.

And no: "The modding community" won't fix it. Modders have never turned a bad platform into a good platform, because platform-design isn't what modders do: They ADD or MODIFY content ON TOP of platforms. If a game's platform is good but the content bad/lacking, then modders can fix it. But they can't fix a flawed platform or game-concept. And the concept of Lifeplay needs a team of at least 6-10 devs and artists to create a quality foundation.

I downloaded this game two times once a year ago and second time few months ago. This game has good graphics with low system requirements, but the problem of this game is UI is very very bad and too complicated.

I consider this game good since it has a wide content like Sims style that you make your life but in several aspects more development is missing and the game is very interesting from the beginning but after the week it bores you so it can be improved even a lot
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Considero este juego bueno ya que tiene un amplio contenido como estilo Sims que haces tu vida pero en varias aspectos falta mas desarrollo y el juego es muy interesante de inicio pero ya a pasar la semana te aburre entonces se puede mejorar aun mucho

Really love the idea but extremely laborious game to play. Not intuitive at all and hard to get a sex scene or do what we want our characters to do. The menus are hard to figure and gets really boring really fast.

Unlike most games on this site, LifePlay is not a story driven game. Its a pure openworld sandbox game where you get to forge your own story. The UI is simple and straightforward. The premise is simple. Create your character and do whatever you want. The mods in this game help set the world around you and you get to choose to play the game the way you like. There is decent amount of content available and plenty of things to do.

What I like most about the game is the constant updates. This is one game that gets updated regularly without fail. Im talking 1 update atleast every month. Most games that I play here get updated maybe once in 2 or 3 months or even longer. But the dev here at lp is dedicated and it shows.

This is exactly what we have wanted all these years ago.
Of course there is still some room for improvement in visual department, but simulation is pretty solid and ease of modding can fill in niche content.
All in all definitely a great piece with a bright future ahead of it.

Pros
+ Constant Updates
+ Mods are fantastic and in my opinion needed to play the game for a long time.
+ Different types of kinks for everyone (NTR, incest, etc..)
+ Different types of animations for everyone's taste
+ Vinfamy(Dev) why the pro for a dev you might say. He is very informative on his updates and his progress on his discord and his petrean followers. Just recently he had to move to a new laptop and let everyone know his situation throughout the following days and week getting back to work on the game. once he got that settled. That's the kind of dev we need more of around here.
+ You create your own story while limited there are not many games which allow you to have this especially in an adult game.
+ Saving characters is a great addition to this type of game. While I can make decent looking characters I lack creativity after awhile so its awesome that people can upload there characters which can easily be transferred in your game.

Neutral
* Customization, while lacking it has basic features for a sandbox type game. Body shape, face, eyes etc... however lacking in clothing (clothing that looks and fits decently on your character). Needs more work but not game breaking.
* NPC's lack any sort of personality and seem like zombies only triggered for events after a certain condition or time has passed. Vinfamy (Dev) in his discord has plans to improve this so hopefully it will be fleshed out in the future.
* Many NPC's look the same and you will probably see all the variations at some point. The distribution and some body types can be changed in settings but I never found a sweet spot for me.
* The map is bland looking but the part of me about the map that bugs me is the amount of buildings and locations you can go but they all tend to be the same type of building after so much distance from each other. This usually results in you staying in one part of the map mostly rendering the rest of the map useless. I don't see the point of traveling half the map for a restaurant while there is one down the street. Makes no sense to me and hopefully it improves.

Cons
- Very much lacking in any types of story telling. There are mini quests that tell stories which include you created character it is lacking after you complete all of those. If you don't bother with quests then you only have events which have a % to trigger and if you met certain conditions. I hope Vinfamy (Dev) focuses on this area which is a main reason I don't play as much as I did a few months ago. While this is sandbox and you create your own stories it is very much roleplay in your head and allowing certain scenes to happen for whatever you want your story to be. After that's all done there is much left and its barebones from there.
- Immersion can suck for some parts of the game. Such as having a baby, you don't see them till they grow up to be 18. While the dev has since added animations eating, siting etc.. it just seems like NPC's don't do much to help your immersion. You kind of just have to roleplay in your head.
- Dialogue is really bland and bad at times.
- A lot of time getting settings right for you. I realized after awhile the settings I was playing just sucked. For example pregnancy's is pretty much 1:1 meaning you will have to wait 18 years in game to see your kid. Of course these can be changed in settings but you would never know till you hit these roadblocks in game and see how much they affect gameplay. I had to go through several playthroughs and settings to get it where I like.


Overall it is good for what the game is trying to be and what the dev has put up. However this game will be a hit or miss for most as many do not have the patience of setting a world that works for them. Again this is a sandbox and you will have to kind of roleplay for what kind of story you are going for. For those who get to learning the game and see what the game has to offer you will be rewarded with constant updates and shaping your world to your liking. Definitely have to give the game a try at least once. The game has good potential and hopefully people will see that.

This game took me a while to get used to, and I put off writing a review until I understood what it was about. Initially, my reaction was pretty negative (none of the characters looked human, the scenes were pretty bare, etc), but my impressions improved as the game became more polished and people started to put out character templates I could steal to make decent-looking MCs.

What made me like the game even more was the realization that i was not playing a character, but rather I was directing a low-budget movie starring the MC. I had to use stock sets and costumes because my budget didn't cover making everything from scratch, and my actors didn't always follow the script, but I could set up scenes and watch them play out. There's a lot of entertainment value to that (though not an infinite amount).

The frequent additions/updates by other contributors adds a lot to the value of the game. They are my heroes, often creating exactly the kinds of scenes I would like to "film."

Everything doesn't work perfectly; sex, in particular, becomes mundane when it doesn't become absurd. The "dialogue" of the characters sexing the MC is painfully bad (makes me appreciate that my lovers haven't been big speechifiers during sex). Sometimes events stall for no apparent reason, or get interrupted by other events that don't fit (my MC starts to watch a movie, gets arrested, goes to jail, bribes the guards, serves her tme, get outs, and then finishes the movie, and three hours have elapsed). The time/distance calculations sometimes seem way off (where could I go in Los Vegas that could be four hours by fastest transport from home?) to the point where pressing the "r" key to follow the game's suggestions is a bad idea since it could take the better part of a day to get a cup of coffee.

But the things wrong (other than the repetitive sex) are really just nits. The main thing the game needs now is scenarios. Spending a lot of time on pregnancy when that, too, will become boring quickly seems a less-than-sound investment of time (despite the fact that thee is a vociferous group clamoring for it). What the dev should work on is tools to make scenario-building easy, and let the community write most of the scenarios.

This is a very ambitious product, and takes a while to get used to, but it is slightly flawed genius in most ways.

I have been following this game for a bit over a year now on loverslab and I had my doubts about how it would turn out. Instead of being left unfinished like a lot of games on this site, I am impressed by the constant updates it continues to get. This game has some great potential, and I am looking forward to seeing how much better it can get in the coming months.

Gamplay is bad. You dont really know whats going on and what you can actually do in this game. The map is broken and horrible and dont understand were to go. The sex scenes are okey but i woudnt say it entertains long time

I want to start by saying that I don't review games at all, but this one is a standout for way it's done.

The work that was put in is incredible, but this is 3D. It leaves no work for imagination unlike 2D. The amount of work to put in necessary is incredible and mostly achieved by AAA studios only. Throw in a sandbox and it becomes terrible very very quickly. You can genuinely play through all sex positions in first sex meetup (more or less).

So work put in was put incredible, but there is so much that one can do by working on 3D and SANDBOX at the same time.

Only way I believe a good porn 3D game that is achievable is to put a dedicated team (multiple people) with a sufficient budget and a solid plan before starting a game. As for sandbox, I have first to see a good 3D game to consider it.

One of my favorite porn games. It's a life sim, it's a little buggy but the dev is very dedicated and is constantly updating it. Great for incest content especially, if you like incest / pregnancy / life sim, i definitely recommend it.

This game is a weird one, but not in the way you think.
It is a very good sandbox game, with a lot of choices on where to live, what to do, ect... there is also a healthy amount of mods to makes some good changes and add new features.
The problem lies within bones of the game. The animations are often weird, most of the models look disturbing to say the least. Clothing barely works either, probably due to no physics or something, i really dont know.
Unfortunately i don't see this game becoming that great without some major improvements, and not just adding shit like "A period cycle."
You'd be better off modding sims 4 with sex mods.

Wide as the ocean deep as a puddle: The game. Instead of focusing on ensuring key features work and UI elements don't overlap in ways which make it impossible to perform important functions in the game, or even implementing something as basic as a Windowed mode, Vinfamy has decided to put a little bit of everything, and I strongly emphasize "little bit", into a game which adds up to significantly less than the sum of its parts.

Real map as the background of the game, a strong sense of substitution, you can do whatever you like in the city you are familiar with. Game updates are fast and don't require too many downloads each time.