Ren'Py - Live in Corruption [v2.4.1] [Dirty Secret Studio]

Frustrating game. The love interests are sexy and well-modeled, the milf & daughter in particular. The premise is ridiculous in a good way, it sets a light-hearted and silly tone for a game that would otherwise be exploitative/predatory. The developer understands what kind of game they are making and what kind of protagonist they are writing.

However the real issue is that the way you access the content blows. It's a sandbox but it's the bad kind; a sprawling and half-finished mess with a dozen contradictory development ideas. The sandbox map alone needs to be completely refactored. the menu broke constantly, requiring rollback to fix. Also travel time is sometimes incorporated into changing locations or taking actions (but not always...), which often defeats what you're trying to do vis-a-vis quest steps.

tons of bugs, some of which crash the program entirely so not even rollback can help. i found myself sometimes ordering things online 2 or 3 times before it actually "took" and delivered items to the inventory. A lot of images failed to display, giving you a grey cutout saying "xyz.png is missing"

the gradual escalation of lewd scenes was fun at first. i enjoyed both the daughter and the milf arcs for about 2 hours or so, and then it got very repetitive. having to grind out tons of money just to buy clothes was boring as fuck. the sandbox conditions to trigger new content are convoluted/buggy and the hint system is inadequate

it's good that the models and the writing are mostly great, because the lewd scenes themselves are short/uninspired. most of the scenes are like 3-4 images, and the animations are primitive. There are some scenes (sex with the milf in the pool) which were so bad it was lowkey embarrasing. literal t-pose model moving up and down to show sex in the water

Solid 3 star effort, it's still a game, and it still works most of the time. Could be a lot better, hope it gets there. i enjoyed it but was very frustrated at times

VERSION: v2.4.1
SUMMARY: Not a bad game at all, some bugs and sandbox though...
RATINGS: (out of 5):

NOTE: The following categories and scoring method are my own criteria and may require more context. Additionally, scoring is based on the state, and what is in the current version and not what may or may not be.

1. Model Visuals..................... : ⭐⭐⭐
2. General Visuals................... : ⭐⭐⭐
3. Animation Quality................. : ⭐⭐⭐
4. Character (Persona)............... : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Story Quality & Pacing............ : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. Writing Quality & Dialogue........ : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. UI & Game-play Mechanics...........: ⭐⭐
8. Playtime & General Quality.........: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. Sounds & Music.....................: ⭐⭐⭐
10. H-Content & Fetishes.............. : ⭐⭐⭐

Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars.

PROS:

1. Models are not bad looking, rather cute, sexy and milfs are nice too.
2. Animations are not bad either, not stellar but decent.
3. Writing is good, structured and reads well.
4. Story is bullshit, but written and put together well enough to actually work.
5. Fair amount of LIs to mess around with.
6. Options to adjust relationships, who you want to include (sharing) etc.
7. Pregnancy is a decent kink

CONS:

1. Only music and some sounds, seems interactive ones but no other, lewd scene sounds or such.
2. Biggest gripe I have is the sandbox mechanic and the entire game being based on it.
3. Some bugs that are still not ironed out, some break the game enough to crash others block progression in some scenes.
4. Poorly constructed scene unlocks i.e. not always a clear way to progress and conditionals require constant roll back.
5. Other issues like tracking fertility on all characters, Susans being bugged, but its just compounded again by the sandbox conditions that seem to screw around a lot.

FINAL REMARKS, OPINIONS & SUGGESTIONS:

NOTE: The following remarks are my personal opinions and thoughts, which may provide more context and could be useful to the developer.

• Small gripe, but the MC looks like an old man, yet if you look at the pin up, he actually looks maybe 40. In some scenes however he has enough blemishes on his face to look 65-70. His brother could have been his son. Frankly many times the characters, MC and his brother look different in some scenes, old and younger variants make the game pretty inconsistent. At least my experience.
• Sandbox, now I do not give this game the rating I do because its a sandbox, but because its one, it slows the game down TREMENDOUSLY. Sure it allows for all these little tidbits of extra content and repeats, but ultimately is incredibly frustrating to have to do things at specific times with specific NPC, have specific stats and or specific items to progress with a scene. I can't overstate how much I hate sandbox games.
• What compounds this above is that progression is buggy, spotty or simply not explained enough. Even the walk-through or hint system does a piss poor job of some progression. e.g. how I am stuck on Susan progression to talk to her after spiking the hubbys food, then having to speak to her over a weekend evening when she is alone then again in her room, the scenes never allow for this or conditions are so finicky to create its not even funny. This is exactly the issue with sandbox and why is just SHIT.
• Per above, even deleting all your saves and persistent data to reload and hope to get a better play through, maybe manage to get through an area now seemingly blocked or not progressing is a messy effort. Simply because the game retains some of the previous play-through data. Restarting a new game has me unlocked much of Megan's scenes, e.g. MC can fuck her even though he just moved in (because of previous play-through) then he gives her a dildo to penetrate herself to prep her for actually screwing her in a later scene...WTF
• If this game approached each event with an LI from multiple possible conditions, that would have driven forward progression in a more natural way. I simply can't stress how frustrating the game ended up being due to its annoying conditional progression that often just did not allow me to progress for some obscure reason, be it bugs or just needing to be at the right place, right time, with perfect stats to progress...this is such a poor design and a typical issue with sandbox.

TLDR:
Solid 3 star game, nothing more. It could have been maybe a 4 star, but for the sandbox limiting progression to specific conditions, that don't always work. The game has some other decent enough content and I am actually more annoyed by its crappy design not being smooth and intuitive to allow progression. This kinda system is what ruins what could be a pretty decent game.

Just a fair bit more effort put into this game then you would think at first glance. It's been a while, but I remember really loving the way they fleshed out the relationship between the main target and the MC. Yeah he's still obviously the giga asshole here, but they play into it in a way that's actually quite fun.


This is a game where what you see is pretty close to what you'll get, but there's like an extra cherry on top that you weren't expecting. Certainly worth playing.

Story: Though its expanded, this is a blatant ripoff. They couldn't even be bothered to change the layout of the bedroom. The fact that this "studios" highest rated game on site is just stealing from another dev means I deduct one star (and for those of you claiming fan-made inspiration isn't stealing: shut up. Theres a difference between inspired and theft).

Art: The models are alright. I personally find the main love interest to be fairly derpy looking in some scenes but its not bad. Not anything to harp on about or deduct stars for. Corruption games don't need amazing models to be good in my opinion anyways.

Sound: Nothing to write home about or deduct any stars for here, either.

Gameplay: Same as just about any other RenPy sandbox. Complete with "make money on computer idiotic grind that nobody wants in a porn game so stop putting it in". The fact that they decided that this is a must have for their porn game SO MUCH that they put save editor protection in means that it has to have another deduction. Every RenPy developer under the sun listen up: NOBODY LIKES THIS CRAP. Stop putting it in your games and have some original ideas if you insist money grind has to be in your game.

Unironically one of my favorite games. It also gets frequent updates, once a month, with lots of content. There are many characters, writing is clear and hot enough, so many different outfits (to which other characters react!), progression is smooth. If you are into slow but steady progression with the mc having his way with many different woman, this game is treasure.

For me, it is currently the best game since Big Brother. Lots of opportunities to interact with characters, interesting and engaging storyline. The game guarantees many hours of fun with gradual influence on the behavior of women and their openness to new experiences. This is what I like the most.

This an excellent remake/continuation of the game Cohabitation. Theme is basically the same, but there are added systems and characters that enhance the experience. Some silly things (like corruption through aphrodisiac) are skillfully replaced. A distinct point worth mentioning is male MC having an average (or even on the smaller side, porn-games-wise) penis, which may be a plus or a minus depending on the player.

The worst thing about the game is bugginess, particularly in the outfit and hit systems.

I highly recommend this game if you enjoy corruption genre, especially if you liked the original.

Yes, the game is not bad, but if you keep going, you start getting into it. However, it lacks variety, the clues aren’t very clear, and you can end up stuck or surprised by a hidden scene. On top of that, a lot of images are missing (just showing a yellow error message), and you often run into a Ren'Py script error for whatever reason...


That said, it's still a very good sandbox because wherever you go, there’s a scene, something happens, and it progresses the game. Damn, it’s becoming so rare to find a game where things actually happen and no location is empty. Even if it’s just reused images, replays, or stat-building, it's still better than spending 10 hours looking for the girls or the scene that will trigger the next event. That aspect alone is what deserves the 4 stars.


The girls aren’t great, except for Morgan, whose design is recognizable, so that works. The others aren’t very refined, but at least the style is consistent. I completely understand if people don’t like it, though.


Still, a lot of effort went into it. The X-scenes triggering through a star system is a well-thought-out idea, not just thrown together. Unfortunately, there are more bad points than good, but the good ones are really top-tier, making the game worth checking out.

While on its surface this is a remake and improvement on Cohabitation for RPG Maker, in reality this is a major innovation by adding multiple outfits, expanded sharing options, and brand new characters that make the world feel significantly more lived-in. I strongly recommend trying it when time permits.

[Review based on v1.6.0]

PROS:
- Gameplay and game mechanics are good. It's quite easy to change locations and advance time.
- Decent renders and characters models.
- There are some path choices and also, overall, more options of what to do, compared to similar games.

CONS:
- The story is very farfetched, and the corruption progress happens way too easy and fast for my taste, as a Corruption genre fan.
- The animations are VERY basic, and the facial expressions are pretty bad sometimes, ruining the mood on several scenes.
- On some occasions, the in-game guide didn't help much on how to progress and how to use some items.
- Some UI elements and the text font need some improvements/changes.
- Right now, there are some inconsistencies in the story/progress, like doing a sex position and then, in later scenes, the characters act like it's their first time doing that...

PROS
+ We have an outfit system for Megan, and it's kind of interesting I guess.
+ We have different endings, but since the game is not completed we don't have too many of them available now, for now only one I saw was the ''bad ending''

CONS
- The story is quite basic, and can't say it's original or interesting, the characters are not really interesting, etc, either, and most of them are quite cliche and even boring.
- Even tho there are different paths exist it doesn't really feel that different, for example in path called ''Wholesome'' MC still acts like a kind of matchmaker to Megan & Ben, even tho path is saying MC will go after her, making her his lover, etc. And weirdly wholesome path is quite empty, it has nearly no sexual content at all, don't know where DEV coming from, but this is not how dividing paths works, you should add content to both paths according to their style, wholesome/romance path would have more romantic sexual content, meanwhile creep/corruption path would have more lust focused one, adding sexual content to one, and not adding nearly anything to other is not it's supposed to work.
- Relationship progress with Megan, and other people is quite grindy, and can be boring to do same things over and over again, especially considering most of them have exact same text with little difference, and exact same pictures/renders.
- The game needs better hints, because if it's not bug triggering some scenes are almost impossible like talking your ex-wife in bar, it's just doesn't happen at all, and hints should be on main HUB, and easily accesable, instead of needing to go throught from PC, etc.
- Most characters name's are changeable, and relationship between MC & Kevin, or MC & Megan is changeable as well, but there is no option to change MC's relationship with Susan or Diana.
- Even tho relationships can be changed, it doesn't really work since story is only fit to Kevin being your friend, like classic one you might wanna try make Calvin, and Megan ''Uncle & Niece'' but because of relationship between Calvin & Kevin story doesn't fit. Best you can do is probablly make Calvin & Kevin cousins I guess.
- Menu/HUD/UI is pretty bad, especially save/load screen is quite problematic with next, and previous buttons being too small, nearly always you will be clicking save slots instead of buttons, and it's really annoying. And choices, and other stuff design doesn't look good either.
- Sanbox gameplay, feels bad, moving around in the house is annoying, and tedious, having more basic system like having room icons in the bottom of the screen, etc, would be far better.
- Weirdly placement of ''skip'' button is constantly changes, and it's really annoying when you need to skip couple times.
- The game is somehow started developing in 2024, yet it looks like a game developed in the 2015-2020 era, it looks outdated in every aspect, Menu, HUD, UI, character models, literally, everything looks outdated and old.
- Most animations look very weird, and out of place like the scene where MC applies some lotion on Megan, etc.
- The game lacks more pictures/renders for dialogues, like in the prologue you see MC talking with the house members, telling his story, etc, it's just exact same two picture/render, and only text changing, characters have no different render/picture depending on their reactions, etc, and it looks really bad, and boring.
- It's quite buggy, like having problems to open ''Status'' screen, and it's giving constant errors, or phone messages giving errors, or can't change swimwears because of errors, etc.
- Even tho there is option to name characters script not perfect, and you will be called default MC's name in the story.

VERDICT
The game has potential, but it needs some serious work to be good, especially visual upgrade is needed ASAP.

simple game but all i'm looking for in a game. I like sandbox games and this one got a good gameplay that doesn't stop with the main female character of the game, various possibility of corruptions doable at the same time (no need to restart other routes) and sexy female characters. Some bugs especially but not unplayable. In game walkthrough could be better to be sure of reaching the maximum scenes of each "routes" or for hints.
Still a very nice game

Writing: 6/10
Imagery: 7/10
Gameplay: 6/10
Kinks: 6/10
Overall: 6/10

A love letter to cohabitation? Yes, and no.

Right off the bat, if you didn't already know, the story and concept for this game is directly taken from another, older gamer, called cohabitation. You, the fat uncle, move in with your helpful but unwitting brother and his sexy family. You become roomies with your niece, who you slowly chip away at, turning her from a nerdy and shy girl, into your personal slut. You also get to cuck your brother by screwing his bitchy wife, blackmailing her cheating ass into planting itself on your fat sausage. But hey, at least you pay rent, right?

Well the story is mostly unchanged, but the mechanics are updated, some quality of life improvements were made, and some things were totally scrubbed. First and foremost, there is no sleep sex. Uncle Lester says it himself "there's no fun is fucking a sleeping chick, you sick fuck". Oh brother. Clearly the dev must not like the idea of straight molestation or rape, which was something I enjoyed in the first.

The corruption also feels a LOT easier, almost too easy, as in the previous iteration of this reaching a new level of corruption for either the niece or the mother, took a good deal of time and work. It made you min-max your days, but not so much here.

They do add another character to mess with, a friend of the niece, but at this current stage of the game there's not much you can currently do with her. Or any one for that matter. Cope a feel here or there, finger bang the mom, spy on the girl changing, all very skin surface level sort of stuff that only s 16 year old might find jerk worthy. Wake me up when you're balls deep in the mother, getting dome from the niece while you watch tv, or cracking the friend's ass wide open.

v1.3.1 - The gameplay, story, and renders are all average. I applaud the dev of this unauthorized remake for going beyond the original story (even if two of the added characters are the most offensive depiction of autism since "The Good Doctor" and literally a Harley Quinn model) but the game is so bug-riddled that it feels like there is not enough care going into making this.

Rating it an IGN 3. Would tentatively recommend if future releases are a little more bug-free.

TLDR: fairly good sandbox corruption with little grind needed to unlock scenes.

Story 4/5:
The story is kind of whatever, but it gets the job done and sells you as a creepy bastard trying to corrupt any girl within a 5km radius of you. But this is a corruption sandbox so the story being bland doesn't kill it for me. I'd rather focus on corrupting the girls instead of receiving another exposition dump every other scene.

Art 4/5:
The art is fairly nice though the lighting could be improved. Animation isn't exactly there... but hey I don't mind.

Gameplay 5/5:
Simple enough and fairly enjoyable with some reasonable amount of legwork needed to get the ladies to spread their legs. Working is as simple as clicking 1 button, which is nice. With no need to path to a workplace and back you can spend more of your time using your other hand! Granted this is a fairly simple sandbox without much depth or strategy, but it is a breath of fresh air and meshes well with the rest of the construction of the game.

UI 2/5 :
The UI and font choice are the weakest links for me, especially the status page on the computer, some of the stuff like consumables should be separated into an inventory section. Check the girls' status should ideally also be readily accessible. Maybe also split the questline into a journal page. But at least everything works as intended, if a little ugly and unintuitive.

Bugs 4/5:
I ran into some exception errors right at the start-up, which cracked me up. And a second during a dinner scene sometime after day 10. The first bug I ignored, and the second I just dodged by avoiding the dinner. So overall it was fine as nothing broke beyond repair in my short time playing the game.

Story 2/5
Guess im just no seeing what others are, i found the story quite boring and pretty standard and it never really felt like much corruption, at most it would be very light corruption or maybe even more of a romance i dunno.

MC got a divorce and ended up homeless and moves in with hes brother and the brothers wife and daughter, then you can talk with the girls and gain points which proberly dont really matter much, maybe if you had a clue what to do it might come into play but without any kind of hints or questlogs or anything you just end out clicking around randomly hopeing something new will happen, i find this kind of gameplay extremly boring.

As for the girls i just dident like the look of them, Ami was the best looking one and she only visit late game and only once a week and without a skip day option you got to click work 5 times or so then sleep x7 days untill next visit, its just to much waste of time and again adds to that boring feeling.

As for MC hes just an old ugly dude with a small pencil dick which dosent help in the sex scenes.

Then theres the bugs and theres a shitload, i ran into the grey renpy error page a million times over, sure you can ignore to get game going again but it dosent make it less annoying.

I had to quit the game when i reached the choice to lick Amis pussy since game simply just froze and crashed, tried to restart game and reload saves but couldent get past the point, if its end of content i have no clue since there arent any questlog or atleast not a working one.

The sandbox part is just a grind, its not a bad one but also theres no real fun in it and theres barely any locations, you got like 4 rooms and thats it, cant leave house or anything either so its just really small and barely even has a point of being a sandbox.

Girls 2/5
The mother and daughter just dident look good to me, i know it comes down to personal taste but to me they where not hot and daughter had some weird almost saggy tits not fit for her age, Ami looks alot better but theres not really much content with her.

Renders overall is also quite low quality.

Animations 2/5
They arent really good, pretty short and low quality.

Music 0/5
Silent game not much else to say about that....

Choices 3/5
Most of it is just kinetic but you do have some choices to turn down Ami for one, if you can turn down the mother or daughter i had no idea dident really want to test things out to much since game was to boring for me.

It's the typical Ren'Py VN with multiple choices and routes. The writing is great.
I see a lot of potential in this game.
I really like the Corruption tags, and this is one of the better games in this genre.
A good mix of new stuff and repeatable stuff.
I would recommend it to anyone.
4 stars. Let's see where this goes.

I like these corruption games. It is slow corruption without getting too grindy. It took me a while to find the wine but the rest is more or less self explanatory. The renders could be better, there could be more renders as the story is some times a bit jerky but overall I like it.

Personally, I think this trainer is a good mix of progression and repetition.
The models look OK and believable.
I also really liked Cohabitation.

What I don't like is the graphic representation of the sperm, which is a bit of a turn-off for me.
I would also like to see a route that is perhaps a bit more BDSM/slave orientated, so far we can only develop it in the bimbo direction, which is absolutely OK.

Thanks for reading.

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[New Review for v1.8.0]

So, I praised the game a lot in my original review (and gave it 5 stars), and while I still think everything I wrote before applies, I don't think it deserves 5 stars after playing through a few of the newer versions.

The biggest problem are the bugs. The game's full of them, with the biggest being errors occurring at random and the default names being used a bunch (this last one is especially prevalent in the intro.)

I normally don't consider this a huge problem, but some of these bugs aren't fixed between versions, even when new ones are added. It's a big enough issue that I thought it deserved not only a rating decrease but also an updated review to serve as a warning for anyone considering giving it a try.

Still a pretty good game, but it has some issues that could frustrate players.
Live in Corruption is one of the best trainer games I've ever played. The pacing is nice; the grind feels natural; the girl is suitably sexy, innocent and curious; the MC is a creepy asshole, but in a self-aware, believable way and without going too far (too far for a corruption game, that is).

All-in-all, it's just a great game, but I feel like there's still potential here. Pregnancy, content with the mom, content with the two of them at the same time, cucking the dad, that type of thing.