Ren'Py - Living Together! [v0.52] [Advent Games]

The dev's choice to make the sexual content purely gated by dating events held on weekends is devisive as seen by reviews. It is pure loop and grinnd 5 days of the week doing same interactions, same responses.
Then on weekend if you have money, you can do a date and progress to unlock more interactions.
The sex scenes are repetative, and some of them with the sis take too long to progress when you've seen them dozens of times.

WIth that said, the game does play well, and the content that is there is nice. There isn't any forced turn off content really, and I think besides the grind and repitition it'd be nice to not have the pubic hair. Just doesn't look good.

If you can deal with a lot of repitition, it is kinda enjoyable though. Don't forget the weekend dates

This game holds the absolute record for losing my interest. I couldn’t last more than five minutes. I think it’s the grindiest among all grindy games — painfully repetitive, with barely any content to justify the effort. The dialogue is poor, and the choices feel completely random, as if you’re just guessing to match the game’s arbitrary preferences. On top of that, you can’t save or go back, which makes the whole experience even more frustrating. Honestly, giving this game one star is far too generous, considering it easily ranks among the worst games I’ve ever played. It has officially earned a place on my blacklist.

The grind is real.

And it feels kinda pointless to just repeat every action 100 times to get 100 points trust and then another action 100 times to get 100 points attraction etc. via an RNG-system with the great goal to... yeah, achieve 400 points of everything to unlock pussy or something like that.

Some of the text-fields are not skipable with mouseclick, so you have to wait until it transits eeeeevery daaaaaay in the saaaaame action eeeeeveryyyy daaaaaayyyyyy the saaaaaaaameeeeeee....

That was on "easy" mode.

I don't know what great treasures are waiting behind the grind-wall, but thats ok. And don't listen to ppl saying "it's not that grindy".
It is.

This game had the potential to be engaging, but it quickly devolves into a frustrating and monotonous experience. From the very beginning, you're thrown into an endless cycle of grinding that feels more like busywork than actual gameplay. What’s worse is that it never lets up — the further you progress, the more repetitive and unrewarding it becomes.


I kept playing, hoping the grind would eventually pay off or at least ease up. Unfortunately, that moment never came. The game seems designed to stretch out its content artificially, relying on mindless repetition instead of meaningful progression or variety. It’s exhausting, not challenging — and definitely not fun.


The lack of gameplay variety and depth is further compounded by a barebones story that fails to keep you invested. There's little motivation to keep going, other than sheer stubbornness or sunk cost.


Ultimately, this is a game that demands a lot of your time and energy, while giving very little in return. Unless you're someone who enjoys endless, unrewarding repetition, I can’t recommend it. There are far better ways to spend your gaming hours than getting stuck in this loop of disappointment.

The game initially seems interesting, with nice visuals and all that, but it's absolutely dreadful to play. It's incredibly boring—seriously, so, so boring. You're forced into these long conversations with dozens of dialogue options, and you feel obligated to test every single one. The whole experience is slow in every sense of the word. The scene transitions take an absolute eternity, and the grind is just horrific. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. Hopefully, someday someone turns this into a proper Visual Novel (VN) instead.

Honestly I played it out of boredom, but it bored me even more. It's a review, but as dev is here, I would like to give my thoughts about upgrading the game too.

I played through the whole game and I don't event want to rate it out of 10, because it's not worth it, so I am just gonna write what I think.

Gameplay is kinda fun at the beginning, but gets very irritating and frustrating quickly. You just rinse and repeat everything, nothing new for like a few weeks and then wow, you finally get a new option so you can take two weeks instead of three to progress. Something like that is acceptable if there are multiple options for every career path and/or multiple dialogues, but no, the dialogues are literally the same EVERY SINGLE TIME.

You can't save/load from the usual menu, you NEED to wait for her dialogue and animation to end to the point when you are trying it for the 100th time it's kinda infuriating. Yes, you can disable some texts and other stuff, but there is no customization as to what to show and not, so if you turn it on, you're gonna have to menu-shuffle even more just to check her status and load/go ahead.

I understand the feeling to make it more immersive by giving you a phone and a smartwatch to track things, but honestly, at least time and energy displayed on the screen all the time would be great. The amount of times I thought I had enough energy but I didn't because there is only 4 levels of "battery" so you need to do math all the time or menu-shuffle AGAIN is... I stopped counting after like 10.

The amount of max stamina gained through jogging also feels too little (1?), idk about the gym because I played as a Student.

Speaking about Student - career paths - there are 4 and every one has their downside and upside, don't know much about other than student, but the fact you have no way of working part-time as a student is kinda mehh, also something like school schedule would be better than just coming home everyday at the same hour, so you can at least do some things on some days you can't on the other. When you do the last date as a Student you end up on Sunday night, so you can't do laundry, but if you do the laundry beforehand, you can't go on a date even though it's <12:00, so you're literally being forced to have your laundry dirty for like 3/4 days (it was the time she unbugged and did it by herself?) and fix her mood everyday.

There is almost no story at all and you probably know everything about what's going to happen after a while and every scene is also very predictable in it's end.

The romance development is somewhat ok, but I would except some events from going through trust and attraction levels, it just doesn't feel good for some reason, you just get your number up, that's it.

Animations are fine and probably the only okayish thing, but could be a lot more polished, no voice, no sound effects (except two scenes iirc), everytime the same, nothing changes based on the mood or closeness to her. There are maybe like 10 frames at max in some animations (including different cameras/views), so I don't really understand why this game weights so much...

The idea behind the game is fine, the delivery, definitely no. I would recommend this game on easy mode with full brain off in the game and eyes in the walkthrough, and then just do things you want when you get the last date, but even that can be a time waster for the quality you get.

TL;DR: Okay animations, bad to mid storytelling, almost no sound design, super grindy, not rewarding, boring, infuriating and tiring

Extremely on-rails. It initially feels like you should slowly make her change her mind by becoming more attractive to her, but in reality it is just: Level up your stats -> Wait until weekend -> level up your stats a bit more -> wait until weekend -> Go on a date which unlocks new content -> level up your stats again -> wait until next weekend -> Go on another date which will unlock more scenes -> rince and repeat until all the content is unlocked.

Pros:
- The idea is solid.
- The models looks decent
- Most of the animations and scenes look decent.
- A nice variety of scenes.

Cons:
- Extremely grindy (new scenes are behind stat checks)
- Really bad game design (Everything happens during the weekends, all the relationship progression events, everything. Weekdays are pointless.)
- RNG conversations. You up her mood so you have a better success chance, and then just save-load while you try to up your stats with her. This is even more ridiculous when you understand that you get a huge amount of Trust/Attraction during weekend events, so it is valid to just skip the weekdays entirely and just focus on the weekends, avoiding the stupid RNG conversation system..
- The arbitrary job system is silly. Just being a day trader has far more freedom for the character than any other position, and as a Day Trader you have a huge amount of cash to go around (you can finish the game without having to do any trading). Also the day trading job system is unclear.
- As a day trader you can go to the Gym during the day.. What is the point of those options/systems when there's no fitness stat? At least increase the attraction stat when you go to the gym.

Decent models, pointless grind, best just skip through the weekdays and just focus on the weekend events. I guess all the mentioned systems that don't make sense right now, might start making sense later when more stats or adjustments are made and I'll try to change the score once that happens.

Dev has to add more stuff and progression tied to the weekdays. And it'd be far better to tie changes in relationship to the stats instead of forced dating events (which makes all the interactions feel artificial). You can tie bigger changes such as sex/HJ to events, sure, but the girls reactions towards your character should be based on the stats, not just the weekend events. Also reduce or remove the RNG conversation system, it's just stupid losing stats when you've already talked with her 10+ times regarding softcore porn, and she was OK with it all, and then suddenly she feels uncomfortable..

This is a V/N where you feel like you spend most of your time just spinning your wheels, even on easy mode. Trying to build your relationship with "sis" is more frustrating than fun.

Skipping days doesn't always work either because you have to keep an eye on things like food or health products on hand.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to how sis reacts to things like talking or watching TV. Flip a coin, maybe she likes it, maybe not.

over all just not very fun to play.

My opinion about the game: the game is not bad. There are moments that I like, there are moments that need to be corrected, and there are openly annoying moments.
What I liked: the picture of the girl and her emotions during the scenes. The more of these moments there are, the more the game will benefit from it.
What needs to be corrected: the text on the screen. It is simply ridiculous when during a scene text appears on half the screen, which periodically obscures the view.
The second thing that needs to be fixed - and this is the most annoying - is the empty repeating weekly events. If something is unlocked during the weekend events, why is it not available during the week? Why do you actually have to skip two weeks in a row to wait for a new event and another week so that its effect can be used during the new week?
There is no point in looping repeating weekly events!
The variety of locations and events is the key to the success of this game among others in its segment of the genre.

It's a very long grind.
The initial options are all useless because the game always behaves the same way. The only difference is the money, which helps a lot with weekend activities. You always have to do the same things, but you make minimal progress. You need extremely high stats to advance the story. This doesn't make sense. Why do most developers think they have to stretch the story out so much? If the story is short, then keep it short. Don't make it seem longer by forcing players to repeat the same actions.
Even if you advance to the sex scenes, you'll quickly realize that all the time spent on the senseless grind wasn't worth it because the game mechanics don't feel natural at all. Not to mention the animations...

Simply: Dont waste time on this timewaster. The fap isnt worth it.

It is a 3D rendered Imouto: Monochrome game I once played.
With all ups and downs of the previous game, BUT much better renders.

On my oldish gaming laptop the game would stutter and it would go hot, despite trying the compressed version
(uncompressed ver was the biggest game I saw on this website)

The game even in "easy mode" was grindy and you had to wait to Weekend to progress the relationship.
Easy mode did delete lots of game elements like washing the dishes and doing the laundry, which lead my imouto to being bullied at school.

Every day I saw the same 4 renders of imouto cooking for us. Disabled that in preferences, but it also disabled other minor scenes around the house for me.

The artist disabled ALL normal keys, so even Right Click, or Esc didnt work.

I encountered a bug that when I saved on the weekend, the imouto didnt give me the options to go anywhere (stuck with her grinning at me). But that was just before Ryokan (sex penetration scene) and I decided that the game isnt worth it.

So dont waste time.

Dont get me wrong: RENDERS ARE SUPER, but there are few of the erotic ones and you grind and click to have 5 of fingering/cunningulus before the weekend to progress.

I really wasted few hours of my life on this crap. Didn't even come.

it's impossible to play. ...........................................................
it has potential but its gameplay is tragic. .........................................
no matter what combination I do in 8-9 days I lose her trust and it's game over..................................................................................................................

This isn't fairly rated. It's hot. Yes there's a s**t load of grinding but you gotta work for it.

The level of detail behind the scenes (must read the official walkthrough) is impressive. Really recommend this!

Been playing for days if not weeks and nothing no action no reward for my time I'm starting to think they just put random pics up with no actual scenes in the game. I have 200 points in trust and 43 in attraction and nothing happens i cant do anything but talk and hangout.

unintuitive
too grindy and repetitive
cheap copy of a similar game
girl looks bad the pubes make her even worse
user interface relocated only to your watch and phone (which has ads)
many options at the start of the game to give you the illusion of choice but they don't matter, even the modes of sandbox or vn are the same

Overall I like the game, the 2 characters and the game mechanics.

The "grind" is the game, so no complaints from me. It's a game where you progress by building your stats. Like pretty much every non-erotic game out there.

The pacing is a bit slow, but I feel that playtime vs reward is good enough.

So the female LI is pretty cute.
The sex scenes are enjoyable.
The game mechanics are nice.
And of cause the main lady's lovely bush is definately a win for me.

But there is some downsides.
The fact that there are only 2 characters in the game, and half the time it's only the MC doing things are making the game feel a bit mundane.
Although there are a lot of actions you can do with the girl at home, the fact that you stay at home every week day just feel very routine. So all your fun is reserved for weekends.

A bit of variety would have done wonders. When going for a walk/gym, actually showing the MC doing it. Showing some other people when they are in public. It almost feel like the MC is a recluse. (I played as a NEET, so maybe that is the reason)

TLDR; I like these kinda games, but I feel a few it lacks a bit of variety. The only 2 people you ever see is the MC and his LI. Throwing in an activity or 2 that you can do during the week etc. will do wonders for the game.

Solid 4.

I'm really fed up with this dumb rating system on F95... The games I love, the ones that easily make it into my top 30 (out of 118 games currently), always end up with ratings under 3 stars... Is it just a matter of taste and preference? Nope... it's almost always the grind-heavy games. But I seriously don’t get it — if you don’t like that kind of game, for crying out loud, just stop playing and move on!!! Especially since these types of games clearly mention all over the place that the romance progression will be slow... Oh, what's that? Reading in a visual novel?? Oh my god, what??? Reading in a VN? Pfff.


So yes, I give five stars to balance the score — but not just for that. The game has a lot of qualities!


Not just visually (even though I often get bugs and it lags — it still looks great, maybe it’s my PC). The system is smart, original, and well thought out. It tries to simulate real human psychology with variations, subtleties, moods... okay, it’s still a simulation, but it’s a solid attempt that most games don’t even try. And even if you feel a bit lonely with Shiori, a real emotional bond builds precisely because the game takes its time. The repetition puts your brain into a routine that, while a bit dull, makes every bit of progress feel really rewarding.


Yes, at first, even the slightest mistake is brutal — you might spend an hour raising a stat only to see it crash in two seconds. But that’s just at the beginning!!! You quickly figure out how to talk to her, where not to click, and little by little, you start unlocking interactions — and they’re all super cute.


When the adult scenes kick in, they take center stage, and at that point, it’s pure 100% sexual content. You don’t even need dialogue anymore — two interactions are enough to make everything skyrocket, and every weekend you unlock a new scene. So everyone complaining about the grind clearly didn’t get it. And if you’re playing an AVN with CTRL spam, you're doing it wrong... this kind of mindset really gets on my nerves.


People are out here giving 4 or 5 stars to ugly, poorly drawn games that somehow have tens of millions of views, with shallow gameplay, bestiality, and massive popularity... Honestly, the less time I spend on F95, the better I feel.


But it’s refreshing to find a game that knows how to tease and captivate us... Of course she’s endearing, and yes, the heavy grind helps with that — the rewards feel perfect, the camera angles are well-chosen, and it genuinely feels like every image was carefully framed, not just shot from the usual boring angles. Not seeing the MC is already a big plus (though yeah, there’s a mirror in the bathroom, but it’s fine).


So, in summary: beautiful visuals, thoughtful and rewarding gameplay (although, yeah — one big question remains: once you’ve unlocked everything, why keep the 150 useless interactions?). Still, the game lives up to its promises and delivers a real gaming experience that can easily last 2 or 3 full days.


Unfortunately, the time spent outside of Shiori is underused. Once you’ve eaten, all you can do is sleep. And the salaryman minigame is kind of meh, though there’s a shortcut at least. Obviously, the game has its flaws and some design choices we might not agree with if we were the devs. But overall, every interaction feels meaningful. You’re not playing as a dumb MC or some scared teenager who panics at touching a girl — or the opposite, a vulgar pervert. If that’s your thing, fine, but it’s not mine. I appreciate the MC’s mindset — simple, but logical. Especially during the beach scene... very romantic and realistic.


Beach scene? Oh right, I forgot — the critics probably only played for 10 seconds...

Thank you DEv, please, i'm waiting for another game

It's way too much. There are so many variables to keep track of. It's so grindy repeating the same interactions over and over again, with really dull "You talk about X topic. It was an OK chat." responses and not actual gameplay content. Money making is tedious. The renders aren't great. The interface has everything locked down, like you can't right click or escape to save and load, you have to go through the phone. You have to click through the smart watch to see 4 different statuses instead of just letting you display them. Peeping animations make you sit there watching it for like 2 full minutes without being able to skip or cancel. There's just so much wrong with this game for minimal payoff.

Even skimming the walkthrough is exhausting. It's 35 pages of "explanation" about how the game works, not even a choice guide. If you need 35 pages just to explain how the game works, something is wrong.

First a comment about some ratings:
As the Dev already put in his notes, the game needs a while to heat up. Grinding is part of the concept and everybody can make his/her own decission, to try it or not. I can't understand peolple giving only one star, because of grinding. That's like giving a coke only one star, because its taste is sweet, while everybody knows, that it contains a lot of suggar.
But now to the game:

The game is excellent. Yes, there is some gridning to do, but like the dev wrote, that's the concept of the game.
Taking an objective look on it, I'd like to give the stars as followed:

Quality of the modell: 5 stars, excellent
Building up relationship between MC and the girl: 4 stars, good pace with good small steps
H-scenes: 5 stars, they are excellent as well
Weekend-Activities: 5 stars, there is always something to do and a way to have fun with the girl

The only lack are weekdays, if MC and the girl already in a perfect relationship and the girl is not really in the mood for special treathments. The can get boring, maybe the dev will give it a shot and will implement some more weekday-activities.

All in all it's a clear 5 star rating and more than worth to play it.

Basically a cheap knock off of "Imouto! Life ~Monochrome~" with mediocre 3D modeling: the daily routine, the transitional scenes, the numeric computation system etc.... pretty much copies everything but with far worse implementation and quality of life.

Extremely grinding with low returns and the sleep minigame pretty much gives you nothing back.