Ren'Py - Living Together! [v0.54] [Advent Games]

The idea of the game is not bad. However, its implementation is surprisingly ill-conceived, incomprehensible and uninteresting. There are too many actions that are repeated without understanding the consequences, and you do not know exactly what the steps led to - were they effective or should they not be repeated, except for the obvious ones, after which the end of the game comes. At the same time, the usual, useful and understandable save/load mechanism is distorted in such a way that it is inconvenient to use, and at first it is not even clear how.
If at the same time there were decent graphics, drawing of models or animations... And yes - there is none of that either. That is why the rating is the lowest. So far, this is a flaw that is not even worth paying attention to.

v0.39

Too much unneccesery conversation topics, like it was made just to burn players time, nothing more, noting less.

Save/load system... Well it doesn't works as it should, first of all LOAD is a "myth" it's something made up by some lunatics, we don't know what it is.
We can load game only by restarting it and save progress in the phone... It's annoying, uninteresting and not userfiriendly, cuz YES we have pages in the save window, but NUMBERS of the pages have the same color as backgorund.

Rollback function... It's a myth too. ( doesn't exist)
Same goes for the text skip function.

We have a "choice" in the start of the game where gameplay can be divided in more casual VN style or a Sandbox... but it seems it's just a placeholder cuz we can't set any of the options, game just continue and we face a brutal and stupid grind system.

Grind. Too much grind for nothing. I thought that 100 of trust would be - "Woooah! I trust you with my life, bro!"
But the dev tought otherwise. He thougth that useing default % system is boring, so we points isn't limitedby 100. a hundred trust points is just aone lil tier, which indicates you that the girl only STARTS to trust you...

Renders... Honestly, there is so "much" of them, that i don't have enough fingers to count them all! Especially, when i really don't have any...

So... yep, overall it's a trsh. I don't belive in any bright future of this project at all.
Too much grind. Not user-friendly interface in some places. Small amount of content during grind activities, so we basically just pressing buttons to press another buttons... We don't have any renders of "gym" which we are visiting for... what reason? (there is no any strength variable in the stats... we don't actually have any stats, except of the girl ones.)... Broken default renpy functions for no reason...

So yep, that's it. Do not spend your time on it. Just skip it or wait for the... v0.5-1.0... maybe tehre would be smth of interest, but i don't belive in it.

Dev brags about there being nearly infinite variations in the gameplay so you have to "learn" about her, I guess he forgot this is a porn site not an AI dating site. Have tried game multiple times on updates, still hasn't failed to bore me to death before a single thing happens, even with the sub version making it "easier" when realistically the sub version lowers some of the management but doesn't help with the most time consuming part of it.

review based on 0.39:

absolutetly NOT recommended!

I was intrigued by the description and the provided renders - but that's all.
First it looked as there is no way to save your game, but then i recognized an icon on your phone where you can save your progress. However, there is NO way to load saved games except on reset/restart the game, and even then i encountered several crashes and some of my savegames don't work at all. Also there is no "rollback" option.
Aside not being able to save and load propperly and in a convenient way, the grind is HORRIBLE. The whole gameplay is all but intuitive and you don't have ANY clue what to do. Even if you figured some basics out after some time and most likely after some "Game overs", the grind is absolutely boring, horrible and non-rewarding.
Before i deinstalled the game and put it on blacklist, i decompiled the files and had a look into the renders about what to expect if i could force myself through all that miserable gameplay and horrible grind => there is NOTHING rewarding at this point.

I really wanted to give at least ONE more star for the really cute and nearly perfect asset for the girl, but honestly everything else is so "not worthy" to get even the one default star, so i decided not to honor the only positive about this "game" at all.

You really shouldn't waste any time or bandwidth to download this (in my opinion) crap.

I assume all reviews above 2 stars are either made by people who never even played the game at all, by massochists (who like to torture themself), or made by fanboys/friends of the dev ... or they simply played a different game - who knows?
Giving 4-5 stars to this is so absurd and a huge slap in the face of all developers who actually put really decent and fine games out there and getting 4 stars for them. Equal this game to other 4-5 star games is like claiming that some old broken worn up Roler Blades are on the same level as a brand new Rollce Royce

The grind is absolutely ridiculous.

There's no gameplay to speak of.
There's no rollback, no autosave, and seemingly no way to save.

Actions seems to randomly gives a pisspoor amount of points, or none.
I ended up extracting the game to see what was in there, and there seems to be no content either anyway...

Ignore this, you'll only be wasting your time.

2 hours in, theres no load option besides resetting the game, there are 0 h scenes i have encountered, the attraction bar is impossible to raise, the best conversation topics that i had spent so much time trying to find out only give 3 affection, where as watching tv does 4?? this game is just lowk weird and i have no idea what im supossed to do

grind grind grind grind grind. no pay off, no indication outside of paying to go on trips that you are making any real progress. just a giant time sink. spent a better part of 3 hours just trying to make any headway and it felt like I put in a miles worth of effort just to move an inch. developer, games are supposed to be fun. your game is sitting at a 2 and a half star. clearly players do not really find this gameplay loop fun or rewarding.

Fun game, albeit very early in the process. It's a little quirky but shows promise. I enjoyed my time with it and will re-visit after an update or two.

Character model is cute and I appreciate the dev's inclusion of natural, unshaved pubic hair. Too rare in this field and it's very nice to see. Toilet peeping is always always fun!

Even the idea is good, there is no way you can win in any aspect. Anything you do, lose points, lose money, you dont have any idea what to do. I think you could be trying to be "good MC" days and days to get nothing

I would not even call this a game, it's more like grind torture. The cute little girl next to the title, and the "Loli" tag, get gamers interested, which is the idea I guess -- but then unless one has much deeper internal gaming mechanics knowledge than I have, one becomes lost in the infuriating, byzantine grind of it. No Renpy save or back controls, one has to constantly start again... I read a few of the reviews that aren't 1-star, and they seem really reaching to find anything remotely satisfying, IMO. Really, one of the worst AVN experiences I've had in a long time. Unless you enjoy grind for the sake of grind, I advise you to stay away. If I were the dev, I would seriously consider making this game a lot more User Friendly.

The game is quite promising so far. It could use some easier in game help, but then, more important is good game mechnics. If you like some slow grind before you get rewards, this might be a game you wanna check out.

It's a game scam, like a cheap plastic toy in shape of quality product.
Instead of reproduce Monochrome gameplay this fake game give you non-existing mechanics, described, but clearly not working, repetetive click-clack gameplay instead of exiting one in original, well, a couple of renders for fancy cover.
If you want those 3D renders, go and try, and be dissapointed. In any other case just play original. It's better.

To much of a grind and 0 rewards since its theres really nothing in the game yet, i had about a million renpy grey screens where it couldent show the right clothes or transform or whatever it said.

Before giving up totaly i tried using cheats but theres just no content yet.

No clue why fast skip has been removed i mean who wants to read the same dialogs over and over which you have to since its such a grind.

The one model looks good so gave it 1 star for that, theres no sex scenes yet and no pregnancy which for some reason should end the game once she gets pregnant which kinda ruins the hole idea of putting it into a game like this in the first place, i mean its a single LI why not make pregnant sex and some fun dialogs, but as its planed now it wont be for anyone that has a pregnant kink.

Could this be something someday, maybe but it would take alot more content and alot more planed things then just a single sex scene and fast ending when she gets pregnant.

So for now its really not worth playing at all, its just a waste of time which is also why i cant give this more then 2 stars as it is now.

Living Together! v0.37

Despite being similar to Imouto! Life Monochrome and even referencing it within the game, Living Together! shows promise.

After spending some time playing, here are my thoughts on what I liked, didn't like, and my suggestions as a player.

What I liked:

The render quality is decent.
Gameplay is reasonably good.
The information on menstruation is intriguing (though it needs improvement, see suggestions).
The navigation menu is intuitive and easy to use.

What I didn't like:

The grinding is extremely exhausting (I almost gave up trying to reach 100 Lewd).

Information is lacking as you progress in Trust and Lewd in the S.I.S (nothing changes even if you reach 500 and 100 respectively).

Limited options for activities besides watching TV, despite the presence of a bookshelf in the game.

While I understand the need to monetize an adult game, making certain items available only to sponsors is not the best approach in my opinion. Attracting sponsors should be based on the game's quality, gameplay, story, and content.

Suggestions:

Menstruation System: Whether the developers are men or women, menstruation has more nuances than currently presented. If the character has high Lewd and is in her fertile period, she could show more interest in intimacy and even initiate interactions.

Objectives: Implementing clear objectives could enhance the gameplay experience. For example, "achieve X Trust or Y Lewd," "drink beer with the character for the first time," etc.

Pregnancy: According to the website, the game ends once the character becomes pregnant. Please reconsider this. There are many interesting scenarios to explore during pregnancy, such as:
Frequent urges to pee, leading to funny or lewd scenes.
Unique pregnancy cravings.
Adult breastfeeding.
Deeper romance and heightened sexual desires.
Buying new clothes as the old ones no longer fit.

Ending the game due to pregnancy seems like a missed opportunity. Instead, the story could evolve with the baby, such as sending the baby to daycare.

Avoid, i played older version, saw all the complaints abut the game, and dev did nothing to fix them just added i little bit of contet to the game that is unplayeble.
No fast forward or rollback
Saveing made hard and loading inposible unless you want to go to main menu all the time witch you will have to do every 2 min because game is broken and rng based. You get like +2 points in trust ot lewd for a good action but if you get rnged with a bad outcom you lose 20 liiteraly wiping progres form your entire play time just because. This game is literaly if you tied to make cohabitation type game but just the worst way posible

Developer removed Ren'py standards like fast forwarding and roll back. There's a screen to "choose appearance" for the LI but nothing there seems to do anything. The design of the LI looks weird in a semi-uncanny valley way I can't put my finger on. Dev claims Imouto supposedly has some mind breakingly deep personality development like an AI companion. Dev also can't prevent in-game days from looping or permanent soft lock states. Just bad all around.