VN - Ren'Py - Long Road Home [Ep.15] [OBDGames]

Lesbian simulator, not my thing. Every girl in this game is lesbian, you are forced to share them. For me its deal breaker. Renders are average, animations meh, story pretty good. Sex scenes are short and vanilla, zero kinks, except watching lesbian sex.

VERSION: EP15
SUMMARY: Old VN, that never gets anywhere and buries its own potential.
RATINGS: (out of 5):

NOTE: The following categories and scoring method are my own criteria and may require more context.

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

Average: 34 of 50 possible points giving a 68% rating i.e. 3-4 stars.

PROS:

1. Models are generally quite attractive and sexy. The MC is good looking and his rugged features fit the role well.
2. The general visuals are pretty decent, not amazing but solid.
3. Animations are fairly good, but also not the best I have seen.
4. Writing is good, structured and reads well without too much bloat and bullshit.
5. Story is interesting, simple enough but interesting and drives the VN, though not lately.
6. Characters are all fairly interesting and unique, but (see cons)
7. Fairly decent amount of kinks, but are often under utilised.
8. Decent sounds, lewd and a few others, but (see cons)

CONS:

1. Characters and LIs are underdeveloped due to lack of "air-time". While "semi-unique" they do not become very interesting, profound and their development just there to create more variation for the harem the MC is making. Which at this point is so far beyond anything reasonably realistic or even fun and interesting its not even funny.
2. World visuals are not always very good or consistent, at least for me, it feels sometimes stale.
3. Writing and story have been depreciating and dropping in quality in the last few updates. They do not drive anything interesting or progress the plot of the game and the threat of the other biker gangs or the mayor.
4. Kinks are getting boring as to how they introduced and the scenarios are feeling like more of the same, despite the MC having so many LIs to piss on and impregnate...you don't need so much of the same things as much as variation of that thing, i.e. other situations, scenarios or methods i.e. implementation of those kinks in said unique scenario...I hope this makes sense.
5. Timeline seems to be going forward at a slow pace, causing the game to slow down and its plots and potential with it. This includes realism, which is a strong driver for immersion.
6. Music and sounds can do with some ambient sound also, road sounds, more music.

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

FINAL REMARKS, OPINIONS & SUGGESTIONS:

• I have been following this game since its initial release, and have really enjoyed it. That being said, I do feel its lost its way, got overly bloated and uninteresting.
• The main plot has pretty much been forgotten and ignored, which was a good driving force in this game and fit the MC well and the world he comes from and operates in.
• The LIs have become too much and the result is that many do not get the "air-time" they deserve. Most have a lot of untapped potential and if they were "side-girls" the dev should not include them as "old-ladies"
• While its the players choice to decide who to pursue romantically, the FUCK-UP is that if you don't pursue all the woman, you loose out on content. This compounds this bloated concept and that the game does not stick to main characters and LIs and progress/complete the story.
• The timeline is a mess and should be accelerated to provide more realism and continuity. The VN becomes unrealistic, considering the involvement of the MC with the club and the level of trust he earns in such short time. A longer and better timeline is needed with actual time progression. This would also help with introducing new characters like hailee who are currently only 16 and also pregancy progression and critical, but interesting milestones in the MC story.
• Added to above point and something I have been advocating for is progression of characters, growth and actual changes like pregnancy, which is a strong feature in this game, but its talked about, implied and even if the MC gets told an LI is pregnant, it changes nothing in the game. The player never gets to see the LIs get bigger bellies, bigger tits, moody, horny as is often the case with pregnant woman. Nor are other kinks introduced like breast feeding, lactation, bodily changes etc....its all simply stagnant and does not have to be, especially considering the amount of LIs the MC has and they probably wont all get knocked up and not at the same time, meaning you can have staggered progression and show it visually while introducing more content and kinks. Here is a completely untapped and missed opportunity.
• Something else I will just mention and that is, that to me, there are more interesting characters to really focus on than some of these boring ones like the oriental girls who were IMO a pretty boring update. I would much rather focus on characters e.g. Hailee, or the sister who is getting married, those kinds of characters have interesting stories in that there can come "trouble" necessitating the MC to improvise and this creates intrigue and some potential fun, dramatic etc side stories. Many of the other LIs fall into a "filler" or side-line role for me with not very interesting stories to build off on. This also emphasizes my point of too many LIs and they are under developed, like the MCs main girl hardly features anymore who was a key person to begin with.

TLDR:

Started off as a really nice VN but lost its way in terms of story, while turning into an unrealistic shit show (beyond what was still believable) and the MC into a man whoring, walking penis.

The VN has lost its sexy, kinkiness and interesting characters to just become more of the same, burying its own potential. It redoes the same thing instead of doing new ones, the characters and side stories set-up are forgotten or under developed, dragged out for no good reason.

This implies the developer is or has not planned beyond the initial story and is now just throwing messy "filler" content at players to keep the game going and its support instead of producing more quality game which yes HAS AND ENDING.

This is realy good for a Harem. Typically I find harems to be lower scoring overall games.

Wide variety of women here which is nice. New girls are consistently introduced.

Multiple branching options, is very nice. Provides a quick ending and a nice long current path.

Best Harem I have played and best Outlaw MC/Biker AVN I have also played.

Bog standard Chad who gets all the girls. The renders are alright and the girls are varied but the lack of build-up/chase with any of the girls makes for very unsatisfying h-scenes. Not the worst game but not particularly noteworthy.

This is one of the few games that does power fantasy in a way that is interesting.

Strong MC who is not a puss and knows what he wants, you can reject girls/fetishes if they dont suit you. Talking about girls, there are different sizes and styles of girls you can choose from which is always a plus.

There is an overarching story and subplots compliment it nicely. MC going through steps to become a biker is something new in VN genre.

Even though MC is getting girls left and right, it suits the narrative which is rare for harem games. Highly recommend.

Harem games are inherently stupid, like in this one we see not a single woman display jealousy or claim a monogamous relationship and a bunch of gang members is happy with a guy that they've just met fucking all the women they know.

So why 3 stars and not 1 then? Well, the story is not bad at all but, most importantly, the women are very varied in phyical appearance that it makes it interesting. And it's actually a 2,5 star (but I'm rounding it up because I'm a good guy) because the dev is so afraid of the anti-NTR brigade that he issues warnings when there's a scene of a married couple doing anything sexual. If there were normal scenes of other men having sex with their girlfriends/wives or, even better, sharing scenes this would be easily a 5 star game. I mean, there's a party scene with many women and only one guy, how is that possible? I'm not saying that all the women could/should be "shared" but some of them, when the story makes sense if they did...

P.S. A bunch of strippers being virgins and waiting to meet this one guy to deflower them? Yeah, right...

The story is interesting I guess but the implementation not so much. Guy with anger issues that adds no relevant stuff to the story other than 1 time (with the Quack guy, which by the way if he doesn’t do it, Kat will). Well, only after 12 chapters. There is variety of girls which is good but there should be some sort of setback when going for everyone. All of them with no exception lust the MC 1st day. The characters have no respect for themselves, leading to weird decisions. For example, Katy has trust issues with men which are magically fixed by the guy with 13 girlfriends she met 1 week ago and now she even wants to get pregnant. Now that I mention magic… why does everyone suddenly wants to be pissed on/in? I mean, I got nothing against the kink (I enjoy it?) but why should everyone be into that? There’s variety of girls but not of kinks. The thing that bothers me the most is the “choices” though. Whilst there are many choices (way too many), most of them (80-90%) are irrelevant choices of what angle do you want? “Continue” is also a choice that literally does nothing. There is a point where you have to pause like 4-5 times just to click “yes” to continue the scene. I mean, do I even want to go down on them? Btw, some animations look really good, but most are lackluster. What are the respect/disrespect points for by the way? Did I say there’s variety of girls? Yes, well… there is but many were dropped along the way. The option to keep Rin as an informant? Surprise! Does nothing because you never see her again after that, only when she starts working for you. Oh! Another lack of variety is related to places you go with the girls, as every time you go out with Jesse, Reba/Angelica, Willow and probably others too is to the same place. I could go on but my rating wouldn't change so I'll stop here.

English:............8/10
User Interface:.....3/10
User Experience:....7/10
Art:................7/10
Dialogue:...........3/10
Story:..............4/10
Opinion:............3/10................
Avg:.............5.0/10 [2.5/5]

To say this game irks me is an understatement. MC is insufferable. It's the typical "alpha" male bullshit that really just means you're a reddit mod that can't take any form of negative feedback. He's an ex soldier with severe anger issues that come up exactly three times in the story. Not to mention it's only towards other men. Women will joke and call him names and he rolls over for them. But if a guy even seems to talk to MC ever, he get mad and causes problems. Again, that only happens at the beginning of the game, and the "long road home" has already ended by the midpoint. There's no character growth to maybe have the title mean something more than MC goes to a different place than he currently is. The only growth is the harem growth, in the form of MC walking into a room and women wanting to sleep with him. I've tried this game three, maybe four, times now. Every time I end up leaning on the CTRL key because every scene makes me internally scream "Are you kidding me?!" It doesn't do anything you haven't seen before. It tries to act deep with the extremely glossed over sexual assault subplot that is over faster than it started. Off the top of my head, the only thing this game is missing is slut-shaming and anti-democrat propaganda. (Which it does by making someone that would obviously be a trump supporter have his license plate say Biden2020, there's no universe in which a redneck doesn't worship the expired cheetoh) But I don't remember much about this so maybe it is there. There's also a COMPLETELY USELESS Good Guy/Bad Guy point system that is dropped after a while. If memory serves, no scene is walled off buy the points, you just get a scene based on the choice and you get +1 point toward whatever they were doing. But by the end of the game you were just deciding if you want to sleep with the newly introduced girl.


I'll be frank, nothing is happening. I don't feel the need to comment on anything because it's either the most obvious thing possible, or MC is having sex in one of the 5 positions he has sex. This is not a game made for me, it's made for guys that think bikers are cool and search for "trad wives" on tinder. All of the women have devolved into the same "I need to do anything to please my man" types, like so many other games. This is the same harem game that's been made 1000 times before just with a coat of paint in tattoos and biker lingo. No one who likes this will read my review, and that's whatever. To summarize my points: The English is fine. Its issues are plenty of typos or odd phrasing and the writer just throws in commas whenever they damn well please. It makes no sense. The UI/UX is stock, no shock there. The Art is average DAZ stuff. They have some understanding of composition but the videos are inconsistent, the poses are repeated, the models change frequently, and nothing "wows" me. The Dialogue gets more grating the more you read it. This is supposed to be a game about biker gangs and troubled pasts, but everyone in the Rogues talks like a therapy session of love and acceptance to MC. Not to mention the women are in love with MC at first sight every time. And MC? He acts like a pseudo intellectual then interjects how nice everyone's ass is or how much sex he wants to have or is having with whoever he's talking to. I'm bored. The story, and I REALLY hate this phrase, but it has potential. They were ACTIVELY doing something with the political thing but the "villains" are so comically stupid and uninteresting that it just makes you roll your eyes. The prattle on like Dr. Claw all while having very unappealing sex because evil is ugly or whatever. I'm so bored with this I just want to get through it not even to see the sex animations. I get grossed out that every new girl has to act or look younger and more naive than the last. And I fucking hate MC. He's awful. And not in what a dev might call "good way" because "that's the point" he just makes no sense and sucks to listen to. I'm glad to be done with this as it's taken so unbelievably long to get through. That is a positive for someone, I guess. It's long and there's a lot of girls. Too many, in my opinion. If you read my whole review, you won't/don't like the game, if you didn't you do. 2.5/5

This is an outstanding AVN!

Great Harem Adventure.
The story is very well done.
the "Visual Story Telling" is excelent.. ( e.g. can follow the story without reading pretty well )
H-Scenes are Hot.
Girls are hot.
Lots of options for what you want to see and to avoid what you don't want to see.
The story is a lot longer that I expected
and the Sex to Story Ratio is really good.

Constructive Crit
#1 the H-Sceen looping controls are a bit clunky and detract from the thrill.. maybe a sort of Sidebar Icon Menu rather than big buttons in the middel would be nice.
#2 having the avoidable option of sharing some girls with your palls would be nice.. maybe not the main ones but some of the side ones.

all in all GREAT game

By far one of my favorite VN's. There is alot here, and takes hours to get through, but it is well worth it, and I love the story and characters. I find myself reread it from start to current every few months, and it feels like a reunion with olf friends. I highly recommend this one to people. It's a shockingly wholesome journey for a story about Biker Gang conflicts, and an MC digging for gold in every mine he encounters. lol.

The women look amazing, the scenes hot, the story is interesting. It is easily in the top 20% of the games (5/5). The only thing that is missing (for me at least) is a bit of a challenge / replay-ability. But still the game is top quality, I recommend it without reservation!

I have been playing this game off and on for a long time and it keeps getting better as far as the renders and the story goes. I like the girls and the storyline so far with no change in sight. I honestly can't think of something I dislike enough to ding the rating so it gets full marks.

Made my 1st post on this game earlier. Dont think i ever liked a game enough to do a review, honestly never thought about it..till a member mentioned it quoting my thread. Going to add to it for more context. First let me say this to everyone on this website. I dont post Negative comments on threads ever.. i will offer constructive opinions and give postive feedback ONLY!! If i dont like i just dont do it or play it. This game is Great!!
While i do agree that some of the animations (early game)could have more intensity or be smoother IMO, the animation are good, the Models are great i know some are in other Vn's..(but i dont care tho.. hot is hot)
What sets this game apart from all the rest is the story development and character backstories ect..
The Main Character is great, i can relate to him and respect him..most of the MC's in other games ive tested are Simps, Bland or just Dicks.
The Biker story, redemption, personal histories of all the characters are so well fleshed out i actually care about this game and WANT to read the story..not just Fast Forward to FAP. I feel for them, i laugh and get aroused by the banter and dialog that it makes the Sex Scenes that much more intense. I can honestly say I love this game and cant wait for more. The Writer/Developer has clearly taken his story far and above what i have come to expect from most of the Games I have played. I thank you for all your work and you have my full support.
Edit: After investigating my own History this was my 2nd ever review in 6 years. Getting old and forgot I made one in 2019 oops..

⠀⠀First I have to mention that the first half of the current content batch [as of the episode 10] is much worse tonally and in terms of visual quality.
⠀⠀Now that's out of the way, people say that the story is mid or mediocre at best, and my honest reaction to that information is: "Wait, there was a story?". I mean the idea is not that bad, if I gave you a synopsis right now, you probably wouldn't guess what's wrong. The problem is execution. The title is "Long Road Home" which would suggest that the characters be on the move as the plot progresses, but no, MC literally just drives from small town in heartland to the the other town on the west coast in a span of few frames and then the bulk of the narrative progresses from here. The plot is somewhere in the background while the main focus is to provide MC with excuses to meet yet another female that will be hopelessly enamored with him right away beyond retrieve because he's a soy-free Andrew Take looking hardcore conservative (who's totally fine with homosexuals btw). Yes, author isn't shy to state his political opinions, not sure if it belongs to an AVN. Like the very first "bad" guy, that you meet is an imbecile drunkard that has a redneck mallet haircut and is a literal Biden supporter (his car's plate). And MC says: "Orange Man might not be so bad". Oh and btw MC is gigacringe, it's like an unfunny parody of an outdated alpha male stereotype that completely lacks self-awareness, he's also basically a Hulk that every so often goes into a uncontrollable violent stupor: "Me angry"; "Me smash". He makes unsettling facial expressions and cracks corny jokes every 5 seconds.
⠀⠀Every woman is lesbian who's albeit willing to take MC's cock because he is such a high testosterone alpha male that gives out basic complements and big tips in cash. Seriously every female just hops straight onto MC's penis as soon as they meet him without a worry in the world as if he radiates some kind of irresistible mating hormones. They initially say they all want a non-binding open relationship without commitments, but the next moment they already swear absolute loyalty to MC always asking his permission do to anything sexual with others. Also there are way too many characters, and as they have more or less the same traits and personalities, I struggle remembering half of them. I find it funny that the only girl you can choose to marry so far has a man-jaw and the main LI makes the same unsettling facial expressions as the MC.
⠀⠀Sex scenes are all the same. The screen blacks out and then you witness one of the 5 basic royalty free animations that you've already seen before in countless other Daz3D games. Yes, towards the end dev began to add adequate custom animations which is a huge plus, but that doesn't change the fact that previous scenes didn't get the same treatment. You can make it go faster/slower, change angles and decide where to finish. Doesn't matter if it's inside or not because every female is on the hormone pill. Sound effects feel really out of place not just in sex scenes but in general.
⠀⠀So like as a harem collector it's okay and gets the job done, but as novel that's trying to tell some story it fails miserably, and as an adult novel it's fairly dull and unexciting.

Fairly original story, pretty good humor. I'd say the story is decent, no more mo less.

The renders and animations start off really rough to say the least but improve over time. Still not great as of the latest releases but once again, decent. The weakest part is the English, it's riddled with grammatical and spelling errors, not sure if the dev is a native English speaker but I'm pretty sure he's not and doesn't employ any proof readers so make sure you are prepared for that.

Everything gets better the further along you get, (story, renders, animations, spelling etc). What keeps me reading is the fairly original concept and since it's improving at a good rate I have somewhat high hopes for the future of this AVN.

This game is riddled with minor grammar/typo issues and bigger issues of that type are not uncommon. This was clearly all written in one pass with no proofreading by the author, and no test readers. Also, (and maybe this only annoys me) the author uses "ummmm" to represent moaning and such. "Um" is a filler word. Just "mmmm" is what they're after. Every time I read "Ummmm" I think a character is thinking about something and is about to speak.

The main story isn't bad or great. It's probably not even up to 'good.' It's fine. It revolves, as other reviewers have said, a keyboard warrior's laughable take on what "real men" get up to. That said, we live in AVN Land, and around here ridiculous premises are just the standard. I did see another reviewer mention this, and I would agree. At times it really comes off as a right-wing man-child's dream.

There is a nice variety in the women when it comes to appearance. They all share the personality trait of "eager to be in a harem because we're in Porn Land" but they do have some variety beyond that.

As far as renders, they start pretty sub par, but they get better over time. Pretty common in AVN Land. The animations start out awful and eventually get to just under par. The real issue with the animations is that every lewd scene is very short and very much the same thing you've already seen 15 times. Once you get to chapter 9ish, and especially into 10, the quality of the animations really improves.

This whole review is fairly negative, but despite all that, by the time I got to chapter 10 I was pretty invested. There are funny moments and I really do like most of the characters. So despite the problems listed, I still give it 4 tars. If there weren't so many typos and grammar problems I might be convinced to make it 5. Seriously, it needs an editor so bad.

So I like it for the most part. Interesting premise and the girls are pretty hot. However the animations all see to flow the same way and some of the dialog and the story beats makes it read like some conservative power fantasy wet dream. Like all these young girls are have only been with women even though they are in their twenties but they are not lesbians, it's just that your MC must be the one to claim them with his magic cock.
And then there is all the over the jargon that only right wingers use and making the MC like this badass alpha who is "not a soyboy", no normal person talks like that and I live in the fucking south. I want to like it but some of it is just cringy as fuck, kind of like some of the comments in the message board here talking about how "real men do this and that". Seriously just shut the fuck up, no one but your microcosm actually talks or acts like that. I am in chapter 6 and I am curious as to where it is going but the cringy right wing speak that is increasing just makes this little power fantasy more and more boring.

I am giving this 3-5 Putting 4 because i am heavily conflicted, it could easily been 5 stars.
Long Road Home is good. I would say near great because even if it gets hella convoluted and busy, it doesn't derail or creates plot holes leaving you to wonder. The parts that matter gets addressed at some point and doesn't leave things open ended or 'forgotten' and that's damn good writing, because these things can resolve long after Player forgets about them when reaching the oh shit or Aha moments.

The Models are good / great, a lot of variety. There is a overabundance of options but bakes in quite well with the story, to a point it gets convoluted depending on how many girls the Bro picks up along the way.

Major reason i wont put (4)-5 stars is simple but damning to me is:
The MC's face, in every render, he grins. Oh god he's looking so creepy and cringe. Sadly this is derogatory to his likability and believeability.
Every time i see his face i just.. no, no, no, no.. I hope this gets adressed in future renders, this guy dont look 'Alpha' at all.

Reason 2. Simultaneous and constant climaxes. The game have 3 recurring sex scenes. 1 on 1, 3some possibly a 4some.
1-1/ 3some Act1 - Woman/Women gets off IF foreplay - Act2 Woman/Women/MC gets off. Always simultaneous. You seen one, you seen all, Ctrl was my friend playing this cause even if different models i didn't have to see them after a while. I knew them already and they brought nothing to the table BUT...
...The animations gets better and better. You feel the quality improving throughout the development and episodes, this dev is definitely 'not done yet!' and my expectations grew chapter to chapter and didn't disappoint despite that.

Definitely worth playing.

Long Road Home in My top 5.

Sexy. Wholesome. Violent. Drama.
The perfect mix for a great story. Veteran gets done dirty by his government. Goes to prison. Gets out. Fucks and mother and daughter. The mother and daughter also fuck each other. MC goes to bar and ruins someone's day. MC joins and MC and fucks bitches while constantly being a thorn in a rival MCs side.
This is one I'm always super excited to see updated.

Felt like a gigantic cringe commercial for guys who're wannabe milsim military guys that're hardcore tough dudes but enjoy MCs on the weekends.

Also seems like the creator played a game called Ride to Hell Retribution; simply because in it you'll beat up xyz's lover or bully and they for whatever reason fall in love with you and or horny.

Story just exists
Its nothing to make you think about or even care about. This secretary in a disciplinary barracks(mil prison) is so lonely she blows someone who is serving 30 years cut short & takes him home, genius.

Me personally if you're so desperate you chase after hardcore inmates thats all on you.

"Alpha/Dom/Daddy"
You know that one dude who has the most cringe name talkin like hes the shit and you're about to smell it? Yeah.. thats this MC.. hes like a tryhard keyboard tough guy lol. Everyone instantly wants him, no chase. Oh and you apparently COLLAR them LMAO.

Sex Scenes
They're pretty boring ngl. Not much else to be said.
Some AVNs don't have any sound and still do a better job on it.