VN - Ren'Py - Lost at Birth [Ch. 9 CE Part 2] [V19]

Chapter 2:

If you're after a good, heartfelt story, it's not here.
If you're looking for a quick, easy, and fun fap game, it's not here.

Lost at Birth uses the structures and finer points of other stories but fundamentally fails to understand why and how they are meant to be used. There is a general sense that the creator(s) are unsure of how to create meaningful drama. Characters feel stiff and cold.
Normally decent renders would put this at two stars, but what's the point of commending good renders if they aren't used in any interesting ways?

If you can get through the part where the MC explains, in painstaking detail, the layout of the house, while she comments here and there WITHOUT tearing your hair out, you might enjoy this.

*IF* this continues it may be worth a revisit at a later date, as it stands you can ignore this.

Ch.2 complete

tl;dr its pretty good but it could benefit a lot from animations since lewd scenes are way to short. If no animation than atleast extending the scenes a couple of slides would benefit the game a lot.

Story is good so far. Kinda like the sad touch right from the beginning. The problems with the wife and the situation of the daughter. Still think MC and the daughter are to fast to close. I think it needs a little bit more build up

Graphics look unique to me and in a good way. Kinda dig the art.
Lewd scenes are way to short and since its not animated it impacts even harder. The two scenes in the restroom were done so fast, just like 3 lines per scene and GG. I understand that animations are not for everyone but if so, than at least make the scenes a little bit longer

So far it is great, very erotic with lovely and delicious visuals and straight forward but completely engaging characters and story. Look forward for more updates, it seems likely be a bit of a slow burn but had more erotic tease moments then expected. If quality stays up and no crazy story jumps over time it will be pretty good erotica.

As you enter the game you get welcomed by a pretty nice main menu (just had to point that out, good job there). The game itself is also quite good. The preview pictures did not really look amazing but the game has actually really good graphics.
There are also some downsides to this story, i did feel like the romance/storyline doesn't make complete sense. The girl is supposedly v*rgin but is actually quite bold after barely knowing the MC. It just feels like it is going really fast which makes it a bit unnatural. The game also lacks in thoughts of the main love interest. Thats really unfortunate, as of right now there is one clear love interest in this game. Therefore she is quite important to the story, if thoughts were added of her the game would be 10 times better honestly.
The storyline has a nice pretence and a lot of potential, four stars is the max i could give right now (Ch2 complete)

This short review is for Ch. 2 complete

This is really good.
I always prefer a game that focuses more on story and believable characters, both physically and personality-wise, and the devs have at least convinced me. The MC and Justine are both flawed, but not to the point of being unrelatable and Kailey seems to be a sweet girl put in a tough situation. Hopefully we'll see more sides of the three main characters in time and see them them change and develop at a convincing pace.

There is at least one "side-girl" at the moment, I may have missed another one, and while she is gorgeous that part of the game doesn't interest me much, and I may skip those parts in later releases. I just wanna help fix the MC's marriage and give his kid a family that loves her. I'm a romantic

The visual character design is more than solid and renders are great. It's a great looking game.

No animations and a few cringy lines, but it's looking promisingly good as of Ch. 2.

It'd be great to have the option to set your custom last name given the focus on well family, for now modding with URM it is.

Update: Ch. 4 was rushed and short, I think the dev has no idea where he is going with this.

Been waiting and hoping for another game like this to come out. It has been a long time since we had one this good. A lot of typical tropes are included, but the dev puts a fresh spin on them. The girls are probably the best character models I have seen in a game to date. The crazy erratic wife adds an interesting dynamic that gives MC and daughter more reason to bond. Crazy wife is also crazy hot, so it is understandable why MC has lingered on for so long. Overall, the story is great, renders are great, atmosphere is great, and this game has a chance to be one of the masterpieces.

Normally iam not giving 5 Stars that easily, but i just loved the start of the game very much...

It has some "fresh" approaches on the topic not many games have... its not the ordinary "dad meets daughter incest porn" thing.

They have a very loving build up from the start, Kailey had a rough life so far, MC just cares for her at the start... this will become more obviuosly, but i think it will be more like a slow burn, and i like them, if they are well made... and i get the feeling this will be the case here.

And i think the MC needs someone like Kailey in his life too... cause it is going downhill, meaningless side-chicks, a wife that is not very loveable at this point... Kailey is coming in his life at the perfect time.

Well of course, this will mean a "catfight" further down, i cant think of a scenario where all three are getting together. Justine is very hostile from the start (well MCs fault too, cause he was cheating and such)... either way, this could be interesting.

The dialogues are good, not very good, but decent enough. I like the renders, year there are better ones out there, but they are well made and really good, way above average.

I really really like the models, they are unique i would say, didnt saw them in any other game, so they are not "recycled"

Kailey is cute as a button, like her very much already. Looks and attitude. And she is not an overly clueless innocent girl... yeah oblivous, but her humor and some responses are showing that she is not clueless aboutr sex and stuff... it annys me everytime in a incest game when an adult daughter doesnt know anything about sex like "uuuuh is that how a penis looks like?" come on. You can make an incest porn game but be somewhant realistic... this game does it very well i think. Her background story why she stayed a virgin is believable too. My ex-girlfriend was the same.

At this point there is not that much content, its pretty much a instruction, nothing more. But its setting up everything in a very good way and iam very intested how this will go on...

hopefully updates will come regularly with a good amount of content, the game was released in march, now its august... for 5 months this is okay so far i think. Could be more, but others DEVs do much less in this time.

Some advices.

Make choices COUNT, there arent much choices so far, more or less "do you want to have something lewd right now or not" choices with no consequences so far... but well, there are possibilities, and i hope we need to do some SERIOUS choices in the future.

Background sounds, music and so on are good too btw. Maybe in the future there are more background tracks for setting up different emotions and moods. we will see...

Well, i loved what i saw so far, keep it up, i will watch it closely!

While there may be a few variations out there on the dad meets daughter after countless years.. I was surprised by how well done this title handled it..
The story and side narrative elements are pretty strong, dealing with the wife who you still lingered onto the hope of loving against the odds, The seduction of a woman who is DTF at your whim as well as the other enjoyable side characters..
The visuals when it comes to the females in this are amazing.. truly beautiful designed renders and its easy to desire them in the story..
Looking forward to seeing where the dev takes this story.. be it in the same direction the familiar genre goes or if they dare to try anything different its all good and will make for an interesting read regardless

Excellent two chapters so far. The renders look really good and the story has been interesting to read so far as well. I'm looking forward to reading the next chapters!

I quite like the erratic behaviour of the wife. It adds a lot to the story, improves the bond between the main character and the daughter, makes the main character look better in the eyes of the daughter and also escalates situations nicely.

The initial premise reminded me of the abandoned VN named Our Fate - A new family. I recommend Lost at Birth to everyone who likes it. And to everybody else as well!

Excellent story and image quality. The girls are hot, too. I hope this continues and progresses further with the daughter. I'll probably wait for a couple updates as it seems to move a little too slow for my liking but I am hopeful. I'll be watching this.

Been a while since something like this come out. Honestly the best character renders in any game up until this point. Story is engaging enough for me to not just ctrl my way to scenes. 9/10 so far, score might go down or up depending on further development and the following chapters.

In my opinion a very good story up until now (Chapter 2) with a self-aware MC in the middle of his life. The female characters are very fine looking ladies with quite a variety. You have the at least somewhat jealous wife, the "girl from next door and still shy" virgin daughter ("probably" ) and the coworker with hots for you (and maybe being too slutty for her own sake). So, for everyone something. Luckily there is no oversized properties ("baseball bat" penis, "balloon or zeppelin" breasts which ignore gravity and "horsesized" behinds). The render quality is very good, the lightning fits up until now to some degree (the renders that are supposed to be at night have sadly the same lightning as the day shots. That's the point I have to deduct. Otherwise I like the VN and would like to see much, much more until it gets finished! Keep up the good work!

Great graphics and story, slow burn on penetration, but for once it doesn't seem to be a problem. Keep up the good work, looking forward to more in this story. Including where her birth mother went, which one would assume is coming eventually.

Dude, this game is a potential fucking masterpiece. Story is great, renders are fantastic.. but the girls! Oh, the girls!

I literally yelled out "NOOO!" when I reached the end of 0.1.

Please keep it up, dev!

Tried it and liked it well enough. Fair amount of content for a first version.
MC could/should be less of a creep, or rather stop sending completely different signals.
Kailee is sweet, but doesn't seem the completely naive and demure type (unless what happened to her, will be the reason for changing her character), which would certainly be a departure from how the daughters are often depicted in this type of games.

I like it, it makes her a more realistic and rounded character.
In many good ways, this reminded me of another game I loved, which sadly never got finished, because the dev disappeared right around the time the final part of the story began.

The only thing I really didn't like were those stupid "title card"-cutaways. They took way too long, I went to skip them every time, but that mostly led to losing some of the writing, because it transitions directly into the next scene.
Really a weird way to do this. Why not make it so that you can just click those away, with a single click? It doesn't take you ten seconds or so to read a few words, when nothing else is on the screen.

Minor problem, so not really a dislike, is the characters apart from Kailee, like I already wrote the MC should dial back the pervy part of his character a bit, and neither his wife nor co-worker are in any way sympathetic characters.
Now, this is of course just my personal taste, but I do prefer to have some characters I like in a game.
Hope this doesn't seem too negative, I really liked the renders, the girls look great, and the writing was quite good as well, with a few minor weaknesses. This game is definitely off to a good start and could become really exceptional if it continues in this quality and with reasonable time between updates and acceptable length of each update.

Edited to add: Okay, read a post by one of the devs now, so obviously MC is supposed to be a sex-addict, he doesn't perv out over talking with his daughter, he just constantly pervs out. I actually find that better, I can certainly see the appeal behind the idea that he replaces one addiction with another one.

For the first release, I am very impressed. The content is high quality, regarding the exceptional beautiful renders but especially also the story, which provides deepness.

This story is different from so many games, where you just play another male fantasy. Here you are a "successful" middle-aged man, however your life reached one of those typical dead ends at this age. Everything is fine on the outside appearance, big house, beautiful wife who you love and who even likes sex, a good job... But actually the depressing situation of being actually trapped in this marriage without real passion, the sadness alcohol abuse provides, and the lack of purpose of your life is beautifully crafted. This is game even contains some hot sex scenes with beautifully girls, but which make you actually just sad to further paint the depressing backstory of insignificance - just brilliant! But then suddenly someone appears in your life, and your life gets a totally new meaning.

Of course, this is not everybody's cup, especially those who just search for a quick wank. But in my opinion, this game is superb, since is anchors real emotions in a convincing and realistic backstory. Also, from the technical side, the game is great. The models are all plain beautiful and not the same stock models like in so many other games. The characters look realistic and don't suffer the unnerving big tit syndrome, which adds up to the convincing immersion.

I am absolutely curious where this story leads in future updates. But for a start this game does not deserve anything less than full 5 stars.

Review based on v0.1:

Pretty good for a first release!

- Renders are amazing. I'm especially impressed with how the wife character turned out. Older fem models usually run into some design hurdles. Wrinkles under the eyes are sometimes overemphasized. Getting the right amount of plump in the face is also intricate, since you don't want the cheeks to look saggy. At the same time some artists overcorrect and make the face too sharp and boney. Here there's a nice balance, clearly the character isn't super young but the age isn't overemphasized. Skin textures were also balanced well. No character looks too glossy or matte.

- The story is obviously somewhat derivative but I still think there's enough room for originality. The setup is something I've never seen before. I did however find it a bit jarring how the not-daughter just showed up immediately after. The story overall had a pretty fast pace, and that doesn't have to be a bad thing, but your first meeting with the girl was a bit too sudden. You couldn't really process it imo.

- The lewd scenes are decent, but something that bothered me was the progression. Individual renders are good, but at times there's little to no transition. In the BJ scene with the coworker, we immediately go from one render of the MC shoving his dick down her throat to another of him cumming on her face. Having an intermediary phase where he's halfway out would have been appreciated.

Review based on v0.1:

I normally don't review the first version of games but this time is an exception. I have followed V19 since he tried to remake another favorite game of mine but had to stop because of reasons. Out of the rubbles of that game this one came and damn am I glad it did. It captures some of the great aspects of that game and introduces some new ones too.

The characters here look amazing and unique, story so far sounds great if not anything special. Dev seems capable of making some really sexy scenes.
Sound design is also looking good with music fitting well to the different scenes.

All in all so is this a game I am looking forward to seeing develop.

Renders: Superb. Well detailed, but modest looking models.


Characters: The MC is a man going through a midlife crisis, fighting off past addicts and so far doing a good job with handling it.

Justine is the drunken wife, who just screams misery.

Kailey may or not be the MC's long lost daughter, though I have a feeling he's going to care for her, regardless.

Cassidy is the cliché nymph of the game, that seems to love broadcasting her body count.

So far that's all the characters for now.

Story:

Anytime there's a situation where the MC is already married is always gonna have some pushback from players. However, in this case not only are you in a loveless marriage but your wife is also a bad influence on you , this the somewhat like the IR game where you the player can't wait to get away from the wife, which begs the question... Why? What's the point in the first place?

I'm sure there's going to be options to "fix" their marriage but from what I've seen the MC is ready to just cheat and go along with anything, especially with a character like Cassidy, who's ready to "introduce" you to her friends. There's probably gonna be a lot of cheating, the wife will probably cheat as well if/or when she finds out. This so far just isn't to my liken, life is too short to be miserable or be shackled to a marriage, no one really wants.

Overall, it looks pretty but that's why my interest stops.