Ren'Py - Love at First Tail [v0.4.5.1] [MrDracosaurus]

Game has decent amount of "potential" - enough to give it at least 4/5 - but if we were to judge games based on potential, then almost all games would be 4 or 5 out of 5.

I bookmarked this game 2,5 years ago and till this day this is what changed:

• developer did "story rewrite" which mainly consisted of only shuffling around timeline of various events, it didnt even fix some of the glaring issues with characters (described later below)
• added like 5 or 6 NSFW scenes - you could say he DOUBLED the amount because of how few they were at the beginning, but still they are like 12-15 NSFW scenes right now in whole game
• "implemented" 2 new characters (goat/sheep girls), which were later developed to have more storyline but still have like 4 or 5 NSFW scenes till this day
• MARGINALLY developed main plot of the game

Pros:

• models of girls are really good
• currently exisiting main story is acctually decent - even if it is currently very undeveloped
• most of characters have more than 1 personality trait, even if they are all cliches

Cons:

• childhood friend is just bad person - she blames MC for leaving town when his parents moved to another city. What was he supposed to do as a kid, run away and live on streets in his hometown? Also noone calls her out on this, instead she is just "troubled and misunderstood"
• developer is distracted with subplots - main story was not touched in ages while sheep girls subplots is current main development focus. Also IIRC Childhood Friend didnt get any real update since i started following this game (2,5 years)
• Younger Main Girl feels like developer has no idea how to write her properly and thus is totally inconsistent. She is supposed to be in early twenties (IIRC she even had time to drop out of college) yet half of the time is behaves and is treated as not even 18. Examples:
  • you can "bribe" her with sweets and by buying her her favourite flakes - this feels like you are dealing with some one from middle school at best
  • Older Main Girl (her mother) often talks about her like she she is teenager not young adult (i understand that she is her mother and all, but not even once she said something like "i hope she can move on with her life and forget about the past"
  • she is supposed to come from home where her father was abusing them for "not doing anything" yet she feels like she has never even swept the floor in her room
• game has annoying system of scheduling events - guide will tell you to "meet X in the morning in the kitchen", yet does not tell you that said character appears in kitchen only once per week, and does not even tell you on which day

Overall game is in state like it was released few months ago, not few years ago. I cant give this game more than 2/5 for just "what-if" if said "if" didnt happen for years.

EDIT: Forgot very important thing - game is tagged as "multiple endings", but does not even have one ending currently. At this rate im not sure if it will ever get even one.

I'm not really into furries, but this game is made with soul. Great dialogue and story, makes you want to see more. Of course, this is not the coolest game on the site, but in my opinion it deserves the highest rating.

Part of me wants to rate this game a bit lower as it does have problems that are kind of annoying... but the potential to make this game really good is there and the bits of it that are enjoyable make me want to keep checking for more updates

Pros:
-The pacing of the relationship with the love interests is fairly good. It's slow, which pisses some people off, but fuck those idiots. It makes sense that it would take time and affection to break through the shell of both Hana and Rina, especially given how they are used to being heavily abused, and at the start of the game have never met the MC before. The development of the tentative friendship and them learning to challenge their old views on life makes sense. It would be bizarre and poor writing if they just jumped onto the MC's dick after a few days. Not all porn has to be brainless fuck fests. There's still lewd content, but it's done at a slower, more mature pace that fits with the subject matter of recovering from an abusive household and learning to trust again.
-You give headpats to a MILF. Do I need to say more? The embarrassed pout Hana gets after headpatting is adorable. Rina can fuck off, Hana is the best girl in this game.
-After Rina warms up to you a little bit her dialogue changes for the generic questions you can ask her, and you see a much more genuine side of her as she honestly engages with you for once. This is an excellent touch, and NEEDS to be implemented with Hana as well to show off her growing sense of self worth and confidence in herself. I hope the characters keep evolving in their casual interactions with the MC as well as their sexual ones throughout the development of this game.

Cons:
-The game is one of those "sandbox" games that... really isn't a sandbox. You're forced to go through content with various characters to progress with other ones. I REALLY hope this won't force you to get into sexual relationships with characters you aren't interested in in the future once the relationships with various love interests becomes more developed.
-On the topic of characters.... Lilly. She's not very likeable and I wish I could honestly skip her content so far. She's 30, but still acts like a petulant child and blames the MC for being forced to leave the town and leave her and his friends behind. I mean... come on, his parent's moved, not his fault. And her continued insistence of treating the distance that grew between them due to the move as his fault and something to hold against him is also ridiculous. People grow apart, it's not that deep. She just doesn't feel engaging or interesting to me, and I don't like how 'lecturing' she gets with the MC for things that weren't his fault. I get how this would all hurt her as a child but once again... she's fucking 30 now. Get over it.
-The clothes at the mall you can buy for both Hana and Rina only show up as an option during lewd scenes with them, they don't wear them around the house on their own volition. Maybe this is something that is actually kind of hard to code properly in Ren'Py, I have no idea, but it would be nice to see them in the alternate outfits at least some of the time when they're just around the house.
-Rina's attitude on sex seems a bit inconsistent with her backstory and personality. She's into femdom and likes to tease the MC constantly, and I love that... but the whole: flirty, confident, soft domination thing is REALLY at odds with how she's also portrayed as a mistrusting, suspicious and jaded person who refuses to let people become close to her. This gets even more confusing when she also reveals how she never had any friends or people that liked her even amongst the demi-humans as she is a half breed. I'm not sure if she is supposed to be sexually experienced or a virgin honestly, there are too many mixed signals. I like the soft femdom content with her, and I don't mind her backstory, but they don't feel like they mesh together that well at the moment.

TLDR:
Good game with a nice premise, but the execution is a bit boring and kind of a grindy click fest at the moment. The writing is nothing anyone hasn't seen before, but the slow development of the characters and more mature pacing of the story is a VERY nice change of pace from a lot of the schlock out there. Has potential to become a masterfully done game now that the sexual and romantic interactions are starting to really come together, and I hope that this one can stick the landing as it starts to get into the more 'action' centered updates in the future.

It's fine.

I like the character designs a lot, everything else is just kinda... meh. Plot is generic, dialogue is generic, music is just your average royalty free tracks. There's not a ton of lewd content either yet, you'll be spending most of your time doing these little hangout scenes to boost trust/affection/lust. They're pretty repetitive and boring.

Overall, it's a wholesome slice of life game that doesn't do anything bad, but it never blew me away either. I closed the game feeling very whelmed.

Simple light plot romance game may be a bit boring, im not a big fan of furry girls but the model and animation make me change my mind, hoping for future update
Ps: pls add pregancy and more scene with hana (married woman are the best im telling you)

Story 2/5
I dident really find the story good or fun to play, its very vanilla and gets boring pretty fast, its also just a kinetic story which i just dont like to play, picking the "worng" choices just leads to a game-over and your also forced to follow every LIs to progress story so even though it is sandbox you have absolutly no freedom, take the mother and daughter your forced to invite into your home, if you just go for one of their questlines it will say you have to progress with the other one before you can progress anymore with any of them, so again kinetic and forced to follow the set line.

Wasent really a fan of the femdom with the daughter it just dident really feel right to me that shes a dom.

Add grinding for 3 diffrent kind of points to progress with the LIs as well and only gaining 1 points out of a 100 per interaction dosent make it less boring to me and its a ton of the same scenes over and over which also just isent much fun.

It also makes it a mindless fuckfest game where your forced to gain lust point and such with every LI like them or hate them no choice.

Girls 2/5
I only really cared about a single LI the daughter since im just not into big tits in any way and the diversity is pretty low when it comes to builds as well since there arent really many LIs.

Animations 4/5
I did like the animations in this one, the tails has nice movements and all in all they do look pretty good, just to bad you cant skip LIs questsline for those you dont want to watch.

Music 3/5
Pretty average background stuff nothing special.

Sandbox 1/5
Theres no real point to it other then adding a big grind to the game and without any freedom it just feels pointless.

Choices 1/5
There arent any real choices, your forced to follow a set questline or its game-over, cant drop a LIs questline since they are all tied into one another forcing you to progress with all even those you hate.

Got to say im pretty supprised to see this rated so highly considering its so kinetic and everyone is forced but guess alot dosent mind that but i do.

It's a nice light romance game, simple plot, great characters, and heavier parts of the game aren't heavy handed. MC is an MC, You can be as pervy, decietful, kind, or saintly as you want. Few gramatical mistakes. Not that much secual content but I'm here for the headpats.

Graphically it's pretty good, nothing special but handled well. Character designs are plenty cute and unique. Sex scenes are a tad underwhelming but still good. Easiy over 5 hours of content too.

All in all, great game with much potential.

Love the game and the story behind town. A bit sad and tragic at first, but and glad the mc and hana relationship get better over time. Didn't expect this game to be this good and not too generic. Recommended to people who love romcom and love novel setting.

Despite there not being a whole ton of content thus far 1 year into development, what little the game has is packed with interesting stuff. If you're into games that don't immediately shove the porn content in your face, this is for you. Although there are 2 instances where you can get scenes early on if you're wanting a taste.

Only 4 of the 6 currently romance-able characters are fleshed out, but they certainly give you a good amount of variety so you'll be particularly attached to at least one character since they have different dynamics and kinks. The best part of the game itself is its progress system. You can raise 3 different stats with each character that raising them different amounts will progress your relationship with each character in different ways. Trust increases story progression with the character and unlocks more options and it is yet to be seen what else raising it might do. Affection increases the more romantic and wholesome portion of the relationship and unlocks more typical relationship type actions, typically through physical acts or rarely affectionate words. Lust is through sexual or lustrous acts or words and generally gives you more sex acts, typically on the raunchier side, but it is yet to be seen how much leveling the different meters will affect the scenes you get in the future.

I came for the furry girl content, maybe a bit too humanoid-y for my tastes, but it's pretty easy to let it slide since you get enveloped in the writing, the characters, and the overall story. There was a surprising amount of content for how low the current character progress maximum is. I thought it would be a passable at best story that serves the means to serve pornographic material, but the game seems to take its story pretty seriously, and even starts with some heavy subject matters. I typically don't play Ren'Py games as their quality tends to be a mixed bag at best, leaning on iffy, but this one really showed how well it could work as I am more willing to give it a shot if it's good furry content. The game gets a plus for having as much dialogue as it does, including various bonus dialogue in sex/interactive scenes where even going back in the animations and returning gives unique dialogue that really gives the game a little polish.

Hope the dev keeps working on it, the last few updates were great reworks and additions that immensely improved the game's quality and content. Like for example removing a lot of the more monotonous progress raising actions by integrating it into story beats with its own unique dialogue and requiring specific parameters to trigger, making the world feel a little more lived in and gives you a bit of a rush when you discover a new scene on your own just playing the game, and isn't annoying as you can always look at your progress menu screen if you're ever stuck or just want to get to the next scene as it will tell you what you need to do to unlock the next stage of each progress meter. This is all despite the game being a sim game where the game tends to be more monotonous by nature of the genre, having to manage your time and money. Can't wait for what awaits the next update.

A really solid and enjoyable story with some spicy sex scenes and sexy characters! Honestly wanted to check it out just for the busty characters but stuck around for the compelling story and genuinely heartfelt moments. Though the busty ladies are still nice too! Looking forward to seeing where this game goes.

v0.4.4

I'd like to give it better rating, but there is barely any content.

Sex:
+ two main girls have 20% progress. You'll get a handjob\footjob, one showering scene and one blowjob (unique?). Thats all.
- seems like I've missed a scene when declined Hana's offer at first night and there is no way to see what else she offers except tailjob.
-- Vaginal sex is misssing, even while its mentioned in tags.

Characters
+ Hana and Rina - the only pleasant characters in game.
- MC - spineless human
- Billy - his alcoholic friend. Seems to solve all problems with beer.
- Oliver - wtf happened with his mouth?
- Lily - just FUCK OFF! Always angry piece of shit that commands MC, while he keeps apologizing in every dialog. She's angry even on the main menu screen. And her progress blocks the story of Hana and Rina.

Story:
+ The writing is good. Many unique emotional short dialogs, no walls of text.

Shopping is broken:
- MC mentions in dialog that he's going to buy food, but there is no option to buy food in the shop, until you get a special event for it. Same happens for sweets - you have no option to buy them until special event happens a few days after the dialog about them.
- Visiting clothes shop with girls. Nobody mentions how much money you'd need before this event. Happens to be 300$. And if you dont have it and buy Hana's clothes later - she will never wear them.

I usually don't care for, and therefore don't try most Ren'Py games, but man... This is great, and I'm glad I gave it some time to hook me in.
Great art. Great characters. Great setting. Great music. Great dialogue.

Though meeting requirements for progression with characters can feel like a bit a of a grind sometimes, it's very much worth it to see how the story and characters develop throughout. I couldn't help but feel for most of the characters.

I really appreciate how money and working jobs isn't such a necessity like in other Ren'Py games I've played. Gives you more time to get to know and begin to care for characters, and to play at your own pace. If you don't have the money for an item to progress with characters then and there, you can safely grind work for enough money without any drawbacks thanks to there being no time requirements.

Also pretty good porn (once you get there)

All in all - A mostly relaxing, really interesting and fun game with believable characters and personalities. Looking forward to future updates as I've really enjoyed my time with this game.

There's a lot to like about this. It's quirky, the art is fun and overall the game's not TOO grindy to make it annoying to play. It's quite light hearted and a bit sweet. Certainly worth your time.

For a game nearly a year and a half old though there's not a huge amount of content. Or rather, there is but it feels more like set up content as opposed to pay off. It's a very slow burn game with one or two exceptions which is fine, it doesn't need to be anything else. Although as of the latest release it seems to be heating up so there's that. The dev is doing the right thing of keeping the cast tight so to cut down on the work required. I think the banner you see in the OP is all the characters there are to interact with, with the exception of Billy but there's little in the way of interactions with him, he seems to be more of a facilitator to interact with other characters.

Very nice and wholesome game, nice story, and characters. i feel like kind of sad but happy rather than horny, can't wait for more update tho, because not much H scene, i'm not a furry or or whatever they called, but these characters are really really Gorgeous.
i truly don't mind being a furry, as long as all the character looks like the characters in this game.
This is just like the actual meaning and purpose of life, just helping each other, caring, and loving, not all these NTR and goofy ass ugly ass bastard or ogre and stuff.

i wish i could have a lot of money to donate to these developers , for this game to keep going, and hopefully there is also a voice update for the character, i want to hear them moan, but for now i'm going to leave this good review, and hopefully it can help.

Thank you for making this game, King
I HOPE THAT YOU KEEP UPDATING THE GAME UNTILL FOREVER !
whoever create and contribute in the making of this game, you Matters,
because this game is part of my life,
i feel like i have changed after playing this game tho, i really want to go outside more often, help people or animal, and be a better person rather than being sad and alone in the dark for almost no reason.

Review for v0.4.2.1

A cute game about romancing demi-humans. Despite some of the darker themes in the intro and general setting, the game is mostly light-hearted and cozy slice-of-life.

Character designs are easily what stands out most about the game. Can't say I've played a ton of Koikatsu games the nails Demi-humans/furries/monster girls so well. All the girls have been pretty likeable so far. The MC is a bit of a pushover which I know will irk some people, but I personally don't mind it much.

Events often range from cute to a bit mundane honestly. I'm hoping later events spice it up a bit more and make things a little more interesting. Still, there's nothing mind numbingly dull. The animations and lewd scenes are pretty nice, but lewd stuff happens a bit quick. Not a huge deal for me in this case though.

Also have to say I love the little detail of the sheep and goat girl saying "Bah" and "Meh" in their dialogue. Very cute.

I enjoyed my time with this, but it did feel a bit short considering it's been in development for a year now. What can you do though. I'll definitely come back to it in the future.

Started from the beginning,story and many other stuff seems much better now,Loved the game before and now even more.Story is super deep and i like the progress of it.Even with clothes stuff(which i hope we will get more in the future and they perhaps have the option to tell them what to wear) its 10/10.Truly one of my favorite games ever and i played A LOT!!!! of them so that says something.At least in my opinion.Everyone has their own taste.Truly awesome game,hope it will be a very long one

came for a fap, stayed for the feels
i would die to protect all these girls
literally teared up when i hugged hana
deals with some heavy themes but still has some lighthearted paths (mostly lily from what i've seen so far)
and for a koikatsu game, went above and beyond to make furry characters look good.
10/10 would take in fox girls out of the rain again

I personally wouldn't consider myself a furry or would say i have any attraction in that direction besides the classic anime cat girl. But this game was perfect. The characters are likable each with their own character-fitting narrative with a story that makes you wish for a happy ending. i kept playing just to see if i could make 2 characters a bit more comfortable.

Barely any content as for now... while general story is good... MC can't tell his bunny-friend to fuck off of his business, yeah. Anyway. I'd really put 4-5/5, but it's so... low on content, so it'd be a false advertisement. At least the route of Hana. Looks genuinely good, but... I'll only put a hope for the next updates.
Btw I never was a furry-fan, but this vn seems so bittersweet. Very decent job.

Great art, animations, and story. Progress is consistent and character interactions are believable. I would have liked more direction on where and what we are supposed to do to progress. Also would have appreciated another way to make money. Really enjoyed this!