VN - Ren'Py - Love Dolls [v0.1 Remaster] [Smugger]

played v0.1 – pretty much a kinetic novel. Has the slave, humiliation, male domination, bdsm and spanking tags. Sadly I seem to have found the game too early – there’s just the initial release and the creator is planning to completely remaster the game before posting an update, so it’s probably better to wait.
Has bondage, brainwashing, rape, prostitution and pet play. Mind control is cool as it seems to be a mix of controlling a person’s actions while the inner personality is screaming inside and complete brainwashing. Rather dark so far.
Plot is split between the evil corporation capturing and brainwashing girls to sell as sex slaves and the male mc and friends trying to find the abducted friend. The game is in its early stages and I’m not sure how it’ll turn out. (will it be an ntr game of all your friends getting brainwashed and raped, a corruption game of the mc falling into depravity or about the mc saving his friends – or a mix?)
Dialogue flows well and sounds mostly natural, writing is decent enough – I’ll keep an eye on it. As of now it’s too early to tell whether this will flop or turn out great.

Review for v0.1:

The idea of this game is interesting and, in my opinion, pretty well executed. The renders and models are good, there are two good animations and the surroundings and backgrounds in the different scenes have some detail and fit the rest of the image. The writing contains a few small errors but is pretty good overall. Currently, there are two paths, one of which leads to an early end.


However, two things bother me a little are:

The background of the story is not explained well enough, in my opinion. I understood that the MC and the other students in the class are in Japan as part of an exchange program, but somehow, they have known each other for years. Did they come as a whole class? I think this could be done better with a bit of clarification.
The story could use a bit more detail. How can it be possible that dozens of girls disappear in the city, but the police do nothing for three years (at least it isn't mentioned anywhere, except for the two investigators)? These are small details, but I wish they would be mentioned somewhere, as I think they would really improve the game.


In conclusion, the game seems very promising and I hope to see more soon, but the story needs more details to be more immersive.

Great game so far. Love that there is actual content in the initial release, and also the fact that aforementioned content is good.

The path that exists is also nice. I do wish that there was a bit more to it though, hope it gets continued later on.

Overall solid, defo a game to watch out for if you're into darker themes. Been waiting for a new dark game to pop up, been feelin like things a lil vanilla in here.

I love this game. It is a incredible nice dark story but also really combines it well by switching off to lighter scenes then dark again, the music and ambient sounds help with that. There are also hidden hints in the game that can be of importance later so i would suggest folllowing the story very well.
I have played multiple times since 0.1 master release and am enoying it alot.

Smugg is a incredible hard worker and amazingly passionate about his work.
You can see he cares deeply to improve everywhere he can and is already remastering the 1st version for a incredible quality update which if you look at the new renders was needed. He also cares very much about peoples feedbacks and loves listening to it. If you can even by playing and giving him feedback just i would ask you to support him.

(this review was made before becoming a representative of smugger)

A pretty good game for proof of concept. The game needs a bit of polish here and there but it's good. The sex scenes are a little over the top but that's kinda the appeal of this sort of dark fantasy.

Honestly this is a game that could go either way depending on how the protagnist is written, will he be the weak protagnist screaming "no" in the corner as the organistion enslaves people? Will he join the organisation?

I want the latter as while it's been done, it generally seems the most enjoyable.

Review for
[v0.1 PR]

Very promising for the first release, Not a lot of content as expected but whatever is here..is quality.

The game is built around a plot of Kidnapping, Training/Brainwashing (Not a total 100% brainwash though, Which might be some player's sweet zone) and selling the ladies as merchandise.

It is indeed dark and all that comes with it.
The scenes themselves aren't animated yet, but the Dev plans to add animations to all the static scenes soon (including addition of Sound and music For which I took away one point, For now..)

I'll Update the review including the rating as further builds comes out
Wishing the Dev a successful one here.