Ren'Py - Love & Sex Second Base [v24.11.0b] [Andrealphus]

One of the first games I played. Still love it to this day and replay often. Tonnes of great and diverse content with a wide cast I don't get bored with. The art work is fantastic and love the different choices you get to make. This game does suffer the same thing as other games with developers focusing on a lot of different things at once so it takes a while for a route you like to be completed to the end.

Welcome to the one of the top spots on my compendium, LSSB. I have about 20-30 hours this week into this and I dont regret a second including getting and so many great LIs (not you Alexis!) including Sadayo Kawakami inspired Shiori, the gyaru version of Season 3 AoT Mikasa thats Hanna and the Prison School Warden inspired Aletta. Lexi is my hot trashgirl. "Tiger Mask V" Ayesha is wonderful and a great depiction of a Joshi/Woman's wrestler. 10/10 would be put into "The Billy Goat's Curse" for some asslicking. Sasha is goth perfection. Bree and Minami are liquid sugar in human form. Deceptively great characters like Kleio. If not for Mike being a major Nice Guy TM and a vessel at times for the devs "MGTOW"/Anti-SJW sentiments which made me groan aloud as I rolled my eyes AND facepalmed irl, I'd say this was flawless. (A girl like Aletta isnt going to let you call her a Feminazi to her face and not DUMP YOU outright. That was silly.) The art is simply stunning. Just looking at the shelves of manga in Minami and MCs room you will see things you know immediately. The attention to detail is jaw dropping.

But yea, Alexis can eat shit though and is perfect for those that like NTR paths but avoiding NTR with her just makes her slimy as hell. Very relatable to why she is easy to hate.

I tried it here and bought it on Steam during the sale. I have no ragrets.

Honestly such a fun and good game, if you like those longer games that have large casts of girls. this is one for you. hopefully the add a bit more fetish stuff and expand on the clothing options, but defs worth a play

Love & Sex is packed full of content. There are tons of girls to romance and create your own harem with. This is one of my favorite games on the site, but I do have to take a star off for a couple reasons.

First, the game often has bugs with each new release which can be annoying when it locks you out of content. Second, the art in the game is inconsistent. You can tell which scenes are older as the art is much lower quality than the art that is being added now. Lastly, progressing some girls content in the game can be very tedious either because the in-game walkthrough can be very vague at times or because there's only a very specific time and place you have to be to progress. I highly recommend using the wiki while playing.

I definitely recommend the game though as its consistently updated and the amount of content in the game will get you through multiple fap sessions. It's also very refreshing to have a game with this many girls that all look unique, have different personalities, and they all actually have content made for them. Can't wait to see what else is added in the future!

Have been playing this on and off for over a year and its one of the best NSFW games I have played.
The art is gorgeous, the stories and characters have personality and have some good developments, and it has a lot of options to how you develop your relationships.
Very good game.

Version reviewed: 22.12.x
AMAZING game. I only recently found it because I usually use the BDSM tag as a filter and, although this game has good bondage content, the tag is (still) absent.
This game, although not completed yet, has dozens of hours of gameplay to offer.
The pros:
1. Great art and lots of girls to choose (or not!) from
2. Various body types, ages, skin colours and different personalities
3. Possibility to create harems
4. Some nice (light) bondage play with some of the girls – but basically all of them can turn up to be your slave, with a matching collar
5. You can play this for days and still find new content
6. The main girls have some (high quality) spoken dialog with sexy voices
7. Although there is a component of stats management, it is not critical and does not require any grinding to keep them up
8. Cheat engine integrated, that can be used w/o fear of breaking the game
9. Rock solid programming. In dozens of played hours, the game did not crashed once (win64)
10. Pregnancy is possible but (fortunately, for my taste) avoidable.

The cons:
1. You will need to look up the official Wiki to know what you are doing (the walkthrough is no longer being updated)
2. You should be careful with some in-game choices: some girls can and will disappear forever (the only way to get them back is to load a previous save... or start from the beginning) and can even get killed!
3. It is not possible to have a harem with all the girls...
4. There is no gallery to return to some favorite scenes but, to be fair, all or almost all sex scenes are replayable (unless you "lost" that girl in the meantime).
5. Some stuff can only be achieved on certain days or, worse, on certain seasons (each season is 30 days long). But I guess that can also be a "pro", since it extends the playability of the game.

Last but not least: don't ask for a "savegame" file, because you will miss a lot of content if you do.

Okay. Let me preface this by saying that I rarely leave reviews on f95 because I rarely spend more than an hour on playing a game that I find here. Now, I can safely say that I've played most if not all the content present in the currently provided version of this product. And, oh boy, do I have things to say about it.

First, let me start with the artistic presentation of the game. The art is clearly hand-drawn, quality 2-D cartoon-style art. It's really nothing special, but it's pleasing to look at and isn't jarring in any way. Of course, there are numerous events with the said art depicting both sexual and non-sexual activities, but when you take into account just how ungodly long it takes to see all of the aforementioned activities you just can't help but feel like there weren't even that many of them. They end up feeling scarce and criminally short. Not only that but vast majority of them follow the same template.

The template. Meet a girl. Date a girl. Fuck a girl in 1to4 positions (same for every girl). The end. Naturally, there is more to it but this is basically what you will find yourself doing for hours and hours when playing this game. At first it feels alright, then it starts to feel grindy and at some point it will truly test your sanity's durability. And that's just by the sheer repetitiveness of it.

Okay, now I feel like I need to address the elephant in the room. The how part of dating and fucking people in this game. Oh boy. I don't think I've ever spent this much time scouring a game's Wiki for as long as I did with this game apart from Terraria. And I mean it. Want to date this chick? Sure, now you can't date/meet/finish the storyline of that chick. Why? Check the wiki. Found the reason? Start another playthrough or rollback X amount of hours. Missed this event? Too bad. Didn't get to form a harem with these chicks? Too bad. Want to do it properly? Sure thing. Now just go and do this superspecific thing in a superspecific manner an arbitrary amount of times. Good boy, pat yourself on the back. Now hope you did everything right and the game didn't fuck up at any point of time. It's mind-numbing, dull and downright irritating how event triggers/flags are setup in this game and I would never, and I mean never want to go through all of that shit ever again.

Speaking of irritating stuff. The season system/time system/day system in this game is awful. Truly. It's extremely restrictive and forces you to constantly open calendar to calculate a myriad of things all the time and it gets old very quick. Want to progress with Minami? Too bad, you have to go to the Beach location and it doesn't open until Summer and it's fucking Fall. You dummy. Want to progress with Emma? Hah! Well she'd like to have a picnic in the park, but it's Winter. Who has picnics at Winter, dummy! And so on and so on and so on. When I say that this calendar shit gets in the way all the time, I mean it genuinely. Not being able to skip season/days and not being able to just prompt the necessary events whenever you want because that would save time and my dying neurons apparently never occurred to the developer. I have no idea why they insist for the user to use this system.

Same thing could be said about the 24H cycle. It's same-same really as with seasons but more actively frustrating because you'll find yourself looking at the clock and clicking "skip hour" button more times than you could humanly keep track of. To sum it up about these in-game systems - use cheats or edit save files. Fuck that noise, you'll thank me later.

I should also probably mention the City/Location/Room system of navigation that the game utilizes. Oh God. I mean, I can't tell you how many days I've skipped waiting for Morgan and Kleio to show up at Pub at the same time. Or how many attempts it took for Sasha to appear at Nightclub on Saturday night when I went out there with Lexi. Etc etc etc. There is a schedule for girls on Wiki, but it's not always accurate, it changes based on many things like seasons, point or path of their story and so on and very soon you'll come to realize that not having the ability to just call the needed girl and ask her to come to a certain location is a fucking feature that's not sorely missed but makes you feel like it was purposefully omitted to drive you insane.

Having Morgan lock out as a character if you receive a call from Kleio is stupid. Having Emma be such a needy character that you almost must rush through her story early is stupid. I could go on, but truly many of these arbitrary things are unnecessary and just get in the way of enjoying the game the way you want. Can't form harems with several girls if you're progressing with one of them, can't progress their stories if you triggered a certain harem flag and now you must do other events before you continue. The list is truly never-ending.

Finally, I'll sum up my impression. I'm glad I played this once, it was somewhat enjoyable for what it was, but I never, never will play this game again, unless some major changes will be made. Also, it's just too vanilla for my taste, but that's neither here nor there. Play this when you feel like you are ready to have 20 wiki tabs open and stop to read each single paragraph of each girl on there every 3 minutes. Otherwise - don't.

Great game .
in my top 5 .
couldve been better in execution cuz some of the mechanics are a bit too rare.
but hey the dev is awesome and updatets it pretty regularly and it has a lot of cheats.

Actually this is one of my absolute Favorites and is one of the very few examples where i come back regularly and even start over new Playthroughs (sometimes even with the same Woman).

It's not flawless, that for sure. It have quite some Bugs, it doesn't run smoothly all the time, even some events do trigger weridly and it can be especially Grindy... for the latter one i'm quite happy that we got a Cheat-Engine implemented, because esp. if you like me do playthroughs over and over (for the first 2-3 runs i personally don't find it "that" bad, but it might still need some tweaking as the final touch if they ever come to the point to finish it). In General, not only for Games which are grindy, i really appreciate when devs gives cheat-tools but that's besides the point. Also some Arts are sometimes a bit off and it would be nice to have (more) animated Secnes. And maybe NTR would need a bit of love / work.

Why do i still give the Game 4 Stars out of 5 despite the Flaws. Simply because the strenghts of the game outweights so much the flaws. I really love most of the girls, while sometimes build on some tropes / stereotypes, they really worked out the details. Most people you encounter are absoluetly interesting and you want to learn more (and yes also get into their pants) and also quite some characters unfolds (also for some in different directions based on your actions) over the course of the Game, show their personality in strenght and weakness, their own goals etc And that's quite addicting.

Take Sasha as example (small Spoiler-Warning). First Impression of her is a strong, independend woman, which have no issue to speak out what she thinks, makes her als a bit sassy / bitchy, and you also learn pretty fast how liberated she is sexually. But when you progress with her (also based on how you handle her routes) you see softer and more caring sides of her, also that despite having quite a high selfesteem there are also a some spots where she have insecurities of herself. That makes here not to one of these "perfect modern woman" as quite many media try to push it, but portrays her as a human being.

Also the Pornstuff is quite good (again with a bit more consistency in terms of art and animations it could be even better), though also the build ups plays into it for me. The Story itself is okay... but doesn't stick out really, which is imho not a surprise for me due its more a sandbox slice-of-life thing and not a kinetic novel or something like that. About sound i can't say anything i play porngames always mute.

Try to match 5 different values at a specific time with inconvenient mechanics simulator, if you like playing a bad cookie clicker for half an hour for a two minute H scene in between sittings, go for this, you will love it.

Hours on hours of replay! The characters are all unique enough to want to learn each of their stories and the MC is vague enough to be relatable to. I've enjoyed this game but you might need to use the cheat menu if you want to get the most out of it, overall really grindy game. The work put into this game is also awesome to see with complete voice overs and variations of outfits and such. Great game if you want to keep yourself busy for a while!

Amazing game, has hours of content and a really diverse story/gameplay.
Plenty of replayability and just fun overall.
I've spent hours on this game just having fun progressing in the story and 'conquests'

I'm like pregnant seks, nice graphic but the way. In my opinion is better like this, with social life and everyone is fuck-able and pregnant all women you have in fantasy, not real life. So it is clear for me to give this game an excellent rating.

Deepest ero game with lots of characters, routes and events. A bit chuggy and slow but otherwise fantastic. A beast to get through all the content, which is both good and bad. But most other games feel too light on content so it's kinda wierd to complain ;P

I have mixed feelings about this game: on the one hand, as others have pointed out, characters do are fleshed out nicely as updates go by, but on the other I don't appreciate much that some characters seems to be exclusive (you cannot proceed in the story of one if you chose the other). While conceding that this plays in favor of realism, I reckon that this is still a harem game, so I think that this is not really necessary, and this is the main "flaw" that I see in the game. Add that, in case you wanna start over to see the content that you've missed, you need to go through a lot of grinding again (which I absolutely don't mind in the first playthrough). I do however appreciate the art and the effort put by the dev over the years, so I think that this 3.5 rounded up to 4 sums up my rating pretty well.

Tbh. One of the better games. Not the best but much you can do. I love it. You can have different harems and also the fact that many lines are voiced is at least for the games i played very uniqe. I love playing it.

Good game with quality but play needs too much grinding to reach for every single scene, not animated. Original characters are awesome but some patreon characters are just too absurd sometimes and yet, algorism of the whole stroy of character just too complex so you should find wiki or walkthrogh if you want to see whole scene without meaningless repeating. Just consider that. You need whole lot of time for fapping.

Played this game quite a bit over the years; usually starting over from scratch every so often considering that every six months or so saves seem incompatible with prior versions. First run through the game was really good, and I didn't mind the tedium of grinding or the several clicks it takes just to get out of my room to go outside; but after a few playthroughs it's a slog.

Story is okay, and some of the characters have quite a lot of depth. Some in personality, but mostly in how they develop over the story and how the MC can impact them. While some of these paths have been shallow as a puddle for years now you probably won't care unless you are focusing just on that one character only, which given the varied cast isn't likely first playthrough.

Though there are a lot of complains on tedium. bugs and lack of convenience features, the biggest issue for me was what was the strongest issue for the first couple years. I don't know why but newer releases seem to have art that is worse than the start, some of the standing sprites/pictures also are different in quality as well. LoSeb is no stranger for revising/changing art or even full character appearances, but I get the feeling that the art I'm seeing in later stages of the game is more definite than the changed art from literal years ago.

That said, and I know it feels like a lot of this is just complaining, there is a lot of content here, and if you're new to this you likely can sink some hours into it. Overall, a decent game.

V:22.7.0
A lot of the complaints about this game are about how grindy it is, and if you're going for an authentic 100% completion then yeah sure it'll probably take you a long time - as in several days to a week's worth of dedicated play. If you're not trying to do everything with every girl in one clean sweep then it's a lot more managable. Alternatively, use the wiki and make plenty of saves, because this game does not protect you from fucking yourself over - much like real life. If you hate grinding, there are cheats to bypass most of it so even that's a none-issue. I would recommend at the start adding +20 submission and +10 love to most of the characters since that gives you more options to increase that stat, taking out a good chunk of the early grind.

There are also mutually-exclusive routes like Gamer Bree and Maid Bree which require 2 different playthroughs if you want to see both - get your saves going!

That said, this game is fairly rare in that it has a large cast of romancable NPCs who are *all* quite unique both in looks and personality (not copy/pasted bimbos). There are certain characters - like Kylie and her sister Alexis who are... shall we say interesting in ways which you might want to avoid if you don't have certain kinks or a reasonable understanding of the consequences of certain choices - but this (along with the mostly decent voice acting) only enhances the immersion of seeing them as people rather than images on a screen. These characters aren't mindless sextoys; they are semi-realistic depictions of people that you can seduce or repulse depending on your actions. I'm guessing if you're looking for a porn game, you want something more than a quick fap over a character you feel no connection to, L&S:SB delivers that in spades with a massive amount of regularly-updated content.

If there's one thing I would suggest to improve, it would be for the dev to add the option in the mission log for a *spoilers* button to give more detailed information and warnings about potential consequences/suggested route-timings so people don't have to rely on third-party resources and building up a compendium of knowledge if they just wanna build their harem in peace, without ruining things for people who like authentic progression and consequences. It would also be nice if there were more actions which increased stats by more than one so it cuts out much of the grind - like maybe make gifts more impactful? Well, that and more optional fetishes/content but then that's really up to the dev to decide what they want to make.

Wasn't sure I wanted to try it after reading the reviews but so many of those giving 5* ask to at least try so... (better be careful what you wish for).

Going to keep it short as this game already wasted more of my time than it deserves. So:
- Awful grinding. You will be mostly doing the same things over and over. And it has all the pointless hunger/energy/waste_your_time management.
- Awful UI. Painful to go anywhere. Even worst to work out where there might be something to do.
- Awful voice overs. But at least you can mute it.
- Awful time mechanics. Certain events are date bound or require you to wait for a time. Added to the above it really make the bad worse.
- Awful sex. Really poor after so much work.
- Cute girls. Some of the girls can be pretty cute. With so many I suppose it was bound to be though.

In summary, a huge waste of time with little reward.