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

A very good game, I like the art style, there are many areas, A very rich story, many characters that each have their personality and some even have unique statistics, And yet a lot of game mechanics that fit very well into the game.

Great art, great characters, great possibilities, but hugely bloated with:
- bugs
- too many stories that oftenclash into each other and corrupt your game
- no focus at all

I actually prefer to play older versions of this game.
This game sadly wants too much too fast and needs to step down multiple levels.

Pretty good dating simulator. The H game has a massive amount of HCG content, very good to see, but to get to the content takes quite a bit of time and patience for each girl. The grinding of love points is on par, but the time-date specific events take forever if you miss them and have to cycle the year. The harem is stuck in a dilemma of wanting you to grab as much ass as you can, but unless you read a walkthrough you're not going to get there on your first playthroughs and might even block yourself out of content. The H game mostly has solo endings, which further discourages you from playing the H game as a harem, outside of making multiple save states and just knowing how to beat the game ahead of time. The genre tag's impact were softened, don't expect any hardcore or indulgent focus to them, such as the incest, pregnancy or NTR. Overall, a softcore H game that's harem focused, but the harem is really just there to distract you from objectives towards the harem itself, lots of trial and error gameplay.

Positive Points:
+2D artstyle (not anymore)
+Lots of character with model and personality variety
+Good use of sandbox system
+Lots of content

Neutral Points:
*Quest system
*Grind (can be expect in sandbox game, not the worst I've ever seen)

Negative Points:
-Wiki and quick save are your best friends
-Last character represent a different fetish
-Possibility to play Female MC but lose 80% of the content
-Bug, bug, bug and bug
-Old save not so compatible

Conclusion:
I play this game for a long time, one of my favorite at the beginning but I'll probably not continue after being forced to reset my playthrough for the third time. Every new update you get new bugs and after few updates it become unplayable and you have to reset your save.
Some of the quest can be failed and one of more character can leave the game with no back up possibility. So you have to play with an open wiki (impossible to find the quest solution by yourself) and save a lot in fear to fail your playthrough. Even with that you can failed coz there is so much event that on of them can appear during a timed quest and fuck you up.
All the last character that have been put in the game is a kind of fetish... Lexi the prostitute you can pimp, Kylie the yandere that can create a game over, Shiori the cow milf, Minami your sister (yeah incest was really necessary on this game), Ayesha the body building girl, Hanna the submitted girl and last but not least Alexis your ex that will cheat on you everytime you try to date her... If you want every harem and content you have to deal with all these fetish...
The quality artstyle of the beginning become inconsistent. I don't know if there is an issue with the original artist or lack of time/investment but some of the art from the last updates are just disgusting, scenes are copy/past of another already seen....
Did I recommend this game? Not anymore. There is lots of good thing but too much issue and bad decision since 1 year. You can try it but keep in mind the game problems.

Test done on version 22.1.0a

The game's fine, characters are interesting and the overall story is neat. Sometimes the hints are vague and there's a time where I somehow took too long to unlock the nightclub despite having fancy clothes. Though I think the game's already very good right now, with the voicing and stuff, but I think it would be a great improvement if it was animated as well. Morgan's doggy scene was one of the hottest and there are a lot more scenes that are hot asf as it is and would be hotter if it's animated. There's another big problem in this game too, it doesn't have what a lot of other games have, the gallery. This game needs a gallery, we can't rewatch the scenes without resorting to saveslots, starting a new game, and visiting the girl. Overall, it's good, but needs a gallery and could do well if it's animated.

I'm going to be honest, I have 0 clue how this is so liked...

First issue is the grind, this game has so many stats and points that you need to grind that just the gameplay alone with no reading would take 50 hours of nonstop clicking.
Second issue is the convoluted quest lines for each girl, if you don't have a walkthrough be prepared to get slapped in the face with either NTR or losing the girl.
Third issue is the artwork, sometimes its good (never amazing) but a lot of the times it looks drawn by a completely different artist in MS paint.
Fourth is the broken saves, every other release requires a complete replay through of the entire game which as stated before is grindy and requires pinpoint accurate choices or you will lose your girls.
Finally the sandbox itself is poorly designed and many girls just take too long and too many day resets to get their stats up, since they have very little times you can even interact with them.

Overall 1/5 would not recommend.

I tried this game because I liked the artwork and most of the tags. The reviews were mixed, but I still decided to try it. After more than 10 hours of gameplay with the MC trying to woo his two roommates, I got the equivalent of a game over when one of the roommates just moved out because the MC did something wrong. It was a total WTF moment for me. I found a walkthrough and I basically did everything right, but something was just slightly out of order and there's no way to correct it with any of my saved games. I know there's a lot more content in this game, but I'm not willing to just play along only to get blindsided by one minor mistake and having to keep dozens of old saves around just to try to figure out how to correct the mistake. Fuck that! There's a difference between entertainment and time-wasting and I don't think the developer knows what it is.

I'm not going back and playing for several more hours just to get to a point where I can fix a previous subtle "mistake". Maybe players that love to re-play brain-dead Nintendo game levels over and over will want to play this game over and over to figure out where they went wrong and finally get it right, but I don't have the time or the patience for this garbage.

Quit. Delete. Move on.

Good luck to the dev

Excellent game so far. Characters are mostly voiced, pretty decently for the most part. Art is good, though sometimes inconsistent for the same character in some scenes. Relationship building is well paced and it's easy to get immersed in them.

The main reason I took a star was because none of the scenes are currently animated. Most main sex scenes are one image before the act, one during , and another for the aftermath. Otherwise this game has so much going for it that even jut 2 or 3 frame animations and perhaps a tad more depth for some of the characters would be all it needs to set it on the path of a perfect title.

My biggest criticism is that there isn't much reason to replay scenes with any of the girls and they don't have much personality or spontaneousness outside of date situations or specific holidays. To have as many choices as a german brothel, this game had to sacrifice depth with half the cast.

The no-condom-and-drunk scenes aren't much different from scenes after a girl asks you to help her get pregnant, if at all. Several of the scenes, it still treats it like it's unwanted. It'd be nice if there was some different writing behind various scenes. A random swap between possibilities, no more artwork needed, but just something new to read. Many scenes also don't seem to take dom/sub, kink or whatever points are involved, into consideration. Fricking any given one of them on date 1 doesn't often yield any different results than if you're doing it after 5 dates, max love, and going steady.

It seems like some of the cast is just abandoned as cast continues to grow, in favor of more harem content that can't be repeated without tactical saving. Good examples being Anna and Hanna. Emma's story also seems stalled out, and what there is of it, it's repetitive.

I have been a fan of this game for a long time. However I haven't played it in the past 4-5 months because of 1 reason, and 1 reason only. I'll first tell you the great things about this game. Great story element, immersive world, fun mechanics and cool art. People sometimes cry about the grind but I find it fun because of the great environment that exists in the game. Content is also added at a good pace which tells you how dedicated the developer is. But I'll still give it a 4 out 5 and the reason being is the sex scenes. This game has the potential of being the best, but when it comes to the main stuff, it is a bit disappointing. I had read some reviews earlier and I was a bit baffled as people keep praising the artwork, but I think they are commending the artwork in general which I also agree with. My only advice would be to improve the quality of the sex scenes. Apart from that, great job, great game. Keep it up.

[v21.11.0]
The game was supposed to be one of the best. But it gets worse and worse. The stories and variety of girls are one of its good sides. The art is a good side of it but it is inconsistent. The dialogues and voice lines are also top-notch. So what's the problem? Bugs. Tons of bugs. The game gives us new bugs every patch. This game has few punishment systems. But what it punishes you most with bugs. The game requires a lot of grinding and time. But it will make them all meaningless when you can't progress because of bugs. Moreover, old saves do not work properly which makes your efforts go to waste. In addition, the stories clash with each other. The story tracker is not that great either. I liked the game a lot. But it is unplayable. Even though there are bug-fix patches, they can't fix it all.

When it comes to open world games, this is definitely one doing most things right! Not too grindy, so much content and good story lines for a lot of different characters (as you can see from the banner of the game - I mean a lot!). Version 21.11.0 still leaves most paths open and they are currently planning to implement a female MC, but there is so much to discover.

So if you like the style of the game, give it a try!

the game is very good even if every update you have to go back from scratch i still think it's great because the game is always interesting, but the fact that the art of one of my favorite (Samantha) characters has been replaced by one that looks like a draft left a little disappointed with the game I hope they come back in that decision!

Look, this game is not without its flaws. It can be grindy, it can be buggy,for sure. But, man, do I always find myself coming back to it.

I think it's because the game reminds me of something old school that I would have played in the Dating Sims section of Newgrounds back in the day, but on steroids.

The cast is big (a bit too big) and all of the girls are hot in their own ways. Especially Sasha, and Lexi, oof.

I would highly recommend playing this one with cheats on, however, to avoid wanting to rage quit from the grind. And save frequently incase you miss a key event that just won't trigger for some reason.

But regardless, I recommend checking this game out if you're an old school dating sim genre fan like myself.

4*

It is a deep time management, stat based, corruption sandbox dating game.

Pros:
- It has high replayability if you enjoy the loop. ALOT of content and variety
- You can get EVERY girl but you'll better be prepared to save scum and open wikis if you think you are up for the challenge
- Most girls have an interesting personality and are fun to interact with, some even have their mini game/mechanic
- Long term dev support, the devs are always updating some aspect of the game, which is uncommon in the adult game industry, even if they do start side projects when inspiration hits them.

There are some big cons that you might wanna know:
- The art can be pretty horrible esp during the sex scenes
- It gets weird bugs every few patches because the game is so extensive, it is hard to QA and find them till weeks later.
- A few girls are built around unpopular kinks like Netorare, yes you get cucked, although they tend to be optional or you can command them to stop
- You'll need the wiki for the harder challenges(like the big harems and collaring)

End of the day, if you just want a quick wank, this game might disappoint, but if you enjoy something more challenging and replayable, this might be for you.

I liked the 2d art style, and I can say I was amazed at the complexity of the game. I have done several playthroughs from the start, because I keep finding that I missed part of a story or failed to start one of the quest lines. This game will keep you involved for a long time.

There simply so much variety, from strict boss femdom to a rock band harem. I like the writing, it was fun. It can be grindy but that is what cheats are for. A good amount of kink as well if that is your thing. It has its own art style, which is is impressive. Everyone looks great. Yeah

3 words: inconsistent art styles
If the game mechanics, setting, story is fine, there will be always one major crutch that will ruin any experience and that will be in my case the inconsistencies of art styles between the scenes. The artists somehow can't replicate the character images as shown on the banners in the actual scenes themselves.

Good art, interesting concept, but poorly executed, with too many flaws that make the experience annoying.
- As a free roam ren'py game, this game, for some reason, lags. It takes several transitions to move to your desired location, and about 1 second of freezing for every transition, making the gameplay experience very clunky, stiff.
- Too much repetitive grinding without proper guidance. Without a walkthrough, most of the time you are wandering aimlessly, doing random stuff, watch your stats grow, waiting for something to happen, and can still be locked out of certain paths for good. Unplayable without a walkthrough pdf.
- Bad, amateur voice acting. Perfunctory. Better just turn it off.
- For a free roam game where the major fun is to collect sex scenes, for whatever reason there is no gallery implemented, which makes no sense to me.

There are good parts, sure. I appreciate the idea of simulating daily life, but I don't think the dev understands what makes a game PLAYABLE. Players will enjoy the fun of a game only if they are not inevitably constantly annoyed.

First off I want to say i have been with this dev since the beginning. I have loved this game and lost my saves during updates. I have broken all the girls at some point and had to start over. I have put many hours into this game because i thought it was worth it. I loved the girls and the routes and the story they told.

When they introduced the pimping thing with Lexi i shrugged because it was avoidable and so it didn't affect me much. Then came Alexis with her surprises. (if you did not know it was coming, she will get you every time). And Kylie with her shenanigan's. Still i kept playing, working my way around the landmines of content that was disturbing and or downright rage inducing. It was small and far between so at first it was easy to dodge.

That being said. Recently the dev has for whatever reason decided that his focus needed shifting from kinky harems to full blown sharing and ntr events that if you do not know how to avoid them beforehand, will slap you in the face like a pissed off mother in law and leave you feeling like crap about the whole thing. Mike went from caring, loving partner to full blown ice cold pimp in 2.5 seconds flat and pretty much broke any good feels this game had to start with. I can only speak for myself, as i know there are people who are into stuff like that, but I would like to think im still one of the majority of guys who likes to keep his girls to himself.

So on that note sadly i will not be continuing to support the game and wish the developer the best of luck in the future, i hope his 5 people who wanted that content are happy now.