Ren'Py - Love & Sex Second Base [v24.5.1d] [Andrealphus]

The game is very good, there are many girls and events, I also managed to see that there are seasons since it arrives in autumn, the bad thing is that it currently has enough bugs and obviously more history is missing in some girls, what screwed me was that it did not I got to unblock Ryan before Samantha's marriage so I couldn't do route A well, I'll wait a while for the game to get more progress with the girls, fix some bugs and that there is an updated guide since the one I found was from the version 17

The game is excellent.
1) Very engaging. Played for a few days.
2) Quality content. Especially those descriptions of sex scenes - really gives a boner
3) You can make a progress with all girls simultaneously, no "select who you continue fucking with" situations.

A few minor bugs, but I can live with that.

I think nearly anyone who has played this game has something of a love-hate relationship with it. When I first played it, it was a buggy mess. Those mostly got fixed and I appreciate a dev who isn't afraid to interact with the community. Before I got further, I want to state that up front that I very much WANT to like this game. It has tons of potential. First, the positives

I like the art a lot. Definitely prefer the drawn style to the "taken from Pornhub actual pictures" version of the game. The girls (and there are a lot of them) are all distinctive in looks and personality for the most part. Some of them have lots of character development. The "primary" girls (the old roommate, Samantha, the current roommates Bree and Sasha, the co-worker Audrey, the Boss Aletta) get stories. Now there's an almost comical overload of characters. Just looking at the "old" header vs the new header is absurd. It went from like 6 girls to 20.

If the dev can manage to focus on some of them or even gets around to giving all of them attention, well that would be impressive as hell.

The gameplay, such as it is, it pretty grindy. There doesn't really seem to be a underlying story. Now I like sandbox games but they still have a narrative that hold all the moving parts together. So there isn't much of a story.

I actually like the idea of a Female MC. But there isn't much there as far as I know. I could do without the VA but its a nice touch.

I think this game almost has too much going on. A better focus on the core girls/game would easily make this a 5/5 game

*Updating my review to account for the new content*

I think my earlier review was a bit harsh. I still have a few issues with the "sandbox" VNs, as the grindy nature usually only serves to to obscure the fact that there isn't much content. If you didn't have to spent hours grinding money or stats, you'd realize that there isn't actually much there.

I think that WAS the case for this game. I would like to say that might not be the case when this game is finished. The characters and background art is still good and the writing ranges from solid to excellent. Some dialogues actually impressed me. This game still has a ways to go, to be sure. Particularly for a Bree MC. I dont know how many people actually play as Bree, but now that its been committed to, I'd like to see it actually work for the sake of the game.

This still has 5 star potential. I hope it gets there

This game possesses a rare quality not often found in games on this site; while being lewd and all that. It has a stunning array of personality, and this is one, if not the only game on this site I actively have not wanted to cheat in; nothing feels like a chore, and there's a lot of stuff to do, so even when you grind, you kinda forget the grind, because it's 2-4 minutes of 30 min of amusement.

The characters are all unique and interesting, and the sheer fact that there's voice acting adds even more to it

Overall, this game is excellent, from my point of view.

Characters and art style is great, but holy shit, it is not worth the grind. Even if you enable cheats, you have to wait for random events to happen because a few of the stats needed for certain scenes is capped 4-5 different times per character. Meaning you have to wait for 4-5 events (which happen once a week in-game time if you're lucky) just to get all the scenes that are available.

One of the grinding game in this website.I spent hours to get one cgi.You gotta work for money,and you dont even have time to date any of the girls.Full of bugs aswell.Anyway,

Pro:
-Art and sex scene
Cons:
-Too grindy
-Walkthrough is really necessary
-Waste of energy and time only to get unsatisfying cgi
-Bad game design
-Full of bugs
-You cant get all the sex scene.You need to wait to get a chance.Daily and weekly.

Not recommend

Pros:

- Decent 2D art, but nothing amazing
- Fairly unique character designs
- Consistent updates, but mostly bug fixes

Cons:

- This game is probably the worst grindfest on the whole site. 90% of your time will be spent doing repetitive and mindless tasks that add little value to the game except for making it look like there is actual content
- Extremely buggy (even modders dropped this game recently)
- Story is almost nonexistent
- Sex scenes are basically just one cg each and feel unrewarding after all that grinding

Neutral:

- The game does support cheats, which wouldn't even be neccessary, if the game focused more on character interaction and story, instead of grinding stats.

Overall even with cheats the game is unejoyable to play. The devs should look at some other games that do a far better job at combining erotic content with character interactions and story. Instead so far they've only added more and more characters instead of listening to some of the valid criticism posted here. Kind of a shame, because this game has some potential, if there was some actual gameplay and willingness to improve. If you are looking for a rewarding and interesting erotic game experience, look elsewhere.

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Grindy but a great game. I wish there was a little bit more content apart from that fact every girl is quite interesting to interact. I really wonder who this game such a low score here. Believe me all, the score does not justify the game's quality.

A year ago and I would have given this 5* no doubt. But now? I'd say 3.5* is exactly what it deserves. Why do people play games, specifically an adult game on f95?

If your answer is to relax, DO NOT play this game.

If your answer is for the art and H-scenes, DO NOT play this game. Or you could, but you should just wait for the mod for that.

If your answer is for the story, plot, and moral lessons, I'd still NOT recommend this game. Don't get me wrong, the story telling, plot, and lessons here are still average, maybe even above average. BUT they can't save the game from its downsides and shortcomings.

If your answer is to torture yourself OR spend days trying to get everything done because you have OCD and want a sense of accomplishment, OR because you love working but your boss won't allow you to work overtime, OR if you LOVE grinding, THIS IS THE GAME FOR YOU!!!

Like seriously, I don't play this game to relax from a day of hard work and studies. I go on a day of hard work and study to relax from playing this game!

THE ONLY WAY, you can play this game and get any enjoyment out of it, is to use the cheat menu and follow the walkthrough, or ask in-depth questions on this thread. AND EVEN THEN, the grind is still torturous, and you MIGHT STILL NOT get every scenes you want because REASONS.

It also doesn't help that older saves are no longer compatible, and no full save is provided recently.

I USED TO love this game. I USED TO be able to play without cheat. I USED TO get excited and eager with updates... NOT ANYMORE. Now I just wait on Lain to update the mod and look at the H-scenes and be done with it.

this game is downgrading. It was promising no become average. Instead of continue the story, this game always looks different every time I download. For me it isn't refreshing, just demotivated. I prefer old version, for me it's clearer and better

Hello Andrealphus,
Love & Sex: Second Base [v20.1.3] is a great Game with a lot of opportunities for a lot of people. I like the Art, the conception of the game and the many girl there is. I hope you have great Ideas for the future and i had enjoy it a lot.
I had just one Question. Is it possible that you can consider the intox fetish a little bit more and make it easier to buy drugs. I had after 20h of playing just one time the possibility to buy drugs by a random guy so...
But after that it is overall a great game.
Thanks for your great work!

So this game interested me because of the amount of girls. There are a lot and with variety, petite, busty, shy, flirty etc. Some girls have easier patterns to follow and to find. Unfortunately you will find yourself interacting with a girl the exact same way, with the same conversations many many times until you cross your fingers it makes some progress at a certain point. Outside of some girl specific story scenes, there is little of interest in the dialog after your initial interaction. Some girls do not offer much of a story at all. Much art in the game is varying in quality. Both character models and sex scenes themselves are by the hand of different artists. Some characters offer more rewarding choices because they were drawn more sex options or interactions. Surprisingly, many characters can be impregnated with the corresponding changes in the art and sex scenes. I'll give it some points for that, but overall the art is a bit lacking and the inconsistency adds to the underwhelming feeling.

My suggestion is the only way to really make this game playable is with one cheat enabled (aka god mode). Otherwise you spend too much time basically eating, resting, showering, increasing your mood and so on... These are your character's "needs" which you must maintain above a certain threshold, only to make your character do stuff like go to work to pay rent. Yup, you can't even hold onto your money from a daily task like work. You can get promoted for better pay but not without a lot of work put in first. This will get in the way from making any progress with girls that are not related to work. But what if you don't make enough to pay rent? The two girl roommates you start with will hate your guts and you will lose points with them. Not a fun time. The gameplay is poor, the character depth is inconsistent but the art is passable. Just about average I think

Far too grindy for my tastes... I enabled cheats and even then it was still too grindy I only played as the female, I'm not a huge fan of the male protags also kissing sasha shows the man kissing her even when playing female... it just feels too barebones and boring I'd rather more time on story and less time on a dating sim grind

A good game, with a lot of interaction, the arts are nice, a more than correct number of girls.
Updates are frequent, and the content keeps growing.
The interface has even been improved.
The music, on the other hand, can be repetitive and annoying.

I don't understand his average score on this thread.

Congratulation to the developer
Even though the game is incomplete and imperfect, I'm still eager to open it and spend a couple of hours playing.
I've started playing on version 19.12.2 and quickly became in love with the story, the gameplay and the characters.
Especially how realistic and complex you've made some of the characters appear to be. They're all unique and free spirited, exactly what we would ask for an H game.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to play this game for free, you deserve praise for what you've accomplished.

I'm no critic reviewer but I can tell this game is worth more than 3 and a half stars. It has a strong basis and many female options to romance. It's only downside is the Bree PC storyline is extremely lacking versus the male counterpart.

Great Game, i liked the style of art, it's very beautiful and the girls are pretty sexy. I have so much fun playing it, still don't finished the game but i will finish very soon, i can't wait to play the new version when the same be released. Fuck this 200 characters i just wan't to rate the game lol

Andrealphus is the best kind of dev. His game doesn’t try to beat around the bush, it’s a sex game first. There is only minor grinding compared to many other titles and what you see in the tags is what actually exists in game. Love & Sex is a quality game that I have come back to many times. Follow the walkthrough and good times await.

The game is really hard,u need to trial and error so many times to see the different scene plus no gallery so u cannot reply the scene but it's still good game, just very annoying and i added some view things just because they said i must write 200 character, so basically they want me to write an essay thank you very much

review v19.11.2f. Excelent. a lot of content, maybe some bugs, but funny game.

In my first game i go for sammantha, best girl for my taste, not cheat her and find end of her route incomplete (well was funny, waiting for more content)
Then I lied to sasha and tell her that she looks fine blonde, and cant change her hair colour ( i dont like her blonde, but for my error i cant change. Excellent.
In second and large gameplay. I go for the blonde roommate, cheat her with the black hair roommate and she leaves the house angry and can't see her nevermore. excellent.
Then i go for shiori, cheat her with palla and she break the relationship and cant date her anymore. Excellent.
Then i decide be an asshole, date palla, the yandere girl, sasha as a pet, cassidy and lexi. And palla tell me that she doesn`t want a relationship. Excellent.

so if you want a good girl you have, samantha, bree, lavish, shiori maybe (i think she want to be pregnant and steal your money) i dont play pregnant so i dont know how it work for each girl, for me is a bad ending but after play a time 20 hours maybe more, I have faith in history and bad endings. Shark was funny.
i have palla 100% love, 60% kink and i don't know how follow her stoy, but i want buy the expensive car, so i play and try (if the 200.000 car not change nothing i will hate developer, really) i take palla to dates, buy her clothes, but don't find how follow and unlock next event (i think it's not an easy game, some event have specifics requeriment and i hate play dating sims with guides or cheats, if you don`t want the grindiness don't play a dating sim or a SLG (simulation life game) i like jappanese games for the same, and this is a really good dating sim, maybe SLG, maybe not, i dont see bad ending apart the shark, and that some girl leaves or break with you. But yandere promises a lot, maybe murder affairs, maibe she kill you if your cheat her. this is the next update, so i dont know and i'm only speculating.

Well conclusions. now i consider that is a excellent game, missing content, yes, have bugs, yes, a little grindy, yes. (but for that you want a dating sim - SLG game) maybe before releases had little content, but know i consider have a decent gameplay a lot of content ( i want follow samantha route, in general developer leave-miss content for the good girls)

but this game really has the potential to be a masterpiece, the game shows the love of its developers and penalizes you for being an idiot.
I really love dating sims-SLG games, true love (1995) amagami series (not sex), shiraoka second chances, shool days (2008), cross chanel (2003), bible black, artificial academy 2, artificial girl 3, now AI girl and not to much more games comes to my mind that i enjoyed like this.
- SLG (simulation life game) you want money, work (coworkers routes)
- you want be a student- university (bree, yandere girl)
- you want be a good person (samantha route, maybe lavish, maybe bree)
- you want be an asshole, a lot of easy girls.
- you like BDSM, your boss or cassidy
-you want to play like a adult- samantha, palla
- you want a vanilla love story without cheat girls (samantha? shiori? maybe no one?)

How dating sim
- specific requeriment for each girl, yes, (clothes and stats i think)
- jealousy- yes
-pregnancy-abortion-consecuences- penalties, i don't know
- girls leave you for being a idiot, yes
-unlock places or story for buy specifics items or have specifics ranges, yes (beach, gym, guitar for sasha, maybe more i dont know)
if the more expensive item doesn`t nothing i will hate developer)
-diferent types of girls, yes ( i miss good girls, lovely story or happy romance)
-change clothes, not (collar slave, and piercing, but maybe some day. With cassidy i gift her sexy-cute swimbath and was the same, maybe some day change clothes, they try at leat, must be a lot of work i think)
they suggest hair changes (blonde sasha working, redhair samantha, maybe other)

- moral decisions, not really (maybe the church girl, maybe the cheater friend?) perhaps abortion decision, i don`t know

How H game.
- Not really a masterpiece, good art, yes;
- varied expressions, some girls yes, others not.
- items not working for all girl (good, but in developement i think) or i don`t reach the requeriment for use items with some girls, or for histoy propose. in this developer will know what they want, and after play i believe in their criterion.

I prefer anime style, i like the art, if you wan't a nukige, this is not you game. Read a Hentai manga or view some porn, this is a game, a h-dating sim, not too easy and that is good.

Finally, two things, i played summertime saga, 5 minutes, no more, i hate the font, letter size, text position, . this game have a nice font, readable, not annoying to the eye. (i even moded summertime saga font and unplayable for me), but have good reviews.

And the last thing. I think that this is a game that respects himself, i can view the love and dedication from developers to his game, and i think that the minimun that i can do is give them a serious and sincere review and encourage them to keep going good work because they are doing well.