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

  1. 4.00 star(s)

    peters_99

    Very good game. Interesting story, a lot of interactions and many scenes. Graphics is also of a very high quality and great art style. There are also a lot of choices which have heavy consequences on the story. Interesting dialogues and variety of constumes as well.

    There are some annoying things though:
    - Season can't be changed from the cheat menu and there is a lot of season dependent content
    - Often its not clear how to progress with the story
    - Some girls have only a few scenes (Hanna, Harmony) in comparition of others having a lot
    - Optimization isn't that good, the game is much slower than in previous versions.

    I also dislike the addition of Bree MC, it adds a lot of complexion and drawns the focus away from more interesting things.

    Overall i would rate the game 4/5. It has good chances for improvement and becoming one of the best games on the site though.
  2. 2.00 star(s)

    -FibaG-

    For beggining become interesting but after you play some hours it become less and less interesting and more of boring, the mechanism to collect points for some scene it's fucking tired system it kill all fun...at some point you will lose interest in story and drop the game sadly because I like a the art style of this game conception of story is good to but the grinding it kill all vibe of this game.
    I can tell it's old style "reward system" that I hate so much it's just consume your time to become game much longer than it is...
    1 star for art style I really like it and 1 star for voice of character this 2 points it's only lesson for other devs to take serious of their game, a game is not complete if you don't have voice...
  3. 4.00 star(s)

    fadeadhorse

    This is a great game and I've played a lot of it through different versions.

    Pros:
    • Huge cast of girls with different personalities and appearance
    • Fast updates, usually once every couple of months
    • A lot of content with plenty of different kinks served
    • Interesting dialog, although it can get repetitive at times
    • Voiced dialog and the voice actors do a decent job. Each character has a unique voice which is nice
    • Enjoyable gameplay, it's basically a time management/life simulator. The gameplay can get grindy at times but that's life :p
    Cons
    • You have to play the game in a very specific way to get the outcomes you want. There is a wiki so figuring out what to do is not that hard but you have to follow it very carefully which is not fun.
    • There seems to be multiple artists working on this game with different artstyles. Can be a bit offputting especially since there is one artstyle that is better
    • the grind can get really bad sometimes. For example, for one character you have to give them $10k to progress their story and that can literally take weeks in game to get.
    • No gallery. There are plenty of repeatable Hscenes but the story events are not repeatable so you have to save every story scene.
    • The game can get laggy, especially the further in game you get.
    • The in game quest tracker is messy. After playing the game for a while, you'll just have a list of storylines, half of which you've already done.
    Overall, I would recommend this game. There are plenty of issues with it but with the variety of girls and kinks there's bound to be something in there for you. I would recommend playing this game for about a month in game with the wiki close by to see if you like it. You'll be able to progress through a couple of the storylines that way.
  4. 3.00 star(s)

    Boldano

    Pros:

    •Wide cast of romance options with decent amount of content for each of them.

    •Diverse fetish and scene options, something for everyone.

    •Good art and music

    •Romance routes with some characters are satisfying and super cute.

    Cons:

    •Very easy to screw up and lose events or
    character paths with no warning. Feels like you have to play perfectly which is weird for a sandbox game.

    •In game walkthrough is inaccurate, requirements to advance with each character is unclear.

    •Super grindy, need to juggle multiple daily and weekly requirements, along with saving money. Cheat mode alleviates this but base game is very slow. Having specific events and character requirements tied to in game calendar dates with no way to advance days quickly is painful.

    •Laggy interface further increases feelings of grind.

    •Untagged graphic violence and super fucked up scenes with no warning about them or way to turn them off. Can technically be avoided through gameplay choices but these scenes do not fit with the rest of the game. Seeing these and the sudden tonal switch afterward is frankly a huge turn off for the game as a whole.
  5. 4.00 star(s)

    manWHAT

    A pretty good game that still has someway to go in terms of development. There are plenty of girls in the story each with a different amount of development put into them. Scenes involving them are a mix of some good and OK quality art. When I originally played this game I had to do a lot of grinding but the cheat mod took away that hassle. The gameplay now still needs improvement, as I have to continuously check the wiki on certain things to do added with the problem of bugs still being around. Overall pretty good, if it wasn't I wouldn't have sunk in the dozens of hours I put into it.
  6. 4.00 star(s)

    sadfuck

    Version Played: 21.8.0a

    This is going to be a hard one for me to rate; for everything it does right (a lot!) it does something else wrong. I think the best example of this is the art, which is overall gorgeous (I'm a fan of the pseudo-anime style), but it's sadly inconsistent with characters looking wildly different between scenes. This isn't the first time I've encountered something like this (Taffy Tales has a similar problem), but it can be very off-putting. On the flipside, the gameplay systems are universally not fun; any time I have to grind for stats or points or affinities of any kind, I lose interest pretty quickly. Fan patches to the rescue! The story itself is pretty standard, but at least you aren't god's gift to the female sex who can do no wrong, so it's slightly more grounded than similar games.

    Positives
    + Great Art
    + Tons of girls
    + Game has voice acting and it's actually pretty good!
    + Several fetishes represented (though nothing too extreme or in abundance, aside from lez)

    Negatives
    - Grindy with systems that aren't really fun
    - Off-model art is commonplace and distracting
    - Game can get a bit wordy

    Overall, I think the positives outweigh the negatives, but unless you're really someone who enjoys playing around with systems and working to get off, do yourself a favor and install the cheat patch.
    The last thing I wanna do is consult a fucking fan wiki article to figure out the next trigger for a character.

    It gets a 4 but ONLY with the mod, otherwise it's a 3.

    Like this? Try: Summertime Saga, Taffy Tales, Fantasy Valley
    Note to Devs: Great game overall. A lot of time and effort clearly went into this. I think toning down some of the grindiness or at least making in-game hints crystal clear would remove some of the frustration experienced while playing.
  7. 5.00 star(s)

    mattemagic

    I love the complex narratives and images.

    The overall length is very long, even with cheats turned on. They should definitely play with cheats unless you have a week to play this game.

    The story have long term choices and turn limited choices. The graphics is wonderfully made and well detailed.

    I only have high hopes for the rest of the game
  8. 3.00 star(s)

    stinkholeslammer

    A lot of this game is really good, but it's really dragged down by the insane amount of things required to trigger certain events. Progress will be locked behind fulfilling 20 different parameters with no indicators at all as to what they are. You can brick entire routes without knowing why or that you even did. The needs system is over-tuned and annoying. If you don't play with cheats the tedium will kill your will to play.

    If you don't use a guide you are going to miss 50% of the game easily before you give up. IMO if a game needs a guide to play properly it's a poorly designed game.

    It's just a shame they chose this super convoluted path of progression.
  9. 2.00 star(s)

    Anomaly33

    + Solid art.
    + Many characters with a good amount of personality.
    + Generally hot situations that aren't terribly repetitive.
    = Grindy
    - Scenes could do with a few more images if not animation.
    - Very buggy especially when backtracking.
    - It's possible to completely brick routes without making a reasonably obvious decision to do so. For example, MC's friend stopped showing up for D&D after the 2nd session because MC's sister, who just entered the story and wasn't there for the 1st session, got salty I didn't choose any option that focused on her. She said she wouldn't participate again and I thought ok cool I'll just keep going with the other roomates, but no. MC's friend never showed up again without saying shit. Makes me wonder how many other routes I'll never see because of some seemingly small decision.

    TL;DR - The pieces are there for this game to be one of the best ever but in its current state it's pretty underwhelming.


    v22.12.0 Update

    Still suffers from many of the same issues as it did a year and a half ago. It's still needlessly grindy even with cheats, it's still littered with bugs, and it's
    still possible for routes to get stuck for no apparent reason. The new map navigation is nice but even so I'm gonna drop my rating down to 2 stars until the game gets some polish. Seriously, just spend 3 months fixing bugs and making sure all routes behave correctly then this will be a 4/5 easy.
  10. 2.00 star(s)

    Heat Miser

    When reading the reviews, I didn't think that "contains a bit of grind" meant that the grind is the basis on which the rest of the content was attached. The gameplay feels like a walk through a swamp. A swamp of grind and random.
    Still, game has good art and normal writing (at least for me, who barely knows english).
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  11. 5.00 star(s)

    Nocturnal85

    This game surprised me. I don't like sandbox games in general so I left this one lurking on the update screen for literally years.

    While there are some bugs and grind, once I got used to the system and the idea of needing to periodically refer to the PDF guide, it was just plain fun.

    There are a wide variety of kinks available and you can gear your choices to either enjoy them or make them go away.

    There's a wide variety of girls whose stories are written pretty well albeit with the occasional proofing error. The artwork is appealing and I don't mind the lack of animations since this is a dating sim and not for fapping.

    The entire experience reminds me of another game with a certain love fairy that rhymes with Bunny Hop, but without the puzzles.

    Recommend this for those who like these type of games.
  12. 3.00 star(s)

    takoyzhe

    I've played many versions of this game. I don't feel like making a comprehensive review of it, so just some of the things that I find bothersome and that prevent me from returning to it:
    1. Most importantly, models and sex scenes are bad. Not only they are static with no animations, but they are also often poorly drawn with wrong proportions.
    2. Gameplay is grindy and that's perfectly fine, but story progression is often very obtuse and requires a walkthrough pdf on hand.
    All in all, pretty average. Would be a stable 4-4.5 if models and static sex scenes were better.
  13. 3.00 star(s)

    Deleted member 1053739

    This have some annoying bugs, gameplay is atrocious and confusing for me sometimes, I got bored and not knowing what to do so fast I didn't get any lewd scene with sex. The developer put his work in this game so I won't rated to low, you can see that he worked hard is just that I find the game mechanics to be bad, hint system thing can be vague sometimes or to the point of being useless and the most annyoing thing I find is the events trigger override others sometimes, glitching everyting and forcing me to miss other events, I don't like to play games over and over again just to unlock different stories, I want to have option to unlock everything from just 1 playthrough. I won't write more just because my english is bad and you would probably won't understand. Try the game, for some this might be awesome game, for me is an average to poor game.
  14. 5.00 star(s)

    imperium of horny

    Great game, lots of female variety, lots of content and stuff to do and good art.

    can get grindy for some characters and not a massive amount of fap material.

    treat it like a dating sim and not a fap secession and you will love it.
  15. 5.00 star(s)

    Vlidad

    You REALLY need to play this, BEST date sim. ever. An extended characters collection with an extended story (almost every). It has a lot of mechanics. You won´t finish this in a loooong time, get a good seat. <3
  16. 4.00 star(s)

    rnkxin

    The game is difficult. It may take your time to solve some things, not to mention the bugs. The drawings are interesting, although strange. Still better than games that take up gigabytes of space for 2 erotic photos or consist of 2 pixels. It is one of the few games that I have fun playing and check for updates.
  17. 4.00 star(s)

    DingleMcBerry

    The game has been in development for so long that we're now seeing the artist develop changes in their art style. It's still a fun game when the bugs are fixed and you can see all of the content trigger at the right moments. The story is fine and every character has an arc that is worth going through at least once. Hopefully it's finished and bug free by 2023.
  18. 2.00 star(s)

    jokuur

    bugs, gameplay is atrocious and not fun, u cant go in one single day and do something without one needs going to zero, moving between areas is bad and confusing, leveling up ur stats is done in terrible manner unless i am stupid and dont know how to do it, physical strength u can rise only once at 6 am in ur room i didnt found any other way to do it and its not always possible for some reason either, charisma u can rise in bathroom while talking to mirror also in some particular hours and once a day, intelligence u can do without problem in university tho, not much fun when u play on normal difficulty, interactions with girls are also random sometimes talking with them will get love up and sometimes its going down, the state the game is now may be only playable on easy mode
  19. 3.00 star(s)

    Furmilk

    I really wish this site let me give half stars, because I'd rather give this a 3.5, but I won't over-sell it with a 4.

    Right, lets start by talking about a bias I'll have and will be impacting this review. I went into this expecting this to follow the relatively similar trends and guidelines as other harem builders; you go around slutting it up, tagging and bagging everyone you see with no significant, or at least permanent consequences. And boy howdy was that a terrible idea; I ended up locked out of some content fairly quickly and just keeping some girls around became a struggle. This is doubly true for fellow pregnancy tag stalkers, as impregnating them too early increases the chances of a lockout occurring.

    As a result of the above, I found myself hindered by game mechanics fairly regularly, avoiding certain locations at various times of day as to not trigger the damning event until such a time I could resolve it. Speaking further on the mechanics, the in-game hint system for developing your relationship with the girls can at times be vague the point of obtuse; actively making it harder to progress with them by saying things like "take X on a date", despite them actually needing Y lvl of stat and specifically taken to Z location. There is also rarely a warning about the repercussions of specific events that take place; sometimes it seems like you nailed it and did it flawlessly, only to find out half an hour later you didn't have something you needed to unlock a certain trait from that scene, and now you can't take a specific path later.

    One could argue (and may in fact be the developer's intention) that this gives a more real and genuine experience. To pull this off in real life, you would have to try and avoid certain meet-ups, not know what you need to advance your relationship, to not know what you're missing out on by not going down certain paths with your lover. My response to that is thus: this is a game for horny people. My blood isn't going to my brain right now, and I'd prefer not to overthink things. Generally speaking, following the K.I.S.S. rule is paramount in this type of game because obstructing the flow the player gets into with tedious or unclear objectives can utterly ruin the experience. The redeeming factor here is that there is a fairly well developed wiki which can help people avoid pitfalls provided they're willing to accept some spoilers, which personally I think is a MUCH better alternative to having to start a file over given how long things can take to develop (even with the in-game cheats, you can't save a truly screwed up run).

    A major personal peeve from me while on the note of development; the pregnancies are unfortunately, poorly done. The mechanic itself is fine, and the few scenes where it's relevant are usually quite nice, but the visual changes on the characters make it clearthis was an after-thought. Many of them are just a copy pasted and slightly re-shaped layer. It's ok at best on some, but at worst it's plain as day and outright jarring. The greatest offender I found so far was Hanna, whose belly didn't even match her skin tone. The only way I can even tolerate her presence now is by going with the head-canon that she's wearing a stocking-like body-glove over everything except her stomach (I know it doesn't make sense with her head and hair, but it's all I got).

    The positive section will be shorter, but no less significant. Despite all these negatives, the writing is still pretty good. They said they wanted a comedic tone for the game and for the most part it's there (though often in the form of over-exaggerated stereotypes). While I of course developed favorites, I didn't encounter anyone I genuinely disliked, or at least if I did that I couldn't change into a more pleasing version. Also the idea that you don't have one massive harem, but several smaller ones is something I kind of like. It prevents what would be obvious clash-of-characters from the many different personalities, and helps keep things from becoming too samey. Though again, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU KEEP THE WIKI HANDY, unless you're the type who gets satisfaction from running through story driven content multiple times. I consider porn games like I would any story heavy game; I want to see as much as I possibly can in as few playthroughs as possible. This is because I don't like seeing the same story too much as it can wear on the experience, but this is a personal preference.

    All in all, I recommend this, just know ahead of time that the developer intentionally put traps in the game, and it can be quite the time-sink.
  20. 5.00 star(s)

    staroyster

    This is the only game I bother to come back to and check out the new updates, with that out of the way, I want to say this game is fantastic.
    I'm usually a guy who prefer easy to get porn scenes and don't care about characters. But This game have proved me wrong that I actually can enjoy this kind of games, fleshed out original characters and many many events with them and they are still adding (hoping for more Shiori content!).

    The game can be some what grindy, but for me in this case is not an issue since I think the grind pays off in the long run.
    I read people have issues with events that is bugged, I have not come over any issues, I thought I did several times before, but it turned out after some reading on the games wiki and some trial and error. I found out that I did not do the smallest thing so the event wouldn't start.
    The only thing I can say I have a problem with is the small lag issue, but that's not a deal breaker for me, since it's still in development.
    I love the art, but I would prefer if it was animated also, but hey... you can't get all you want ;)

    Keep up the good work!!