Ren'Py - Love & Sex Second Base [v25.2.0b] [Andrealphus]

4/5 Stars
Graphics 5 Stars: the art is one of a kind and makes the game special.
Story 4 Stars: The story has several paths and romance options with all kinds of outcomes. Enough to keep you replaying.
Characters 4 Stars: Tons and tons of romance options! There is a type of girl for every guy.

What I liked: I liked that so many storyline interchange and connect weaving a spectacular story with incredible detail and focus on personalities and viable realism.

What I didn't like: None of the storylines are actually completed. You could Argue that Sasha or Samantha's are yet I call that a load of hoey! Yeah I said it! What are you going to do, cry at me? Jokes aside even though Samantha's storyline feels the most fleshed out you are left without a full love score of 100 hinting that more is to come. I'm also very sad that there are currently only 3 marriages atm, 4 if you count Sasha and Bree together as a separate marriage.

Final verdict: I highly recommend. This game can be a little grindy so if that isn't for you feel free to walk away, the game is clearly unfinished and far from being completed with several minor bugs and glitches but if you can look past all the bugs in skyrim you can easily look past the bugs here.

Recommendations for the Devs: Please start finishing some of these paths and add some more marriages/endings before adding more characters. The one issue i face now is once you have that perfect save there really is no longer replay value without additional endings. Just my opinion and thoughts.

Please try this game it was a lot of fun!

Update: 21.11.0

So I have been a patreon for over a year now and I wanted to upgrade my opinion of the game to 5 Stars. This game although far from completion has had far more growth in a year than I've seen some games have in 3 years. Therefore I feel the need to give credit for the games actual growth.

Usually I dont like japanesse animation and games but this game definitely one of the top 10 of 2020. The characters are really well done in both appearances and personalities and there is a lot of content .

Awesome game. Of course the gameplay is not new, but some features make it interesting.

If you do not want to miss the most interesting events tied to the game days, then you have to do good management and really try.

It is also worth noting the excellent art, and really cool stories of some of the characters.

The game turned out great, good job.

This VN is getting more interesting and it have much content that other titles of the same genre as it updates. I enjoy the BDSM content of this game especially when it come to Sasha who can become submissive or dominant depending on your choice. The overall rating of this VN is excellent due its immersive and complex development of each characters.

This game just has tons and tons of content and more is continuously added every month. I gurantee you'll find a girl or girls that will scratch whatever itch you have. Only downside is it's a little slow to start (if not using a cheat mod) and certain girls have very limited sex scene variation. Most of that problem will eventually go away once mroe updates are released. If you are looking for a game that can take up to 20 or more hours of your time then this is your game.

Grinding and too clock work like gameplay takes lots of enjoyment out of this. It is still very good game but it has potential to be way better. Girls are unique enough for this kind of game and there is some nice voiced lines. Definetly worth a check.

Easily one of the best games on this site with a lot of content and interesting mechanics. The devs are literal legends. The story is intresting and there are a lot of possibilites.

I will definitely play it again when it is completed.

Love & Sex: Second Base is by far one of the most polished and driving games of the genre. The character portfolio is diverse, each bringing with them a unique and interesting take on some common stereotypes that are perhaps overly prevalent.

The art style. The absolute happy medium between all things desired; not too realistic, not too cartoonish or 'anime'. All of the scenes, backgrounds, and character designs fit perfectly together and hardly make you question their place.

The writing. This one I'm generally more picky on, and yet I have almost zero complaints. The wording used in the dialogue and the scripts perfectly nail down the emotions behind the characters, and their place in the game world. The graphic scenes are hot and while they tilt on the edge of being over the top, that's the point, and it fits well.

The music. I've not much to say about this other than an interesting addition, by way of the fact that I've caught myself humming the backing tracks to this game over, and over, and over.

Supporting a wide variety of kinks and other interests, this game still sits pretty close to the top in my book. I look forward to this one being finished.

10/10.

A nice game with a lot of options and character development. Different characters: lesbian, tomboy, milf, teens everything you like You need to develop your personal skills while interacting with the other characters.

Nice development progress, waited for a bit until the game was satisfying enough before rating it.

Gameplay: Epitome of Sandbox. It flows well and the few bugs I encountered are generally because of either cheating or back tracking. The versatility and progress of some paths is truly inspiring and more developers should learn the basics this game presents. Having said so, although there has been a recent inclusion of game overs, some events lack repeatability when it would make sense for them to be there and some character interactions are missing. Personally, since there are seasons, a time limit on pregnancies, some stories (including university students) or their introduction would be welcome, as would the option to not see characters on the map. - 0.9
Music and Voice Acting: Generic but not too annoying, although very repetitive music. The inclusion of Voice acting adds a lot, especially when some character's voices are the opposite of expectations towards them. Still, many scenes and lines are very awkward which could be fixed by longer recording sessions and a director, but since the game lacks the budget it's understandable. - 0.5
Story: Very simple and generic guy gets roommates, strong backstory for male MC through his interactions with the female cast. Unfortunately, the female MC has little at this point and the lack of interesting non-rival male friends is a big detriment. Despite all that, since the game is light hearted and a sandbox, and very well written, it still deserves an above average score of - 0.7
Graphics: Little to no Animation makes this game lose the perfect score. The style is original, although heavily inspired by the real porn stars precedent, like this I actually like it more. Creative ways to add piercings and pregnancies and variations of looks and poses makes me give it a - 0.8.
Enjoyment: Although not a fan of the Pokémon genre I have to admit this game gave me plenty of catching opportunities and quite a few hours of pleasurable gaming. Would recommend. - 0.9

Overall Score: 3.8/5 The game is extremely good in its own genre but can stand on its own even outside it. The lower quality of some parts of it and the simple fact that it's difficult to make anything perfect, might mislead people into thinking it's a bad score, it isn't. Since the minimum you can rate on this site is 1 star, this would put the score between 4 and 4.5, but personally reserve the five stars only for truly the top of the top.

This game reminds me alot of the flash dating sims I played when I was younger, which adds a fond sense of nostalgia on top off any other feelings I'm getting when playing it. Don't get me wrong though, this game is leagues above those amateurish games I played in the past.

The art is nice, and there's an impressive amount of it. The characters are pretty well fleshed out and interesting. The voice acting, while leaving a bit to be desired, is something I can appreciate for even being there. Any amount of original VA work seems to be fairly rare in independent projects like this one, so that's a plus.

The gameplay is a little bit grindy as alot of people have pointed out, but I think the severity of it is a bit exaggerated. With the difficulty lowered to easy, I had no problems dealing with the grind. Otherwise as far as gameplay goes, I'm thoroughly impressed with the amount of varying and branching storylines, such as the sub/dom options and various harem routes.

All in all this game is easily in my top 5 favorite adult games I'm currently following. I'll certainly be buying it in the near future and I highly reccomend it.

So, I've played this for a short while, around an hour, or two and I didn't like it at all. The artwork looks great, which is why it is not a 1*. However, you quickly come to realise that you'll be grinding a LOT to progress the story at all. I am tired of games that look extremely promising, like this, and yet disappoint with boring tedious gameplay and a lack of variety and creativity. This is a game that looks like a 4/5*, and turns out to be terrible. Also the animations are very average, or below average, it makes the very annoying grind not rewarding.
People like a challenge. Or, people like to relax and read a nice visual novel. Not many people like to repeat the same gameplay constantly getting nowhere in the game.
So, needless to say this game is not as good as it looks. It isn't the worst game out there, for sure. But it is bad. Very bad.

- Edit -
I'm changing my review to a 1*. I gave this another chance, complete waste of time. This is not a sex game, this isn't even a game, this is a time consuming chore. Also, judging by comments and reviews that go back years, the developer wants the game to be like this. Yeah, no. I don't recommend playing it. It will leave you more annoyed and bored than anything else

Quite horrible in my opinion, lots of options ut they have the dept of a paper doll. Sex scene is extremely lacking, usually it is just a picture of a dick inside a pussy, full of tedious grind. All the girls almost share the same facial structure. Horrible artwork. The game becomes a snoozefest after while.

I really wanted to love this game because it had a lot of what I wanted. Decent characters check, an actual story check, ability to have more than one chick check, decent models check, and pregnancy with actual ending available check. Now for the bad it seems that during updates the creator sometimes cuts content to try to redo it but gives no indication of when it will be able to be redone. Then there's the rng omfg rng is horrible even when reducing the randomness or eliminating randomness it is still there and not absolutely clear whether or not you'll get an event sometimes you'll spend an hour trying it. Finally it's the bugs, admittedly in a game this ambitious you expect a few, but this game is riddled with them. This in part because I feel the creator has on overall idea of what they want, but they try to do too much at the same time. Overall an average experience because of the bad.

i really like the wide range of females and there personalty's with really good art design and amazing sexual visuals, i just wish the dev would make it easier to max out on every female possible cause as of right now you find to many females at the bar at one time

Nice game in development, but loots of content already. New girls add new options seems really solid, and is full opposite of many abandoned or scarcely updated games here. So highly recommended. Cheats work, walk-through in place.

Honestly has more than enough reviews, love, and everything to want/need to review.
But due to some giving it far to low of a score felt I needed to.

Terrific game, great story, great characters, cheats to bipass the bad stuff more so on re-plays.

-1 for having the worst changelog ever though some can maybe call that a deserving +1 as it really is 1 the worst ones.
(more reasons why it actually deserves -1, but again more then enough reviews).

Love this game
Well done story telling and there are somnay choices and girls!
Hope fully there will be more artworks for each scenes.
The arts is not bad but can be improve.
Keep it up! Would love to see the final version

review based on 20.7.2d version.
this review can be not objective cuz im fan of than games
PRO:
- damn good code
- good pics
- many girls
- more than good UI
- girls text voiced (rare thing in other games)
- story present
- game ready 50%+ (some endings exists)
- very active development (but its also flaw- zero chance for actual translations)
CONS:
- very grindy gameplay. i mean not money... for example- for key event u need to date at beach, but beach available only in summer season, but u missed last day of summer(as im)... there 2 variants- wait 3 seasons(its madness) or use console (game.season = 1 , but change it back after event)
- some girls unfinished- no collaring/piercing/preg etc , but in "story tracker" task present.
- almost unplayable w/o wt or reading code(my choice). ofc better read code- read event.rpy for girl, find event by some conditions and then figure out others conditions... or just use "jump" command to launch event.
- in my taste bad pics/text ratio. i dislike when 15-30+ texts have same pic.
- zero animations
- few side events

there no conclusion- this game for sandbox/grind/dating sim fans, all others can get critical dose of butthurt.

The game can be summed up simply like this Quantity over Quality.
TLDR Version goes like this for v20.7.2d

PROS:
Lots o Kinks: There's bound to be a girl(s) that have something you're into that's in this game to keep your attention.
Tracker: Whenever in doubt there's a built in detailed guide that helps show what it takes to make some sex happen.
Constant Updates; There is always something to look forward to so you'll never be waiting to long for something new to see.

Cons:
Not Made For a Quick Fap: You gotta grind and do "Quests" that take a while before you can even begin to fuck and once you have fucked someone and have them at max you still gotta take them on dates to fuck them again instead of fucking them on command. If you wanted to Nut and Run tough Luck Amigo.
NO Gallery/One Time Scenes: A major turn off or people will be the fact that after so many updates there still isn't a working gallery mod for this game what makes it worse is that alot of girls tend to have a one time only scenes with no indication so you either gotta save when something new happens or hope your memory is good isn't great for first time players.
Few Unique Sex Scenes: For the amount if kinks this game has they tend to only be one sex scene of said kink. Really its pretty vanilla having a lot of anal and vag scenes so theres that.
Dating SIm: This game ain't for dating it's closer to a Meet & Fuck if you were looking to find developed stories and plot you're looking in wrong place.
Grindfest: You start out at 0 and you gotta grind your ass off if you want to experience everything please do me the favor and cheat and max out everything ASAP there's no point in it being this bad.

Overall it's worth a download but don't expect something great just YET. If you don't wanna invest tomuch time then It's something that'll make you nut once and that's about it. If you do invest there are things to like about this game like it's kinks and art. But the game needs to invest on spending time on its kinks instead of adding a new girl every other day.

Fetishes/Tags:
Pregnancy: Good News you can knock up almost everyone Yay! Bad news is no one seems to even notice or care if they're pregnant. No Flavor text talking about the pregnancy from anyone. There's no lactation or pregnant specific sex scenes to the point where they stay pregnant forever all you get is the girl getting a bigger belly and previous sex scene shows a belly. Really the pregnant tag is misleading it's really should be a FAT tag because that's what it is.

Harem: I'll give the game this is you grind your ass off and you do and say certain things you can have 3 different harems. if you think threesomes are great the game has that for you. Of course it's gonna take a while it is something that makes the game a little bit more unique.

Voiced: I think the VAs do a good job for what they're given you'll have to decide whether you like them but what i can say is for the 100s of voiced line few are that of girls orgasming which is probably where you want to hear a voice.

For a Detailed review:
This game premise is simple a town full of women you gotta get to know and wine and dine in order to fuck. But after so many updates what's been made is a grind fest with women who act and do the same thing that there never feels a good point in doing anything in the game. The advertises it being a dating sim and how many words are in the game. Listen i never expect less than porn level writing from games no matter what but my god the flavor text in this game is just bad. Most sex scenes are described like this "You put your throbbing cock inside her and she moaned" it is so basic that fucking one person means you've fucked everyone because no one really talks differently to really make the characters different. Most chicks in game have a meter of love and a meter of obedience you can max each and all it will do is sometimes they will remind you that they love you and i mean "i love you" that's it oh but if they're obedient they say "I love you master" does it sound worth it training someone from 0-100 to have them say master once in a while? Speaking of girls there are way to many girls who do the same thing to be considered new content let alone a different person. There's 2 muscle chicks that love working out and you 3 emo chicks that are in a band and wanna fuck you
and the rest are either uptight business type women or are Slutty that's it that's they're character forever. It wouldn't be so bad if everyone had something unique but the majority only have the basic sex scene where you fuck them in you bed because that's all you get. In order to get them in bed you gotta take them on a "date" and it is just so damn tedious. The game tells you you can go to different place to go on a date but it's pointless. The girls all have likes and dislikes like the Uptights love the Expensive Dinner dates while some like a stay at home date but it's pointless because everyone loves the Pub. Why spend money and energy when you can just drink your way to sex. While still being updated I still believe it's worth investing time into the game. it's by no means an awful game. It has worth in being something to invest time and dare i say money in. It's just not all there YET I wouldn't have written so much if i didn't think it was worth it.