Ren'Py - Loverse [v0.5.0 Public] [Immoral Studios]

A game with great promise that is bogged down by its bugs and release schedule.

The art for this game is great, especially as a 2d animated game that (I'm pretty sure) has no AI generated images. The characters look great, the animations, for the most part is great, just A+ to the artistic talent behind this game. If you like this style of kinda-cartoony non-anime art, definitely good.

The problem is that this game is so hard to play in the state that it's in now. There are game crashing bugs (the ones I encountered were all around Joy) that just don't get fixed, at least for non-patrons. Looking through their releases here at least, there aren't any hotfixes or anything -- just the next major update a month after the subscribers get it. I mean, patrons getting updates earlier is fine -- people gotta make money, but the bugs left in the game are not so fine, especially because it has me wondering whether these are even fixed in the paid version.

Speaking of bugs, it's not just the game crashing ones which curb the experience, there seem to be all sorts of issues triggering events in the game too. I couldn't get any events with Molly to trigger whatsoever even after looking up the guide. The later Morgan events I couldn't get to trigger, even though both the guide and the ingame character say 'Be here at this time'. I've already mentioned Joy's events crashing the game (I assume that's been fixed...? More on why I don't know in the next paragraph). And I'm not even sure Asha is meant to be interactable for non-patrons because it says she's patron exclusive but you can still talk to her and she acts like you've met even though there are no events for those.

The grind in the game is fine -- it's a sandbox game and the expectation for sandbox games is for there to be at least a little grind because that's the build up to the events. I think the grind in this game is acceptable BUT saves are not compatible with later updates. Which means this very reasonable grind is now something you have to do over and over every time the game is updated. It goes from being reasonable to making me not really want to have to go through it again and again just to get to the new content.

I want this game to be better, I really do, because the parts that I like I really like, but the parts that don't work really, really make it hard to justify my time with it. If this game does end up living up to its potential, honestly 4-5/5 depending on story and character development, but until then a 3 is all I can give it.

The amount of grinding in this game is absolutely ridiculous! After 2 weeks, you can't hug anyone, you can't ask them out, you can't kiss them and they don't see you as someone they would date. EVERY SINGLE ONE even the fake girl in the VR wants nothing to do with you! WTF?

I got fed up with this very early and quit.

I like the art, very much so.

The story, what I saw of it, is not polished at all.

The protagonist is unlikeable, the storyline is very much a railroad. There's not much world building- what there is involves shadowy forces wanting something that has to do with the titular VR universe. It feels very rushed, and the protagonist makes incredibly bad decisions that you have no input on.


Some of the worldbuilding may well take place later on in the story, but after the above event, I quit the game and uninstalled.

This one did not engage me and then frustrated me by forcing my protagonist to act like a doltish, petty manchild. That's all for this one.

I want to like this game, the art is good, the sound design is good, the list of fetishes is good, but it's just not that good of a game. Free roam can be good if it's done well, but here it is just a chore, presumably to artificially inflate playtime because there isn't actually much content. The story is mediocre, but it gets the job done, it is a porn game after all so I won't be too harsh on it. 3 stars is honestly quite generous in my opinion, but the game does have its good points and I'm hoping the gameplay can improve as it's still early in development.

Good start for a new h-game imo.

The character art is good and the idea between a real world and an VRpersona is not bad. If they fully commit to this idea I'm pretty sure there are some funny things that can be done with that game aspect.

The story is a bit confusing at the moment but it's only the beginning of it so I hope that things will be more clear in the future, like why the MC is so focused on this strange girl he met in VR.

Currently the rollback feature is deactivated. According to one of the devs it's deactivated becuase it causes too many bugs (for version 0.1.3).

The list of planned tags on patreon looks promising there are a lot of planned kinks. (NTR is not in that list)

Overall the game looks very promising as a Sandbox VN hybrid and I'm excited to see the further development of the game.

This game is legit amazing. The music is captivating, the backdrops are beautiful, the characters all have a unique charm to them, even the ones you can't fuck (talking about you specifically, my man, Brody), the story sets up an interesting mystery right from the opening scene, and its just an overall fun ride with a clearly dedicated group of people who want this game to be the best it can be