VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Luke's Way [v0.36a] [Evil User]

What comes to mind with this game is the Marvel movies. One has to suspend disbelief right from the start, as accepting magic, super-powers, time-travel, and aliens, is vital. Once that is done, there are lots of pretty things to look at, while you just have fun.
As absurd as the basic premise is, the characters are diverse and amusing. It is fantasy, to the Nth degree. This most certainly is not an art-house film, or an Oscar-bait drama. It is a summer blockbuster, and a pretty good one.
Edit - Since some people do not understand how analogies work, let me state that there is not any magic, super-powers, time-travel, or aliens in this game. The "fantasy" is in the comical ease with which the MC finds himself essentially being given a harem. It is not a "summer blockbuster" because it has explosions - It is such because it just hands you some "action" on a platter, and does not attempt to make one think about anything at all.

Loved this one a lot.

Lots of variety in girls and personalities with ways to avoid content and girls that might make people uncomfortable. The renders are nice and plenty of animations.

All the characters have depth and background. For once the MC is not a brain dead asshole that miraculously has women becoming loyal bimbos at sight of his cock. Rather than a harem of women serving MC for no logical reason the MC actually looks to needs of those around him and actually earns respect. The clever relationship with Michelle is huge key to making this work and developer pulls this off really well.

I won't call this corruption game, rather an evolution game. The MC works out inner desires and nature of the women and helps them explore and become true to themselves breaking free from expectations of others and social norms.

The main story develops constantly in harmony with the h scene development. I strongly suggest you actually pay attention because it is developing into a great story and if you skipping through build up you will be totally lost at end of v0,14 (going from responses in forums) (I know it might seem knowing corporate structure and roles different people have might seem dull but this information is given out cleverly without slowing down story or erotic content and it will put latest update into context).

My Rating of this Game (v0.13 ) is:

Pros:
+ Fantastic Renders
+ Easy Playing
+ Active Play
+ Nice Closeups
+ Mystery Setting
+ Beautiful Women
+ Great Hint System
+Great Milf

Cons:
- Nothing

Conclusion:
The Ladies look great.
Love the Hint system in the Game,even though it is easy to play,it still helps to make the right decision.
This Game has everything a man would dream for in real life.

One of the Top Games in my Book.

Damn worth the Download.......

I am loving this. Tons of beautiful women to love and lust after. Wonderful characters With all sorts of different likes and dislikes. Nice story. And i am in love with them all I cannot wait for more story. Great job and if you have not tried this yet..... Do yourself a favor and give it a try you wont be disappointed

This game after it's path back to full VN style game has become really great once again. The characters are diverse in appearance as well as personality and in their own way really likable. The renders are pretty neat as well although it would be cool if we had some animations as well. Other than that I see a really enjoyable game in the making.

very much enjoyed the storyline, although the story of the "mother" could use some more buildup towards protagonist and career move she makes
nevertheless looking forward how this game develops (tried version 0.12 at time of writing) enjoyed it very much, reallymy kind of story

This is the Luke way -- where the force works in mysterious milky honey way.
There it is ... the side job for the main girls ... thrust into the starving familt of high class gals in the corporate ladder, strung into the bits of loving the players and becoming the player. This gives the smart play of giving in to the whims of the right gal, pushing the good buttons, following this user of evil -> Luke -> to the pinnacle of his creation -> one good gal at a time. Happy Gaming!

Solid good game

Judging from people's reviews this game has had some problems in the past due to the game being a sandbox. I played the visual novel update style and the game looks good and very promising.

My experience was very lenient and straight forward.

Good renders but the greatest strength of this game is the character development, which is done very nicely. Michele's story is the best and most developed.

I would like to see the MC being a bit more astonished when he understands what his new job entails though because it's so unreal and that part felt a bit off.

Also, the game would greatly benefit from animated sex scenes but maybe that's further down the line.

You should definitely try this one out!

Not a very good game to be honest. Things are improving as of version 0.12

The quality of the models is inconsistent some are pretty , some are down right fugly and many hit the uncanny valley pretty hard. The animations are a joke. The quality of animations in Fap games has progressed in leaps and bounds well past the two stills going back and forth via mouse clicks. [edit: This is still the case, a shame really but here is hoping the dev improves their skill set and adds them in the future. Right now we are in a transition phase but in 3 to 5 years games without animations are going to struggle to survive based on how quickly the quality and quantity of animations are penetrating the scene.]

The story is weak and I'm not sure if things don't make much sense because of translations gaps or simply very poor writing. The story also takes a huge hit when the game switches from a visual novel to a time management game. The scant content is hurt by the busy works as the player knows this is busy work because of a lack of content. The story take a large leap to the positive with the dropping of the time management game play and returning to the VN style story. This helped with the story immensely as it flows better than being chopped up into "event" you find in the open world. Yes that means you finish the content much quicker but the quality of that content is much better and you don't have hours of grind to fap to the next scene, A very good design choice by the dev

This game just doesn't do anything for me as the sex scenes lack passion, are quite quick with few renders and with fewer crap animations that the pay off for playing is close to zero. I actually found the game worth playing now. i still think it lacks many things but the time invested for the pay off has greatly shifted into the plus column taking a bad game and making it an average game. The developer has shown that they can improve the game lets hope the improve the story elements a bit more and add in animations in the future.

I really appreciate the concept keep it up with your Work, i hope to see in future HQ animations more fluid, but at the end it's a good work , i'm satisfied with this version looking forward with Big Updates

Game begins as an usual Visual Novel which was OK in my book, nothing groundbreaking since in this case the porn basically served the plot, but then it SUDDENLY becomes a open world game. WTF. Devs think that free-roaming adds "interactivity" or "freedom", but at the end of the day most devs execute it poorly, and the end result it just adds more busywork to the player, giving an illusion that there's more content then it actually has, since it's more "spread out".

This just shows these days that Devs do not understand what a Visual Novel actually is, since Non-linear branching storylines are a common trend in visual novels, which frequently use multiple branching storylines to achieve multiple different endings, allowing already non-linear freedom of choice along the way.

Dev should have just completed this project as an actual VN before creating from the ground-up an open world experience. Now you have a VN introduction, misleading the player into an experience before he's throw into a "sandbox" one. If for some reason people are curious when this change happens, it's around version 0.7 onwards.

The game started off with a bang, Fantastic models, crazy story with awesome twists and turns. Literally best harem you can think of. Then the dev for whatever reason decided to turn this from a VN to a grindfest Sandbox click and point generic game like many others. This could have been a great story but now is halted by serious bugs and looping events. This game had 5 star potential.

Edit: As of 4/29/19 The Dev has reverted to a VN style game removing the sandbox. Luke's Way is back on the menu and a revised review will come soon.

Edit: Revised as of June 2021. Avoid this game at all costs, it has devolved into a mess. There is no coherent story of any kind and the MC is now a mindless robot going about his day. The characters are plain and empty. NO progress there. The potential was there but the game was squandered by long times between updates and non-existent character development.

I am downgrading my review to 1 star from 4.

Its not a game which has many good points so far

It has some plot

It has a harem

Cuck Qeen as a gf

MC which gets to live with rich lady, fuk her and all her staff and employees..

Well.. its not a complete waste of time. So wait a few updates between trying it out.

The game started good and loved it from the beginning until the inevitable happened, Now you need to click on locations to get there, for some story, for example, go to the bedroom or shower etc. I loved it when they just go with the story and not interrupt it for clicking on another location, before you can continue with the story, disliking such games atm.

This game was on my radar for a long time but I never managed to try it. I usually dislike harem as it involves cheating and stuff which is why I was clearly surprised while playing when I learnt that there isn't any cheating in this title. This game checks a lot of boxes that I personally wish for in every game which is slow build up like teasing(which is well done in the early parts of the game), girls should be distinct and unique when it comes to their looks and personalities, treating the said girls with respect rather than just sex-toys, decent amount of content, an actual overarching story-line(it's not the best but still better than most game of this genre) and not a total douche protagonist. And props to the dev for not making this game a grind-fest at all. I was kinda worried when at one point it turned into a life-sim from a VN. Overall this is a wonderful title that I really enjoyed playing.

Saw this visual novel the other day, thought to myself "interesting" lets check it out, went from start to finish, minimal grammar errors, some wrong word usage but easy fix, great 3D models, some of the spaces are the same ones used in many other visual novels, not a problem as they all really look great, apartments, office spaces and such, I really like the aspect of where this story is going and where it could go, i love the "harem" aspect of it and can't wait to see whats in store for the part of the story where the MC is offered to "entertain" a client, as well as where the story will go for the "neighbor/mother and the ex-girlfriend/sister "depending on how you want to "see" them... of course I had already said this in my post in the novels forum...
And before anyone says anything that im bias, no, im not, i read the entire thing, gave my opinion in the forum, and yes, i was offered/asked to help with the grammar issues and fixing the text, my good opinion of this novel was made before i was offered to do this, well my offer to its creator to help proofread if they so wished...

Wow alots of scenes i love it nice charc. i like it i hope will be more more beautiful scenes , i kind like the story i hope the developer will do something take make it even bigger , i hope the best for the developer and 1 note : about the eyes of charc.s need a little work . ty for sharing ur work and keep going

once you get past all the grammatical errors(understandable and something I'm sure all of us can do) the story is quite heart warming easy to get into and not complicated this a good break from all those crazy games and complicated story lines sometimes the simplest games are the most entertaining

Since the game has returned to a regular VN format and lost the buggy and grindy sandbox mode, it is actually fun playing again.
I can't give more than three stars though, because IMO the dev needs to stop adding new girls each update and instead concentrate a bit more on the ones there.
I mean I love the story with roommate and landlady and the GF, but all the other girls introduced before the sandbox debacle get no read development anymore, instead it's just new characters all the frigging time.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs...

(Review Update - 26 June 2020 - v0.22)

Well, it's been another year, and time for another review update... The content that has come out since last time I did a review recap, one year ago, has pretty much stayed on track from the previous review... A bunch of new content, that in some ways is a bit more focused on the story aspects and character relations then the previous year... Still plenty of erotic content though...

The twists and turns of the plot now include even more relationship options as a few more characters come into the male protagonists life... Even the option for pregnancy is now available between the protagonist and the primary love interest... The protagonist himself has started to become a bit more fleshed out, showing the occasional tendencies towards taking charge a bit more... Mostly revolving around the running of the business along side the main love interest, as well as taking charge more often in how the relationships are panning out...

Still, the story aspects are alright, nothing to shoot off fireworks over, but still ever present, like in prior content... The porn side activities are on par to what we've seen before, being a mix of short events to moderately length events... I do wish they were a bit more detailed, and possibly lengthier... As some still tend to be quick and done, rather then portraying more emotional investment, especially with some of the relationships becoming more intimate...

The length of time it has taken to build up to this point in the story, so far, does feel sometimes like it is taking a rather long time to approach any sort of conclusion... As nothing hints at an approaching end, especially based on the version numbers... If we do a comparison of the version number increases to the amount of time it has taken to reach that version, it sort of feels like this thing will be in development for years to come... Which I really do hope is not the case...

Every good thing must come to an end eventually... Not that it means the story has to end entirely, as sequels are always a viable option... But for now, it feels a lot like perhaps we've reached past the half way point in the story, yet if we believe the version numbering is a sign of true completion, then we're not even 25% done yet... Which sort of makes me think this puppy is just being milked, if we are to go off of version numbering alone... I hope not, because although this VN is not terrible, it's not excellent either... Will I stick around for several more years of development on this, one, Visual Novel? I just don't see why it needs to go on developing for several more years... It needs to eventually reach a pinnacle, because all stories need to have a beginning, a middle, and an end... It's writing basics 101...

I'll check back on this one again some time down the line, but I really do hope it's not going to take much longer beyond, perhaps, another year or so to reach an end? Then move on to another series or a sequel, if they want to continue with another chapter in the lives of these characters...

Best of luck to the developers...


(Review Update - 06 May 2019 - v0.11)

Well, it's been over a year since I first tried this VN/Game out... Even though there is an alright amount of content thus far in this update, I'm a bit disappointed, because I expected far more content from over a year+ of development... But I guess it is what it is... Since it's been over a year, I'm going to treat this review update more like a fresh review... I'll still keep my original review below...

The visuals of the characters are done well, with just a few of them looking a bit familiar from other VN/Games... The backdrops are mix of ones I've seen before, and some I've not... The office being the most obvious one, as it seems to get used by a lot of developers... With very few changes...

The script was pretty good, as I rarely ran into spelling/grammar errors... The plot revolves around a male protagonist who is hired by a firm for one job, but is really being offered a different sort of job as well... One involving him being invited to join an exclusive club/organization of mostly women... Who's purpose appears to be finding and helping women in trouble and/or seeking a happier life... It makes it's money through various businesses and so forth... With each member being in charge of specific aspects of those businesses... The biggest benefit is that open relationships are allowed and even encouraged amongst members, in a clean and safe environment... It's probably a bit too complex to fully explain it all...

Primarily this is a choice based visual novel, where the protagonist is the only current male in the organization... You can then select whom he will have relationships with... Some are primarily lust based story lines, and some are love interests... With the protagonist being both lustful and loving at the same time... That was a bit of a change from how male protagonists usually are in these things... He's not just some heartless perv... With some characters he is a bit more dominating then others, but only when they allow it or want it... Otherwise most of his relationships are mutually desired and/or allowed... Where he actually cares about and for the women...

As this VN/Game does lean a bit more towards the porn fest side of the house then the story side, it still has decent story telling here and there... Probably my only big qualm was how quickly some of the relationships progressed... Not all, just a couple... But I did like how loving and caring they were, as I am ALWAYS a sucker for well told romance stories... And I could feel the romance, even if it was sometimes a bit too fast...

There was an option for allowing cuckold content... It hinted that most likely it was either the protagonist watching it occur (and they knew he was watching) or partaking in it while a significant other watched... But as I didn't select to allow it, I can't really say how it plays out, if at all...

Overall, I like the updated content this VN/Game has, compared to before... The text has definitely improved from before as well... It's not a hugely deep and meaningful story based VN/Game, and perhaps some tiny parts of the plot are a bit fantastical... But the developers are doing fairly well, for this VN/Game being more focused on the sexual content... Perhaps there are moments when certain scenes/events might need some slowing down, but it shows some promise... I really do hope that development doesn't stay as slow as it feels at the moment, as I really did expect much more, from over a years worth of development... Will I revisit this one? Most definitely, but only once it gets a bit more further into adding more content... I don't like returning too soon with very little new content... I rather see it in large chunks or completed...


(Original Review - 02 April 2018 - v0.01 Premium Version)

This visual novel/game appears to be primarily focused on sexual type content, or at least that is how it appears to be teasing in the current content...

The visuals of the characters are decent, with the exception of the protagonists new boss, as she has overly sized breasts... Not only do they look too big for her body frame, but even her work clothes look strange (sticking straight out) with them as big as they are... She would definitely be having hunching over issues, and back problems with them that size... The backdrops are a mix... Over half of the backdrops are ones we've all seen dozens of times in other VN/Games, with just some of them looking unique and creative... I do like the fact that the choices show how they will modify character stats...

The script is a mixed bag... There is a mix of some broken English, some spelling errors, and lots of grammar errors... It's mostly readable, but definitely needs some more proofreading... The plot revolves around a male protagonist who finally finds a job that he doesn't feel is going to annoy him... He is obviously a pervert, since every woman he runs into, his thoughts turn immediately towards sex related inner monologue... Which is befitting, since the company he now works for, seems to be perverted in it's business practices anyhow... He even goes through what I can only call a trial run with the secretary, having sex before revealing what the company sort of wants from him...

Overall, you can tell the story/plot is going to be focusing on a very sex based theme... There are hints at the possibility of having many different forms of sex, as well as an option to allow or disallow cuckold content... As the protagonist has no real feelings towards any characters that are not just pure sex focused, I'm not really sure it matters which choice to go with... As I would not call this NTR, since he has no love interests when the choice reveals itself... If that changes in future content, there is no telling...

There is relationship building, but I think it's just a gate for more sexual content in all it's forms with those particular characters... No emotional attachments are presented in this introduction, as for right now it's just casual sex... As this game is still early in it's production, we'll have to wait and see how it progresses... For now, it's alright for what it really is... Just needs the text to be fixed, then I might give it another star... And don't expect a deep and meaningful story plot from this VN/Game, as it is mostly just going the porn fest route at the moment... For now, I'll just have to wait and see how it progresses, and give it another go once all the fixes are in place and additional content gets added... Then we might have an even clearer picture of the directions this VN/Game plans to go...