Ren'Py - Lust Academy [S3 v3.10.1d] [Bear in the Night]

To be honest, if I was very strict I'd rate this game with 3* and not because I want to be mean, but there are so many concepts that are not really thought through. Like earning money that you cannot spend, fighting in a competition that you win every week anyway (why have the competition in the first place, when there is zero risk and no tension at all?), having the story peak and taking all decision-making away from you. If this game wasn't so unique, with beautiful art and interesting characters I'd say it was average, because those flaws hit hard when it comes to my immersion. But I cannot really bring myself to go as far with my rating. It wouldn't quite do the overall experience justice.

A visually well done game, good designs and that's it.

Beyond what I already said, there is nothing else positive to say, MC's design is horrible, MC's personality is terrible, dumb, empty, the plot level of the game are boring, slow burn, to all this we have to add the vile and nefarious "Sandbox" mode, it does not help at all in the progress of the game, in any way, quite the opposite, it highlights more the great defects that this game has at the plot level.

Forget about reading a good script, forget about developing a sentimental relationship with some protagonist of the game, forget about watching something exciting, the only thing you will find are boring dialogues and a lot of empty and repetitive grinding.

Its ok, the inspiration for it is pretty clear, but its done pretty well.
Visually the game looks pretty good, characters look good and so do the environments. On the writing side, dialogues between characters can be on the boring side at times, but in general its ok.
Unfortunately, for me personally, all the characters i was the most interested in have the least amount of story content. The rest of the cast and their stories are ok, but i want to see more of the teachers and the vampire lady in the club. But of course these are just minor annoyances.
Overall the game is definitely worth a try.

This game has the potential of being a top 3 game of all time. So far it has been great world building, fantastic renders/animations, and the open world has the bones of something that could be truly spectacular given time. The best of luck to the developer who so far seems to be putting out content at a rate that seems faster than most games I follow.

While animations and renders looks good i cant say anyting good about this game at all. MC is not likeable at all, as a player you dont have choice change to his act aganist other characters at all, story is not well writed at all, couple of love interests (espacily Audrey) act aganist MC and his act aganist them is not acceptable at all. Some characters like Haley have too much grind and teasing while others have well enough content (even penetration) and it makes things unbalanced. Dialogues are dull and boring, their writing is not good. MC dont have any character development, he doesn't change at all. Magic minigame is buggy, you can get highscores with just random drawings but you cant get perfect score with actualy doing it, its just doesn't makes any sense at all.

With all bad points its terrible game, a lot of thing need change and maybe then this game can be better than 1 star.

Not gonna lie, with the quality of the renders and general visual polish here, I didn't think I'd be giving it this low a score. But it's got two pretty major things working against it. First, it's no fun as a game, which isn't too rare, but also means there's no real charm apart from the visuals.

Second and way more distractingly, whoever wrote this might just have never spoken to a girl or woman. MC is a complete tool intended to be an idealized self-insert and the LIs have all the personality of sea sponges. Paying any attention to anything apart from the renders is like jerking off while a particularly stupid friend reads you porn dialogue.

The only good point from this game is animation and renders.But not all are great there is some that look unsettling and weird.Anyway at first I really excited to play this game before we got a Dumbass character as MC.His action with the girls is...ngl I facepalm a couple of time.Fucking Idiot.its like his brain and his dignity thrown away out of windows.Story is nothing worth mentioning,I completely forgot about it after Im going around in the game searching characters quest.Its competely random.The plot is awful.Dialogue is robotic.We also got rushed fan service sex without doing any proper step and knowing each other first.It feels rushed.Naomi character also unbalanced.Audrey is a fucking bitch that you will hate because of how trash she treat MC and MC that know little about her trust her completely,betray the girl that always back him up.Samantha is a Dumb ass same as MC..The Asian chick that I like,her first time is when SHE IS IN APRODISIAC IN THE FOREST AND NOT IN HER RIGHT MIND,WHY??,NOT EVEN ROMANTIC,AND HECK,SHE DOES SAY JUST FORGET ABOUT IT after they got rescued.Pretty stupid dumb plot if this is how you treat ur characters.Sorry,I'm not a fan of Dumb MC and dumb plot.Gudluck dev

The dev keeps grinding us with Haley! And this update is just too much. Maybe in the future this will be considered a good game but for now it's no diifferent than any sandbox game grinding to all hell to milk everyone who plays it! 1 star!

Worth playing just to score Herm.... ahem... you know you! There is 3 or 4 other characters I think are pretty hot.

The game to play is pretty straightforward, there is nothing that is going to make you go 'wow!' in this game as it's a pretty standard VN formula. The environments feel a bit bare but overall I think the game is quite relaxing to play.

Sometimes I feel games can try too hard with having flashy renders and models and as a result there is slow development. With this game it's not trying so hard in that aspect, not to say the models don't look good, and i think you can be reassured that the game will be completed as it seems to have overall cohesion in the renders and look of the game. In some ways the strive for realism makes games feel less artistic and a lack of style. There definetly is a particular style in this game maybe a bit like 'University Problem; not the latest genesis models but they've made the earlier ones have a good level of polish.

The option to turn mini-games off is good for someone like me who doesn't like games with tedious grind.

The story has it's moments and some of them are quite surprising, I particularly liked the way the MC was 'initiated' into their house at the start of the story. It was a creative twist! More of those would be interesting.

Overall it's a pretty enjoyable game and definetly will come back for the lioness beauty.

After 20 minbutes of gameplay I think i can give the game a 3, and from the first experience, I dont think it will go higher. Why?:

IT makes the mistake of abusing the sliders to the point it's too obvious and breaks proportions. The default DAZ can't take it, it looks awful, so all those females with "exotic" proportions look horrible,and I will skip them. There is no slider for shoulder width, and seems there is no lider for the arms and they remain skinny even if the girl has "big features".

The lighting is decent but you will see the nose bridge with a red color, wich means someone got the subsurface scattering wrong. What Im trying to say is that this is an average product visually speaking, and those are just 2 things i have time to describe.

The writing is there, nothing to good to comment, for the msot part I want to skip cause im not very much invested in the story or the way its told.

For the game...I really dislike when a game gives you a lot of sex scenes with a character you barely know while sending you in an infamous search for questlines with oher characters. I call that fanservice sex, and to watch a scene without story and abrely context there are better options out there in real porn.

So, If you think Haley is your girl, skip this game cause "she doesnt wanna go that fast" MEANING its only been a year of the game development, so you must wait another 2 cause she is the star of blueballing, I mean the story.

If you like other girls try the game, i tha interesting things like magic duels and stuff, but its half baked right now and a lot fo blueballing.

Absolutely gorgeous and unique characters. Gameplay loop that used to suck but is now okay after a few updates. And a better than average setting. Not a unique setting mind you, but still miles better than "Guy comes home after long trip to live with Landlady and Roommate. You won't guess what happens next!"

But the dialogue is absolutely dreadful. Like an AI generated script run through a language translator a couple dozen times then slightly modified by a half-asleep editor. "Listen to me, stupid face!" "Great! I'm very passionate about this now!" Sometimes it's humorous in a so-bad-its-good kind of way, but most of the time it's just disappointing.

Oh also the game has been out for how long? And if you're into Sam or Haley the most you get is making out and some mild groping. I understand a slow burn but the game has been out too long for that.

If/when things progress I might come back and bump up the stars even if the core issues aren't fixed, but right now it's around 2.5 territory for me.

Really appreciate the effort the dev puts into the renders and the animations, also the story started out really good with the whole Harry Potter vibe and Haley being a Hermione clone is cool, Magic effects are cool and the cast of non-human characters is nice (except for one but I'll get to that...). The backgrounds are all pretty unique, but I am not sure if I want to keep playing anymore...

First off, this awful character Audrey who for some reason we are forced to help because apparently Samantha is a complete moron... Even if you try to help her out even without Samanthas pushing you too, this fucking cunt Audrey totally emasculates the MC and he just takes it like a fucking loser and comes back for more... fucking idiot!

Secondly, we got this MC who started out seeming like a competent person but that quickly disappears with the previously mentioned succubus cunt and to top it off he just chooses trust some completely shady fuckwad who just tried to kill him and instead of trusting the one person who truly has his back and just saved his life (Leona), he fucking lies to her and does'nt trust her and puts her in danger I'm sure.

Good luck with your game but I just can't stand when a dev makes the MC go full-on dumbass just to what? Cause some non-sensical mess he will inevitably have to clean up in some equally dumbass way? Then he will just be like "whoops, need to not do that again" then proceed to do some other dumbass thing... *sigh* so much potential wasted...

I was looking for new games to play on this site and came across this. I peeped out phub so see some gameplay and it seemed pretty cool. However, it didn't prepare me for the awesmeness this game encompasses.

I can't lie during the prologue and introduction to the academy I was skeptical. My fears were quelled when the game actually opened up. I know its in the early stages but it had so much to offer besides jerk off material. The characters are awesome, dope RPG elements and the renders are top notch; no character looks like another.

In closing if I had one complaint it would be that this is still a work in progress and there's not enough content as of now. This is hands down one of the GOATs in my opinion and I can't wait for future updates.

I even liked the game about wizards, I thought again that there would be garbage, but there is no failed plot and everything is perfectly drawn everything is as it should be very pleasant to play and from the beginning of the game you are given a choice of what you need and so success with the game developer and jam of the new version

At first glance this game looks great, the renders are gorgeous and the girls are hotter! In terms of gameplay though it is dreadful! Did a famous influencer play this game? Hmmm…

Pros

• Renders are great
• Animations are very good
• Girls are hot!

Cons

• RNG elements SUCK
• The Grind… OMG THE GRIND!!!
• Game has been in development for over a year and still has hardly any xxx scenes
• Dialogue is generic and boring
• Story is bland and barely existent, got a feeling the dev is making it up as they go along.

Will update if game gets better.

Amazing game, good graphics ----amazing models ------ and the choice to play sandbox or VN is nice.
The world is very loosely a Harry Potter world but so far its not constricting how the dev is choosing to put his own stamp on it.
Also like that you can skip mini games.

Gameplay : ✭✭✭✭✰
Story : ✭✭✭✭✰
Spelling : ✭✭✭✭✰
renders : ✭✭✭✭✰
Animations: ✭✭✭✭✰
Potential : ✭✭✭✭✭
Overall : ✭✭✭✭✰
Girls physique : ✭✭✭✭✰
Graphic : ✭✭✭✭✰
Sex Content : ✭✭✭✭✰
Creativity :✭✭✭✭✰
Note :
well i wanted to give 4 stars becoz i didn't like the MC face but its not right to remove 1 star becoz of that.
the game : I love it ! definitely u should try it .
all the best to the developer.

Played VN v0.4.2. Pretty good game. Nice to see another magic theme game done right. Likable characters (Haley 10/10), Interesting story, Options to play both in sandbox and VN mode (same content), nice minigames which can be skipped if not interested ,BGM is good, Animations are very very good.
An overall good game so far cant point any negatives other than i want more .

Really enjoying your game so far thanks to the solid world building, gorgeous character models, and pretty fun gameplay loop. It can be a bit of a slow start as you learn all the spells and potions you need for the combat mini game, but overall the game is off to a great start. That said as of version 0.4.2 the saving system (for the sandbox version that is) is trash and keeps reverting back to a single save file. Could possibly be due to the update interfering with older save data but it almost ruined a bit of the experience for me. Still, it is a work in progress and I'm excited to see where it all goes. Great work!

Good Points
+ We have ''some'' interesting characters (with their look and character development) and their character developments are fine. (Some is key word here, there is 2-3 cringy and annoying character and im pretty sure we gonna get more...)
+ We have some interesting story potencial here, but its wasting by poor writing...
+ We have good looking art/render style and girls/women looks good aswell.
+ Foreplay scenes looks pretty good and sex scenes are fine aswell, they are animated and their quality, physics and FPS value looks good.
+ There is some funny/cool/enjoyable references to known movies like Rictumspempra spell from Harry Potter serie or insults like ''fucking Gandalf'' which Molly used for Arthur (LMAO) etc refences like that makes this game way more enjoyable. The only downside should be not being original enough with using to much reference, but we didn't saw anyting like that until v0.4.2 and i hope we dont saw that in new versions aswell.

Bad Points
- For first versions i though game story is not original but well written, and then we keep learning more about game story and MC, which make things worse and worse with every new story update... Currently this game have poor writing for MC and story involved around him and its just kills whole fun of game...
- There is a lot of thing makes zero sense about MC and story involved around him. And its MC's general character and how his character is un-accurate with story itself. He is the chosen one which incresing his powers day by day, but he still acts like crybaby over Samantha's shoulder for mere note... Or more importantly he believes the guy acting crypctic AF and listens things he told about his family and Arthur etc... And most importantly he even believes him over Lenona and not tell her reason why he wants that seal... Seriously? Acting suspicious aganist the person who choices you as a chosen one? Helping you with whatever it takes? And im not even gonna talk about how sweeatheart she is... And he literaly got suspicious about her because of cryptic guy like him? And when we were about to give seal MC saying ''I dont like all this...'' ? He is so dumb can't even release things how odd is until the last point? LMAO. When he got choked by him i was just laughing my ass how dumb he is LOL. And after he wake up Arthur saying him what his done was act of true hero I just lost it. He was the reason why all that shit happened, the only thing he done was fixing his failure little bit, and its ''Act of true hero'' ? HAHAHAHAHA! Heck i don't even wanna talk about Leona giving him seal like that easily... And the story about his mother and Jacob? Jacob being lover of his mother, possesed by evil Lord, rape her and she run away with being pregnant... And lastly we learned all founders are now captive (slowly dying...) and for saving them we need find their artifacts? And when we found one of the artifacts someone named Beatrice appeared from nowhere and killed Jacob! What was the point of the story about him raping MC's mother then? Seriously? Long story short everyting about MC and his story is literaly big mess and makes no sense at all.
-Tied to other bad point: as you can gues we have so little control about MC literaly named by us (players i mean) and its makes things worse. Players should have more choice about his act aganist situtations and can decide MC not being complete moron if they don't want. Its whole point playing games instead of watching porn and this game don't have that.
- Scene about Diego and how he blasted MC's head, how he can't feel his pressence and that bondage scene with Adele etc was not necesary at all...
- We have couple of annoying characters. First one is Naomi and she acts like all mighty and big shot aganist MC, mocks him and still wants him to do things for her etc... Its kind of annoying but im not gonna say she is not bearable because MC knows how to put her in place she deserves. And there is Audrey... Which had absolutely terrible character development and first sex scene and continues terrible scene before update v0.6.1f. Nearly every player of this game was hating her content and wanting change and DEV was telling people stop whine and just skip her content. But after getting a lot of bad review because of how terrible her content his DEV decided change things little bit. With v0.6.1f she still have that terrible dialogues for her first sex scene (She literaly eats MC alive, feast on his soul and takes all his energy, and when he became limp tells him get out from her room and not even give him proper release and literaly treat him like a human waste) and she still acts like bitch, but at least as a MC we got option to be rude aganist her because of her act. Now MC is not acting like total beta loser and you have option to be nice or rude which is should have added before all this drama. For getting just little dialogue choice we gotta live this drama and had to wait 3 update (2 month), which is totaly nonsense... Anyways now her content starts annoying but as a MC you are getting give proper answers and her continues content is more bearable before but she is still not loveable character and still acts like annoying bitch...
- We cant see what we do when draw a spell and its so god damn random, you can get %100 success with random draw or you can get %30 or someting with perfectly drawed spell and its god damn annoying... DEV should chance that spell draw animation/mini game ASAP and make someting working. For example our first spell drawing was visible and it was kind of ok to draw, i would like to see that as a normal minigame/animation.
- Save page buttons are to small and their distance between of them is to small, its pretty easy to press them wrongly and if you have to much save this means you need skip a lot of page everytime accidently press them... Little bit change could be amazing.
- Sometimes game itself having some problems and freezing for second or so and its pretty annoying. It can be happen while trying to open menu or lustagram or in other situtations etc.
- Couple of things are buggy since release and DEV still not fixing it. And most annoying one is ''Skip'' part in settings, despite choising all of them sometimes they don't work at all and when you untick them they work! Thats just so annoying and nonsense and it needs fix!
- There is effect (Like a light open and up, like blinking) when you go another place in sandbox mod and its pretty annoying and unnecesary, its needs to remove.
- I'm not sure about DEV's main/mother but dialogues feels like translate and a lot of them have grammer problems (Even worse than mines LOL): which makes things hard to understand and kind of annoying.
- General quality can use some work, not all of them but some of renders looks blury and little bit bad.

For The End
Honestly this game started amazing, became average with 1-2 update and with Audrey drama and latest updates its became poor and if i don't count visual parts of game its even terrible... Its had great potencial but currently only good thing about this game is hot looking girls and well maked sex scenes and everyting except that just terrible, its just big mess and without reworking game from very begining its nearly impossible to fix this mess.