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

amazing game one of the best compared to other new games. This one have quality and decent animation and unique characters appearance I fucking love this game I also hope for more futa and feet thing

What started out as yet another college VN with all of the usual tropes quickly turned into something really different and fun.

This game is basically like if the Harry Potter series were thrown in a blender with AOA Academy, and I mean that as the highest compliment.

My only complaint is that we are forced into the Lionhearts, I was really hoping we could choose, but eh, no big deal.

The character renders are gorgeous. Up there with some of the best VNs I've ever played. I love Haley. Oh, and bonus points to the dev for having actual curvy and full-figured women in the game.

I found the writing to be very charming, as well. A few instances of typos, but nothing major.

Also loved the UI of the Lustagram app. It's so detailed and well done with tons of posts to look at and dialogue options to pick from.

Fuckin' great game thus far.

5*

v0.3.1d
Renders are really good, pluspoints for that. Story is alright, the setting could be good but it's used in a pretty boring way. Writing is pretty bland overall. Gameplay is super repetitive though. You have freeroam with extremely little to do and once you run out of events (which is super quickly) you can only do the repetitive minigames, which are super monotonous. There is a way to skip past certain timeslots however you will lose out on points, which you get from those repetitive minigames, and then you cannot visit a new area on the weekends. I only had a certain building with 3 woman left that is only unlocked on the weekend, and that has buggy time progression, so I was forced through 3 weeks of mindless repetitive grind just to get to the weekend, ughhhh. I really wish that the freeroam either had more interesting activities or the point system didn't force you to slog through it hundreds of times.

In summary:
+ Renders/visuals
Ø Story/writing
-- gameplay

Game version: 0.3.1d

The game started really sweet and promising, especially regarding the superb render quality. Interesting characters, nice story.

Unfortunately, the game turned into the wrong direction by introducing free roaming and too many uninteresting and bland side-characters.

I would have prefered the game to only deal with 2,3, maybe 4 characters and their evolving (sexual..) relationship towards each other.

The actal lewd content is almost zero, but with a lot of teasing instead- quite thrilling for the first few updates, but it got annoying pretty fast.

Like some other reviewers already wrote: Without the top notch quality of the renders, this would just be another boring, uninspired Ren'py game.
This is kinda frustrating, because it had so much potential.

Dev changed gamestyle with latest patch, gonna have to update this review.

Everything looks polished and really love it so far, visuals are stunning and pleasing to look at.
Story and world building is good enough, nothing that makes you want to skip everything.
Looking forward to see more, it could become a really really great one.

[Reveiw updated for 0.3.1c]
New sex scene added! A step in the right direction... except that you get blueballed...

-3 star
The game is too short for a 1 year development. There is so much character teasing early on (like the night visits) but none of them come to fruitition, after months of waiting for update all we got was 2 strippers blowjobs in a club.

+1 star
Models and renders are top quality, which was the main reason I checked the game out in the first place. Animations are one of the best (we don't have that many actual sex scenes though).

+1 star
The UI images looks very polished, fitting the game high quality renders. And the ability to skip time and/or navigate to characters through calender is pretty neat, don't think I've seen it in a game before.

OVERALL:
Renders good, animations good, UI good, just lack of content.. I decided to check this game again to be fair to the review, the UI improvement was but the amount of content was again, disappoting. I don't think I'll be checking this again before a year passes.

version: Lust Academy [v0.2.2с]

poor character introduction and pacing
The dev does a poor job at introducing each character. For half of the characters you have a short interaction with them in the introduction and when the game starts all of them are available to be interacted with.

Unfocused development
By this i mean that the dev added multiple characters with no content on them. It is still early in development but if he just concentrated on couple character it would have been more enjoyable. right now it feels like just a game with multiple uninteresting short side quests and also doesn't have a main quest. This makes the game uninteresting to play. This will not be an issue when the game is finished but right now it just kills the game.

Good graphics
the graphics are good but not the best in this website. The graphics need a bit more resolution as each character is a bit foggy. but other than that i enjoyed it.

Well animated
the dev put a lot more effort compared to other devs to implement animation. Because of that this game contains a lot more animations compared to other games. The animations are also good. This is one of the good things about this game as some other games don't even have animations.

The game at its current state is a failure. If the graphics and animation didn't carry this game i would have even given a 1.

Great game , could have reached 5 stars if it wasnt for the issue with android port ( once the game freezes or doesnt respond , it affects the whole phone even the power button or the exit button , couldn't even force to restart the phone )

Well the adaptation is pretty good, i would have preferred visual novel with some mini games or free roam in between like some of the popular games has but I'll take it. Let's start with best, gorgeous li's, neat renders and most impressive of all are sex animations and you guys aced in that department 5/5. Improvements i would like to see is source of income that pays handsomely, main plot moving forward rather than side quests considering the sandbox mechanics which further delays, last but not least more of Leona please

Definetely one of the highest quality games in terms of models and scenes. The story is also quite interesting, it is a HP Hogwarts parody angle, but much much less faithful. The only similarities are Hermoine and the Sorting Hat, and i like it very much. There's tons of straight up HP copies out there and this is a well done spin that gives potential for a much more interesting story than just "you're a guy in Hogwats and you're gonna fuck all the Harry Potter girls".
Looking forward to every update.

v0.2.2b

Funny interpretation of well known story.

I don't wanna jinx, but the amount of girls and devs' ambitions remind me one game, which will never be finished. Maybe, just maybe, it's worth to finish one several things at once, instead of dozens.

Renders are good. I really like animations. Viewing angles in Leona and Lily scenes were really well chosen.
We have at least 7 LI atm, and a tonn of side girls.

So after the first day at academy there's basically no story. It's just a dating sim. You have 2 classes to attend in exchange you'll get points for your house, spells (up to 4 atm) and potions. Plus the progress with your lovely teachers (Sabrina Spellman, really ? Jokes aside, I liked how kind that woman is). You can work at cafe so at the end of the week you can spend all your money on hoes or massage. Old fart at the shop didnt offer anything atm.

I liked very much how devs did the Calendar. It's a page, where you can click a button and instantly teleport to the next event with desirable character; it skips to the right time of the day as well. Kudos.

Dialogues and writing are nice.

There's music in the game.

What I didn't like (minor spoiler):
- scene with Naomi. She's so fckn hot and you left us hanging with blue balls. Shame on you !
- almost nothing story-wise is happening. Exception - scene with Leona. The lessons don't give "progress" impression. It's like "Here's new spell, here's another one. Good boy." We can't even see how MC tries to learn it, he just knows it after the lesson.
- skip Unseen text is disabled, but still I could've skip forward all the time; I didn't play before.
- and my personal whim: small amount of content

Decent project. Good luck in development !

BGs/animations/characters look awesome (aka high quality), but from some angles they look ugly as fck (esp "Hermione" or such) or some them, as default preset from any model creator. Tho, I can't say they look cheap or "half-assed", their creator did a good job. (most of the time) The story is simple copypasta of HP with porn flavor. Quality of writing is pretty meh and quite boring at times. Music sounds likesome looping generic midi sht. (muted it at some point) Got quite few bugs, but it's possibly because of the mod I was using, so I'll drop that one. Overall 4/10. Check it if you have time, but be ready for a bad surprises.

Wow.. just.. Wow.. The animations are phenomenal. Beautiful renders and voice overs. I've only gotten on the train thus far. This is looking to be a great game.
Thanks so much for sharing
Would type more but the game seems to be pulling me back in.

- beautiful UI and atmosphere
- the girls are hot (and the guys too lol)
- storyline/quests are interesting enough
- love that some non-sex content is animated (that's rare), the animated intro for each character is an awesome touch.
- lewd content: not bad, some scenes feel a little rigid but i'm sure animations will improve with practice.
- the romance with Haley so far was really cute
- content of the writing itself is great, made me laugh a few times with the "flirt" option. The english itself is a little robotic at times but it's forgivable.


Overall, 5/5 for what it's achieved for an early version. Can't wait to see where this goes!

In a nutshell: massive potential. The renders and animations are amazing (even though the scenes could be drawn out a bit more). The individual quests for the girls feel quite natural and diverse. The overarching mechanics (house points, dueling, classes,...) are rewarding to pursue and do a good job of making you think about the best way to use your time. The minigames attached to them are really well done too although fairly simple but that's (probably) due to the engine's limitation. I do hope there will be a bit more of a challenge to some of these in the future.

My one big gripe with the game is the lack of polish in regards to the writing. A LOT of sentences are missing words, have strange syntax or have spelling errors. Generally speaking the dialogue itself is also quite "meh". MC isn't exactly a smooth killer and at times dialogue feels somewhat forced, branching off in an abrupt direction. It does its job in conveying the story but the contrast between the subpar dialogue and the great basically everything else really makes it stand out like a red wine stain on a white dress.

I very much enjoyed it however. Will definitely keep an eye on this one.

v0.2.2b
+ interesting story
+ lots of pretty girls around
+ top notch renders and animations
+ nice interface
+ sound design

- sometimes high pace of storytelling, renders change very quickly

Great art and theme, but for me the best of this game is the non so common great gameplay.
I am reviewing 2.2b, still a short game, but with more content it can evolve to be my favourite game in this page.
No bugs found so far.

The animation is great, got the whole harry flopper theme and story line in a lot of places going. So far it's got a great start, and even though you can complete the current version rather quickly, it doesn't just end, goes into a sandbox mode to play around in.

the story and character development is good

the render and game features also good

and yeah the game devs also active on this thread goodjob

Pretty cool so far, but not much content yet...

The story looks very interesting and the animations are amazing.

Added in my watch list and waiting for future developments but so far is pretty good...