Ren'Py - Completed - Lust Academy [S4 v4.10.2a DLCs] [Bear in the Night]

First of all: this is not a finished game at all! Another on going long story with infinite seasons. So if you want a complete story with a start and an end, do not waste your time.
Second point: this is not a game or a visual novel. It is a Kinetic Novel without choices or paths. There are a couple of choices but they are just "see or not see" a sex scene. Basically you have a map (in sandbox mode) where you click to see and read a part of a story. Then repeat and repeat and repeat. There are some useless QTE events, as battles, but you can easily skip them.
Third: all stories are barely correlated. It is a mixture of romantic and sexual stories with a lot of different girls who don't interact with each other. All sexual scenes are mostly the same with different faces and bodies. Variaty of kinks is small.
I think Lust Academy is mostly a product for getting money from very young Steam users, who likes "seasons" and easy fap.
Renderings are very good and girls really nice (Haley and Scarlett above all). But is is definitely not enough. In my opinion it is a waste of time, a lot of time, and I do not suggest to play it.

One of the more consistent devs on this site, good with content and great story. Building from each and every season along with properly following each one up with more content that connect to each character. Best series so far in my opinion.

Regular updates.
Developer on steroids.
Worth every penny.
Haley is an acquired taste though.
I love Molly .
Models have been improving too.
The game is maturing day by day.
I discovered this very late.
So I get to play a marathon of 3. 5 seasons.

S4 v4.10.1d
Has great direction in the first season, the other 3 seasons lose alot of the mechanics and would be no better than just pornhubbing it.

Reviews are very doctored too. Dev clearly has a friend of f95 and when a f95 staff deletes a review, the reviewer dose not have a chance to course correct it or even be told what was wrong with it in the first place.

1st season, has a bit of everything, teasing, corruption and relationship building. Also entertaining fighting mechanics and some puzzle. The rest like characters and story dont even need a description, they are done incredibley well,

2nd, 3rd & 4th seasons are just same, bland, boring games that are being churned out. Blindly fk simulators without anything special or additions.

Would have been so much better if they took a final fantasy approach and made a brand new game for each sequel.

Would just ignore seasons 2-4 and you will have a good time.

I really like the game. The animations and renders are great. The dialogue needs a lot of improvement. If the conversations are going to be long, they better be entertaining or meaningful. Also, if you can add a translation into Spanish it would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah.. average sums this game up perfectly.

Even hogwarts official "game" seems way too linear and boring at times; I'm thankful I only spent 15$ on it. This in a sense is kind of what I wanted it to be in the classes/classmates/dueling retrospect. Cool with that out of the way time for negatives.

( wish I could of smashed the step-mom more tho )

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NPCs - They're definitely here; not exactly rememberable outside of you tryna nail one or two specific people at first then losing interest when you learn you have to save the world just to get their panties off. The scenes themselves are much like the score, meh.

Def appears the dev is a fan of HP with how much they push Hermione on ya as the main crush. Or her doppelganger anyway
(not even sluttier just her)

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Story - I was interested for the first part/act and immediately lost interest when again it went down the route of HP being the chosen one etc. Is it so crazy to just be the badass unexpected student? Why go over the top hero nonsense who has to help everyone's dreams come true.

Sometimes people just wanna see someone naturally struggling or building up from a nobody to a somebody with no special requisites tacked on. Even whoop down the smack down on whoever is supposedly the chosen one would be cool.
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I stopped at S2 not too far in when I saw almost if not exact same cut out backgrounds. Kinda silly but nothing in S2 looked like an improvement on what could of been, not sure if its a limitation on the dev or just laziness.

Causing me to get burnt out suddenly as getting by S1 takes a long time even if you focus on one girl only, like if you played a MMO grind.

Again no real laughs here just a meh.. could be a lot better.

Good idea for a game, but it's missing key elements to make it truly engaging to play.

The art is well-executed, with great scenes and models. However, a major exception is the MC, who, while not necessarily bad, feels plain and visually unappealing. This is compounded by his personality—despite having some dialogue choices, he still comes across as egotistical and spineless.

The first chapter is the most interesting, serving as a solid introduction to the overall story and feeling intriguing enough. Unfortunately, the later chapters lack immersion, as the story doesn’t feel well-connected. The second chapter, in particular, seems more like a transition from the first act into the broader, more complex narrative, but the connection is too subtle to really hold my interest.

VERSION: S4 v4.7.1d
SUMMARY: Good game with decent content, but just not as great as it should be.
RATINGS: (out of 5):

1. Models: 3
2. Animations: 4
3. General Visuals: 4
4. Characters: 3
5. Story: 4
6. Writing: 4
7. Pacing: 4
8. Content (amount): 4
9. UI & Sounds: 4
10. Fetish & kinks: 3

Average: 36 of 50 possible points giving a 72% rating i.e. 3-4 stars.

PROS:

1. Nice looking LI models
2. Good looking world
3. Nice animations
4. Good writing, structure and reads well.
5. Characters are relatively unique and complex to make them interesting enough.
6. Sounds are pretty good and lewd sounds are decent.
7. Story is not earth shattering or great but not bad and seems that each season brings about a new or extended adventure that ties in well with the overarching plot.

CONS:

1. While models do look good, im sorry to say the MC does not.
2. Not many kinks, which is kinda disappointing.

FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS:

• The MC's look is meh to me at best, he has to me very little sex appeal to be as successful in his exploits with the woman, his face looks like a potatoe, with all the lumpy features, like Clayface or maybe he is related to cro-magnon man (google it). Several times his brow has looked very prominent and his eyes deep set enough that in some stills you couldnt really see his eyes well. Not my imagination. Then his body looks like his foster parents hardly fed him, shame...
• While this game is good, I would have liked to have seen more of what you find in Worlds of Wonders, that idea is more appealing to me and the kinks are very nice there, at least whats available. The idea is generally similar though.

The good...

The setting, story, characters (except MC), LiS and their story arc and development, to some degree the animations.

The Bad...

Not particularly bad but while some of LiS and their story feels genuine and deep enough, some others are pretty much rushed and that's because the quantity. Other than that some extreme posing seem to be breaking rig skinning and thus it doesn't really look appealing when it most matter. Early chapters of the game heavily suffer from similar issue with facial expressions.

And the UGLY!...

The MC model is such an abomination that could've been a suit for a dumb villian npc character instead. From his facial expression to non existent likness, I find that he's the core element of turn off in this game. And the constant appearance of MC on the screen doesn't help it at all. I had to cut down one star just for the choice of MC model. Otherwise it's a fun game as long as you don't mind the look of MC.

This review was posted on S4 v4.6.1d

I've forgotten when I first played it, at first I chose to give it up because I was sick of the sandbox mode, then after updating it with the visual novel mode, I've been the first to play it every time it's been updated, with a steady frequency of updates that surpasses 99% of porn game developers, and without realizing it, from Season 1 to Season 4, I still find the story to be very interesting!

Highest Score: 5
Story: 4
Animation: 5
Rendering: 5
Characters: 4
Updates: 5

All together, I would give this game a perfect review!

Lots of content and things to keep you busy while the stories unfold. Simple to navigate the game's interface and of course high quality renders to help immerse yourself in a game wildly different from most other things you find on f95.

I just played this game for the first time (as of the S4 v4.6.1d version), I know I was getting into a game with mixed reviews and I expected to play something interesting/memorable.
My thoughts in short: Pretty to look at, bland, forgettable and a colossal waste of time. Let me explain:

★ ★ ★ Presentation ★ ★ ★
At first glance the game looks well put together but it suffers from a couple of terrible choices that bring it down, firstly the game is separated in two parts: you can choose to play it as a straight visual novel or a free roam sandbox I fell into the trap of playing as a sandbox but this was a terrible mistake (ill elaborate further down) as a result of this choice a lot of the game ends up being disjointed in how it presents itself and the user suffers as a consequence the second problem is that this VN is both hollow and shallow so all the presentation does is look as meaningless veneer

★Gameplay ★
You have two options: a kinetic novel with no choices or a free roam sandbox VN that is a complete waste of time, I tried the sandbox first then switched to the visual novel style halfway. Both are bad for different reasons but the VN style comes on top since you can ctrl skip and be done with it.
The main problem with the sandbox is that it doesn't have any systems whatsoever it LOOKS like it does but it doesn't have any, you just hunt down events for the girls you like and advance the main story until you are ready to jump to the next chapter, the VN on the other hand has no thought put into it, lack of choices aside it feels like the game was designed as a sandbox first so all the events and reading that you do feel disjointed and our point of view jumps around without logic or explanation

★ ★ ★Sound ★ ★ ★
For the most part the music is forgettable but it does its job, I do take issue with the sound effects, a lot of them are lower quality and some of the grunts and gestures by the girls feel out of character and mechanical. It's a mixed bag overall I didn't hate it

★ ★Visuals ★ ★
On a technical level most renders look good, there are some hiccups with some of the animations looking choppy and a few of the poses looking weird but it's workable for the most part, however I have a couple of grievances:
Art style is anachronistic and all over the place, setting takes place in a magic school but everyone wears clothes like they are on an office building while being surrounded by medieval/fantasy assets, you have a potions "teacher" dressed like a secretary and If you have done any chemistry/labwork you would know how terrible of an idea being dressed like that is, just to clarify I don't mind modern clothing in this type of setting just that no effort was put in to sell the fact that we are attending an ancient magic school.
My other problem is with the models, save for a few exceptions almost all of them look like they are wearing implants, this gives a "plastic" feeling to everything that also translates into the porn scenes unfortunately

★Writing ★
My main criticism is that the dev didn't put the effort to justify how characters feel or act, It reads fine for the most part, some typos, odd phrasings here and there but It's terrible in the most boring way possible, our MC is your typical: sex pest, "nice" guy, entailed, doormat, casanova, mary sue chosen one with a dark troubled past, dumbo looking cunt. All the girls and boys love him and if they don't they are a bad guy or they will like him eventually, he always gets what he wants and knows what to do at any given point. It gets tiresome quickly, the MC is absolutely pathetic and uncharismatic, flirting sounds out of touch and no girl would realistically let him get away with any of that, dude throws empty platitudes all the time and girls look at him like he is the most insightful guy ever lmao what.
The girls have nothing going for them either since all the things they do revolve around the MC in some way and they don't have a character outside of that, there's no build up with any of them they just go from strangers to being in love with the MC with nothing happening between that.
And as for the main story it doesn't really matter as it goes nowhere, it's a sequence of loosely related events that only serve to fellate the main character

★Porn ★
This game is very vanilla, I have nothing against vanilla sex, some of my favorite games are purely vanilla. Lust Academy dev has in his hands a fantasy setting where anything is possible: Invisible sex in the middle of the classroom, lust curses, shapeshifting sex, accidental love potions, shrinking/enlarging, bimbofication potions/spells, sleeping curse that can only be cured with sex, ghost blowjobs in the bathroom, mind control, lactation as a side effect of a class mishap, etc I could go on and on with these, the porn writes itself but dev decided that 95% of the scenes are going to be inoffensive vaginal sex in the bedroom, a forest, or the shower lmao WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? Pardon the food analogy but it's like going to a buffet and only getting white rice and lukewarm water for yourself and the whole family. Don't get me wrong it is still fappable but once you see one scene you've seen most of them since it's almost always vaginal sex on top of a bed, there's no variety except sometimes you would see some brief dick nibbling or a partial titjob but never a full bj/hj/tj on their own. It's just vaginal sex after vaginal sex with some brief snippets of the mc molesting his roommates while they sleep. There are a couple of scenes that take advantage of the fantasy setting but it's not enough.
You can do a lot of fun vanilla things with the magic shown in the HP movies, but the dev is either not smart/creative enough for such things or he just wanted to fuck Emma Watson and everything else is just fluff in his eyes.

Final Thoughts
I really tried to give this game a fair shot in its entirety, I really did. if you like the renders and don't read that much in these type of games I think you will enjoy what it has to offer. If you are more cultured you will come out of it frustrated at best since a lot of this VN does feel like a missed opportunity.
At the end of the day it did nothing for me, for so long I avoided this game because of the Emma Watson expy, I thought it was lazy and unimaginative now I know better for next time.

To new comers, I hope this get through you.
- This game have 2 gameplay : 1 is SANBOX and other is VN. But they have the same contents of the story and scene.
- Choices in game is simple. And there is only 2 choices of interest : Yes for interest, decline for not interest. No wrong answers.
- Sandbox :
+ Mid grinding - only about 10 of different items and resources - If you grind for hours then you are rich until the game die.
+ Quest and progress : Very simple and there is no time pressure. Everything is instructed in character tab. Nothing complex - no spaghetti - no confusion.
+ Point and click won't be an issue in 99% of the game.
- The story maybe mediocre, but it's absolutely not a bad one.
- The game is mainly for Sandbox so VN mode would be fast.
- You can't miss any scenes in 1 play unless you want to ( except there are some scenes in Ep 1 ). And they won't effect your relationship either.
- All models are beauty.
The only reason you see the game have 3.5/5 rating is because there are all kind of people in here.

Where do I even begin.

The positive is that there's for sure going to be at least one girl who you like. The renders are, at worst, decent, and you for sure will end up liking at least one.

The negative is that you have to play the game to get the scenes.

The story starts off somewhat interestingly, but it falls off really fast. The issue is that there's both an overarching story, and each character also has its own storyline/character story... which are disjointed, boring, and frankly, dull. And I'm not saying that "Some of them are boring", I'm not saying "Some of them are dull", I'm saying ALL of them are boring. There has not been a single point of this VN where I am reading some of the character storylines and I think to myself "woah! I really want to find out what happens next!". There is not a single point reading this VN where I think to myself "this plotline seems really interesting!". There's not a single point reading this VN where I think to myself "Boy I sure am glad I spent 30 minutes clicking shit to move around the map, the payoff of this storyline was great!".

Reading this is like thinking you're going to a ferris wheel - find some highs, some lows, some nice views - and entering one of those spinning teacup rides where you just spin in place and nothing fucking happens.

And that's not even starting to complain about the Hermione copy that this game has, by the way. I mean, I get it, you're clearly HP-inspired, but having so many original characters and then slapping the most blatant ripoff of an extremely recognizable character does you no help. If you wanted to parody it to that extreme just use the characters and focus on that. Budget Hermy here is doing this game no favors, trust me.

Weak dialogue, weak sound, weak storylines, and heck, if I'm to be honest, weak scenes too, there's very little in here to ever recommend to someone. Which fucking sucks, because I actually did like some of the renders in here. But there isn't a render on earth that is worth four seasons of THIS.

The visuals are stunning, and there's a lot of content to explore, but the story becomes tedious due to unnecessary and irrelevant text. At times, the text feels like AI-generated filler, detracting from the experience.

Played in Visual Novel mode

First you have to know that it’s not a visual novel but a kinetic novel, your choices don’t matter at all. You think you can reject a girl you don’t like? It doesn’t work like this, whether it’s just a kiss or a full sex scene, saying “no” just makes you skip the scene, the girl will act the same way the next day and you can still have sex with her in the future. That’s how Lust Academy works, and that’s a big deal for me.

Fun fact: there is an option for turning ON or OFF the LGBT content. BUT the developer thinks that the LGBT content only applies to a relationship between a male and another male ; female on female scenes are totally ok and not part of the LGBT content, the “L” doesn’t mean “Lesbian” after all…

Let’s talk about the dialogues now, it’s like they were written by a teenager who is a big fan of the Harry Potter saga, they are so childish that they sometimes get cringy. It gets a little better in Season 4 though, but it still shows a lack of social knowledge.

The MC is a yes-man, he does everything the girls ask him to do, like a good doggy. Even worse! Even when treated like a piece of shit (Wendy comes to mind), he will keep seeing the girl again and again because he wants to be friends with everyone, he is a very good boy, momma must be proud of him (ooops she’s dead).

If you’re into the femdom fetish, be aware that the Visual Novel mode skips ALL the scenes with Amelie, the only dominatrix of the game, you can only see them by unlocking the gallery. Not my fetish so I’m glad I’m not forced to see these scenes, but I prefer to warn the players who are into it.

Despite all these flaws, I have to say that the story, the renders and animations are quite good and immersive, but the social aspect, the emotions, and the relationships with the girls are not really on the menu, everything is focused on the life and ascension of a pseudo Harry Potter who occasionally fucks some girls to pass time, pseudo Hermione (Haley) being the favorite of the dev of course.

2.5/5

This is a game that should've stopped after Season 1 or maybe season 2.

Art is phenomenal. Character renders are great and sex scenes are well animated. But that's pretty much all there is.

It's a free roaming VN where you treat every girl nice and they become a girlfriend side chick. The formula hasn't changed for 3 seasons. Dialogue and plot gets really boring after having to repeat the same nice guy cliche.

Recommend Season 1 as the game feels appealing and the Harry Potter influence is still novel. Halfway through season 3 and the writing has definitely done downhill.

I enjoyed Lust Academy! The storyline got me hooked, especially because the characters were so interesting. Dakota definitely a standout – She's gorgeous.

The visuals were also impressive. The character models were beautiful, the environments were well-designed, and the animations were smooth and added to the overall experience.

(Score)
Rendering 10/10
Characters 10/10
Story 10/10
Animation 10/10

(Hope)
I hope MC will be not infertile as in other games. I know pregnancy is a big deal, but this is just a game. I'm not talking about having sex with a pregnant woman.(But I love it haha) The feeling of knowing you've made her pregnant is awesome. After that is the bonus.

Overall, this game is awesome! I'd give it a 10 out of 10. The characters are engaging, the story is interesting, and it's worth a try!

I didn't ahve much expectations towards the story of this game, considering how weak the actual main story of Become a Rockstar is, but I at least expected a MC to be a natural in the flirting game and that the conversations with girls would be meaningful... so far the MC disapoints in both departmets. We got an average game with great renders and nothing else to offer: no story, no good dialogues, no interesting LIs, no MC with a backbone. So far 3/5 is the maximum this game deserves

Nice renders and writing, but the game is quite slow and vanilla. There is not enough content to maintain the illusion of "sandbox", and even the set of event chains that are in the game are mostly linear, making the game more or less nothing more than a time-waster between the rendered CG scenes with no discernible choices or player agency. You might as well tag it with the VN tag.