Ren'Py - Lust Age [v0.21.0] [Keisi]

Its a pretty neat little game, The scenes are pretty well made, it can be a bit grindy at times but there are some things to make that easier.

it has a few fetishes, nothing too extreme and most of it completely optional, other than some light domming but nothing major, so far the optional fetishes are Feet and Pee both of which you can opt fully out of it seems.

the story isnt something award winning, but its interesting enough to keep you a bit focused on it. It has a bit of hentai cliche in it but its at tolerable levels alongside with a bit of humor.
overall pretty decent little game Id say about 7/10
looking forward to future updates!

Great Game, Models are fantastic. Story is one of the good ones too.
All of the characters are horny for you already, but it still gives a lot of good content and individual story lines.

And Achievements exist, one of my favorite things in any game. The fact that they give extra content, in form of pictures, too is in my opinion a really rare and nice mechanic.

The following contains spoilers, and is true as of version 0.10.

This game's humor is grade school at best and nonsensical at worst, and while the spelling and grammar is damn-near stellar for a porn game, any high points, personal moments, or moments of triumph are overshadowed by this. That humor is often centered around the girls of the game flirting with the protagonist, and him either refusing to accept their advances, or in a couple of cases, getting punished for it when he does. Most of the girls are good-natured most of the time, but they also enjoy joking about physically attacking the MC on a regular basis, usually something that involves breaking the MC's dick, and they aren't always joking. The player is never given the option to call the other party out on their hypocrisy, or to confront them, humorously or otherwise. If that wasn't enough, Anna almost kills the protag at one point for something she did after inviting him into her bed, while she was on top. This game puts you entirely at everyone else's mercy, and you cannot choose to do away with characters you don't like.

The protagonist is an absolute pushover. He has some good philosophies on how he treats women, but most of the women of this game have funny ideas as to what decent treatment of a good friend and lover that is a man, looks like, especially early on, and he does nothing about it.

Gameplaywise, there is no variation in the trust, love, or sexy talk scenes. If you pick the "normal" difficulty, you need to click through several of the same talk scene to increase their trust by one level, and even if you pick "easy", there are many levels across all of the girls. Worse, there's no indicator on a girl's page stating that you need to progress the main story in order to progress with her. That's something the game only tells you when you talk to her, and are unable to get more trust points. Navigation is easy, but incredibly time consuming for the player. The dev does introduce a quick-travel system, but he does so late in the game. The worst part of the RPG elements still present in easy mode, is that, unlike the dialogue, they cannot be skipped.

This game isn't fun to play by any stretch of the imagination.

I love games that have more than just reading a story and watching scenes. Lust Age doesn't dissapoint. There is a great balance between story and gameplay. The game does very good at leading you through the quests and all the mechanics by using a narrator like character. Highly recommended

Some of the best progression and rewards I've seen in one of these.
Could use some more edge though so I'll be deducting a star for that.
(I will add more detail when I catch up to the public version)

EDIT: Almost finished with the current content and well... my opinion of the game has gone down.

[Things I don't like:
Using premade koikatsu models of characters from anime/cartoons. (Lazy)

The dialogue gets really old after a few hours. Like I'm okay with a few sex jokes and innuendos, but it just drags on and on, going in circles until finally it ends and you're left feeling like very little was actually said.
(example. "*50-word sentence on how I want to fuck you* "Go here to progress." *Another 50-word sentence on sex* "What should I do there?" *Another 50-word sentence on sex* "do said task" *Another 50-word sentence on sex* "okay" *Another 50-word sentence on sex* *Another 50-word sentence on sex* *Another 50-word sentence on sex* Conversation ends.").]

[What I do like:
The mechanics and gameplay loop are pretty good.]

I think with a good writer, these devs could make an incredible game.
I definitely look forward to their next one after this.

v.0.8.6

I like games with flirting and good humour, but this game only offers supposedly funny sex jokes. This was already apparent during the introduction and only gets worse the further you go. I know this is an adult game, but come on. This game is taking it all the way to the extreme. It gets old really fast. Every woman the MC meets is an npc robot whose sole desire is the MC's cock. It's like being in the wet dream of some perverted teenager. Fucking boring.

The good things are the RPG mechanics and the beautifully created graphics. The girls also look cute, but unfortunately each character seems almost identical because of the obnoxious sex humour. Apparently, sexuality is used as a replacement for character's personality.

The story is also rather dumb, but that could be forgiven if the game flow was more natural. Neither does this game bring anything new or innovative that sets it apart from the rest. The game is unable to take itself seriously and it eventually comes down to the player quitting after hearing enough penis jokes. A shame.

Excellent game for animation, really love the style and the background of the story.Not only made me horny and wanting more content, but even made me laugh more than i thought.
Really nice game that kept me company for some days.
Little downside is the no gallery for understanding if i unlocked everything or not, or some hint to know it.

(before everything - sorry if my english is bad)
Graphic, UI etc:
Images and animations are good, nothing exceptionally amazing, but by any means not bad.
As for UI, apart from standard Ren'Py parts its easy and pretty intuitive to find what you want ("Girls" page is sometimes little laggy, but nothing game breaking).
Characters:
Girls are pretty unique, interesting and lovely. They are lewd, but also wholesome and they need both intimacy and love, what unfortunately isn't easy to make, but its well done here.
Story:
As for many similar games, MC is the "chosen one" at the start of his journey. The story itself is light and easy going what is IMO big + for this game.
Gameplay:
There is some grind, but not enough to make it boring. I like the fact that you can choose difficulty at the start, i choose hard (because i like additional rewards like achievements) but if you don't want grind too much you can go normall, or if you don't want it at all - easy, so it's not a problem.

In short - good 18+ VN for relax with lovely girls.

I have played up to the awakening quest, and i already fell in love with the game, my only gripe is that while it is very lewd and wholesome, to me- and this is my opinion so take it with a grain of salt- we need a button that has vary of flavor text saying we love our girls, one one one or grouped with them. Yes, this is wholesome, but we can go even more wholesome X3 If anyone is looking for a fun lewd and wholesome love game and is tired of the constant ntr in games nowadays, this is food for the soul.

Pros:
-Great models
-Fun characters.
-Fun perks/work system with customizeable character traits
-Expandable universe that could make it something great with a few improvs in writing

Cons:
-Eazy to get lost at some points in the game even with the journal
-Progression needs balancing as you'll be swimming in material way sooner than you can get specialization for ti
-A bit more grind than i would wish but not to much.

Overall 9.5/10 Great game with a few quirks, would recommends to anyoone looking for a sweet harem story

One of the best games I've played so far.
It's full of great animations wherever you look. There's a healthy portion of grind while still keeping the game entertaining. The thing I absolutely adore are achievements. It's just a nice touch to the gameplay that often gets neglected, but it feels refreshing from other similar games. I've been playing it for only a couple of hours and I already fell in love with it.
If you're looking for a quality game that will keep you excited for the next updates, this is the one.

0.7.1 REVIEW

Great character design and renders, each character feels different in their own ways which means theres a little something for everyone!

Game can get a little grindy at times, especially if you focus on one girl at a time but its not too hard to catch up by skipping dialogue.

The story concept and character designs make the game addicting and time seems to fly by once you start to play it. Would highly recommend it to harem game lovers!
The gameplay is well paced, though can be a bit grindy for certain tasks (though that is supposed to be reduced in the latest update).
Each update has a decent amount of content that makes it worth the wait.
Love the story which gives the game a feeling of originality and not like most mainstream games of the same genre.
Also love the fact that the game developer has made fetishes optional with major impact on the story of the game. So, even though you may opt out of them, you're not missing much.
All in all a splendid game. Wishing Keisi all the best!!

Honestly this game exceeded my expectations, i was expecting a grindy sandbox game but instead got an amazing game with a great story and very cute girls, i have experienced a slow game but that is due to the hardware i am playing on and has nothing to do with the game, honestly i would tell all my friends to play this game if i knew they were into this kind of stuff

A wholesome harem game with great animations and an amazing sense of humor and a good story? I can't ask for better!
Unlike a lot of erotic games, Lust Age does not try to keep the pervertedness subtle, but it also doesn't do it obnoxiously. You will have pervy humor thrown at you from the beginning and you will love it!

Pros:
-Good models
-Fun characters.
-A good amount of content
-A town of perverts
-Nice animations

Cons:
-No sounds in animations, like moans or e.t.c.
-Some bugs but nothing major.
-A bit more grind than i would wish but not to much.

This game has a good and well-tested premise: Guy needs to rescue the city / country / world and build up a harem not only while doing it, but as a tool to archive his heroic deeds. Also, the atmosphere and and tone of the game are not a surprise: It is humorous, often breaks the fourth wall and doesn't take itself too seriously, while also trying to touch some more sensitive topics.

That being said, this also means that the game can be compared to others in a very direct way. It doesn't want to be original, it wants instead to give you more of the same and tell an original story within this frame. Nice, not everything has to be a great piece of art and not everyone should try to redefine a genre. But now the question: Should you play this game?

And the answer is sadly: Not if you have better alternatives. And that is not because the developer is bad or the story is bad, it is because of two very simply points:


1. The premise of the story does not work in the slightest.

Some might not care. I get it, it's a porn game, and most porn doesn't need to be very good in the plot-department. But since there are so many of these games, I can simply say: There are some that have a good premise, and some that haven't. This one has not.

Why? Because this game chooses an epic battle between Love on one side and Lust on the other side as setting. This war explains everything in the story and gets referenced a lot. The Goddess of Love is the good one, the evil Champion of Lust that controls people through their desires is on the other side. You must be good, win the heart of people over and not succumb to your desires.
So far, so good. Now: What if I tell you that every girl in this game is as horny as just humanly possible? Including the goddess of love and her followers (especially those). It does simply not work, not in the slightest. There is a difference between the story not taking itself seriously and a player that can't take the story seriously.


2. The game wants you to earn things. But there is no reason for it.

Conquer the hearts of the girls - yes, good thing. Works. Proven and often used by many developers and writers. Now, there is one thing you need for something to be conquered: Resistance in any way, shape or form. To conquer something, you must overcome obstacles.

This game doesn't let you have sex with girls, because... that's the rule. You need Trust and Hearts and all that. But... why? All the girls tell you while you first meet them that they want you, need you, desire you. But... then, you just talk and earn their trust and all that. While they repeatedly say that they want sex. So... the game wants you to talk to girls around 50 times, always about how great you are and how much they want you, just to get the thing that is always the topic to begin with.

And that doesn't work for anyone that doesn't skip all the text. It's just nonsensical. Because as a player, you do not feel great and wonderful. You feel disconnected from the story, because... what is even happening?

Well, what's happening is: You fight against some sort of "demonic" Archnemesis that wants to use the lust of people to control them, and while you are doing that, every single person around you is lusting for you and tells you that unasked every two minutes. And your protagonist wanders around and does things. Not very many things. Just... things.

And the worst part is: There is some good writing in here! Funny jokes, good quips, some nicely thought out scenarios, a good variety of different characters that behave differently, have their own motivations and backstories... sadly, they can't use them because they are more often than not just horny shells, but it's all there! It could be a quality game, it has what it needs to succeed, left unused and neglected in some corner.

I might be in the minority with that opinion. But I never before wrote a review because there is this stark contrast between the good work of the developer on one hand and the overshadowing need of the game to please the player at every step of the way. Always tell the protagonist how sexy he is. Always tell him he is wanted. Always be horny and available.

I hope that the developer, at some point of the way, trusts himself or herself more and risks to make the player work for what he wants. Not in the form of senseless grinding, but within the story. Let the girls not like him. Let him conquer. Let him fight for affection. Other games handle this better. Many others worse, but the talent is here to do something that can be compared to the best this webside has to offer.

This game is great for me is one of the best +18 games I've ever played in my life.
The game is not yet complete so I would like to give some suggestions to improve this great game .

1- introduce more places to go in cown.

2- be able to interact more with the girls that are around (like the ones in the shelter or cown).

3- improve a little bit the graphics of the boy's limb and the girl's .

4- have an automatic save for each time you advance in the story (this mainly in case some user forgets to save and closes the game or crashes the game).

Those are some suggestions... But otherwise the game is fantastic.

The story 10/10
Characters 10/10
Character personalities 10/10
Map 9/10
Gameplay 9/10
For me FIVE stars
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(PS: if there is any spelling mistake is because I'm from Latin America and my English is not very good so in some words I use the google translator )

Update - v0.10:

Having reviewed this already, I don't expect to have changed my opinion too much, but I have talked to the Dev a bit in the past and I do acknowledge I was being harsh in my last review. I don't remember why but I just wasn't having any issues at all. And coming back to this almost a year later, a LOT of the intro has changed as well as some UI and such, if I'm remembering correctly. And I still VERY MUCH like the effort put into the UI for this game. All you shovelware devs, take notes. I also want to say this is one of TWO games I've played that has ever edited the introduction of their game not only heavily but at all. I will say, the writing is still insufferable. Repetition doesn't make the "joke" funny. I get that everyone in this entire game is horny for MC for no reason at all, but saying it every five minutes gets very old, very fast... Even having to say that makes me sad, because I know just how much effort goes into making all this stuff in RenPy. But a polished turd is still kind of a turd. If you take out most of the lines where a character just randomly talks about how horny they are, or that they want to talk about or see MC's penis, for one this would be about half the length. And secondly it'd be a much better experience.

Now the story. It's kinda meh. MC was chosen by the goddess of love to save the world from Lust.. By making everyone horny? I don't know, a lot of the characters and plot is very one dimensional. Added to the fact that the translations aren't the best after a certain point. Anyway, everyone makes a big deal about the fact that MC is silver haired, but there's no rhyme or reason that I've seen yet. The only thing they really say about it is they want to know if he has white pubes. It'd be funny if every character didn't do that same joke. Moving on, The goddess of lust and her daughter(?) task MC with saving everyone somehow. And he gives off an aura that makes people fall in love with him but he shouldn't worry about that because people love him. I feel like I talk in circles sometimes. That is mostly the gist of it, he moves to Gold Valley to be their champion to learn about his powers, and help stop Lady Nessa, a villain that is using the power of lust to take over. Look. This is a porn game and unfortunately I don't like a lot of the writing. But it's visually appealing and technically impressive.

The characters are bland, I'm just gonna say it. Maria, a nun that's horny and sometimes jealous. Yuna, MC's maid that's horny and was abused but that plot point lasts for 10 lines of dialogue. Mara, a vampire of lust that is horny. Alina and Myra are identical twins, but not really because patreon doesn't allow incest, that are horny. Do I need to go on? The characters are written like: "Oh hello, handsome champion aspirant. I see you have silver hair." She stares at his penis then says something like "I wonder if the carpet matches the drapes. Did you know this town has orgies, I want to sleep with you. Here's a synopsis of my tragic backstory. Can I live with you?" And then you grind one of three stats for here with lines like "You spent time with [FEMALE NAME], her [STAT NAME] has changed byt [AMOUNT]." And then in the main story scenes, all the characters talk and joke about things that YOU AS THE PLAYER DO NOT GET TO SEE. Or act like a bunch of time has passed but you're only on day 4. This is one of the issues I have with sandboxes, you get implied content to grind for sex scenes.

Bottom line, if repeating the same 4 jokes over an over makes you laugh. And repeating events to get one or two new animations from chosen waifus does it for you. Here ya go. It's a lot more than just holding CTRL to see a sex scene and I can appreciate it. If, however, you're like me and hearing the same jokes gives you a headache and having a shallow story just disappoints you, this one is a mixed bag. I want to be clear, I like the presentation and the fact that it's pretty inoffensive is a rarity. I know first hand how much effort would have to go into this, but I also don't have the sense of humor of a pre-teen. On days when I'd rather just read through a light hearted romp, this isn't bad though cutting back on the jokes and LOLRANDOM humor wouldn't hurt.

I recommend LA because it shows some promise as a sandbox harem game. LA gives you plenty to do when you're not busy trying to get to know the main cast. Although I admit some aspects of the characters are not my cup of tea(Tsundere/Very Flustered MC), The way the characters are written pretty much make up for why they act like they do. Tali best girl!