Ren'Py - Lust and Power [v0.74 Regular] [Lurking Hedgehog]

Actually a good game. Yeah the dev has been milking it with redesigns and whatnot but there is a good amount of content, and it is not bad at all. I guess if you are some dude who started to support it like 5 years ago then you have a valid reason to rate it low but if you are new to it then its a good game.

Six and a half years.

That's how long this game has been in development and when it first appeared it wasn't bad however things have changed over the years and this game? It's done nothing but go backwards.

Cut content and years of "redesigning" have produced a clunky unfun mess where you spend hours unlocking handjobs and other basic shit. If you like blueballs i suppose that's fine but personally i was amazed how boring the sex scenes are in this one.

Oh yeah, 5 stars (which I do not give so easily).

I played this game a couple of years ago, was reading about the redesign, waited another year for more updates, and tried again some days ago.

Yes, there are a lot of improvements, so I guess it is worth to play the redesigned versions.

I do not focus on what we miss now, I look on that what we actually have. And this is great. Every dev has his own pace and has his reasons for it. Impo we should not judge about the speed someone is going.

Some ppl say the dev is milking money. My view is: everyone supports as much as one feels it is balanced.

If someone feels a dev is not worth to be supported, he should not support him. Simple like that.

I personally had a lot of fun.
Graphics are fine.
Story and wording are excellent (although there is a bit too much text-repetition. Easy to click it away).
Girls are sexy.

Combats are thrilling (although for mid- and endgame there are some improvements necessary. I am sure the dev will work on it).

Looking forward for continuation.

This game is good. I like the direction it's going. And I want to point some things out that I think could be improved and highlight things that I think are great and original ideas.

About the gameplay: I have played many management games and I feel that this one would fall somewhere about in the middle of the pack. The resource management system consists of having to scavenge (repetitive, kind of grindy) over and over for food (with spontaneous enemies as obstacles). I think this could be improved/expanded upon, but I won't judge it very much just because the game is still young and I kind of see how this was already in the plans of the dev.
The game has a battle system and it is fine. Spells are somewhat limited for now (at least up to where I got in the story) but I'll wait for future updates on the system to develop a critic.

About the lewd content: Great. Just great. I still can't wrap my head around the idea of a game with so little content (as of 0.54) that can still make you hard. Just a few (very well drawn) scenes, in combination with good writing can make enjoy a good night of playing hero in a "save the world" game.

About the writing: Note that there are two paths to take when making decisions: Romantic and Dominant. I chose romantic, so everything I'll say about writing is from having experienced that path. Having said that. Great writing! the characters that live with the player truly feel alive. Character development is very well done and I like how they end actually loving the MC and it doesn't feel forced.

All in all, the game is great, not a five-star. But close. I think if it follows the path it is currently on, it'll be a great game to come back to after a few months.

Haven't played the latest iteration, but this game seems to be consistently underrated. Not sure why it would be. So far my favorite is the MILF. I'll re-play when I see a significant amount of her content.

(v 0.54)
I were playing this game since its early builds. It was interesting and captivating back in these days since it has a good story and gameplay but sadly each passing day, both its art and gameplay are going out of style. I can see the effort of developer for so called renovations and improvements but there is an inconsistency between the effort expended, time and the results..

V0.54

when i think about who supports this game financially, i immediately imagine a row of people doing the conga line dance around an Eschar staircase to the tune of "the road to nowhere" by the talking heads.

6years this developer has been on this site and still no sign of a completed project under their belt, is not a good sign and with all the stops to redesign and tweak content, a huge sign the developer had no plan and still has no plan, i have zero faith that they ever will.

the art is poor even for hand drawn and the game quickly becomes more work than entertainment to play.
at this point it will never be realised promise as it has been so long going nowhere, that even IF (a very big IF indeed) it ever gets over the finishing line, it will just be too late as it is now even less interesting than when i last played it 4 years ago.

if this developer had never opened a crowdfunding site page then fine, take all the time you like and THEN release it when finished.
instead they are exploiting.

1 star for the mechanics. the rest is not worth it and even that is high praise

This game is a hard case to evaluate.
I was late to the party and discovered in only now, in 2023.

If you read the thread, you'll soon know that making of this game is a kind of "development hell" thing. The author does it for several years and at some moment he decided to rewrite it very radically. Unfortunately it meant that instead of new content being added, a lot of old content disappeared.

The best version was 0.37 and if you want to play this game I strongly advice you to play this old version, not the current one. Because it's actually really good.

The game is a mix of erotic, visual novel and RPG. Your stats matter a lot
and you need to build them up to advance the story and achieve anything with the ladies. It was a bit repetitive but for most time quite involving for me

The ladies are pretty. The graphics are pixelart style which I really like, maybe because I'm quite old and it's the style of my young days However it's a really good pixelart. Version .0.37 has a lot of erotic scenes included which unfortunately mostly disappeared in later versions.

The only letdown were demons with big, stiff boners. Come on, I don't want to watch demon dicks again and again. There should be an option to turn it off.

The story would be weak for a book but for a RPG game it was perfectly okay. There is nothing annoying in it and the style of wrting is actually good.

So if I was to evaluate version 0.37 I would just give 5 stars. Unfortunately
the author started to mess with the game later. As for now it made the game only worse but let's hope it isn't his final word as the game certainly had a lot of potential

The actual game is good fun smut, with a surprisingly decent combat system and a silly but fun plot. The art is hand drawn and is decent enough.

The biggest problem is the developer treats the game as a hobby, he keeps tearing stuff out and rewriting it, and clearly only spends a few hours a week on it. So releases are few and far between, and keep covering the same ground over and over. If he’d just stick with a build and actually move forward it‘d probably be a lot more popular, people don’t want to keep paying for the same content multiple times.

As you may already know, older version had more content, than new one. So I tried playing both.

[v0.52]

I have to say, that new one is better in terms of balance and UI. But its missing sex scenes, like almost all of them... there is bare minimum left, like naked dancing and groping + a few random encounters on the street.

Its boring to fight doors and farm random loot, most of the time I was hoping to meet any demon to just upgrade my skills while fighting him. Until I tried to play older version, and new one seems like a walk in the park after it.


[v0.37]

In this version demons are extremely common. Almost half of my raids end up in fighting with demons, while mom and sis are eating like black holes 3 meals every day. Sometimes I cant even get to raid another house, because of random cop-demon encounter. And after all that, I may be robbed by Jessica on my way home, since MC refuses to fight her using damaging spells. Its a struggle against RNG and food restrictions that leaves almost no time for talking or lewd scenes.


So why good rating?
Because I enjoyed playing both versions. And I hope some day they will merge somewhere in the middle with full sex scenes set and good balance.

It was fun to corrupt my pretty mother and younger sister and eat them. I wish there were more games with this incest cg style.

Unfortunately, however, there seem to be a lot of bugs. Especially in this 23-03-03 update version. Thanks for the great game though!

Fine game on early stage of development.

There are quite repetative gameplay of magic fights with only 3 types of enemies, early stage of sexual scenes with several women and rudimentary craft and trade systems.

Fun game, nice hunting around doing battle with creatures and obtaining item, balance between game play and naughty scenes. Good humor and varied female characters.

Quite fun, excited to watch it's development.

Pretty sure Dev is done with this game and is just trolling players at this point.
Unless it was some kind of experiment on how to blow up your game that has been in Dev 5 years by removing all the fun reasons to play the game?
If that is the case Dev wildly succeeded at cucking himself.
Only other reason that makes sense is he decided to turn it into a normal game and not bother with sexy time anymore, but as a normal game it is pretty horrible too.
It is a puzzlement but stay away unless you enjoy endless frustration.

You got tired of games being updated slowly and getting minuscule amount of sexual content with each update? Then you should look no further. You can now play a game that LOSES content with updates. Truly innovative.

Boring combat
No option to have sex with anyone who joins you
Renders are not good
You always do the same things eat fight get items food drinks etc drop them in the kitchen
try to seduce the woman who join you
Lot of thing are not implemented yet like sex
No bugs
Would not recommend it

I used to like this game, and as much I don't like following the crowd when it comes to "boo this game sucks" I must agree with this on honestly just principle, but I will start with what was the good , the art and the gameplay were pretty good, the concept was kinda cool and even funny at times , not many sexy scenes but hey , the game is in early development and that's fine!
Fast forward few months to find out that scenesare removed and the game is being reworked from the ground up , ok .... but why ? alright what about the sex scenes, somehow way less now and it's more of fighting doors...

ok ok but the dev will catch up , it's just going to take a bit of time. No it won't and here is more of the bad :

• layered endless grind, not the fun or fast type, you will be mostly doing this the entire time and for little reward and a lot of frustration , it's a joke now about how it's a door fighting simulator cause it feels like it
• sex scenes scraped and removed, what exists as version 0.46 is only fingering and naked scenes , it's a joke
• Dev is busy reworking fighting mechanics every other patch so dw about learning this shit, it's about to change soon most likely
• oh did I tell you about your saves having to reset cause they don't work with the new stuff ? cause that happens quite often ! super fun to go back to grind !

my advice is to stay the hell away from this game , I used to like it and now it's a sad vision of what happens when a dev doesn't wanna listen to their following

v0.46

Sorry but at this point in time I can't recommend playing this game, and here is why:
The game is very grindy for what it offers the player in return.
-Grind love/submission points
-grind food/quest items by bashing down doors and occasionally a demon (it's very RNG)
-grind "junk" (again rng) to make an armor
-now you are prepared to start grinding spells
-occasionally the game now spawns a tougher opponent that you can't kill or run from, leading to random game over

Scenes with landlady end at fingering, with sister at boob groping...

After hours of clicking the same 3-4 buttons (combat isn't exciting or challenging so far, either cakewalk or no chance of survival depending on rng) I am putting down the game. Might play again later with cheats (which the dev wants you to pay for, lol)

This is a worse grind and worse case of "frustrate player into paying" than War Thunder.

The only thing saving it from 1 star is the basic concepts that are in place. Speaking of which, placeholders everywhere that remind you the game isn't remotely finished.

The dev goes out of his way to block cheats and add them for 9dollar patreons only...
On a grinding game.... There are ways to cheat by editing the save files but still dick move and shows how much the dev cares to gain as much money there is...
He keeps reworking on stuff he made years ago but the game has issues even after the rework, so WTF?
There was no point removing the sex scenes even if they needed a rework it looks more and more that the dev wants to look like he is putting more effort when he actually doesn't do much.
But he basically removed everything added more options for ppl to become patreons and have easier time with the grind and added armor mechanic by removing ~97% of his content and adding the same 2-3 scenes each month

Cant wait for his 4rth(1st the dark prince, and this one counts as double ) attempt of making this game tho