Ren'Py - Completed - Lust & Life [v1.6.241029 Extra] [Astaros3D]

Girl House [v1.5.21 Extra] [Astaros3D]
As far as I'm concerned, I find this game slightly better than "My Cute Roommate", but still not enough to get 3/5.

The female character models are overall better than the title mentioned above, now a good portion of the characters are pleasing to the eye.
The male characters, especially MC are pitiful.
The animations are unfortunately mediocre.

The story seems to be deep from the intro, but it doesn't make logical sense and the scenes that follow don't have a linear progression. In one scene the girl is against certain sexual actions, in the next the same girl is a nymphomaniac (few scenes but annoying that there really are such dialogues).
The dialogues are even worse, however badly done I recommend skipping. I've read dialogue that makes more sense in MTL games (and I'm not English).
The only positive note is the aesthetics of Vanessa.
I do not recommend the game.

I have multiple reasons for this low rating :

First of all , the ending, or should I say the last part of the game, was really rushed ,as if the developer wanted to get done with the project and start a new one for more cash.

Second , the MC is ugly af ,dude looks like a goblin , the detective dude has a more of a MC look than the actual MC.

Third issue , minigames are nothing but a waste of time , since they don't actually add significant progress to the characters' lust/love system.

Overall , the characters graphics are not bad , the story itself had potential but was very rushed.

A game that wants to be more than a novel but ultimately fails at being fun.


Characters and story don't really stand out. They lack emotional oomph and this game mostly seems to focus on gameplay.

Gameplay didn't add much. It feels gamey to wait for the right time to find people in rooms. There's also (skippable!) minigames, like helping with homework by solving math questions, or making cleaning money by being shown images of dishes and clicking the identical pic. The option to skip them is welcome, but that still leaves you with quests to progress the story - they're okay at best.

Ending comes out of nowhere so it gets a special mention. Also, it involves a fight with an uncle which I was stuck on and long story short: you press a single button until you win... which might take like 20 tries due to random rolls, ugh.


I'm not recommending this. I was already leaning towards 3 stars and the ending further cemented it. It's entirely forgettable in my mind, but others might like some of the minigames/scenes. Try it out if you want, but if after an hour you aren't entertained then know it won't get better and it's not worth it to continue for the story.

Another game "Worth a Playthrough" I thought the models were gorgeous. The story was decent and engaging. There was some grinding, but it wasn't too too bad. The ending seems a little bit like it was put together at the last minute, but again, not a game breaking flaw.

Generally not a fan of sandbox games, but this one was actually pretty good. There wasn't that much grinding and minigames can be skipped. The models are pretty and hot scenes were really high caliber.

My only gripes would be that some of the quests were not really intuitive and I had to search for the proper sequence of events to complete them and that the ending wasn't great--but the plot isn't the main focus of this game in the first place, so that's just a minor nitpick.

Overall, still a pleasant experience and worth a try.

Oof this game is bad. Not as grindy as the first one, but no incest, so worse.
MC is an ugly little goblin, with no spine or personality. Really hard to look at.
Though the game is obviously meant to have incest, there is no patch to be found. Just random MILF and girls who all live together and behave like family but are completely unrelated.
The girls are all horrible bitches and treat the MC like trash. Only way he gets action is by blackmail, or mind control, no romance here.
Sandbox grind is real, and really irritating. Just here to cover for lack of interesting story or connection between the characters.
Renders and some of the lewd scenes are nice enough to get a star, but just unlock the gallery and replay the scenes. Save yourself from the frustration.

Story is not to bad and the ending seemed rushed a bit. But the sex scenes was AMAZING The best i've seen in game. So story 4/5 stars . All the girls was super sexy best looking girl cast in game i've seen so far in playing these type of games. You might need a walkthrough to help play some of the scenes . If nothing else i would recommend this game for the sex scenes alone. Sex scenes have the best angles and has multiple angles and you can switch angles as much as you want and watch it as long as you want. and the length of each sex scenes is pretty long . like i said best sex scenes i've seen in the multiple games i played . Sex scenes 10/5 stars lol. also the story isn't that bad . Just some people say the ending was rushed and it kinda was but still not to bad. This game is definitely worth the download. I would be sure to download the gallery mod so you could replay the scenes it is worth it. I highly recommend this game.

giving one star because of the shit ending, really i never seen a game with a 'ending' worse than this one, if you care 1% about story in games don't play it, but if you only care about sex scenes and don't even read anything maybe you will like

I probably need to try this again, but I gave up after a 90-120 minutes.

+ Yes, nice models.

+ Yes, nice animations.

-- My task list early on is empty and I'm just grinding around trying to trigger an event. Boring!

-- Carpal Tunnel inducing as I'm clicking like mad on a scene to figure out if I can make the clothing disappear or not as there is no indicator when this works and when it doesn't...AND you need it to disappear to trigger some stuff. Sigh.

> Loose, weak story, but better than a lot of porn scenarios.

OVERALL:
There are a lot more other games that have clear and progressive corruption.
There are a lot more other games that don't require a blind grind.
There are a lot more other games that do have a depth of story and characterization for those that prefer that.
This is getting shelved on my, "Try again in the future" list, and we'll see once I've played through more of those "a lot more other games".

I'm really not sure how to rate it.

On one side there are nicely made characters with cute models, decent animations etc - generally good sandbox with some simple riddles and micro-management stuff.

On the other hand whole game looks a bit as if it was rushed. Like it has wasted potential for more character interactions and sex scenes, longer and deeper plot, more details but there was no time and/or funds to better develop it.

Still I say it's a good game. Worth to play.

i really thought this was gonna turn into a great story with some deep depths. but idk. the developer must have turned idiotic when finishing the game or something. the ending is rushed like bruh what??

Hot characters. Interesting and fun story. That I finished this game at all is a testament to how much it has going for it despite having one of the dumbest looking MCs I've ever seen.

Similar plot to some other games, but from what I can tell development on this started early enough for it to not feel unoriginal or derivative. Developments within the game feel mostly earned (to a more or less degree), which is always nice. Overall enjoyable to play, but it did genuinely knock me out of things any time I had to see the MC's noggin.

Coming from a great game called My Cute Roommate this game just felt like a waste of time from start to finish, game focused too much on one of the worse girls, every event was a drag to do, no reason to make a realtime clock like the game did because it benefitted nothing.
Could've just made a new game with new characters and kept the meta from his first game because it had a good amount of content, good sex, good scenes, and was fun to play minus a few of the grinds.

One of the best game I have played, but probably because Mind Control is my kink.
Seeing it barely gets 3/5 because of others reviews, and considering people sort the game list by rating, it was my duty to put a 5/5 so people can discover this in the first pages after sorting.
I don't find this as grindy as people say, and the sex scenes are excellent.

Good job dev

3/3 for the potential, 0/2 for instantly killing it because god knows why

I mean if you someday continue this and actually make the final scenes worthwhile by expanding this, it will be a welcome move but that bizarre ending, so not cool man, so not cool

Loved the end sex scenes, both of them were exceptional, but boy if they had good plot preceding it

With help from a walkthough mod, It fixed all the problems in their previous game MCR(or MCC).
There is no more tedious bar filling game, and all the minigame can be skipped.
If there is no walkthrough mod however, we won't know exact the correct choice. It can be irritating, especially when you don't know the pass/fail condition. Also for the 3rd photo shoot event, there is no way to tell which one is the correct position.
In combination, it's now interesting and relaxing, not bad for a fap material。
The only problem is the walkthough mod is a bit outdated, we have to fix it somehow

This game has really good girls but the steps for grinding the events are too bothersome, and there is not enough variety between them, so at some point, you just skip to the right hour, in loop. And that is not the sign of a good "free" style roaming VN.

I loved the visual, but the plot is too simple, simplistic even.

There are sounds, so that's ok.

The corruption part could have been a lot better.

The glitchy design, poor grammar, and repetitive gameplay could've been forgiven if the game didn't end before you'd even reached full relationship ranks with the girls. Forcing a sudden ending like that means all the tedious effort spent on improving the relationships was a complete waste of time and half the dialogue options you're given can never actually be used.

It felt like the dev got bored and suddenly decided to end it one day in order to work on something else. I'm guessing the patrons weren't refunded.

Don't waste your time on it.

Girl House is the type of event driven game that jumps one event to another as your two little agents of lust guide you from one to the next. It's a solid setting, but otherwise the game lacks a real story. It lacks replayability. It lacks depth.
Models are great, each and every one of them, except the male ones (including the MC).

My greatest gripe with this title is something I am fairly sure others agree with as well.

Too little sexual content with the milf, the blonde daughter, the doctor, the lawyer and last but not least, the mother.

The ending that this game encountered should have been the ending of the first movie out of 3. There was so much potential for a greater and better game right there. Continuing off at the end this could have played out in so many ways.
- Mother found her son, wishes him to return, but he doesn't want to, so in order to get accustomed to her again because of his amnesia she decides to live with them for a short while. The mother path opens.
- The blond daughter finally opens up completely to the MC and they start on a sexscapade of great proportions and romance.
- The dark haired daughter finally falls for the MC after all their activities together.
- The red haired daughter only deepened her affection for the MC and since she was already in love, her path could have led to more corruption or more lust.
- The milf could have finally tossed her inhibitions and entered a proper relationship with the mc, having many heated nights together or directly challenging his mother for his love.
- The lawyer and doctor could have been great sidepieces, or simply women that needed to be conquered. A sort of S/M setting could be possible with these two.
- Least but not the most. Have fun with whatever other random babe it is possible to have fun with.
I mean if the MC was a heir of a large company, we would need to uncover what happened to him, what of that girlfriend that was in the car with him?
Too many loose ends.

The ending felt rushed even though it delivered the best sex scene in the entire game, only slightly better than the threesome in the living room.

Tons of potential, not met.

The dev can literally pick this project up again and continue where he left off. Expand on the game. I am fairly sure all the old fans will come flocking back.

Well, this is a good game with great graphics and animated scenes but facial animations sometimes are strange and the story is very abrupt. But then again fap fap fap fap engine fap away what do we need with the story I like the stories as well along with my fap material.