Ren'Py - Lust Theory [S3 E4] [Inceton Games]

It looks really good. Quality Renders, smooth animations, nicely created backgrounds and scenes. The Groundhog-Day story is also quite interesting.

BUT!

You basically work your butt off, trying to get with the girls... and when you finally reach a point in which you could then fully enjoy the fruits of your hard work (and that is what it is!) the girls storyline ends with a red "To be continued". Stuff like this really puts me off...
And as far as I understood the posts on patreon, there will be only one more update with bugfixes, but very little content. Instead they want to make a season two, which will come out ... who knows when.

*EDIT*

OK, five stars from me. They actually released Season 2 and I have to say: Those are among THE BEST Animations I've seen in a game like this. If they now continue the story, there basically is nothing I could complain about.

After reading the other reviews i honestly expected more from this game. Let's start with the good part, the renders are great, not much to say there the models are gorgeous the graphics are clean, the problem is that this game has literaly 0 story. You wake up one day and realize that you are in a time loop, luckily for you every single girl is a huge slut and they all want the mc's huge cock, not much else to say storywise. The character development is completely absent and their background is barebone this makes the game feel very shallow and i found very funny that in a scene with megan, she asks the mc why he plays porn game and he replies something in the lines of character development and investment when in this game there is none of it. I would suggest this game if you are here just to fap and really don't care about anything else but even then for now the game doesen't have many sex scenes.

Inceton definitely took it up a notch with this game. Not only is it a complete improvement from their previous game on a technical scale, be it renders, smoother animations and overall graphics. The characters are also a lot more likable and the plot is more interesting, hands down.

Definitely looking forward to a lot more updates on this one! If what I've seen so far with this game is any indication of the quality of their future games, I'm pretty excited.

Inceton reaches maturity with this title.

This game is without a doubt one of the best of its kind!
- If the concept is not innovative, it is perfectly leading so far (v0.9). Even better, the hidden scenes are exceptional.
- The story is slow and consistent from start to finish;
- The female characters are superb (Jessica and Elizabeth are goddesses);
- The mixture of genres with the addition of fantastic is very successful.
- the gameplay is very good, although the hinks are not sufficiently revealing towards the rest of the game.

For now the title is getting closer to perfection.

probably one of the better games i have played, interesting story and design, characters are diverse and interesting. repeating mechanic works well and dosent feel too boring. cant wait to see more of this game when we get a new update.

What an amazing premise brought to life by real good writing. There are a good number of time travel/time loop related games on here... THIS IS HOW ITS DONE... good renders and in depth, well-made animation are both just cherries on top

One of my Top 3.
Personal ranking:
Graphics: 5/5 (3D animation), Story : 5/5, Interactivity : 5/5 (map navigation, tasks list...)
Not sure I will play it several times though as the duration is quite long.

The story really lets down this game, i mean why would you cross a line you wouldnt cross without the grounghog effect and then go back to not crossing the line?


MC like in most games is portrayed dumb and horny, there are so many things he could do with this power but he just wants to happly get sex.

So while the story is quite weak the art is very good with nice backrounds aswell, runs smooth with no errors, the girls are all very nice and the sex scenes are great.

Ok. This game is awesome. It's also a great example of why I hate playing games that aren't finished yet, and I mean that in the best possible way!
I mean, after so many schemes I'd finally managed to f**k ***** in her ***, cept MC is still too witless to hold the reigns until *after* the girl "arrives at her destination". So I'm jonesing to make up for that only to find out that, as of the current version, her story, like the MC, has come to an end prematurely! Brutal stuff
To keep the rest concise since it's said better elsewhere and I have one key thing I wanna highlight in detail for anyone like me whose looking for a game like this one:
- The dialogue is great throughout. Seriously, it's actually funny *without* being memey or absurd. It's also pretty hot too when it needs to be. Sophie at the sex shop comes to mind. A lot
- The animations are real smooth. Sex in this game can in fact sometimes look pretty close to how humans have sex in meat space.
- I played with a walkthrough so ymmv, but I found it to be of good length without being tediously grindy.

Now that main thing I wanted to highlight; even other adult games that I love seem forced to pad out their runtime with what I call pointless drama and annoying antagonists. I'm just here trying to get my rocks off and build all the loving relationships with beautiful and fun women that I won't ever have in real-life, but as an anxious person I'm always a little worried we're gonna cut from a cute/hot scene to having to stop some guy trying to rape one of our love interests. It suuuucks.

So the greatest virtue (imo) of this game is that it has tension **without** drama! It's soooo good. The time loop means that it makes sense that you're never on a straight line to a happy ending (pun intended); you try things, make progress, find out some complication, reset the day and try again. You kinda share the MC's good-hearted feeling of tension as you dive down a new path with a character and see how far you can go, always kinda incredulous about the situation ("what'd you mean it was a bad idea to give my teacher laxatives to avoid her catching me f*****g you in the *** up against the school lockers just because we happen to be standing naked in the only bathroom available to her?") while also feeling a little tense about screwing the situation and having to do it again.

So yeah. I really appreciate a game that can create a sense of tension without drama. The time loop is both your best friend (because you can keep trying new and crazy shit without consequence) and your worst enemy (cause you're trying to find the elusive chain of actions that gets you from friends to laid in one day, whereas for everyone else it's perfectly reasonable to give you *just* a BJ today, and sex maybe tomorrow -which is no good to you, because tomorrow never comes!!!). It's a great mechanic, and definitely a big part of what makes this game so great (for me).

Season 1: 9/10

This game is a piece of art. Very unfortunately, it uses generic girl models we may have seen many times in another games. But besides that everything else is on the top level:

• Dialogs are excellent. A lot of good humour, so you probably don't want to skip them. This ain't happens often.
• Models may be generic, but they're still pretty good ones.
• Sex scenes are extremely well elaborated. Sometimes they're literally just like interactive mini clips. Besides dialogs, that's the most awesome part of the game.

Season 2: 0/10

Unfortunately, S2 is whole different game. Devs clearly run out of ideas. Groundhog Day 1 was a bit tiresome, but Groundhog Day 2 is super boring. There's no story line (literally!), MC just fucks everything he sees with a lot of stupid bravado. Also, new lewd scene engine is total shit.

Unbelievably good game. Filled the void left by Milfy City completely. The game is getting better and better, the latest renders and sex scenes are top notch, and the story is not bad at all! I totally recommend playing this game!

It is good, but very repetitive.

PROS:
-Renders are really good
-Animations are really good
-Characters are very different from each other
-You have to put effort into it (If is something you like)

CONS
-Very repetitive.
-You don't have much sex scenes
-Getting stuck on the same day is boring.

It is good, but could it be way better.

Good Points
+ Girls/Women look good.
+ Story and plot was pretty interesting but it's ruined by poorly-writing of season 2. Season 3 started well, can't lie, but again it's ended absurdly with the real part actually we should see, this guy never learns for sure...
+ Animations look pretty good and some of them have lots of positions/angles
+ We have some easter egg-like content in the game and they are good, and some of them have a really good sense of humor.

Bad Points
- Same day loop dragged out too much, remembering which loop was the reality can cause you headache, it's frustating and annoying. Seriously even in season 3 we don't know which loop was real and even MC is confused!
- Yes we have animations for sex scenes, but most of angles looks bad sadly.
- MC is not likable or relatable.
- The game is full of cockblock and it's frustating. I never saw a game with this amount of cockblock! It's so frustrating! Especially Amy's questline was a big damn OOF!
- The game always full of typos and bugs.
- Choices don't matter at all except for leading you to bad endings till you find the right one and continue your game.
- With S2 E9 we learned all things we did until this part was part of the simulation and it wasn't real, heck we even larned MC was dead and his whole life was just a test run... And then the game give us an option: live a simulation life, forget everything and die one day or accept the freedom and became part of AI... And of course people didn't like this nonsense, and instead in season 3 we started with different story, and with season 3 episode 3 we learned Alice (AI) lied us in season 2, and the world is not gonna end until 3000+ years and she kind of taken us to the future at some point... At this point amount of nonsense writer takes from his trunk is over the top...
- Alice's Grandpa is overly controlling, his existence is very annoying.
- This game is getting weirder with every new update... In season 3 episode 3 we got random UWU and moaning sounds coming from taking choices, advancing dialogues nor just changing save page, and even saving your game forces you hear them for 2x time... Just... Why?


For The End
This game started as a great game, became a good game with S2, and started to become an average game with S2 E4 and S2 E5 but it was still enjoyable, and with S2 E8 it just became terrible and with S2 E9 writers literally sent every possible good lore/story potential and killed whole game... Season 3 started well, but I can't say anything will be good or bad after how terrible season 2 is...

Amazing game,

i follow this game since the start, and it's amazing how much the dev improved with time, the starting was already good, but now the game is great.

The renders are good, the models are amazing, the animations are great too, the groundhog themed plot opens a lot of possibilities, and i have to say that playing this game is a lot of fun.

If you want a funny game with amazing renders, animations and models, you have it !

If you know Milfy City, this is the same type of game, but it's better now, and the dev is not lazy, he push updates regularly.

100% recommendation for me, even if it would have been good if the dev added more non-vanilla content, but yeah you can't have anything

Review for episodes 1-9 (Season 1)

Very interesting. Totally worth playing... But not perfect

Visuals: B+
Renders are pretty good, not the best out there but pretty solid work. Animations are good but they get better in the latest past of the season, not only with a higher number of animations per scene but they also get a lot smoother. So good job to the dev, it'll only get better for the upcoming season(s). Also worth mentioning that the MC's family (you can technically define theiir relationship as something else but we all know that they are supposed to be his mother and sisters) are really similar to the characters in Milfy City, which is not a bad thing, considering it's probably the best thing in that game.

Theme: A
Pretty unique, I like it.

Story: C
Even though the theme is cool, the story is not that great, just because it's hard to make a story when the time does not advance. Since everyday is "the same", there are a lot of repetitive scenes/dialogues and you have to do a lot of repetitive actions

Choices: C
I feel like the choices don't matter too much. Like, in the end they all eventually lead to the same result (fucking all the women lol). For example, you can't choose not to have a sexual relationship with some character depending on your choice, sometimes you can make the wrong choice and you'll have to wait for the "next day" and try again with another choice to advance the story, that's it

Characters: B-
Another thing limited by not being able to advance time. But they're pretty diverse, visually.

Dialogues: A-
Pretty good. Most of the time they seem natural enough, plus some humor here and there.

Sounds: C-
Could be better, barely any sound effects.

This doesn't fit in any category but it's important to say. Those "ads"... Big no no... I don't even know what was the point of that really, does the dev think we're gonna become a patreon because you have to open his patron link every 5 minutes? It's just annoying as fuck and honestly makes me not want to become a patreon at all. Please get rid of this crap.

Overall: 8/10
Pretty solid game. Definitely worth the try.

Ep. 1-9

Great game, the girls are very hot (actualy, in my opinion, all of them, with no exception, are very hot) and has good personalitys. It worths playing just for them hehe.

The story, although it seems boring at the begining, it gets funny and intriguing when you see the reactions of the protagonist to the same thing every day (like when he wake up from the car alarm noise).

There are some bad points as well, like the griding to do things (you take lots of time going everywhere, everytime and, altough it has a "hints" buttom, you still you prefer to play while seeing a walkthrough.

Also, the sex scenes are very slow to happen and most of them are only preliminars (like seeing the girl naked, touching boobs, handjob etc).

For the last, the dev thinks he can avoid piracy. Silly boy. Most of people only plays and support games because of the piracy and it could be better if, instead of giving codes, think a way of giving supporters some benefits without prejudicing the gameplay of everybody like the sucessfull games do.


Overall: you should play this game, it worths your time, altought you'll face some boring grind.

REVIEWED VERSION: [Ep. 1-9]

Things to Know

1. Linear story.
2. Gameplay has some RPG elements.

Pros

• Excellent Renders - That's a quite obvious merit.
• Great Animations - The animations are great and one of the finest this site has offer.
• Good Story - Well, the story isn't too great but it is better than average.
• No typos - Didn't see any typos. That Speaks professionalism.
• Not a grind - If you are stuck, just follow the hints. Easy as that.

Cons

• Lack of Sex Scenes - For a game that's been up for over a year, it doesn't have many sex scenes. It has around 3 sex scenes in total, if I am correct, but they were all added in the latest update so perhaps there is hope after all.
• Bugs - The game runs well and bug free as long as you don't access the gallery.
• Not so important choices - Your choices aren't very impactful, i.e., it doesn't change the story's direction, but I suppose that would be difficult to pull off when the day just repeats itself.

Summary
+ Great renders, and animations, has good story, doesn't have typos, and not a grind.
- Few sex scenes, has bugs, and insignificant choices.

HOTNESS SCALE: A solid 9.4 out of 10 in the hotness scale.

Conclusion:
Overall I think it's a great game. Absolutely worth giving it a try. Would give this game a 4.4 rating if I could.

One of the best games around at the moment in my opinion, you won't find many with better art and the animations are a thing of beauty. Possible the best animations I've seem in a lewd game when it comes to how fluid and natural it looks.

Renders are beautiful and the story is amazing. Although going through the same day may sound tedious and reminiscent of a certain time looping game(TML), new things pop up every day and there isn't much grind at all. And to top it all off, those smooth animations really blow you away.

This took me by surprise. I was originally skeptical based off the game overview on the front page but this game has given me quite the enjoyable ride.

CONS:
-Excellent Animations
-Great Characters (The Megan dream "jebait" was great, it took me by surprise. And I love the yandere-esk Zoe, I also have a thing for the older sister type in Jessica.)
-Solid story despite my initial reservations towards what I thought it would be.
-Lots of content, I spent about 6-8 hours as of its current episode 8 state and that was me kinda speeding through the last few scenes.

CONS:
-MCs wiener is a bit too large. It doesn't fit well with the great proportions of the women.
-I wish the MC was a bit more forceful considering the situation he is in. He seemed a bit too passive, especially towards the end of the current content.

Conclusion is that I will be keeping a watch on this game, I am not sure how long it will be but currently its a solid game and among my top choices of Ren'Py games. I give it a 4.7 rounded up to 5.