Ren'Py - Lust Theory [v0.4.5] [Inceton Games]

This is my first review of any game on this forum. I have tried many games and I think I am in a position to review one.
Good things:
(1) Amazing renders. One of the best, you will definitely going to enjoy.
(2) unusual and interesting story line. This only made me to play this game because I am not worried about the content I am going to miss if I haven't been at some place at some point of time.
(3) Animation. This is the most highlighting feature. I haven't seen this kind of animation in a game except few games from the big developers. For this I would highly suggest to play it.
(4) amazing user interface and usage of things like "phone". Nicely done. This solved my problem of walkthrough.

Bad thing:
I haven't found anything yet. I will update as soon as I will find it.
This developer definitely deserve your support.

Interesting concept, we need more "Groundhog Day" games, especially with incest theme. Beautiful renders, amazing animated scenes, good enough writing. Very high quality overall. Inceton is trustworthy developer, so I'm pretty sure the game will be finished.

tl;dr: Great models, but I wish the author spent some of that time on character backgrounds or story.


Pros:
- Great character models
- Nice idea.

Cons:
- Story is quite bad. The character interactions/conversations are fun, but this is diminished by not really having an overall story.
- Character background is very thin, making the interactions less believable.
- Time Loop Hunter does a much better job of motivating us to do things in the time loop.

I like this game, the atmosphere remind me one of my favorite movies (Groundhog Day). The dialogues are well made, also the game mechanic and the possibility to skip too much repetitions (just like the movie). Now I wait the updates!!!

Really good, really enjoyable.

Starting from the top, we have the renders which are really nice. The faces sometimes can look derpy, and all girls have this "pornstar look" but there is some variety there.

Writing is excellent, while the story lacks originality (copycat of "Groundhog day"), dialogues are one of the best I've seen so far. While the character turns more and more into a sleazebag as the story progresses, you begin as an ordinary person who respects the boundaries and doesn't drool all over his family. I'm afraid however that the whole single day idea is very limiting and after a while the game will become devoid of logic in order for the MC to go "all the way". But that remains to be seen.

As for the gameplay, it's very enjoyable, there is no grind of any sorts, and in case you'd get lost, your mission log tells you exactly what to do in order to progress.

All in all, game is worth playing even in this unfinished state. I'm curious to see how the story will develop and looking forward to the final version.

This game gets 3 star just for the quality! Seriously looks like AAA title and thats exactly the problem!
Devs if you`re reading this! You`re becoming obsessed with quality, polishing and all the really least important stuff when it comes to gaming.

We just want gameplay! We just want hot games with decent everything.
This games takes it to a whole new level of grinding and repetitive gameplay!
Seriously its my worst nightmare! Not even a 1 star because of that...
I played for ~30min and only because of devs reputation! I got bored after like 10min...
Not my style of game as you can see...Sorry I had to wright this review!

Great concept, "Groundhog Day".
The storyline flows and is gripping throughout and is not ridiculously drawn out at all.

The artwork is flawless, great girls.
Nice animations and clear effort in the fine details don't go unmissed.

Can't wait to see where this goes next.

Highly Recommend,

Top Stuff

Cool concept for the story, it's really fresh compared to the other games in this genre. The renders are in good quality as well, which personally plays a huge role to enjoy the game. And last but not least, the dialogue is actually good! The relationship with your, uhh "step" family feels pretty real and not forced here, which again compared to the other games is refreshing and straight up fun to read instead of skipping everything on the go.

5 stars so far from me, I'm really interested on how the story will develop

EoS is an entertaining game with a unique and fun premise. There is a lot of potential as the game continues to grow...

+Beautiful character models
+Easy to navigate UI with built-in walkthrough/guide
+Impressive animations
+Great sense of humor

This is def one you should consider donating to as the dev does regular updates and engages with the community.

Updated review for Season 2 episode 9.
That was some season finale. I admit the story developed along one of the lines I thought possible, but also supposedly this will be coming back with a season 3 at some point, I admit I didn't think Inceton was gonna go with it until the basically bitter end.
At the beginning, lots of people constantly complained about the repeating days and that it took ages to come to real porn content, while I never agreed with that approach, even if I did, I got to say, the last few updates were so chock-full of really great sex scenes and combinations, even if I did agree with the claim, it would completely shut me up now.
Without spoiling too much there is this orgy right before the end... what a shitload of content. I kept choosing the same women, just to see how long their scene would continue, and was surprised how long they did.
I have no idea where you would go with a season three, but I love how the girls look, I love the sex scenes and the story while just setting for the ecchi is actually enjoyable as well.
Also, it was nice to see the MC who could be quite the manipulative bitch at times, try to be completely there for the women in his life at least once.
Kudos to the dev team for this ending. Even if the game had no further season, this would be a great place to end it anyway.
I've seen some reviews very disappointed in the ending and giving really low ratings due to that.
I would just like to point out that this is something that completely comes down to your tastes, neither me loving it, or others hating it, is any indication of how you will see it.
In general I think this game still gets rated way more critical and in many cases ridiculously unfair than others do.


Original Review:
I had to give the game a rating, because to be honest it is really good.
The girls look great, it has a unique approach to ren'py gameplay and the events are good as well.

I also encountered nothing of what all the people are complaining about, no grinding, no bugs, nothing.

Edited to add: It seems to me some of the other reviewers just have trouble adapting to the game style.
It offers hints for a reason, at times it even takes you by the hand.
The only time it felt like grinding was when I searched for one of the hidden events, but hey it's not like you need to waste time searching these.

I kind of get that people find the ads annoying, but we fuckers don't pay for the game, so how can we of all people complain about the ads, especially when it never was a problem getting the code to switch them off? That does not justify giving an otherwise great game a 1 star review.

The updates could be bigger, but damn if that isn't true about dozens of games.

Game is beautifully rendered ( a point in consider important. graphics DO matter )

Girls are amazingly designed, beautiful ( again, they're the essence of any good adult game ! )

there's an awesome amount of content and this game really gets you going.

rather than post spoilers, i would suggest you to play it and experience the game yourself !

huge props to Inceton, i hope he keeps making stuff like this !

The graphics 10/10
The story 10/10
The dialogue 10/10
The sex scenes 10/10
The characters 10/10
The setting 10/10
The humor 10/10

Need I go on? This is the best porn game. Play it!


... the one other guy in the game 0/10 he keeps hitting me : (

Echoes of Lust [Ep. 1-6] [Inceton]

Skill Idea: 9/10 (Unique ability to repeat the day & rename the Characters)
Art: 9/10 (Excellent shadowing, without clipping, and superb rendering)
Animation: 10/10 (Great looping with seamless tie-ins. Perfect)
Story: 8/10 (Hasn't been done this well in any other games I've played, but replay-ability is limited and there are some grammar errors)
Bugs: 7/10 (Outsourced 'Script.RPY' needed to fix locked intro screen)
Conclusion: 8.6/10 It is a great game, with many unique ideas and game facets. Bug fix is crucial as it completely locks up any progression of starting the game. Repeatability is non-entity, once the character is 'To be Continued' you are locked. Would be nice to be able to replay the original scenes or other choices instead of being locked out. (Because the day does just repeat itself? Right?) Everything else about this game is absolutely excellent and I highly recommend. Cheers and have a champion day!

The animations are amazing along with the renders, the story is original for this kind of game and the dialogue is funny and the characters are well written, its just an overall great game and theres still a long way to go but with the way things are now this game will be excellent

Good idea for the story - groundhog day
+ great looking girls (for me only "Elizabeth, Jess and teacher")
+ sexy scenes
+ good anims
+ good potential - looking forward to updates but to actually be able to proceed with the characters it's not possible to build up a relationship in one day so after some day there should be a twist that eg affection between you and the characters does not vanish even though the day repeats
- sometimes the face expressions look weird
- 1-6 kind of a blue balls episodes

The case when the game from update to update becomes worse.
I didn't like the other games of the authors very much, but this game looked very promising when I played it in first time.

Quality renders, good animations, pretty characters, interesting idea, like a porn Groundhog Day.
But after three updates, the changes are essentially zero. Of course, I understand that this is not the only project the authors have in their work. But it's just a dispersion of resources, IMHO.

There's not much chance that the authors can handle their own idea. The main problem is that everything happens in one day. Well, you can't seduce your older sister who can't stand you in one day. Even if you find out all the secrets about her. Also with his mother, here the story is not clear how to continue. I hope it will not be a rape.
And no progress of Groundhog Day in general.

No, of course you can object that this is a porn game, and the story here is just to explain why everyone fucks each other. But the problem is that by the sixth update, there's only one blow job and one weird night scene with the mother. In general, it will take a long time to wait.

Echoes of Lust so far is an excellent game with beautiful renders, sexier girls and a great game mechanic based around a 'Groundhog Day' premise. The writing is generally quite good and the scenes so far are hot, with great artwork and amazing animations. Looking forward to future updates.

I really like the characters and am interested in the overall story arc. It is a bit generic though with the whole restarting the day thing, and I'm kinda predicting that at the end he'll be caught or something. Hopefully, they know how to rein it that last act because, I am pretty excited to see how it ends. But for now, it is an interesting game.

Skill idea : 7/10 (this's unique ability, can repeat the day for fix it the next step must be choice)
Art : 10/10 (very smoth)
Animation : 10/10 (beeeesssssttt)
Scene art/animation : 10/10 (Damn)
Story : 5/10 (stay with the new update, there are still many places are locked)

As of Episode 5, this became one of my favorite's to play. The animations and artwork is amazing, and while the writing of the story could be better, it's interesting enough. While this review is a bit lacking, the game is not.

There are many complaints against this "game" but the complaints to me, are hating on the fact that this is supposed to be a "game," and not a kinetic VN. If you dislike "work" or a small grind, the game will displease you somewhat.

In the end, I suggest everyone to give this a shot!