Ren'Py - Lust Theory [v0.5.1] [Inceton Games]

The story is very different from what I see in this genre. I love the all the women in the games and the story. Love the action and lewd sences in the game. Will continue to follow this game snf currently playing season 2.

well, "gameplay" is not really best of the best - you can't wank and play in same time. kinda bad pacing of text with sex scenes. but it doesn't really deserve 3.5 stars I think. animations are awesome.
1st try with usual gameplay. 2nd try only by gallery mod and it becomes better.
mb some game could be better from this author without "groundhog day", but we'll see in future.

Spoiler alert. I am very specific in this review and so there will be lots of spoilers.

I wish the MC was smarter in this game. Inviting three different girls to the same party is a dick move and just plain stupid. The game tries to justify it because the days repeat but that is an invalid excuse as I wouldn't do it regardless.

The game also punishes the MC for choices he wasn't given. When the girls ask the MC whos breasts are better, they abandon the threesome because the MC was suppose to say both are equally great. The only problem is the MC was never offered this choice.

So you manually direct the MC to go to Jessica's room for our "date" and as you begin to open her door, the story forces you to turn around and go back to your room to play video games and watch porn???

The game then punishes the player for turning around and not entering Jessica's room when you personally attempted to do so but the story forced your hand and had you leave for no reason really.

If the author wants to create conflict and anger there are plenty of ways of doing it without turning the MC into a complete idiot.

There was already a conflict in place to cause an issue with Jessica. There are two events scheduled at night, one with Jessica and one with Elizabeth. All the author really needed to do is have Jessica barge into the MCs room when he chose to do the event with Elizabeth at night instead of her (Jessica). There was no need to make the MC look like an idiot.

I facepalm some of the decisions the MC makes. If you can't relate to the MC and put yourself in his shoes, it makes it all the more difficult to enjoy the experience.

The MC can be such an idiot that I want to slap him silly sometimes.

This game is very linear and the author forces your hand frequently. Very few, if any of your choices make any difference in how the story plays out.

One problem that is obvious to me is that the LIs in the game have partial memory wipes at the end of each day. There is some progression, even though you are led to believe that there wasn't. The entire story would change very little if the days did not repeat. Only minor changes in the writing would have to be made. You could literally have the days not repeat and the game would make nearly as much sense as it is currently written. Think about that for a minute...

The game also blue balls the player a lot! In the first game, you have to work really hard to get to the sex scenes. Then in the second game, half the girls forget you had sex with them and you have to start over with them. I understand that only the last day you lived counted before the repeat ended. This is frustrating considering all the ground work you had to lay to get where you were in the first game.

One event that really pissed me off was when going to the party and choosing Megan and then she says that she doesn't feel like doing the threesome anymore and brushes you off. The MC is then denied the threesome yet again when the MC doesn't say that both of their breasts are great (MC was never given this choice). There is blue balling and then there is pissing players off.

The dev constantly teases sexual situations and then blue balls the player over and over again. You do eventually get there however.

Yet another author who buys into the notion that once a guy cums once, all lewd content is now over. Especially with younger guys, it is common for them to be able to have two to five orgasms in the same day and oftentimes two to three back to back. My personal record is seven times in the same day when I was 21 years old. It was an epic day!

There are too many situations in the game where the MC cums prematurely and the girl/s complain and then all sex/lewd content is now over. The MC can cum no more! What a pathetic wimp! He is young and in his prime! This is common amongst the games on this site. Do devs really not understand how sex really works and that a guy can cum more than once? I get the impression that far too many devs on this site are virgin teens who have never been in a sexual relationship before.

The game has good visuals, character models, animations, and sex scenes. The rest of the game is meh. I do appreciate the hint system but I did have several cases where the hints were deceptive and not helpful/accurate.

If the story and writing were better and the author didn't blue ball the player constantly, and the MC wasn't an idiot, and the story wasn't 100% linear, I'd rate the game higher.

Gorgeous renders. Game also does a remarkable job of avoiding grind considering the subject matter. And the women don't immediately throw themselves onto your cock the second you meet them. An impressive showing for those of us who enjoy story and character development.

This game is what you call talent wasting. I mean you guys got a team to create great games with all the amounts you are earning. Yes, you do somewhat deserve it too but still I didn't find the game that satisfying compared to others. Besides the grind and all, what I really disliked is the story. Don't mind me, but this whole timeloop story is kinda meh. Renders are without any doubt high class. Animations are also top notch (Actually one of the best if you consider the most). Characters didn't clicked with me that much thou except Jessica. Only regret I have is the story. Which killed the enjoyment for me. It's unique but crap and that's all there is to it. Changed it from 3 to 4 stars after a little thinking.

One of the best of its kind. Whether related to Milf, Incent etc.

The flow in the second season is top. I do miss a bit the freedom of the first one at first, but this is admittedly better.

The concept, which I don't want to spoil behind the game is awesome and has huge potential even for a 3rd season and not just the second one.

Amazed this isn't in the top games.
Hope the dev keeps making such amazing games after this one is complete

Absolutely preposterous. Just another random fuckfest with horrible time consuming sandbox mechanics. Main goal is to corrupt however has pussys, its nothing but poor porn parody of vantage point. Story is nada, characters are old, overused and cliche but renders do deserve a star. If you are looking for same shit happening again and again without any context though you get to fuck then this is just for you with some surprise.

First game
Summary:
Same as the movie Groundhog Day the MC is stuck in the same day again and again. Slowly starting to enjoy his time and because he has nothing to lose starts to seduce his friends/family.

Extraordinary aspects of the game:
That the game inserts the rollback mechanics into the game as a paranormal activity that happens to the MC.

What is good:
The models and some of the animations are good, the story is mysterious as well.

What is bad:
Some models are outdated, the story is not the best but still alright and sadly the best approach of the MC to seduce someone is to show them his long shlong, of course using the information from his prior attempts helps, but still many of his interactions end with his long shlong out and everyone except him in shock and awe.

What can be made better:
Fewer women falling in him for his long shlong will be nice, he literally has a time reset on his side and what wins the ladies is his dick yey…

My opinion:
In the end, the game is actually great some grind here and characters choices are questionable at times (for example MC and a girl about to have butt sex, but because he touched her boob as he went out of the bathroom to do the challenge she gave him she gets offended and locks him outside naked, really?) but except that it’s quite alright.

The game has nice music and actually voiced. Some of the characters have the same voice but it doesn’t really matter. Actually, because the game is voiced, I can’t play the second game as I am missing their voices too much(not added yet).

In the end, you should play this game as it’s really good.

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Disappointed. When you invest so much into something and suddenly one day you get the big fat middle finger lurking at you. Looks like they're going to normalize it. Be clear with whatever shit you are going to introduce from start so that one can stay away who don't want to see it, don't like it when all of sudden there's something unexpected waiting for you when least expected. Looked promising but if not me then others so no worries. Good luck.

Ok I suppose I will start with the obvious things this game excels at. So the character models are beautiful, the renders are great, and the animations are superbly done. I'd say these three things are the saving grace of this game. So if that is all you're looking for out of a game you will love this one.

The dialogue I would say is above average not to the point of it being something I would say it excels at though.

Now as for the MC its like this duche scale was turned to 11 with only momentary lapses in his duchery where he acts like a decent human being but those are few and far between.

As for the for the girls as I said they are beautiful character models.

Megan I would say is the best looking of them and I wanted to love playing through her storyline. However the only times you get to do anything with her she had to be plastered enough to feel comfortable with the MC (can't blame her there dudes a creep and duche of a character). But as the story progressed her storyline began to feel like a date rape simulator imo. So even though I wanted to enjoy it because the model was gorgeous I instead found myself spam clicking to essentially fast forward through her story. Her story line was off putting and more of a turn off than a turn on.

Jessica again a attractive model and I'm glad at least the story with her wasn't based solely around get her plastered to fuck. But her story wasn't anything special a kind of nothing to write home about situation with her.

Elizabeth was more of a mixed bag for me enjoyed her character more than others but still with how much of a creep and duche I felt the MC to be there were parts of her story that had me wishing another route was available to advance her story.

Zoe a girl with a shy and innocent demeanor has a bit of naughty side. While she is in my opinion the least attractive ( not ugly just the least attractive of the girls in this game) is one of the better storylines.

Ellie I find to be the second most attractive character in the game. Fun, playful, a bit nerdy, and naughty. By far the best character in the game. What's not love about this character.

Nicole a great character whose storyline puts the MC's duchery on full display. Her storyline has one of the few moments in it where the MC shows he is capable of acting like a human being and than it is gone just as quick.

Sofie a redhead who's a kinky freak whose story leaves you wishing there was more. Another what's not love character.

Lastly there's Amy. Another attractive character but for me this character was the definition of meh. She ticked all the boxes of why you should find her attractive but I dunno she was just so meh to me and I don't even know why that is. But I found myself wishing I had grabbed an auto clicker for her story line instead of exhausting my finger out spamming the click button. She is for me by far the least interesting character in the game.

Wanted to like this game more than I did, it had a lot of the tags/kinks I look for when looking for games to play here. For me unfortunately I found this to be below average on the whole. Its saving grace was the quality of the girls the renders and the animations but it is a one time playthrough for me and I can't say the updates would make me want to come back because I can't connect with the MC on any kind of level and his approach to sexing up most of the girls in this game is done in a way that is just off putting.

I really like this game and congratulate the developer. At first I was very annoyed with the protagonist, known as two seconds hahaha, but with time he evolved a lot, which pleased me and I believe everyone. I have something to say about the S2E6 update. The bathroom scene, at Ellie's house, used a fetish of being stuck in the washing machine, in this scene I believe the developer had a chance to deliver something amazing, spectacular, that would be funny, exciting, and perverse to the same time, but no, just opted for the regular, and that disappointed me a little. I'm not going to go into them so as not to spoilers for those who haven't played yet, but I'm sure many will understand. But none of this detracts from the game, very good. The story is interesting, the graphics are very good and the animations are getting better, congratulations. Thanks for the great experience with each update.

Echoes of Lust (S3E3) was a good game that slowly got worse. Specially towards the end of the second season, it just lost all interest to me. The base is a classical "sandbox" where you have to do different tasks to advance each girls' plotlines, but with no farming. Thing is, since it's a time-loop, it does make sense that every girl keeps the same routine, afterall it's the same day. Unfortunately, the story loses some points because the MC actually doesn't care much about the main plot and why the time loop happens, and only thinks about fucking, which is a pity. Girls were reasonably interesting and their stories evolve within reason, even if it was too cliche in how that was done. As the story advances, they quickly start losing interest and depth, instead of gaining them.

Renders have a high quality. Not as much in the animations, specially in the earlier chapters, though these increase in quality as the game develops. Sound is awesome, with all girls voice acted (in the first season only so far, I guess second one will have it at a point) even though, since it's done by only two girls, their voices sound a bit similair. Sound effects are nice and music does it's job. And, as far as I've played, haven't found any bugs and I'm almost through the whole game (what's available so far).

So it was originally worth your time but, as it stands now, I've ended up dropping it. Not worth it anymore.

Not every game has to be realistic, or a copy of a romantic movie. The plot is ridiculous, but its something I have wondered before. What will you do if you were in a groundhog day? After trying everything with your head, maybe you will wanna try everything with your other head!

I actually really enjoyed the game. The animations menu is the best I have seen because you get transitions between lewd scenes, instead of clicking what you want, and those transitions come with surprises.

The voice actors did great, more games should do it like that.

The way the story advances limits your choices and you get the feeling that you cant get the girl you want all the time. I played the first part through the end and even played Echoes of Lust 2 until the current patch. S2E6.

For me it was really worth it. I loved the story, as silly and unbelievable as it is, and the frustrations that came with it. It gets better and smoother in the second part, but no voice acting, yet.

A lot of people I see give it a bad review for the story alone but I don't think they played it all the way for the same reason. Guys, its a game! Have some fun! Let the writer have some freedom!

Star Wars and Star Trek have plot devices and plot armors too!

Barely altered girl models from other games, very same facey which really sucks it's not hard to adjust the sliders. Poor quality writing and annoying gameplay. Not even replay system for the h-scenes. I regret wasting the 5 extra mins downloading this.

Hands down, one of the best games on this site! Absolute MILES of content! An original idea (for porn) and it is elegantly executed.

I'm not into the whole family thing (only child), so that does nothing for me. I get that it's popular.

But despite that the characters are so well done (I mean, this is a porn game) that it doesn't bug me at all. For example, the Nicole sequence (in season 2) has real character development for the MC. He recognizes her vulnerability after getting his own flawed interests out of the way and starts (provisionally) an actual relationship.

That is some writing skill that is like Dr. PinkCake.

The banter is also well done and the MC, while a moron in some areas of his life, is a consistently well-drawn, confident guy. It's refreshing to find someone who gets the social insights right.

Anyway, I don't write a lot of these, but great job to developers.

Version S1 - S2E6

It could be a great game but it ended up being disappointing and repetitive.

Pro:

• Quality renders
• Good animations
• Easy to play - hint system
• Character models are beautiful
• The sexual and erotic scenes are hot

Cons:

• This game has a terrible story : a boy trapped in a time loop who seeks to have sex with every girl he meets, If something goes wrong the day kept repeat over and over again.
• Repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive
• The MC is an idiot who only thinks about sex, without charisma, empathy, humor. He's a jerk sometimes.
• The character designs aren't original, they're similar to other games
• The secondary characters story is boring, poorly developed and unimportant
• Character tasks is short
• Some changes in secondary character personality can be annoying and abrupt.
• There's one sex scenes that can be unpleasant to see and are unavoidable
• The main plot progresses very slowly
• After the girls had sex with the MC women go crazy for him, it's absurd
• If there's humor in this game never made me laugh
• You can get stuck at some point in the game
• The decisions you make don't matter, the story is linear
• Maybe you don't like some additional content
• Sandbox ...

If you want good sex scenes and sexy characters this is your game, but don't expect anything else. Goodbye.

-Good renders for characters but lighting is kinda drab and lifeless. Environments are also very mundane and visually flat. Often they visually clash with the characters, who look like they've been superimposed on to rooms, parks etc. instead of actually being there. Illusion of depth is not the dev's strong suit.
-Quite a lot of well-done animations per h-scene. The h-scenes themselves are quite vanilla and boring, no variation. No kinkiness apart from the usual 'landlady' stuff.
-Given the size of the game (incl both parts) there aren't as many h-scenes as I'd like.
-The writing is at native English speaker level.

As for the story, it's the porno version of the now-classic time loop plot, and about as drab and stupid as one would expect. 'Groundhog Day' and 'Edge of Tomorrow' are good films bc their protagonists break out of the quotidian and the inevitable by learning to experience them more fully.

In this game the PC treats the time loop as a way to git gud at the game of having sex with hot chicks. It's a porno game so that's to be expected; the point is that the time loop plot is ill-conceived.

Finally, the time loop -based gameplay of redoing the same events to unlock new dialogue/h-scenes is a stand-in for your standard landlady-based sandbox grinding/task completion. It adds nothing to that design and in fact detracts from it by being a sci-fi/supernatural plot point that is neither explained or followed through on, thus pointless & uninteresting.

Original story, careful renderings, good use of lighting and filters, the animations are outstanding. there is a perfect sense of narrative and timing, everything happens at the right time and in the right way, neither before nor after, it does not betray the viewer with turns that betray what has already been narrated, within the madness that is the story there is no mistakes, there is a nice consistency in everything that happens. I am going to contribute financially to this developer, he has made very solid and painstaking content with outstanding creativity.

This is only a review for Season 1. I am waiting for the voice acting for season 2 before I play it.

5/5 Sexiness
5/5 Renders
5/5 Animations
4/5 Story - I really like the time-loop concept and I think the story does it fairly well. There aren't really any mind blowing plot lines or deep characters. If you want an amazing story, this isn't really it. What the game does really well though is utilizing the time-loop concept for "lewdness" sake, getting further with the women around you and exploring more fetishes by each day. And sexiness is really the reason I play adult games.

+++ Voice Acting. I LOVE voice acting. It adds so much immersion to me.
+ Sandbox. The sandbox in this game works really well imo. There's no grinding of any sort and you can choose what storylines you want to further. Personally I do enjoy sandbox games because VN's can become monotonous.
+ Music

A game with an interesting twist in a theme usually so burned out.

I have to highlight the originality and humor of the script, unlike other games I've barely skipped through dialogues.
The character design is pretty good, personally I love Megan and Elisabeth.

Played the last S2 E5 and frankly I can not find any negative point to highlight.

Edited: Oh my god, what the fuck did they do at the ending of the game?? Ruined most of the previous experience with a russed conclussión full of boring and endless orgys (yes, i say that) and a really shitty conclusion for the plot.

3/5, i have subtracted 2 stars from my original review.