Unity - Completed - Man of the House [v1.0.2c Extra] [Faerin]

Pros:
- CG
Cons:
- freezing
- bugs from previous releases
- tons of grind
- stupid waiting on map
- extra clicks (empty unused locations like an elevator)
No fun for now. This game unplayable without cheats and walkthrough.

It's a beautiful game and has an interesting concept. Some of the story arcs are great and well thought out. I love the taming of veronica, and ashley's cheesy love tale. But it feels way too spread out and expects you to grind your ass off playing it. Perhaps if it was made slightly more linear and had hints or something it could be straightened out. Also I finally had to regress and use the cheats because I was stuck on the mom storyline. I could not get her to accept doing yoga with me alone.
All in all it's a solid game and cannot wait to see it more fleshed out and with less of a grind. Could be great.

One of the nice games here. Very pleasing visually, very refined interface. Models are a bit standard with huge asses, but that is what the author likes apparently. The only drawback I found is the grinding. It's a bit too much for me. The main reason is that the events needed to progress further on the story are bound to certain time of day. So if you go to the shower at 19:30 you hit jackpot, but if you go at 19:45 - nothing happens. However the maker has provided a very convinient cheat menu. You can skip half of the grinding that way. Some options are a bit illogical and this requires you to click every option possible several times. Even the hints embedded in your phone are not very helpfull sometimes... Which also annoys me a little. I'm hopin that he will add more events and stuff to do, placess to visit which will make grinding look less obvious.

Beware of my retarted english. Based on 0.6.6 since that's the last one which i finished.

One of my first games, i've started checking it since early development stages. Used to by one of my favourites back then, but not anymore. There is such a big potential here, but it's killed by things i will describe later.

The renders are really good, and most of characters looks very well. I don't like only Claire and aunt models (didn't really seen second one in game, only in game thread). Blonde girl from the gym should become secondary character, she looks awesome. I like most of characters, and their interctions, but the story itself is modiocre at best. There are events, but honestly, i feel that the amount of story is way too low. I would like to see more dialogues and backstory.

So why i don't really like this game, like i used to?

Mostly because of mechanics. Something that was fun at the beginning, and when game was smaller turned into something really annoing later. I realized that on my second playthrough, around version 0.6.

Micromanagement became really annoing, that now i can't imagine playing without cheats. There is too much grind also, you must usually repeat everything five times to progress, and see another repeatable scene, which you need repeat another few times too progress. It wasn't problem at the beginning, but after some time it becomes really boring and even with cheats i ended at point when i don't want to play anymore.

Another thing, which probably is not a big problem anymore, because there is ingame walkthrough now. When i played last time it was implemented only for Ashley if i good remember. But this game earlier was almost unplayable without walkthrough, you could spend way too much time searching for events.

Next thing is, that dev don't really like to progress with secondary characters. How long people who liked police gal waited for second encounter with her? I don't know, cause i don't really care about her, but too long for sure. My favourite character was supposed to have some new scenes in todays release, but after five months of waiting, i don't really care anymore, and i don't want to wait another five months for another event with her.

I can't recall another game which my opinion changed as much as with this one. It will probably change in the future as well, for better this time i hope. I've tried to play some of the last updates, but really i can't force myself to this. I shouldn't have give three stars for a game, which i don't want to play for now, but let it be handicap for future releases.

I will be back to this game, when i feel ready for this. So when i will forgot some of things, and when it will have lots of new updates. I' thinking about 0.8.1 for now, but it can be later.

[/Edit] I totally forgot about one thing.
Polls are usually occupied with mommys/milf content. Imo Claire is getting way too much content lately, when other gals are only getting small scenes. That's another reason why i stopped playing, she's ok, but still my least favourite character. Characters which won pool should have been removed from another 1-2 pools, to keep balance in the game. And in mom case, there is more and more of her and fans of other girls only get dog's-meat. I'm opponent of pools in general especially these with content. Dev need to know himself what to do next, and how to reconcile all elements, he will probably do it better without polls. Cause polls usually leads to inequalities and things that don't fits to the game.

This game is really well made. I can hardly wait to see what is added when more updates come out. More job events? Maybe stuff with people at the lab? Linda seems like she might be interesting to explore There are so many other things I could mention lol Anyways, this game is really well made with really nice content so far, it is incomplete but as long as the dev keeps up their hard work, this could easily become one of my personal favorites <3

Hot game, hot characters, hot story. But there's some not so hot things:
1-has become too extensive
2-some places have become/are pointless (lobby, shop, mall, casino, pizzeria)
3-it is almost impossible to play without walkthrough
4-there were many more opportunities for the mom/son scenes than it happened.
Both of them are horny, so why just a HJ/BJ?

Very nices pictures and animations.
It's not a linear story but pretty easy to understand what to do and improve ours stats without walktrough.
However, it's pretty hard to be at the right statut at the good time without cheats tools.
Finaly a game with regular updates !
Thanks Fearin

The game has a decent character development and the art is OK. The fact that it has gone on for so long is a plus. But honeslty, it requires so much grinding and pointless repetition to get to the fun stuff, it just kills the spark of it.

Edit: Since my review, the creator has put a lot of effort in reducing the grinding in the game and improving the general quality of it. For that I have increased my rating.

Involved game. Mechanics actually make sense. It feels great when you see progress, and always leaves you wanting more, surely not a bad sign. Of course there is always room for improvement/bug fixes, but that's what the next build is for? Right?

Takes 3 clicks in different positions of the screen to advance time by any amount. The interface needs a lot of work.

Unplayable without a walkthrough because the triggers are so specific. Starting the event chain with one of the characters requires you to drink coffee by yourself in the kitchen in a certain hour interval but not before the first couple of days have passed because reasons.

Version 0.6.6b

Definitely a game to take an eye on. One of the more grindy games. Interesting girls (you can't deny the similarities towards other games) and storys.
Sadly it's not really something new. It's yet another game about incest and fucking through the whole family and friends. This is nothing bad, but also nothing special.

Nontheless I looking forward to play future updates .. there can't be enough incest ..

Storyline - 7/10 Good storyline albeit the same old "i want to fuck every female up in this bitch"

Pacing 7/10 - when you play each individual encounter one at a time it feels rather rushed but it is spread out by the repetitive grind mechanic of the game so it feels a little more natural.

Renders 8 / 10 - Clean and simple, mostly just characters composited onto static backgrounds to speed up render times.

Character design - 4/10 - Mother character looks like a mutant and The player is expected to overlook two of the main characters being identical to those from other popular games.

Overall - Game is playable although the majority of the game being hidden content is annoying. Similar to BB you could quite easily spend weeks just grinding and never stumble across any plot development which is a hideous flaw in game design.

The game has a fresh style of gameplay. It makes it possible for people to go from one character to another if one character is getting boring. The 'juicy' parts are all repeatable (except for the 'reward' from Ashley :'( )

The graphics are well done as well as the story line. There are many possibilities for expansion in different ways.

I am looking forward to the future releases.

Awesome Game but need more story towards Veronica and Claire and also needs to Incest Taboo roles like Foursome B/S/S/M along with Threesome B/S/S and B/S/M......................lots of sexy dress needs to be implemented as per my request...if the developer wants to consider this..apart from this is an Awesome game to play...

There is a good work, flow schedule, and the direction that the artist wants to make is clear. It also has such skills and is not a simple CG content.
A simple CG chunk with no bases is called a game, There is at least basic skill and ability.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.6.4 Extra...

Originally Reviewed on 01/01/2018

This one is definitely not a Visual Novel, as it is more like an Erotic Sex Adventure/Exploration/Corruption Game... Once upon a time it was another overused Family Sex themed game, but several versions ago it converted to the male protagonist being a renter/tenant, who lived in the apartment/condo of the 3 women instead, with no legal relation to them...

The visuals for the characters are well done, as they have somewhat normal body proportions... The backdrops are not bad either, even though some may resemble some others I've seen in other VN/Games, just can't remember which ones... In any case, the author's did a decent job overall with the visuals, including the map and UI...

The script is done pretty well, as I didn't really see any proofreading issues... The plot for what little story this game has, is the male protagonist is living with 3 women of various adult ages, and his over all goal is to seduce and perhaps go much further with all of them... Each of the primary 3 characters has their own story paths/events... But there are other characters also involved in his quest/s... The game involves stats for both himself, as well as the other characters... Some stat types open up with certain characters as each characters path progresses... The biggest headache stats are your personal hygiene, sleep, and a few others, mostly because they degrade over time and require micro-managing... The protagonist also has skill stats to work on, but they do not degrade... The other characters have stats like love and so on, which can go up and down depending on how you interact with them...

Other mechanics involve things like time management, where each character has a schedule they primarily keep to, so some interactions only work during certain time frames... Which will make progression with each character take a while, repeating some sequences over and over to get their stat up, and/or to open up more content... And you are not always clued in on what time of the day, and where you need to be, and under what circumstances you can gain access to a new scene, in any given characters story path... It can seem a bit overwhelming, if you're trying to open up content... At first it's not so bad, but things can get a bit more complicated over time... I personally got stuck several times, and ended up referring to the Walkthrough on this one, to keep truckin' along...

There are so many other pieces to this game as well, such as an Achievement system, extra scenes if you play that version, dream sequences, and the list goes on...

Overall, even though it did not have much of a real story, beyond each woman's story paths, I found myself playing this game, grinding away to gain access to what little story content there was... I eventually hit a wall, where I had seen most things, and just didn't want to spend the extra time to see the last few remaining pieces... I wouldn't say this game is up there in my favorites list, but it's somewhere in the middle of my, willing to play list... I'll probably wait till this one is a lot closer to completion before replaying it, mostly because it takes a lot of time to play... Even if you use a walkthrough...

I was really excited by the first couple releases of MOTH because the game engine was really strong and the initial content seemed promising.

The engine continues to be well done for a Unity game, with achievement tracking and photo galleries etc.

The models are generally well-rendered but seem a little "off" to me. The younger sister looks alright but is the same model from DMD which is weird. The mom (err, landlord) looks as young as the protagonist: the only thing generally making her MILFy is the clothing choices.

The game design is the main thing keeping me from enjoying the game. MOTH, like Glassix and some other games, runs on a 24-hour clock on a 1-minute granularity. Because of this, the designer has scheduled most events to happen within a 30-minute to 2-hour window. Every time you want to advance relationship with characters, you have to visit them at each of their unique locations during the day until something interesting happens. Then, most often, repeat that event five times to get the required rep to trigger the next event.

When you consider that the game also currently has resource management (does anyone not use the cheat for this?) it becomes even more tedious.

Contrast to a game like Summertime Saga which just has day/afternoon/night: it's a lot easier to just blunder around looking for unique events if the possibility space is limited, and there's generally less grinding when you find them.

The scenes, when they happen, are very good. But there's no reason it needs to be this grindy and annoying to get to them.

I hope that once the author has written more game they can loosen up these interactions to make it less painful to progress.

Excellent fap material, characters are different and that way we can expect to satysfy different kinks. Incest was in this game from the start, patreon needed to erase it then author made it possible to change it back. Heck, tentant, landlolrd etc even sound stupid. Development of the story is good with good pacing, the only thing which could be better is a hint system so players can faster expect results, like it shows next thing to grind or place to be, person to talk to etc. Much, and I mean much time was wasted even with cheats without walktrough.

expecting in the future besides new content:
- better save system, where we can see how far we have gone with girls, see how much special points each have. Bigger photos, naming of saves, overrite should have change naming of the save file, but it does not. So overriten save is still on the bottom.

- new hint system in which game gives hints what to do next with girls so we as a player would not waste time on searching for new events. Like in which place to be, at what hour, what to do etc. It might be direct system or more hint like system. I don't really care which, as long as Fearin will choose something it will be great!

- the only bugs I have seen so far were two, that sister in a club didn't show up in a place she should be. With her client or by herself.

- the most annoying bug so far was that when I clicked through scenes sometimes it crashed the game. After I lowered frames per second to 30 max it helped, but did not stop. I can assume that page did not load completly yet I clicked through it and it stopped at that frame. Once while doing a chore with sister doing loundry it crashed that way that I could use smartphone and save and reload the game but that was the only time I could do it that way.

- animations needed, different perspective or even minigames with pleasuring girls, women. It would add to immersion. Other games with this feature have edge over others. Choices of perspective, position, action etc. 3D animated films with at least 30 frames each and not gifs with just 2-3 renders per scene.

Unpolished dimond which needs a lot of work to shine or even outshine other similar games.

Sorry for poor English and I hope for the best for this game! Good luck!

Good graphic, interesting story (i like the blackmailing option instead of mindcontrol what other games offer) very good progressing (not too fast, not too slow), updateimg pretty soon/often, and, that's not very constructive, but it is my favoutite game so far

Graphics 4/5 really good at least in my opinion
Story 3/5 the story it's a bit repetitive among other adult games but on this game it's not that bad
Writing 5/5 the game unlike others does not jump ahead into H-stuff but instead you build up relationships/events
Game Length 5/5 as I said before you don't jump into H-stuff in the first day in game, it makes the game a bit grindy but not extreme and also makes possible the addition of bonus content/routes/characters/stories

Bonus Stuff: optional character stories, RNG events while moving on the map, RNG gambling at the casino, RNG at work, for some ppl this may be bad since they don't like to deal with RNG but for me it avoids getting the game too repetitive (doing the exact same everyday and getting the exact same results)