VN - Ren'Py - Mastering the Pink Box [v0.09] [Studio 68 Games!]

A great game, one of the best sharing games on the site. If you're looking for a fun fuck-fest type game that has some great humor and doesn't take itself too seriously then look no further.
Oh and it has Devon, one of the best girls ever made.

Poorly written and inconsistent dialogue. For example the story opens with an accident that results in the MC being in a coma for 3 weeks. When he wakes up he doesn't seem to care about his parents, potential health issues the fact that despite not telling the nurse the name of his ex gf, who has already mentioned she knows nothing about MC, she somehow knows her name and he just...glosses over this weirdnes. Infantile humour and just a constant running internal monologue of "i'd fuck that". While sharing/NTR wouldn't be a personal interest of mine I can still play such games if the writing is of a basic minimum standard.

story 7/10

The story starts a little confusing and the dev i think remade the beginning (might be wrong but i swear we saw and talked to the ex-gf before outside the college).
but it ramps up, after the first week we start to understand a bit the situation of the MC, and get a decent idea of how things can play out.
i also like freedom of choice, wich this game has but it could definetly do with more.

Girls: 10/10

The girls are pretty much all hotties, great variety of choice, and i think there is more girls to come.
Their personality is varied, and we do get to know a little bit of each of them, but i think their personality could be more in depth at least we know who we are actually dealing with. also there seems to be some story related thing that can happen, if the MC has a girlfriend, but for that we would need to spend more time with them and get to know them even more, not just Devon and Aimee.

Gameplay: 8/10

its fluid enough, things that happen make sense, and the story follows a plot but you still are free to choose what you want to see or not, and who you want your willy in or not. not like many other games that introduce a bunch of kinks but dont know what to do with all of them.

Overall 4/5 maybe even a 4.5 but its good to keep the devs honest.
good freedom of choices, either route you want to follow you got content for, you can be a degen or not, share or not... and the dev seems good on developing multiple routes without missing the plot.

Game is great, most of the girls are really hot and have fun scenarios/setups for their scenes. The best way to describe it is a college free-for-all, but with most characters still having their own pairings/relationships. The gist of it is everyone kind of likes to mess around and experiment, so if you're into that this game is for you.

As a fan of netorase/swinging as well, it's impressive that a game with this much carefree sex manages to build the main relationship with the MC and Devon in a satisfying way, while also teasing at how the MC can explore swinging/sharing her in the future.

I'm very excited to see how things develop from here on out and will be following this game closely, as it has quickly became one of my favorites on the site.

The story is bland and it was just to hard for me to read due to having a childish MC with a big tit fetish, constant zoom ins on tits, MC thinking about tits and how great they look, theres just 0 chance of having an immersion in the story when you arent allowed to think for your self, having to read how hot something is when you as the player think she/its ugly as hell breaks kills it.

Its also just to cringy, MC walking aroung perving on everyone thinking "i´d do her" then "i´d do all the girls in this room" why do so many devs think this is how a standard MC should think i just dont get it, let it be up to the players to think on their own ffs, also it dosent help that the rental on a brain was over due and someone clearly claimed it back.

Also not sure what age group this is aimed at but starting out with fart jokes is

Story totaly lost me when MC gets told to come into a girls room and she tells him to drop hes pants and he just simply obey, so MC is also extremly submissive and pretty much ticks all the boxes i hate in a MC and also im just not into whores so game was an instant turn-off.

Game also forces girls on you, take Misty i dident want anything to do with her but she is forced and ends with MMF shit which is forced on you, its just absolutly idiotic since ealiere in game you could say no to a MMF but guess dev dident like players doing that so they forced one insted? awfull game man.

It also means you have 0 choices in anything and MC will fuck whoever no matter what the players want, in other words a mindless fuckfest game and personaly i just dont see any point in that type of game, it might as well put a kinetic novel tag on and call it a day, atleast that way players not into forced shit and kinetic novels wont waste their time.

Theres also just way to many sex scenes with other dudes, i couldent care less about seeing that shit and when it happens none stop its again just a turn-off.

Also ran into game breaking renpy errors, grey screen after grey screens to the point i could only quit the game, so if you dont follow what dev expect you to do it might result in that which also ruins the game.

As for girls they look ok and there a bit of diversity in builds so its ok but still just around average.

Animations are a bit below average.
And for Music there are none making it even more hard to get through.

And last choices, in the start you have a few but then game goes close to full kinetic forcing everything from girls to MMF so for me its a hard pass on this.

i would rate it with 3 star from what ive seen so far, but if the story will go somewhere(the mistery behind parents dead) and the night club management will be a thing, the potential is there to be a good game

So far the thing i felt that can come to be a problem is the speed girls throw themselves ate MC, sure a porn game its about sex but if mc fucks every girl in school before the story even starts the dev end up in a dead end

Is the game good? Yes. Do I recommend it? Maybe.

This one is weird. There's something about it that just feels out of place and is missing from making it an even better game. Can I tell what that something is? I don't think I can at the moment.

If you've played through the intro, you know something is being set up but at the moment, it's not really that important because our MC is about to enter college and knows all about the stories of sexual exploration that that entails.

Let's start with the story: our MC just started college and is going through his daily life. No stakes aside from missing the next girl to bag for our MC but there is something going on in the background. What we do know is that our MC is going to end up owning and managing a business of his own, and with the name of the game being one of such businesses he's heard of during his few days in college - the answer's pretty obvious.

Some of the reviews has said that the dialogue is childish and honestly, I don't blame anybody for this. This is just the direction it's going to be because our MC is an unassuming non-asshole dudebro who doesn't like sports but is out to get laid as much as possible and is also probably what the creator thinks is entertaining while at the same time is fitting for a freshman these days.

Next are the characters. I've already said what I think of the MC but what's most important are the girls. Let's start with who is most likely going to be the main girl: Devon. She's hot and sexy, she cosplays, is a bro, is willing to put up with our MC's shit, doesn't mind talking about girls, she's upfront with what she likes - an introverted nerd's wet dream. Aside from her, we got other girls that are also hot with their own different personalities but what's different between her and them is that there is more build up with Devon and she has way more screen time that's not just sex (so far).

Now comes a point of contention which is the main kink in this game: sharing. It already says on the summary that sharing is an option although it's not on the tags nor is it likely that to do otherwise will be the main route. So far there hasn't really been an option to make a girl yours completely and if you choose not to join any ongoing activity between a guy and a gal, you'd be cockblocking yourself in the process. You want an example of why I say that? Our girl Devon asks us a question about something that happened in the subway and if you go for the option that's likely to lead to sharing, she has more to say about it compared to if you say otherwise. See that? More exposition, more dialogue for the option that caters toward the main kink and that's why it leads me to believe that keeping the girls to yourself isn't the true route.

The visuals are good, haven't seen any issues really with the renders for the sex scenes. All the girls look great so far too but the real challenge is with the upcoming event for the next update, that's when we'll know if we're going to end up with noodle hairs for the girls which I always find uncanny.

So now you've noticed that overall I've said mostly positive things but still have taken away a star from the rating. Again, I don't know what's stopping me from just giving this a 5 star and to be honest, if we could do half stars this would actually be a 3.5 stars but I want to be generous because I can't seem to pinpoint what my issue is. Maybe this is something I can revisit in future updates when it becomes clearer to me.

My message to Studio 68 Games: I like what I'm seeing so far and really, I feel bad for not being able to address what I wasn't agreeing with. To be honest, I wasn't sure how to rate this game because while I do understand that this is just the beginning and that some setting up needs to be done first before the plot can really take off, the game was looking like a regular nukige which on its own would be fine but then there's all this setup for a big plot reveal that's kind of causing a dissonance for me. (Maybe that's where I took a star off.) Finally, I do want to point out a bug in the Scenes gallery where Pool Party Deep Throat and Library Quicky aren't unlocked even when I've seen both of them.

Renders are pretty good, models are mostly great and mc isnt a complete coward. All positives.

The writing quality is good/non-engrish but the story itself is pretty meh - mainly because a different empty-headed girl throws themselves at MC every 2 mins without him making any effort which is boooooring, the girls dont think of themselves as anything more than a vagina (not uncommon in the genre i suppose)

Also worth noting is you seemingly are forced into MMF

V0.08

not a fan.

art is good enough. not great but appealing for the horny teen-a-thon it is.
couple of times the shock of colour is just that, a shock, but mostly the visuals are good enough. could have been better intimacy shots like in porn. a game obviously influenced by porn that has fly on the wall shots instead of POV? seems an odd choice.

writing/plot is run-of-the-mill horny teen bs but at least dialogue has a bit of thought to it. no wonder americans have a higher legal requirement for alcohol than brits if the dialogue is anything to go by. maturity will be late arriving here for sure.

the biggest issue, and also why i will not be returning due to this being a constant issue it seems, is the developer is about as good at coding as they are at writing adult dialogue. constant errors that permeate the feed from times before have not been fixed and i hit error after error after error and got jumped from texting with one girl to already on a date with another.

given the low amount of choices i had been offered up to this point, and still a long way from current content, this should not happen. i tried both compressed and regular versions.

not something i would recommend as hitting errors when running a kinetic sequence happens is not a good sign

I really like this game. OK, I've seen and played much better ones visually and there are certainly better ones in terms of the story, but overall it's a lot of fun and that's the main thing, so I'm looking forward to the next update.

This is a hard one to rate. As a AVN it's shit id only give it 2 stars. I say this is more of a porn AVN than AVN but it does balance the 2 out pretty well if you dont take the plot or character serious and just play for fun. Because of that it isnt a pure fuck fest but there is still alot of lewds. if you play this just for fun , and dont take it serious or anything / a guilty pleasure it becomes really enjoy and good Which is why im giving it 4 stars.

Most of the LI in this game are taken but their boyfriends want to share their girls. Hell one one of the guys talk about sharing his girl like it's something casual to talk about and not a big deal.

Some choices are not clear what they lead , haven't encountered many like this but there are some. here on 2 examples. Helping Penny leads to a forced lewd scene with someone else. Also depending on your choices with Aimee will determine where the MC gets to cum. On my main save I was only able to pick on her ass the other 2 were grayed out but on my manslut save I got the option to do all three options.

This game needs a bit of proofing when it comes to some of the choices. Every once in awhile a bit of dialogue will appear that never happened on my save but did on my other one.
There are some forced scenes, not alot.

overall good if you go in with the mindset of playing for fun and not to take anything serious. But if you need a compelling or a good story or just a story that makes sense id skip this one. Characters are alot of fun for what this game is however.

Like a lot of other reviewers have said I don't have a problem with swinging or sharing in games when its set up in a half way decent realistic setting. This is not that. This feels like it was wrote by somebody who imagines this is what college is like where everyone fucks everyone and not one person you meet is in any monogamous relationship and they all seem to exist in some nonsense land where no one gets jealous.
The first few episodes where actually not that bad and it had promise but I now fell like these where on purpose to get players in and then the game went full sharing, unavoidable sex scenes and just a really stupid plot and situations. The humor is infantile and child like at times. But what sucks the most is the mc. You have next to zero control over how the mc handles himself. Hess like a bumbling idiot most of the time and is incapable of saying no to some of the girls.... for plot reasons or some shit, im still not sure why those scenes are forced to be honest, prolly because if you played with full choice you would end up with no scenes because there isn't a single li in the game that a regular player would be interested in.
The game is just a mess at the moment and nothing really ties into anything and things just happen for reasons and the story trundles on. I really couldn't recommend playing this in its current state.

In a lot of ways, I actually agree with a lot of what the review right below me stated. I have been that reviewer before and understand where they are coming from. Fortunately, everyone is different and everyone enjoys different things. Personally, I like fart jokes and you can never have too many and if my potential LI doesn't like fart jokes, then they can move right along.

Regardless, there are a lot of challenges with this one. The forced interactions are something that always bother me. I hate where you can chose some things but not others. If the dev just wants to tell a story then tell a story and stop giving the player/reader the illusion of choice.

The other problem is the MC and his magic cock. While I like when the dev acknowledges the female's orgasms, the truth is some women can cum multiple times and some do not. This MC makes all the women come multiple times. It just gets a bit much. He basically pounds them in one position, makes them cum 3 or 4 times and then it's over. The erotic writing is pretty good, but there needs to be some variety.

The other problem is it is obvious the dev is a bit older and is trying to write college age kids. You can always tell an older dev by all the references to the 80s and 90s and trying to make it a "cool" aspect of the MC.. Hell, even the end of the version uses the fonts from Back to the Future. Pro Tip... kids today could care less when it comes to pop-culture.

Despite all of that, I still found myself enjoying my time playing it. It's probably because it hits a number of my kinks and I actually enjoyed a lot of the humor. Not all of it, but there was some good things in there. Frankly, the crop dusting was brilliant. A group of full of themselves women enter the elevator only to find out they are trapped in the mephitic cloud hanging in the elevator.

Regardless, it will not be for everyone and it does have flashes of another fetish game, but download it and try it out for yourself. It's worth a few minutes to try it.

No, I am not giving this game a one-star review because of all the sharing and swinging, nor because pretty much every girl in this game ranges from having at least one ex-boyfriend to being an utter whore. I'm more open-minded than that; keep reading.

I'm giving this game a one-star review because in terms of plot, humor, and even basic stuff like logical progression between sequential frames, it is an utter mess.

Also, I hate being the "why the hell have y'all rated this game so highly" guy, but for this game, I will be that guy with no hesitation. How this game doesn't have an average rating of 2 stars, is beyond me.

Where do I even begin. Let's begin with the humor of this game. 20 minutes into playing MtPB, you will be served with two fart jokes, which, right off the bat, as far as I'm concerned, are two fart jokes too many. The second one is especially egregious, as MC lets a nasty one rip while he's talking with a potential LI, and instead of the poor girl leaving immediately while calling him an asshole and cutting all ties with him, she continues to entertain his company. Try that in real life and see what happens. You could be the best looking dude and it still wouldn't save you.

Just as another example of the dev having no idea how real people would react to his jokes, there is another girl, that MC calls a cunt. Well, "leprecunt", to be precise, because she has green hair, and he thinks he's being hilarious. He does that to her face, multiple times, and instead of the girl slapping the shit out of him or at the very least asking him to cut that shit off, she even ends up wanting to have sex with him. Show me one woman in the real world who will want to have sex with you after you call her a cunt.

That's enough examples of the game's terrible humor; now let's move on to the plot. In the world of MtPB, things just spontaneously happen whenever, wherever, and for however long the dev needs them to happen, without rhyme, reason, or even the basic courtesy of a setup. For example, MC and the girl he farted at go for a beer at a local bar in a spur-of-the-moment decision. Not one minute into them sitting down with their beers, literally from one frame to the next, three of that girl's guy friends just materialize out of nowhere, calling him a "fuck nut" and staring at him with judging eyes. Don't ask how all three just happened to be there; the dev decided he needed them there and then, and so it be. The girl tries to salvage this by suggesting that she and MC move to a booth where it'll be just the two of them, but at this point, the dev decides that MC has somewhere else to be anyway, and so he leaves without even drinking his beer. If MC knew he was on such a tight schedule, why did he even agree to sit down for a beer? Again, don't bother wondering; the dev works in mysterious ways.

If that didn't sound nonsensical and bad enough for you, how about this one: At some point, the girl MC calls a cunt invites him to her dorm room. MC walks up to her door, which, just like every other door in this dorm, needs a keycard to unlock. Here, MC has the option to try his own keycard, which, for some reason (don't ask why, dev saith so), seems to be able to open every door in this dorm. Doing so results in MC catching the girl masturbating, and upon realizing his presence, all she says is "Holy fuck! Don't you knock?" before thanking him for coming. Somehow it doesn't even cross her mind that he just unlocked a door he wasn't supposed to be able to, and that he can invade her privacy any moment he wants.

But I saved the worst for last... because despite everything you just read, what truly does my head in the most when it comes to MtPB is all the moments where the game seems to straight up have a stroke. Again, I will offer two examples. First, here's an excerpt of dialogue between MC and the girl he farted at, and I promise you I did not omit any in-between lines:

MC: We were going to get a coffee, but ended up seeing a movie.
Girl: What did you end up watching?
MC: I managed to get that book from Charlie.
Girl: Shit! She actually sold it to you?

Did you catch that? She asks him about a movie, for some reason he decides to ignore that entirely and change the subject, and she... just rolls with it, as if she expected him to ignore her question.

Here's an even worse example. MC walks out of class. The girl he calls a cunt is waiting for him outside, and calls his name to get his attention. He looks at her, says "What's up" and starts walking towards her. In the very next frame, the girl just poofs out of sight. Keep in mind, this isn't a story where characters have supernatural powers. In that moment, instead of MC questioning his sanity and wondering if he's hallucinating in the middle of the day, he just goes "Where the fuck did she go? Wait, is that (another girl's name)?", as he's already looking at a different girl, at a different direction. And again, in the very next frame, a third girl appears out of nowhere from a third direction, calling MC's name. That's three different girls, (dis)appearing inexplicably from three different directions, in three sequential frames, in a sequence that makes absolutely zero sense. That's enough to give you a whiplash.

In conclusion: MtPB is recommended only if you want to lose brain cells while you're playing it. The plot is bad, the humor will make you physically cringe, and it seems that even the dev doesn't know what they're doing at times. I did consider giving it 2 stars because at least the renders are good, but considering how bad the game is in every other aspect, I decided it doesn't deserve that.

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Edit to add: I couldn't possibly imagine that this game could be any worse than I originally thought... but it is.

So I played MtPB one more time, for one reason only: In my previous playthrough, MC was a manwhore, and one of the LIs (the one he farted at, in fact) saw him at a club being kissed by another girl, and decided to leave the club with another guy, clearly disappointed at MC. I considered her the best LI in the game, and I was pretty bummed out by that outcome, so I decided to play the game from scratch, this time turning down any other girl's advances that I could, and pursue her exclusively. Did you notice how I italicized "that I could" in the previous sentence? Yeah, as it turns out, there are parts of the story where MC will fuck a girl or get a blowjob, and you the player have no say in the matter. What's even worse is that you can't avoid being kissed by the other girl at the club, so the girl I was interested in gets disappointed in you and leaves the club with another guy no matter what you do. I'm not the kind of guy who cries "NTR" where there is none, so trust me when I say that this game features, among other things, unavoidable NTR.

I agree with the review right below mine.

The game is pretty good both in the writing and from a tech poin of view.

The problem is that is basically mandatory sharing so if you are not into that you might want to avoid this project.

Another small issue is the fact that the MC never catch up with what is happening, you have this constant feeling of being left in the dark and never taking part in the story.

I don't think I will keep following this one but if you are into sharing this is a very good game.

Review for Mastering the Pink Box v0.05d:

I think this game is pretty good for what it's trying to be, but it's not really advertised correctly. The overview says, "Choose between caring is sharing, or keep it all for yourself." but the game doesn't really give the player that choice at least not completely. The game is leading players into sharing, swinging, cucking other guys, and it's giving off strong NTR vibes. The overview needs a complete rewrite.

The English is really good. The writing is really good. The humor is really good. I only noticed a very few typos. The story is good with a few cliches. It was genuinely enjoyable to read, which is rare for adult games on this site.

The renders and animations are very good, but not really 5-star in 2023.

All that said, it's pretty clear that the game is focusing on kinks that I tend to avoid, which means that if I keep playing, it'll either be very short due to me intentionally avoiding content or it simply won't be enjoyable for me. So, I'll be skipping this one going forward, but if you like the kinks mentioned above and you enjoy good writing, I'm sure you'll love this game.

I thought I’d like the game but the dev's definition of sharing vs what I think is more generally followed are vastly different. Instead of sharing a LI or two with a friend or even stranger, sharing here is just a slut fest. Everyone fucks everyone, including all the profs. The only one featured LI that hasn’t been slutting around has been taking forever to get with and then this last episode, the typical idiot MC continues to be stupid and misses his chance with her so she walks off with someone else. To be a little fair, she walks off by just seeing the MC kiss a girl she introduced him to and doesn’t wait at all to see what happens or what the context is. Mainly a cheap way to make people wait even longer for the one wholesome LI. I guess for the dev it would be hard to let the MC have a decent romantic relationship, since if you went that route, content updates would be few and far between for those fans.

I do have to give credit for finding a great way to get around the ntr tag though. If everyone fucks everyone and no one cares, then it isn’t ntr.

There’s not much real story but there are hints of a mystery around the MC between all the fucking, but again, the MC is clueless even though about half the other characters seem to know something about what’s going on. The only positive thing plot wise around the MC so far has been at least he’s showing an interest in creating a business and is slowly moving toward something with that.

I do also like that most of the guys are not total dicks to each other or the MC, even friends of the main visible antagonist. (I’m guessing the main antagonist is the one working behind the more mystery stuff). This at least makes possible sharing more appealing.

Overall the game’s not terrible but it’s not great either. Decent renders and girls. So so plot. The slutfest is just not what I thought I was signing on for. With the stringing along of not getting a relationship with Devon this far in, means I’m out, appears no hope for having much of a meaningful relationship with anyone, at least any that would continue to have a decent amount of content.

Unique and wonderful story and setting.
Colorful and diverse supporting characters.
Each version is getting better and better.
There are many campus games, and this one is the most open from design ideas.
Gives the future infinite creative possibilities.
The existence of this game is more in line with the most wonderful dream in every player's heart.

Oddly enough I rather enjoyed the story. Actually laughed a few times, not overly engrish. Not the best animations imo, but I was entertained. Would even consider supporting the dev on this one, just to see it all play out, if they're serious enough about finish a project.

I am editing my review because the dev turned 180 degrees from the initial versions of the game and now has forced scenes and forced swinging. I don't mind swining or sharing but the entire game is about just this type of content now and there is absolutely no relationships or romance at all. Everyone in the devs game is a swinger and there is not a single monogamous couple. The game really took a dive.