Ren'Py - Completed - Max's Life [Ch. 5 v0.55] [Kuggazer]

I generally dont do reviews, in fact this is my first one ever, but I am doing this mostly to counteract the stupid, however valid, 1/2 star nitpick reviews.
I have been following this game for a long time and I still love it. I will say though that chapter two is gaping hole of a mess compared to the remake of chapter 1 and the others after it. It sours the sweet taste that the now gloriously remade chapter 1 leaves in your mouth and not everyone is gonna push through that. However those that do will see that this game is deserving of a high rating. Very good renders and hot scenes and situations all throughout. The dialog and story is...ok. Its nothing phenomenal but it does the job adequately enough considering the dev is not a native English speaker. So dont expect anything mind blowing from the story but for what it is, it works.

The fact that this game gives you the option to toggle off the stuff you dont like is already miles ahead of a lot of other similar games and there is no semblance of grind outside of maybe the now outdated formula that chapter 2 still adheres to. It's been a while since I've been through chapter 2 though so I dont quite remember how bad it is.

The game as a whole is amazing sadly then fact that it is in 3 chapters and has to downloaded one by one.
And it cant be tied in to one smooth progressing game kills all of the joy i felt in the 1st chapter.

Its just too much. For me.

Review as of 2021-03, with CH1 finished/remastered, CH2 finished, CH3 finished, CH4 v0.36

So this one is a bit of a mixed bag, as it is essentially 4 different games in vastly different states of playability.

As it is impossible to make an "overall rating", I'll rate them indivdually and rate the whole series by the average of the four games.

Chapter 1
Overall very good. Decent story, good characters, good CG, good sex scenes, decent animations.
The remastered client with the ingame guide works extremely well.
The prison ending is kinda bad, and I'm close to knocking off a star for that, but I'm gonne be generous here and not do that. 5/5

Chapter 2
Very, very bad. No ingame guide. Laggy client. Can't click through animations. Every animation completely freezes the client for several seconds before starting. Completely unplayable. 1/5

Chapter 3
Basically works the same as Chapter 1, same client, significantly improved CG and animations. This could have been so good. Unfortunately the game softlocks on you after less than a third way in, by some programming mistake that won't let you re-buy an item that is required to progress the story. Super sad, and completely unacceptable in a supposedly "finished" game. 1/5

Chapter 4
Once again, effectively the same client as Chapter 1 and 3, and as such works well. Unfortunately, at this point the game has been overly convoluted with characters, 90% of which serve no purpose but still clog up the map with their presence and the (at this point) unneeded locations, making the game extremely confusing, making you spend more time finding out where characters that the guide tells you to talk to are, rather than actually interacting with them. 2/5

Conclusion
(5 + 1 + 1 + 2) / 4 = 2.25 ~= 2/5
It's a massive bummer, because the remastered Chapter 1 is so good, leaving you with a desire for more. A desire which Chapter 2 to 4 unfortunately cannot satisfy.

Solid game, only complaint is the Lewd scenes could be a bit more intricate, and involved, and there are no choices, just unlocking content.
The Good
MC doesn't look like a donkey, or a child, like a lot of other Honey Select MCs.
Lots of different girls with different shapes and personalities. The family is best but plenty of other ladies.
Can turn the pissing and NTR off. That's always nice to be able to avoid if it's not your kink.
Not much grind and a ton of Lewd Scenes. Really each chapter is the size of a normal game, and has lots of sexy time.
Sexy sounds and animations are quite well done. Not the best I've seen, but still pretty good.
The Not so Good
Story is pretty thin at times, and girls are a bit too easy for the most part. Would have really liked a bit more dialogue, and intimacy, especially with the family. Some more interactions between the different girls, would have been nice. Not more girl on girl, there's plenty of that, but more overlap, so MCs life doesn't seem so separated.
No choices that matter, just grinding stats to unlock content. Would have been nice to end some girls paths or just be friends if you don't fancy them. You can skip content, but not in a way that makes sense in the story. Sex with every female you meet is a bit much.
Overall a solid Incest Harem game, if you don't mind Honey Select, and favor sexy time over story.

Not good, a lot of unnecessary grinding and repeat scenes day by day to advance also the story is lame seems to be written by a 12 yo, MC is worthless and unlikable but every girl in game falls for he immediately without reason , totally unrealistic could make a little more sense with some mind control, is ok to kill sometime

I have to say that the story isn't that great but it's not the worst. But the sexy content in the game is excellent and Hot as F. The NTR content is avoidable and the NTR present in the game is not that horrible. But he game has lots of good FAP material that is all that matters to me ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) .

One of my favorite adult games of all time. There is so much content here, and the girls are really hot. The story has heart and humor as well. I really look forward to seeing what new directions it can go, and if it can be expanded upon.

Good Points
+Remaked chapter 1, chapter 3 and chapter 4 looks good.
+We have lots of animations.
+Renders looks decent enough.

Bad Points
-Render and animation quality need improve.
-Chapter 1 was good and enjoyable but chapter 2 is pretty much painfull and not enjoyable. It doesnt have good IU/HUD system for playing in Sandbox mod, dont have good quality (animations and renders), story is not enjoyable, dialuges are pretty basic, its not playable without walkthrough, even with walkthrough lots of event is just random so you need try again several times for triggering them (its not enjoyable at all!) buttons can be stuck, its not fast enough for navigating or choicing dialuges even saving is not fast and feels like stuck! Basicly its very bad. DEV should make remake for chapter 2 aswell but he wont and this is worst point of this game. I have tried but everytime i got bored because of how bad chapter 2.

For The End
Because of how chapter 2 bad and long im going to drop this game... Its pretty sad actualy because chapter 1, chapter 3 and chapter 4 looks pretty good. I hope DEV will make remake for chapter 2 because at this rate this chapter is not playable and you can pass that chapter either because of story!

As someone who generally doesn't care to review games and have only reviewed a couple I want to make one about this game.

I've played quite a few games on F95, well most of the games that are 4 stars plus. I showed up late to this game and I feel like that may have made everything a lot more enjoyable instead of waiting for updates. The gameplay itself is quite simple and good. The characters are fantastic, I like the whole incestuous family take. The best part is the amount of content. From start to Episode 4 I've spent about 25-30 hours playing and that is over the course of 3-4 days. I know some people will see the huge file sizes for each Episode but it is 100% worth it. Glad I found this game when I did and I will be following its updates from now on.

Great game overall, and I enjoyed so far for the most part. As others have mention maybe the grammar should be a little better. But it never really took me out of the element while playing however. The girls do tend get slutty relatively quickly though maybe except for a couple.

Surprised this game has 4/5 stars at the time of writing. The games has some pretty glaring issues, the most obvious one is the language is pretty horrible. The fact that the dev is not very good at English takes you out of the game quite often. Not only that but the lacking vocabulary and grammar makes the games dialogue rather rigid and stale. Beyond that the game lacks variety and semi-realistic situations, despite having dozens of women in the game.

Without spoiling anything, characters who should be shocked at peoples sexual relationships typically need no time to adjust or even act shocked at all when family boinks like rabbits. I think every single sexual encounter ends with "It's getting late, you/I should leave." Despite all this the game is relatively entertaining and worth playing as a in between game that you get back to between playing other games.

To sum it up, the game plays like a poorly written porno where the actors are Russian and try to speak English. This means you should not expect a game with any sort of meaningful character development or emotional connection to anyone. It is a porno game with porno logic but it does have some hot stuff (I think the pregnant sex probably increases my overall score from 2/5 to 3/5 tbh).

My favorite game on this site. Dev is responsive and proactive. Remade the first chapter twice in two different engines.

---PROS---
- The SCENES!!!! The SCENES!!! You could spend a month and not be done with the scenes
- The Girls. Every girl a hottie regardless of Honey Select. Even the extras and prostitutes
- The fetishes. Virtually every conceivable fetish imaginable
- Variety. Wide Selection of girls
- Sharing Option. You're not the only guy in this universe
- You can completely avoid NTR
- Consequences for actions although no game over scenes
- Multi Chapters each continuing the story of the last. START FROM THE CHAPTER ONE REMAKE
- Bulit in Guide
- Likeable MC who doesnt look like hes going through puberty.

CONS
- Buggy
- NEEDS a Walkthrough for all chapters and especially the early versions
- Dialogue is terrible at times
- Terrible mechanics in the early builds
- Point and Click BS
- Early Builds have you doing the same action over and over and over.
- First chapter teases way too much and doesn't deliver.

This game is still my personal favorite and go-to fap especially in Chapter 3. I mustve have watched the same scene a zillion times. Its so good its like a ritual every time I start the game. Its madatory I go to the "movie room" and view the Santa scene. Sums the game up completely. Tons of choices, tons of sex, tons of sexy situations, tons of replayability due to good design and built in galleries. One scenario you get to bang your bestfriends Mom and later get the option to share her with your friend if you want to. There later a camping trip with the Mom and her daughter and you also bang the daughter as well. A branching story which is only the tip of the ice berg. This game feels like a legit universe. Highly recommend

Game has too many tasks which are unclear on how to accomplish and a guide that is mostly accurate but leaves out a few details. This is leading to a few bugs yet continuation of other chapters while not fixing previous is this game annoying to try to complete each chapter before moving on to next.

Chapter 2 has such a poor performance as well as some memory leaks/runaway arguments. Sadly unplayable 4 me even with a very good PC.
The chapter 1 remake was good tho.
I haven't touched Chapter 3 yet...

-Lots of 'love' interests with an ok story
-Good animations and decent sound

I love this game, I discover new threads each time, a great contribution from the creator to perfecting the game. A variety of women, they are slim, fat, with small breasts, with large breasts - everyone has what they like. Maybe it would give me further episodes because I feel unsatisfied with each part

This game could use some polishing.
I wish it had better translation, or maybe the dev just needs help with writing in English. I understand that it's not their native language, but it really takes away from the experience for me, since the poor writing often makes the dialogue EXTREMELY corny, or too straight-forward (not necessarily wrong grammar or writing, but no one would ever say things like that in real life).
In terms of animation and content, there is quite a lot to see here, but I don't know if that justifies the staggering 15GBs file size. The game can be straight-forward, but it sometimes is quite hard to know what to do next, so you pretty much HAVE to use the in-game helper for it.
To me, a lot of the content seen here feels like it's been done better in other games, not to say that this game is bad or anything, but it also is going against so many other Harem games out there, and it just doesn't quite deliver in terms of quality and gameplay.

I reaaaally like this game especially after the remake of chapter one the only problem is the grinding that was solved in chapter one I hope chapter 2 will also be rebooted

I wish there would be more optional NTR but its ok we have plenty of corruption there the MC is really fucked up so it makes it more exciting

This Review is based with my personal experience with the actual Version of the game 0.3.1 with my specific opinions and feelings .

Max's life is a linear sandbox game based with Honey Select style ; The game is about the story of Max , the protagonist , that live with his family , but you will have the possibility to meet a so big number of other different models ; you will learn how to know all the girls , how to interact with them , how to seduce and have sex with them ;there are full of different location where you can have so many different situations. Naturally like I wrote before this is a sand box game , so the Mc have to increase many skills and statistics and the quality of your relationships is the key to Mc progress. The game is constantly updating the parameters of the different kind of relationship Max has with all different girls , with different statistics that permit to disclose many different locked situations and achievements .

Pros:
-Story and Writing : I don't agree with other reviews that write that there is no story or is basic game ; it's completely the opposite , because only during the playing ,all girls will give you all information about them,to build a complete background for every character . The story it's wrote with a good English , with a good use of the grammar also if the developer is not a English mother language
-There are full of different locations and events : a player can spent a lot of hours playing without annoying ,
-The way how the Developer build the game play , made a true big difference with the other sandbox games , because there are really a tons of different situations to play and to discover.
-Girls are gorgeous hot an sexy , you can choose to have a relationship or only a sex adventure , with so nice and different and gorgeous Models ; if you are big boobs and milf lover , this is the perfect game to play and to like ; all woman , are completely different , in background , in sex behavior and relations ; so many available achievements and content for the major part of girls with so many different sexy dresses ; the player will have a vastness of incredible choices in this game
- Animations and Renders are very hot and exciting , full of different sex scenes and details ;this part is ,without any doubt ,one of the best part of the game .
-Many hours of playing ; the game offers many days of full gaming , without annoying or boring , with dozen of achievements and actions to make
-The developer made the revamp of the first Chapter just few weeks ago ; the Team Work made absolutely a fantastic job here , making most of the past renders completely new , with different menu and changing the actual grinding that it's absolutely in a perfect pace with the rhythm of the playing

Neutral :
-Grinding , with the revamp of Chapter 1 in my opinion is absolutely perfect

Overall this is absolutely a game worth to play , 5 stars review.
A game not only for gamer that like sandbox game or gorgeous sexy girls with big tits , but for all players that enjoy to play adult games. For all person that enjoy when a product it's make with love , full of contents , details . Because immediately when a player begins to play , he can feel the great work of the Dev , in all his things , from the smallest detail . Maybe somebody will not like the sandbox genre and maybe could prefer the Visual Novel style gaming , but everybody will understand how Max's Life is a great game , immediately recognizing that the Developer , is creating this opera with a hard work , professionalism , inspiration , but especially with a big big love. But most important thing it's already more than 3 years developing this opera , with constant and solid release ; this is a thing not only to not underestimate , but to empathize the big work made here for a sol long frame of time. My sincere suggestion to support and pledge this project

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While a 2 is fair for now the game could be a 4 but it gets held back by a few things,
- The renders aren't bad but they also don't stand out, especially given...
- The sheer file size, 3 downloads at that size, is too high for the quality level.
- Others below have said it but it really does require a walkthrough, if a game reaches that point it should just be integrated into the game or as the game is overly complicated it needs to be streamlined (and the grind cut).
Not a bad game but, as much as I want to give a game with pregnancy and lactation more, it's got too many issues against what's out there now to earn higher.