VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Midlife Crisis [v0.34 - v0.1 Dark] [Nefastus Games]

Great game, good story with good character models. Hopefully there will be a lot more to come from the game over the course of it's development.
I'm not great with reviews so I am struggling to hit the word count, I just felt it deserved a rate from me.

Unique story have funny and serious parts. Over all really interest in. MC is good character I have to give it that. It's rare to find good MC to start with. Women are very pretty except one who put adult head on kids body. I'm looking forward just for Jennifer.

Great Visuals and story. Each character looks unique very well done.
Love the look of the youngest reminds me of Faruza Balk 1980's actress

this surprised me came upon through discord very glad I checked it out, will deefinately be watching and supporting this title.

A dirty, sleazy and kind of deranged game. But has a wicked sense of humour, some very sexy writing and an abundance of choices. Pretty long too and frequently updated.

Compared to the REALLY good games on this site (Being a Dik, Nadia etc) its model quality is a little mediocre and its gameplay is simple, but it has a lot of personality and is a truly unique experience. A personal favourite.

Great writing. Compelling story. Definitely doesn't take itself too seriously. Lots of references to 80s and 90s. Truly great character. Such variety! I may be the only one but I think the wife is great in this game.

Only one negative but its a big negative. The animations are simply AWFUL!!!! Dev, take a look at the animations in so many other games like Lewd Island, Becoming a Rock star, almost any of the games with 4.5 stars. Such a world of difference in the animations!

Still, worth playing! Hopefully Dev can improve the animations. The amazing characters deserve better.

That VN is great example when game with average graphics may not get boring, I would say it indeed gets more interesting and exciting as you past the point when mc gets open conversation with wife on getting into open relationship, after that it unfolds very fluid and sparkled my interest, which as of v0.18 gets me intrigued and excited.
I would also praise is frequent updates cycles, while I didn’t track this VN updates frequently but seeing it popping up on updates wall often tells that devs are not slackers. Keep in mind this is first project for this dev/artist as I recall from its announcement, and I was pleased to see how it got improved over time.
The story and writing worth 5+ so this is solid 5 star, just bear it till breaking point if you trying it for first time as it has a lot of content.

I'm actually quite baffled by the average score this game has. It's definitely not a bad game, but also nothing special that would justify this "nearly perfect" score. But one thing at a time.
First, the renders aren't good, especially the lighting is pretty bad. Many scenes are either too bright or too dark. They do improve over the course of the game, but not enough to consider them good or even great. The animations are also pretty bad. On the plus side: The accompanying text during sex scenes is better than in many other games, emphasizing the kinks without being too generic or childish.
The story: It's a pretty ridiculous story but I mean that as a compliment. It starts out pretty basic but quickly turns into a big orgy like fuckfest where everybody wants to have sex with the MC. And that's actually a good thing. It's not realistic or believable in any way, but very enjoyable once you accept that, because the game isn't pretending to be realistic or believable. The writing supports this. It's funny at times, not too lengthily and almost never boring. The slightly clumsy yet likeable and very kinky MC also fits right in.
So I definitely enjoyed playing the game. It's just not a game that is exceptional in any way and for such a sex-heavy game the renders leave a lot to be desired. With better renders I would have given 4 stars.

Fantastic game with good humor and really enjoyable writing. Main guy pretty much just goes "screw it, I'm done holding back" and gets friendly with lots of people.

In terms of visuals, quality is pretty good overall. Although some of the art/animations could be better here and there, the way that writing sets up the scenes was way too...engaging...for me to worry too much over it. Context easily makes up for any slight deficiency there might be.

In terms of characters, they are pretty charming overall. You get to build your relationships in a pretty good pace. They -usually- don't just jump on you immediately, and they also don't do the "let me tell you about my horrific past in the next 40 scenes before I can trust you enough to smile at you" type stuff.

In terms of gameplay, things are pretty straightforward. You pretty much pick what you wanna do VN style without any sort of grind. You don't have to individually put on every piece of clothing on you one at a time before leaving the bedroom or grind busywork to earn cash or w/e. As someone who enjoys stories and choices more than "engaging gameplay", I can say that the game doesn't disappoint.

Overall, great game. 5/5.

A great game. The CGI isn't always amazing and I'm sure most people reading about this game have seen complaints about one of the girls looking like a ghost. There may be some slight CGI issues, but the plotline is the driving force of this game. Heavily incest based, you aim to sex your daughters in this game, and can sex many others along the way. It's very well written and I remember little or no grammar/spelling errors. A new update just came out adding the Amanda scene which is great and had left me slightly disappointed before when I played through it all to not sex her! Overall great game highly recommended!

One of the best stories in any of these games, love the customisation (to an extent) of characters and the kinks being added along the way, LOVE the consistent monthly updates too many devs lose track of updates but not here. Very excited to see where Nefastus takes the story.

To explain this game I will do two tings:

1. Guide you trough my experience
2. Give a little TL;DR at the end focusing on pros and cons

My Experience
Aka, me rambling about the game

Art looked "meh", but it was an incest game, and that's enough for me.

Noticed that from the get go, you have routes: Do you love or hate your wife? Maybe you hate her and empty your frustration in your girls? Maybe you love her, but can't keep it in your pants and decide that sex with your daughters is a full family affair. Nice.

Going on, one daughter is absolutely fucking hideous, but one is gorgeous, and the wife is a MILF - 2/3, not bad.

Oh, but the hideous daughter has an 11/10 redhead nympho friend. Nice

Your hot daughter has a friend - a very hot friend - but 4/10 face. Eh I can work with that.

Oh wait, I'm fucking everyone, and nothing is going wrong. I had sex with a prostitute in my front lawn and my daugher saw me. She didn't rat me out, she was masturbating. IS THIS A LEGIT HAREM GAME?

Yes, yes it is.

Well, nice. Nice. I love it so far.

Oh we have guests, who they? Your sis and niece. They hot. This is an incest game.

This game is absolutely amazing.

TL;DR
Pros:

• Legit porn game, no faffing about, no grinding, no 10 month corruption plot that still doesn't make it ok to have sex with each and every member of the family. Just sex.
• Despite that, story is kinda great. In a "it takes about 5 days to have sex with every family member" kind of way. It's not Shakespeare, but it's great.
• MC suffers from "Magic Penis Syndrome". For me this is a plus. It's porn, let's get to the fucking. Some might disagree.
• MC is absolutely 100% tolerable. Downright "not a fucking moron". That is rarer than metallic hydrogen.
• Name input, age input.

Cons:

• Hideous younger daughter
• Mediocre scene rendering
• Mediocre lighting
• The few animations are so bad, it would raise the quality of the game if they were simple stills.
• literally nothing else

This is begging to be a five star game like the way the main character's niece is begging for his schlong. I'll start right off with the good...

The characters have their own flavor that comes through mostly from the writing. Their visual presentation gets the job done--I'll get to that later. But it's the writing that really holds this together. And I'm talking the situational writing... the grammar and the punctuation is spotty throughout... and some of the dialog is choppy. But never to the point that I didn't understand what they were trying to say... and that's where this becomes a gem. That's what has this begging for five stars.

First off, I liked the main character... normally I loath the appearance of the MC face, and generally this breaks immersion... and this did at first, too. But over time, the guy works... the model works. He looks his age and over time his humor and dialog, matches his look. And he isn't a weak guy, thankfully the story gives you plenty of chances to stand up for yourself. And this is pretty funny at times... a lot of it is... I think they could tone down the forth wall breaking... they have that dial to 11... put it at 4... but don't get rid of it entirely, some of the best humor comes from that... (I really laughed at all four girls giving the MC a look when they asked something like "who would be into something like that?"-- really good)

Nothing comes too easy for a character that is reserved... and it comes at just the right pace for a character that isn't. The build up to sex is a near perfect pace for this genre. You are offered ubiquitous easy stuff early, but it fits with the story and isn't just tossed at you... well it kinda is... but you can refuse it!

Another thing this gets right is the choice system. Acting like a dick isn't instant game over, it just prolongs things (I hate that mechanic in games--don't offer lewd behavior just to trap a game over... lame). But an even better aspect of the choice system is the ability to back out at any time... you can accept early advances and then back out at the last moment. And the game does remember choices you have made and even adds little flavor remarks in dialog concerning choices you previously made.

Honestly, this... the story is perfect for this genre... it comes at the right pace... characters focus on their feelings and the situation... from a writing point of view, it just needs grammar and punctuation polish... and a brief run-through on dialog to tighten it up.

This was very entertaining and gratifying. It should be five stars... except:

The graphics are spotty and all over the place with consistency and quality. Meshes bleed through at seams. Body parts stick through clothing. Some shots are glossy. Some are dark. Some periods of story are missing graphics so there is random black screens in the middle of scenes. The visual production value is so shoddy that at numerous points the narrator chimes in with "couldn't do that here.." or a character will break the forth wall and comment on the bad render.

And like a lot of these, they could do well to just drop animations all together... nothing shows off a lack of production value like bad animations, and these are as bad as most... (I don't really knock it, all animations in this genre are bad). But really, I don't see why they even bother. It breaks immersion, it really does.

Really this just needs polish... the visuals need an entire overhaul... but the story is solid, well paced and relatively easy to follow even though the writing could use editing, too.

This could very easily be one of the best on this site... it arguably still is. It goes in the opposite direction as nearly all the other titles in that they generally have the technical skills but lack in the story telling... this suffers from exactly the opposite. But for those I'd give two stars, because story is the most important aspect of these things... and this does a really good job with story. You can get off to visuals but you'll never be seduced without great writing. And this, at least, does seduce you.

Polish it up, author. This could be top 3... I won't name the other two up there, against terms... but this is legit... even right now it belongs in the conversation. Best four star title on the site.

(Oh, and one more thing... the pop culture references and the songs... great job... if you had explicitly named "Tucker and Dale vs Evil" in that scene, you would have lost a star... great job in understanding that obscure reference humor is only good when you don't explain it. Although, you did explain Steve McQueen but I'll give you that because the dialog that followed was pretty funny... I was like: "Bullit! Great Escape! And of course his true masterpiece, The Towering Inferno!"... yeah, I'm that old.)

Overall a great game,
Story drifts away from the classical brother setting

Early renders in the game are quite ugly but it gets better real quick.

Best point(s):
- Humor / Cheesy dad jokes.
- The free bird way with the wife

Bad points:
- MC really feels like a lunatic sometimes

Come for the sexy scenes, stay for the humour!

It is refreshing to see a game that does not rely on the horny big brother stereotype that plague so many erotic games. Instead our hero is a financially succesful, married, middle aged dad bod with a goofy personality. This personality oozes through every pore of this game, whether he is making awful dad jokes, singing campy songs or flirting with the various young conquests that are strewn in his path.

Do not let the early renders rob you of a worthy game experience. All of the side characters have their own unique personality and body traits so there is someone for everyone in here.

A little warning up front, this is a slow burner. If all you are interested in is banging the daughters, you'll have a long wait ahead of you, but the pay-off is worthwhile. There is plenty of other content to still make it worth investing in this delightful game in the mean time.

There is Trans content, but it is entirely optional and completely skippable. The sex is pretty vanilla so far, with no fetishes explored except some very light footrubbing and (optional) rimming that might lead to anal later. But if you are into exploring more fetishes there are plenty of other games for you to enjoy. As someone with more than a few sexual quirks and fetishes of my own, I still love this game.

All in all, one of my favourite games out there and a definite recommendation.

[v0.17]
Sorry for the wall of text, believe it or not I tried to keep it short & relevant, here's a short version
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Contains general SPOILER type info too frequently to add tags (not specific events but general flow, maybe)
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(No spoilers in TL;DR, not even general stuff)
TL;DR:
-the characters are physically sexy & interesting, it was easy to 'feel' something for each character which is a huge part of what sucks me into a game

-the sex scenes are very well written, both dialogue & interactions of characters, it's all very spicy

-the humor is unexpected & always timed very well, but it's never jammed down your throat, it always feels right, when I lol'd it was true & endorphin inducing ever time, well done!

-the story is about very mundane average happenings But it's so well written that's what makes it shine, very relatable

-Engrish not included

-the pacing is one of the hardest parts to nail down in any adult game imho, too fast ppl qq it's a meet 'n' fuck, too slow ppl qq it's a slow burn, this title does it well, yes it fast in terms of in game time, but it Feels very natural to me personally

-such a small detail: allowing age selection of the girls adds a metric fuck-ton of naughty, makes me feel dirty but I got over it quick enough >;D

This game is .........Just WOW, what originally got me to try this game was a fairly negative comment basically saying 'how could anyone enjoy playing a protag who was a weak person who let the girls tease & torment him the entire time'

So I read more comments, which were mostly rave reviews minus maybe pointing out a flaw here or there. Now I feel sorry for the user that made that comment & I'm thinking they didn't bother playing for more than 20 minutes, oh if that user only knew that the situation pretty much does a 180* lmao

-I Love how well the writing makes an average scenario (dude in mid years re thinking his existance regarding his boring life) into a Truly enjoyable story that any middle aged man would dream of (maybe not the daughters) being surrounded by young horny hotties.

- All aspects of the writing are Excellently done, some writers use 2 paragraphs to convey what would've been best said in 2 sentences & others try to convey an idea in 1 sentence that should've taken 3, Midlife Crisis has struck the Perfect balance = convey your idea in an accurate, clear manner while leaving out words that don't add any relevance.

-Many games have humor written into the story but a great many focus too much on making the player laugh too often or because its attempting to be humorous so frequently the humor itself begins to lack, or sometimes it's not written in a way that feels natural & part of the story flow & true to that character's persona. Again Midlife Crisis does an Amazing job with comedy, as its blended in so naturally & when a lol moment is dropped on the reader it's usually unexpected & timed Perfectly which makes it gold every time, every Lol I got out of this gem was an Earned lol & genuinely got my endorphins going, Ty for that Dev >;D

-the pacing: is usually a topic I refuse to touch as at times we all want a game that gives us both; sex scenes fairly soon into playtime but we don't want it to feel like it lacks in non sexual content or sacrifices good plot for more sex. Again this title Nailed it, yes sex happens pretty quickly as in game time goes But to me personally it doesn't feel like MC is a manipulative deviant

*let me explain lol* the 1st time or 2 mc interacts with any of the girls it may feel that way but I look at it like he needs to break past that initial awkward feeling stage, meaning he's like "I gotta do what I gotta do to get 'insert girl name' to realize I like them & that it's ok for them to like me back...or not & I don't care who knows"

Once he knows they know his feelings & he's ok with the consequences he truly backs off the gas in the sense that yes he let's them know he wants them, but always says he's not cool with making anyone uncomfortable. This is my favorite type of harem game, one in which all/most of the girls know about the rest & even if they don't all love each other they're pretty much cool with it, one big fucking family gets me ery' time.

-The characters are all fairly unique in personality & all sexy as well, each girl invokes slightly different responses within me while sharing qualities with the rest of the girls, there's a maturity in many of them that I find refreshing & at times I find myself appreciating the writing even more. Feeling a non sexual attachment for a character in an adult game is another example of excellent writing

-This game NEEDS a gallery, this is pry going to sound funny but I want it for the dialogue within sex scenes as much as for the scenes themselves, for me the sexiness/looks of the models is less than 50% of the turn on, it has to have well written dirty talk within said scenes, which this game does masterfully !! The dialogue in the sex scenes is some Top Tier shit, very erotic at when its appropriate

Engaging VN. As i guy currently experiencing something close to midlife crisis - i must say i have very much enjoyed this visual novel .. a forty something guy surrounded by hot and willing 20-something college girls - what more could you ask for??

I did not like it, mainly because of the "Ultra Cocky Young Girls Who Tease And Make Fun Of You Because THey Have Tits and They Can" syndrome. Our guy is a grown man yet seems like every female in the game feels she has him figured out and wrapped round her little finger.

"He has a dick LOL, he's so easy." -about sums up what every female automatically thinks of our dude in this game, even his daughters.

WTF.? Yet the protagonist plays right along with this and even seems to enjoy this as if it's normal for things to be this way.

Might be personal taste here, but it put me off very much and made the leering girl renders look ugly instead of cute or sexy. Did not enjoy much about this game and quit when I noticed myself just skipping all the text, and then skipping all the ugly-to-me sexually leering girl pics.

If you want to take on the role of a sexually repressed doofus and get leered at by dozens of basic bitches in rapid succession, mocked by your own daughters etc. since they have tits (girl power!) and you don't, then this is the game for you. Otherwise, extremely bland and off-putting.

Note: This game is a meme. I'm gonna put meme levels of effort into this review by bumping the version number and leaving it at that, lmao.

TL;DR: A lighthearted game that plays to it's strengths, not taking itself too seriously and not working to immerse you or anything, but just being a good game to have a laugh with.

Game Version: 0.22

Play Time*: 14 hours.
* The time includes the time to skip through and create a fresh save. That's because I've never once had a save carry between versions of the game (modded).

Renders: They're either average or not great. They get better the further in you get since the dev's clearly learning as they go. This game loves making me adjust the brightness with how some scenes are simply too dark.

This Game is Fun: It doesn't have the most amazing story, though I do quite enjoy some of the characters. It doesn't have the best renders, either. This game is all that great in any of the normal respects. What this game is good at is being fun and letting you have a laugh. I enjoy this game. If you don't enjoy having a laugh, this game might not be for you, but please consider giving it a try anyways.

The combination of you being a terrible person and simultaniously doing the right thing when needed mixed into this light hearted comedy of a game is an incredibly difficult thing to achieve but this game nails it. Superb game and I can't wait for the updates

This game has a lot of promise. The Dev is new at this so there are some render/lighting issues but they turn it into comedy in game. I got some serious chuckles from it (but plz no more of them nightmares )
I do believe once Nef masters their craft, they will be one of the top devs.

Story is well written. Girls are so naughty. No grind interruptions.

I'm not a fan of the wife model but I do recommend the romance option or you will miss some content involving other girls!

Get the patch, even if you don't like incest. It allows you to customize relationships and ages. Play to your own kink.

Don't let your inexperience get you down Nef, I seriously enjoyed the game!