Unity - Midnight Sin [v0.4.3] [Faerin]

A very decent game at this current build, shows a lot of promise and i can hardly wait for the latest update
Characters and plot were a bit synonymous to Man of the House but who cares~ As a long time fan of that classic game, I'd say I need me more of that stuff

While still early in its development, this game is very good already. Interesting story, beautiful graphics, and the gameplay is good. Can't wait to see what's to come with future updates on this one!

Faerin makes Faerin games.
There are no other games like Faerin games to me.

Sure there are plenty of "family house" style games, but Faerin's games feel unique to him.

MoTH is to this day one of the only games I have played multiple times. Mostly because I really, really enjoy the way Veronica's character is written and the general slow corruption of her. As well as the focus on detailed storylines for a handful of characters.

Furthermore, because I very much enjoy his particular style of sandbox, where you can handle characters storyline mostly in the order you want, and you always have clear tips telling you what to do next. It's simple enough to not be confusing, but detailed enough to make it fun.

However, Mystwood Manor was a bit dissapointing to me. A great game in it's own right, but not for me. There were more characters, and therefore less focus on each one.

Midnight sin seems to be more in line with MoTH . The game literally jokingly reference it. Mystwood manor graphically / esthetically is a step up from MoTH , and the animations have improved quite a bit. The improvements in graphics and animation and every other skill Faerin has polished during Mystwood manor over to a MoTH style game pleases me greatly. The addition of good sfx usage during H scenes is also a huge +.

In general, Midnight sin currently feels quite empty. However, that's simply because development has just reached the point of finishing the foundation. And the foundation is really solid. In general Midnight sun feels like a more polished MoTH structure wise currently. The UI is cleaner, (but oh so familiar).

Victoria is great so far, and I hope she can be the next Veronica for me personally (but ofc different, just saying hope she will give me a similar vibe). In terms of character designs I love the character designs here even more than MoTH which is a great start.

The game truly just feels like MoTH but the MC is adult this time (which is better to me) and Faerin has improved leaps since making MoTH and get to make this one even better. I couldn't be more exicted. I have no doubts Midnight sin will have it's own identity though. I'm not trying to say he is ripping himself of, just that it's closer to that style game than his most recent one.

Honestly Faerin has just become such a polished developer at this point, and consistently completes his games. Can't wait to see where it goes. Only thing im slightly worried about is supernatural elements. Mystwood made me feel like non of the characters were really romanced or corrupted by the MC, but influenced by supernatural elements. That removes most of the sensuality to me. Hope the story doesn't rely too much on that this time. Can't wait to see what this game is like when every day is filled with events.

TLDR:
It's early days and there isn't much content for a sandbox game. Makes the world feel a bit empty. However, the foundation is rock-solid. The game feels very polished (visually and audio wise). Once this gets some content im sure it will be amazing. Faerin has proved himself to consistently produce quality.

There is a few things that I really like with this game and that differ from most of the others.

First, the MC don't start fucking around after just a few minutes of gameplay. And I tend to loose interest in a game when the MC start putting his dick in every hole he can find.

Second, it hard to predict how the developer planning to develop this game; it is very hard to foresee what going to happen in the next release. And that is very much the opposite for most of the games that can be found here.

So overall, this game is really tempting

At first I thought "you are a body guard for a wealthy woman and her three daughters" was a great original premise that would give you classic porn gameplay (explore a house and fuck everyone in the family) without any weird fuck your sister fetish stuff, but within 5 minutes of playing the dev reveals that all the characters are actually your biological half sisters. Why exactly?? I guess it's so you can have a bunch of "gee, I guess I shouldn't be doing this?" hesitation from the MC, which doesn't really fit with the tough guy/bodyguard/PI protagonist.

Anyway, the art is really good and this game has a neat puzzle. Apart from the puzzle the romance stuff isn't that engaging, it's obvious what you're supposed to do and the girls have "love" and "lust" stats that go up as you do stuff for them, but those stats never seem to be used as checkpoints for anything, so you end up having to progress through everything linearly.

Good renders, interesting story and characters. Their personalities seems to contribute to the variety that the game could offer. Progress is a little slow in the beginning, so the story doesnt advance and the scenes are scarce

I've always loved Faerin games. No mattert what, I download and play the game withot any doubt. Frome his game "Man of the house", I liked the animations, the models, the scenario.... and he uploads new updates frequently. Keep going, you have all my support.

early stage of the game but very good, played the last games too and you notice an improvement. Characters are very beatuyful, cant wait to see more. Only wating for the next update playing Manors again in between.

TL/DR: Has a few red-flags like too much inner monologue, empty sandbox elements, ect- but it is a relatively new title that looks to be crafted with care and has a actually manly dude as a protagonist so its easy to overlook its warts and hope it'll become great!

+ Nice to be able to play as a handsome adult man instead of the usual VN fare.
+ Nice UI and some novel game-play elements.
+ The integration of paintings is a nice touch. Makes the sandbox feel more meaningful / interactive.
+ Map was nice to reduce endless clicking.
+ UI for character bio is really clean looking.
+ LI look nice and are produced with high quality.

Neutral:
~ Premise is a lil slap-dash, but it works
~Lots of empty non-interactive sandbox elements. Which is TBE in a fresh game, but is a red-flag to me since the devs other finished title Mystwood Manor had a major issue with unused locations and empty sandbox.
~Not much to do at the moment in the game. You just end clicking the time skip button a ton each day until you get to the one event you can do.

Cons:
- The protagonist's inner monologue does not match his looks. It is vibe whiplash. Why does this handsome fucker act like a virgin schoolboy so much. All the hehe's and other random cutesy shit didn't make much sense on him. It is like the dev literally cannot put themselves in the shoes of this character even just to write from their POV.
-Save functionality only works during certain times
-Meaningless railroading choices. Often one leads to a game-over, the other keeps you on the tracks. Also, there is pointless and unfunny 4th wall breaking text from the dev if you get a bad ending.
-The ratio of listening to this protagonist inner monologue about the same shit over and over again to anything actually happening is too damned high.
-A lot of the text in the ui elements is lower case when it should be capitalized.
-Progression systems of Love Points / Lust points is beaten to death at this point. Boring.
-The gals height being very homogeneous is a little aesthetically boring.
-Dialogue is porny and not very natural

Still in the begging but looks like is going to be one of the best if it keeps the current flowing! Beautiful art style good and ideas for developing the characters histories!

The creator is a compromissed one who have finished all his previus games, so im really excited to see what is coming from this one!

Version v0.1.5

First of all, having played Faerin's previous game "Mystwood Manor" I have to say I got some expectations for this new one.

In terms of story, its pretty early to comment about this but I hope it comes with more twist and turns than MM, since it was easy to spot who the bad guy was since the beginning.

About the bond you have with the characters, I understand there is a need to show intercourse early to catch the audience but with Rebecca it felt insanely rushed. Is she crazy? Or did I do something wrong?

About originality I hope this game is long, so no matter if the premise is simple, the development of the story is what entangles you, so right now at this stage is pretty difficult to say but I have hope in the creativity of the author.

Renders are, to me, pretty amazing. Why? I know... Not ultra realistic, but they have a unique touch and you can see there is a huge effort in post production to make them feel original, also you can see that even in the dialogues the character moves a little which is a wonderful touch of care and professionalism.

In the characters field I feel somehow disappointed (for now), why? Because in MM you had eight (8) beautiful and very different main female characters who had a very decent amount of scenes, also another six female minor characters to have fun with.

There was the black haired ultra voluptuous nurse, or the perfect nordic cutie who actually looked a lot like a normal nordic hottie, or the MILF who reminded me of Stifler's mom and how could I forget the last unlocked character who was a true bombshell and the redhead with her small tits and slender body.

In "Midnight Sin" you have 4 main and blood-related (similar) love interests and two minor characters with whom you can have fun with, at the moment. Hopefully, we can get many more characters with whom we can have several intercourse scenes with.

About the sound, pretty neat, I like the music choice and the way songs are made to be there, not take the spotlight and not be boring.

The playability in this game is very good, I feel that it still lacks a bit of visual development (in the map in particular) to the level to which Faerin had us accustomed, since the bar is so high. The user interface is easy to go by and I don't find any punctual difficulties with its use.

So, for the record I expect "Midnight Sin" to be much better than Faerin's previous work which was amazing, the bar is high but this is early in development so there is a lot of room for improvement. My five stars are in hopes for a much better game since I know how amazing his work can be.

Thanks for your attention and have a nice one!

Updating for v0.2.1 - let's call it a 3.5 but I'm very conflicted on this game.

My previous review (below) basically stands. The models and renders look very nice and the navigation is the best I've seen. You can travel anywhere with one click, everyone's location is always shown, and you can skip time straight from the map. Every game should have a system so good. Also, the painting puzzle was very clever. A+ for that.

The plot and gameplay are where this game falls flat for me. Not because they're unoriginal (which they are) but because of how forced everything feels. A lot of the relationship building happens during mandatory once-per-week trips you escort the girls on which contributes to empty sandbox feeling where you're skipping 12 hours every day to do "the content".

Even the free-roam stuff is railroaded. The main quest is to find five books. Why? Because the game tells you to search the house and, while doing so, you'll eventually find a weird bookcase missing five books and the MC decides to find the other books. Why not, instead, have the stalker drop a hint about the bookcase or maybe the MC hears a noise and goes downstairs and sees it move or something? Also, you can't find the books before locating the bookcase or find them out of order. They'll be there, but you can't interact with them until the game lets you.

There's a similar situation with two of the sisters where you can help them skip chores. At dinner, their mom will call them out on it and the first time you're only allowed to lie for the girls but after that you can snitch. It never felt like there was a reason to snitch but the hints tell you to do it and the game won't progress if you don't.

So, I like the visuals. I liked the painting puzzle. I don't like the fighting minigame (it's a rhythm game but the music doesn't match the visuals). And I don't like how much it felt like I was just doing what the in-game hints were telling me to do and not like I was investigating a murder.

So we have a new game from Faerin, again it did not disappoint, because it is at the beginning, the only problem is that you have to start the game from the beginning with each update, a problem that I think will be solved in the next updates. The characters are very well done in terms of design, although Olivia when she smiles makes me think of Chucky . As the story is going at the moment, I suspect that we will also have secondary characters with hot scenes.... Finally, congratulations to Faerin.

Updated Review for v0.4.2

Having been over a year since my initial review of a very early version of the game, now felt like a good time to take another crack at this and see if my opinion of it improved. While I'd say it has overall, I still think the three star rating fits.

Midnight Sin, for the most part, is playing it safe. It's a style of game I've played many times before and in a way almost feels nostalgic. It reminds me of those old harem sandbox games I first came across when checking out games on the site. My question going in was, especially for a dev with two completed games under their belt, how was this going to make itself stand out from the rest. Stand out from both it's predecessors and other harem sandboxes. The answer, and my real issue with this game, is that it really does almost nothing to do so.

The game plays exactly like you'd expect if you've played any other sandbox. You have your map, girls moving to different spots based on their schedule, lots of time skipping, boring minigames (that you can skip thankfully)l, stat grinds that events get locked behind, and money you have to earn to buy items and clothes from the mall. This isn't that big of a deal to me truth be told, but because the game is still relatively empty it just isn't that engaging.

Though I enjoyed Mystwood Manor for what it was, my biggest problem with that game was the lack of complex characters and general character development. I was worried the same thing was going to happen here, and while it isn't quite as bad, I feel Midnight Sin is only a few small steps up from Mystwood Manor in that regard. I think the characters are just boring. Most of them are based off very clear tropes I've seen done many times. While each do have aspects that branch them out a bit more from the usual, they still are very small branches. They just aren't very compelling? Though to be fair they have their cute moments as well, and I do find myself partial to the shy gamer sister. That might also be because she's the most attractive IMO.

This brings me to the MC, another character I just find boring more than anything. This doubly sucks considering we play as him. I feel the decision to make him 36 years old was purely a stylistic choice, because honest to god you could make him 10 years younger and nothing would change. He lacks a certain competence and maturity that just makes it feel like you're playing a teenager in a mans body. I initially had a much harsher critique of him truth be told, but it seems like his pervy dialogue has been dialed back a bit which is nice.

Plot wise It seems the focus is more on the girls themselves, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It is painfully obvious who is blackmailing us (though if I am wrong on this one, I'll take the egg on my face). Considering the MC was supposed to be running a security business, it feels comical how he is immediately made helpless. The best comparison I can make is that he feels like the jobber bodyguard who gets taken out by the main character of an action movie. Besides that each girl thus far has had their own small plotline that really only pushes you along the very standard lewd scene pipeline. Events themselves aren't very played out maybe is the word? For example: you beat up this dickhead who is harassing one of the girls you're protecting at the gym. Instead of giving me a render of a nice punch to the jaw, it throws up the fighting minigame and then cuts to him just bruised on the floor. That is not satisfying.

The lewd scenes aren't doing much for me. Yeah most of the girls are attractive (I couldn't care less about the maids tbh) but there really hasn't been any good writing going into them. You mostly just watch the animation play out, maybe get a horny comment from the MC, and that's that. Which again is kinda boring.

There is one single aspect of this that feels a bit different from your usual harem incest sandbox. You'll learn at some point that the mother has a punishment room where she takes her daughters when they misbehave. BDSM gear, spanking, a mother daughter kiss on the lips, etc. Truth be told I'm not into BDSM and sub/dom stuff, but I do think mother daughter stuff is hot. So I'm mixed? I have no doubt the MC will take over the punishment role at some point which again I don't really care about, but I do wonder if there will be a decent chunk of lesbian content down the road.

At the end of the day it's a pretty standard incest sandbox game, just with a few more bells and whistles going into it. It's a genre that's been tried and tested, and I can get the appeal of wanting something more mindless like I believe this game is. If you want a game with more complexity in its writing though, I'd say look elsewhere. I don't think I'll ever love this game but I can see myself potentially playing it on a rainy day in the future. Maybe the game will surprise me once it fills itself out more.