Unity - Midnight Sin [v0.6.0] [Faerin]

This is the third title from a developer who has already established a strong reputation. From the outset, expectations for this game were high. Faerin's performance was found to be in line with expectations.
In contrast to the preceding games, the protagonist is a mature male, yet still exhibits a degree of sympathy, displaying a certain bewilderment in response to the events unfolding around him. The female characters are strikingly beautiful, maintaining a certain distance from the protagonist, yet he gradually succeeds in overcoming this distance. The gameplay incorporates elements of mystery solving, although the development of the narrative is somewhat slow. Nevertheless, I found this game to be entertaining, even in its incomplete state.

This is a slow burn...it takes time to soften and let the juices flow.
I am seriously enjoying the game, the pacing and character development are both satisfying and well balanced. The storyline is capable and at times, intriguing. Graphics and animation are excellent, the writing is good.
All in all, this is a game worth playing!

As of 0.4.3, I have quite a few things to talk about!

First of all, I pretty much discovered Hgames when Man of the House was mid development, so its been a while lets be honest. Faerin came onto the scene and dropped a banger that, even though its dated by todays standards, is still a valuable and enjoyable journey.

Then came Mystwood Manor. Doesn't feel like its been 5 years since that dropped, but hey, were all getting older. Mystwood gave Faerin a chance to take everything he learned with MotH and improve on it as well as try out some new ideas. Mystwood has a decent enough story, but was plagued with grind (I know thats part of the idea, it was a management game, but a H game nonetheless.) that was excessively padded with constant UI animations and an inability to save outside of the management screen.

Midnight Sin is doing what Faerin did before. Learning from his mistakes. For the most part, anyway. Much less UI animation, great character models (though I'm still of the opinion that you should never see the MC's face) and a decent cut to the grinding required. The characters are simple archetypes. The upbeat younger daughter, the shy yet boobalicious middle daughter and the pretentious and snobby eldest daughter. Nothing new there really.

Having the father have an affair resulting in the MC is a bit of a lazy way to tie some incest though, lets be honest. Probably could leave that out assuming Faerin doesnt have plans for that in future. I love a good incest plot, but when the MC doesnt even know the family exist until the start of the game, might as well just go the Hillside route and leave it out as it adds nothing.

Something that really should be thought about is camera placement with the sex shots. Whenever the MC isnt an active participant, or the girls are in the bath or something, the shots are amazing, but as soon as its an actual sex scene, the camera is in all the wrong places. Im getting way more of the MC blocking tits and such than we really should be.

Also just let us save in sex scenes. It costs nothing to be able to do so. I know devs don't generally like to save scum, but I'll never understand why. Nothing kills a players entertainment more than having to restart a game for a sex scene we missed, because theres a good chunk of the time where we cant actually save, and have to either hope or rely on autosaves that we don't control.

Plays rather well. No crashing or stuttering as is common with earlier releases. Simple and effective UI (lesson learned from MM), no exceptional grind but still found myself skipping a few more days than I would have liked to get to new content.

And while my review does come off as overly critical (thats just kinda what I am, everything good he has done in his previous titles has more or less carried over and been improved here) I still absolutely recommend giving it a play at least once. These are a few things that I really hope Faerin as fully aware of and is at least considering taking a whack at improvement. If he does so, it has the potential to be as popular as his first game.

Faerin is by far one of those few creators that while I will wait for a good few updates between playing, It takes everything I have not to click "Download" each time I get a notification. This is going to be no different.

I would have liked to give a better rating, but the hottest scenes are always in close-up.

Let me explain: I'm a fan of Anabelle; she is clearly my favorite. But why, when she paints her bodyguard and we see her from behind, are her buttocks not in the frame?

Why, when she gives him a handjob, is there a close-up of the guy's genitals? Why not pull back and admire the ENTIRE body of the women when they are in action? There are always close-ups of the guy's genitals, and it frustrates me.

90 percent of your time playing will be spent skipping time. Looped animations and blandly looped moans. Renders are solid and story is interesting but this is probably... easily... Faerin's worst game. It's definitely salvageable bcuz of how good the girls and the story is, but it really needs some tuning just to get to above mediocre.

v0.4.2
The state of the game on this version it's okay, Faerin has been evolving game by game, and this game really shows how he has grown as a developer.
Midnight Sin by this version while doesn't has a lot of content, it shows enough to keep you hooked not only on the story but onto the characters as well.
Characters: 9.5/10 really biased towards Anabelle, but every girl has a unique charm.
Story: 8.5/10 by this version, the story it's really vague, but well written enough to keep you interested.
SFX: 5/10 Not really a fan of moan loops, and the same voice on the mini-game.
Models: 9.5/10 Every model design are really well made, everyone has a unique touch that keeps you attached.
UI: 10/10 A refined and simple UI that shows how the dev learned from previous titles.

Closing comment: Midnight Sin, to the date the best game from Faerin, you really should play it, and it's worth the wait. Can't wait to play it finished.

As of v0.4.1c.

Really my only complaint right now would be the lack of anything to do in the first few days of the game. I found myself skipping through 90% of the first couple days. But once the ball gets rolling there's a lot more to do throughout the day. The only other thing ill say is I'm not really a fan of the mother-daughter BDSM. It's not really a complaint its just something I personally am not in to, I wont let it affect my rating because everything else is really good. I love the story so far and the character models are excellent. Looking forward to seeing more updates!

[After playing v0.5.2]

It's the first time I play a Faerin so soon in development, but I have to say as far as it goes it looks as good as those before. Of course there's still some road to go, but I have no doubt after playing this that it will work.

The characters are nice and likeable, dialogues work nicely, never feel too short like just an excuse between porn and never longer than needed like trying to appear deep when they're not. The gameplay is interesting and the sandbox mechanic works, it doesn't seem absurdly grindy.

Sex scenes are ok (of course, it's a bit light yet, as it's a slow corruption thing, but the way it developes is ok at the moment)

Everything works nice and time flies playing it. Highly recommended (though I would consider Faerin's finished games before this one if you haven't).

After finishing this version (v-0.4.1) all I can say is that when scenes start to pick up the game is amazing and the girls are hot as fuck, specially Annabelle, but man the start ot the game is waaay to rough and slow. I dont know if this because of how many times we need to go from place to place and wait for the points to stack up or what cause after playing the other games more than 3 times each I neved had that feeling, not even when getting 100% on each game on steam. I will change this review after the game is finished.

VERSION: 0.4.1c Extra
SUMMARY: Good game, with gorgeous models and humour.

PROS:

1. Models are very impressive and animations are decent
2. Sound FX are great and actually fit the scenario
3. Story is not bad, written well and structured well.
4. Pacing is not bad but there is a Con here regarding content.

CONS:

1. As with other Faerin games, the way its designed always frustrates me. Primarily due to the fact that when updates come out like this version, you often find you need to fast forward and skip hours and days to progress a character, who would be the only progression possible e.g. 4 board room meetings. This makes no sense in terms of content, IMO if you going to release an update, try and do it in such way that you can do all together without having to skip days, so focus on several characters in stead of like the e.g. above where 4 board room meetings are needed...

Review based on a early build, so the game is still taking shape.

A lot of potential in this game. Render quality is incredible, the plot is engaging, and while the gameplay is classic sandbox, the interface is clear and the IU seems to be a work in progress still, but perfectly serviceable.

Just 4 stars because I miss a bit the more engaging gameplay of Faerin previous game (Mystwood Manor), but I understand that for some people this would be a plus instead of a drawback.

Definitely worth keeping an eye on this one until it’s completed!

Review for v0.3.2 Extra

A good start but needs a lot more before it becomes enjoyable.

I have played Man of the House (Faerin's first game) to its entirety and I enjoyed it. I would give it a 4/5 and definitely recommend (although I haven't written a review, perhaps I should) so I have hope for this one, but currently it lacks any major content, both in story and sex scenes.

The renders are very nice, the characters are varied enough to make them interesting, the MC is amazingly not a teenager which is a huge plus for me as I hate the average adult VN MC appearance, and the game plays like a modernized Man of the House: You visit certain places in certain times and you get certain interactions, which is a good formula for a pseudo sandbox game.

The bad news is that the story is really barebones in the current version, and you reach the end of content for most girls really, really fast because there isn't much yet. There are some foundations for the story and you can guess where it will probably go but that's about it. Sexy outfits and other items you can buy serve either no purpose (as the MC has "no reason" to buy them yet) or are only to enhance the grindy part of the game which is you raising the MC's combat stats which are used to make money. Most of the places you can go are quickly out of interactions, empty or outright locked.

Also be aware that the only real sex scene that I could find in this build is with a side character, and you cannot refuse it which is really annoying. After that event the MC gets blackmailed into flashing himself or get risky with the main girls, which is contrived and lazy. I hope you get to choose if you want to bang characters or not, I hate when lewd games (the ones with supposed story and choices) don't give you the choice and just shove a sex scene or love interest at you regardless.

I give this current build a lukewarm 2.5 rating with a potential 4+ stars when more content is added and things get polished.

Good Points
+ Story started bad, but at least in recent updates it become average.
+ Sex scenes have decent animations with 3 different speed options, some have second angles as well.
+ Art style is good.

Bad Points
- Especially first until latest updates story was quite bad, it wasn't well-written nor interesting, and the whole thing felt like a manipulative game Madeline playing with MC & girls and as a player we have no power over it, because everything gone the way she wanted, even when MC/player things he taken control over things & Madeline she still find ways to turn the things around & manipulate the situation to her benefit. MC getting close with love interests revolving around getting blackmailed by Madeline didn't helped either, especially with how he act like a wuss and do everything blackmailer told him, acting like a good boy and getting called good boy by blackmailer. Along with these aside from getting closer with the girls there is no main purpose either, which makes the game kind of boring. And even after MC learned the truth, and when things should have turned around Madeline still find a way to turn things around, at some points things become kind of stable for the MC, but it takes too much time, and a lot of annoying things happens until that point.
- The game is bit slowburn, and grindy to get scenes with the girls if you don't use the mod for it, but even with the mod early parts of the game is really boring, so keep in mind.
- For a sandbox game this game doesn't give you enough choice about matters, for example, you can't even choose who you are going to have sex with.
- Lots of things like passcodes, etc, are randomized, and that just makes things more painful than it supposed to be and makes ''walkthrough'' kind of useless since most stuff is randomized.
- Nearly all minigames are annoying and boring.
- The game is made by Unity, that alone is good to say as a bad point. We have most Unity-related problems with this game like nearly all Unity games as well.
- Most features the mouse has in other games are non-existent here, like hiding text with the middle mouse button or opening the menu with the right mouse button and saving easily.
- We have only 10 save pages, most games have 999+ pages for years, so only 10 is not even funny...
- You can't save while you are in scenes, that's literally the most important part about saves, what's the point if you can only save when you are in freeroam?!
- There is no option to change the voice volume, To change it you need to change the main volume otherwise you will hear very loud sex sounds, can't see any reason not to add the voice volume change option...
- Everything is annoyingly detailed, like even when you just want to travel from one place to another you see time passing on screen and the game makes you wait for it... Why? Makes no sense.
- Sex scene animations are kind of decent, but angles are not, most of sex scenes has badly chosen, and unattractive, the game needs serious improvements for them.
- Art style is good, but with one exception, and that's weird and badly made facial expressions, they make characters look weird, old and unattractive.

For The End
The game has potential, but it has lots of cons, it's still worth playing, but it's just average at best.

I've played man of the house before and enjoyed it, even though a lot of its mechanics are dated at this point. So when I saw a new game by the same dev but newer and with modern graphics I had high expectations.

And in a way those expectations delivered, the renders are great, the story is interesting and the characters look fun. If that's all you care about it could be a 5/5 but the gameplay unfortunately ruins this for me.

Many of the mechanics of this game are just as anti fun as it can be, from the clock that moves minute per minute with broken timing, to the grind, to the excruciating "real time" traveling from location to location that should have never been done again in a modern game, it all really detracts from the experience.

But by far the worst offender is the fact that you can't save whenever you want or even rewind your choices. I don't understand why people want porn games to be some kind of nuzlocke run. Are you in the middle of a cutscene and you have to stop playing? Well too bad, you can't save so you're gonna have to start over.

With all these gameplay problems I can't give it more than a 3/5 no matter how much I wanted to like this.

Absolutely awesome game. Even though it's a sandbox, it has a mini-grint. I really like the story. Every girl has her secrets and MC should find out as quickly as possible. Hey Faerin, brilliantly directed up to this point. I almost have to say that I'm more interested in the story than the sex scenes. But well, let's see where it goes. The graphics are excellent and the game mechanics are very easy to handle.
My ranking:
Gameplay: 5 Stars
Models: 5 Stars
Story: 5 Stars
Game mechanics: 5 Stars
This is clearly a top-class game. I just hope it stays that way.

Realy Nice Excellent Work, Nice Gameplay and Storie good Character Designs i Realy like the Work Done to this Game hope for Big Updates in the Future, good Game to Play Recomend it, One of my Favorites PornGames so far.

Another banger created by autor of the "Man of the House" and "Mystwood Manor". Both games were great, and "Midnight Sin" seems like another good game in the making. Renders and animations are something above anyone else, the main problem right now is a lack of "action", but judging by his previous work, I'm sure he's going to deliver. Fingers crossed to see the final result soon enough; this game's a blast. 9/10

So far the game is much better than Faerin's previous games. Both visually and mechanically. Not as grindy as Mystwood Manor, characters have more soul and appear more realistic.

However, the game been in development for a year and you think it has at least some content to be worthy to download - you are wrong.

v0.3.1
There is only a single blowjob and vaginal scene happened on the first in-game day with the SIDE character, this game has no more content involving MC.

Don't bother trying out this game. It needs at least another 1 or 2 years of development

I played A LOT of diffrent Games so far. Also Man of the House and MM wich seems pretty cool.

This Game is by far one of the best. I like the Game-Style, the Story and just how everything looks. Also the mechanics are very smooth.

Cant wait for more Updates since there is no real XXX-Scene so far, because playing it in V0.3.

Props for this Masterpiece so far.

By the Way pls. add pregnancy in the later game ... would be delicious

It's a typical game by this dev and feels like too many others you already played. The renders are good. Be careful you don't click on the wrong arrow and go to the wrong room one too many times or you will get the luxury of the game immediately ending. The game really isn't fun and what good is a game that isn't fun. It's just a retread of countless other games who actually do it better.