VN - Ren'Py - Mind Control: Twisted Thoughts [v0.25 Beta] [specialmind]

After playing Mind Control, I can say that what stood out the most to me is how good the game is at offering different paths to follow. The number of options is genuinely surprising and makes a big difference in the experience. Every choice opens up new possibilities, which kept me curious to explore more routes and see where each decision could lead.

Overall, I really liked it for that reason: the game encourages you to experiment, go back, and try different alternatives, making each playthrough unique. For anyone who enjoys visual novels with a lot of freedom and multiple paths to explore, it’s definitely worth it.

This game is way too good! The characters the story, the corruption, it has everything for every taste
Can't wait to see how Rosie's corruption is taken further
Or the corruption of the milfs that's a good route to go as well

Mind Control: Twisted Thoughts [v0.25 Beta]

This VN makes a solid first impression, though I doubt it will ever become one of my favorites. Why? Overall, it delivers decent quality, but two key elements are missing for me: a captivating story and natural-looking skin textures.

I wouldn’t say the story is boring, but it lacks a real hook. We’ve got a young male MC who’s still a virgin and suddenly gains supernatural abilities - the power to read minds and control people around him. This setup is basically used to let him experience as many sexual encounters as possible while competing with others. Small story spoiler: He’s not the only one with these powers, which makes the plot a bit more interesting for me.

To the dev’s credit, it’s a clever way to give the player believable control over the MC’s actions and his sexual adventures, especially with the wide variety of fetishes on offer. In addition to choices, the player can also influence certain outcomes in erotic scenes through attribute points. However, this system definitely needs some rebalancing, since stats hit their max far too quickly. It also doesn’t feel fully integrated into the story or the lewd scenes yet. Real branching isn’t present in this VN - your decisions simply unlock or lock certain encounters with LIs.

Most characters’ behavior feels a bit off and lacks believability. Still, since it's fiction, I can let that slide. It’s not a dealbreaker, but overall the story just feels too shallow to stay engaging for long.

As mentioned earlier, the flawless skin textures are another weak spot. The “plastic look” of the character models takes the visual quality down a notch. The skin is too smooth and perfect, giving everyone a doll-like appearance - a shame, because otherwise I have no complaints about the renders.
I’m also not a fan of the MC’s design, especially his hairstyle. His face lacks masculinity, and with that hair he looks like a mix between a creep and a nerd. Maybe that was a deliberate design choice, but dear dev, please let him change his appearance a bit in the future, so I don’t feel completely turned off by him.

On a more positive note, I really like the selection of female characters. They’re not those flawless, overused supermodel types you see everywhere, which I personally appreciate a lot. They differ in body shape and size, look more natural, and each has her own charm. Beauty stands out best in contrast, after all.

I can’t recall seeing any animations - only still images that you click through at your own pace. The scene composition and framing during erotic moments, however, are very well done.

The sound effects fit nicely, and the moaning during the sex scenes is tastefully used. The background music wasn’t quite my style, but that’s probably just a matter of taste.

Overall, this VN comes across as a well-balanced package, and for its current stage of development, it’s solid. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really stand out from the crowd of AVNs on this site. I’m giving it 4 stars, even though for me personally, it feels a bit less than that.

waste of time, promising at first goes off the rails fast
stay away if you are straight cause game is gay and needs a tag
mc bought toys and for himself? wtf
also characters out of lgbt tropes
ugly characters but nice renders i guess

Boring game with unattractive characters and vanilla sex scenes that do nothing for me. I'm not against vanilla (in fact it's the best kind of sex) but here it's presented in the most mundane way possible and it offers nothing sexy. Models are fugly, writing is mediocre at best and all in all I can't find one redeeming quality in this game. Goes on my ignore list.

Very solid release, I normally avoid mind control games because I find it to be a cop out story mechanism but this was still pretty good all around. With the exception of the look of the MC I also found the variety of unique side characters to be pretty cool. The whole story reminded me of the game Misfits from a few years ago, it feels like a good spiritual successor.

Whether it is NTR or not is pretty questionable. No one cheats on the MC, at closest you can let NTS happen or just let people around you be in other relationships. Still very good game so far

Liked every single part of the game. Animations and renders, storyline, sex scenes. It is well designed. Had to save or roll back before the options sometimes, but it was worth it. Can't wait for it to continue.

review as of v0.25 beta

Came into this game with zero expectations and, for the most part, was pleasantly surprised.
The girls all look unique, and for all of us who are sick of blow-up dolls this is a real treat.
The ability is well implemented where you can give someone a command, but then lose your ability to read minds for a short time. I don't think it truly matters, but it's a fun interaction.

Your choices are... tbh, I don't think they matter much. I had 2 playthroughs, one where I implanted a command in a girl, and one where I never affected her mind, and she always ended up in the same situations. That, and sometimes you are forced to make a decision that you may not want to, like putting a certain character under control (with a stupid command too) or use your ability when you would rather not.

This lack of agency is the reason this is getting 4 instead of a 5 from me, but other than that it's an interesting game that I would love to see more of.

I really didn't expect this game to be this good.
The multiple choices really feel like choices and not a change of sentence for the same result.
No character is annoying, they all are interesting
I feel like every choice leads to an interesting story
I already retried it several times for multiple paths
It's crazy how badly I'm waiting for the next update! Thank you for that

I did not expect this game to be this good.
From the terribly generic name I thought this would be just another generic game with barely any content like most others.
It isn't.
It is surprisingly good. Great even.
The characterization is good, the plot is great, the interactions between characters are honestly believable, and the dialogue is pretty solid.

The only bad thing I could think of is the sex scenes.
They feel like they desperately need animation, or like they were designed for a different engine than Renpy. But besides that minor problem I am eager to see how the story unfolds.

I hope in the future updates the dev adds multiple branching paths for our decisions rather than railroading to the single storyline. I wonder how the story would unfold if MC never used his powers, or if he acted in a different way.
Maybe a path for a monogamous relationship with each girl?

[v0.25 Beta[

I'm still playing through it, but this is actually incredible. You rarely see realistic depictions and social interactions in the mind control genre, but this dev is cooking up some good shit.

The characters have depth. They are not just caricatures laying around for the MC to give them some attention. They are all pretty well realized as individuals with their own desires, goals, and personality.

This grounded nature makes it that much more interesting when given the chance to use the MC's powers.

There is a number of ways you can play the MC. You can use the powers to try and bang everyone and go for a selfish power fantasy MC. You can use the powers to corrupt everyone and just enjoy sharing/swinging and depraved stuff. You can limit the power usage mostly for good deeds and try to play a good guy. The variations on how any set piece can progress is extremely numerous.

My only gripe might be a bit subjective, but I don't much care for this "realistic" ugly models. It's a porn game, I wanna see hot chicks, not uglies and fatties for the sake of representing a realistic mix of appearances. But eh... some people are into that.

Pretty excellent. It's the "realism" that does it for me (as much as that can be said for a mind control game).

Girls are varied and not your standard models, their personalities are believable, as is the progression, without being too much of a slow burn.

Really catches the "young adults" vibe too with how everyone is both out of their mind horny but also scared and inexperienced.

And last but not least the choices and paths are surprisingly impactful

The scene variation is quite impressive and far exceeded my expectations, as I honestly did not anticipate any kind of variation in the scenes at all. Additionally, the MC mechanic adds an engaging layer of depth and is somewhat rewarding, which enhances the overall experience significantly. So, kudos for implementing these elements effectively.

THe women in this AVN look terrible or most do. I don't remember seeing a futa/trans tag before hand last time I played this one either. It was avoidable however so far.

MC looks like a douchebag. Hentai/MC jacking off scenes are really unnecessary.

Concept is decent however there is a lot that could be massively improved upon.

a bit too fast in offering their bodys but great one. Hope more of the family get involved. Sure a lot of work for getting real different path separated from each other. 5/5
would be cool of the girls where like the asian one, more of a conservative kind and not in the first place slutty.

This game is shockingly good at getting into your head. I downloaded it intending to skip through to see the sex scenes and ended up getting so invested in the plot via the choices and dynamic outcomes that I ended up playing it. Then I ended up actually reading the text.

Real ethical questions that made me think, plenty of erotica, and compelling story decisions.

10/10 I subscribed. I hope this dev makes this game huge, because if the quality continues it will be as good as anything else out there.

I give a lot of really good reviews because I hate being a downer, but this one might be the best I've reviewed in 2025. If I could pay 50 bucks for the completed full version right now I would. Obviously that doesn't exist yet, but my point is that I am 100% sold. Absolutely superb.

Good moderately perverted game.
Plot is laughable, but I've seen worse and not here for the plot.
Some sounds are present, basic animation is there as well.
Game let's you customize your expirience quite a bit, which is nice.
Currently (v 0.25) there's not a lot of content, but you can expect 2-4 hours of gameplay.
Worth checking, 4-4.5/5

I like the initial state of the game. I like the characters and models. The mind control aspect is one of my favorite genres. I didn't notice any major bugs nor holes taking in consideration this is still version 0.25.

I do wish there was more initial character development. It seems that we get deep into the mid/end game events too fast. There is a lot that could have been explored prior to getting where we are now.

Examples:

I do enjoy the game and it is one of the few I am always waiting to play when it comes out.
Sex scenes are all well done and I discovered small variations constantly; given the type of the game this is the main point and I totally rate the game very very high.

but

the choice system is becoming meaningless.
basically nothing you have been doing has no impact so far. No matter your choices you were going to have Rosie as girlfriend and have the group game in the last update. In this lates turn of even even if you immediately pull away your (step?) sister then you still have a conversation about increasing depravity etcetera.

Basically there is no real corruption / avoidance, everything happens regardless and you can just play your cards right and have more articulate scenes or just skip a couple of them

How the stat attributes impact choices could be better explained, but its overall a good game. Not flashy, but its got a good amount of content and is well written. Plot/story is pretty minimal and its more slice of life, but its a entertaining game