Ren'Py - Completed - Mist [v1.0.3] [395games]

**The Mist by 395 Games is one of the most impressive AVNs I’ve played, and it deserves every bit of praise it gets. From the moment you start, the atmosphere pulls you in with its eerie fog, tense silence, and a world that feels genuinely dangerous yet incredibly intriguing. What really sets this game apart is how much effort has gone into the storytelling. The characters feel alive, their personalities are well-written, and their interactions are natural and engaging. Every choice you make feels meaningful, and the game rewards you for paying attention and exploring its world.

The visuals and art style deserve special mention—detailed, expressive, and perfectly suited to the game’s dark tone. The sound design and pacing only add to the immersion, creating a sense of mystery that keeps you invested from start to finish.

Above all, massive respect to 395 Games for the passion and dedication clearly visible in every update. It’s rare to see an AVN that cares so much about atmosphere, world-building, and narrative quality, instead of relying purely on adult content. The Mist is a standout experience, and I genuinely appreciate the hard work behind it. Looking forward to whatever the developers create next.**

Awesome game! Stumbled upon it bored and quickly became enamored! Surprisingly deep story and a fair amount of actual exploration. I would also recommend this devs other works as they are very solid as well.

Tried this long ago when it was posted here. Wasn't much to do and it wasn't showing much promise at the time so I just kinda forgot about. Fast forward to earlier this week and I decided since its completed and has such high rating that I should try it again. Glad I did.

Pros:

Very good sex scenes. Surprisingly erotic and really captures that insatiable lust in a lot of them. Some are meh, but those likely are adored by other people. Regardless, not many games can pull that off and this game had me so hard so much of the time. Seriously, I never fap to these games because they are rarely good enough for that. I tend to just love them for their entertainment value. But this game... I fapped many times and was at least aroused for almost all of the sex scenes.

Excellent writing with only a very minimal amount of spelling errors. While some scenes keep dragging out with continual back and forth one liners that seem unnecessary, its a small price to pay for writing that seems to recognize the obvious in most circumstances. Most games seem to have a writer and an artist that never speak to one another which makes the writing and the visuals work much less efficiently together. Sometimes in movies it seems to be similar where I know whats going on and the characters aren't conveying the right words to other characters to accomplish a common goal and it frustrates me. This game addresses that much more often than it doesn't which was surprising to see and also refreshing.

Gameplay and minigames are actually simple and fun. Sometimes I didn't know something would require a brief minigame and I would miss it, but all I had to do was rollback knowing it was there and simply being ready for it was enough to complete it. Running out of stamina initially seemed to be something that would eventually piss me off, but the game is designed in a way that never makes you use it all when you need to actually use in combat. There are other options to help you save stamina and when you finally do use it up you can simply end the fight, call it a day and level up and get ready for the next day's activities. All the while getting stronger.


Cons:

There really isn't much to speak of, but the only two things I can think of involve the writing. Regardless, nothing is worth removing a star.

First, the dialogue sometimes gets stretched with back and forth one liners that gets old. But just as soon as I'm getting tired of it and feel the need to skip through it then its already over. So it wasn't worth complaining about, just that if I have to think of a con then that might be one.

Second, in parts of the story the characters are supposed to be quiet such as in stealth mode or simply a time when being quiet is prudent. However, their dialogue tends to contain a lot of exclamation punctuation in excess. That coupled with the excessive extra back and forth and unnecessary chatter especially when time is of the essence it can get frustrating. But again, just as soon as the infraction is observed it usually ends.



All in all this really is a very well put together game. The sex scenes still amaze me how they aroused me so much. The story was an excellent steady burn that kept going and going building up as it went. And it stays true to being a game as well requiring interaction and completing activities, combat, foraging, etc.

I realize this review is unnecessary since there are 777 reviews as of the time I'm writing this one, but a game this good needs as much recognition as it deserves. Also I don't review many game at all. Only when I feel the need to do so.

Great story, excellent animations and artstyle. Of course how could I forget OST that is also good, same with VA.

There is a little grind, but it is needed imo. Minigames are easy. Loved fights, could have had more boss fights.

5/5 A new Favorite!
I really enjoyed this one, and I feel a bit silly for over looking it for so long lol. I just kept seeing 2 tags that I normally stay away from - FemDom, and Horror! I don't mind some light FemDom sometimes but in general it is not my thing, Though it was well placed in this Story and I was able to enjoy it. For Horror I am just a skittish guy so I steer away from most "Horror" but I decided to go for it here and it never bothered me!

The Good! (all opinions really lol)
+ Love the art and Style
+ Characters look great
+ A good fitting Sound track and Ambiance sounds, Normally I will just mute most H-games and just listen to whatever music I want to but Mist has a great feel
+ Loved the story! Found it super interesting (not "just for a porn game") and Found myself both not wanting it all to end but also really needing to get to that ending lol
+ I think all the H-Scenes are well done and Only get better as it progresses

The "Bad", well at least what I can see/feel, I dont really think there is anything major here
-You can have like idle conversations with the girls that generally wont progress Time and are just nice extra bits of setting and story i guess.I didnt realize that more and more "Talk" options appeared as you progressed the story so I kinda missed out on those conversations fitting with the current story events lol. Still nice little convos but since they are not required for progress they can be missed. Same withlooking at the stars with the girls
-More time is "required" to pass for the story than it actually takes to play it. Now I didnt track it all but sometimes it feels as if you take say 3 in game days to complete all the quests you currently have the next Story event will claim that a Week has passed. This doesn't actually matter, the player doesn't "lose" days, it just felt a little mismatched at times. Basically just characters saying, "These past few weeks have been tough", when I am pretty sure it has been about a week since the last time a Story Convo happened lol
- At times I felt there was almost "too much fucking" happening, never actually got to a point that I felt it was gratuitous (Yes even for a Porn Game lol), and maybe this is more just moments of me wanting to see more of the Story and Mystery than lewd stuff lol

5/5 Great! I really felt like i was digging and nitpicking to say anything "negative" at all, and I think that is awesome!
A Good Story, With Sexy gals doing sexy stuff

I wish more games this long were made in such a short time. ~3 years from creating topic to ending and game is longer than many 5-6 years old products that aren't even half finished.

It's a nice survival horror-like story with good plot and pacing. It keeps player entertained from the very beginning to the end. I'm writing it as a person who don't really like horrors and find them boring. MC here is a kind guy who's not afraid of risk and bravely fight against all odds to keep his LIs safe and save the world by the way. If it comes to narration, you shouldn't expect any meaningful choices. The only thing you can decide is with whom you want to talk at the evening, in which order do tasks or how much exp/gather food you want.

Game have management system that's not hard, if you have some experience, even if you play scavenger (normal) mode for your first run. There's also a feast (easy) mode which seems to give you no worries about management, but haven't played it, so can't confirm for sure. Anyway, by using search you can find plenty of console commands, if you decide to start with scavenger, but start struggling. That's not necessary with even a small amount of effort, but can be helpful for people who'll get some troubles. You can lose, but it's not easy. You can also expect some easy minigames and fight, nothing to be worried about, if you aren't first time on PC and have at least small hand-eye coordination.

Harem contains four very different LIs connected in one purpose. To survive... and love MC. Ok, those are two purposes, but second one is obvious. It's a harem porn game after all. There are many events that let us bond with LIs. They're quite short, but effective. For bonding whore like me it's a little low, but for people who don't seek it in games as much as I do it should be more than enough.

Very nice graphics and a lot of top level cutscenes, both during exploration and sex. Creampie scenes comes later, but you can expect cum dripping ones for almost all game long. Characters have original look, they remind me some old games with NPCs looking like made from playdough, but on advanced level. Not something that fills my taste, but a nice refreshment for sure.
Plenty of sounds, it's much better to listen some small "heh" instead of reading "chuckles" every few minutes. The thing I really miss here was cuddling. There's an option for more or less deep talks in front of fireplace, but LIs are always sitting separated from MC. There's a frame with cuddling at few nights, but most of them it looks like MC sleeps alone and it doesn't matter that Mia is sleeping with him.

That's definetely an extraordinary project with balanced plot, bonding and amount of sex scenes and it's good enough to forgive small logic holes. I can recommend it with a clear conscience to everyone who's not afraid of some blood, death, reading about very immoral experiments and don't seek for specific kinks.

Honestly one of, if not the best erotic games I've ever played. I know a lot of people prefer getting to the action fast and might dismiss the art direction or the pace of relationships (believe it or not some of us like the slow burn of deep meaningful relationships,) I however find it all to be perfectly done.

I could make some minor critiques of the gameplay but they would only be that, minor. The story is fantastically written, believable and characters well written to be themselves and not just a trope. The animations are among the best I've ever seen. 10/10 would nut again.

Thank you to the dev for this masterpiece. A true inspiration for fellow game makers. Maybe even inspire me to try making my own

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So good...... Love it.......
Plot is nice, The characters are not shallow as most of the H-Game. Scenes are really good.
Excellent game.
Thank you for that great game......
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As the #1 ren'py hater, I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of mist. it has an interesting plot that is decently engaging, a cast of (mostly) fleshed out characters, but most surprisingly, it is a ren'py game that doesn't have uncanny, uninspired art direction. While the general art quality can be a bit inconsistent (especially towards the beginning of the game), the sex scenes, characters and general environments look really good. Genuinely some of the most well animated scenes in any 3d porn game. Gameplay is a bit grindy, but the story and art makes up for it imo. Deserves your time, would give this a 4.5 / 5 if I could.

Pretty good game.

Story 4/5. The story is well written, a bit too long for my taste but the what I had issue with is that it didn't stick to a single theme. Anime-style to realistic to rhetorical to satire, it was a bit all over the place.

Audio 3/5. Good soundtrack. A bit repetitive for my taste and some music was simply too short and didn't loop properly. Sound effects were minimal

Scenes 5/5. Good overall. I didn't like some of the physics but that is just personal taste.

Gameplay 2/5. Not too grindy but a bit lacking. While technically you had some freedom with choices and you had to manage food supplies and building material. The food was basically a non-issue as it was too easy to acquire. Building projects were offered one at a time as the game progresses (you can't progress until you build the current project and you can't build said project until you reach it in the game progression, if that makes sense.) Same goes for reading books. I don't mind linear gameplay but this is WAY too linear.

Final thoughts: If you like visual novels, this is an amazing game. If you are looking for actual gameplay, you won't find any here. Scenes are great though.

If you like the tags and dont mind linear story then 10/10 recommend this.
Nice story to get to know the characters.
Art is very nice and it's a lot of it.
Can't say anything bad about it, at least not at the top of my head.

This game was absolutely perfect! Really impressed with the overall quality, everything from the characters, to the story, to the gameplay was really good. I kinda felt sad after finishing it, not sure if I'll find another game as good as this.

Terribly design game with good writing

Biggest Pros:
game start nicely with character facing a choice to help the girl or game over
and player type their name when girl ask you about it after you kind of learned some basics, i really like this sequence
Cinematic shots for the scenes and locations - i think its needless, but it makes this boring background locations less static

CONS:
ugly lady - she looks awful
0 customizations
grindy hell - game is slow
you can't explore shit before you run out of energy and must go back
or get attacked by wolfs and must run out of energy to survive
Character is TOO WEAK ON FEAST MODE!
i suspect with how slow progression is i will also run out of food on feast mode, but this might be skill issue combined with awful design, not design alone (i spend days clicking everything and hoping i get to progress)

i played it for 2 hours just to get some pathetic pitty handjob
i literally host this woman for 14 days, providing her food everyday
i save her fucking live and helped search something
i bring her water from deep woods
and all i get is a handjob? fucking awful
5/10 - play it if you think or know how to bypass grinds and get to real sex

Pros:

Models look gorgeous
Scenes were pretty good too

Cons:

Found the writing to be subpar
Gameplay was also quite meh, I don't mind grinding but in this case the grinding led to no payoff

Conclusion:

I think its fine to play this game for the scenes, that's how good I'd rate them. Otherwise, the gameplay/plot/writing were pretty mediocre. But, we're all on this site for one reason so have fun lol

Short Review: A perfect game for survival/fantasy/harem fans. Many hours of gameplay, plenty of scenes for the four girls — a solid 5/5.


Story & Characters

The story is original, with vibes reminiscent of Stephen King. Every character gets proper development, which is both enjoyable to follow and fits seamlessly with the overall gameplay.


Gameplay

The gameplay is simple but not too easy. It’s clearly designed to support the story rather than be the main selling point, which works perfectly here.


Art & Presentation

The art has its own distinct style but is very polished. Animations are smooth, and personally, I found everything I was looking for in this game.


Verdict

⭐ 5/5. A great balance of story, gameplay, and style — I highly recommend it.

Really unique take on end of the world harem. Excellent video renders, obvious progressions. And the dialogue is strong at times. It was good!

Will be looking for their next project for sure. In fact digging into it now!

Fantastic story and character. I love the art style and the girls. Wish the story was a bit longer and the map is a bit bigger for exploration and additional girls. Overall I love the game and how the ending came to be.

This was one of the first sex games I ever played. Love it!!!!!!!
The characters are sexy, the art is beautiful and the story is nice.
Maybe it is nostalgia but in my opinion it's one of the best ren'py games out there

One of my First Ren´Py Games i played and i still Love it.
The Story is easy but it got me instant, the Atmosphere is great and have a few good Horror Moments, the Visual is unique and Nice. *Chefs Kiss*

The game is polished and works well for sure. The graphics and scenes are alright to good. But the gameplay and writing are really lackluster.

No choices matter and the plot is very under baked. The characters are written by an AI that never left the confines of its server room. The 'progression' with the characters is atrocious as they all behave like sniveling manga character tropes.

I could look past these flaws in another game but this game seems to take itself seriously and has no engaging gameplay or story.