Ren'Py - Completed - Monkey Business [v1.0] [Lazy Monkey]

Review based on V0.6

One of the best games on the site! I enjoyed every minute playing this masterpiece. Some of the hottest scenes I've ever seen, and done in a truly unique way. Story is interesting, gameplay is good, but the Milf is so sexy and seductive. There's one scene in particular that involves a therapist (I won't spoil it) but, it's that build-up of raw emotions and passion between the MC and his milf that just blows my mind, it's so erotic!

Animations are well done, renders/artwork Amazing! I recommend this game to anyone a fan of the genre, truly worth playing. This is one of those hidden gems, loved it!

Thank you Dev!

1. Hilarious dialogues, very funny.
2. Realistic models. Animation and graphics may be better, but this is ebough to make player feel exited in a right way.
3. This is typical story in some details, but on the other side plot twists are good and you dont get bored.
4. Its dirty in a right way, relationships with family members are made just perfect. Good storylines we have here. I dont write review very often, you know, but this game worth it. Wish the author all the best. Thank you.

Highly recommend this game. At start of the game I thought it would be like any other grinding game. But the story is good and characters are super good. There is just one problem with this game is the graphics Please consider upgrading the graphics I loved this game and with better graphics it would be perfect. Hope there will be pregnacy route too in the future for all character. Thank you dev for this game.

Pretty decent VN. I recommend it
PROS
Transitions are good
LI's are lovely
Characters are developed
CONS
Writing needs some help
Summary
Overall this isn't a bad VN. The story is decent enough to keep you interested.
The characters have room for diversity
The writing needs some small tweaks here and there.
Good luck to Lazy Monkey. I'll keep an eye out for future updates

In most regards this game deserves 4 stars. The story isn't all that compelling nor good at keeping interest, but the girl types are right up my alley, art is good, scenes are good and kinky, etc. The interesting thing is that there is a lot of branching character/sex content and, while this is usually a pro, in this game I consider it con and part of the reason for deducting a star.

The writing does a very, very bad job of allowing you to select options that will deliver you to the content you as a player would prefer to see. As an example, I wanted to prioritize mom content so I picked all the dialog prompts that had me spending time with the mom character. Doing so I saw 3 good penetration scenes and I felt content with them. Out of curiosity, I enabled skip/skip after choices and I went back to chose different dialog choices that CLAIM they divert focus from the mom to other characters. To my surprise, by choosing to focus on sister/aunt/etc., I got BETTER mom content than I did by picking the mom options... As an example: instead of spanking the mom during therapy via the mom path, I discovered a scene of MC fucking her raw on the therapist's couch while the therapist pleaded for us to stop but the mom begged for more.

I feel like the dev probably theorized this as a way to increase replayability. This would be true if the player had any control over what they got to see - I was ACTIVELY seeking content with the mother, and got (what I can only assume to be) the shittiest mom content available. If you want to see the best mom content, you need a mod/guide - you cannot get it on your own (naturally, at least).

Considering that dialog choices are the core gameplay mechanic, I consider the core gameplay in this title to be broken to the point that mods are required in order to fix (none of which exist at time of writing, to my knowledge). For this, it gets 2 stars. If the dialog choices guided you correctly, I'd say 4 stars, but they never will be able to due to how much branching in the story there is (unless dev does a huge overhaul which I doubt would be worth while).

Monkey Business has very little to offer in terms of plot. Yes, the father is involved in illegal dealings and fraud, but that is really only the basis on which the corruption game takes place. It is, so to speak, the minimum plot that one expects in a modern VN, without it really gaining in importance. The fraud and the fact that the family suddenly needs a lot of money are simply the explanation for why suddenly everything is possible. And that is too simplistic for me.
Incest exists in Monkey Business, but it feels more like working through a checklist. There is no emotional background, everything just happens, out of necessity to pay the debt or to satisfy a twisted desire to corrupt that is mistaken for genuine love.

The relationship between the siblings has a lot of potential to be interesting, but remains superficial and ultimately a wasted opportunity. Instead of getting closer on a human level and working through conflicts, the result is only a dysfunctional sexual relationship in which it is normal for the sister to steal a sincere love affair from the brother (dominant route) or to submit to him sexually instead (submissive route).

The plot could have been made into something more than corruption porn with its familiar tropes, but that was obviously never the intention and therefore it is rather an average VN experience.

TLDR: A jumbled mess with boring animations and decent graphics

The Good:

• LI models are decent and distinct from each other.

The Meh:

• Animations are there but not done very well. The angles that are used are pretty boring and honestly other non-animated games can be more exciting.
• LIs are so cookie cutter it's just painful and the MC is another boringly generic/stupid man-child.

The Ugly:

• The writing and story is just a convoluted mess that is begging to be skipped. The whole crime plot is just painful to read and you can mostly ignore what LIs are saying because they're going to change their minds or say something different in the next scene.

It's a great game , a unique story , a radical moral breach .
Some choices will lose part of the picture, I recommend choice Sis_Sub , Sis_Dom very mediocre .
One strange point is that the plot alludes to pregnancy numerous times, but none of the girls ever get pregnant .
Author please speed up the update, from the release is only updated four times 15 mouths , which is too slow .

Monkey Business [v0.4.3] [Lazy Monkey]

Pros

• Story is just OK.
• Quality of image renders are fairly good.
• Quality of animations are fairly OK
• English vocabulary is good.
• Good to see lot of characters and most of them are interesting.
• Little interesting due to more occasions of getting caught while having forbidden sex
• Playability, performance and grammar are all just OK no issue

Cons

• Not much of emphasize for incest & polyamorous, considered as just a minor issue or just a little abnormality of life style. Incest is considered as little common.
• Illegal activities like bank robbery & jewelry shop robbery are some casually happening in MC’s life is not recommended.
• Lack of seductiveness in sexual approach
• Addictive to portrait the adventurous sex like MC having sex with females in front/close to their husband. The scenarios for such incidents need improvement
• Error: Guess I noticed few errors in dialogue by whom and few mix up of language (couple occasions the dialogue is in Russian while we selected the English

In summary fairly good entertainment

really nice game wish we could actually see more during sex scenes since we only see boobs every time story is pretty good too i dont mind it being cliche art is quite nice looking forward to the next updates of this game

One of the most overrated game on the site.

I've tried it because I liked the story, the models and tags and it also had a relatively high average rating. But now after playing it, I can't understand how anyone could give this game a rating of 5 stars.

The graphics and animations are not bad, but also not exceptional. The female models look quite good. Some of them I'd rate rather highly even.
The LI-s' personalities are the similar to the ones we have seen 100 times in other games (Bitchy older sister, loving and sexually frustrated mother, innocent female friend, slutty aunt...) with some minor variations, but its not that bad, unless you really want unique memorable characters.
The only one who is rather annoying is the sister, but there is a path for her where you can make her submissive, so hopefully you can fix her attitude later on.
Up till now this game could be a solid 4 stars but then we get to the story.
The general story is also rather cliche, your father is mixed up in some shady deals, which causes him to be (mostly) absent from home and you as the MC have to both, clean up his mess and also be the mat of the house.
The only difference is that he is not completely gone, and sometimes shows up to give you some tasks.

The real problem however that the story is a jumbled mess. The whole mafia story doesn't make sense. Your father is arrested but then he sometimes still comes and gives you tasks. And what stupid tasks they are? Go and rob a bank? You, who had nothing to do with crime previously? Rob a jewelry? But the owner of that is your Dads mafia boss. Why do You have to do this if your father is free? Sometimes your father shows up with one eye, but then has both of them?
It's similar with the relationships progression. First you get a blowjob from a LI then at a later time you are surprised she is kissing you.

I suspect the game was originally planned as a sandbox. Some GUI elements, (sometime you have to click the single character on a location to start an event and the sometimes visible navigation arrows) point to this direction.
I guess when the game was redesigned the already completed events were rejumbled to form some kind of linear progression, but some of these events were moved to a place in the story where they make no sense or made up by combining multiple optional events in a way that doesn't make sense.

Sometimes the game makes you chose between 2 events, I don't now if these were planned to be different paths in the "sandbox" version or you could have chosen the order you do them. But in the current game it seems choosing one of the option puts you on a path and locks you out from the other sometimes without reason except to force you to come back and play the other route.

Still, I don't hate the game. I like the mother, I'd love to see the sister becoming more submissive, and the events with some other LI-s were interesting as well.
With a story that makes sense and ensuring the relationship progresses gradually and not jumping all around from blowjob back to just kissing without a reason it could be a really good game. It still has enough good points to not drop it, but it certainly does not deserve a high rating as it is.

Im kind of flabbergasted how this has such high ratings.
It doesnt have good graphics. It doesnt have good dialogs, and the overall storyline is pretty meh.
It looks and feels like it was made 15 years ago, by someone who isnt used to writing stories.

It has nothing but fast pace going for it. And thats not always a good thing.

the game you have turned out to be very interesting and sincere very pleasant to play and read good luck to you in developing further content and may you have a lot of fans and still have a lot of health

Gotta say that this for me is a 4/5 though it gets upgraded to a 5/5 for the hilarious writing that the dev does not even try to hide or camouflage much. Funny and decent looking game also models are OK and not the typical ones you see in all other VNs much so that's kinda refreshing.

Would have given it a better rating if it wasnt for the MC hair like wtf was the game creator thinking....like im going to give this guy the dumbest hair on the planet. I think alot of game creators model their MCs after themselves and let me tell you something thats a big mistake stop doing it!

If you are ok with a somewhat over the top and (most likely) intentionally silly plot about a shady father who involves his family in a fake bank robbery to cover up embezzlement at his workplace, then Monkey Business can be lots of fun.

Monkey Business is your typical family themed game, it doesn't reinvent the wheel. It's also pretty fast paced, but not to the point of total absurdity, there is some build-up, but things progress very rapidly here and the MC will have sex with his mother, sister and aunt not too long into the game.
You won't need to unlock certain activities in a long grind, the progression route doesn't waste time. The son can grope the mother very early into the game and things do escalate rather quickly. Even at a relative early stage of development (it's maybe 3 hours of playtime) there already are plenty of scenes with the mother, sister and aunt plus some action on the side.

There are not that many romanceable characters in the game, but I think that's a positive. The young MC can engage with his somewhat bitchy and dominant sister (but she's only bitchy on the surface). The relationship between the MC and the sister is a tug of war, you can choose to be submissive or more dominant, but it's based on love. The two routes for the sister can be pretty different in tone, so choose whatever you like best, it will make a difference.
Then there is the mother of course, the typical somewhat sexually frustrated housewife who looks a lot younger than her age, and finally there is a very forward sexy aunt.
There are a few other female characters, a teacher, yet another teacher and her daughter, a cousin, but the focus is very much on the immediate family.

The female characters are all attractive, there are also no exaggerated body parts. The MC also looks ok. His face is not hidden.
The renders are a bit noisy, the animations are short, but fine, they do the job, it's nothing you haven't seen elsewhere.
There is no music in the game, so if you want music you need to play something in the background.

Monkey Business is plain good old fun, nothing is too serious here, a few situations border on the absurd, like the father (who is mostly absent from the game) asking his kids to stage a bank robbery, but it's always entertaining. The game won't bore you with too much drama or unnecessary side plots. It's a very focused game and I think most people will welcome this approach.

So if you like family themed games then Monkey Business is absolutely worth playing.

amazing game.. the developers do know how to setup a good relationship.. how they use typical daily clothes to make stuff real and how genuine the story progressess..

definitely give it a shot.. you will not regret it..
the visuals are good but it is the story that takes the cake..

wish for more games like these!!

Played latest version of the game. So far so good.
Nice graphic/art/models.

I really like the sister a lot. MC and sister have a fun relationship. That is a 5/5. Story is like 4, but it is just still at the beginning tho, so.

Monkey Business [v0.4.1] – 4/5 stars.

By every metric, Monkey Business is an underrated game, and a satisfying experience all the way through. There’s a lot going for it: the sanguine humor, the character designs, and the overall simplicity of the game’s construction. The premise is a familiar one. We control Denis, our main character, who lives at home with his mother, Eve, and sister, Kira. In secret, Denis enters into a sexual relationship with them, as he simultaneously pursues his teacher, a school friend, as well as his aunt and cousin. What scenes we see is tied to our choices: Eve's love and corruption paths, and with Kira, there’s a choice between selecting male and female domination paths. We can choose to be with the other women as we wish. What is established is pretty clear, and is never bogged down by any melodrama, or world-building, or any other tedium of that nature.

In terms of the overall narrative, the story is fragmentary. There’s very little transition in between scenes. and they begin and end at will. This is fairly disorienting, and what holds the plot together are the relationships forged between the main character and the girls. Kira is a personal favorite; she has an independent streak about her, frequently getting into trouble at home and at school. She teases Denis constantly. Their tête-à-tête engagements are a nice mix of sexual tension and playful banter. The sibling dynamics feel natural (natural to the extent as incest fantasies are). Eve is a loving and affectionate mother, and though his relationship to her mom is a taboo one, it's also romantic. She falls in love with a younger man, which happens to be her son. The seduction in the game seems rooted in love, not lust, and for that reason, the sex scenes are tastefully portrayed, without veering off into maudlin introspection.

What sets Monkey Business apart from other games is that the strength and weaknesses are one and the same. The renders are passable, as the images have a bit of noise due to the rendering process or the lighting. Whatever the case may be, the visuals look slightly dated. However, the low resolution of the images are offset by the understated character designs. The look of the women draw us in, they are attractive and refined, in an unqualified style. Their personalities and how they’re written make them look better than they might have been otherwise, and makes us overlook the flaws. Your friend Alice is cute and innocent, as is your teacher, and your aunt and cousin are mirror images of Kira, flirty and coy. As for the writing, the translation from Russian to English is wonky and clipped (like the line "This is some good weather"), but the distinctness of the dialogue, the humor and charm shoots through the dark. The literal-mindedness of the translation is more often funny than not, and the comedic moments never feel forced. The game, and consequently, the sex scenes, are short. It’s easy to complete this in one sitting; yet for a game that’s still in its infancy, there’s a lot of paths we can pursue. There’s no gameplay as such, there are the remnants of a free-roam game, and we can click on a scene to proceed, which doesn’t add or subtract from the experience in any significant detail. Monkey Business is a wonderful gem of a game, one which deserves your love and attention.

0.4.1

Graphics are outdated and the girls are kinda to fast on MCs cock.
-> First or second day and mc hugs, kisses and gropes his mom and shes like "oh, didnt say i dont like it but let nobody see this..."
There was no real interaction between them before this

Basics of sandbox but never fully implemented
-> There are arrows around the house which you cant click on and between conversations you will have the "option" to click on the girls in the scene to start the situation BUT there are no choices between girls etc since you can only click on one each time...