Ren'Py - My Cute Roommate 2 [v15.06150 Extra] [Astaros3D]

Good Points
+ The new revamped story and dialogues are better than old weird ones.
+ Art style and render quality looks pretty good.
+ We have animations for sex scenes and their physics and FPS value are pretty good.
+ Old MC was quite cringy and weird boy with weird GF obsession of him, revamped one is better, but still not good as it should.

Bad Points
- The new revamped story and dialogues are better than old weird ones, but that doesn't change the fact this game doesn't even have original story and aside from MC's dick going to become small as before if he find right pheromone from vaginal sex, which is even worse than first game story, story is literally copy & paste from the first game, and it's just makes this game his old game with different assets, and that's just pointless.
- MC is not self-inserted and his name can't be changed.
- The choices mean nothing, you can't choose anything you want or avoid anything you don't want. We have tons of unavoidable scenes like, Masha's scene with Vasya, Lida's GYM scene, or Tolik's scene involved with you, Katya and Dean or Gulya's scene in Slums, Vasya's involvement with MC & Julia on GYM, etc, there are even scenes with love interests from other games... This is a sandbox game and it should give players choice, especially considering the game got revamp and still didn't change enough despite losing saves is big wasted opportunity.
- Skip feature doesn't work properly.
- Game is buggy AF, literally every version comes with bugs blocking you from progress, and that's just nonsense AF.
- Every girl/woman acts like horny whores and there is literally no love interest in this game, and DEV constantly ruins even girls/women can have romance path like Olya with terrible content or Anya as well. And it gets worse, with last update now Olya's face revealed by ''mistake'' to internet, and Anya used that to blackmail her... BRUH...
- Despite having good-looking art and renders some girls/women's faces looks quite unattractive or attractive ones looks unattractive when they make some facial gestures etc. Their bodies looks hot that's for sure but faces and facial gestures needs some changes.
- Why we have talking dick with eyes and teeth?! And he is even blinking... That's just... Creepy AF...
- Minigames are quite annoying, but at least after some time pass you can skip them.
- We lost save compatibility again with latest updates and you need to start from zero again.
- It still has no gallery for sex scenes/animations.

For The End
This is a game only good for letting out some steam and aside from that good for nothing.

You would expect someone who has already made 2 games to understand how the game dynamics work before implementing it but nah not here it's just buttload of crap where you would be stuck in some of the bug which wouldn't let the game move forward & if that was not enough now you have a talking dick interrupting the dialogues every two minute.

I LOVED MCRM 1
So I was excited for this follow up. But so far this is disappointing. I'm on version 4 . The story about a spy sounded promising but so far this has not been exploited. Maybe later it will be more prominent. Also, playability is clunky, in the house you cannot walk around. You have to use a map to visit each room. You cannot walk around like you could in their prior games. However, you can walk around in the school so maybe this will change in future updates.
The renders are good. Astaros always has good renders.
I never listen with volume so I cannot say much about Sound or Voice Acting.
The tasks are very simple. "talk with the dean," or "borrow a camera." In the prior games the player needed to explore to solve the tasks and that exploration is very easy because the world is very small but also because the game indicates the exact map-positions to explore to complete the tasks. I would like it to be a little more challenging. I seem to have found a bug where my task is to ask the dad for money to get a camera but when I ask him, the only dialogue option is "nothing."
I don't remember seeing any animations but Asteros always has good animations and I'm sure they will be good in the future.
Grammar needs improvement. English is obviously a 2nd language because sentence structure is awkward and distracting. Asteros' completed games don't have this issue so I'm sure it will be corrected before completion.
I know this is a work in progress and I know Asteros' prior work is good quality but for the amount I in Patreon, I expect more quality content.

I give it a 4 mostly because of it does the job. When I start a porn game I'm here mostly for porn, a little bit of gameplay, decent protagonist, and girls. I'm not looking for the next last of us in terms of overall everything.

Pros: Good art, animation, and good grammar.

Cons: (Not a big one for me) Writing is mid if you're looking for a introspective story on life, love, and art,
1. Why are you playing a porn game
2. LMAOOO you're not gonna find it here.

Go in to the game if you want to beat your meat.

Game version: 0.4

The games by Astaros are obviously getting dumber game by game. "Girl House" had at least some sort of (yet bad) story, MCR 2 starts with situations and scenes that might be great to fap to (that's what we are all here, at last..), but storywise, it's a hard failure. The animated scenes are done quite well, some offer different angles to choose from- good!
The performance (another former issue of Astaros games) is nice, much better than in Girl House. No isses to far.

What really made me "downvote" this game was the miserable presentation + story. I don't mind games that come straight to sex, but others aren't that confusing at least.

Like I said for the first game: Great renders and good animations. But this guy really needs a writer. I can't enjoy a game if it's writing is this level of bad.

Also what'a all these games furthering away from real incest. Find a way to do it!

Gfx and anims are awesome. If you've liked the earlier games from this dev you'll prob like this also. The story is fairly straightforward - PC travels to Russia (oh noes... cancelled!) on a student exchange program and stays at some mafia oligarch's household of hot blondes, while also being recruited by a hot CIA agent to prevent him from carrying out a terrorist plot... you get the picture. It provides a framework for the lewd content without being bloated and overly complex, which is what I expect from these games. 5/5 from me.

It's not a game... it's a collection of dev' errors, mistakes, bugs and copy/paste'd content from the previous game.

Do not play this if you value your time.
You can be fooled by the appearance, but then the lack of substance of the game will severly hit you. There is a word to describe this kind of "work", and it's not "good game".

My Cute Roommate 2 (0.5 version) is a step up in many directions with regards to the first one, but not in all. The bad is the story, this one is way more outlandish and makes even less sense than the first, and isn't written any better. The small tie-ins with the first would be nicer if I cared about those girls but I didn't, and now the second one is not making a better job creating build up and tension. But the sandbox part seems to have been simplified which is nice, making it easier to navigate and find what to do but grinding has come into this version with a terrible minigame and it's a very bad sign.

The big step up is in the production. Character models are very good this time, much improved with regards to the first game. Animations are also way better, even though sex scenes are still just "stick in. fuck, cum", nothing more. Music and sound effects are nice, but not incredible. As for bugs, like in the first, they are present and important, I actually had to restart the game because the map wouldn't show up to one point; now it's not a drama, but it brings back bad memories from the first game.

So, I didn't want to rule this one out when I played version 0.3 but now on 0.5 seems like the evolution is going in the wrong direction. And the introduction of the dick character is just down stupid.

After the terrible game that was Girl House, I was hesitant to play this but did after a few patches and it's turning out to be a good game like the first Cute Roommate game, hope he keeps it up with a good amount of content and sexy scenes!

I tried this cause i liked the previous game, but oh boy, this is so much worse.
The begining how the MC came to his large dick was funny, but after this it goes downhill, very fast.

For the good :
-Models look good
-Animations while being short, are ok

Now for the bad:
-There really isn't any kind of story
-The women are all sluts (oh what a big dick, need to jump that)
-The dialogue is just bad

The horrible:
-The MC
Did u ever watch Forrest Gump ? Because good old Forrest looks like Einstein compared to the MC, reading the dialogue and monologue of this MC is painful.

As for the plot, honestly every cheap amateur porn clip has likely a better one compared to that whatever this should be.

V0.3
Dare I say "boner-city"? Story is a bit roughshod, but let's be honest, whos here for story? Astaros does another great job with gorgeous models and it's worth a wank. I'm not really sure what else to say to hit the character limit, but assuming you aren't a story snob and you like big boobed bimbos being boned, you'll enjoy this one.

Needs to change the synopsis on this page. As far as I can tell, the MC is in a foreign country as an exchange student and isn't related to anyone.
Not a big fan of over-sized people. Be it the tits on the women or the dicks on the men. The MC has an over-large dick, though the way it got that ways is kind of funny and is something I've never seen in a game before.
Hope the story can make up for that one downside.

LOL. There is no story here. If you are thinking about playing this be prepared to turn your brain of and fap mindlessly to the beautiful models on screen.
If that is not what you are looking for well u should probably look elsewhere. Id give it s 2.5 but that's not supported so I rounded to 3.

If this game was made 4 or 5 years ago then I would give it a better rating. But it is 2022. I will be discussing the pros and cons of this game.
Pros:
- Excellent Graphics and image quality
- Good renders
- Good animations
Cons:
- The Engrish and Writing is nothing exceptional
- The story is very stupid and illogical (A wasp bites your pee-pee and It becomes a permanently huge monster cock? You serious?)
- The MC is a spoiled pervy brat and a stupid loser who gets everything from the sky. For what again?
- Characters lack personality and are basically all sluts
- Image shaking kills the mood
- The game also has a few bugs

I would like to state that I normally ignore a lot of the cons I mentioned. But this is the third game from a developer who has been around for a long time. The developer also has quite an amount of support. These kinds of problems are not acceptable in this case.

The first game was amazing, good models good build up to the nudity sex and the story and events was decent enough to keep you interested. This game like his last was just so plain, boring and every update was lackluster and more of the same every few months. The models are still good, the animations are kinda weird and everything takes long to accomplish with strange zoom in affects and stuff.

One of the best games I ever personally played, a big round of applause to the content creator! Here are some remarks regarding the game

-Good renders
-Silly yet entertaining storyline
-Hot girls
-Not a blueballs game

I cannot simply wait for the next updates

Due to shallow and biased "hate" reviews, I changed it to 5 stars. MODs need to do something about those quick 1 star reviews. At the end of the day thought, nobody cares about this forum

v0.9 Extra.
After some consideration I changed the rating from 2 to 4.
I have been playing these kind of games since 2017. The prism of time now made me look at things from a different perspective.
And I like to think that maybe, just maybe the dev read the earlier review.
I wrote how the updates were shortcoming. Not much to ponder about. Also the lack of sex scenes with the three hot blondes.
SO what happened. Astaros went into hiding for four months since 0.8. People thought he literally died. Out of nowhere the 0.9 release came out.
In it we got four sex scenes: two with Lida, one with Gulya the maid, the last one with Julia (the schoolgirl). One blowjob scene with the hot mom from Girl House. Two bikini showcases with Lida and her daughter Olya. There are also many angles, which make watching the sex scenes much more enjoyable.
The story line also moves further into the fray. All those quests people were making fun of have been finished or at least are "moving along" into the good direction. Our main protagonist finally doesn't seem to be lost and we with him.
I want to explain what I really think about the Dick thing. It's a narrative mechanic. Instead of the MC, the dick character holds the reins and talks directly towards to player. This is a much better experience then a mindless harem game. That allows Derek to stay "normal". People complain every female character bangs Derek...This literally happens in almost every other game! Here Derek stay oblivious to his surroundings. He is on a wild adventure. The wicked fate "blessed" him with a massive schlong (which works as an aphrodisiac) and sent him on a Campbellian journey. On top of that THIS IS A SEX GAME. People seriously keep forgetting about this...I don't want to read a god damn Nobel prized novel. Derek lands in the middle of a storm of predicaments. And it's up to him to straighten or "loosen" them all.
We also get to see things from the female characters' perspective. Derek isn't the only one playing the main tune.
Astaros, please make a study option/learn (raise intelligence, knowledge, learn) of Rita's seminars when skipping time, so we as the player's can actually feel good about ourselves and have Derek do something meaningful. Maybe when Derek has enough Knowledge, Rita will service him or just unlock new quests for her. I want Derek to be more of a slave for her ;]
I also want Derek to send Tina, his conquest selfies. Photos of him banging all the hot babes. Tina would get jealous and start sending him back her own spicy selfies in erotic lingerie. Maybe even some sex scenes ,NTR themed ones just to annoy the harem snowflakes . I prefer the angry and dominant Tina.
I like the chemistry between the Dean and Julia. Hope to see more story driven interactions between as much characters as possible(where Derek is more of a catalyst instead off a harem character woman fawn over).
I noticed a massive hate towards this game. Many one star reviews. I played a new game and haven't found any bugs. People still keep complaining about the wrong, shallow things. The dev hasn't forgotten about the minigames. He stays true towards himself. The card game now makes more sense and requires a little bit attention from our gray cells (maybe some reviewers lack that ability...). The minigames are varied and allow for some distraction without being overtly annoying.
Honestly speaking I prefer MCR2 over a mindless pastiche like Midnight Paradise...The dev really put massive work into this update. Only now the game looks more fleshed out with arms and legs. It slowly looks like an actual product. I hope he won't give up on MCR2 and keeps making content for it.
This is truly a No-Man's-Sky redemption arc. Astaros needs to stay focused and on point in order to keep making content with Lida, Anya and Olya.
P.S. ...pssst dev...more NTR
0.6
This dev just doesn't get it...On the menu screen there are three hot blondes...all he needs to do is make content with them...
Instead he made another scene with Katya...
He lied and didnt make any sex scenes with the Dean...he literally quit half way through...
Who the hell asked for the new web cam girl spam? Imagine if the dev continued with Lida, Anya or the Dean...You know...actual content...
Talk to the Dean 2023
Buy new bikini for Lida 2024
Get the data from Ivan's laptop 2025
Buy a mobile 2026
Finish the photoshot with Anya 2027(the content with should have been done this update btw...)
For fucks sake the Anya photoshoot is now one year in the making...
The gym content is completely useless. We don't get to bang the Dean. On top of that there is no point to it. Ffs The MC can't even work out in it. Dev is obsessed with mini games?! The gym is the perfect opportunity! This could help us in increasing stats needed for scoring with the dean sex...
I clearly see the problem...
When i play these updates i don't feel that any progress is being accomplished...It's just random spam...The dev really needs to concentrate on one girl and do serious scenes for her...It feels like we are being feed with bread crumbs...
0.4
We finally got a good glimpse into Lida's life.
There is a good reason behind her being so sex crazed. I found her desperate attempts amusing.
I was expecting a kind of a cat and mouse game betwen her and Mikhail. This could have been a continuing effort throughtout the updates. Her trying to get into his pants. More absurd situations of Lida trying to get him to fuck her. Second stroyline next to the MC.
When she pulled down Mikhail's pants, i was ready to see a proper blowjob scene. After which, Mikhail storming out with Lida following him with her hungry gaze and a mouthfull of a predator still unsatisfied.
Instead we got a literally deflated example of another dev not having enough balls.
I already noticed it. The MC with his humongous shlong makes every effort of a storyline pointless. He banged the doc, dean , stewardess with little to zero effort.
First three updates wasted on useless filler.
Now we will be getting random scene where he sacks one girl after another in similar fashion.
One dude complained earlier Lida has no character. She has character but with the MC's pointlessly big plotbreaker, the dev doesn't have to put much effort into writing. The characters don't need much fleashing out, cause they all fall over the MC's baseball bat. It's a lazy device...Shame. Enjoyed the Lida scenes.
0.3 is a disaster. THREE AND HALF MONTHS of waiting for a blowjob scene with a random girl completely unrelated to the story line.... And again people give out 4 and five star reviews for this nonsense. On top of that the update is bugged.
His patrons were asking him if the game was bugged, because it ended to fast. They literally thought there is more content...NOPE


Something broke down in Astaros.
Today i paid 22€ for rehashed content.
0.1 is basically a humongous useless filler.
0.2 should be 0.1. And it's seriously lacking.
The dream scenes are so outdated it's tiresome. Random sex with a doctor(rehashed model from Girl House) and stewardess. Uneccesary. Then the headmistress which is a next rehashed model this time from MCR1. I get it this is a mindless sex game but we waited sometime. Two and a half months from 0.1 to 0.2. We get introduced to three hot blondes(two of which arent even ingame yet!) and instead get nothing. In Girl House at least the action took place around four particular female characters. In here the dev already wasted time. He should straight from the get go show us some spicy content with the three blondes. Instead he wastes time on filler.
This dev mentality is really annoying. So backwater. Remeber BeingADIK? How the game started with a BANG party?
This is really needed here. Astaros creates the best models and then isn't utilizng them to their fullest. Not cashing in! More random sex scenes with characters that are outside the main plot. Astaros fails at coherent writing and setting up sensible sex scenes among the main ingame characters.
But i already noticed this in his games. As a whole MCR(My Cute Cousin) and GH are visualy the best...when you play them as a finished product. Astaros has some serious problem with update pacing.


MCR2 is a contentless snooze. Come back in two years time...unless he again decides two drop a project like the earlier two games...

Obviously this is the very first version of the game, so the rating doesn't mean much. However, it gives a solid idea of what the game will be from now on.

Compared to the first cute rommate:
1-Animations are very smooth, and changeable angles during those animations are a good bonus.
2-Better rendering is easily seen.
3-Even the sperm animation is good, which is rare to see, cuz its very hard to model.
4-plotwise its an interesting change that the MC 5-Dialogues are good.

Overall it seems like the game is going in the right direction,.

EDIT: love this game/characters/scenes but the game is a mess and really sucks to get stuck and have to start over because if you don't play it in a very specific order you can get stuck. This could easily be remedied with a mod to adjust money or include a time skip (but as far as I know I can't find any and the guide isn't that good/clear).

From 4 to 5 stars: think game is a lot better now that the tasks seem to be a lot more reliable than before and have time icons attached to them. Scenes/ideas still excellent and exciting. Really hope to see more continuations of already existing storylines rather than introducing even more characters but they're still good and think it would be good to introduce more characters after first progressing some storylines first like I really wanna see more Masha/the bathroom girl. Writing quality/dialogue is still kinda meh/not the best. Luckily it can be editted which is nice imo so it's 5 stars for me.

always really loved the visuals of MCR1 but hated the grind so much i never really go into it. MCR2 looks like a big improvement in that regard. the pacing is a lot better. maybe a little straight into sex but it doesn't feel pointless even though there's already sex. it feels like it has good erotic build up. visually looks fantastic. grind is non-existent so far (and i hope it stays that way or at least not nearly as much as MCR1)

update: I really don't understand why this is getting so many bad reviews. This is far better than a lot of games that are rated 4-4.5/5. This has been a solid 10 overall for me. The biggest weakness it has is the writing execution but the pacing/story/characters/scene setups are all on the better side. It would be better if a writer could develop a clearer sense of tone and personality in the specific character's dialogues because I do feel like design wise, this game does something that is pretty rare which is that all the characters look fantastic but they also look different. You can kinda tell they all fit into the same sense of aesthetic/taste but they don't just look like recycled assets repurposed on different characters. I do think their individuality could be pushed a little more but I'm really not complaining as it's already pretty rare any game has a cast of characters that all look good while looking unique. You only really see that in some of the best games really and even then they sometimes suffer a "recycled assets" look sometimes.