Ren'Py - Completed - My Cute Roommate [v1.6.1 Ex Beta] [Astaros3D]

The grind... Same problem in the sequel too

The MC becomes even dumber in the sequel, atleast here he acts like a guy who isn't chromosome deficient.

The story is terrible

Hope this helps someone if they're gonna try this sad excuse of a grind fest

This Dev makes it so hard to love his games. The models are unique for sure, but still hot and his stories are very clever. I wanted to give it some love as it's much better than it's current rating.
It's not path driven, so go crazy! However, this game barely attempts to guide you in any way, so a WT is absolutely necessary, which is why I can't give it 5 stars. (You'll literally fumble around trying to figure out of things work, which stalls the quest until you do.)
If you can get past the need of a WT, this is a very enjoyable game, so give it a try.

I discovered this game thanks to Girl House, but it's less extensive, less detailed, and apart from a few scenes, most of it isn't much fun.
For me, the worst part is the money-earning mini-games, which are long and redundant. I don't usually mind having this kind of element, but having to do a memory 20 times is a pain in the ass.

I recently got to know the game and it has a good designer for the female characters and good sex scenes, especially with the girl roommate.

However, the game lacks a lot when it comes to progression, with you constantly getting stuck in some part of the story if you don't have a step-by-step walkthrough.

Another negative point is the constant bugs, which often cause you to lose your save, as happened to me a few times.

Also negative is the fact that you can see that the game has been rushed, with some female characters being misused or having their content cut.

At some point in the story, characters who get involved with the MC will get involved with other guys, such as the dean, the daughter of the company director and the trainer at the gym.

I only recommend you start playing this game if you have the patience to deal with all its problems and have a keen interest in seeing its scenes.

I have a mixed feelings about this one.
As with most games the idea is good, but it's poorly implemented.

As other have stated, the grind and repetitiveness is way too much. I didn't get the feeling of being engaged in the game in this part. Same text over and over again with slow response between each line and button click is just not a liked feature.
Some of the things feel kind of useless and unnecessary too. For example, taking shower everyday.
Also, this "game over on wrong choice" thing is big no-no.

When it comes to navigation, it's true that without a walkthrough, the player doesn't usually know what to do. I realize that the intent may be to have exploration component to it, which is fine, but there should be some minimum amount of heuristics/hints that will serve as guidance in every moment.

The models are hot and there is variety in terms of looks and character.

I realize that making a game is difficult (I have a couple of failed projects myself) and you can't satisfy every player's preferences. (Half the people here want sandbox and the other half prefer VN's without gameplay) The thing is that you as a developer should be active with your playerbase and create a feedback loop in which you correct mistakes and improve over time, which obviously didn't happened here.

The only reason I don't give this game one star is because it has very good artwork, and the girls are very hot

The gameplay is bad, poorly written and hard if you don't have a walkthrough

Sometimes it also has a hard time to save/load

Review of My Cute Roommate [v1.6.1 Ex Beta] ...

... as a game:
* Poor story. You move to the city to your cousin home. You have a disease and you need to get laid to cure it...
* Poor dialogs.
* There's music, sounds but no voices.
* Too grindy. So recommended to use the ingame cheats.
* Poor performance. Luckily, no crashes.
... regarding its erotic side:
* Character design is good. Almost all girls are very hot. The game is too simple to know them better. Your are a simp, you gift them things, they do things for you.
* Scenes are very good.
* Animations are bad.
* There's music, some sounds but no voices.
* No Gallery mode, just images.

Nice artwork and story ok but gameplay very boring and slow, you get stuck without knowing if there is a bug or something.
I've spent more time looking for help than actually playing.
The the save/load process is also very slow.

Great models, the story is too short though. I also chuckled at the model for the chairmans daughter and her dialogue alluding to DMD. I need greater support on mobile and a cheqt for the whole gallery.

This game has a good models and good sex scenes but everything else other than this things chore to play . Only thing sandbox do for this game is making game grindy and hard to finish .If you dont have any good gameplay or meaning to add to sandbox then dont make sandbox it just making game worse for artificially making longer.

Got finally to play this “masterpiece” lol. I lost the traction of it because on a weekly basis the NTR tag gets either added or removed. So let's put the damn cat out of the sack: Yes, there is NTR, it's not avoidable, but it's not the full focus of it. Probably like around 30% of it if you also want to call lesbian ones too because this game has a good amount of it. Despite being a full blown sandbox you have zero choices. Everything happens like on rails but you have the privilege to grind through it and waste your time doing it.

Except for the good models there is no praise for me here. Story is dumb, characters are dumber, scenarios how they develop even more dumber. I wouldn't even suggest that with a walkthrough mod, only gallery unlock and you did everything right.

The game doesn't have rollback, that's a big problem.

The sandbox needs some work, the options text is very large and takes up a lot of space on the screen, like many of the icons like map, tasks or items I have.

The story also leaves a lot to be desired, for example, the MC moves to a new city to start college, which he still needs to enroll in, and he still needs to study before even joining, he didn't move to start college, he moved to try to get into college.

Many bugs that prevent progress, the heart button to see the points we have earned from the girls does not work, when I try to select a girl the screen returns to the game screen.
The menu also has bugs, sometimes I place the mouse over the save or load option, but it doesn't always work, and some menu actions are slow, save or load, very slow.

This is an awesome experience once you get past all of the playability bugs.

The good
All of the models and dialogs are superb . The setup is perfect especially incest patch (the true game). Then you meet the cousin and well I feel like I would need to describe everything that happens thus spoiing it so I'll just say if incest comics are a genre you enjoy this game has moments that will be very satisfying.

The bad
If you've read many of the posts in the thread you might come across a few people who're having trouble following the walkthrough of the game. That because if you do something in an order the game doesn't expect you'll easily 'soft-lock' it and normally you'll have to go back to a save were its no soft-locked in order to progress.

However I was able to use Universal Ren'Py Mod to work around the games issues. Without it I could easy have given up completely.

This is also one of those ren'py games where saving and loading takes like a half a minute to do each time so that's not pleasent.

Rating
Although, I loved this game I can't say it's perfect. Still, the content is totally perfect

The game was fine. It had a rather linear story with not much going on. Writing felt incredibly on the nose. The daz models were really made. They didn't like default templates rips at all. The animations were also fine but really rough. And it looks like the dev has a fetish for muscular ladies.

But the game was absolutely riddled with bugs. I could not even save and load the game without having it crash. Renpy can only handle so much sandbox and this was its limit.

Still a decent game. 8/10.

Graphic
7/10 -> Nice models, good variety. Sometimes they look weird tho, especially with facial expressions

Story
7/10 -> Okayish story, nothing exceptional but it is there and it's not too bad

Gameplay
7/10 -> Good gameplay, not excessive grinding, not easy and not difficult, a good balance that let you enjoy the game. Sometimes you may get lost on what to do next

Girls
7.5/10 -> Different girls, nice variety as i said already, so can't complain. But yet, sometimes the weird facial expressions cannot be not noticed.

Bonus
+1 for good incest build-up relationship

Total
29.5/40 -> Not a bad game but not the super good game that you hear around, you enjoy it but surely won't be your favourite game

My Cute Roommate [v1.6.1 Ex Beta] [Astaros3D]
Nice game but it has too many negative factors that bothered me.
The game has bugs, from the most harmless like the error where you just need to "ignore" to the most serious ones, where they force you to play a new game, like delivering the costume to Emily first, so you can no longer buy other costumes in the shop , interrupting almost the entire game.
The scenes are not bad but the girls' faces are almost always horrible to see, even the bodies are not always well proportioned. The only character done properly is Anna. Also the scenes are too long.
Some scenes in the gallery can no longer be recovered after certain events, so it is impossible to complete the game 100% without a walkthrough.
The game offers a good variety of languages available, which is a very positive factor. Sure, they won't be translated perfectly, but they aren't bad either, they make you understand the content.
Normal story, characters as already said quite disappointing, so-so animations and graphics.
I still recommend trying the game, it's not so bad that it doesn't deserve an opportunity.

I didn't enjoy playing this game. The amount of grinding frustrating and/or tedious minigames really turned me off despite the pretty renders. If people have to resort to cheating, it's probably bad game design.

Main plus : very good artwork 4.5/5. Some interesting scenes.
Basically no plot. The progress is ok and mostly linear.
Main minus, from my point of view - there are several places in the progress, when you don't know how to move forward and you may need to check the forum for help.

Good game, the roommates and the others charachters are beautifull, the stoy is nice and not too long. a Good compromise between sex scenery and the story. If you like huge breast and big cock, you will like it.

Pros:
+ Nice looking and sexy models (although some characters have weird body proportions)
+ Many good and hot scenes

Cons:
- Main plot and whole story is a bit dumb
- Animations are somehow unnatural
- Too much boring money grinding
- There could be more sex ecounters with side charaters

Despite all the flaws I mentioned it's still really good game to play.