VN - Ren'Py - My Dorm [v0.19.1 P2 Ch.7] [Trope95]

I'm just laughing at the recent reviewers who are all up in arms over the unfairness of the MC in a porno game telling his harem not to NTR him while sexing up everything with a pulse.

Maybe they should make a sign calling for "equal rights for fictional porn game love/lust interests" and march up and down the street in their nations capital chanting and blocking traffic until someone takes them seriously (could be there for a while). The greatest generation had WW2, the boomers had vietnam, and these folks have......equal rights for female shaped pixels in video games..... . Every generation has their battle, I suppose...

Anyways, if you ignore those people, like you should, it's a fun game. Nothing new or ground breaking, but the girls are cute and there's a good amount of action. If you like harem games and don't have trouble remembering it's a game and not real life (like some people), then check it out. Don't expect the great novel of our age, but that's not why most people play these games.

Yes, it's the millionth adaption of the same old concept. It's literally like watching the same movie forever. I am not sure how you guys do it. BUT I can't really fault the game about this, since it's pretty clear what it tries to achieve. It's yet another harem power fantasy. It's all it is meant to be and I assume that's why you are here anyway.

It's one of the better versions of TEH HAREM. The plot is still beaten into submission with a crowbar. The girls still fall in love with the MC for no reason whatsoever and say things no living woman would say or think. So far, so similar.

Unfortunately it eventually loses all cohesion with a flood of faceless women coming in that all go through the same bullshit (Oh, I love him, Oh he has other women, Oh, I accept it anyway, Let's fuck).

What it has going for it though is that it is fairly entertaining and the characters are different enough to be interesting - at least the first dozen or so.

As far as Happy Meals go, this one is at least still warm. Enjoy.

Edit: I have to add, that the "I can have anyone, but you can't kiss/look/smile at anyone but me" really bothers me. It's ok to not show it or even act on it on the girls part, but fucking around as the MC and disallowing the women the same freedom comes across as really incel-ish. Meh (-1 Star).

I give it a 5/5 because the story is fun and the characters are quite good. Those two aspects are so good that they honestly carry the game despite a few shortcomings and flaws.

Game is not perfect, but nothing is. The overall atmosphere is good and very fun. A lot of things are not realistic, but, honesty, if you want realistic go outside.

My main gripe is that there are some images/scenes that need quite a bit of polish. There are a few but the worst example is the scene on the beach with a specific girl where her nipples look like they have been through a meat grinder and then clumsily glued back on. I exaggerate for effect of course, but it really looks bad.

EDIT:
I have to change the rating to 2/5, the "girls are not allowed to date other guys because of stds, but MC couldn't possibly get std from a girl he is dating, what??", completely ruined it for me, Dumbest thing i have ever read.
And the more i play the worse it gets with elaborate harem/porn logic that is completely unnecessary.

Old review:
It is obvious that this is a porn game first, and as such i rate it 4/5.
If I were to rate it as more than just porn game, it would be more like 2/5

The good:

• Renders are OK, not the best, but improving. Animations are not the best in the beginning, but for me personally if scenes are erotic enough with just writing then i don't really need animations, and that is definitely the case for this game. Some other reviewers mentioned that animations improve later on, so that is also good (i only played part 1 so far)
• Writing is really good, especially considering that English is not devs native language.
• All scenes with girls are erotic, it not just porn, i like that
• Pacing in both lewd content, and other content is also good
• Girls have different personality, they are not basically one person that just looks different like in so many other games

The bad

• Too many girls, even with just "family" there are way to many LIs for my liking, but they each get lots of content so that makes up for it at least
• MC is 21, but looks 40, which would have been fine, but then he also acts like 40 year old, he has 20 years of life experience just from going to college, not really realistic

Some thing that i dislike, but wouldn't necessarily have it as a con for this game, since it is a harem game after all:

• None of the girls will reject MC for any reason, they all lust after him like he is the only male on the planet
• Most of the girls are single and/or virgin, the ones that are not single have asshole boyfriend that MC takes care of like a hero that he is, or they haven't had sex in decades, etc.
• The only other male NPC, on top of being gay (which is fine) he is also disabled. I feel like this was done to make him not competitor to MC
• MC doesn't want to be with any girl that is also involved with other guys, but he himself whats to be with multiple girls, and they all accept it. I dislike this because it just shows that MC doesn't care about any of the girls as much as they care about him, they make a compromise while he doesn't.

Just competed my first run through and found this game to be absolutely excellent.
There a quite ridiculous amount of LI's but the creator has somehow managed to make them all entirely distinct and uniquely interesting...not to mention that they are all wonderful eye candy.
The writing is top notch and has a really light touch with a wonderful sense of comedy underpinning the whole thing.
A+++.

This is definitely a five star game, but the main reason for a three star rating is owing to "Too much of anything is good for nothing" too many characters, too many kinks and too many situations, I think this game is good and then logic is all great, but if only we had fewer characters and were done with one story that would be nice, a few characters is fine but this is too much.

This game is perhaps the most cliche game I've ever played. I'm about 30 minutes in, and I've seen every single cliche in the genre. Walking in on the LI in the bathroom (or vice versa), every single LI being an inexperienced virgin, the LI's boyfriend being abusive, the aforementioned boyfriend revealing his infidelity in front of the MC, the random person calling the MC and the LI a couple, the random guys hitting on the LI so the LI has to call the MC her boyfriend to get them to back off, et cetera. I just listed 6 off the dome, there are certainly more. Not to mention that the lewd scenes aren't very good, the MC is ugly, the quality is poor even on the HQ version, and the writing is not very good. To be fair, I am only 30 minutes in. Maybe it gets better. But I don't want to sit there bored for so long hoping for something that mught not happen.

This is the fifth best harem game for me!

very atmospheric and cozy game. I’m glad that there are beautiful scenes and girls, with each update the story becomes more interesting, it remains to advance the plot a little and find out all the stories with the clones.

The animation is getting better every time, especially in the second season the quality has noticeably improved, we will be happy see how the story develops longer, especially when the girls are already pregnant, the plot will become even brighter!

Love the story arc, characters, and the way it has been progressing. Love that you have the option to choose relationships, or to even just see the relationship arc after certain scenes in case you were on a different path.

Well made, characters are in-depth and well-flushed out. Although its cool that u can impregnate every girl, it may be more realistic to have some girls resist or ask for condoms. Overall amazing game and look forward to the next update.

Ok the game is a typical harem game but it is well done, the characters have personality and are generally likeable (although they are way too eager to accept the whole harem thing, I would have liked a lot more jealousy and competition between girls, but that is part of the genre and only my personal preference so cant hold it against it).
Visuals in general are good, the story is serviceable and most scenes and interactions are well implemented and enjoyable so far, even content that I am not exactly a fan of, like lesbian stuff, is included in a tasteful way so that it is not off-putting and actually enjoyable and is one of the few games where I'm playing with the lesbian content 'on' (I am still making Katy straight though because I am not into actual lesbian characters, but it is great that theres a choice either way)
All in all it is a good time and of the better harem games here, you can avoid pretty much anything that could bother you and there's plenty of content already. I would give it a 4.5

Renders - 4/5
Story - 3,5/5
Li's - 5/5 lots of them, good variety
MC - 4/5 cool chad MC
Animations - 4/5 could be longer and more

Overall 4,5/5. One of the greatest harem games out there. Lots of young LI's but also MILFs and GILFs. I love it

My dorm (first season played) is a decent game but one that also lacks something to make it really stand out in any way. It feels too generic in all aspects, from characters to interactions or the story. And when it does go away from generic it goes into wacky land (clones?!). Specially from a few chapters onwards, it all feels very rushed, like there was a point when the creator decided sex had to come and it doens't make much sense, destroying the game and tension built up until then. Choices are plenty and pretty clear on the consequences with the guide option active, and some content can be blocked if you're not interested in it.

Render quality is pretty decent, even though the girls have sometimes strange facial expressions. Animations are decent as well, but not incredible. As for sound, can't say, either it didn't have or I had turned it off.

All in all I can't say it is a bad game, but I did drop it because I lost interest in it.

The dialog, storyline and look of the girls is top notch. Literally one of my favorite games, easily when it comes to these elements. The writing really is hilarious and great.

The animations are bad. Like BAD bad. Like makes an otherwise 5-star game barely 3-star bad.

**Ok after reading some of the reviews, I wanted to add a bit to mine, I think the dev deserves as much**

Yes, the girls are "dickmatized" when they see you, and there isn't a bunch of tension. You know what another word for tension is? Stress. I don't generally look to my VN and games to increase my stress.

Part of the charm of the game, in my opinion, is that it isn't stressful. The world doesn't fall apart when two of your lovers find out about each other. Plot-wise the game is filled with best-case-scenario situations and it's one of the reasons I appreciate and enjoy it. It's just about positivity and love.

The MC is a bit controlling in thinking he knows better than everyone else and making their decisions for them. This is far from the worst trait I've seen MCs have in VNs.

When it comes to the animations, there are a few decent ones--they're usually non-sexy-time animations, though. The eye blinking and other subtle animations are perfectly fine. It's typically any animation that involves much movement (which would be pretty much all sexy stuff) where they really are bad.

I definitely recommend it--if it weren't for the fun and hot characters it wouldn't be such a let-down when you're pulled out of the moment by the bad animations.

This is the stereotypical harem game. But unlike 99% of the similar games out there, this one does it very well.

+ good-looking models for anyone's taste, including really some unique ones that I haven't seen in any other games

+ cursive writing

+ a nice MC

+ choices for everything - this one is done really well, the game is fluid no matter how many girls you choose

+ hard-working dev that puts out consistent updates

- a couple of animations could use a bit more polish

All in all, one of the best games out there, and I say it as someone who doesn't particularly like harem. Easy 5 stars for me.

Keep up the good work, dev!

It is the first review I do and I can only say that I love it, the renders are very good and the girls are amazing, for me is the best VN I've played so far thank you very much for the hard work and keep it up.
I'm sorry for my Google English, I'm from Spain.

Good harem game with an active and consistent dev. Good models well used. Well though out characters, relationships and developments. Script is generally very well written humor is usually spot on with out degenerating into story stopping wackiness.

Pretty good game with a decent story and ok music.
It really needed the incest patch for me to play it, the clone crap and constant reminder that they where not related to hide the incest fact was driving me crazy, it was none stop with each and every girl......

I love how you have a choice in this game as to who you want to have sex with, i did find a few things annoying, like how the game ask you over and over if you want to be in a relationship after you have already said no, it feels like its trying to force you be with someone, but good news is it will stop asking at some point.

Also dident like how the Mother starts sleeping with MC after you told her NO to a relationship and even starts sleeping half nude which is the last thing i would want, i am not into mothers or big tits and she is/has both which is why i said no to a relationship, so for her to start sleeping in bed with MC half nude seems waaaay off point, no means no..... and the mother even thouch hes dick which MC sees and MC is the one saying sorry to hes mother after that makes absolutly no sense, he should be mad but he has 0 balls around girls which is a bit annoying.

Story 4/5
Its a ok vanilla story with a small twist, i enjoyed it.

Animations 3/5
They look ok but they could use alot of work, hands going through MCs head looked wierd and animations are short and the reset/repeat is pretty bad and a long way from smooth.

Music 3/5
It has ok music but i have heard alot better, its more a background music then setting a the mood for scenes.

Choices 5/5
They work and its some of the best ive seen in a long time.

The dialogues are pretty boring and really long, banal conversations that add nothing or almost nothing to the story, the MC try to seduce women with pretty chessy and stupid pick-up lines and the girls in this VN like in almost every other are so needy that they love it. The women are so needy that they fall in love with the MC for no reason, like the tipycal Harem game.
I'm playing with the Multi-mod and there are a lot of "decisions" that do nothing, thats right, you can fuck a girl, look at their ass, spy on someone and there aren't consecuencies, the only "consecuencies" are that you could close the path with one girl or not, the game is pretty linear aside that.
The "sexy" scenes are like in any other VN, are the tipycal cliche when someone goes to the bathroom and there is someone naked or taking a bath, people falling over someone else and getting the other person naked.
This one is a pretty common game that it offers nothing new, it could be different if the story and the dialogues were interesting but not, it doesn't have even that.

I have already given several compliments and some feedback in the comments, but I'll summarize here. I LOVE THIS GAME! Right from the start, the narrative intrigued me, and it's one of the rare games where I didn't know when to stop playing once I turned it on. The progression and teasing are what I love; it takes time for the girls to end up in your bed (or elsewhere), and that builds up the atmosphere. It feels realistic, and the desire keeps rising until the satisfying reward! It does have the same weakness I give to games I enjoyed: I discovered it while it's still incomplete. For what it currently offers, it excels in all aspects. I don't see why not give it a 5-star rating when it fulfills all the criteria: top-notch graphics, top-notch girls, and excellent writing and storyline.

It's a personal preference, but I appreciate sandbox games, and if this were a sandbox, it would be my number one. However, it's more of a non-sandbox visual novel, so I'll keep moving forward. But if that's the only drawback, honestly, the game doesn't have to be embarrassed compared to other games. Especially since it's a subjective matter, so it's not really a bad point at all. There are truly some girls I love encountering, and there's something for every taste and genre.

I'm not sure yet if I'll replay it or wait for future chapters, but that's not the game's fault. What sets it apart from other games? Unfortunately, nothing particularly special. It checks all the right boxes like a good student, but it doesn't necessarily bring something super original. The main character's mentality doesn't resonate with me at all, but he is very friendly and enjoyable to follow. The game has a fantastic cast and a highly promising future. Now that everyone has loosened up, it's going to be SUPER!