VN - Ren'Py - My Dorm [v0.21.2 S3 Ch.1] [Tropecita Games]

I loved the game when it started, the girls look great, there's barely any unattractive women at all (except for those older ones, just not my cup of tea).

Problem is, there's too many of them.
First, six relatives and a friend.
Then there's two in his friend's family, exgf, singer, salesgirl, cop, and two more who are watching this building. Fifteen total.
Then there arrive four students, the fifth person and grandma. Twenty.
And then there are some more girls I have no idea who they are since I got tired of trying to play and just checked the pictures.

To make the matters worse, now there's long talking with barely any plot movement or hot scenes at all. At this point there are so many women and the game is so diluted that now the content for specific girls is added in homeopathic doses.
I really liked Emma, but after it started raining women, there were how many scenes with her in Season 2 (eight updates)? One or two? Can't remember.

Also, the number of renders/still images in each updates is a joke. Wow, 1937 still images in the update! You can just divide it by three, because there are so many pictures that are just variations of the same:
1) Person with eyes open (*a.jpg),
2) Person with eyes half-closed (*b.jpg),
3) Person with eyes closed (*c.jpg).

UPD: Since the offended dev calls me a liar with bad maths, here's the maths:
Update 17: 1168 blinking images (*b.*, *c.*) out of total 1599 still images. 1168/1599=0.616 (62% of junk renders)
Update 18: 789 out of total 1293. 789/1293=0.61 (61%)
Update 19: 1168 out of total 1915. 1168/1915=0.61 (61%)
Update 20: 908 out of total 1532. 908/1532=0.593 (59%)
Update 21: 1015 out of total 1690. 1015/1690=0.601 (60%)
Dividing by three equals to removal of 66.6%, which is pretty close to the results.

The game is quite good, the animation are really good. There are a lot of characters and most of them are quite attractive. There are good choices of kinks and general corruption of the girls is as well really good. Big dislike is about horible long conversation and too much side story. Maybe someone like it, but this just calls for skipping.

I do love this game. It has excellent graphics and really beautiful girls. Nice animations. No need to think too much how realistic it is - a harem of 15+ girls and growing - but the story is at least stringent and the characters have their unique habits.
Only boring part was the extensive DnD-session without connection to the story. But all in all excellent.

A fun and fluint read with a girl for everyone's taste .
A good linear story that is easy to follow but with enough choices to have some deviations.
The animations are quite solid and some clear improvements over the time with the updates.

The writing in this game... make me want to punch myself in the head. Mediocre verging on moronic. Decent renders of a bunch of different types of women. Bad actual animations, they're stilted and jerky. If you don't care about the writing then enjoy the harem collecting, I guess, I couldn't keep playing.

Great rendors and harem game. Who needs to reads too in depth into a f95 game plot. So much content and great slow burn that ramps up fast. Keep pumping out content and will be following. All characters are well written bimbos, so its great. Clones are interesting too and the clothes and outfits ar etoo.

Well... I have to give it the developer for giving us a crap ton of content. Doing all of this is a lot of hard work and we should, at the very least, thank them for their efforts.

Unfortunately, despite all the love and hard work they have put into this, I can't really give this better than an average rating. I will admit I may be influenced a bit by the harem approach as I am not really a fan of it in these games, but I think I am being pretty fair in my review.

To begin with, it's way too easy. I mean, there is no effort necessary for the MC to land a LI. Sure, there is some implied resistance when the "sister" who is not really his sister struggles with the idea of having the hots for her "brother" who she doesn't know is not really her brother. This is the only barrier preventing these LI from being with the MC. They all admit they want him, but they struggle with the morality of it. Okay... fine... but my point is, they already all like the MC so there is no work the MC has to do to win them. They all just line up and wait for the chance.

Of course, the "sister", "cousins" and childhood friend are all virgins... bleh... whatever. The whole "kissing lessons" scene was just silly. I mean, the MC was actually giving them pointers on how to kiss... erm... okay... like that even happens and yet it turned out to be "the best day ever" for Scarlet. Right.

And while the MC is not a complete Gary Stu, he does say all the right things to all the women. After awhile, it just gets tiring as an MC to always say and do the right things. He is always sweet and caring and in love with all the girls. It just gets old to never wonder what is going to happen and to never worry about how a LI is going to react.

I don't know, it's just a combinations of it's too sweet, all the LIs just fall in line whenever he walks into visual range. For me, the game alternates between boring and silly.

There are some good things about it. The humor is okay and I liked the way the MC deals with his feelings about everything with the little dream sequences, but that's about it. All the women are attractive and each are unique and there does seem to be some kind of underlying mystery going on regarding his father, but I am sure it will be "Oh no... MC! Please save us. We know you always take charge and always protect us as we are just helpless LIs who are so enamored with you we act like a bunch of pre-teens. How did we ever function without you!!!" Or something like that.

Again, the dev is talented and I really appreciate all of the hard work it has taken to get to this point. It is too late to go back and change anything so we will have to see where it goes.

Good luck to the developer!

UPDATE: I have learned all LIs are avoidable, but the routes for some of them are not obvious and are choice based, so I removed that comment from my review. It still does not change my overall rating.

Test version 0.12

I tried to give this story a go, but I had to stop... the MC is really not to my taste... The scene where Emma wants her first time, fulfilling her fantasy with her maid costume, the MC's reaction at this moment is just stupid... Not to mention that just before, after giving Erika oral, she falls asleep, and our hero kindly covers her with a towel before leaving ... Except it happens in a fucking sauna!
Nonsense all the time.
Plus the protagonist's face is just not to my taste. Moreover, stop the attacks against French people... A hairdresser would never do such a horror...
The lewds scenes are meh, unnatural animations.

On the good side we have the hotties, some of them are quite pretty.

But that's not enough, and sorry, I really would have liked to get to the 2nd part, but it's beyond my best efforts.

(By google translate)

The english is good if not even great.
The girls are top notch and dare I say it diverse. You see girls with extraordinary features but no copy & paste cutouts.

The story is believable. Not realistic, but it can be believed since it is an alternate reality.

My Dorm is an incredible avn.
Lots of content, a great story, and some of the hottest LI's I've seen.

This is an AVN I'm happy to back, and look forward to getting on steam if/when Trop releases it there.

One of the best parts is, everything is entirely optional. Don't like a certain LI? You dont have to start anything with her. Not into getting them pregnant? You don't have to. Lactation not your thing? Turn it off. Same goes for anal, plug play, etc.

There is also a realistic variety of body shapes and sizes, and breast sizes. Sure, there are some with lovely large breasts, but other than one character who is very well endowed, no one really has beach balls. I'd say most are c-d cup, and a few smaller than that. Shorter girls, tall girls, fit girls, girls who will demolish a cake with you.

This truly is *your* dorm. You decide which girls you want in your harem. You decide if they get pregnant, or if anyone gets pregnant at all.
There is a lot of content already, and a lot more to come.

Oh, and Trop releases quality updates quickly and regularly. Most AVN's, I need to do a full playthrough each time an update comes out because it's been so long I don't remember what has happened or who is who.
My Dorm, I just play the new content, then every 2-3 updates, I do a fresh playthrough because it's just that good.

Loved it.

Story: Enjoyable and brings something different to the table. Proper English and good grammar makes it a nice read. Lots of content means you'll be enjoying this one for a bit.

Renders: Great Quality. The models are all well done and attractive (excluding the two GILFs).

HScenes: Well done and a good amount of them.

At first i didnt like it very much but damn did it grow on me fast. Well done dev cant wait for the next update. The story was interesting and kept you on your feet, the character models are gorgeous, and the animations are pretty good. They need a lil work in my opinion but that could just be me

I just started playing the game not so long ago i'm not wve finish playing part 1 yet but so far the game is quite good. There arebdiverse of female lead character that most are remarkable but some are forgetable. The story so far is quite good but the dialogue are too long which take most of the game. Truth be told I don't mind having long dialogue in a game because it can give depth in the story. But here well it's like they make the dialogue long just for the sake of having a dialogue. Some of the dialogue can be summarized without taking the essence in the story. Another one is at the beginning of the story is about cloning Daphne, Erika and Emma are bunch of clones, what with that. Guys you don't need to make it in to some sci-fi to make a good game. Overall the game is good the character design is good some are ok but the story telling is kinda mediocre. Still I recommend this game to those who loves harem game.

4/5 stars ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

This game has started quite strong: Beautiful models, proper tags (incest+harem are always winning combination), standard but still quite strong story, good English. Well...it lost me half way.

With the whole lot of hot girls already available to the MC it become obvious when the first bunch of students arrived that they are too many. Also they were made "different" for the sake of diversity: a fat and short girl, a very tall girl without tits, a girl with vitiligo, a bitchy girl. It is well over 20 girls in the game now and clearly the MC the Dev has difficult time to balance the relationships with them.

Also the Dev have imagined themselves to be a Leo Tolstoy and gone to lengthy descriptions and dialogues. As a result, starting from the last quarter of the Part 1 the game is a lot of dialogues and very little sex. These dialogues are also very similar to one another, basically about persuading a next girl to join the harem and tolerate the others in it. First time it may be fun, the tenth time it's irritating as hell. What is the purpose of that? To make the harem believable? Well, it still isn't.

As the result, the game lost its pacing and become tedious and repetitive. It takes ages to get to a scene with this or that favorite girl between the walls of text and visits to secondary characters. Successful attempt to kill a good game. Bravo.

My Dorm is a delightful, wholesome-feeling harem game. That sentence does not sound like it goes together at all, but I think it fits the game perfectly. It’s a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s fun, it’s sexy, it’s jam-packed with a diverse cast of lovely ladies and you can literally pick and choose which of them you want to join your harem. Some are “easy” to add, some more slow-burn, but every single one of them is the player’s choice.

Usually, a game with this many LIs would mean a whole bunch of saves for all the different paths, but here there’s no picking one girl at the expense of another – it’s an individual “yes or no” to each of them. Unlike most other games of this type, you never have to miss a scene with your second favourite girl because you’re with your favourite one, so there is no need for those additional saves.

I really like how this game progresses, and how you don’t have to think too hard to play it – it’s refreshingly straightforward. There are plenty of funny moments, and plenty of sexy moments. On the one hand, it can be a shame to have such a large group of LIs because, inevitably, you might find a bit of a wait before you get back to a favourite, but on the plus side, there are plenty of favourites available, so there’s never a dull moment!

This is an harem game that unfortunately lost me since the very beginning with all those thoughts from the MC that were taking forever. From that point I skipped most of the story. The bland renders I kept seeing in part 1 and the fact that I'm mostly a MILF lover also helped, as teens comprise 80% of the LIs and to make it worse most of them look quite generic and unappealing to me anyway.

I like the kinks. The scenes with mom, grandma and the other MILFs are obviously my favourites, I hope grandma eventually gets to have the "full treatment" as the other LIs, she looks like a teen except for her face anyway... Animations range from average to excellent. The effect with the camera automatically switching angles while having sex is interesting and more than welcome, but it could have been used better.

On the negative side, first and foremost I'd have to say there's far too many girls. Personal thought here but in a way I think adult harem games are becoming as old hat as those open world games we all know -- you can play a few but eventually the concept becomes boring, especially when the girls are so easy to get and you can have dozens of them. Way to kill inmersion.

Then there's the fact that some "girls" look quite younger than they should, making the whole thing feel like a bad joke. (Oh, and the threesome with mom and Emma left me cold, only the "cleaning" part at the end felt hot for me. The main part looked quite disjointed and generic.)

This is one of the best harem games I've ever played.
Good story, likeable characters and tons of sex.

If you like harem, incest, romance and breeding the fam then this is for you.

Highly recommended.

One of the best avn I have ever played. Dev is consistent with his works and updates at the same time he is not milking his supporters by giving us good meat in the game.
Renders are top notch
Models are pretty and realistic
Story line is good.
And the best part is the sex scenes are not boring and are more passionate than most of the avn which gives it a realistic approach to the game. Thanks you dev for your time and efforts. Good luck

I really wanted to like this game because it has a bunch of interesting aspects and fun kinks, but a combination of tedious tropes and frustratingly clumsy writing made the game too much of a chore.

It's a quite straightforward game. There are some choices, but they mostly consist of "Do you want to see this content? Yes - No". This is not a bad thing in itself, but a game like that has to rely on good writing instead of variation and mechanics and the writing isn't this game's strong suit at all.
The visuals are a bit dated, but decent enough.

The characters you meet are mostly interesting, but the game relies heavily on the virgin trope, so every single woman is either a young and shy virgin or a more mature, but terribly insecure woman, who hasn't had sex for more than a decade. Any personality the characters have is quickly replaced with either insane lust for the MC or conflicted feelings of guilt and shame, sometimes switching from one to the other in the same scene. Consistency is nonexistent. In addition, the writing isn't great when it comes to distinguishing the different personalities. All the characters feel like the same person talking, i.e. same style, same vocabulary, same humour, same verbose way of speaking etc.
As the game progresses more and more characters are added and while some later characters have a bit more personality, that bonus is almost entirely countered by how crowded the game becomes and how little time is spent on each individual character.

The MC is another trope for harem games: Bland, unfunny, very little charm to him and yet every single woman falls madly in love with him in a matter of minutes. At 21 years of age he's able to impress all the ladies, young and old, with his wisdom (mostly painful cliches along the lines of "you should just be yourself") whenever they tell him about a problem they're having. He's basically the lewd version of a superhero that has ALL super powers, ever, and no weaknesses! Impressive, but mind-numbingly boring.

The writing is the real issue, though. It's almost entirely stiff, formal and much too wordy. Characters will describe at length what just happened in the last scene or what is happening right now, they'll narrate their own feelings and thoughts in a very stilted and artificial way. This includes the sex scenes and gives us quotes like this:
"And the vibrations you produce when you hit the forbidden zone... they're increasing the pleasure... to levels that... I've never felt before..."
To my mind that is neither believable nor sexy. No one talks like that, especially when getting fucked, much less when getting fucked well.
To my mind the dev really needs to consider the "show, don't tell" approach, i.e. show us what the characters are feeling, don't have them tell us. Nothing is ever left ambiguous or unsaid, instead you'll get a dozen lines of dialogue about even the most minor thought.

The plot is another weird thing. The whole dorm situation, moving back to the home town and reconnecting etc. is a completely self-contained and sufficient story, but for some reason the dev decided that the game needed secret agents, guns and goddamn clones! This is all introduced mostly straight-faced, the game takes itself quite seriously here and there are long, dull and meandering scenes filled with absurd and uninteresting dialogue to explain this insane plot, when it does nothing for the game and just isn't an interesting story on its own. It feels entirely tacked on for no good reason and I honestly don't feel the quality of the writing is good enough to remotely justify how much time is spent on this. Writing a fun lewd game is one thing, writing an interesting sci-fi thriller requires much greater quality and this ain't it.

Sex scenes are quite hot and decently kinky, but as mentioned the clumsy dialogue haunts the lewd scenes too. They're also quickly very spread out.
A lot of characters are introduced and, while the variety in body types and ages is great compared to other games, the sheer amount of characters and the tendency for one droning conversational scene to be followed by 3 or 4 more, means that not only are sex scenes in general quite rare, but scenes with any specific girl in the game are extremely spaced out. The fact that some characters are literal clones of others only makes this worse. Instead of developing the story and relationship between the MC and girl X, you get to see the MC "charm" X's clone instead...

So yeah, this review ended up being as long-winded as most of the game's dialogue, sorry about that. The tl,dr is that there's a great game in here, but it's tripped up by a boring MC, a bloated and bland cast of characters, horribly verbose dialogue and an unnessary and convoluted plot that takes itself much too seriously.