VN - Ren'Py - My Dorm [v0.24.0 S3 Ch.4] [Tropecita Games]

I was pleasantly surprised by this game. A good harem incest fantasy with some twists.

Pros

• Good story
• Good writing
• Good sound effects
• Good characters
• Good character development
• Good character models overall
• Good to excellent sex scenes
• Good to excellent animations
• Unique path choices with the girls

Cons

• Environments are mostly stock, generic, and mundane
• The character models have good facial and hair detail but the rest of their bodies lack detail overall (skin mostly; some of the nipples and areola are detailed). Some of the girls have bushes with hair that is too long and straight (and also too thick). Pussies don't have the same hair density as the top of the head. I prefer girls to be clean shaven but that isn't even a complaint really
• A bit of a slow burn but I've seen much worse
• English problems throughout the game - misused words, missing words, and awkwardly worded sentences are fairly common (the dev even mentioned that he has proofreaders which was shocking for the English to be in this state)
• The MC has some core logic problems and a possessive personality which I don't care for (more on that below)

Overall, it's a solid visual novel. "My Dorm" is a misleading title for this game as it is largely an incest focused game currently.

I was very happy to see an author do real animations in Ren'Py! It shouldn't be rare but it kind of is.

The MC has a possessive personality and double standards that I don't like. He basically tells all the girls that he can be with as many girls as he wants but they can only be with him. Take it or leave it. If you want to be with me, those are my rules that you must follow. My way or the highway. It is a hypocritical and selfish attitude which I am not fond of.

He then tells the girls that he doesn't want to get STDs spread around so that is one of the main reasons why they can only be with him. More failed logic here. So the MC can sleep with lots of girls and have no chance of catching an STD but if the girls sleep around they likely will. I'm still scratching my head over that one!

The dev then says that it's NTR if the girls can be with other guys even if it's never shown or never happens. I'm scratching my head yet again. I would have been happier with the story if the dev just said he is OK with possessive personalities and that is how he scripted the MC instead of trying to make excuses for it.

The game is very close to 5 stars for me but due to the cons I listed I had to remove one star.

Overall, a solid visual novel that doesn't disappoint! It will be interesting to see how the two girls doing surveillance on the MC plays out. That is still very much a mystery.

I recommend this game and encourage others to give it a try!

Really good game so far. It has room for improvement, it has a few rough edges, but it's very relaxing, comfy game.
My 2 favorite things about this that stands out from other games are:

1. The choices actually tell you the possible outcome of them as opposed to some games where you have to chose between some arbitrary options and hope for the best before reloading a save.
2. You get to know what everyone is thinking. It's so refreshing and ads so much to the story to know how everyone is feeling all the time and it's exactly what I needed.

Quite enjoyable and it's nice to see a developer passionate about his game and having discussions with people on the forums. I'm interested to see where this is going and how it will eventually end. Just hopefully not for a few more years worth of content.

Zero depth to the lighting, horribly uninteresting story written as if by someone who has no idea how people communicate with each other, weird obsession with strange details (reggaeton, really?) - This isn't abysmal, but it's close.

On a positive note, there is variety in character skins (I say skins because the models are largely similar aside from skin/hair colors) and it seems to want to focus on one of my favorite kinks. It just feels like it's all in the service of nothing.

My Dorm [v0.9B.2] 2*

Pros:
Sound

Neutral:
translation
Renders are average at best
pacing is inconsistent

Cons:
Character Models
The Girls are dull and uninteresting
Story is uninteresting and has a corny porn logic
Boring Sex Scenes

Conclusion:

I think this game lacks in every department.
I can ignore the silly incest/harem story, but everything in this game feels so boring. The Character Models are the ones you see in every other "smaller" game and their look and personality are just not interesting, which is something that can make or break this game. The Story is not intriguing and has this weird porn logic where even your relatives jump on your dick in no time. I can´t give this game more than 2* because there is nothing for me that is mildly interesting.

An ambitious first project with updates every month has a great sense of "good" humor, The story (yet to be discovered but I hate giving spoilers)

The graphic quality is very good, the setting also, at the beginning the game has animations of 2/5 I am very critical until the last update there have been no major changes in this aspect but Tropecita has also improved and in this latest update the animations are some from 3.5/5 and some from 4/5. In short, it is a nice game where many memes have been created and the community 5/5

The game is decent, but I want to give 4 stars just for how great the dev is, listens to feedback, posts consistent updates and has demonstrated their talent.

Now coming back to the game, this is the type of game a lot of people will like, good diversity of characters and even looks. Somewhat of a slow burn but with good pacing. Nice renders and decent animations. The scene writing is also very good, and has just the right length to engage you. It seems to have almost everything.

My issue is that there really is no hook apart from the girls and their looks. There is no stakes anywhere. I am generally not a big fan of slice of life, but I can appreciate it if I have something to look forward to. Here I have nothing to hook me on the game except for the fact that I might get to bang some of the girls in the future. And the girls are not so amazing for that to be enough.

Good game for those that look for something lighthearted with good visuals and scenes and a harem, but not for me.

I would rate that 3 1/2 if I could. It is not bad, and I believe many people would like it, but it doesn't work very well for me. There are a lot of pretty women and there's the not-so-rare issue of everyone wanting the MC for a long time and all. The quality of the images and animations is good and there's enough spicy content coming regularly.

So, why it doesn't work that well for me? In short, the game tries to do too much and often fails.
- Too many characters = too much going on and I struggle to remember who is who. There are half a dozen women interested about the MC in the prologue. I find myself skipping parts of the dialogue of less interesting girls often because the cast is big.
- The changelong at some point rights: More words than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Yeah, that's another problem. The game is too wordy. In HP the plot and characters move much faster.

And yet, the art is good, the developer updates often and I like many of the girls. So 4/5 from me.

I've been enjoying this game. The story line though not the most captivating has given the player enough choices to keep things lively and entertaining. The ladies and graphics look good and the discipline of the MC is on par for a character that most guys wish they could be. Looking forward to future updates.

It's a generally good game. Dialogs drag out sometimes, gotta beat that dead horse into the ground, eh. But what killed this for me was the stiff, unnatural animations. Pivoting on ridiculous pivot points, parts of the body waving around that make NO sense, either aesthetically OR from a standpoint of physics. Bodies don't move that way. Combine that with the fact I find foreskins revolting, and this thing focuses on it All the Fucking Time, skipping forward to miss it just means I'm missing most of the game anyway, so I'm out. Though is was the disjointed and stiff animations that put me off more, thatt was just the skin-icing on the cake. Most will like this, I suspect. Even moreso if he can deal with the jankass animations.

Another harem / incest game, nothing too special about it. Looks and performs okay. The renders need a lot more polish and so do the animations, there are times that you can see the granulation in the renders, I think that's maybe because they are compressed, so a higher resolution version would improve this. The story is not at all that interesting. The only girl I liked was the aunt, the others don't look as good sadly. Couldn't really fap to this.

However I wish the dev good luck with the future of the game.

In this game you end in a big house with a bunch of hotties of different couleur, having an intimate relationship with every single of them + some girls outside of it. (Literally. So far i didn't found a female NPC that hasn't sooner or later the UI overlay asking you for adding them to your harem over them)
I don't think, that's a bad concept, however. Even if it's not that much innovative, it checks out. It's lighthearted and makes fun to play.

What's really, really well done is the pacing. It's more a slow-burner, but with definitive results down the road. But most of the females don't be a fuck-on-sight-event and also important, don't always accept the harem position instantly (but shortly later).

Also a big pro are the visuals. It's not perfect, but the female characters have believable proportions, are pretty/hot and half of the time, their faces are looking natural (the other half, they do grimaces out of a horror movie).
The backgrounds/environment are well done and good detailed, which improves everything. And it's one of the rare games, where you sometimes sleep with a blanket. So far great compliment for the details.
On the other hand, it's unfortunately another one of those games, where the creator couldn't resist to make MCs package as huge and long as the polygons allow. *Sigh*, i don't get it. Not only it looks just weird and like a satirical joke this way, also you practically destroy so much options for renders and animations, which is likely the reason why the author manically tries to avoid blowjob scenes. However how the girls react to the big schlong is maybe a quarter of the plot.

That leads to the more annoying part: the character, you're playing and how the creator decided the sex shall be orchestrated. MC is basically the absolute white knight, the born satfizer, always ready to help. Even if he cheats on one of the girls or seduces his stepmother or -aunt, it's done only with the best in mind ("to make them happy") and so on. I mean it's not that bad as a baseline for an adult game and I cannot put directly a finger on it, but somehow it feels a too much.
Like MC always goes full cunni on every women he can find (leading to really much closeup pussy scenes, where you find out, that every cunt looks like the others), but if they want to return the favor, he be like "Oh no! Don't do that please. I don't want you to do this."
I can't count how often one of the girls comes around trying to get finally fucked by you and you basically tell them everytime, "that they're not ready yet".

Anyway. The sex scenes are okay overall. The girls cum alot, the player sometimes. The animations are ... there and besides being always simple boomerang effects, it's better than having none.
Also big compliment for the buildup of the intimate scenes. There is no sexual content, without the characters getting in the right atmosphere beforehand and the sex itself contains the right length. This is really well done in the most cases.

Overall, i would say it's a good game, which lets not much to complain about. Except the MC, that is a complete facepalm, if you ask me. From the design of his tool up to the way too much caring attitude.

I rarely give reviews, probably being too lazy, but a few games are so good that I sometimes do, and this one definitely deserve the attention. The story seems simple but is very well developed to captivate the players, and extremely well served by high quality renders. Some may say that there may be some grinding, but it does build up the flesh of the story with a large variety of characters, all very attractive and sexy in one form or another. As I write this review I have played 3 nights in a row, reaching day 6, and eager to progress in the game. Thank you and well done for the development team.

Rating: 4 - Version: 0.8.1

I really enjoyed this game so far. The animations could be better but there is a lot of quality content in this version already. I'm really excited to see where some of these paths go.

I've seen some people suggest this is a kinetic novel which just isn't true. Your choices DO MATTER. You can definitely close off certain avenues if you don't play your cards right, but this game is definitely best played as a harem in my opinion (which I believe it was intended). Overall, a lot of potential and a good start.

Can't fault anything else here except the amount of sillyness, for what it's worth the models are unique and hella gorgeous & inclusive of every spectrum out there. The story however hints about cleaning the mess his father/step created also setting along his career with freshly outta graduation. MC does feels odd though look wise, but animations are slick, hopefully story picks up the speed, i think the problem with silly interactions is that if the story occupies good chunk of an update wrt dialogues and interactions same amount of sillyness will come down.
Incest vn slaps different when emotions and that uneasy yet most comforting feeling between the said characters palpates as one continue to play also without need of having to read if anyone had any prior things et al every time they interact, that's really not needed tbh. Cheers, i have faith in you guys.

One of my top 3 fav AVNs. Great storytelling and excellent graphics. Updates have been released regularly as promised. It has one of the hottest and most realistic MILF in any game. Yes, I'm a big Martha fan. Not one of those bimbo-fied MILFs you see in most games. Definitely worth trying for anyone who has not yet.

Interesting story with some funny aspects, well written. Not too much typos and misspelling. Good work in my opinion. You also can rename the characters, a function which I love.
And really nice, beautiful, cute and lovely girls too !
IMO Worth a try !
I'm really looking forward to the next update.

this "game" isnt a game, it is kinetic novel masked as a visual novel.

mc does have some choices here or there (peep on her, knock on the door or not etc) yet where it matters the most (choice of ladies) he has no choices at all.
it is kinda like "here we go lads, you see this "hottie" (obviously all chicks in porn games have to be hot, and mc has to say or think that, obviously), now we have to fuck her, include her into our harem-to-be, and she is perfectly fine, because she (and every other chick in this game) like to share me".

if you are up for harem power fantasy (as (too) many other games with similar concept have) you will enjoy this project, no doubt, as many of those reviews are already pointing that out.

otherwise if you are for a meaningful story and mcs/players right to choose or not chicks he wanna to engage with, you will be disappointed and you should look elsewhere.

two stars is about right rating, perhaps even too generous - it has some hot chicks, while it lacks decent story, choices and almost everything else.

I really liked it

The characters, the story, the animations, everything has been incredible.

I wish I could enjoy the updates very soon

The plot and the mystery are on the right track, there is still much to discover

So far it's interesting (day 7 content)
It reminds me of the "Grandma's House" but with less content and a some sсi-fi back story, that was not developed yet ,
As pluses I should mention dialogs and graphics, renders look really god. Also the number of the girls involved, till this moment it's around 10 and according to the story the developer can introduce around 10 easily.
As a minor minus - its a straight visual novel, there are few choices, most of them are to prompt if you want to pursue a relationships with a girl or not.
From my point of view it's a solid 4.5/5 plus 0.5 for frequent updates.
A separate thanks to the author of the thread for mentioning the date of the update in the change log.
Definitely will wait for the next update to se how the story develops.