VN - Ren'Py - My Dorm [v0.28.4 S4 Ch.1] [Tropecita Games]

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.

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.

The game's overall good but it feels a bit clunky. I'm still incredibly early into the game so perhaps it's teething problems that will resolve but so far it's ok without being spectacular.

The premise for the game is ok but at the same time it seems a bit implausible. " The main character will have to help turn the family home into a college dorm " but at the same time it seems like a secondary point, almost like a hassle. It's there because a reason is needed but with so much focus on characters who aren't impacted by the idea of needing a dorm, it feels redundant.

As I mention it also feels a bit clunky at times. It's not a game cause everyone wants the MC's dick. It's a wish fulfilment simulator. Each and everyone wants to go for a ride and that's fine and all but there's no real explanation to why. It's like everyone knows you're the MC and that's just how these things work. And at times it feels even the Dev can't be bothered establishing the why. I think the first.....4? girls you speak to end up seeing you in the shower and it's like "OMGZ look at the size of that" and that's it. Like the Dev put his hand in, picked out the old "caught in the shower" trope and went "good enough, copy and paste".

Possibly being harsh, it's interesting, it's worth playing, it just feels a bit... raw. Like it needs some polish in terms of plot and dialogue. The fact it seems most of the girls are virgins just means you're not even getting any variety in terms of relationship. They're all super shy, meek etc. There's a few assertive women in there and to be honest the interactions with them are so much more engaging.

Edit: up to episode .24 now
Game quality has dropped significantly, updates have been all about old wrinkly women, and the 20ish other hot women ignored. At this point i just dont have any more energy to put into this one. I really liked a couple of girls from the beginning, and havent had any content with them in forever. TOO MANY GIRLS/GRANDMAS.

Not shaming anyone who likes GILF porn but for those of us that dont, what a waste of an entire update. Im out.

First of all, the original girls and the animations are hot and i have no complaints about that. Where the game drags down for me is in the dialogue. It is repetitive and boring. There are quite a few girls in this game and the recurring theme is that the MC has to lay down the "harem rules" every single time with each and every one. So much of this game is the MC trying to wrangle all his relationships into a working, logical functioning harem, and it shouldnt really work but of course it does because plot.

Later, a group of diversity girls are introduced and you are put into a "relationship points" system with them, which is rather confusing because now you have to wonder if you're going to have enough points with the ones you like or what the consequences are for having negative points with the ones you dont like.

One other point i would like to make is that the writing has no breaks for the mc. What i mean by that, is that he moves from girl scene to girl scene without ever really doing anything that a normal guy would do. He is supposed to be the CFO of this family business and yet he does no actual work that i can tell, aside from one scene in which he tears down a wall. Even in that scene we have all the women watching and commenting like lovestruck teenagers. All the girls have the same questions about the situation they are in, and he always gives the same answers, and the dialogue moves so slowly its sometimes painful. As of v12 the "harem" is only partially public, and with every passing scene one wishes they would just out the whole thing all at once so we could just get it over with and move on already.

Pregnancy options are nice if you are into that, and later a couple of GILFS show up, if thats your thing.

Version: [v0.18.2 P2]
A great VN that unfortunately falls for a common pitfall - way too many LI's.

There's a lot to like here, the renders are nice, the scenes are hot, and there are a bunch of really heartwarming moments.
The story is... well, its there, and it starts out interesting enough, and overall I was pretty excited to see what is coming for 'My Dorm'.

Unfortunately, the amount of LI's got so unnecessarily, annoyingly high 'My Dorm' became, for me at least, harder to enjoy.
It made the story drag on, the beautiful moments to feel much less special as they just kept repeating with different girls that got less and less screen time.

I like the developer, I really liked most of the first part, and I firmly believe this could have been a very strong 5* VN if the amount of LI's was cut in half.
Still, a great one overall.

I don't normally give out 5-star ratings, but My Dorm definitely deserves one. I've played only a few AVNs that were better.

+ Excellent models, scenes, renders, and lighting
+ Different body types and great personalities matching them
+ Loads of content, and while the story isn't too deep, it's very engaging and well-written
+ Lots of sex scenes, though with this many possible partners each one's time diminishes accordingly
+ Built-in guide, clearly showing results, and pregnancy options clearly
+ Interactions between characters is frequent and believable
+ Most regular renders have animated blinking, or waving hands, or other expressions. Brings life to the models and story.
+ Great implementation of the harem and "incest" (no spoilers here for the surprises)
+ A likable and honest/up-front MC (despite having a large member) makes it easy to play him

- Sex scene animations/length could be smoother, better, and longer
- Few kinks overall (I think anal only happened once through 0.17.0). Most sex is vaginal/oral for the entire game. Absolutely NEEDS more kinks, to expand the experience.

The two minuses above didn't detract enough from the overall experience to merit taking anything away from the 5-star rating. It'd end up a 4.7 or 4.8 either way.

Not fully caught up yet, but it's enjoyable so far. There is a large cast of characters and very few that I am not a fan of. The premise is very unique and pretty interesting. There is even some interesting world building with the MCs father and such. Also, there is a lot of optional content which is always a nice touch. Solid 4.5 / 5.

A very amazing story about building a family and not just living in one. So many LI's may seem like a problem until you see how well that each as written as a person instead of a "station". The overall story is charming AND heartwarming. Something that very few other AVN's achieve. Everybody can find a favorite or two (or ALL) I am glad that I get to keep following along on this adventure to see how EVERYONE even the ever aged MC (;P) grows more into themselves and more into what I wish more families could be.

Thank you Topecita for giving us this adventure.

Very good fun mostly lighthearted game in the slice of life harem genre, with a good cast of characters, improving graphics, humor, few to no bugs and even some story.

Not recommended for players that want a strong antagonist or corruption or an extreme grind, but very much for those who can play a game without that and enjoy a feel good moment or two.

Also an extra shoutout to the dev for his willingness to go the extra mile to offer a choice in who you do wish to have a romantic relationship with. Pretty rare for a dev to give you the choice to have a relation with everything between 0 to 28 ladies and respect your wishes. Kuddos.

Game is a VN (clearly labeled as such) that has lots of text to read as character backstories/personalities/motivations are devleoped in far more depth than most games/VNs. If you don't like to read, or if you prefer content with lewd scenes every few clicks with no consequences, this game may not be for you. But if you enjoy realistically paced relationships where characters do their best to be respectful of one another (MC included), you will likely enjoy this game. There are LI's of many different kinds, so there is something for everyone (or many somethings). Well written, with some humor, lots of well developed and well-rendered LI's, and - most unusually - nothing absurd that takes you out of the game or forces you to suspend disbelief. Game mechanics are smooth. Only thing missing that would be a big improvement at some point is an in-game reference to help keep track of who all the ladies are and what MC's history with each of them is, because when coming back after a while (maybe skipping an update or two) it can be hard to remember who they all are. EDIT: this was added and I just never noticed because me is dumb. There is a button to open character info, but if you play with icons minimized like me the function of that particular button is not obvious. So there you have it - nothing is missing from this game (other than the standard misogyny and general meanness prevalent in games enjoyed by boys who need to feel powerful).

Unbiased Review of My Dorm, part 1 & 2

Part 1 - ⭐⭐⭐
Part 2 - ⭐

Pros
-Great ensemble of characters, nice variety. Its a buffet done right.
More commonly seen in Sandbox genres, its a nice little change for linear VNs.

-Pretty solid amount of content especially for Part 1.

-Sex scenes probably use some stock animations but I actually think its better in this case, many other VN's scenes feel like clunky 15 fps robotic movements.

-Renders have improved in Part 2.

-Writing is very beefy and most of the girls are done quite well. They don't always feel like reskins with the same personality save 1-3 girls.

-QoL for all you kinky bastards out there

-Bless thy in game Walkthrough.


Cons
-The story falls short, it tries to do too much and include too much without being sure of its identity. It tries to be deep or meaningful at certain moments but that illusion is kinda shattered when all the women literally throw themselves at him with some of the most strangest dialogue.

-No gallery in Part 1.

-Some characters are just completely and absolutely forgettable and unnecessary. Like the girls that were protecting your house from.. um bad guys. Yes.

-Dialogue is overkill in Part 2 considering that you can't skip it like in Part 1. Especially for characters that you have no intention of romancing or getting involved with since Part 1. (there is a skip function apparently but regardless the dialogue is still monstrous for characters that have no credence to the over arching plot)

- The pacing is very erratic, there's no proper transition to how fast or slow things progress. You're just kind of thrown a new bone from all sorts of angles. That tends to happen with a large group of characters, lots of writing to sort out so its understandable to a degree.

Overall I want to make it clear that trying to have beefy dialogue to making your story have multiple subplots isn't wrong. Its just not very well executed here, games like Stranded in Space are even more dialogue heavy but that tone was established from the get go and hinted multiple times as to how much more twists there might be. You don't feel like you got slighted. Would still recommend it, its got good content and a plethora of girls to choose from.

This review might trigger some fans but objectivity isn't a lost art for me.

One of the best Harem VNs on this website.

Big range of characters, with different personalities and body types, all sexy as hell

Story is different than the rest of the harem VNs, it's more focused on the spicy scenes but the story is always there which in my opinion is the correct balance for this type of game.

MC is not the usual retard or weak-spined loser from 90% of harem games and even though he isn't john wick he will still try to protect his girls.

You have the option of not going for specific girls if you don't like them, it's good that the dev gave the option since I know some players can be more picky. Personally I went for all of them, yes even the grandma and I will go after the chubby, big titted aunt when the game lets me too.

Really liking it so far, I hope it continues on this path and good luck to the dev.