Ren'Py - My Real Desire [Epilogue P2] [Lyk4n]

Ch3 Ep3 Part 1

Really great game with a good story. I think one of the high points of this game is the story and the characterization of the MC. I really like games where the MC develops his character as the game progresses.

First we have an MC who was raised as a tool but gradually comes out of this shell and develops his attitude and character greatly, this character arc is what I like in this game. He is like an anime character but likable and not cringy.

Secondly the LI's, all of the girls are cute and beautiful. Everyone are unique and are have beautiful scenes.

Really a great game, recommended for those who like Harem and a good intriguing story.

I used to dislike My Real Desire in the beginning, but gave it another shot after a few months and I've gotta say that it gets exponentially better and it does have a lot of content. The song selection is also pretty good.

The plot isn't all that amazing but it's getting interesting after we get to the part where we get to make a major decision in the game. I really like the character interactions for the most part. I say "for the most part" because since English isn't the developer's native language, sometimes their talk sounds a bit awkward.

One of the characters that initially really hated was Yui, and even though I can't say she's one of my favorites, she gets so much better as the story goes on but her initial dislike for the MC, even after knowing the reasons for it later on, still seem very shallow.

Now, to one thing that made me drop this at first that still hasn't improved: the English. The dev should really get a decent proofreader to help with his work because there are way too many spelling mistakes and sometimes what I can only guess would be the wrong use of a translated word in some context. Also, the amount of times I've seen MC calling a girl's pussy "fit" when he meant "tight" or when people say "me either" when they meant to say "me too" are way too many and are just some examples.

Another thing that I feel like I should talk about is the sandbox or free roam bits. There aren't that many and they are pretty short, but they do feel extremely irrelevant. It's practically just there so we get to click on a few very obviously placed especial objects that are supposed to unlock a few renders.

I wish I could rate this higher. I don't think that this game is bad but I also don't think it's good either. If I could rate in half stars I'd go with a 2.5 rating.


I like the premise of the story because of how much potential it has and just how much more potential you start to see as the story unfolds a bit... But then it kinda just falls on its face, in my opinion. Things start to seem rushed and you'll primarily begin to notice it when it comes to character arcs and interactions. They just won't have that much going on as they once kind of did. They're kind of the bare minimum and like feel like filler to make the update feel just a little longer than it actually is.


The renders themselves are ok. Despite the game being 3 and a half years old you'd kind of expect to see some improvement in their quality but it doesn't really look like there has been. Or at least if there was I just don't notice it.


What really lead me to leave a review was the proofreading and grammar. I'm sure there was quite a bit done and that what we see now isn't comparable to what it was before, but it still needs some work. There's obvious errors that people have pointed out and especially obvious errors if you're paying attention to what you're doing. The two largest examples of this would be the photoshoot with Wendy and MC calls her Faye a couple times, or this latest update where MC and Angela talk about doing push-ups but then proceed to do sit-ups.

Maybe they're just waiting until the game is completed before doing a final pass over things, or to hire someone else to do it. But right now? It definitely could use some work. I was seriously looking into making a mod to fix all the errors myself (Maybe I will make it, we'll see) with how annoyed I became over it. You'd think that after 3 and a half YEARS that it'd be better or improved, but no. It's about the same as it always was.


All in all, this kind of just feels like the rough draft of what this game could be in the future. If it got a rework/rewrite like a number of these games have gotten.

I enjoy the game, it has a ton of content and I like the girls, and the MC Did grow on me a bit, but I think it's just a little off, especially the later chapters with some grammatical errors. I think this game could still be a five-star game but I think there needs to be more information given about the MC's background BEFORE the game gets rolling. Him acting like he's on the spectrum from the start of the game without the necessary information in his backstory can push people away.

I do like the idea behind everything, but I definitely don't think the story fits a harem-type game either, the author tries to broach serious topics and have the MC be a McBadass and there are dark elements, but like, it just doesn't all click. Still, a 4-star review because of the amount of content, and it is enjoyable!

Ch.3 Ep.2 Full

Until this chapter, I think the story is quite interesting, if I gave a rating it would probably be around 4.4 out of 5.
Here are some of my thoughts about this game:

1. The game is very simple, especially the choices. But that's okay, because I liked the story and the characters.
2. The rendering is quite good, 4.6 out of 5. A little suggestion, maybe when talking, the character's mouth can be opened more often, so it looks like they are really talking, because I noticed that there are several parts when talking, the character just smiles.
3. There is a part that I think feels strange, when there is a menu of choices, the main character always asks what he should do.
4. As for the characters, there are several parts that bother me:
   • At an event on the beach, whether because I was wearing the compressed version or because of the original game, I looked at Wendy's bikini bottom, sometimes that part looked like Wendy had "balls", especially when Wendy was dancing with 3 other men because of punishment after losing in a volleyball game.
   • In the part when Krystal comes to the company to discuss the work contract, after Krystal wears Xecon Gear and dives into the game, when in the game Krystal looks like she has "balls" when wearing outfit inside the game.
5. I feel that Nina, the Cashier Girl, is more beautiful and attractive than Wendy.
6. I'm curious, why when there will be a sex scene with Mila, there is always a warning about whether to skip the scene or not.
7. When the main character calls Maya as Mom for the first time (after they meet Rowan), rather than Maya's response of just smiling while saying goodbye to main character, perhaps a better response would be that Maya feels moved and happy, and spontaneously hugs the main character. Because Maya's son, who had been looking for a long time, was finally found and finally the main character wanted to call Maya as Mom.
8. After the main character told his past and mission to all the Heroines and Zeke, I wondered where Krystal was sitting.
9. There are several words with typos in chapter 3, and there are also several other writing errors during the event when Zeke introduced the main character to Zeke's friends at a nightclub:
   • Zeke says that the orange haired guy's name is Jay but it's actually Seth.
   • when the main character fighting with Seth and charged forward to avoid a kick from Seth, Zeke thought like this: "Zeke's body is completely open now", but maybe what Zeke meant was Seth's body because the one who was fighting with the main character was Seth.

So far my favorite girl characters are Rin, Krystal, Skylar and Angela.

Sorry for my bad English, and thanks for the game.

Great sexy scenes.
Great renders
good animation

Minimal gameplay (it is a VN)
Poor story (shallow characters, inconsistencies, overdramatic)
Autistic MC (even if it has some justification in-story)

The negatives are hurting badly on a VN where writing is as much if not more important than the renders.

TLDR: A few good porn scenes but drowned in a bad story, you won't care for characters or their relations and just ctrl speed from scene to scene...

Generally I enjoy the game. But it's got a bunch of problems in terms of storytelling. I'm not very critical about porn stories but with how much this one focuses on story I have to criticise it. That isn't to say there isn't enough porn in it. There definitely is plenty. And the sex scenes are good looking. That is in fact by far the best aspect of the game. But there is a lot of story in between each of the sex scenes. And if you try to pay attention to the story to have context for the sex you'll quickly notice the characters are very shallow and the main character is quite a Gary Stu, even more so than most porn MCs. The story is exaggeratedly dramatic and the English not being very good makes that sound very ridiculous often. So if you care about storytelling I can't recommend it. If you only want good porn then I can almost recommend it. Just keep in mind there is a lot of stuff between the sex scenes.

The game is pretty midcore and branches are very poorly implemented. The renders and characters are somewhat nice. Plot is overly dramatic and unrealistic, it is becoming more cringe with each update. It all about white knighting and showing off Infront of girls and girls pretty much like main character for no reason. Not to mention developer uses controversial and traumatic shits like rape/blackmail/kidnapping like a joke. There are no emotional bonding between the characters. Just follow main story, they appear to have sex with Mc and protect them from whatever bullshit(and you even get choices for that? Like yeah, let a girl you know get raped by some douchebag) Choices and relationship between characters doesn't matter at all. Honestly, the game is going downhill from chapter 3 but chapter 1 is probably the best chapter of this game. Nonetheless, it could work better as a kinetic novel. While there are pretty cool scenes but they hardly matter when characters are pretty much sideline.

Just fiished playing up to Ch3, ep1.

Most of what i was going to say has already been covered here, so i dont feel any need to rehash it. English is obviously not the native toungue of the developer, and its annoying. I can look past it though, and trust me there are far worse out there.

Story: 3/5 Aside from a few tense phone calls with Victor and later in the game the plot twist that shakes your core, the whole "evil criminal organization" story line is lost under slice of life daily grind.

Models: 3/5 only because they are HS and i feel there are much better technologies out there to texture with its 2023 not 2015. The women are beautiful, and I like them all but ... yeah.

Characters: 3/5 I feel like the story doesnt allow for any real timesharing with love interests. Most of the interactions are the house girls coming to your room or you meeting up with them for lunch/dinner and a possible sex scene. Most of the girls have confessed that they are in love with the MC and the harem branch has started with all the girls vowing to fight for him and make him theirs. And then.... nothing. They literally leave him alone for weeks at a time while "plot" happens, and he bumps into them and its like "hey i havent seen you or talked to you in a long time even though you are in love with me, how have you been", and then they find a spot to have sex and then hes (ok that was fun i need to go now im going to be late for "insert time of day activity here). The MC himself has VERY little emotional growth through the entire game, he is still as emotionless at the end as he is in the beginning. The only time he even got angry was in 3.1 and if you played it you know why. Which is completely out of character because he has no other feelings at all, even though it hints at them through the game, Especially the beginning while hes spending time with his primary LI's.

Overall I give it 3/5 i think if you already got through what's there then its worth playing the updates to stay caught up. Otherwise, its very very long and you might be disappointed after you get through it. On the bright side, the story is picking up rapidly now and so it may be different later.

I have been playing this game since it was first launched via the prelude, and I have to say it is really a good game with a in-depth and rich story. The characters and animations are very good as well, Thank you for making a game that is soon to be great and fantastic keep up the great work.. <3

(Version Reviewed: Ch. 3 Ep 1 Full)

I'm not sure how I should rate this game.

On one hand, I think the characters are very shallow and if any characters are being explored, it's usually very cliché. It also annoys me that MC is the knight in shining armor for all of the girls and that's the reason why they love him. The MC's personality is as interesting as a cardboard box, so I don't know why all the harem girls love him. He does have a large dick tho. That must help.

On the positive side, I think the story is engaging despite it's failures in making interesting characters. MC is sent by his boss to infiltrate a company and reveal some secret. Fun premise. A little bit of intrigue and twists and turns to keep our attention on the main plot. It's certainly entertaining enough to make me play it whenever the game releases.

Music isn't bad. The renders aren't great, but the girls have attractive faces. The animations are average-ish.

Overall 6.5/10. Not a bad game, but it isn't a great one either.

My Real Desire [Ch.3 Ep.1 Part2] [Lyk4n]
Pretty good VN with stable 4 out 5. Tho, I have few gripes with it and I'll see finished product to make final judgment, but for now it is very good VN. Check it out and don't forget to support dev if you really like it.


Story - 3/5. Decent "anime" story, I had no wish to skip or drop it all together, it was pretty engaging. Even though it says 'ch. 3' for most other games on this site it would be 9 or 12 chapter, it's big.

Choices - 3/5. Binary in their nature, like 'yes or no' but good in a way that you can 'gfy' to any important girl in the story, except for the plot one. Only once tho, plot and all that stuff.

Gameplay - 2/5. Semi-kinetic VN with rare point-and-click elements to collect girl pics.

Characters - 2,5/5. Cliche anime palette: admirer girl, rude girl, nice mature girl, wash up idol, shy girl, "young miss" girl, office hoe, "kinky bookworm", gamer girl, "arrogant" boss lady and last one is f Cthulhu, I don't trust her. Every time she's on the screen I expect screamer.

Models/animations - 3,8/5. It's HS. 5~7 were pretty 'meh', but it got better. They're good/decent.

Grammar - 3/5. I've seen quite few misspells and just simple mistakes, but it's all gonna be fine with proofreading.

Degeneracy - pure nun. I can only remember one and only anal scene (with a hoe, ofc) and one 3-some closer to the end. This harem game is super vanilla. No ntr or even incest. (for now, hue-hue~ mom is pretty hot)

Review as of Ch.3 Ep.1 Part1.

The game starts out like so many other adult visual novels with the player character moving into a house with beautiful girls. The PC is stoic, and it's actually quite fun seeing a PC that isn't your typical horndog, and the girls having to work to open him up. The girls are all good looking as well.

Despite complaints from other people, which is a matter of taste, the absolute biggest issue this game has is: language.

With proper English (get yourself a proofreader/translator!) it could probably be above average. As it stands however, it'll always fall flat with the English being as bad as it is. In fact, I think it actually got worse with the last two releases.

The sex scenes also get repetitive after a while, but if the language was actually sexy and/or interesting instead of broken English, they could still be worth watching, but they're not really as it stands.

You can take a story pretty much anywhere you want, as long as the writing is good, and interesting, however, that's not the case for this game, and the sex scenes aren't good enough to skip through the story for either.

Review for Ch.3 Ep.1 Part 1

After nearly 3 years of development, imagine a developer saying "hey see this harem love interest character? The whole time you were getting to know her, she was being blackmailed and used as a sex toy by someone else."

What the fuck?

Ignoring that pile of shit, I have a laundry list of issues with this game and I am actually pissed about it. Why? Because at its core there is something I really enjoy about My Real Desire and it is such a shame that it's buried under garbage.

This game feels like it's trying to mesh two separate themes and is not doing it well, causing the side I actually like to suffer. Due to a traumatic past, the MC is rather reserved and quiet. I actually loved the idea of the girls he meets slowly warming him back up and bringing out his emotions. 90% of this game is actually just slice of life that's more or less doing that.

But then you got this weird 10% that only ever shows up to say "hey don't forget about me! This game is actually dark and you're working for a scary criminal ooooooo!" To then go back to the increasingly repetitive and predictable slice of life gameplay. Not only that, but a lot of the important backstory and emotional moments are told so ham-fistedly that it just kind of ruins them.

The game started good. There were a few genuine moments, when the MC is just enjoying time with the love interests, where I truly smiled and was actively enjoying it. As the game went however, it got increasingly stale. Hardly anything new was being done. The game just sucks at handling all the love interests. It's like the dev just throws in scenes because they don't know what to do with half of the characters. It's very unfortunate because the love interests are cute, but we barely know anything about any of them besides the weird rushed moments that are suppose to build character. And don't forget, every character must have some kind of tragedy happen to them as you play.

I can't help but feel it's because of this whole criminal aspect. So many things get skipped that feel like they shouldn't. I want to see us having dates with the love interests man. Why are you black-screening 80% of it? Why not show me the cute breakfasts with our roommates each morning? I don't get it. Even the sex scenes all sort of mesh together in the end. Hardly any of them feel unique from the next one.

One other thing I have to point out. One of the love interests gets beat up and hospitalized. The very next day, in that hospital, is her first sex scene like her body just isn't covered in bruises after a very traumatic event. The writing is actually awful.

If I had to sum up this game in a few words they would be: "half-assed." Almost every single aspect started to feel sub-par by the end of content and I honestly couldn't tell you why I kept pushing through it. If the developer is putting passion into this, I do not feel it. This game lacks a soul.

This game didn't last long for me, i think i played two episodes before calling it quits.
Very, VERY immature writing done by someone who i think has a very immature way of seeing the world (i genuinely wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that the developer is 15).

A few examples:

1. An embarassing obsession with virginity (the idea of girls having previous partners is scary, you see).
We are talking about successful, attractive and charismatic women in their twenties for fucks' sake.

2. The MC is sexually assaulted, unequivocally raped while unconscious, but the story never makes a big deal out of it. The people around him know, by the way. HE KNOWS. But it doesn't matter, what's important is that we focus on the fact that the girl is sad because her drunkenness made her lose her virginity to the wrong person.
(to be fair, though, the girl later apologises for yelling at him and accusing him of taking advantage of her. Not for assaulting him, of course, men can't be raped or something).

3. Straight up homophobia (which is when i kissed the game goodbye).
During a beach segment the MC and a recently introduced girl share a quick moment alone. The exchange goes something like this:
GIRL: "Are you interested in girls?"
MC: "No."
GIRL: "Are you interested in men, then?"
MC: "No."
GIRL: "Haha, i already knew that! I could tell that you are a real man".
No reaction whatsoever from the protagonist and the game continues as if that was supposed to be normal.

As i said, immature.
(2 stars instead of 1 only because the emotionless protagonist was refreshing).

Fantastic visuals, but after a playing a complete fresh start I have to say that this game is extremely repetitive, even down to the sex scenes.

It's basically the same day on repeat with different characters in a rotation. MC goes to work, has lunch with someone, has dinner with someone else after some minor cliche conflict and possibly sex, rinse and repeat.

Not including the foreplay, every sex scene is 2 positions with 3 speeds each. That's not a big deal, but it wouldn't hurt to offer some variation to spice it up.

The game is so predictable that I'm just no longer interested. There's an interesting plot buried here, but it's waylaid by the monotonous repeating events that are not even slightly interesting.

No way I can leave this game without a review...

But before anything else, I must say, this is one of the best VN´s I have ever played and enjoyed so much.

The MC is a bit mysterious, but very skilled, and I thoroughly adore his character development, at least, if you choose to play him that way, as I do, meaning being nice to others and bond with them. But, I was a bit skeptical, to be honest (would not want to lie, right ? ), before playing, as he seemed a little too much stoic for me and I did not read that he was meant to be like that, at least, until he changes to be more open towards the others, so I am pleasantly surprised it goes this way with him (For info, I have just started episode 4 of 1. chapter.).

The girls are very beautiful and each has her own character, attitude and personality, which I find refreshing. Though I am complete mesmerized by Krystal (her will to overcome her past), "Cold Angel" Eira, she is just the type of girl I wish to know someday and the Unlimited world online scenery with Sally, when we first try the helmet (And even before).

*Spoiler* The plot in the background, as I stated, is quite mysterious to me, as I am waiting how will it go on and what will happen, though I hope for MC to break free from their grasp and fight them, or at least, break out from their influence.

But I understand the story behind it and decisions that led to it, and maybe in the chapter 2 it will come to that, what do I know ? (Update after seeing the library dream jail sequence...: MC never knew anything else in his life, but obeying the Victor´s orders as agent, so I think it goes pretty well, meaning the MC´s stoicism with the purpose I allegedly believe is therefore part of the story, but this is just my interpretation. And after reading this sentence after myself I´ll think I will try to make it simpler. As we can see, MC never had normal life, he always knew only obeying orders, and that goes well with explaining why is he so stoic/emotionless = he did not ever need emotions, the were only an obstacle. So, if I understand the author´s intention correctly, this is my interpretation of it. God, I hate myself for writing this uninteligible sentence, please forgive me. I only know that I am very excited for it and love it only for the characters and plot, not the h-scenes, I just take them as bonus really. And for that, I am very grateful for you Lyk4n.

Good luck with this game and hope that at least this rating helps a bit, if only via public awareness. Thanks a lot.

I have just finished current version and I´ll just say this... Thank you a lot once more for making this game. I love the humor in it, the wit, the girls, especially Eira. I also loved the scene with Felix at police station and his cunning¨and the MC´s scene with the politician and his ice-coldness yet utter calm and professionality. What am I saying... The whole story and writing is great for me, yes, I, here and there catch a few mistakes, and some phrases are rather repetitive, but it does not lessens my impression at all and overally, I adore your work. Keep working, I do not know, if you will ever read this, but still, I felt like it is the least I can do for you.

Overall, I think it's pretty good. I am guess English is not the Dev's native, language as the dialogue is pretty basic and kinda clumsy.

By the way, you will notice, by the way, that every other sentence, by the way, starts with by the way. It is, by the way, a tad annoying.

I do like the MC. He is a bit of a Gary Stu but I like that he seemingly has no feelings and can play a dude that truly does not have any fucks to give.

By the way, my only problem real problem is there are too many LIs. This is a common problem in these kinds of games, but it is too hard to keep track of all of them. By the way, it is not really intuitive to know what you are doing. Chapters would end my MC missed points with the one LI he was focusing on and I could not figure out how or what was missed.

By the way, this game is really just 3 stars, but the dev has put a lot of work into it, and I appreciate the variety of characters. A lot of work has gone into the development and, by the way, they deserve an extra star just for that.

My Real Desire is a game about a rift in space time that makes the MC seem 10x cooler to people around him than he actually is. Look, I can apreciate that game development is a largely inscrutable process and that first mean spirited joke aside, I'd like to give it a proper examination, to see how it epitomises many of the most common problems on this site.

Let's start with one of the harder problems to explain. This game has all the shape of the story it's trying to tell with none of the substance. What I mean by that is that it goes through all the relevant plot points you'd expect the story to lead to without ever putting any intentionallity behind it.

There doesn't seem to be a reason for people liking the MC, they just do, because that's what needs to happen for the story. Similarly, and even more egregiously, the opposite is also true, and the MC seems to like and trust and indulge other people because..., that's what needs to happen for the story.

The writing tries to make up for this by explaining that the MC is confused of his emotions, and bubbling in people's thoughts where they explain why they like us so much, but what that ends up acomplishing is bringing attention to the problem. Why am I being told the protagonist is so cool instead of it being self evident? And, it looks like it is at least trying to make it self evident, but it fails drastically because of our next problem: Editing

When I say this game epitomises some problems in this site, this is exactly what I mean. Most games here are horribly edited together and this is no exception. The MC's most self evidently cool thing here is his physical prowess. He's fast, he's strong, he has good reflexes and the game shows that to us by having the MC do physically impressive things. Physically impressive things that don't work very well visually when they're just 4 jumpcuts between images that have no sense of motion to them.

And although those physical scenarios are the most outstanding, that's just the way most scenes are edited together. Motion is largely unexistant. The editing has no respect for the relation between distance and time. The game doesn't seem to have a respect for time at all in fact. Events that should take 1 second are narrated, real time by multiple full lines of dialogue. The MC spiking a volleyball was hilariously bad.

There is one thing that could save this game and it is the writing. Not the dialogue, the dialogue is very bad but the writing, like I said before, is clearly trying to imitate the shape of a well written story. It tries to set the love interests as foils to the protagonist, but it tries harder to do that than to let them be characters in their own merit. It tries to set up an overarching narrative but it doesn't know when to hit the plot beats properly. It tries to develop relationships organically but it has no sense of pacing.

The end result is that the game feels empty. There's no depth to the world and there's no depth to the characters. Everything is mechanical. And that's a shame, because again, it's clearly trying.

Such a great game

-Good Girls
- Enjoyable story
- Good HS Animations
- Great Amount of content (several hours and days of playtime)
- Zeke such a good friend (Mika wins the lottery hahaha)


PD: Sandra had my favorite design and she is not romanceable ☹ (Peter, such a lucky bastard hahaha)