I gave NEW EARTH a try for the first time and I was able to enjoy it to some degree.
The story really isn’t ground breakingly new, (humanity is going extinct, the mc’s task as (elected) captain of a spaceship is to colonize a new habitable planet), but interesting enough for me. There are even some plot twists about the true intentions of the ship’s AI, but I’m not going to spoiler. Anyway the story is solid for a science-fiction VN, but nothing new.
I’m clearly not in it for the NTR, because this definitively isn’t my kink (I don’t enjoy playing a mc being cuckoled at all), but in it for the future pregnancy content and harem route. As tastes and kinks are different, the dev provided different routes like harem, swinger and being cuckoled, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t have touched this game if it was NTR mainly. Therefore I appreciate the effort of offering different main approaches to this game.
Anyway choices aren’t many so far, the game feels somewhat like on rails. There are frequent choices between the main routes of the game, though, which are alpha male, swinger as middle ground and beta male route. But not all of these decisions are actually reasonable or thought-through and there are no decisions at all within one of those main routes.
F.e. why would an “alpha male” not take a quick look at Delilah’s tits in order to check her out, when his preset girlfriend Veronica is present, who by the way acts like a prude for most parts of the game? I think it would be more alpha to show her, that there is some competition for her, too not only for the mc and that some other girl might take her place as mc’s gf, if she doesn’t get off her ass soon enough.
The mc's gf Veronica is more the reluctant, shy type, which wants to be seduced, and I really don’t suggest that all girls should instantly and willingly jump on the mc’s cock. That would be boring. But Veronica got on my nerves. I wished for more choices, like the ability to choose the mc's gf instead of having a preset prude playing games or being able to do more nasty things in order to sabotage your male competitors or to interact with the cast in different ways. Veronica f.e. is teasing the mc constantly, but leaves him unsatisfied several times, while she even interrupts/prevents the player from having hot scenes with some other girls, who are more willing and no less sexy. Seriously, which alpha would play Veronica’s immature games, instead of just saying: “fuck this shit, I’m going to have some real fun with someone more willing.” Options to make your gf jealous and such are clearly missing.
The game also lacks intrigues and schemes against your male competitors to sway the girls to your side. Since the harem route is even called “tyrant” route in this game, I’m missing options, which would actually fit to a tyrannical behavior. Right now the harem/tyrant route is neither fish nor fowl in my opinion...
As I wrote above, this game feels like on tracks and choices are little and only influence the main routes between harem, middle-ground and cuckold.
Next problem are some unlucky scene design decisions. Do you really want to see one of your competitors masturbating, while your mc is engaged in a hot ffm threesome? WTF! Such unnecessary distractions really spoil otherwise hot scenes...
So far for the constructive criticism. There are also some positive aspects noteworthy, but I'll keep it short, because this review is already long enough. The renders are ok, the cast of the girls is sexy, the variation of different girls is adequate (there could be more women in the cast than just these 4. though). Least but not last the animations are quite simplified. Personally I can live with this, but maybe the dev is able to improve on his skills to do better animations in the future.
Altogether the average rating is well-deserved. If PREGNANCY ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN I'll substract one star from this rating, making it an overall poor VN in my eyes. Because a planet colonization VN would just be silly without pregnancy in the game actually!