VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - No More Money [v4.1.1 S4 Ep.1 GE] [RoyalCandy]

To episode 3, season 2.

Renders are great. Writing is good enough. Story progression? Filler hell.

It is the game of a dev, who added to many characters and has no idea how to develop them. And this is also the game of a dev, who has no idea how to develop relationships at the first place.

For one, there is no sexual content with the main girls - which is okay. What is worse, there is no romantic progression with any of the main girls. There are no dates, no open feelings, no interactions. The last five episodes are iterations of the same cycle "girl is interested and makes a move - MC is surprised - nothing happens - WOW, IS SHEFORREAL - girl makes a move".

Again, and again, and again- stomping on the same place without progress.

This game will, eventually, be good, given the development time - and dev is working hard, putting out updates every month. However, now it is the perfectly frustrating experience that I would not advice to even try - you will only destroy your impression of the game.

I was a bit disappointed TBH as my expectations were a lil high since NO MORE SECRETS is 1 of my fav AVN's. This 1 lacked the witty dialogues, polished story & memorable characters that made NMS so awesome . The only advantage this has over it's predecessor is the sex animations.I will definitely recommend NMS if u haven't tried it yet but this 1 not so much

This is not as good as previous games, the story is lacking a bit side characters are not interesting and zero sexual content with the landlady, roommate
as a + very good graphics
- too many useless animations, RoyalCandy should focus more on the story

Game has good consequences. MC is logical and supportive of everyone. He fits in both ups and downs, no awkwardness.

Each episode is like a whole chapter in itself, has lots of content.

I love the slideshows of some episodes, gives me some sort of Life is Strange vibes to it. Fills me with life and that is refreshing.

Only downside is that you cant see the CG image fully after the slideshow effect which is a bummer.

The slow corruption is really good. Not really corruption upon just one party, but towards the MC as well.
Lots of humor too, and I love them. Especially the friendly fights with the sister/roommate.

I usually skip a lot of dialogues in games recently, but this one gets me reading with each line. Writing must be too good to get me reading.

Animations are decent but needs improvement.

Plot is mysterious rather than being filled with breadcrumbs and details.

Characters renders are amazing.
Everyone is a beauty in and out.
Except for the GF, she is still shady to me.
No flashbacks, just words coming out of her mouth so cant really know.

Wish the game had a harem version, even though I hate harem, but this game is an exception for me.

Overrall the game is great. Will wait and continue to play further updates till its complete, hopefully.

2nd season and still zero sexual contact with main characters is a way too slow-burner for me. Since I'm not interested in any side-characters it makes it a "no sexual content" game for me. And all I left with is a soapy drama, that I never liked to begin with. Maybe dev could add more tension at least? Because it feels like there is not even that much of sexual tension between main character, just a mild curiosity. So while I like the visuals and overall quality, story seems way too slow and somewhat boring. There's almost no sense of progress. But it's just just my humble opinion, don't take it too personal.

Review as of S2 E2, playing the good guy path

This has quickly become my most anticipated release of the month. With a lot of devs having moved to releasing 1 or 2 updates per year having a developer that releases updates with hundreds of renders every single month and keeps his patrons informed about his progress almost daily is incredibly refreshing and his work ethic alone makes me want to rate this game 5/5.

And I think the game deserves that rating anyway, it’s a major step up from his previous game, which i personally didn’t like.

The renders are good, not exceptional as they look a bit soft but still very good, and the models are great.

The story is of course the selling point in a slow burn game. It’s original enough and I think this one has one of the most realistic dialogues between family members out of all these games.

Don’t get me wrong, the story still has a lot of the usual tropes and it still suffers a bit from porn logic but I think it’s reasonable when you’re writing an incest plot, not like you can take inspiration from real life events.

The only thing that could be improved is making the updates more cohesive… as it is now the character development doesn’t feel linear, after every update the relationships seem to take a bit of a step back.

If you like games that go straight to the point and have lots of sex scenes this is probably not for you, otherwise I really recommend trying this game and I wish the developer good luck in reaching the next goal on patreon to start doing this full time, hoping it will lead to even better updates

Absolute masterpiece! The plot as well as the background character storylines is incredible! The best part is the music though I would honestly find myself vibing to the tunes chosen for each particular scene very well done. However, I should first point out that this game doesn't have many sex scenes so far if that's what your looking for. This game is very much more story based which honestly i'm not even mad about because it's so well written.

The character designs are top notch! Only input is i wish the DEV would put in more animated scenes like walking along the beach during a certain scene or maybe having some actual moving water during shower scenes with the water droplets on their skin. Just a suggestion, so far this game is phenomenal and I look forward to seeing how the story progresses. 5/5 stars!

RoyalCandy always delivers nice games, No More Money is no different. Enjoyable game, really good cs, nice jokes, really NICE music, nice models, really good visuals and menu... just play it.

Story: 3/5
CG: 5/5
Humor: 4/5
Music: 5/5

Final score: 5/5

This game can't decide if it wants to be a slow burn or not, and that ruins both the pacing and the characterization. Renders are decent and there's references to RoyalCandy's other games. If that sounds appealing to you then you might like this game but I wouldn't really recommend downloading.


If this is supposed to be a slow burn focused on romance that's fine. Just make sure the options make sense for that. If it's a debauched harem game where the MC can bang everyone without consequence, that's also fine so long as the options make sense for that. But this hodgepodge mess doesn't work for either.

Story was a little uninspiring for my taste. The models are drop dead gorgeous, but... idk, could have brought the incest H content a little faster I guess. Just kind of a slower visual novel. Not terribly slow, but it wasn't to my taste.

I mean I like the Game I have always liked his games It's Cool Has a story and Very Very Good Renders. But 4 stars only because the game lacks something you know kinky like something that Starts the fire or helps it burn through the heart I get the idea that people think that this doesn't matter but like in the log term of things it does and can add something adventurous like maybe he could have added “NTR” Or “Female Domination”. Maybe “Male Domination”

I don't leave too many reviews but in this case I had to. The game is very well done. The plot is pretty casual and the renders are very good. But the soundtrack is fantastic. Hardly ever is there so many songs sung in games. I'm really impressed. They add a lot of atmosphere and emphasize emotions. For me, the only drawback is actually the decisions we have to make. Honestly, looking at the way it is presented, it would be great if the game had a "harem" in it because it would make some things easier. The main problem lies in the main character's girlfriend, with whom he is actually automatically. Maybe when you make decisions on "no" you don't end up with her then, but later the possibility of breaking up with her will happen much later, which means that you either cheated on her or you didn't see most of the scenes. Maybe that's my impression, but that's what I think after one pass. By the way, if you don't know the game, of course at the beginning you will choose to be with her

One of the games that has insane potential. The renders and girls are beautiful, the story is skillfully narrated , despite being a well-worn trope of the neglected mom and sister with a crush. Family feels like family, and the exchange between the MC and the mom and sis feels real(ignoring the incest of course).

The main gripe that I have resulting in 4 stars instead of 5 for me are the multiple branches in the story. This was also true with the previous game No More Secrets, where its not just decisions in the story that results in 2 scenes, but where 1 single decision can branch into multiple decisions down the road.

Yes, there certainly are players who enjoys these decisions and may end up playing the game multiple times, but honestly I feel it's too tedious to go through them all.

Right now the story is at Ep 7 and already has multiple branches, I can only imagine how far the story could have progressed if effort was made to incorporate majority of the scenes in 1 timeline, instead of locking out characters you're interested in, but only exists in a branch the writer didn't implement and you can't choose it.

But, nonetheless, it's a rather enjoyable game, and you should give it a try if the tags appeals to you.

Disclaimer: I only played as a nice guy. I don't know much about the douchebag path

PROS
+The game has superb writing, the character interactions feel really genuine and is super charming to watch brother and sister banter with each other in such believable way.
+ The renders are solid, all the characters are pretty and the backgrounds are nice.
+The music is pretty good and fits perfectly to the mood of the scenes.
+Is a slow burn so you actually get to know the characters pretty well before even getting a chance to have sex with them.

CONS
-The MC sometimes feels a little bit like he is too good , like sometimes he feels a little too perfect, super charming, always caring and charismatic, great athlete, perfect son, brother, employee and surrogate husband for the mom, I mean is nice and always bring good vibes with him, but sometimes It should be able to do a fuck up from time to time.
-Is not inmune to some dumb VN logic, like situations were the MC gets a raging boner instantly for the most stupid things like seeing a nipple for 3 seconds.
-The setting is nothing really original, we have seen stories about a young adult living with his mother/sister and developing a relationship with them while dealing with young adult stuff tons of times.
-Mostly vanilla content

Overall is an amazing experience, even though the setting is nothing to write home about, it makes up for it by having excellent writing and charming and pretty wholesome interactions, specially with the family and has a killer moody soundtrack. Easy to recommend!

I like this dev's work. The women are among the most beautifully realized in all Daz-dom. Highly recommeded, this and their previous titles. Great stuff, some of the best teasing scenes you'll find.

Now let's talk about the problems, because that's more interesting, and what doesn't work with this VN is, I think, fundamental to creating good VNs.

The issues are tone, dialogue and formal structure. They overlap, but let's take them one at a time.

Tone. Balancing between the light and the dark is really hard. With VNs, all dark, all serious tends to be turgid and whiny, you know what I mean. Lots of examples. All light is my preference, but it's hard to be both light and memorable, and for the dev, maybe you may feel like you're just cooking up a quick fap-fest. Ephemera.

This dev deserves much credit for trying to inject dark into the light, but the shifts are heavy-handed and become tedious. The teasing, flirty conversations with the mom and the sister go on way too long, like, enough with the helium already. But then you get this very, very heavy moment with the father in the fitness centre, and it's like, where did that come from? The father relationship is problematic in general, and it almost makes you prefer to leave him as landlord. I don't know, for me, the balance is all off.

The story's dialogue is also very uneven. It tends to be better when it's light, you know, banter. But when it's serious, it's very awkward and unidiomatic. And it's hard to match the seriousness moments with the scenario. Like, they're broke, but they have perfect haircuts? GYm memberships? And the girls buy clothes like a Kardashian? When you're broke, the first thing you start doing is cutting your own hair. It feels like the concerns that face the family are... pretend concerns. And they talk like they're been told it should matter, but it really doesn't.

Formal structure. So, there are devs who use decision dynamics in their work. I don't mean the simple choices that extend a sex scene, I mean major decisions, you know, pick either A or B and the story becomes really different. But I think the number of VNs on this site that actually use decisions effectively this way can be counted on the thumbs of two hands.
Where I think where VNs can be really effective, I mean, memorable, is in how they use cinematic composition and dynamic effects of angles and depth in transitioning from image to image. Like comic books.

This VN pretty much sits in mid-range POV, a few closeups, but not many. There are some neat montages to show the passage of time and events, very effective, and the dev is skilled in that trick of pausing the action to allow a nice long, cool male gaze from tip-toe to top of head. But other than that, it's pretty episodic and the camera moves like in a soap opera. Two people have a conversation, the camera moves from one to the other, and then pulls back if they have sex.

On the flip side, there are some decisions in this VN that have big impacts on how the story will progress. Here's my reader experience. When images are used dynamically, it keeps me reading the VN, and the impression stays with me. When I am faced with a story-altering choice, I quit the VN and turn to unren to check to see what I'm going to miss. Which is better?

I guess these are bugbears of mine, and I'm using this review to rant a little. But there is so much good in this VN that it seems a real shame that it gets spoiled by these issues. And I'd slay dragons for Charlotte, that's for sure.

I dont understand the 2-3 star reviews..its much better than an average game here (and I've played over 500)..I appreciate the music, renders are great, story is quite good, nothing new, but we have way too many games to contrive something new.

Gfx and anims rate 4-5/5. H-scenes are on the vanilla side but well-executed. That's mainly what I care about in lewd games unless they're 'story driven' and/or sandboxed, in which case I resort to reviewing the story and gameplay elements which those games foist upon me (usually resulting in 1-2 star reviews).

The story is generic as they come, except the standard cast of 'landladies' is complemented by actual girlfriends. Writing is more or less at native speaker level. Not really much else to say. It's not an 'engaging story' but then again I didn't register on a porn game website to read ripping yarns. What matters to me is the story - such as it is - doesn't take up the space of h-scenes and isn't egregiously annoying.

Objectively I'd give it a 4 for the vanilla (tho amply fappable) h-scenes. Bumping it to 5 to offset the negative reviews criticising a porno story for being, well, a porno story.

I had high hopes for this game since the first one was great, but i was disappointed and i didn't expect that.
1.The story doesn't attract you in any way and it's the same thing many has saw before, personally i don't find it interesting, probably it would have been if the dialogue wasn't so amateurish.
2.The dialogue is too mediocre, very simple and makes the story of the game even more boring than already is.
I had to skip several times because i got very cringy feeling reading all of those lines, if you aren't an english native speaker i kind of understand why your english is at such novice level but even so, you could put more effort in it if you really wanted too.
3.There's no character development whatsoever and all of them are poorly written which makes them look like they have no personality at all.
For example the protagonist is just a horny typical boy who gets laid right from the beginning which makes him look like he owns every women even tho he has no specific personality traits, hell he has literally no personality.

The only good thing this game has are just the renders and that's it, other than that nothing else.
Again i didn't expected that this game could be this bad, i saw the reviews from the game but i decided to play it myself to see if it really is how it's reviewed and unfortunately, it is.
It's bad because of the massive averageness compared to the first game, it's like a typical porn game where story doesn't have any value and the main goal of the game is to provide fap material and that's it.
I can't even find the right rating for it, i find it too high to be rated as "average" and too low to be rated as "poor", it's a poor average i would say.
In the end i really hope you will improve, especially the writing, this game is already too late to be changed into something better in my opinion, try to take notice of all the criticism you get because that's the key in making a better game, if you will keep ignoring the criticism you will never learn from your mistakes and continue to do lame work that many people will not appreciate, good luck!

One of the top games out there! Don't miss miss this one. As with his previous work this game has fantastic visuals and a great story line. This is my favorite game because of Tris and Charlotte... Perfection! Please support this dev if you can his work speaks for itself. 5 stars all the way and if I could give more stars I would...

A huge step up from the previous game from the dev.
The renders are definitely top notch and better than most.
This game has animations which lacked in the previous game.
The story has good pacing and I like the option to choose between 2 jobs.
The pacing and character development is great as well and the releases are frequent which isn’t common these days. Great work!