VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Now & Then [v1.00.0] [ILSProductions]

Well, what do we have here. The setting of a global pandemic with "zombies" and bandits around. I won't lie, before I started playing I was already skeptical because I'm not a fan of that kind of story. But this game was able to exceed all my expectations, and this is to say the least.
Initially, I just wrote a huge review, but then I realized that it would not be a review, but a detailed retelling of the entire plot. Therefore, I will limit myself to mentioning the pros and cons of this game.

PROS:

• Interesting and intriguing from the first minutes story. I especially liked the presentation of this story in the form of Polaroid pictures and smooth transitions between the "now" and "then".
• Very interesting and not annoying characters with different personalities, especially the main character. Not all games have such a responsible, prudent and interesting main character.
• Smooth and pleasant animations, although this is not new for games on this engine.
• Tension could be more, but I'm happy with the amount that the game provided me.
• Well-written text.
• The music is quite pleasant and does not distract from the game process.
• A small moment that not all games use - moans during sex scenes. They are of course looped and will be repeated from scene to scene, but this did not annoy me at all.

NEUTRALS:

• Game duration. I wanted to include it to the benefits of the game, but a lot of the events don't affect the story at all and they were added just to make the game even longer, which isn't always a good thing.
• I can't believe that I'm going to write this down somewhere else besides the pluses of the game - the sex scene. There were too many of them. With a fairly limited cast of characters, many scenes felt too repetitive and boring. To be honest, after the story arc at school, in most of the scenes I just pressed "skip" because I was tired of them.
• Camera angles. Their mere existence is good, but the vast majority of them were not the most necessary and too repetitive, namely, the change of shots for pussy. And this is not an exaggeration, probably in 70% of cases when choosing "change angle" you will be shown just a close-up of a pussy.
• A way of presenting really intense moments, as it was in the story-arc at school. Namely, under what circumstances the bandits discovered the presence of people in the school. This particular moment disappointed me a little, because it could have been done much more logically and more interestingly. I won't say that there are many of these moments, but nevertheless.
• Endings. The very existence of different endings is already good, especially with pregnancy moments. Although to say that they disappointed me - to say nothing. But as they say, my expectations are my problems. I have nothing against sex scenes, but when the endings are just full of these scenes instead of some kind of timeskip and a more detailed description of the future of all the characters - it's a little disappointing. Yes, some moments from the future life of the characters are shown in the endings, but this is far from enough. Perhaps I got this feeling because of the extremely large number of sex scenes and I was hoping that at least the endings would be a little different.

CONS:

• Endless conversations about how hard it is for everyone and who had to go through what to survive. Seriously, it was mentioned so often that at one point it became seriously annoying.
• Another rather annoying moment, part of which I included in the neutral moment. Extremely horny girls. Absolutely always. It doesn't really matter how sad or stressful the situation is. Interaction with characters when they are alone with the MC in 95% of cases will end in sex.
• Graphical issues at the beginning and towards the middle of the game. More specifically, lighting. It is so unstable and strange that it sometimes caused laughter. At some point, you either don’t see what’s on the screen at all, or the lighting is so strong and distorted that you get the feeling that the characters have a completely different body color, hair, etc. and this affects not only the characters or part of their body, but the entire room and the screen as a whole. I'm not sure if I described it correctly, but you will understand what I'm talking about if you have already played this game or when you start playing it.

To sum it up, I would rate it 4.5 stars, rounding up to 5 due to the fact that this game is really well made, has a lot of content, interesting story and the fact that the game is complete.
I can safely say that I recommend this game to anyone who has not played it yet.

Definitely one of the best games out here, its the best one in terms of balancing p0rn-history, but it could use better graphics, anyway i might like it more than badik, thats a lot to say, I have played thousands of games and I can really say that this is one of the best ones if not the best, badik its good in therms of story p0rn and graphics, but I JUST LOVE apocalyptic +harem, I finished this game in 2 days, and I really could play 100 chapters more, but I have to say that after leaveing the City and a couple of chapters in the mansion, it started being a little repetitive and the story with hana feels like it was cut off same way with julie, nontheless its one of the best games out here, if u ask me, its the best one in therms of history and good p0rn balance

Fucking great story telling,beat other cheap boring renpy porn game in every ways.First time i even like MC in a porn game .Dev know how to created atmosphere , make you understand the characters and what drives them forward.Funny enough ,despite that the sex scences are great ,this game can be a decent visual novel without the needs of sex scences imo.

Very developed story.

I believe no one should be expecting me to say "awesome visuals" as we know good and well that they were acceptable.

Interesting play with "not-zombies."


All the endings are different versions of a harem ending.

I'm apparently a milf supremacy member. I enjoyed the other girls too, but my favorite was the milf. That was my preferred ending, didn't hurt that I only remember the milf having a post-coital makeout with reinsertion. Sure the other's had their second rounds and all. Still. . . .She was the first MILF. Best MILF too as the second milf was soon joined by the other two who soon became milfs.

This game is´t a solid high 4 low 5 stars game that is long, with lot of content

Sometimes the pace of the game it´s too slow. . But he have a decent plot and the characters develops during the game.

And HAVE BEEN FINISHED.

So, obviously, 5 stars.

Well. Well. When i begun playing this game i was just entusiast of it. Now there i played all the way through i was seriously considering to give it fewer stars. Even 3 maybe.

Yet i still respect it for being original, massive, completed and for having being enticing in the early story.

Now, let's go a bit in detail.

The renders are... very basic. I'm not bothered at all by honey select projects, but seing what other devs got out of it, the ladies of this game feels like random generated cards from HS game itself.

Not a big deal but it gets even comical when it goes to lighting. The lights are all over the place. Some scene are so dark you don't see shit and then suddenly there is a sort of spotlight on one character that gets overlighted in the middle of nothing. Other times the light is so off that the colors go nuts and the girls don't even look human. It looks like the devs generated the pictures and put them in the folder without even looking at them. My favored part where the guns, which a few time where so shiny reflecting lights that they looked like miniature lightsabres. Once a creamypie was suddenly orange-red and so bright that i thought MC cummed lava.

But this has zero importance to me.

At the beginning i was enjoying the game greately. The early story of the blossomong love in the claustrophobic enviroment of the besiedged apartment was so tense. I really felt like from a scene to another thugs might get in and do horrible things to Carol.

But, as soon as the school arc, plot armor was so evident that all the tension and immersion were gone. While the early reluctant transition from a fatherly relationship to a sexual one with Carol and the addition of Naomi to the plate were very erotical, at that point the only intresting part was banging the new girls as they got into the story.

And there they come the two big problems of this game.

One, it's WAY TOO LONG and slow paced. Half of it, to say the least, felt like it could have been cut without altering the plot and this useually means that the the execution is bloated. And kinda repetetive. It almost felt like yet another season of the Walking Deads.

And that feeling wasn't helped either by Problem Two: the boring sex. Ok, this game as a real fucking ton of sex scenes with all the ladies of the game, yet... they literally all bland in. They are basically all the same, no matter which the girl of the scene is. Probably it's part of the effect of having been very basic with HS, but also the dialogs and thoughs in them are unnerving and estremely BLA BLA BLA.

After a while i started to skip through the sex scenes speed reading half of the dialogs in them. Both the scene and the text where rather uninteresting, which should tell tales about a porn game...

And by the way, there is only one kind of sex in all the plot: Vaginal Vanilla with the ladies all prayising how big MC's cock is... ... ... ... *SNORES* ...

Really even barely any anal just to change a bit.

By the end, considering the plot armors, the stagnant too easy relationship, the lame sex scenes, the overbloated repetetive plot, the general cheeseness... i still fill like giving it 5 start for the massive amount of work put in a genuinely forking story of this size, but... i was honestly bored to my bones.

Do i recommend this game? Well, yes, if nothing for how good the early story is, but it is by no means, at this point, one of my favorites.

Absolutly amazing. I loved every second of the game, the story was captivating and had me hungering for more. The steamy scenes (you know what i mean) were fantastically done and the fact that my choices mattered in the game was the cream of the crop. Finished the game yesterday and as i'm writing this i've already started a second playthrough to get whatever scenes i'm missing (gotta catch 'em all). 10/10, highly recommend!

I have enjoyed this game from beginning to end. I have to say well done. The only thing about that game that didn't like was the female voice during sex. That's the only thing I can complain about. So I'm giving you a 5 out of 5 stars. Just for the record this is only the 3rd game I have ever given a 5 star rating so be proud of the game you created.

I am eagerly waiting for your next game.

though I wished the art was a little better and the sounds effects to be also better, the reason it gets 5 stars is cause of story.......although a harem story game, its filled various emotional aspects and growth of characters, the story is really sweet..........................there are various games out there in the market which have good graphics but not so good storyline, this one was really nice something you dont get to generally see

I don't usually post reviews, but this game is just AMAZING! "Now & Then" is my all-time favorite vn game out of all the ones I've played. This game will gratify your heart and mind in addition to your dick. This game offers a lot, including a compelling plot, superb character development, hot models, and more. I thank the game's developer/s for providing me with such a memorable experience.

touching, sexy and funny. a tale about a father and daughter stuck in a small apartment with the infected roaming outside. the writing is clever and the renders are great, it's simple, elegant and a pleasure to play.

Only thing holding it back really is the repeat use of the same sound effects. Otherwise flawless game. As good as I've ever played in the genre. Suprisingly deep and complex. Staggering amount of options.

Story about how MC and his daughter try to survive the apocalypse while discovering their love. On the way you meet your old friends who join you on the journey.
It is very story rich, it has romantic as well as Emotional scenes balanced, and a bit of thriller scenes sprinkled in between to spice it up.
Action is pretty realistic as well, every step taken, bullet shot is thought through every possibility and not like guns blazing while Bandits miss 9/10 shots.

I absolutely loved it. 10/10.
Has to be in my top 3 most favorite AVNs ever
I highly recommend y'all give it a try as well

8/10 for the model, i feel like newer character have better model than Naomi and Carol, but it's not that significant

7/10 for story, i wish theres a big battle between the three faction or atleast a mini conflict, but it's good overall and the ending is kinda mid, i guess the game creator didn't want to pursue that way, well its a porn game afterall lmao

9/10 for each character personality, the game feels alive because of this. there's not sudden change to the character personality when shit happens.

I love this game. It is one of the few on these forums that i will remember for a long, long time. The (sex) games on these forums pretty much only interest me when there's a lot of emotions involved and only if there's a good story.

There's some very good character buildup in this game, more than in most others. This makes for actual immersion in a porn game, something that has only happened to me in very few of these games.
This may be a porn game, but there's not much unrealistic nonsense, if you want stupidly huge boobs or cocks, stop reading and move onto the next game.

The story has some turns and twists that are not predictable. Your choices don't matter in the actual story, but that's just fine by me, especially in a story with such high quality. You can pick which love interests you want to pursue, this only influences the ending, not the actual story. But, i don't need my choices to decide the outcome of the story.

The graphics in the game are above average, good, but not fantastic. Even though the quality of the graphics is not upto the standards of, for example, Areas of Gray or City of Broken Dreamers, the combination of the graphics, the type of textbox used and the font is perfect. Miraculously, I've not noticed any bugs in the game either.

As for the audio, the dev has managed to pick the right music for the majority of the scenes. What i mean is, the music really suits the mood and emotions a scene is trying to provoke. It really enhances the experience for me.
For me (and my ability to get myself off ) the story is one of the most important things in these games. Ofcourse the graphics and audio are very important too, like i said before, this game has above average renders and it's audio adds to the game. These things make up a large part of the reason i can give this game the highest rating.

Sidenotes:
- I played the game with the walkthrough mod. Which obviously influences the experience, but i tend to prefer walkthrough mods anyway, since i prefer story over choice.
- The game could have been better with better graphics.
- If you don't like games where your choices barely influence the story, or maybe you don't like storygames, then this game is not for you.
- My rating is not entirely correct imo: I would have given this a 4,5 star rating due to to the grapics, were it not for the fact that too many shitty games on these forums are getting an above 4,5 average. The first page of the top rated games on F95 spans 30 games, 11 of which are awful. The lowest rated is 4.6.
- This is one of the few games that i only played after it was finished. I only mention it, because 99.9% of the games on here take far too long to get updated. Im willing to wait a few years for a normal triple A game, but most of the games on here take far longer and are just not worth paying for at all.
- Like any of these games, there is a few unsolved mysteries. For me, it didnt have much impact on the actual story, but i suppose it could be different if you were to be really interested in any of those particular details.

Wonderful game, very engaging story with quality writing. Can't say enough about how well thought out this game is.

Animations are excellent, very good visuals for and HS1 game, lots of varying paths and plenty of love interests to occupy you time.

This game actually made me care about the characters and what was happening in their lives. I can't say enough about home complete this is from top to bottom.

I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes a compelling story in HS format.

Very well written characters. Love how even small choices seem meaningful even if it's only a brief mention later on. Sometimes the characters use the same phrases and expressions which are more about the writer than the characters.

This is first and foremost a VN:
+ Lots of dialogue/text/story
+ Story is one of the better written and easy to follow
-- Some events are too verbose and could have been shortcut to get to the main plot. For example, don't need to show us so many meals with MC if the scene doesn't push the story forward or could have been handled differently for some variety.
> Not exactly a zombie story, just so you don't come into it with the wrong expectations like I did. They are infected humans, which is different.
+ Great use of sound effects and music
+ One of the longer stories out there, which I like because it kept my interest and it wasn't over in 2-3hrs.

Secondly, this is a VN with porn elements:
+ The models are more 'realistic' for teenage girls and older women/wives, which I appreciate since we get variety instead of the same big tits+hourglass figure regardless of age like some games choose to do.
+ Great use of sound effects and music
-- Does the art/renders look dated? Yes.
+ Nice animations
> The 'porn' is a slow burn, but a logical one. This may be too slow for some, but I appreciated it.
+ I don't remember if it was a mod or part of the game, but there is a gallery option to replay scenes.

Overall, if you are just looking for fap content, then there are plenty of games that jump right into the 'action'. Those have their place and are a great break while working through this story-driven adult VN.

Too good Visual Novel - Need part 2 . Try this game if you want a great story with porn elements. Also multiple endings and extra scenes for more than one playthrough.Also u can try the mod for perfect ending

Good game but I took off a star because there were some things I didn't like.

• The MC made idiotic decisions for the first few chapters (which he acknowledges in later chapters).
• The story setting is that the infected are not actual undead but just people who have lost higher brain function. They eat too little and last too long without food. There are a lot of other issues, but basically what we see versus what we know of the setting doesn't make sense.
• The graphics look like they were made using AG3 (Illusion game that came out in 2007).
• I only liked the character design of one love interest.