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

This game was nice and I am glad that I started playing it after it was finished. The flashback events were nice as well, The way the relationship developed was good and it was a harem-based game and at least in this story, we had a scenario where the girls were around a single male, rather than a few other games. Well, the models could have been a little better though as it happens things got better with the later chapters. Also the same sound every time got too much too soon.

Good game, It ticked all the boxes that I crave in an avn, that is good storytelling, characters and lots of lewd animations.
The only sad thing is that even though the endings might be well thought out but they felt a little rushed.

Good story. This is an adult game, not fap game. Even the npc have their own stories. The dev is truly a writer. Appreciate dev for making such a masterpiece like this. And why must limit 200 characters? I'm not a storyteller man (-_-)

Definitly one of the best AVN games I have played. It is big (I think it took me something close to 1h for each chapter and it is 25 chapters in total), the characters have depth and the world is well constructed (taking in consideration it is a zombie apocalipse).
The graphics could be better, but there is a tangible improvement during all the game.
For me, it is the best distopyan AVN.

(If you're here because of the "incest" tag, be aware that there is none. I don't know why this game is tagged with this, but there is no such content. That's totally fine with me, but be aware if you do care.)

After three weeks, I finally finished this one. Probably the longest AVN I ever played.

Since this is an AVN after all, the sex scenes need to be taken into account in my rating. They just aren't hot, with maybe two or three exceptions. And they were exceptions simply because the girl was actually wearing something sexy, like some fishnet stockings and high heels, or some seethrough top. The rest of the scenes consist of just a totally naked girl doing missionary or some other vanilla stuff. If your game is mostly vanilla sex, at least have the girls wear something spicy and kinky, dammit. "Strip naked and fuck" just doesn't do it.

No threesomes. There is one if the gallery, but no idea how to see it in the game itself. But even then, it's just one. Needless to say, there's no group sex at all other than just that one single threesome. For a game that bears the "harem" tag, this is quite disappointing. And even that one threesome is disappointing. It's basically just the MC having sex with one girl while the other just sits there.

No kinks or fetishes. Just plain old vanilla stuff. The girls spread their legs or bend over while the MC sticks it in, and the game moves on.

And no lesbian scenes either (again, with just one single exception.)

I started skipping through the sex scenes at some point because the plot was more fun. The thing is, I'm not sure how they could have been better considering the tone of the game. There is no porn plot whatsoever. It's normal, boring people, doing normal, boring things and having normal, boring sex. Not a single pervert in sight.

And finally, as usual in 99.99% of all AVNs, the MC suffers from OCS (Oversized Cock Syndrome,) with many sex scenes being about how big his dick is. It has always been annoying, but my brain has developed some kind of filter that makes it less annoying over time.

OK, so the porn in this porn game is the weak point. How about the overall story? Well, that's what justifies this game's high rating. It's quite well written (although not as well as some of the reviews claim,) and the plot progresses at a good pace. There's frequent changes in the surroundings as the characters try to survive by moving from one location to another. So it never gets boring. The characters, even though they're plain old boring normal people, are likable and have depth. Their backgrounds are established through lots of flashbacks. The title of the game itself is based on those flashbacks. Scenes that happened before the apocalypse start with the title "then", and scenes taking place after the apocalypse start with "now". The vast majority of the game consists of "now" scenes.

The renders (or rather screenshots, since this is using Honey Select rather than ray tracing) are quite good. I didn't even know Honey Select could do these environments. And there's a ton of them too. Probably thousands. It's still HS though, so don't expect realistic characters. They all have this weird 3D anime style to them, but after a couple hours I got used to it. Tons of animation too during sex scenes.

The ending is nothing special. Pretty much what you'd expect. This isn't a game with twists and turns or saving the world. Weirdly, this still makes it feel worthwhile.

Now, if the sex scenes were actually hot, this would have been a solid 5 star game. But, they are boring and this is an AVN after all, where both the porn and the story are important. Definitely not a game to fap to. Which makes me think that perhaps with some alterations it could stand on its own as a mainstream, non-porn VN.

The story was amazing I loved it. I would even say it's in my top 3 maybe even 1st. So that's why I'm giving it 5 stars it deserves it for story alone. I'm not to big on Honey select graphics but i'm not knocking for that because i knew that going in. There is a ton of sex scenes in the game but unless you like honey select to me it's not really fap worthy. There is a few nit picks that bothered me but like i said just some nit picking. Like when they talk about his dick they always refer to it as him or he which is dumb. Also they repeat words at beginning of sentence like , Sure, sure yeah yeah ok ok they do that alot just stupid stuff like that like i said i'm nit picking. Also i think this game would have been 10 times better in Daz graphics. The endings was pretty good but wish they all could have stayed in same house together also wish they could have gotten prego my play through 3 of them did so that's pretty good. Also the endings didn't feel like a Harem ending. But still good . If your looking for a good story to read this is it. Also if you like Honey Select games this is good fap material for you.

Well quite simply, this game is excellent. I would highly recommend this to just about anybody, so long as you aren't looking for a quick game that you can knock out in an afternoon. Also, it is completed!!

The story is excellent, very immersive, and quite long not sure the total playtime but it is well over 30 hours. Multiple branches and plenty of decisions with real consequence in the story.

I would say that the only drawback would be if you are looking for a lot of Kink, there isn't much here. Also as a note, there are LI's that get introduced much later in the story. So if you aren't a fan of the early ones, please stick with it.

Actually, the game is worth playing even if you skipped all the lewd scenes. That said, there are a TON of lewd scenes probably close to triple digits. Also there are LOT's of endings depending on how you branch your route, you can play full Harem but you will get a "Main" LI at the end, but it is all well done.

If you can't stand Honey Select, this is a game I would tell you to get over it and give it a shot.

The main story is great, very engaging, caught myself few time clicking through lewd scenes just to get back to the story.
The game has a solid story background for why MC have the harem in the end, it happens not because he is a jerk/manwhore.
The MC is very loveable, reliable, caring with good sense of humour (old fashioned humour but still).
Girls are great, their personalities and relationships development during the story are solid, very polished.
My Favs are Hana and Sydney.

Few Cons:

Epilogue was kind of confusing. At the end of main plot Sydney moved in with MC and Carol.
But during each girl story it looked like Sydney just disappeared and MC was living only with Carol.
I played two endings with Hana and Sydney being main lovers.
Few examples: on Hana route during almost every girl normal ending it looked that MC lived with Carol only, where did Syd go? A lot of confusing dialogues about it as well.
Almost the same on Sydney Route - during other girls normal endings it is assumed that Sydney don't live with MC and Carol.
It especially catches the eye considering that during the main story all dialogues and events were logic and expected, everything was polished.

Even if each girl ending was supposed to be a separate story it still doesn't add up with the main story ending.

Also during Julie and MC Beer scene in her normal ending - Julie only mentions hotel scene as their last sex scene, but we kinda had sex with her in shower in Marshand House..

So, yeah, the main story is logic, it's almost perfection, but the epilogue is quite confusing and does not add up with the main story, that a bit ruined the mood.

a really intreaguing story even with the walkthrough mod it didnt feel boring the game can be very emotional at times and hard hitting which is not something i can often say about games like this the characters are actually built up and you begin to feel like they are actually a family

The game is excellent and you have to try it...

The game is quite long and has quite a lot of content. The characters are gorgeous and well rounded. The story is clearly defined but that doesn't mean you cant choose how to develop it...

The only bad thing about it is that it has an end...

This game is A LOT better than the walking dead story wise. Seriously, the story is very captivating and well written.

For those who didn't play it yet: this game is VERY long, took me about a week of 3-5 hours of playing to finish it. Also the game has 1 con, at least for me: the sexual content is very vanila, but with good high fps animations.

Great game that is well written which is somewhat of rarity. Not a quick play game, has substantial amount of content and cannot be played in a single sitting. I played through its entirety once so I cannot speak to how different routes play out over course of game. There were only two things I would change / did not like is towards the end of the game. It was not clear to the player that one of the final choices would have such a large difference on the epilogue for two of the players (Hana / Julie), and that with Naomi it does not appear that certain choices make any difference in her epilogue

Now & Then is a story about how the world turning upside down can affect and change people for better AND for worse. In a nutshell, it's a slow and great story.

The slower you go the better the payoff is typically how these kinds of stories go and this one isn't an exception. Each character is built up into a well-rounded individual and their relationships with the MC and each other are just as complex.

With that, you should have what you need to decide on if you wanna give this VN a shot, so I'm going to cut my praise for this one short and talk about why this isn't a 5/5 for me, which I'm defining to be an enjoyable experience from start to finish, and how it isn't a fault of the author.

The premise of a zombie apocalypse has a massive amount of topics and scenarios that can be realistically explored, and while Now & Then makes the most out of this, there's one aspect that's focused on the most, which is monotony.

Realistically in an apocalypse, I'd imagine when your not scavenging for food or running and/or fighting for your life you're not really doing much. Sitting around waiting until you next need to risk your life. This idea is conveyed perfectly well throughout the story. The issue is that it's inherently boring to read through.

There's large sections of this VN that is mostly the same. MC gets up, says hi to girls, patrols/gets things done, patrols again, says hi to girls, sleep. Later there's some sex mixed in too. This is done to really hammer home the idea of monotony I wrote about above, and it fits perfectly, in fact if this wasn't a main theme of the story it would be a whole lot less believable, becoming more of an action/thriller VN than anything else and the other main focus of the story, the characters and their relationships, would fall by the wayside.

TL;DR There are a lot of boring parts because there have to be. Makes the rest of the story better. But because of that, I can't enjoy it at the level of a 5/5

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I don't give 5 stars very often, but this is really one of the best AVNs this site has to offer.
Few minor quibbles, like would like more anal scenes, and a proper Harem ending, but still, it's great.
Solid writing and dialogue.
Very attractive ladies with great personalities.
Loads of content and lewd scenes.
Most importantly, very Fap worthy sexy time. Love the sounds and animations, they are great.
Tan lines and Pubes, just icing on the pervert cake.
Great game, you should try it.

I don't generally give much reviews, but since the game was completed I gave this one a chance without much expectations. Got to say, the story progression was fantastic and the Harem element wasn't obstrusive to the plot. If you're playing this only for fap material, then I would not suggest this game. Play it for the plot, the writing and you will enjoy it a lot. Enough, for you to leave a review here. Great job author.

Genuinely enjoyed my time playing this. Doesn't really happen that often that I read even a 1/3 of the text in a porn game. Here? It felt like it was worth it.

On top of that the sex scenes were great probably the best I've ever seen from a honey-select game. Actually jiggly breasts are awesome!

Characters are interesting and there is not enough of them for it to start feeling like a copy and pasted model with a different wig. There are some actual differences a mother's body kinda a little bit actually looks mature (her face doesn't but hey what can you do can't get them all) and the main characters all get a proper backstory obviously some more than the others but they are not just cardboard cutouts. Also have to say that I like the pubic hair in this game it's nothing too over the top that I would honestly not mind (but that's personal preference) if let's say one of the girls was just all the way there. Good choice would be the adoptive daughter it would make sense for it to be her like give the player a choice between shave/trim/full in a dialogue since it even comes up in the game but without the input form the player. Of course that would be a lot more work for the author but thought I might as well mention this.

Absolutely can recommend and really hope that the author continues with his great work and takes it even further. If you can I would say that this is someone worth supporting. Good luck on your future endeavours ILSProductions!

Never leave reviews, and it's about time I do so here I go.

I played this game roughly about a year ago for the first time, and I've started again with this new "Directors Cut Edition", and boy was I blown away, the renders may be choppy at times, but my word the story is amazing.

You'll be engaged in the MC from the start and the MG's, who i'll leave out for spoilers, even if two are in the main picture! I love the fact you also never see his face, if for any reason then it makes it more easy for myself to implant myself in the story and make it more immersive.

The name of the game also points to a very good aspect of the game, you see the "now" which is the post-apocalyptic world, and the "then", events leading up to this for the MC and his relationships with the characters.

The music is also brilliant, but not overbearing either, each track suits the scene well, with multiple scenes using the same one, but it never outstays it welcome.

The lewd scenes are decent, it's HS scenes so nothing too crazy, but if anything I enjoyed them more for how they added to the story.

TL;DR

Great game & story, renders aren't out of this world probably due to PC specs, music is on point, lewd scenes great but don't play this if you just want a "one hand" game, this is a great story with a nice sprinkle of sex scenes.

The story is really good, there's a huge amount of sex-scenes too that, while vanilla, are quite hot. Compared to other games this game excels in almost every way. Two "warnings" though on stuff that might put you off :

-A lot of time is spent on dealing with trauma and the taboo of the sex. ( Protagonist is an middle-aged guy entering a sexual relationship with his foster daughter and her best friend ) So if that stuff bores you, you might not like it.
-Choices in the story don't really matter much. They basically come down to "Do you want to see this sex scene or not?" So it's best to treat this as a kinetic novel.

That said, I came for the sex scenes but ended up very invested in the story and the ultimate fate of its characters. The sex is always pretty hot, doesn't drag, but is mostly vanilla. However, there's a lot of it. Enjoy!

One of the best adult games I've ever played. The story is amazing - by adult game standards. Its not subtle about what its influences are and there are little bits that rankled me a bit. But at the end of the day it written well enough to leave me genuinely invested in the outcomes of the characters; something which very very few games in this genre can do. All the girls have distinct personalities and don't feel like straightforward 2D stereotype characters you usually see in porn games. Also, it should be mentioned that the setting of an apocalypse is one in which you can more easily suspend ones disbelief about a harem relationship dynamic - which is optional, by the way.

As for sex stuff it's very good. Lots of more vanilla stuff - but that's fine, especially when it's made sweeter by the fact you actually care about the girls and want to do right by them. Environments and background detail could be better, but it's pretty hard to make high fidelity stuff working with honey select and it doesn't detract very much from a very cohesive and well put together world.

This is truly a 5 star game,zombie apocalypse done right.In all games like all entertainment you have to suspend your disbelieve,but I appreciate a harem game trying to at least somewhat make the relationships seem a little more believable.This does that,without magic cum or anything!!!Great game.