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

The only downside is that I feel the 'epilogue' stuck on the end of the last chapter could have been another three or four chapters on its own. Other than that, a beautiful story with solid H-scenes, one of my favorites I've found on this site.

Honestly when i started playing this game i didn't know what to expect i looked good but the description gave me a little hesitation on trying it but i am happy i did this is another game i will say is on my top 10 completed list. there have only been maybe 2 or 3 other AVN's that i was genuinely sad to see "The End" pop up on but i was with this one i don't really understand why but i fell in love with the characters and the story.

Renders 10/10 I am not 100% sure if it was intended or just limitations of the machine used to create them that added the grainy effect to the renders but either way it fit the story and added something to them i haven't seen before. The renders all looked great the characters all looked awesome and the backgrounds did also.

Story 10/10 This game is as far as i have personally found unique in the aspect of it tells a story from before and after a major world effecting/ending event. I personally haven't seen any other games set in a form of apocalypses i am sure they are out there but i haven't seen them but i really enjoyed this one. I haven't seen a play on zombies like this game has before in any other games or tv shows/movies so that was a unique aspect i liked.
There where a lot of plot twists in this some you could see coming some that came out of left field. From what i saw throughout the game there where very few grammar mistakes, misspelled words or words that seemed out of place to me. Overall the story was really well written and really enjoyable i will say though i understand its supposed to be an AVN with quite a lot of sexual contend but for a game set in a apocalypses there where a lot of sex scenes not that i am complaining but in my opinion for something like this that seemed to be more about the story than the sex less is more.

Animations 6/10 Don't get me wrong the animations where great i really enjoyed them but what is the deal with the breasts in them they flop way to much yea some bounce is great but they move so much that the few that have bigger boobs in this game when they where really going at it the nipples wound wind of going inside the rest of the character same thing with a some of their clits in a few instances as well but that wasn't as messed up as the thing with their boobs. Other than that i didn't see any major issues with the animations they where pretty good overall no other real issues with them. I do wish there would have been a few animations throughout the story other than during the sex scenes i think in some instances it would have improved the game a bit i could be mistaken but i am pretty sure that somewhere near the beginning there was one with Carol walking across the hall that's kind of the stuff i mean small things like that to help improve stuff a little. But the animations during the sex scenes where decent they where start to finish with no looped points form what i could tell.

Sound 5/10 Overall sounds and music where pretty good reason its a 5/10 is because most of the music was looped there where a few different thing throughout but it used the same few for most of it. the moaning and whatnot during the sex scenes was pretty good could be wrong but i thing the sounds where more or less unique for each girl but i am pretty sure that sound was reused for every sex scene with that girl.

Duration 10/10 It was at least 40 hours playtime probably more all i know is i spent the better part of 6 days playing it. I haven't found many if any other AVN's that are as long as this one.

Overall great game i really enjoyed it. I followed the Harem route not sure if there is another route i guess there is since you can turn most if not all of the different girls down i cant remember for sure who you can or can't. I have only seen a few other AVN's that went into the backstory creation or the relationship building aspects to the level of this one mainly the backstory stuff because it doesn't take long for them to get to the hot and heavy stuff to be honest.

This is a post apocalyptic story about a father and his step-daughter. The story between them is so well written so it never feels like one of those lame fakecest stories. Along the way will be other ladies who can be part of your harem in a world where you are looking to survive. This is one of those visual novels where I was interested more in where the story was going rather than the actual sex scenes. The sex scenes are somewhat nice but are rather tame and vanilla and don't truly evolve throughout the game. I think there was a huge missed opportunity with pet names considering you have a step daughter. This is definitely worth checking out.

I was looking for a new completed VN and I saw the update for this a while back. I downloaded it but put off actually reading through it until last week. I was hooked and found it so hard to put down. This game does many things well but there are some small details that seemed a bit off (where do the girls get their eyeliner and nail polish lol) but I can look past them.

I think I'm in the minority for this but I like Honey Select models so the graphics are a plus for me. Sometimes the girls' bodies look a bit weird during the sex scenes but honestly I don't really mind since I'm more invested in the story. Unfortunately I played through the game without sound so I can't really comment on it. A pity because good sound effects could enhance the experience especially for a story with this setting.

The setting, worldbuilding, and story are what really got me into this title. I've seen my share of zombie survival stories and I have to say that Now & Then is a good one among them. We get a classic 3-act story starting at the apartment, moving to the school, and finally to the manor. The story is well paced though the transitions between acts seems a bit forced. There's some suspension of disbelief but considering the setting I'd give it a pass. Also I did only start on this after the final version was released so I have no idea how the pacing felt during the development period. No cliffhangers in between updates for me and the retroactively added alt./ext. scenes were immediately available in my experience. The Alt./Ext. scenes are a cool idea both to keep the mystery on the first playthrough and give additional context on the encouraged next playthroughs. The game is structured so that the player can't see all scenes in one run and I actually like that more than giving the player the option to see everything at once. I know this is a porn game so you might go in thinking that you can see every scene of the MC dicking down every girl but sometimes we can only choose one (at a time).

Another aspect that I liked is the relationship building between the MC and the girls. From a technical standpoint, the love interest(s) you end up with isn't determined by one ultimate decision of who you want to be with but rather an buildup of trust and intimacy with that character throughout the story. And just as much as you can end with everyone, you can also end with no one. I appreciate that such an ending exists, at the very least to contrast with all the many other endings we can get.

Overall this was one of the rare cases of a porn game where I'm more interested in the story than the sexy scenes. We get to read the story of a man trying his hardest to care for his loved ones in a juxtaposition of the tumultuous "Now" and the mundane "Then."

Impressed favorably by it.
Lot of pros, well done, great zombie apocalypse story but what impressed me most is that it is very realistic for what it came to sexual interaction between the different characters.
I mean: in most games there is a sort of suspension of disbelief for what it come to feelings of the characters involved in sex, above all for what it come to jealousy.
People pass from giving a pair of uneasy kisses to all out orgies in a few time.
Here instead nothing of such, interpersonal relations are deeply developed (maybe even too much, constant use of flash backs are good to delineate characters but sometimes are just redundant to the story) and no one act in a way that it is not in line with her own character or feeling.
That lead however to a certain monotony: sex scenes are usually very good and even steamy but are almost always one on one between the MC and one of the girls (only one girl/girl action), not one three way so far and I've gone quite deep in the story.
So full five about everything (and a first place for what it come to character development and realism) but at a certain point you fell it going a little too vanilla.
Erotica is also going into taboo, kink and debauchery, here it seems me that the attention to feelings and realism left out also a full array of excellent occasions to going into it without spoiling the above mentioned aspects (and a.t.c. even enhancing it).

PROS
- nice COMPLETED apocaliptic story (genre World War Z)
- not a douchebag MC, this guy can fight bare fists and with weapons
- girls with own credible personalities, love the buildup of each relationship
- different well rendered environments
- good writing with few grammatical errors
- some nice twists and turns (fights with bandits and infected ppl)
- good rendered, real female bodies (no mega boobs in here)
- nice animated lewd scenes, which are getting better in the later episodes

SMALL CONS
- some episodes are a bit "stretched"
- some repititive content and text (nothing exaggerating tho)

I really enjoyed this story, played it through at a slow pace which showed me that this game is truly a small gem.

Keep up the good work ILSProductions, I for sure will follow you

not into Incest and the models did not appeal to me!

played the game because a friend sugested it!

if my rating is not enough lets just say the story is well worth the download and this dev is well worth the investment so that he can perhaps upgrade to other models, if he can do that amazing amount of morphing with these models imagine what he might be able to do with some better ones?

all in a properly paced story where the relationship building (or lack there off...) is well adjusted in an enthralling world with action to keep the story going at all the right places including the sexy times when is adjusted and proportional and not at every 5 minutes with zombies walking around!

the characters for the most part have an adequate inner consistency and the females do not become horny sex addicted npc´s when the MC shows up (well until you seduced them... then it comes naturally)

there where many things to put me off from playing this game, but the story is well worth it!

Now & Then [Complete] - MINOR SPOILERS

My second attempt at writing this review after accidentally tabbing out of my first. Whoops.

Now & Then deserves a 3.5 rating from me, but I'm rounding up because I respect and admire the creator for completing what was clearly a massive undertaking in a relatively short amount of time, and for delivering a finished story (albeit with a rushed ending).

The author seems to be an older gentleman, but his writing style irks me and seems to follow the same patterns as modern sitcoms written by millenials. I can't stand most of the banter. Why does everyone, despite having different personalities, exchange the same, inane quips in back-and-forth sessions that drag on too long? Why, especially, during sex scenes?!

The other major problem with the writing is the omission of pronouns. Think of sentences like, "Chilly day. Gotta bundle up. Don't wanna be out long." Maybe it reads fine on its own, but there were too many jarring moments where it didn't suit person-to-person dialogue. Maybe it's fine in online conversation, but it's just unnatural in spoken conversation, and it shouldn't have been so prevalent in this game.

Speaking of unnatural, the conversations during the sex scenes were so often out of place. Again, there's the problem with overused banter, but the pillow talk and even the foreplay scenes were so unrealistic. There are tons of sex scenes from the beginning of the story and right through the epilogue, but the characters didn't behave differently whether they were new partners or longtime lovers. You could easily take a sex scene from the end of the game, slot it into the beginning, and no one would be the wiser. That IS a problem when it's supposedly the writing that's carrying a game. Combine all of these issues with the fact that many of the sex scenes were predictable and repetitive, and you too will find yourself skipping through them in due time.

I'll stick to talking about the writing since that's where my grievances lie. If you want to know more about what the creator did well, check out some other reviews.

Now, the MC... This is a Gary Stu if I've ever seen one. Why doesn't he feel more negative and sad emotion? Why can't he express it properly when he does? He doesn't have a traumatic past that would manifest into what I'm describing. Without getting into examples, it just annoys me that we (the audience) are denied the opportunity to connect - or at least sympathise - with the MC during what ought to be traumatic or difficult experiences.

In typical harem style, other male characters are either too old, too young, or removed from the story so that the MC may have his way. A certain father to one of the girls is horrendously shamed posthumously because... well, he was just bad, okay?! If it isn't clear, I'm not impressed by the motivations that characters had for bashing the poor guy. He wasn't perfect, but neither is are shining star of a main character. Hell, the MC cheats multiple times without repercussions. There are some instances that are forgivable or understandable, but then there are others where there are no good excuses for betraying your true love.

To sum it up, there are inconsistencies in the writing, and they're most damaging to the characters' personalities; particularly the MC's. Other characters showed great potential by having different personalities, but they either weren't utilized effectively in the remaining chapters, or they were shoehorned to fit certain roles and eventually fade into the background.

That's it for the complains that impacted my review score. There are many more minor ones, but nothing that ought to sway someone's decision to play or not play this title. I recommend reading this because you will get to experience an interesting story filled with intrigue. It drags on at times and could use more suspenseful moments, but to be a completed game on this website--well, that's got to count for something.

(Maybe 3 stars would have been more fitting?)

The stories that scare us most are usually the ones that connect to our real anxieties. Those can be expressed through sub-genres -- in the case of this particular VN, the zombie apocalypse sub-genre. "Now and Then", by using a rapidly-spreading pandemic and using "the infected" as a means to identify its antagonists, further associates with this particular cultural moment we're living, and by doing this, amplifies its power as a horror tale.

However, in these days it’s very hard to tell a "zombie" story with any kind of novelty. "Now and Then" does not push any boundaries, but while the usual tropes are there, the quality of its writing still manages to lift it above most similar games out there. Dialogues are well-written and characters are given distinct personalities. The MC is particularly well composed, but many of the other characters, even secondary ones, have been given different degrees of complexity, something that greatly enrich the tale. It also helps that the girls are mostly very sexy.

I have very few complaints, which actually are more of a nitpicking to be honest. One slight criticism is that my favourite character - Julie - is not as well-developed as some of the other characters. Her personal jorney is as strong or stronger than most of the other female characters in the game, and not developing her character was too much of a lost opportunity.

Another small quibble would be that other (non-infected) male characters in this game are either bandits, children, or senior citizens. For most of the game, male characters are not even present. Don't get me wrong - I'm really not into NTR or similar situations. But maybe the developers felt that some male players would feel more threatened by potential male competition than by the "infected" themselves. Or maybe most males will actually turn into raiders and marauders as soon as society crumbles, who knows. But I felt that maybe a couple of friendly male characters could add to the game.

Other than that, one clearly sees that the developers made a conscious attempt to write most characters with a strong backstory, complex personalities and clear motivations. This effort is important in this kind of story, where many of the situations and the general setting can be very unrealistic, even if you keep in mind that this particular genre is very strong on allegory. The success in telling a story like this depends a great deal on whether we care about the fate of the characters. "Now and Then" has made me care for them, and that is for me the measure of accomplished storytelling.

damn what a game, first nice job by the dev making a game this big (+24h) in 2 years, the story is amazing and well written.
now for the "negative" part, some details bothered me, like the threesomes only on the ending of the game, naomi and carol was a easy one to be made since both of them are close, naomi and sidney as well,like carol accepted she was gonna share MC so why not see it? at last with naomi, same with naomi with her being bi, other thing was the intimacy between MC and the girls, they only kiss when they are about to have sex, i don't think it would be a problem for any of them seeing MC kiss others or sleep in the same bed.
the "last man" cliche could made a better harem ending

overall: one of the bests games here, worth playing. Dont think i gonna replay it any time soon since the sex scenes are ok~good, the best part is the story and the characters, also the game being kinda long

I mostly lurk on f95, but this game deserves praise. Even though it uses HS models, its a great work of art. The flashbacks, the character development, the taboo but natural way of developing the two main protagonists.. it all fits really well together. it also has quite a lot of content.
Currently it's in my top5 most liked games of f95. I hope the next few games of the creator will be as good as this one.

I love this! The writing is so good, I forgot I turned on a game to jerk off and got into the story instead. Made the sex scenes way hotter tbh. Only just started, but already extremely stoked. Great work.

I left a post already and found out the review seems to be separate thing so I'll just copypaste this thing because it absolutely deserves a 5 star. The review contains spoilers.

There's a ton to unpack with this game but all in all, it was a great journey. I'm both sad and relieved it's over. Relieved that they're fine. It's finally over. Sad that it's over, I very much liked it. Not just the writing, directing(?) too. How you can use such a simplistic engine to make the houses feel big, and alive. Characters to feel as real as in any novel or story. The journey felt like it streched across places and not in a honey select engine.

I loved that the epilogue wasn't just the usual three screens per character "oh yes they live happily ever after" but there was an actual epilogue. I do think the story could've had a few more chapters in it; it felt like the bandit attack was coming. It was building up and the atmosphere was anxious. But then we had Sydney and Julie come over, ambush, follow up and pretty much epilogue at the new town. I feel like there could've been a small grace period. The end came fast; before downloading the last three or four chapters I believed there was still lot to come. I still got alternate routes and endings to find out but this was mentally a taxing journey, in a good way, and I don't think I will ever re-visit this. It feels like it would undermine the journey I went trough and felt with this, but I cannot overstate how much I love that there were options to make it my journey. Someone else had it different and I love the game for it, even if I will never experience 'all' of it so to say.

All in all, it was an experience. Came for horny but damn. Sort of stopped caring about it. Obviously it plays part in the story, in an interesting way and is an extra layer there but you know what I mean here.

I wish I was better with words. I have so many good things to say and I should've written them up as they kept coming up over the journey and updates but really I just wanted to say good work and thank you.

Now & Then is a VN about a zombie apocalypse and the trials and tribulations of a father and daughter trying to make their way out the other side.

The story is decent, focusing on the day to day life in a zombie apocalypse in a strange sort of slice-of-life that's almost a parody of the traditional type. I feel like the slow pace of the story works out pretty well to highlight the tedium of living in a post-apocalyptic world. There's moments of terror, moments of joy and a whole lot of uncomfortable worry.

The characters are good. At times they can feel a little thin with few motivations, but that's pretty reasonable given the circumstances they find themselves in. The renders are nice, but nothing ground breaking.

The gameplay is just your standard VN fare. Stuff happens, you make decisions as the main character and the story moves on. Decisions do matter throughout the story, but mostly in regards to who you end up with or whether you hit a bad end. Choices matter, but only to the barest minimum.

Honestly, I'm having difficulty explaining why it's a four star game rather than a five. I think it's because there wasn't enough of any one thing to push it over the edge. The characters are good but not great. The story is entertaining, but not page turning. The renders are good, but not the best. The gameplay is just standard. While none of these features are bad, none of them really stand out I guess.

Overall, Now & Then is worth a play if you've exhausted the seriously top tier games on this site, but it's not really worth going out of your way for. It's better than average, but not genre defining.

The game has surprising good points:
- music, which is important for a VN to get the player into the ambiance of a game, and not just reading a text.
- a real story and purpose. That was what caught my interest. I was so much interested by the story, the characters, their evolution that even if the game is very long to play, it was fun from start to end.
Edit: i want to add some insight about the story. It feels good. Really good, so much that when you finish the game, you find yourself thinking still about the story, the world building was so great. it feels a better the walking dead universe than the tv series, compared in level building to the games of the series for example. That's a really great compliment anyone can do to any writer: the story sticks in the heart. There aren't lot of adult VN who succeed at this. So if you want to go for a emotional ride, play this game absolutely.
- good characters and evolutions. Twists about their deaths or not, Leaving them behind to go on your own routes. Question about "harem"-s like relationships, and love. Also, this is really good writing here.

The average point would be the sex scenes: for my own taste, too much repetition of "vanilla" things. That's not to say they were bad scenes or bad animations. it's just that at some point, I would have loved more variety or different groups.

All in all, i had a blast with this game and would suggest it to anyone.

It easily climbed in my top 5 of adult VN after I played it. That's to say how much I love(d) (playing) it.

This is a review for version 0.26. This game is awesome. The story is far more believable than most and the characters actually feel like (stupidly horny) regular people. It's nice to see that the renders are unique and good looking, too. Speaking of which, there are SO many. This may be the first game I regret playing with the walkthrough on because choices actually seem to matter and it would be nice to know how things would go down making my own choices. The bar has definitely been raised.
Forgot to mention: This game may have the best abdominal muscle animation I've ever seen. There are some seriously fit ladies in here.

Super enjoyable and highly underrated.
I enjoyed this game the whole way through. The sex dialog can be bit cheesy - but that is kind of the charm of the game. You get immersed in the characters and story.
5 Stars

A Very Good Game Let Down by Some Technical Issues and Narrative Faux Pas

Reviewing v0.26.0. This is not a spoiler free review.

Once in a great while, a game comes with a captivating commitment to telling a story and weaving a setting. In a genre full of one-bit porn simulators, Now & Then is refreshing and interesting, balancing impressive character design and development with captivating world-building to weave a fun, entertaining series throughout.

The Story of Now & Then, while good and mostly written well, is not that unique. You play a male MC (name determinant), a widower living with his adopted teenage daughter, Carol. The setting is a typical zombie apocalypse. Sure, the narrator insists they aren't the brain eating zombies of George Romero, and there aren't shambling hordes of them, but for all practical and narrative means, the tropes of a zombie apocalypse and collapse of civilization all apply here. And the subtle differences between Infected and Zombies are negligible enough to simply view them as interchangeable.

What it does well is a commitment to telling human stories, with strong characterization and mostly satisfying story development. Most characters genuinely go through character arcs that seem real and believable. Their developments from mostly sheltered women into hardened survivors is done well—and happens at a pace that is believable and compelling.

For the most part, you get engrossed into the world. The author does a good job of mixing in suspense and survival elements into the story, throwing in a revolving door of issues and antagonists that keep the story mostly fresh as you progress through it. Reading through the VN is enjoyable. You can get invested into the characters and sunk into the world, which is generally the most you can ask for.

The story is ultimately divided into chapters (I think 25 in total), with roughly 3 equal length acts. The first involves scrounging and making a living at the MC's apartment, where he first forms a relationship with Carol and takes in Naomi. The second act is largely them hunkering down at the School, where Sydney is introduced and Naomi and Sydney become the MC's lovers. The third and final act involves them leaving the city altogether and trying to find a place to settle, where we're reunited with Alice and Julie from flashbacks and are introduced to Hana.

There are some technical dings though, and it's enough to knock a star off the rating. The renders ae often of questionable quality. Lighting is too frequently poor, so a lot of the renders look washed out. While the characters are drawn well for the most part, especially considering they're Honey Select, there's probably not enough focus paid to composition of shots (especially considering the great lengths the developer goes to covering the MC's face), shading (particularly skin texture), and lighting. So, you're too often looking at a grey, bleached out no man's land between realistic looking renders and anime-style cartoons.

Sex scenes are usually a couple of [often poorly lit] looping animations of fairly repetitive sex, where both cum at approximately the exact same time (nearly every time), complete with approximately 3 moaning sounds that aren't even unique to the characters. Every girl is immediately dickmatized into addiction and submission, because of course they are.

As mentioned, the MC's face is largely covered the entire time. And I'm not sure it pays off. This isn't one of those situations where you RP a self-insert. The character is established. You're a widower in his mid to late 30s, you have/had a marketing job, you drive a 1969 Charger (quite a rare and specific car), you listen to thrash metal, you sport long auburn hair and thick black rim glasses to go with your bottom heavy, cubism build.

In other words, the MC is so distinct and has a life of his own that you might as well just show his face. At least give some life and expression to the character who is narratively rich enough to deserve one, and at least let him react to the girls that seem so willing to throw themselves at him. Instead, we have a character who is pretty clearly a developer self-insert who you're ostensibly supposed to try to imagine is you, the reader... I guess?

One major criticism is the illusion of choice. There are multiple point systems: most characters have a love score and a nerve score. The goal being that you get their love score high and their nerve score low. But choice in this game often boils down to a correct way to play (e.g. +love and -nerve options) and a wrong way to play (+nerve and -love options), which essentially just punishes you for picking the wrong option while not really adding any nuance or incentive for picking the other option. If you're expecting some kind of moral dilemmas in making your choices, you won't find any here.

Finally, for a game billed to have "harem" options, there's very few harem elements. There's maybe two actual threesome scenes in the entire game, compared to the dozens of solo scenes. You are forced to romance Carol. She's endgame and #1 no matter what choices you pick. The favoritism MC shows towards her throughout the game is blatant and frankly disappointing, to the point where you wonder why the other girls would even bother with him if they had any semblance of other options (which the developer not-so-subtly avoids putting in the game, so the girls literally don't have any other options).

The MC is billed as a nice guy, but even outside of his blatant favoritism towards Carol, he doesn't show a fraction of a reason for why they view him in such regard. His primary points of attraction to most of the other girls is that he's willing to kill anyone who threatens their safety, doesn't yell at them, and is willing to dick them down for some sloppy seconds. Even outside of the blatant bias towards one character in general (unironically called the Queen Bee on more than one occasion), it's just a thin reason for people to actually fall in love with the MC. Even the fact that he's a good guy is more because everyone else around him says so. He's more of a caricature of a good guy, when in reality he's more of a white knight who subscribes to the old school beliefs that men can't show emotions and have to constantly comfort the womenfolk.

This is compounded by the fact that the queen here, Carol, is probably the least interesting and attractive of the selection of women who are willing to boink the MC. Her primary personality package includes a slavish devotion to the MC, her existence in a state of perpetual horniness, and a breeding/exhibition kink that serves as the spice to an otherwise vanilla sundae. She's not shown to be particularly funny, insightful, intelligent, or independent. Her being elevated to the top over more interesting, mature, or capable women really leaves a sour taste.

The storybeat, at least if you play this like I imagine most players are playing it (i.e. the "harem" storyline where you don't arbitrarily decide that you're going to start turning down all advances for sex) can get pretty repetitive. Something happens, sex. Something happens, sex. Rinse and repeat. You have a scene of them traveling or scouting and then a scene (usually poorly lit and with a couple of looping animations) of sex with the girl of the hour. It seems to the be MC and girls primary coping mechanism for everything. Upset? Sex. Angry? Sex. Almost died? Sex. For a game that otherwise seems to care about creating storybeats and character development, it's remarkably shallow and makes you wonder if the writer or MC knows how to comfort or resolve any concerns of the girls without sleeping with them.

The MC always takes the lead and volunteers for everything remotely dangerous, yet whenever something remotely exciting or traumatic happens, it's still the MC's duty to go and console the girls who took a backseat throughout the whole thing (usually ending in sex). Narratively, the story makes a big deal of the female characters developing and becoming more independent. But they always fall in line whenever the MC puts his foot down, and its just accepted that he takes on anything dangerous because, well duh, the man's gotta do it.

Arguably the two most interesting women (Hana and Sydney) are either introduced super late or fridged for half the storyline. One of them (Hana) doesn't even have a proper ending. Again, combined with the lack of anything other than a series of one-on-one scenes and the predominance of Carol, and it really doesn't feel like a harem game.

The strength of a good harem game lies in the caliber of the supporting characters, e.g. the harem members around the MC. These are the characters that carry the majority of the scenes. The developer seems to live in a state of perpetual flux, seemingly capable of writing developed and interesting women, but then being afraid to let them upstage the chosen one, which results in them either being marginalized in the background or turning into mewling lambs in the face of the MC's actions (and dick).

The lack of pregnant options is also disappointing. You get Sydney pregnant almost automatically (pretty sure unless you outright refuse to have sex with her), and you have an option to get Carol pregnant (of course you do). Everyone else you can apparently recklessly cum inside all you want with no protection, no matter how often they come to you for sex—and they come to you fairly often. They supposedly only let you cum inside on safe days, but I'm calling BS on that unless Naomi has the strangest menstrual cycle in human existence. In theory, you should at least have a primary ending to go with a general harem ending, along with a pregnancy option for every character you sleep with, but this wasn't done, in large part because the entire final third feels rushed, and the aforementioned Carol supremacy for no real reason.

None of these flaws make the game unplayable. Rather, the rushed ending and general marginalization of more interesting women make the story feel unsatisfying. You want more from the game because of how well they built the world and the commitment to showing how hard it is living in it.

Yet by towards the end of the game I find myself tabbing through the repetitive sex scenes and reading more for the story. The game is very much worth the play. But it has limited replay value simply because of how linear the story develops and how woefully underequipped the harem-simulator becomes.

I really liked this game, the plot although it is simple nowadays, in my opinion it is very good, the gameplay is good and the endings although they change a little the dialogues or another scene depending on the choice are still good, although personally I like I lack something else, I do not know I seem forced, maybe it's because I needed to finish the game or something else, it still gets into my top 10, I hope to keep going and bring in the same or better games.

Good plot premise overall, but the pacing killed it for me. With the constant mention of urgency of we need to leave, but then having weeks pass by it just felt like their sense of urgency conflicted with what was being narrated. It the proceeds to crank up the pace by putting immediate danger where they suddenly have to rush. This disconnect between narrated urgency and slice of life pace ruined the experience for me, so I have to disagree with most reviewers. On the the other had a minor annoyance really two people per house at the ending like wtf. It’s not even efficient especially in a post apocalyptic setting. Other than that my other gripe is the way it’s less harem and more polyamory in the story not what’s expected for full on harem.