Ren'Py - Oppai Odyssey [v0.4.6] [Cryoxxx]

I honestly was not expecting this game to turn into one of my favorites. I downloaded it and at the start I was a bit ehh. I am so glad I kept going as it turned into an amazing story. I love the NPCs as they are all unique and bring something to the story. The main character is most of the time someone I really like equally brave and emotional, sometimes he comes off as a complete dbag though which I do not like though. It is a small critique as well as more choices of how to see the various women in your life would be nice

One of the most enjoyable visual novels I've played, there's enough "free will" choices not to feel like you're just following one route, Harem Hotel is still my favourite for free will interaction with characters. The story is engaging, and becomes more so as it's progresses, you're not smashing through dialogue just to get to the sex parts, like a lot of lewd games. Love the character and visual look too. Completed V0.4.6 and left wanting more.

Reviewing v0.4.6

Premise
This may as well be inserted into "Top 100 worst betrayal in the history of Visual Novels", because the developer is a friend but i'll be as fair as i can, but i've reached my limit, i need to share my opinion, i will skip my usual format of Pros and Cons or Good-Meh-Bad, and just write it as it goes.
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I remember the first release, the game started not good but great, simple plot with a side of sci-fi, totally okay with it and exactly what i was looking for(back then), MC was decent, Lym was incredibly vanilla but adorable and lovable enough and will become a good actual romance (everyone else is basically a friend-with-benefits but with extra steps), Clermont was a solid ally, Noel a good bromance/fuck-buddy, these three ladies were enough, then we got Nyx who at first was a gem of lightweight sub/dom, like the lighter aspects of a sub/dom relationship(either maledom or femdom, i played both and both were good back then). I loved the dragonlike queen and her story with MC.

Then we reach the citadel-like space-station and things go south, and then updates get more unpleasant, and more mentally exhausting: MC's personality becomes a swing: ups and downs, so his overall intelligence (which we can blame the writing which is what the developer does, so it's his fault), Lym goes from wholesome(but very basic/generic) romance, to...whatever it's going on now, some weird sub/dom relationship with body-worship(she worships MC's body odor and craves him like a drug addict), Nyx takes over as a second-in-command and she more of a leader than MC even if you're on a maledom-path with her, Clermont left and now we've this cyborg bald woman who looks she was kidnapped from a futuristic dystopia where technology itself took over enslaving every biological creature and turn them in basically machines with human brains, and no sense of beauty. We got Pip and Sybil but even as secondary romances, they barely get any screentime and even then, they clearly don't deserve it, they're tap water in an aisle full of mediocre but on sale sodas, nothing tastes good and nothing is worth drinking in that aisle, but unless you change store, that's what you can get but the prices are convenient enough to make us at least tinker with the idea of buying something in the aisle; and this metaphor describes perfectly the current status of the game: everything is kinda bad and the few good things are mediocre at best but it's also cheap/short enough to think about playing the game.

To Summarize: Everything that was good in the game, now is everything bad in the game and everything bad in the game got worse, only the mediocre-ish graphic has consistency in this game, and i don't care about music enough to talk about it (generic slop anyway). In the end the game isn't ageing well...

When I first played the game a few years back, I was not so into Honey Select/Koikatsu games. So I never really went far into the game, I probably stopped after the first mission. But after revisiting the game after getting used to Honey Select/Koikatsu games, I realized how good the story was, and the first mission was changed so some things were different from what I remember. But I really did enjoy the story, and there were some serious choices that you can make at certain times that will change the game which made the game much more interesting. There are some character designs which I am not really fond of (Too generic or plain like the doctor) but you get used to it, but overall the design is good and the animations are also not bad. If I really had to nitpick some things its that when the first mission was reworked, it felt less of a exploration and discovering worlds and more forced to the main story, which is fine but when I initially played the game I thought it was about going to different worlds, making first contact and scoring some xeno pussy

Overall really love the game and hope to see more. Thanks for the awesome game!

[v0.4.5]


⠀⠀I caught myself thinking that I don't really care about any of the characters, and then I realized - you don't really build relations with one another, you just fuck because you're horny and there have to be scenes in an adult game. There is pretty much zero affection outside of sex scene, you're all basically fuck buddies. Established relations and events are inconsequential. Author changes them on a whim, as he sees fit. Like MC and Lym (childhood friend) have sex for the first time and exchange love confessions and then the next day she already feels unsure on how he feels about her and they're basically back to square one, then at some point they manage to get a lovely moment again, aaaaaand back to being just friends once more. For reasons explained above, this is not a harem game. MC is not building a harem. The only thing he's building is my brain tumor when I play this game, but I digress. Harems are built with lovers or concubines, it cannot consist of friends with benefits.
⠀⠀Author inserts absurd one-time scenarios only to include more tags: like tentacles? Nyx will pull them out of her arse for a single scene. Into alien/monster dicks? Here is random TV show featuring Jabba the Nut. Like preggos? Maybe also giants? Here's pregnant dragon mommy, who's already showing full-size belly few weeks in, because sci-fi magic. Don't worry, nobody else conceives, even tho you fill them to the brim on a daily. Maybe into urination? Here's MC randomly pissing on a girl's face, refuses to elaborate and leaves. There is even a fucking furry bromance in the makings. And so on and so forth, you get the idea.
⠀⠀There are choices, they exist. At least nominally. The only one that makes a difference is a choice between sandbox and VN modes. All the other ones, at least to my knowledge just change the flavor of the next sex scene, or literally just a text flavor. There this lust/affection/dom/sub points system for each character, but I've honestly yet to see any real impact of it, except maybe a few lines of dialogue. And to add salt to the injury, world and characters don't react to your past decisions. For example, Nyx says: "you want to be my toy AGAIN?" even if you refuse her dominatrix advances earlier and the scene never happened.

A bit of rambling here:
⠀⠀Alex is a laughing stock. His only role is for you to assert yourself at his expense. Author made no effort to make him likeable or relatable, so as a result we don't care about him.
⠀⠀Nyx went from a suspicious passenger to a trustworthy crewmate with a full ship access in a heartbeat. She literally became a "precious part of the crew" within a week by being a bitch.
⠀⠀Nyx takes hostage and threatens MC in simulation, which is forgotten immediately. Keep in mind he's in the military and is a caprain of a ship.
⠀⠀She claims that she swore on some Eldarian codex to never use mind control, so she can't make an enemy answer their questions, yet half an hour later she tried to mind control MC during sex scene because he called her a slut.
⠀⠀MC's superior says that bringing Nyx on board was the right decision and then punishes him for it the next day.
⠀⠀MC and his crew are captured and kidnapped by an alien race because they are deemed intruders, and then immediately released, because ... ??? Where did the trust come from? He gets an audience with the queen and offers protection, because he wants to make friends??? Yeah, nothing screams friendship like kidnapping and death threats, am I right? And the queen immediately wants to breed? With a complete stranger, that was a prisoner an hour ago? And he has a magic cock, so she is now his woman apparently?
⠀⠀They have imprisoned the enemy purple elf lady without undressing her armor with invisibility cloak and potentially god knows what else tech and maybe even weapons? Really?
⠀⠀Noel says that she will hand the money from her inheritance to her mother and brothers, and then few minutes later, gifts a large portion to father's servants that she will never see again. Might as well keep the mansion with servants instead of selling it and giving that money away.
⠀⠀All of the sudden Lym is now a USF loyalist. Really? Since when exactly? She was already willing to lie to them and was sceptic about their true intentions. They outlawed her sister and wounded her best friend/lover. Is it really the time to become all loyal and shit?

And a bit off-topic here:
⠀⠀I find it ridiculous that people are complaining about big breast sizes - have you seen the fucking title of the game? Besides not all women are packing melons, some are moderately sized and some are even flat.

Anyways, is it a recommend? Eeeew, probably not. If when I'm reading a novel and have to constantly question it's credibility and coherence, then it's likely not a satisfying experience. It's not a good read, and if you're here for porn, then there is too much text to skip, and the scenes aren't cinematic masterpieces either to download this just for the gallery.

I’ll start with the positives. The game has quite nice graphics, and the scenes are well-arranged. The animations are also really well done. There’s a bit of a lack of sound effects, but that’s not the biggest issue. As for the LI, the human women are really well-designed and charming. However, I have a bit of a problem with the more non-human LIs—they mostly still look like humans, just with a different skin color and fancy ears. If the developers wanted to introduce different races, they should have given them more distinctive traits that set them apart from humans. A good example would be dragon-women—if you remove their horns and change their skin color, they look just like human women. They don’t have tails, their limbs don’t have any interesting reptilian features, and their faces are completely human. But even this isn’t the biggest issue—if the story was solid, the game would still deserve a 4.5/5 rating.

The real problem lies in the relationships between the MC and the LIs, which feel comicly bad.

Lym initially seemed like a great character. A childhood friend with a mutual bond of care and trust with the MC, which naturally could have developed into romance. And for a while, it did—until Nyx appeared. Even after their first mission together, MC and Lym confessed their feelings and went on a date… and then suddenly, silence. Lym was pushed to the background for reasons that are unclear to the player. Over time, Nyx becomes the most trusted person on the ship, while Lym loses her position. Suddenly, it turns out that she’s a loyalist to the USF and has doubts about the MC.

Did I miss something? Did I not get the memo? I don’t recall Lym ever showing signs of such blind loyalty to the USF. If anything, I felt she had some resentment toward them, especially because of her sister. This was particularly noticeable during the museum visit at the beginning of the game.

MC also behaves like a jerk—rather than fighting for his friend and potential love interest, he ignores her, hides information from her, and replaces her with Nyx. This aspect of the game really turned me off because I can’t understand the characters’ motivations or emotions.

Sadly, one of those games on F95 where the average rating is far too high. It definitely had potential with some nice LI designs and a somewhat interesting plot, but it's too severely let down by a few critical factors. Firstly, the game should really just be a kinetic novel, because it feels like the developer forces specific plot points and has an idea of how the MC should act, and these can easily conflict with the sparse number of choices you are allowed to make, which leads to issue #2. The MC is both weirdly shallow and can be almost bipolar at times, changing how he interacts with the LIs on a whim. Your childhood friend that you were being nice to? Now he's suddenly being all dominant, then just completely aloof, then tossing her aside for a character you just met in person for the first time and have no reason to trust. And this circles back to the lack of choice, because the game has been screaming at you the whole time that there's suspicious stuff going on and now the developer has taken the choice out of your hands and now you're just going along with it. Beyond this, at the end of the day, despite there being some "downtime" interaction with the LIs, it barely feels like you get to know them before you start banging them. Hell, you can be all sweet on Sybil and then you're balls deep in her. Feels less like a harem and more just like sex toys.

Great game, All in all, a total great game without a doubt.
Graphics are great. The Ship, backgrounds, space-fights and scenes in general is amazing and the Characters looks stunning.
*SPOILER AHEAD*

Pros
- Amazing art and animations.
-Great story, well written, but with some jumps and confusion sometimes.
-Amazing descriptions and use of words.
-Choices with, not game breaking or relationship breaking, or just general bad feelings, consequences
-A lot of kinks and quirks.
-Characters have different personalities, and you can feel it.

Cons:
-The only real con I have with this game is the major turn on Lym, and the period where you feel the main character is an idiot, but I'm glad to see that the relationship is on the mend.

TL;DR Random story, wimpy simpy limpy MC, lack of choices (despite the 'freedom of choice' sandbox), forced scenes.


Let's start with the story; it is interesting and well-written yet lacks logical awareness.

For love interests - they're nice looking, yet a lot of them are annoying, played this by recommendation for femboy bussy.
For many characters, I can't quite narrow down what they're about, they just seem to borrow personality from each other from time to time.



Protagonist - Default wimp simp with no backbone, he is a captain, sometimes acts like it, most of the time he gets walked over...
I am tired of these protagonists being in every single game, you would expect an 18-year-old protagonist to act like this, but the protagonist is 24, finished TOP of the class, and still acts like a tubular pipe.

Well, whatever.
2/5 - femboy bussy rocks

Hello my degenerate Friends.

This one is hard for me. I have read a lot of previous Reviews.
I can see the points many of them make towards strange and superficial LI development, but I see it somewhat different.

Noel and Dr. Clermont are more mature women who know what the want (at least somewhat) or maybe don't want to commit towards being in love with a younger man (maybe? Just the feeling I get from them).

Lym and Sybill are quite a bit younger and inexperienced so them being a bit all over the place feels fitting for me while they feel themselves out. (especially Lym with her older sister giving her much more mature advice than she was expecting)

Nyx and Pip are good to great characters, and I think the recent focus on Nyx is mostly story related as I believe we will maybe soon see news of her home world, which might change the tone of the story quite drastically.

Dr. Clermont being gone is a shame, but I strongly believe that she will be back, maybe with a makeover (always found her to look a bit strange and with way too big "arguments")

I personally like the "lul" periods on the ship to see what the crew is up to but I get that its personal preference. So take it as that. If you like the episode style action and the slice of life parts in-between then this one is for you.
The Story writing is decent to good, maybe even great depending on where the Author takes this. Certainly not a 12 year old's fantasy as some have judged it ( I just cant see it, honestly, with all the other way way worse games on this site)

Graphics are great. The Ship, backgrounds, space-fights and -scenes are amazing and the Characters look mostly stunning. Even though I get what some are saying towards the girls looking sameish. But I still maintain that they look distinctive enough to be enjoyable.

Now towards my biggest peeve with the game (yes just a peeve not a huge problem).
I have read quite a bit of critique towards the MC and I see the point. But I connect quite a bit with this MC, cuz I am a fairly kind and even tempered person in my social interaction, but my wife has repeatedly pointed out that I am quite different in intimate settings (I am a very dominant person). So I get how this MC behaves bc its not "that" far away from myself. Although the Author need to investigate a bit more towards true dominance since it doesn't normally involve too much name-calling (b*tch, Sl*t, etc.) unless both parties are into that kinda thing or being a straight up asshole.
I would like to recommend another game on this site as a great reference to a naturally kind but very dominant male MC, but the review rules prevent that. So I will do it like this in hopes that the Mods will be lenient.

Finally my last point also harkens back to the dom sub relations in the game. I would suggest to scrap the sandbox mode or make it into a minigame of sorts (maybe hide and seek, or enemies boarding where you fight through the ship so the sandbox system doesn't need to completely land in the trash) and rework the story into a full on VN where the maledom aspects become a bit more natural (see my previous point) and maybe even rewrite the femdom scenes to a somewhat roleplay like thing or even fully the "dominate from the bottom" type deal and make it all part of the same storyline.
Having choices is not a bad thing, but it creates bloat and needs more and more scenes and content the further the story goes. So my advice would be to tell the story how the Author envisions it without too many different "routes" for the girls (Although I enjoy the maledom a lot, especially all the Nyx stuff, even if it could be better).
At the End though I am not a developer myself (yet maybe?) and don´t know too much about the Authors vision of this project. But I am looking forward to it and wish the Author the very Best for this great game with even more potential.

So for me it is a 4.5/5 with hopes of greatness! (as of 0.4.4)

Cheers and thanks to the Author and to those with enough patience to read my ranting. See ya around.


Edit: So I just played through the ending of 0.4.4 and into 0.4.5 and I gotta retract a bit. As I understand it the MC is fairly new to the whole dom thing so most of my critique is not really valid. Simply the MC settling into a dominating personality. The last two scenes with Nyx show this quite vividly. So please take my criticism of the maledom with a grain of salt. It is getting quite good in 0.4.5

Stunning Visuals and Animations

Oppai Odyssey has some of the best visuals and animations I’ve seen in an AVN. The character designs, environments, and effects are top-notch, making it a visually immersive experience. However, while the game looks fantastic, the writing doesn’t quite live up to the same standard.

Story Lacks Consistency

The story is all over the place, with major inconsistencies that make it frustrating to follow. Some characters go through abrupt changes that don’t make sense, leaving the narrative feeling disjointed and incomplete.

Removal of Dr. Clermont

One of the biggest issues is the complete removal of Dr. Clermont as a love interest. There was no explanation other than "I'm running from my past", she was just taken out of the game. And was instead replaced by some ugly Alien that you can't do anything with. This sudden change left a noticeable gap in the story, making it feel like an unfinished draft.

Lym’s Unstable Character Arc

Lym, who was originally a main love interest, has been basically pushed to the side without reason. Her relationship with the MC flip-flops unpredictably. One update, she building a relationship with the MC. Then the next she’s stripped of her second-in-command role, and the next, everything is suddenly fine, and she’s back in bed with the MC. There’s no real emotional payoff or logical progression, making it feel forced. She should still be mad at the MC, but instead, she forgives him over something as minor as helping her move some objects. Atleast the other side character's have had simple progression involving the MC. However, Lym progression is unstable.

Maledom Choices Feel Meaningless

The game presents maledom choices with Nyx, but they don’t seem to impact anything at all. No matter what, Nyx still ends up as second-in-command over Lym, even though Lym was originally supposed to be a lifelong partner to the MC, shes replaced by some Elf you met a few weeks prior. I like Nyx as a character, but the game has focused on her for far too long, making it feel like Lym was downgraded to a side character overnight.

Conclusion

Overall, the game looks amazing, but the writing is messy and inconsistent. Removing Dr. Clermont, sidelining Lym, and making choices feel irrelevant all hurt the experience. If the dev wants this VN to reach its full potential, the story needs serious improvements. 1/5 stars

The story is interesting but has big pacing issues. It starts of boring, but by the end both the story and characters become more interesting and complex. A big problem is how the plot is interrupted by very long portions of mundane interactions with the characters, this is worse at the beginning of the game and gets better.

The choices don't matter, but this seems to be changing since I found at least 2 choices at the end of the game that impact the story quite a bit. The waifus are nice, especially Nix and Pip and sex scenes and animations are good. One complain I have is how the MCs personality is so different during the porn scenes compared to everything else, it's as if he is constantly roleplaying as either dominant ( or dominated depending on your choices in certain scenes) which is jarring.

Overall it's a decent game 6/10

Excellent Game with an actual coherent & enjoyable Story. The reason I downloaded it was because of the H-Scenes I was hoping for proper animated scenes in what would be just pleasure material but was blown away after reading for a while seeing as The plot is definetely immersive specially because you don't have expectations from a work like the beforehand but you will be blown away when you constantly are expecting more of the story. for a 3D Porn game it is 10/10.

Nice renders, nice animation, decent story, everything seems good to me, but the problem is some of the li is annoying af, I don't mind bitchy/annoying love interest if only the MC is badass or at least decent enough to give a solid answer, to talk about MC he's wimpy as fuck, I really hate this type of MC, for me main character (mc), plays a huge role in AVN, this is like our typical honey select 2 games where MC is a wimpy-ass/weak-ass and a total simp, honestly I love honey select 2 games but MC always ruined my whole mood, no matter how hard I try to like this game, MC is always being a pain in the arsh, obviously he's the main character because of him we can't even play the game, getting tired of these type of MC, well it's a no from me I'm out, out, out!!!!

But still I had my fun.

Game reads like it was written by a 14 year old, very little makes sense. Plot thin excuse for sex with endless big titted "space" women, who seem to all share the same face. Was hoping for a game to rival another space game which actually has good writing and is funny, this comes nowhere close.

Version 0.4.4

IMPORTANT: Although this is a harem game (i.e. lots of sex and equal screen time with many girls), there is one main love interest while the rest are more FWBs. And no, the main LI is not your childhood friend Lym, the white colored hair girl featured prominently in the game page, screenshots and title screen.

For reasons elaborated below, the de facto female protagonist is Nyx, the green haired elf girl with purple eyes. So if you don’t like this, it’s better to pass this game than end up getting upset later.

Story
MC is a graduated space cadet tasked to captain a research vessel in search of other planets and civilizations for colonization. The main plot involving an antagonistic organization, political conspiracy and corruption will slowly unfold 4 - 5 hours into the game. On the whole, the storyline is interesting and some of the action and gunfights do well as a Sci-fi adventure.

However, pacing isn’t consistent and momentum is often disrupted by lull periods where MC moves around vessel for mini-events with various girls. Instead of space themed events like exploring planets, interacting with ships, stopping by outposts etc., we get mundane stuff seen in every university AVN like playing console, cooking, drinking, gym, clinic check ups. It breaks the immersion and gets boring fast.

Game Mechanics
You can choose Sandbox or Visual Novel mode. The sandbox is highly controlled and proceeds similarly to the VN mode, so you might as well do the latter and save the room clicking.

Choices either skip scenes with a LI or have minor variations on how the story progresses. There is however one major decision which is the type of relationship you want to pursue with the main LI, Nyx.

Background / Character Renders
Surprisingly good - many of the space related backgrounds are detailed and convincing especially for the vessel rescue mission and battle scenes towards the end of V0.44.

Character models are well-designed and distinguishable with many costumes ranging from spacesuits, formal to casual. On the whole, I consider them heavily modified from HS which is a good thing.

Character Development
This is where things stumble and incur most of the criticisms. Character development with most girls are superficial and colorless from normal interactions to sex. Noel and Clemont are essentially fuck buddies while Lym and Sybil are more like playthings. MC comes across as an obnoxious jerk when dealing with them.

Then comes Nyx - she’s sort of the main LI because:

1) She’s the only one who has a well articulated relationship with MC - developing from tsundere to acceptance to romantic. You can either pursue a maledom route where MC sees her as a dependable subordinate or go for a femdom route where MC sees her as a nurturing superior. These routes will result in different sex scenes.

I opted for maledom first try and found it acceptable, but my second run with femdom offers a more intimate relationship IMO. It’s not abusive BDSM femdom, more like a powerful woman guiding and supporting her lover, so feel free to give it a try.

2) Regardless of which route, much of the main story is driven by MC consulting Nyx as a adviser / partner / superior whereas the other girls’ involvement are either in the side stories or receiving instructions from the MC.

Sex Scenes
Quantity wise it’s nice - not too many that it gets numb, but enough to come by just as you are getting bored. The animations are done well, but they feel similar to each other. Either MC drops corny “I want sex” lines with Lym and Sybil or Clemont and Noel throw themselves at MC followed by a hard pounding with cringey porn dialogue.

Nyx’s maledom scenes are similar, but at least there’s a bit of after sex interaction that feels more like lovers. The femdom route is much better from a relationship POV. So far there are no lewds with the futanari catboy An, but this can get VERY interesting in the future.

BGM and Sound Effects
There is a large trove of BGMs used and some of them are quite unique and complement the story well. Sound effects are limited and used occasionally. Overall it’s above average to good for me.

Conclusion
I like the main story - it’s not particularly innovative but good enough for casual entertainment. I’m OK with Nyx being the main LI and the rest as FWBs since I find her relationship with MC for both routes cute and endearing in their own ways. The game is complemented well by high quality renders and animations as well as a good selection of BGMs.

However, the generic college activities are annoying and uninspiring. The relationship building with other girls can do better even as FWBs - e.g. MC treats Lym quite badly for a childhood friend and pissing at Noel was kinda WTF for me.

This visual novel had a lot of potential but didn’t quite deliver in the later chapters.


On the plus side, the character models are impressive. Even though the game uses older HS models, the exaggerated but believable designs are really well done. The focus on bouncing breasts and asses is refreshing and well-executed, something many other games miss. The femboy and furry characters also look good here, which is a win compared to how others handle them. Overall, the visuals are solid and add a lot to the game, even if they’re not the latest tech.


The story starts with a familiar setup: a rookie captain and his crew discover a galaxy-wide threat. The captain’s struggle with authority and his drive to save the galaxy are classic themes, but the space setting and the way it’s presented give it a fresh feel. Initially, this makes for an engaging story.


However, there are some big issues. The main character is the weakest part of the VN. As a novice captain, you expect him to make mistakes, but his constant reliance on the ear-slut character makes him seem passive and ineffective. His poor treatment of his best friend/booty call, Lym, makes him come off as spineless and hypocritical.


The choices in the game are a letdown. Instead of having decisions that really shape the story or relationships, the choices feel more like adding different flavors. For a “harem” game, this is especially disappointing, as most relationships end up feeling shallow rather than developing into something deeper. The only real choice you get is whether to dominate or be dominated by the ear-slut character. However, this choice is poorly executed. Even when you choose to dominate, the ear-slut character still acts like more of a partner than a submissive, which undermines the intended power dynamics and makes these interactions less compelling.


In the end, this VN has a lot of potential but struggles with character development and meaningful choices. It might work better as a kinetic novel where the story doesn’t rely on player decisions.

I really like the game early on. Based on that 2 stars seem harsh yes.
But there are reasons

Pros:

-Captivating story. I'm not saying its unique but it is definitely very well done and much higher quality compared to most games
-Cute Girls (And femboy lol). Doesn't need much explanation
-The scenes are done very well VISUALLY. The game looks stunning

Cons:

-So many forced choices. No sense of direction through player choice just how the plot needs it. Why do I have people on the ship I don't even want?
Why does my character simp for his random new bro but act like a genuine asshole to his childhood friend?
Give more options to you players man it feels like torture. And its so sad to see as the game started in such a better manner. The first few updates were pointing a much nicer picture regarding the story

-The Main Character kinda sucks tbh. Not a single relationship feels like one. It legitimately feels like all he cares about is sex. While certainly based on the intro his character does not seem someone who is that type of person but actually seems like a nicer person. But then all his relationships are too sexual based. Even with a character like Lym. Who is his childhood friend.
And Sybil who is as sweet as a girl can be. It's straight to sex. And even if it then while the sex scenes are visually great. The dialogue in them is super dull. The MC is not really considerate about his partner at all. It legitimately feels like there is 0 affection at times.


No development and straight to sex feels super underwhelming. I'm sure many people like this rougher approach etc but with MC treating like every girl just wants to be fucked like a slut is annoying. Atleast have some characters who are normal and want affectionate things as well. What this lacks is variety. Hell the only variety is Nyx. With the rest its either rough or rougher and completely dominating them.
Why is there no option of MC being just a normal person who isn't into being rough af. Like even when MC is trying to focus completely on Noel he has the option to piss on her face and leave? Wtf

If this game just handles the dialogues within the sex scenes better and giving more options to the player whether they want the rough, normal or complete dominant approach this game would have been 5 stars.

While everything else is perfect. The fact that the main part of a Lewd Game is a letdown and that the MC sucks is what makes it 2 stars.

I'm not saying all games should be slowburn but atleast make with some characters feel like there is actual romance.

+ femdom scenes are good
+ great animations
+ music
+ VN mode
+ story is good till act 3

- act 4 is boring as hell and 5 is only slightly better (thanks to last scene)
- most of the time mc just wandering around the ship and talk to girls. These conversations in most cases leads to nowhere. I expected more action, like going on missions with our team, fight an unknown enemy, some real action.. and after that a good bonding events with girls. Simple as that
- forced lesbian content, wtf.. where is fucking choices here?
- relationships are poorly done. There is no real connection between mc and girls, they are just fuck buddies and nothing more. Even Lym who supposed to be crazy in love with MC mostly behave like rest of them
- captain supposed to be confident, brave, assertive with sharp mind by nature - a true leader. Unfortunately we got this imbecile MC who is completely opposite, just annoying wimp. Perfect material to be a captain..

forced content (not a lof of avns with shit like that these days) pseudo "captain" and disappointing romance stuff. 2 stars

Short summary:
An okay Sci-Fi tale with a story that occasionally transcends "passable" yet also occasionally dips below " 2024 era terrible TV series " levels of 'storytelling' that doesn't really deserve 4 stars but also not really deserves to sink to 3 stars either. As an adult game the smut is...okay. There's plenty of it, but a fair portion of it is triggered from random dialogue interactions suddenly taking a turn for the lewd. Carried more by the writing and the (part of the) characters that are fleshed out enough that the smut hits a bit better.


In more detail.

Story-wise this is a Scifi adventure story where you (the MC) get promoted right out of officer training to lead one of 2 brand new exploration spaceships. It's partially on rails, partially choice-driven and does a bit of a wishy-washy job of offering choices. Part of the choices are flavour-only, part of them appear to have no meaningful effect but might do so later and part of them meaningfully interact with story beats.

The problem here is that there's a LOT of situations where you simply don't get a choice and are forced to watch the MC blunder about like he shouldn't be put in charge of an unplugged microwave let alone a state-of-the-art spaceship.

As an example, kept deliberately vague enough to not be super spoiler-y there's a fairly big argument between one of the main LIs and the MC because he's been keeping world-altering information from her. The reasons for doing so are exceedingly flimsy and terribly communicated AND flip on a dime about 3 times, with the MC "resolving" to tell her next time for each of those moments - which of course never happens until things go sideways.

This brings me to storytelling and its communication to the player.
It's passable on the whole, not bad enough to warrant skipping through for huge swathes of text but frustratingly enough interspersed with SO MUCH terrible "telling, not showing" and AND-THEN storytelling,
It undercuts some genuinely solid setups and payoffs that make me think the Dev/Devs have some talent but not a solid plan on how the story needs to go from point A to point B.
A lot of actions just come out of left field which makes any sudden "dramatic turnaround" or "sudden reveal" fall flat and merely make one go 'Yeah sure, that might as well happen'.

It's a real shame - there's some talent here as well as some good ideas but they're sometimes handled well, sometimes handled okay and frustratingly often handled poorly or even disastrously.

Now onto the characters as well as briefly touching upon the adult parts of the game. They're a mixed bag. Some characters are surprisingly deep and some are frustratingly two- or even one-dimensional, giving you exactly what it says on the tin. (Un)fortunately they do the heavy lifting on some serious story beats and the majority of the impact of the smut scenes so if they don't click early on for you you're probably better off writing this one off.
If they DO click you can probably get your time's worth of enjoyment (and "enjoyment") out of this one.


All in all, while 4 stars is. I feel, pretty generous I don't think it sinks to "mediocre" levels. It's at the very least an interesting tale that's partially being used well and partially being wasted terribly that the dev hopefully manages to improve upon with time and experience.

Because when this game nails moments of actions and consequences having their dreadful reunion (Also known as Setup / Payoff storytelling) the game truly shows that its story is worth getting invested in for that little while. I just hope we see a higher percentage of story beats hitting compared to missing as the game progresses.