VN - Ren'Py - Our Red String [Ch. 13.1 ALPHA] [Eva Kiss]

I love GGGB, but Our Red String is a different level. The story is much deeper and meaningful, and realistic enough to be able to give single people the experiences they are unfortunately deprived of.
The only thing is that the possible interests between the protagonists are slightly unfairly distributed. Ian has almost all the characters interesting, with their own history, hobbies and quite hot: Lena and Holly (the most interesting), tough Alison, cute Cherry, funny Emma, very hot Cindy, ugh, even Minerva, maybe Jess and Ivy in the future. Lena also has "rapid fire" and goof Robert, weirdo Stan (although this is unlikely to go further than voyeurism), asshole and player Jeremy, possibly Axel and Ed. In addition to Ian, only Mike is kinda cool and a very interesting character (although in his actions he is no better than Jeremy).

After playing this game for 5 hours something are missing from the two protagonists:
Female MC: No fat bald head boss, creepy shopkeeper and dried ass bone landlord trying to grope her every 2 seconds.
Male MC: No "landladies" and two daughters who would randomly fall into his lap every time they move.
10/5 stars

I loved GGGB so naturally, I wanted to check this out and I haven't been disappointed!

I like the switching POVs (because female protag games are few and far between) and I think this strikes a nice balance when it comes to sex scenes and romance.

It's very rare for me to play games with female protags, they are picture as cock hungry sluts. Eva did a better job and gave the FMC a meaning that I was able to relate and see her struggles and ambitions.
This game is well written and fun to play, I am really excited for more

+ good soundtrack
+ Renders
+ Story
+ Gameplay and minigames
+ great characters
+ Sex scenes
- Attributes management
- No gallery

Review of v0.7...

I want to begin by saying the art in this game is AMAZING!!! Easily one of the best drawn art games I have ever seen.

The characters each have their own distinct personalities. Most come across as very believable. I like most of the characters, except for Perry. He’s the kind of person who ruins it for everybody with his constant petty bitching and moaning over the smallest things.

There are a lot of little character decisions you can make. Such as having Lena get a naval piercing, or choosing topics and major decisions for Ian's book. A lot of work and love went into the creation of this game. I commend the dev.

The writing is solid. A few spelling errors here and there. Nothing major. Just stuff I imagine would have been caught with a proofread.

It does get a little tiresome though when seven chapters in Ian and Lena have dated multiple times, had sex multiple times, monologue their intense feelings for each other, but when asked if they are together, they tell people they are still getting to know each other. Both know what they are doing and what they want the relationship to be, but it’s like both of them are afraid to commit. I can understand not wanting to say it to each other, but not even admitting your feelings about the other to your friends I find a bit unbelievable.

I like the “mini-game” when you play pool. Although when you would play pool it is weird hearing the balls being called “spotted” when every time I play in real life, they are called Solids and Stripes.

This part made me remove a star. As much as I like this game, I think the dual protagonist aspect drags it down a little. Just when you’re getting into the story of Ian or Lena you slam into a brick wall of the game switching to the other character. I got used to it after a while, but it was a persistent issue. At least for me.

I highly recommend this game to everybody. If you pass this one up you will be doing yourself a serious disservice.

Excellent game. One of the best concerning the writing and the dialog!
The girls are hot.
It could improve the animations which are very basic.
Ivy should have some sex scenes.
3somes would be nice.

woah... this game
I came after some porn by bumped into this game... and ended up found a soul inside.
man... i sometimes even forgot i was playing a porn game instead just focused on shaping a character i wanted while enjoying the life story development.
-Decent drawing, characters appearance consistency are good in this art style.
-Some few nice BGMs, already nice but still got room for improvement imo.
-SFX is on point during sex scene, but that stats upgrade sound effect being cut off in abrupt quite obviously, just some minor QOL thing i want to point out.
-A true writer, story crafted with passion without being unrealistic, impeccable so far.
This dev is something rare in the industry...

6 stars quality production.
Seriously considering support the patreon besides my ff14 sub

P.S i wish there're pubs , not talking about amazon scale bush but a bit of different style of pubs for each characters would be more sexy...

Among the best adult games out there. It is a visual novel, so technically it is closer to chose your own adventure story than a proper video game but the overall experience is fantastic.
The game alternates between two protagonists, male and female, and we're in control of their actions in an important period of their lives. There's a lot of supporting characters, and they are all deep and interesting. Artwork is fantastic, as well. I cannot recommend this game enough.

I have held off writing a review for Eva's games because I think I sound like a raving fangirl, but seriously... she deserves all the hype and more.

This and GGGB are outstanding. The storytelling is better than anything you'll find here and her characters are flawed but nuanced and real. Anyone that ever wrote fiction understands how hard this is to pull off. The path structure is a marvel in its complexity. It allows for so much freedom and consequence.

Our Red String improves on many things. The art is certainly better and the story is more personal. Also, where the characters in GGGB were still a bit shallow and stereotypical in their personal development, all this changes in ORS.

Decisions have consequences, but they are not good or bad, just different. Just like in life. Lena can be sexually empowered, she can be a slut, but she never becomes cliché. It's really outstanding, marvelous story telling.

Support her if you can.

Another masterpiece in the making from Eva Kiss. The drawings have significantly improved compared to GGGB. Playing both the female and male protagonists at the same time is quite refreshing. Lots of choices to direct the MCs into the players chosen path, though such paths are still a bit unclear at the current stage of this VN. I just hoped that there would be more freedom to choose more freely on which character does Lena or Ian wants to be with or fuck at certain situations instead of it feeling like the game or the story only leaves the player with one person to do it. (spoiler alert) like for instance when Lena was at the club, the game only presents her with the option to fuck Mike, why not instead have the option to either choose from Mike, Ian or Robert (though I'm not a fan of Robert) at that certain day if she is on more than one path. Anyway, I just thought that it would be much better to have that kind of freedom to choose from. Other than that it's a great VN as expected from Eva Kiss. Can't wait for the next update. More contents for Cindy please though I'd hate for her to choose to be naked for just anyone or for her to be a slut who is available for anyone (never a fan of sharing my girls, no offense to those who are into sharing).

Ok wow I did not expect this game to be this good, I was kinda bored and reluctant at first but gave it a shot, and turns out this is definitely among the best ones I have seen on here, if not the best.

Played the 0.7version and it took maybe ~20 hours or so, not entirely sure.

First of all the art: usually drawings isn't my favorite but there is definitely a ton of artwork put into this and it looks really nice and there are some slight animations during scenes.

The dialogue is among the best I have ever seen, relatable, not cringey at all, realistic and sometimes funny AF.
The characters are unique, and relatable too and there is a ton of interaction which leads to different paths. I also like how the entire game is written from the two different perspectives of the main characters, it's refreshing.
Gameplay is pretty basic, it's a visual novel after all, so that means dialogue choices, an occasional minievent (such as fighting, billiards, etc.) but everything is well done. Oh and you gain/lose money and skills depending on your choices so I guess it is pretty fleshed out for a VN.
The story is intriguing and many characters have their own issues and paths and due to the extremely well written dialogue it is very enjoyable. I actually got invested a bit too much so that I took moral actions which led to me missing out on the majority of the sexual content the first time around. Only after replaying and playing completely slutty did I realize how much the game branches and how different the events and the participants can be. And it all loops back together perfectly into the two sold stories, this must have been a hard and timeconsuming task to achieve!
The sounddesign is on point, you have your usual elevator tracks but also scene related tracks, as well as sound effects, moans, etc - great!

Overall this is an easy 5/5 even if it is not quite finished, but I can tell that the dev put a lot of effort into this.

tldr; version:
+ good sound design
+ good drawings and many hot girls (and guys I guess)
+ fantastic dialogue / relatable /sometimes very funny
+ mixes up gameplay like minor minigame choices
+ great characters
+ great story, told from 2 sides, many choices and branching paths
- patience required, not a "quick fap" game
- gallery doesn't store sex scenes, but rather photos that can be acquired through friendship/choices and not a total summary of all findings

As Someone who played through Good Girl Gone Bad. I am happy that this has the same quality as that game if not better and that is from someone who usually can't stand VN games. Being able to play from a male perspective is a plus for me as i can relate more then i could with a female. In GGGB i just tried to corrupt as many people as possible and here i'm wanting to actually try different paths.

Simply put, despite what many who down cast this game, this game is slowly but surely becoming a gem of a game by Eva Kiss. And while this review is certainly early, much like many of the reviews I see here from certain ones, given that this game will have 20 chapters and we are just scratching the surface of potential story and content and outcomes, I would like to say to those simply on the fence to wait. Give this game it's due when it is completed and I suspect that you will be surprised with just how well this game is flesh out.

And certainly, there is a lacking of contenting for some of the best girls out there, and we already have showings of yandering and jealous dollies, and intrigue of the highest order!!! ...Okay maybe not the intrigue, but still drama and questions of loyalty to those we consider friends or even more. Some characters you will immediately fall in love with while others you will down right shake your head and hate and others you will laugh at their idiocy.

Bottom Line: A great game in the making that needs to have patience for both it's fans and those who are on the outside looking in.

Won't let me give half stars, I was aiming for a 2.5, middle of the lane score.

It's an okay game but coming off the back of her last game which was outstanding this just feels like a big step back.

It has it's focus on 2 MC's which will always water down the story content because 1 will always outshine the other and that's what happened here but that works against my tastes in this instance.

Being female I was leaning more to Lena's story and also being lesbian it seemed like she has several options for me to pursue there too so was quite happy. My original problem being I wasn't interested in the male MC's side.

So 7 updates in and I have all but lost interest in Lena. She's shallow and lacks severely in the personality department.

When it comes to her romance options all the men seem to be jerks but it was the girl/girl stuff I was interested in and, well, they suck.

The only one with anything going on is Louise her roommate and that got clingy and also Lena kinda shot that down as just a sex thing so feel like I wasted 7 updates trying to build that for nothing.

I don;t know if any of the other girls are options because none of them go anywhere but her best friend is heading down the road of drugs and being a cumdump which goes against her character progress so far, it just seems to do a complete turn this past couple of updates. Ivy went from a confident, street smart girl with her head fully screwed on ad fully confident with her herself to taking some random guy at his word he has money for stuff and is basically about to be taken for a ride in all the wrong ways.

Then there is Holly and she's an okay friend but it just goes nowhere.

On the flip side you have Ian, the male MC, who has a ton of interaction with his friends and some great options for romance.

His story is leaps and bounds ahead of Lena's who's story seems like it's being written by someone else completely. The devs last work had an amazing female lead with tons of options and some great characters to this female lead who is bland in every way from personality to romance options.

The Male MC's story is going great so it's worth playing for that alone but the Female MC is holding it back from being a great game. For a girl like me that loves Female leads to not want to play the female lead disappoints me.

I had high hopes for this and the one part of the story I was looking forward to I think is holding back the game. I really hate to say this but it would have been far better without Lena being a playable character. The dual MC has never worked for me anyway, it always kills the flow of the story when it suddenly switches.

Well worth trying out though, I know some people love it. I just expected better after her last game.

Seems like the negative reviews are about the lack of the taboo paths as in GGGB. Of course these games have some mechanics to it, but at heart they are visual novels so these reviews seem to be a judgment on the story itself. Can we assume a food critic doesn't review an Italian restaurant on the metric of whether they serve sushi?

If we make a comparison to film review, is the idea to critique the plot for not having certain elements or is it more fair to evaluate whether the character work and storytelling works to immerse the player in the story. Personally, by the latter standard, this visual novel-especially relatively to other projects on Patreon-is excellent. Not an artist but the artwork and character models also seems above average.

It's game statues system is grearer than I expected.
The story and characters are very interesting.
It is not just sex game.
It is art game.
And the life.
I am waiting the cafe papa boss fuck lena with caring and treating.
And also others characters love, too.

Ok that's one star for me because I know this developer has the skills to create a really really good (and hot) adult VN, but instead what I played extensively the other day has been incredibly disappointing.
From the artistic side? Fantastic. Content wise? Terrible.
First of all, like other reviewers said, it is a huge step down from GGGB because the hottest kinks and situations you could find there (that were already toned down, i.e. the interesting sort of blackmail dramatic situation we see at the start with Wilson will never ever happen again) are being replaced with a "teen soap opera" (quote) which (imo) renders the plot pretty boring (remeber guys that dramatic events are always good in a plot) and as a consequence the sex scenes far less hot\interesting (there's no "buildup", no attachment to them).
And the worst part is that I can't see this trend of "growing plainness" ever changing, even with a third game. And that's a pity, because I love how intricate these stories are from the "roleplaying" perspective. Unfortunately intricate+boring and plain aren't good enough for me.

This is my favorite game.
Art 10 points.
Plot 10 points.
Sexyness 10 points.
Sound 10 points.
Sex scenes 9 points (they are great but maybe some more animation).
Choices 10 points.
Fun 10 points.
10 POINTS!

Yo istg EVAKISS you are a legend or a bunch of legends. The story so far is so free and liberating with proper consequences and deep storylines. Proper to you! I look forward to seeing this develop till the end

oh, my.
Don't understand, why rating is so low. I was expected to see this amazing novel in top list. And what a horrible surprise.
Honestly, i didn't read Your first story ("good girl..") - hard to merge delve into girl-character. But "Our Red Strings" - is just WOW!
Drawings are amazing. I know how hard to draw the same characters from different angles/perspective with different emotions. Plus sex/scenes. Such hard task can break most of the artists. But You're doing it perfect. I'm impressed how You manage with art side of the project.
And the story - uuh)) - You can't imagine how much of time i spent to try different paths. And everytime, my adventure was full of fellings, emotions, thoughts. Caused huge amount of happiness, confusions and suffering by involving me into the story. You opened there dozens of questions which make a lot of pbs in relationsships. I'm very curious, which answers do You have for them. Hard to imagine hor great You see our souls, when You can manage so different and deep characters in one interweaving of destinies.
Thank You very much for this pleasurem which i got. Wish You to achieve all of Your goasl, and meet less as possible "haters")) i'm really shocked by ratings, which some of "members" put for such amazing creation.
The Best and Warmest Regards,