VN - Ren'Py - Pale Carnations [Ch. 4 Up 4 Public] [Mutt & Jeff]

Pale Carnations is exquisite. It has beautiful art and the best sex scenes I've seen in any game plus it has interesting plot and very good writing. Characters are intriguing and with right amount of background and dialogues (so it's not too verbose or too laconic) and is rather refreshing. It's not another "you're living with your mother and sisters" setup or "you're going to school/college and every girl wants to get into your bed" setting but it's something much more original (up to this point I've checked over 150 erotic games and this one really has something new to offer).

Besides amazing sex scenes what makes this game great are RPG elements resulting in high replayability. At the very start we choose how to build our character, what background should we have and what perks we start with and later depending on our choices certain paths are open while others are closed. I've seen quite a few games attempt this but not as successfully as in PC, here our choices DO matter and change the outcome in a significant way.

Pros:
+ Superb art and sex scenes
+ Great writing and characters
+ High replayability
+ More than decent amount of content
+ Very high potential making you want more and more content

Cons:
- None that I've seen

10/10 game IMO and currently my favourite.

My favorite lewd visual novel. The writing is sharp and witty, the girls are hot, and the plot is incredibly depraved. The best thing about this game is that, unlike a lot of games that feature coercion, degradation, and other twisted themes, the characters span the gamut of reactions to the fucked up situation. This makes the writing much more interesting. The only thing I could wish for (besides continued development, of course) is more animations and more interactivity in the sex scenes (different angles, actions, etc.). Most of them are pretty 1-dimensional and non-branching.

Deep and interesting characters, good general plot and a well-written story with some impacting ingame choose! Scenes are really hot if you are into dominance or submission scene. I'm really looking forward to see what this game will become.

This game is something else.

It's undeniable a very good game. I could not find a single thing wrong with it. It had HS girls, but probably the best graphics of a game with HS girls that I have ever played. The interface was good. This is all in all a very closed to perfect game.

Having said that. Fuck man, it was a tough game for me to play. I felt I needed a shower after playing this game. The Hopeless situations that all of the girls are in. The exploitation, the asshole friend and the way he treats his GF was all hard to play for me.

I think it's because everything feels so real, that the game hits so hard. Variations of this game probably happens in every city around the world all the time. Most games on hear is an escape from reality, but this one slaps you in the face with the with the ugly side of humanity.

It's not all depressing, I might add. The girls are all very endearing in their own way. Fuck Killian, but I'm going for his girl! Hana is also pretty cute. So it's between Hanna and Mina for me. Red (Veronica) is also pretty awesome, but I think @Avaron1974 is more to her taste .I actually like Felicia, but I'm not fully sure what her deal is. Rose... Well I hope she wins.

So in terms of having fun playing this game.... not always. For me it's a fine line between too dark and enjoyment. I'm not on the feminist side of things, but most of the men (except Jacob, Spider and maybe the MC, depending on how you play him), are pretty loathsome.

So
Graphics: 9/10 (Even the HS models are out of the world)
Sex scenes 10/10 (The settings are depraved, but the very sexy)
Story: 9/10 (Gripping)
Gameplay 9/10 :Awesome

It's a definite 5/5 from me, but a tough game at times.

[Played Ch. 2 Update 2]

What can I say... This game is straight 5/5 for me. I always loved this kind of high-class debauchery setting with all sort of kinky stuff. Visuals are really great. I'm not a fan of oversized boobs, but you make it work for me. Writing, story and characters are good enough to NOT make me skip everything and just go for the "good stuff"... and that is quite rare. There is a decent amount of content and I'm looking forward for more. Thank you for the game and keep up a good work.

[As of Ch.2]

The Good:

- Girls are amazing.
- Good Art style.
- Multiple variables; each choice matters.



The Bad:

- Terrible animations (2fps thrusting jeez..) and when u finally had a somewhat fluid bj animation (the final 5some lewd scene) the graphics are off.
- The amount of sex scenes are really low considering you are working in a brothel.
- Girls lack variety. Every girls have the same tits size, sometimes you want to have a petite w/ a small-medium tits size as a refreshment.
- So much text.
- Average story, not intrigued.




Conclusion:
Girls are nice. Story is ehh, I quitted half way (stopped after the fitness girl fingerbanged my boss). I might revisit for future updates and animations rework.
3/5.

I'm definitely considering being a Patron of this game after the next update. The story and writing is really good, but what is really awesome is Mina! I'm a little more into femdom and that tag got me to try the game, but it turns out I can maybe enjoy some female domination on females, which isn't too bad. I'm not a fan of the old men but it makes sense with the story and what kind of club it is.

it's a 6 star game as per my perspective！
fabulous image, appealing story and excellent detail.
the author always gives processing feedback every one week, I quite enjoy to check the version update every day which becoming my spiritual ballast.
I will support this game as always!

Simply beautiful, one of the best VN i've played on this site to date, and i've played ALOT.

the character felt real, you're immersed in it and getting to know about each of them as you progress and get this there's no BS grinding to get absolutely nothing,

here's what the real VN supposed to look like, an engaging story and a gorgeous plethora of girls to choose.

i can't stress enough how good looking the girls are, and by the god felicia is a bombshell .

i literally did this review just to show my affection for her.

definitely a recommended title for the peeps out there.
love it.

It took me nearly two hours to get through the prologue alone. Also, the writing is awesome and the devs are creative, so give it a go.

I just hope they introduce a girl with small boobs at some point.

One of the best games right now tbh. I can tell from chapter 1 & 2 that it'll become a masterpiece when finished. Characters feel so real and natural, and you can understand their motivations and emotions. MC is great so far and has a convincing way of thinking. If you are reading this and you are tired of mediocres games around this websites, please, PLEASE, do a favor to yourself and give it a try.

I usually don't really like the Illusion/Honey Select games but this one is highly reviewed for a reason.

Since I mentioned it, what absolutely matters is that the female models in this game are fantastic, even as someone who doesn't really go for this engine. The environments range from pretty good to bad and the males are not as well off but I can live with all those. For me the interface/profile section shines.

I found the story set-up to be very smart and interesting and LEWD. You're a poor student who is brought in through unusual circumstances to be a helper in a brothel type club. I find the dichotomy perfect for lewd storytelling; some character are extremely loose and there are some really extreme sex scenes and trials going on, but there's the full range because other girls are decently conservative and normal. This works for me because you get both the copious amounts of sex, but also the grounded reality of building relationships and romances with these women.

There's also some familial baggage to unpack and a looming mystery hovering over the next chapters (past chapter 2)..all in all a very good set-up.

This is definitely worth a play. Again I am an Illusion/Honey Select type hater and I am telling you this game not only visually, but story wise is better than most of the Ren'py stuff out there.

A game soo good I played it trough second time right after the first. In this game we have both humour and good plot. Deep with substance characters that have their own identity. Thats something hard to find in erotic games. All of this wouldn't be that good without good graphics. I will say it.. Damn good renders of damn good characters full of subtle and not so subtle eroticism.

In summary I became an annual patreon right after playing trough this gem of a game. I hope to someday make something similar but with another theme as a base.

Review for Ch.2Up.1


What shall I say. I love this game. Enough to write my first review on this site.


Pale Carnations is a typical VN, with different choices influencing the path of the player character (PC) throughout the game. Furthermore these decisions enable a certain degree of roleplaying by shaping the mindset of the PC regarding various events and should play a major role in reaching different endings.

The game is built with HS, however, at least the female models are very high quality and look better than in most other HS games.

In my opinion, the most impressive feature of this game is the unique setup of the story, coupled with an excellent characterisation of the cast. Choosing a sex club as the main setting is a clever way to provide a plausible environment for various sexual activities involving different kinks and fetishes, underrepresented in other games of high quality. To summarize the main plot in one sentence, 3 women with vastly different personalities have to compete in various sex games to decide an overall winner, who gets a reward of her choosing. I, for my part, am not troubled by potential NTR along the way, but as the developers already explained, it should be possible to shield at least one carnation from the worst, or all, of it.

In addition, there are 3 other main girls, both inside and outside of the club. My personal favourite is the boss of the PC, Kathleen. I really like her domineering attitude and classy personality. However, a great wish of mine would be the possibility to turn the tables on her eventually. Nothing gets me going more than putting a former dominant into her place. For the same reason, her scene with Veronica in the first update ranks very high on my list of all-time favourite sex scenes in video games.

This is the first review that I made on this site.

The game is very well made and it shows how much love and dedication was put into making it. The story is a unique one mainly in regards to the summer exhibition month with 3 sex games per week in which I haven't seen a premise like this before in other games that I have played so far, because of that it feels very fresh and new.

Dialogue is well written and makes the characters feel alive and have their own identity to them. I have grown to really love and hate certain characters and am invested into learning more about each characters backstory and also seeing how they develop in the future.

Choices aren't just there for the sake of being there. Most choices causes a change in dialogue or how the receiving character acts towards you later on down the road. There are also major choices that can completely lead you down different outcomes or sex scenes.

Graphics wise, it uses HS but they are special models that I have not seen before and the overall look of the game is very high quality at least in my opinion. Felicia is really sexy with her tanned skin and tanlines and just her overall body in general.

The game covers many kinks and fetishes already and I am certain there will be even more as the game progresses in future updates. Personally I really love all the kinks and fetishes that they have so far.

Overall, I would recommend this game to everyone to at least try. Except those who really hate sharing love interests or into pure vanilla games only.

P.S. Felicia and Rosalind are my favorites. Also the developer is very active and answers basically every question on this community.

Wow.... I seriously did not anticipate how much I would love this game. The writing is fantastic. The art is top notch for CG and deliciously hot. The sex is steamy, intense, pushes the lines of taboo (I wouldn't be opposed to them being pushed further, especially with some incest added in, or more) but at the same time you get an actual feeling for the characters. Even if you try to play a bastard you can't help but emphasise with the characters, they feel real. Even the bit ones. Gameplay.. It's a VN, few choices that matter, but I'm actually curious to go back and see what some other psths would've done. And again, it's gripping enough that I actually did not pay attention to this just being a VN, it didn't feel like those renpy games where eventually you are just clicking past dialog fast as you can fit Something, anything interesting to happen. Yup, now supporting this on Patreon, best I can in the current economy and with trying to support so many awesome folks

While the theme is not my cup of tea, I can appreciate the fact that the game is different from a lot of things here.

-The English is very good and like the pompous feeling it gives.
-While the renders are honey select, which I'm not a fan of, since they aren't stock and clearly hard work was put into it, I appreciate those unlike many other games.
-The lack of animations is not a problem, I'd rather not have them and have good descriptions of the action than to have 2 frames animations that repeat a couple of times. Plus the stock HS animations are fairly vanilla, which wouldn't really fit with the setting of this game.

And the updates have a lot of contents.

Like I mentioned before, it's not my cup of tea but for what the story is, it does it really well, so I have no problem giving this a good rating.

Its an okay game in many ways.
Okay dialog, but you really need to just go with it and dont question a lot in the story.
Its a focus on the sex part kinda game.
Models are cute, but not new, but at least they have distinct personalities.
All of them have huge knockers tho, and similar bodies.
And its a Honey Select game, so you need to be okay with those kinds of models.

The really BAD part is the lack of animations tho, there is only 1 super simple one in the game, and thats in hours of content, and a lot of sex scenes already. (ch 2 u1)
I honestly dont understand how you can make a Honey Select game and not have animations.
It feels like a huge miss tbh to not have animations, and just lazy 1/2/1/2/1/2... shifting of 2 frames to "simulate" animations.
Like even basic demos that goes no where but 1 short update, have animations with Honey Select.

A game that focuses on the sex part and not a super deep story, needs to do that sex part well, and not having animations makes it just fall flat.
Some games with really good renders/models (that are not Honey Select) can pull it off with no animations, but not a Honey Select game that has such similar body types and faces we all seen before, as this one have.
The angles in the sexscenes are poor also.

If this game had some good animations, it would be a solid 4, maybe 4.5 but with out animations a 3 tbh.

I adore this VN for so many reasons, where do I start?

The scenery in this VN seems more varied than from others. I'm seeing significantly less regularly used assets in background choices, which I love. The characters have have a more eastern influence in their design which is a pleasant change of pace from most 3DCG; it adds a bit of color to a VN to try something less common.

This VN makes a comprehensive use of transitions between scene changes. It's not greatly varied in the prologue, and a handful of the transitions seem a little sudden. The scene transitions were a little meh during the prologue, but the Week 1 content saw the transition game hit a whole other level. I usually don't even see the level of transitions found in the prologue in most VNs (aside from dissolve, that one's a regular), but those from Week 1? Yeah, that gets props in the review.

The level of English presented by this developer seems more advanced than the average developer's work. I rarely have trouble reading through what is going on in any author's work, otherwise I wouldn't be here following this particular art... but it's rather common to come across work where the writer is not thoroughly fluent, something I am okay with mind you; how many of us truly are? So I gladly say it is refreshing to not come across language that forces my brain to a crashing halt for a rethink and reset once in a while.

The work to date has terrific music that is for most scenes thematically on point. In fact I've only really noticed one scene where the music didn't really fit the scene, though that had less to do with the scene and more to do with the feelings of cold sobriety that the music have already come to evoke from previous scenes. That same piece has already been used in scenes with two other characters who either are currently or have previously gone through very similar hardships to one another (no spoilers here), building the Moonlight Sonata's 1st Mvt as a sort of leitmotif for their particular archetype... and its use in scene with this third character who seems almost diametrically opposite of said archetype is somewhat jarring. If I were asked (I know I wasn't, but hypothetically) for an alternate recommendation, I'd suggest the Clair de Lune by Debussy; it has a similarly soft sound that fits the scene well, but isn't quite as somber (which also fits the scene well). That said, ignore my pithy musings. This VN has music, which is better than I daresay 90% of the offerings.

5-star work. Keep it up.

This game is something special. But be warned, at it's core is a sex club that deals heavily with prostitution. If seeing girls having sex with people other than yourself upsets your fragile sensibilities then this game might not be for you. If you decide not the play it because you only play harem games, then you are missing out on one of the best written VN adult games in current development.

The Good

- The story is unique, well crafted and very adult. Characters are unique and interesting, all with their own motivations and back story.
- You can play the MC as a mature, thoughtful young adult or as an atypical pervert you see in most porn games. You can assign the MC different personalities which gives a little rpg to the game and a degree of replay-ability.
- All the girls are gorgeous with deep and interesting personalities. Some may be more than they first appear....
- The game can be both very dark and very humorous. Don't go into this game looking for your typical juvenile porn tropes, this game is well crafted and exceptionally written.
- This game takes you out of your comfort zone, especially if you decide to pursue a relationship with a 'Carnation'. This was a very bold decision by the developer and it has definitely paid off.

The Bad

- It requires a certain suspension of disbelief that some of the Carnations would willingly submit themselves to such humiliation and depravity for reasons that don't quite stack up. The important thing to remember is they are all willing, there is no coerced sex or rape here. If there was, I probably wouldn't be playing it. Despite that, it is still very dark at times and made me a little uncomfortable.

- It suffers from the typical Honey Select art style limitations, but it still looks visually gorgeous and is a cut above most HS games.

The Ugly

- Navigating the options menu isn't intuitive, as there doesn't seem to be a return button that I could see after saving or checking the bios.

Overall, this game is amazing. It may not be for everybody, but if you are mentally mature enough to accept some of the themes then you are in for something special. There is a lot of content, so it won't be a quick play through. At no stage is it slow or boring, and it's never dragged down with filler content. I was so impressed with this game after the second chapter that I became a Patreon member, and it takes a special game for me to do that these days.