VN - Ren'Py - Pale Carnations [Ch.4 Up.6 Public] [Mutt & Jeff]

Pale Carnation - A Dark VN storytelling Masterclass.

Rating: - 5 / 5
Version played: Full release
Genre: Dark VN, corruption, mystery heavy story focus.

Pale Carnation is a game that should not be missed by anyone who happens and enjoys story-based visual novels featuring a dark, mature theme. It is not a fast fap game, it is literally a full-fledged visual novel that only has sex in it.

Writing & Story - 5/5

This writing is easily of top caliber in this site. Characters are real people who have their motives, secrets and weaknesses. It is a slow-burn story that is full of political intrigue, manipulation, and psychological tension.

The MC is not a stereotypical good guy, he is morally grey.

Side characters are not so shallow or one-dimensional.

The witty, clever dialogue is very crisp and not very filler.

Even in case you are one of those who actually reads and likes the plot, this makes it 5 stars alone.

Art & Presentation - 5/5

The painting is beautiful and uniform. The sprites, CGs and backgrounds of the character all belong to the high-end, decadent appearance.

Lovely forms, passionate features.

CG shots are elaborate and properly framed.

UI is not cluttered and it does not stand in the way.

It appears and plays like a professional VN, not an amateur Ren'py rudimentary attempt.

Adult Content - 5/5 (with a warning)

Erotica is of good quality, though it is also dark. It is not a vanilla romance game.

Expect themes like:

Manipulation

Power imbalance

Moral corruption

In case that is your thing, the scenes are violent and they fit well into the narrative. This is not likely to be your cup of tea in case you are just after light-hearted and wholesome material.

Atmosphere & Tone - 5/5

The game drives a nail in the atmosphere of decadence, rot, and grace simultaneously. This mood is supported by everything, music, writing, and images. It is as though reading a dark novel in the midst of a corrupt upper-class setup where every one is hiding something.

Replay Value - 4.5/5

There are:

Multiple routes and choices

Learners have different approaches towards relationships.

Sufficiently different to warrant more than a single playthrough.

It is not a sandbox but as it is a story-heavy VN, it has a good replay value.

Now this is a good game now it's only been a year and 4 months, and there is SO MUCH CONTENT, like 5 hours worth. And having good kinks so it isn't just a vanilla, I love where everything is going, the story is so interesting that I always want more, plenty of branching pathways too, so your choices actually matter. This game, although it has sub-par graphics, the animation and a lot of sex scenes make up for the fact. I cannot wait till more comes out of this game.

A Masterpiece
Play it yourself! Support the Dev (its worth the money)
Nice Renders, Amazing H-Scenes, fantastic writing, good looking LI; all good qualities of Pale Carnations.
But what makes it a masterpiece?
The setting.
The concept of an underground high-class sex club is explored with attention to detail, in all its beauty and ugliness.
It sets the tone in which interesting stories develop, characters shine, romance gets explored, and Sex-Scenes can be enjoyed. And the quality of the execution of this setting really makes this game unique. Mutt and Jeff really created something which piques the interest of the Reader (or Player). There`s already a good amount of content, but many story threads are still open and the game gets continuously worked on so there's surely more good to come.

A final bit of rambling:
Play it at your own discretion, the setting is obviously not for everyone. It is perverse and can be twisted, but can also be surprisingly wholesome. Just be prepared for what it is. The again, this is F95zone and many H.Scenes could be described as extremely Vanilla.
This time really the final bit of rambling:
In recent updates, the Choices and Routes really branch out a lot. This can obviously be a good and a bad thing. It gives the player agency, but it also makes it really difficult to see all the game has to offer, especially when choices only make a difference much later. I recommend at least to look at a walktrough when playing. Personally I´d prefer a slimmer approach to branching Routes.

I keep dropping and replaying this game several times in the past

Either because I reached the final waiting for update, and forgot about the story and re-play it, or just have other games to play

But honestly after playing it several times, this game is truly masterpiece

The story is captivating, the character have "soul", they all soooo different with each other, and the MC is not full blown rapist, and the girl is not just throwing their body to MC every moment

The character model is also gorgeous with interesting back story and pretty meaningful choices throughout the game

OH also I love how smooth the animation loop is, and how the male cum looks good, not just white bland looking gooey liquid that usually on some other game (cant believe I giving review about male cum)

For me there is good and bad about this game. The main character who you can somewhat choose how you are is still a whole ball of ehh. If you are trying to be the white knight yes you can be for the most part less of a d bag than the alternative, but you are still very much a starved for attention, kind of pathetic mommy's boy, with a best friend who is at best is completely aloof to all human decency.

This is still a pretty good game and its really close for me on being a 4, but mainly the main character makes it a solid three. The girls are where it becomes more interesting. You have one who is basically a woman a lot like your mother so its not surprising why the MC is into her. Outside of her I like most of the other love interests. You have the sweet and tough goth girl rocker who is surprisingly sweet and kind of throws you off with her initial attitude. The strong gym girl who is actually very fun to be around and has a great although guarded personality. My favorite is actually the wife of the rich guy. I find her personality very fun and outgoing, sassy with a hint of experience, and romantic all bottled into one. Mina your best buddies ex who he cheated on all the time with some ehh ladies. she is probably my second to least favorite only to the Mommy replacement option. She is this beautiful model/actress who is the most aloof, airhead, and enabler you could ever meet. She does have a freaky side and is possibly one of the few where you can have a three way relationship. Last is the boss lady who is well a completely twisted woman. I am sure she may have a soft side somewhere behind the big ball of nastiness and twistedness. She is unique and a strong woman living in a mans business is really the only woman in charge in the game.

I do like the romantic aspects that you can build with the women who are quite interesting for the most part. The main problem for me is that the MC is all over the place and is ether a complete degenerate or and big ball of feel sorry for me and I am not good enough. Very hard to relate to.

I like that this is one of the most obvious games for NTR that does not actually have NTR which I am thankful for as those games are not for me. I understand that people love them and I am not going to knock games for having them. I just move to the next one. This game is also not a harem game despite having some of the elements there. That is wonderful as its hard to find games on here where you have to pick one girl or 2 it seems with this one in some scenarios.

It is a good game that is worth playing that has a unique albeit slightly twisted story. The main problem is the MC and to be fair most of the men in the game.

Simply oustanding!!!

Great Story and great visuals, especially for what I think is a Honey Select based graphic engine.

The storytelling is outstanding.. The girls are all interesting and smoking hot.
and there is a LOT of story.. took me two days to get to the current end... and I need to play though again as I think I missed a lot of content from the "Memories" tab.

I have only 1 complaint.. ALL the girls have big boobs! I'm a small to medium breast man myself.

other than that this story is simply one of the best i've seen. Love the concept.

Ch.4 Up.6 EA

Story does balance well the anticipation for the future events and constantly giving interesting scenes. It has perfect setting for those craving for more perverted sex scenes.
Great conversation system makes it fun trying to find perfect route. The system, with its complexity, mirrors reality really well. But the labyrinth of choices makes it really easy to find yourself in nonoptional route.

Writing is superb. Characters are 90% relatable, but have that special 10% to make them larger than life. Writing does build characters with nice slow pace and also uses these well crafted characters really well in sex scenes. In later updates the good guy route does feel more natural in "lets all be friends" conversations.

Visually game is ok. Camera angles are telling the story perfectly. Some sex scenes look good and with great writing, they are really fun to watch.
But I personally dislike the cloned anime face/body that every woman has. Only difference is minor adjustments on body sliders and hair/clothes. Women just lack distinct structural visual traits and that does reduce their individuality. Fat cow tits MILF ≈ young perky teen, pretty much same body.

Played C4U6 and loved it. Came for the hot ladies and sex scenes, stayed for some genuinely impressive characterisation.

Author/creator understands in a way that very few adult games do that intimacy is more than purely physical, and puts that into action in the plot several times very effectively.

The renders and technical foundations of the game are good or great, but quite a few games meet that kind of bar. Pale Carnations quite definitely deserves a standout 5/5 from me for shooting past it with some thoughtful and creative writing that enhances the sex brilliantly.

First things first, this game is great.
Been looking forward to every update and they´ve rly earned a good review.
If you like the overview, you´d most likely love it. I was pretty sceptical, sounded too dark for my liking, but theres a suprising amount of more lovey dovey stuff inside this than you´d imagine from a dark, influencing brothel.
The story is well done. Characters are great, i don´t like all of them, but that makes the story even more engaging. They all feel like ppl with goals and not everything they tell you might be true. Choices actually matter (way more than just the usual wanna see the scene or nah).
The scenes are well done.
Pacing is great, esp considering how big this game is getting.
I worry a bit about connecting all the dots for all the routes, ofc that tends to pile up more and more work. But these guys delivered every damn time so far.
Great job devs, in case you ever read this. This is incredibly good.
Give it a try if you arent sure, the club will get it´s claws into you. It always does.

Here we are again. New update and I once again find myself sitting with a dumb grin for hours staring at the screen of my old trusty tablet. I'm gonna be honest. I've played a LOT of games on this site. I've seen a lot of great renders and read a lot of great books, but this game... It is UNIQUE. I first tried it some years ago, and I remember not thinking much of it back then. I remember carelessly skimming through it, skipping some passages. On the next day I was back to my everyday life, barely remembering it. Like yeah, it had a solid starting point, clearly crafted with love and passion, etc... But man did it pick up over the years. With each consecutive update I would come back just to be surprised at how well it was done.

You know how it is. When you expect something great from things, they rarely fulfill expectations. Not this game. Every new update was a rollercoaster of emotions. I don't think there was a single time I walked away disappointed. And this last one is absolute peak.

I could write a lot of praise for this game. Like how characters actually feel like real people. How well writer understands human nature. How carefully crafted the maps are. How every animation feels unique and alive... But since devs actually read reviews I'll stop here. To the devs: don't get too full of yourselves. Please just keep working hard and let the success come to you.

This is undoubtedly the best AVN ever created. This game is what would happen if Stanley Kubrick and Dostoyevsky decided to make porn. I just hope I will survive long enough to witness its completion.

P.S. Yeah, English is not my first language if you haven't guessed, I hope I didn't sound like chatGPT.

TLDR: just download this fucking game and pay the devs.

I will start where it should ends
i think it's a matter of taste.

I skipped the sadist parts, it was too much for me
At the beginning of this journey i didnt care about them...
Bul later i felt the suffering. or it was something else?
I realy understand them now. (do i?)
Very sad story that makes u feel something

who are you?

There's something off with this game that just doesn't click on me. Could be the expressions of the characters, or how I just didn't feel any connection to the MC, or the way that the dialogue proceeds all the time with 3-2-1 dots. I just couldn't bring myself in playing it for more than an hour

The graphics in this game are simply excellent, exactly what I needed, no more, no less. The female characters are very sexy and beautiful. Their facial expressions deserve special attention. The sex scenes... Excellent. For me, they're the best. The plot is interesting, and that's all you need. Although I should note that the text itself is very well written, unlike most porn novels. The characters are well-developed; I really felt like I was in their shoes while playing. The concept itself is very cool, unusual, and the developers realize it well. I give this game a 10/10, I'm really looking forward to new updates!

For a porn game, this is really good. The character development of the MC is well done, from innocent to brutal, really well conveyed in my opinion. The NPC development is also felt. Each character has a backstory.

The models are good, and the intention is really felt. As far as I've played this kind of game, this is the best. Even the NPCs are good, there are no bad characters.

The animation is also okay, although basic, it's nice to look at. It's just lacking a little bit of VA to make it perfect.

As for route selection, there are actually pros and cons. The plus is that you can truly explore as you please, whether you want to go here or there, it's up to you. But for me, that's actually a minus. I'm confused about unlocking 100% of the scenes in this game because it's too complicated, almost all the scenes are connected from top to bottom.

In a game about whores I was hoping to see proper lewd sex with gangbangs, DP, etc. but no it's all mostly vanilla vaginal and 2 anal scenes. Lots of negatives, such as outdated models, overly verbose writing, blueballing, convoluted paths and more.

Positives:

• Animations. Pretty high quantity but low quality (limitations of Honey Select).
• Cum scenes and the liquids look relatively good and dirty.
• Anal (but only 2 scenes in my playthrough)
• During sex scenes the dirty talk is hot (on the "corruption" path). About sluttiness, rough sex, degrading, using the girls. (Except for the stupid and unusual "sounds" that are written out. Such as "Heut! Hat!")
• Options for degrading or encouraging the girls.
• Dialogue choices, some depending on your traits/stats and some leading to changes in stats, relationships.
• Public use. But I only like this if the MC is in control, participates, makes the girl do it, so it's often not good here.
• Recording and photographing the girls getting fucked.
• Mina and Hana (despite the tattoos) are pretty hot (within limits of Honey Select).
• Good deepthroat. Outstanding facefuck of Hana, including roleplay.
• MMF threesome. But no DP, not even anal, such a missed opportunity.

Negatives:

• Blueballing!
• Character models and other art is poor, outdated. It's Honey Select so the quality is low anyway but the devs have also made these models with a bit weird proportions (e.g. too tall, ridiculously wide hips, huge legs, small head).
• Consequences of choices are not clear, might blindside you. E.g. suddenly another dude is kissing and fondling your girl.
• The proportion of sex for the MC is low compared to the length of the game and the huge amount of text.
• Must watch several of the girls get fucked, covered in cum etc. by a lot of guys (and a girl). Technically it's not NTR but still a turn-off. (Sharing should be including and under control of MC.)
• Most of the girls have unattractive personalities. There's the cheating and secretely sad slut, the depressed and desperate cheating housewife, the depressed and desperate bodybuilder, and the depressed and desperate bartender. There's also the comic-book villain evil pimp woman. And all these girls try to manipulate the MC for their own gain.
• Too much text. Uninteresting, verbose.
• MC looks stupid.
• MC is stupid. When girls throw themselves at him he keeps questioning why, basically trying to convince them to not date him.
• Route progression convoluted. Even with the walkthrough it's maze-like.
• Unavoidable Femdom. Several times you even get tied up. Handcuffed. It's annoying.
• Too many girls with enormous tits. Sometimes saggy.
• Muscular amazonian woman that tries to dominate and talk down to MC.
• No polyamory, just cheating.
• Game essentially ignores your choices sometimes. E.g. when in an event choosing to be dominant and sadistic the game still makes the MC submissive and licking Veronica the muscled girl.
• MCs dialogue is often the opposite of what I feel. E.g. MC is asked if he thinks a girl is hot. I don't. But the game doesn't give you any choice and instead responds with "yes she's hot".
• Hairy pussies on most girls.
• The dicks look weird.
• Writing is overly flowery, pretentious.
• Mina, one of the few nice girls, is already dating MC's best friend. So pursuing her means getting sloppy seconds from your friend and being disloyal.
• Felicia is already a huge slut, voluntary whore, that casually and constantly cheats on her husband with many guys. I find it unattractive because I want the MC to corrupt her instead of being the 100th guy to get a piece.
• UI is worse then standard Renpy UI. E.g. it takes 4-5 clicks to save the game. Settings are unclear since the devs removed text labels.
• The mom already did porn (for the thrill and for money), got fucked by a lot of dudes. Not an attractive backstory for an LI. Oh hang on, turns out you can't fuck the mom in any case. We just keep having to see her getting fucked by other guys over and over and it's unavoidable.
• Most of the women are old, 35 to 55.
• Anime ahego faces.
• The color grading is "off", everything looks a bit bronze-colored and washed out.
• Talking bullshit and bad jokes during sex scenes.
• Too much lesbian content.
• Again: Blueballing! Which is extra annoying in a game where several girls act like sluts (with other men) from the start.

Highly recommended! Especially if you are a fan of Eternum and this kind of visual

Of the advantages:
- High-quality and interesting story.
- All the girls are great!!!
- The characters are so well-developed that I literally got into every girl and each one has its advantages.
- Great storyline, not boring with an original approach.
- There are a lot of sex scenes that are unusual and common. Each with its own uniqueness, there are no repetitive scenes.
- A choice that really affects the course of the plot, which is often put before you as a player.

Minuses:
- I personally didn't get too many MC's "thoughts" during the sex scenes. Sometimes it's a ton of unnecessary text, although it could have been put into a more concise summary. Maybe it will be a plus for someone. But it seemed to me that sometimes it was too overloaded. That's why you get tired of reading this water.

This game is a gem and the only down side is that it is incomplete and I wish it kept going from where the update ended, and went more extreme to some of the "darker" paths and followed it out. That said, the art, story, and options just keep building and I love the variety of choices. Wish there was a way to see more of the gallary after you are at the end of the update though since the game is so long.

Firstly, if you like me started this game and got weirded out with the MC's mother, continue playing. The game will challenge you if that is right or wrong. It will make you reflect on your choices and how far you're willing go

This is the first if not the only game that I don't want incest content. (I cry a little when Victoria's scenes play)

Pros:

1. Story: The best if not the greatest form of storytelling. Choices are remembered, if you don't coerce someone into having sex they will remember and the dialogue will change. If you decide to be reassuring or cold hearted, it will change how the characters act around you.
2. H scenes: All of them are animated and given equal amounts of attention. They're never half assed. A lot of passion put into each and every one.
3. Characters: They all feel "real". They have their own lives and backstories for why they're there. It's your decision if you sympathize with them or not. If you want to exploit them with empty promises or if you remain sympathetic.

Cons:

1. It's Not Completed
2. Occasionally choices sometimes have you only choose only 1 (Mod let's you change that so you don't miss out... the mod is great as it tries to make the fact you're technically cheating the game work by adding it's own small dialogue )

Wow. Just WOW. I'm new to playing AVNs and have played a couple of the higher-rated games to start me off, but THIS game is different. The story is surprisingly amazing, and the characters are not only hot and unique but also intriguing. Choices are plentiful and actually change outcomes, unlike some other AVNs. I really feel like I'm the MC irl, finding new kinks I've never thought turned me on before lol. I'm so blown away that this game made me create my first review on an AVN. Sucks that it's still unfinished, but they are cooking something special with this one. If you want an interesting story with beautiful chicks (MILFs included) and kinks galore, this is for you.

I finally got around to playing Pale Carnations, and wow… it’s seriously good. I was skeptical at first, but it turned out to be one of the best visual novels I’ve played in ages. This isn’t your typical “porn game with some words around it.” The story is intense you’re a stressed-out pre-med student who gets dragged by an old friend into this luxurious, high-stakes brothel, and nothing about it plays out how you’d expect.

You play as Edwin, and stepping into the Carnation Club feels like being dropped into a velvet-lined shark tank. It’s not just “pick girl, get scene”, every woman there has a backstory, motives, and layers you peel back over time. Rosalind’s desperate single mom struggles feel completely different from Veronica’s pride-driven athlete arc, and Felicia’s trapped trophy wife situation is its own brand of tragic. The more you interact, the more your perspective shifts, and it makes the whole experience way more engaging.

The best part? Your choices actually matter. You can lean into Edwin’s darker side, stay mostly decent, or dance around in that morally gray middle ground, and people will remember. Characters react to you differently, relationships shift, and story paths open or close depending on what you do. Even the side characters feel fleshed out and real. The writing is razor-sharp witty, tense, sometimes brutal, but never boring.

For a game built in Honey Select, the visuals are top-tier. The models look great, animations are smooth, lighting is spot-on, and the music nails the atmosphere. Updates consistently bring new scenes, artwork, animations, and overall polish with each release. It’s still in development, but the quality so far makes the wait more than worth it.

If you want a VN that’s hot and makes you think, this is it. Just be ready for some moral whiplash… and maybe a little self-reflection about what you’d do in a place like the Carnation Club.