VN - Ren'Py - Peace of Mind: Watcher's Eye [Prologue Day 3] [Silent J Games]

A simple harem game that knows what it's doing and delivers, even if it's not perfect, like the level of renders could be better in 2025, but the positives outweigh this by a lot.

Bonus points for being a true harem and not joining the trend of "All LI are secretly lesbian"/polyamory that is plaguing most harem games nowadays. So it's great to see the heterosexual characters act realistic instead of being forced to turn gay for le porn plot.

Likeable MC that actually earns his harem , likeable and hot LIs that only have eyes for him, the story is serviceable, overall a good time, excited to see more of it.

⭐ Five stars. Not for the plot. Not for the gameplay. Not for the visuals. For the humiliation.

This game doesn’t just break the fourth wall...it bulldozes it, builds a stage, and invites the developer to roast you in front of a live audience. Every time you pick the “obviously bad” choice (because curiosity is a disease), the dev swoops in like a disappointed parent with a PhD in sarcasm. You’re not just wrong...you’re ceremonially shamed. And it’s brilliant.

Gameplay, plot, and renders? They exist.

They’re fine. Functional. Respectable. Like the side salad you didn’t order but eat anyway. The real entrée here is the humour...self-aware, biting, and gloriously petty. I’m not here for the story arcs or adult content. I’m here to be judged, mocked, and laughed at by a developer who clearly needs therapy and chose game design instead.

Constructive feedback (because apparently that’s a thing):

Double down on the comedy. Make the roast sessions longer. Add a scoreboard for “bad choices made.” Maybe even a courtroom-style cross-examination when we mess up. The humour is your crown jewel...don’t bury it under plot or polish. Let it shine like the passive-aggressive spotlight it is.

Closing thought:

This game taught me two things: never trust my instincts, and always enjoy being wrong in style.

This game is so much worth it and this is how the harem games should be made. This should become a norm for so called "harem devs". MFF can be without girl--on-girl, and that is not the crime if girls are not into lesbian fun. It's nice to see girls in this game creating awareness about the ground reality of MFF sex, rather than following the male fantasy in porn. I hope dev keep those lines by withstanding the pressures. Thanks dev for developing this game and creating awareness about some so called "norms" in porn/AVN zone.

And some people negatively reviewing it are just showing their personal hate towards Non-Lesbain MFF action. Nothing more than it. The story, renders, girls are so good and the mystery elements too. It's gonna worth it.

MC and crew are not dumb. Seems he and his compatriot are both actually prepared for bad guys and have experience dealing with them.

Women who are actually heterosexual is a giant win.

No pointless and endless dialogue during sex scenes. It's actually at a pace, style, and quantity I find more "realistic" and far less annoying and obtrusive than in other AVN's.

Choices for things like "anal sex" or "no anal sex" is a huge positive. People are probably going to want more choices, but I was fine with how things were for the most part so I have no complaints.

Dream sequences that mean something and don't waste our time. They drive the story and character development forward. Win.

Almost no annoying personality cliche's that you see in so many AVN's. Women feel distinct but not exaggerated into caricature. Except maybe Lacey, she kinda fits the "hot and daring Aunt who's not afraid to say what's on her mind" role you see in so many AVN's. But it's not to an annoying degree. And of course she's not an Auntie.

I think all the women are attractive.

You've got some serious motivation for a harem, the guy saves lives and protects. It's not, of course, 100% realistic or anything but it's more plausible than "we want him just because" or whatever.

I like that the dude is modest, intelligent, and strong. The women give him shit for his quiet personality but he isn't meek. It's a tiny bit exaggerated, his personality, but it's not annoying.

The sex scenes are not at the top of the scale. BUT, they are inventive and a turn-on. Especially that last one. Good job, though there's room for improvement.

I'm a little worried that there's too many girls, but you seem to be working hard at fleshing them all out so maybe it won't be overwhelming.

Oh, one other positive thing. The pacing is great. There's no poor excuses for "edging" the audience. No waiting until next episode after they've had a blowjob or kissed or whatever. It just goes straight to sex, like what normal people do.

Review of Prologue Day 3

- Loved the graphics. There's nothing I could see to point out.
- The ambient sounds and the music was appropriate and not distracting.
- The story is well written.
- The pacing so far is excellent.
- I have but one less positive comment to do: There's too much mystery. I understand that this is but the Prologue, but, there's too much history with Judy's daughters, their father, MC's Father, Sister and Mother... too much that is being delayed and obfuscated and teased and not told... I finished this update satisfied with the last scene but irritated by the "mystery".

Another thing, I understand your POV about the girls not being with each other, I don't like it one bit, but I understand it. That whole "mansplaining" wasn't needed.

I was ready to give this a 5 out of 5. That "mansplaining" reduces it to a 4. If it continues, I'll drop it lower.

I enjoyed the dark and light aspect of the story telling. especially with the sprinkling of jokes and social awkwardness. while a short into to the AVN it gave me enough of the warm and fuzzy to subscribe to them. The only critic I currently have is that a line or two did not have the correct sentence structure. A positive was the MC body/face is different from other MCs that I have watched/read before/recently. I can't wait to see how this story unfolds.

This is a very promising AVN!
1) Good story
2) Hot women + Harem
3) Good old "Family" fun!

The story is not new, but it has enough in it to keep you wanting more. Surprisingly both parents are alive, but don't deserve to be.
The choices are basic and that pleases me greatly! Do NOT forget the code for naughty stuff (It's in the OP)
I am wondering how many women we will have to choose from in the end. We already have 2 hotties at home, 4 next door & 2 gorgeous "Detectives". We need at least 4 more to make a dozen!
Thankfully we have an MC who is not afraid to go down on his women, I don't know if those scenes are hard to pose or people are just scared .
Hopefully the updates will continue at a good pace. Thank you!

I liked it and recommend it.

Here we really have a story, I didn't had to skip anything, although the dialogue has some problems.

I didn't find any of the characters attractive and the renders are of average quality, but the fact that it has a story makes up for it.

Ashley, the only character I found attractive at the beginning of the game, was changed on the second day, and I no longer find her attractive, I didn't like that, she literally changed overnight, the dev added dialogue that she changed her hair, but she's a different person.

We're still in the prologue, a lot can happen and change, but for now I can say that I recommend it.

PROS
+ MC has kind of unique, and decent design, especially considering he is not a weak looking teenage boy, and actually a guy with some muscle, etc.

CONS
- Story & dialogues feels bit fake, kind of robotic, and poorly-written, ''bit'' is the key word here, it's average at best, and bellow average if I should talk realisticly, still I have seen worse, and considering this is the first game of the developer I guess it's kind of expected.
- Most character designs looks kind of bad, and outdated, some looks good, but general art style of character models is not good to be honest.
- Facial expressions of characters looks bit weird, and unatractive for no reason.
- Animations has some texture bugs like some textures (hair for example) going inside of other textures, etc. Their quality & physics are nothing more than average either, they are not terrible, but not good either.
- Placement of the text, font, and the size looks bit cheap/bad, centering into bottom of the screen, using different font, and making it smaller than current size would be pretty good idea.
- The game is using italic text as thinking, and shouting, but that looks bad, and confusing, using pranthesis is far better idea.
- Needing to activate NSFW mod in adult VN is quite weird, even you are going to add NSFW, and SFW mods to the game it should be handled by choice you give the players at the start of the game, not by players needing to write certain code while naming their characters.
- Your choices doesn't matter, like the literally first choice of the game given you being about forcing you to choice one of them with developer breaking the 4th wall, and saying you are s*ck for not helping woman in need, etc, BRUH.

VERDICT
Honestly this game has nothing unique, or exceptional, and does most stuff quite poorly, maybe it will become better game later on, but for now I would suggest skipping.

VERSION: Day 2
SUMMARY: Pretty decent game!
RATINGS: (out of 5): REVIEW ON GOING

1. Models:4
2. Animations: 3
3. General Visuals: 4
4. Characters: 4
5. Story: 4
6. Writing: 4
7. UI & Gameplay: 4
8. Content (amount): 3
9. Sound & Music: 4
10. Fetish & kinks: NA (depends on relationship setting too)

Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars.

PROS: FULL DISCLOSURE, I DID NOT READ THE DEV NOTES UNTIL AFTER THIS REVIEW

1. Models are not bad looking at all, LIs are not overly beautiful, but still, you get some striking LIs, but I assume this is also to create variation, which is good. Importantly the MC does look good also with some ruggedness that makes him more manly.
2. Sounds are good, music is OK, but the extra sound effects are a good addition, nice to see the dev actually fit the music to the scene.
3. Animations are decent, not great or awesome, but solid, especially for a lone developer.
4. Writing is good, it reads well, flows and is structured well. The dialogue is also not bloated or a chore to get through nor filled with too much mindless drivel, its natural.
5. Story is interesting but not unique exactly, still our MC has the whole tall dark and handsome (and mysterious) shtick down well. This makes him interesting not just to the player but the LIs who already pick up on this.
6. Able to adjust relationships is a nice feature.

CONS:

1. NSFW version is a little weird to have for an adult VN...but ok...
2. Adjusting the LIs relationship does have a way of biting you in the ass later on, simply because it kinda setup to work in a particular way. e.g. you can stick to counselor and her daughters being your friend or you can go what I assume is the incest route left open on purpose. However it is specific and I believe its intended to be Aunt and Cousin as this fits the dialogue I have seen so far the best.
3. While sounds and music are good, fit the scenes, like shower scene well, its unfortunate that there are no lewd sounds. Just saying...

FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS:

• While I like being able to adjust the relationships, there may need a little more refinement in steering the way the player punches in their criteria as it may require replay later if they enter the wrong kind of relationship.
• The NSFW code is a little jarring to me, at least how its enabled, I would opt for an option in the game settings or simply provide a script that works throughout that the player can place in the game director to enable adjusting relationships. This is a more deliberate act to change the relationships which I find better as I completely forgot about the code and had to restart to enable it.
• Per above point, being able to change said relationships after they are set can also be a good idea to at least prevent reloading to the point where it was initially set. As I said, players can make the mistake of missing the code or picking a relationship that doesn't work with the dialogue that follows later.
• A minor gripe, but the content is a bit little, there is not a good deal of content in these 2 days, not bad either but...also I am not a big fan of using days 1,2,3 etc. for tracking chapters, if that is the case, simply because not much can happen realistically in days, using later or 2 weeks later are better or simply chapter one and two without reference to a particular flow of time gives you more way to "hide" progression with LIs especially when you introduce physical changes like e.g weight loss/gain, age change, pregnancy development etc.

Overall a good start and solid in almost every respect, I have high hopes for this one.

Not bad, considering it's the dev's first attempt.

LIs are pretty good-looking, and the current LIs corrupting and persuading other girls into the harem is a nice kink. The story seems reasonably intriguing, although since not that much has been revealed yet, we don't really know how it will turn out in the end.

Music is alright, nothing outstanding but it does its job.

Content is a bit less, but I'd give it another update or two, before judging that.

Also, good to see a game deviate from the usual, 'your dad died, now screw your mother and sisters'

I don't want to hurt Dev, but I will be completely honest. Firstly, objectively speaking, there is absolutely nothing worth 5 stars; any other 5-star review is left by the same people, who rate any garbage game on this site as absolutely fantastic games. The only nice things for me were Lacey's model and visuals quality, not great or absolutely the best, but nice.

Now, why 1 star? Writing here is absolutely horrible. Dev, don't take it too close to heart, but Jesus F. Christ, I think this game has the worst writing from what I played in 2025. All character interactions, dialogues, and behaviors are fake and cringe as fuck. I felt sincerely awkward reading this extremely low-quality writing. It's clear that Dev doesn't have any writing talent, or at least experience, and wrote the story without second thoughts and trying to learn beforehand how to write a simple script. The whole story, characters, and their behavior felt very lame and wrong, with a strong feeling of uncanny valley, as if it was written by very outdated AI that had its first try to understand human culture and behavior.

An example is not to be unfounded in my words. MC came to the neighbor's for dinner and after they entered the house; they stayed and talked at the very entrance about mundane shit, and then just like that, there was a sudden soul-opening with a heavy topic and sudden tears between strangers who didn't even know each other yesterday. They didn't go to the table or couch for conversations like normal humans and just stood during all this at the entrance, while the host's daughters stayed observing this lame interaction in the clear visibility of guests, but instead of introducing themselves to guests, they stayed still like NPCs waiting for their script to trigger after ending of this unnatural and awkward dialog.

And the same dumb, illogical, and unnatural things happen literally every single moment of this game. Characters casually talking out of nowhere with each other without greeting first, because the dev forgot or didn't care that they weren't acquainted with each other. Scene surroundings are fake too; table papers under plates disappear after serving food on them, silverware is left untouched after eating, and a lot of other things like this are thrown at players all the time, ruining the fake facade of this story without any struggles. "Humor," if we even can call it that, is extremely lame; even if I were 12 years old, I highly doubt that I would even smile at these attempts at joking.

There are no characters and different personalities in this game, only Dev talking with himself from different sides of the metaphorical table.

I get what Dev tries to tell with this story, but the execution is just horrible even by AVN standards.

I guess this is one of those "part time devs". Very little content released on two occasions that weren't very close together.
Regardless, this is going to be a great one. Renders are top notch. Storyline has so far been very carefully and masterfully written. I genuinely can't wait to see more from this dev. If I like what I see from the next release as well I'll probably become a financial backer.

-Interesting game, interesting characters (the girls) especially the daughters , they have very distinct personalities without falling too much into cliché in my opinion.
-I like the MC, maybe too quiet at times, but it's better that way, if you compare it with other MCs who only open their mouths to say crap, so it's better that way.
-All the girls are pretty, although we have at least two more to meet, or three if we count the "aunt".
-For the moment it is what it is, I hope that the story of revenge/justice with his hated “family nucleus” will be good.
To the dad for being a fucking miserable abuser, and to the mom and sister for not caring and allowing the abuse.

-Be smart and read the dev notes, don't let it happen to you like many others, who go away thinking stupidly that the game has no sex scenes.

Tech Demo

There's potential here. A backdrop has been set and some decent characters introduced.

Not much sex yet (which I missed the first time because I didn't read the dev notes), but I'm looking forward to what will come because of the cast of characters.

For the "mentor", I went with aunt and cousins. No ipatch needed as you get to pick that.

Not a bad start to a new VN. It's a little rough around the edges, model poses can look a little weird but the girls are attractive enough, the MC isn't a derp and the writing isn't half bad. Hopeful to see where this goes.