Ren'Py - Pill King [v0.25 Remaster] [Effx Games]

Good Points
+ Sex scenes are animated and animation physics are not bad.

Bad Points
- Grammar is not the strongest suit of the developer it seems, because there are lots of grammar issues in the game, and they are making the story even weaker than it is. Proofreading and better translation are needed for sure.
- Dialogues are not really well-written.
The story is kind of boring.
- The placement of textbox and text looks weird and kind of makes hard to read.
- Thanks to the developer trying to imitate characters faces with certain people they look emotionless and robotic, and that alone makes all sexual content the game boring and unattractive.
- It's a sandbox with no handholding at all.
- MC is not really likable.
- The game is quite grindy.

For The End
The game tries to do a kind of unique thing, but it fails quite harshly.

I would say they was potential, but the face of personage are so "conditioned" to be like known person you Have no real expression.
Also the story is quite flat and the "explanation of his job is just ridiculous".
Finally the sandbox is horrible where you literally have to "work" to play, I play to pass time I already have a real work thanks

The concept is alright and all girls looks beautiful but have flat, almost zero expression. I didn't realize it until now but this really turn me off. I can't enjoy the game or the sex scenes cause the weird almost nonexistent facial expression. maybe other people can still enjoy it, but this is not for me.

[v0.23]

It has potential. But right now its a nice looking candy that tastes like paper. There are just a few sex scenes that are heavily conditioned to trigger.

Most of the time you will have to read the walktrough, grind for money and buy coffee for everyone. This kind of "gameplay" is boring and unnecessary, its only purpose is to waste a few hours of your life before you get to the sex scenes.

Pros:

+ Models are great! Best faces and hottest girls I've seen in a video game.

+ Simple short dialogs, easy to read through any scene.

Cons:

- Every action should be checked in walkthough. There are no hints in dialogs, what you should do next. You have to follow the walkthough or keep walking randomly without any progress.

- More vouyerism than sex. Dev made a ton of opportunities to stealthily watch some girl doing anything around the house, but the same girl has just 1 condition to have sex with her once a week.

- Jerking off in a shower. Another disappointing game mechanic. Instead of having actual sex, MC is imagining he has sex with someone. Thank god, there are no images of MC playing with his dick.

- MC is a toy of his boss. He's not in control of what happens to him. Personally I hate this kind of plot. I wanted to break her neck when she starts manipulating MC. I dont care how hot she is, if she is practically killing MC with her mistakes and manipulations.

I love this game. Because of the updates, I 'had' to play it for the third time - and I'm really in love with the girls! Sarah and the other girls are sooo pretty! I don't think I've ever seen such enchanting actresses in a game. I really want to sit down at the table with them to eat, talk and laugh. Unbelievable. But now comes the 'but': the animations of a blowjob, for example, are very sobering. I was looking forward to the physical contact between the protagonist and Sarah, but this degenerated into a strange-looking exercise. Here the game lacks the credibility and magic that the characters convey when no sexual acts or movements are shown. One exception is the scene of Sarah with David: Wow, just wow. Here the tingling eroticism is created by Sarah's hot (in this case very large) breasts and pretty face - not by the couple's crazy positions. The girls with small or 'normal' breasts all look great - all dream women - as long as they don't move.

im not sure what the "game is too grindy" reviews are about. im just going to assume the game used to be way grindier and was updated. you can easily max all of your skills in a couple minutes if you wanted to by just going to work, skipping a day then repeating.

the pacing is good, the scenes solid, the models are pretty good albeit a little odd looking at times, and theres a good amount of small chested girls which is nice.

my only complaint would be that the graphics are a bit grainy

This has POTENTIAL the concept is good. Everything else is MEH to bad.

The worse thing is the GRIND, the asinine navigation system to try and pick the next step to continue the story. Grind repeatedly the same content over and over and over again until something new happens.

I usually like to finish a game before rating it, but this was such a bloody chore I gave up after 3-4 hours. I just can't take anymore.

The renders are OK, the Wife render is good, the boss (Morgan or whatever her name is) was good, Ashley was Ok, The rest are not great, facial expressions are wooden and there body types are mannequin like and so very fake looking.

It's a shame because I would like to know where the story is going and the writing seems solid, but the horrible grind killed it and I can't take anymore.

I'm a fan of your games. You created the characters beautifully. and has a story that is easy and accessible to everyone Thank you for spending your valuable time creating games for us. And I hope you will continue to make it to the end completely. Thank you.

This game would easily be a solid 4 or perhaps a 5 if the game didn't have fundamental errors in the game mechanics regarding progression.

I don't mind grinding if it has a purpose and mean anything.
Money sure, to buy stuff or otherwise or stats with the women.
In this game you grind money to train how to pick locks and sneak perv, different levels for some different time of day and when it comes to sex you lose points when sex is initiated by a woman so you have to grind the stats again...
The time of day is also an issue, you miss an opportunity one day and you have to wait sometime another in game week to try again. The worst being the "masturbate to x woman" you have one go at this per week and there are a lot of women!

The renders are good but the women doesn't have any expressions and by standards of today the animations aren't that great either. The animations are too short basically.

The game if the failing mechanics are changed would be great as the other parts of the game has potential.

v0.20

pros:
- the models are excellent
- the gui is decently designed

cons:
everything else:
- while the models are excellent, their facial expressions don't change. ever. wax statues are more emotive

- the animations are substandard, low effort loops.

- the game loop itself is exceptionally grindy and repetitive (even with cheats). you either have to check the ingame spoilers constantly or have a timetable written out next to the "game". else you miss any form of "progress"

- there is little agency, everything is strictly on rails, but if you blink, you miss it and have to slog through another ingame week to have another go

- way more voyeurism than being involved in any tittilating activities

Very nice game , all contents and tags are present and that makes me really happy compared to the other developers here.


Currently slightly unhappy with the pace of the story but that can be fixed later on and excused right now of character buildup

Hoping to see faster releases!!

The characters are very attractive, and the adult content that exists is above average. That said, this is definitely following the usual obnoxious development cycle for hentai Renpy games.

We are six months in, and there is basically no sex yet...like one HJ and one BJ and the usual boring voyeur filler.

In another 6 months we might finally get to a bit more BJ content and maybe the first actual sex scene...with a secondary character. But it will be 2-3 years before most of the characters have completed sex scenes.

I kind of like this game. The girls are very beutiful and the mechanism is easy to understand. Hints are easy to follow even if the green or yellow sign not always show correctly if the quest is open or done.
Would have got a 4 or even 5 if it was not for the hopeless grinding.

It's not a terrible VN but damn is it grindy, I mean not only do we have to go to work dozens of time to get the $$ to buy the "perks" and pills but we also have to study the perks 3 times just to learn them.... I mean I wouldnt mind once but 3 times after I just got done having to pick 5 pills 12+ times over 12+ days to make $10 each time is a bit much.
I like the models and their faces are top notch but the grind just kills it for me, they need to add a VN mode or something for those of us that do not want to spend 90% of their time playing just grinding to progress

+ Amazing models. This AI renders of popular celebrities look gorgeous. I wish the dev utilised the art better.
+ The sandbox interface is not bad. Pretty simple and intuitive.

- Dumb and poorly constructed dialogues.
- Monotonous grindfest even for a sandbox game
- Story is 'meh'.
- The interactions with characters are lifeless and boring. There's no expression and no connection with any of them.
- Poor single frame looping animations.

Pill King is a great game with very good looking characters and an interesting plot that keeps the game moving at your own pace. The game doesn't force you do any actions on the characters unless you want to interact with them and just focus on one girl at a time which is a nice way of pacing yourself and not wanting to rush things. I really do like the faces on the characters as they do feel unique to themselves and look "realistic". The animations are also really great and very polished as they are smooth animations that don't really have that "stuttering" feel when they move. Overall, I give the game an 5/5 stars.

Absolutely love this game, very nice visuals, characters are sexy, nothing too big in terms of body proportions and Sarah is absolutely stunning!
Very early in its development, but still some great content to see and even a guide and cheats so the grind isn't something that turns you off the game too xx

review based on 0.16 version
PRO:
- good cg
- good interface
- hints to scenes/quests included
NEUTRAL:
- looks like dev is russian- labels, remarks etc. i mean- i dnt ask german translation(no miracles in this world), but plz just place russian translation. btw some phrases looks like translated directly from russian(no idea how natural it sounds at eng)
- lack adult content. its not bad, just early development stage, but read carefuly game tags
CONS:
- terrible timesystem, i mean digits in str... yes, it works(for now), but it ll bring solid bugs amount in future
- 1 scene not correctly listed in hint menu- sarah weekednd night pool (i mean- sarah marked "done", but that scene(mem_sarah_2_com) in galery not opened)

actyaly, my "inner" rating was 4.5 , then flip a coin- kopf, so 4.

The games on this platform thrive on awesome scenes. And this game has one of the hottest ever with the mother's bedroom scene. The dramaturgy is also really well realized with the literally closed door and the repeated attempts, in which you always get a little further until you achieve greater success.

I don't even care about grinding, a less than optimal UI, etc. If I want to invest time and click work for such great scenes (not have to, but want to), then a game is doing everything right for me. And that's the case with this game.

Amazing renders. Terrible game. - Kinetic novel disguised as a sandbox game. This game is a horribly slow burn. It might not have been as bad if I didn't experience bugs that made me have to repeat events to progress the story.