Ren'Py - Completed - Porn and Cards [v1.0] [OPT Studio/Salty01]

TL/DR: Finely crafted, but not fun. I found myself excited about the premise, but disappointed in the creative / game-design choices. For me it was a story of "they had me in the first half." Time sink game. Not worth it.

++ YAY, FINALLY A GAME WERE YOU CAN PLAY AS A BIG COW MAN.....
-- Boooooooo, he has an average sized human willy... I get the choice to make his tool human, as the bluenoses on Patreon don't like monster bits and will defund you- but it looks comically small on that big ass Minotaur frame.

++ YAY, AN ACTUAL CARD GAME.
--- Booooooooo, it is overly simple, extremely easy, grindy, and repetitive. Emphasis on repetitive. Repetitive, repetitive, repetitive.... repetitive. Yes, THAT repetitive (or more).

++ Yay, super beautiful art! Girls look amazing
-- Booooo, not many scenes / scenes were short.

-- Story is lame.
-- It tried to be funny. It was not funny.

From what I can see, it is a fun game however, it just crashes constantly on my AMD PC after Tess gets a delivery.

Oh well, worth a go, especially if you're not running AMD build I guess. Tried factory reset and driver install.

PS. 5/5 the only flaw is this game is not for no-brainers so you must push yourself

a turn based card game yet devs literally squeeze the game mechanics until the last juice comes out.
its not a game you can simply force your way out and if you have no skill on strategy games or card games, STAY AWAY FROM THE GAME you cannot go much further after the prologue.

if you are good at card games then you better be ready bkz this game is a DAMN GEM you wont regret it

A great game, good animation, good writing and a hard difficulty. 10/10 was kind of sad when I beat it. I cannot wait for the next season of Once a porn a time. And sorry, this little bit is just filler since it will not let me put under two hundred characters.

First things first: minotaur with a human dick is an absolutely insane choice for a protagonist in a game that isn't explicitly catering to furries.

Anyways, I wavered on whether to give this 3 or 4 stars. Ultimately, I think that if you haven't played the developer's previous works then this title loses a lot of appeal. This game is largely a side story meant to bridge the gap between Once a Porn a Time 2 and 3 and doesn't quite stand on its own. If you have played the previous games, then you will probably enjoy the context this game adds to the universe as well as the improved art/gameplay elements to look forward to in their next release.

The game itself is your fairly standard ren'py dialogue simulator broken up with auto battler-style gameplay to advance the plot. You duel each story character a set number of times in increasingly challenging matches, collecting new minions for your deck and equipment for them along the way. Usually there's a (slightly) lewd reward for winning all 3 matches, at which points the story moves forward and new battles become available. Some battles are optional, but the reward of both deck upgrade and porn makes it a bit silly to skip anything. The runtime is fairly short - I took about 5 hours at a fairly leisurely pace, but I could easily see it feeling like a slog if you struggle with the gameplay.

I'd say the difficulty feels a *little* too high for a porn game. I appreciate that you have to be fairly strategic with your deck composition, unit placement, and upgrade choices. The problem is that it's often not the gameplay itself that feels difficult, but the limitations imposed on you by the developer. A non-exhaustive list of issues include:

• The currency used to buy equipment for your cards is both scarce and finite. Managing your funds and upgrades poorly will make the game exceptionally more challenging. It feels overly punitive for experimentation when the gameplay is fundamentally about trying different cards and strategies
• Compounding the above, equipment upgrades used on each card are permanent until very late in the game. You might get a strong new monster and put your best equipment on it right away, only to unlock stronger gear the very next battle. Eventually you gain the ability to unequip your units, but you are penalized currency for doing so.
• The vendor for the basic equipment disappears midway through the story with no warning. A different vendor appears a few battles later, but they do not sell the previously available gear. The biggest implication of this is that you can never get the best archer gear after the first vendor disappears.

I was already a little exasperated by the modern game dev trope of really doubling down on friction and the weight of decisions, but it feels even more bizarre in a game that fundamentally exists for people to jerk off to. It seems fairly easy to soft-lock your playthrough by mismanaging your meager funds. You do have recourse in that you can turn on the "never lose" mode at any point, but it just feels like sadistic design to me. Even if they didn't want to rebalance the entire economy of the game, adding a repeatable source of currency could have solved almost all these issues for the rare player that wants to fully engage with the gameplay without having to restart.

It's a bit telling that I've written 5 paragraphs and haven't touched on the porn yet. Well, there really isn't a lot and you have to work for it. The game throws you a bone fairly early on via a sex scene with your ostensibly platonic fuck buddy, but it takes a while before you'll woo any of the other characters. I expect most people will take issue with the pacing and ratio of porn to game. I was mostly fine with this because I think anticipation is a really important element for these kinds of games. It's more satisfying for me to finally win over a character, but this might be a minority opinion. I definitely would have liked to see an extra scene for each character at the end.

The game feels really ambitious at the outset with its gameplay and world, but you realize pretty quickly that the entire game exists within the confines of 5 rooms in a mostly deserted town. The scope is waiting to get blown wide open at any moment with the allusions to intergalactic ranking systems and space travel, but then it ends without achieving anything truly impressive. It feels very "cancelled mid-season" in how it wraps up, which is exactly how I felt after their previous game finished too. I had fun with the minigame, I enjoyed the characters, and it made me interested in the next OPT game, but I still came out unsatisfied. I'd love to see a DLC/epilogue/whatever that balances out the gameplay to sex scene ratio a little better. If you're a person who wants a bit of a challenge standing in the way of your JO material and you already like the franchise, then you'll probably like this. Otherwise, I think it lacks the general appeal to really captivate most players.

Porn and Card is honestly a pleasant surprise. It’s one of those rare games on the platform that actually focuses on solid, strategic gameplay instead of just relying on its theme.

The card mechanics are surprisingly deep, with the right balance between challenge and accessibility. It’s easy to get into, but it still makes you think every turn


The humor in the dialogues keeps things light and funny, and the art style is genuinely impressive : clean, colorful, and full of personality. You can tell a lot of care went into the visuals and presentation.

Really nice game. The card battle system is fun enough and simple enough for it to be a good gameplay element without becoming too much for a porn game. I find the characters interesting and the scene are hot. The game is a bit short but that's okay.

Absolute insane game. Great implementation of the card fights. I feel like the only downside of the game are the lewd scenes, since the characters are sort of 2.5D, the animation are a bit simple, but very sexy. Id like to see more static images on the galery, and also adding characters of OPT1 and 2 might be weird if you havent played those previously. Overall great game and very underrated

The game actually has a great design. The visuals, atmosphere, and overall concept show that a lot of effort went into the development. The world looks beautiful, and the mechanics have real potential. However, the main problem is the pacing — everything takes way too long to achieve. Progressing through the missions or upgrading anything feels painfully slow, and without cheat codes, it becomes a serious grind.


You spend hours doing repetitive tasks just to unlock small rewards, and after a while, it stops being fun. It’s not about challenge or skill — it’s simply a matter of wasting time on unnecessary repetition. If there were cheat codes or a faster progression system, the game would actually be enjoyable.


So, while I appreciate the game’s design and potential, I can’t honestly recommend it unless you have a lot of free time to spare. Without cheats or some kind of speed-up option, it just doesn’t feel worth the effort.

missing gameplay, it feels like a low-budget version of chick/cunt war.
the characters have no depth and the fuckable characters only seem to change color and clothing.
It's really hard not to see the style and ideas of other authors used to put together a mere industrial product to generate money, the lack of any purpose or artistic value makes the application itself lose its meaning.

Alright, reviewing this in Update 4, part 2/3 as the game is almost done and I expect not a lot of h-scenes or content anymore for the final part. Porn and Cards is ambitious but never quite hits the mark. It's a short getaway from the corruption/princesses with good moments but just not entirely satisfying.

After the excellent OPT1, Salty tuned the scale all the way up for OPT2 and quickly settled themselves as a solid adult game dev. I felt like OPT 2 was unfinished, the new characters and expansion of lore was great, but after the orgy finale I couldn't help but think about the next phase of the protagonist. That's what bugged me the most about PaC, you're not the same person, but a new character and a minotaur too. I felt really disconnected from the character as it's not the same one I played and fucked around with. Maybe that's just my 'harem' preferences. If my character fucked Snow White in OPT1, I want the same character to fuck Pearl here.

The design, art style and animations of the characters are great, even though the h-scenes are a bit clunky and good use better climax moments. The additions of some voice acting with moans and sighs is a welcome addition too. The cards part of the game is alright, never been an expert on the topic but it's challenging, which is better than just breezing past the gameplay in most visual novels. The problem with a shorter game is that the progression is a bit too linear, -> win get better cards, use them -> win etc. You can't really vary a lot with decks, just put the good cards in and you win 90% of the time. I hope the elements of more deeper gameplay gets transferred into OPT3, that'd be amazing.

Porn and Cards is by no means a masterpiece, but it's a good filler game to get me hyped up to interact with Tinker, Emee and the rest of the crew again.

Good game, only problem being that it doesn't release enough content when the new updates come up. Very fun gameplay and the porn scenes are very good, however. Loved it, Tennessee is my favourite character. I want to see more of her.

I'm giving this one star for a decent art style, and one star for trying to do something kinda unique with the "card" game (which is really more like an auto-chess type of thing, with holographic miniatures). Beyond that, it was not a positive experience for me. There's way too little sexual content for a game with "porn" right in the name. I played for a full hour just to see some titties.

Of course, part of that was probably because of how confused I was by the card game, which doesn't have any instructions beyond the basic concept. It took me a while to notice that the units you place have an extra number (or a skull icon) to indicate how much health they'll have after the turn is resolved with the current setup. By my recollection, that was never stated in the tutorial, and it's a pretty small number right by the normal health number, so it's easy to miss. Once I noticed it, I started paying attention to it during setup so I could strategize accordingly. It didn't really help much, because there was no explanation about what caused those numbers to turn out that way. Right before I came here to write this, I noticed that a unit would be untouched in one position, but would die if I moved it to a position further back. I have no idea why that is, and I frankly don't care enough about the rest of the game to bother asking about it (see the previous point about how little porn there is). Come to think of it, the game is called Porn and Cards, but there's very little porn, and the game-within-a-game is not actually cards, so that title is 0 for 2. A more accurate name for this game (as far as I got into it) would be "holographic miniatures auto-chess and pretty good SFW art."

The other thing I didn't like about this was how there were only a couple opponents you could play against, and there didn't seem to be any way to replay lower difficulty levels to grind for more gear (or money, which could be used to buy gear). That means things are fairly fixed in terms of how good your own squad will be when you're facing each challenge. You can't go kill rats in a basement to level up until you feel more ready to handle the main quest. Hell, you can't even respec the gear you already have without paying. If there's only one match for you at the moment, and you don't feel like your team is ready for it, then your only options are to keep playing that same match over and over again until you figure something out, or just stop playing. I chose the latter.

+ These battles and collecting new cards is very addicting. Some of them are challenging and you need few attempts and better strategy to win. I want more and more of it!
+ western vibe
+ nice music
+ gallery
+ funny moments
+ art style, it really looks amazing
+ animations

- not many lewd scenes. What we already have is also a bit disappointing

Solid avn focused on duels with other characters. Worth a try if you like something like this. 4 stars

Review for Part 2

A decent auto battler with a cast of colorful and quirky characters. You play as a bull-man (with a human dick) in a backwater western-style town working at a burger joint. An opportunity presents itself for the MC to learn this card game despite his misgivings, and with the "influence" of a bossy friend, you're going to use the power of this card game to turn this dingy town into an... amusement park for some reason. Well, your friend wants to and you're just kind of along for the ride I guess.

The gameplay itself has you forming a deck of units that you further enhance with equipment. The plot gives way to a series of incremental card battles with the townsfolk where each win awards you with a new unit or equipment. Honestly there's not a ton of strategy given it's relatively linear and everything just scales as you go, but it's fun enough for what it is. Usually a lewd scene at the end of those battles as well.

It's a bit funny to me that the game leans into a more sexual tone in a lot of moments, but it actually feels rather tame despite that. Kind of like if you only ever played non-lewd games and came across this it would be scandalous, but compared to other lewd games it's on the less carnal side for sure. For example, one of the first scenes is just a girl bathing but all the naughty parts are covered with soap. The MC contributes to that feel I think too, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Just something that stuck out to me.

The art is a definite highlight of the game for sure. Fitting music and all that as well. Wouldn't really call this a romance game? But rather everyone is just horny. Sex scenes themselves are fine and animated but I don't think they'll blow you away either.

If you're into auto battlers I think the game is enjoyable. The idea of Patreon locked content scares me but this is a pirate site after all. Besides that no major complaints.

very polished game with excellent artwork and the workings of a pretty good card type game

im not really here for the game so i wish it would let me click thru the pretty start and finish animations a little quicker

story wise it feels well thought out but if it goes the harem route hopefully everyone will be less jealous about it cuz i dont want to hurt any pretend peoples feelings

it loses a whole star for being filled with only blond women

you got a type i get it but come on

Writing as of v0.3

The art looks good and the characters are interesting. The game is only a short demo at this stage, but it has definitely laid the groundwork for a solid game.

The characters each have their own motivations and interesting personalities. The authors have also left some hooks for the story development and I'm interested in seeing what happens next. I also have to say that the protagonist starting in a relationship and having healthy personal relationships is a breath of fresh air.

In terms of gameplay, the card game itself is "okay". It's somewhat disappointing that the biggest weakness is the card game itself. My main issues stem from a lack of depth and a very easy difficulty.

In regards to depth, the 2 lane system is okay but felt very limiting. I found many turns would simply be spent passing as there was no more space on the board to play.
It also felt very simplistic in strategy, with no more than put the melee in front and the archer in the back to win fights. I expect this to change as the game develops and more cards are added but worry that the existing system will run into design constraints.

Another issue I felt this was that the amount of information available isn't sufficient to determine what you should actually do. The turn order is not viewable by default, though thankfully there is an option to see it. Lots of other details are missing as well, such as things like how the turn order is effected by new units, what the range of your cards are, or even the abilities and effects of them.

On the plus side, I did think the deck building element is interesting. Each card (unit) can be equipped with a variety of items to strengthen it. Right now the items look only to be stat boosts but there is definitely a lot of flexibility here and would allow for many unique customization options. It would be nice to be able to unequip items from cards, but I could also see that equipping items is permanent as a solid game mechanic as well.


With all the being said, this is an early release and overall I think the game looks very promising. I'm going to give it a high rating based on the potential shown.

Pros:

- Good fun story
- Good art/visuals
- Card gameplay is only mildly boring

Cons:

- Animations are kinda clumsy
- Ver 0.3 is too short
- No horse/tauren/bull cock (like wtf! I was expecting it)

Fantastic for the first version. Actually feels like a game instead of just pointing and clicking. The art looks great as well. The game within the game is fun but there will definitely need to be a lot more NPCs before it can become really good. Looking forward to more updates.