Ren'Py - Power Vacuum [Ch. 12 Official] [What? Why? Games]

This writing is too good for just one guy to have written it. There is clearly a woman's hand at work here; the fact that all of these women are so fleshed-out and fully realized, on this site? No way. My friend, if your day job isn't as a writer, it certainly should be.

Couple notes:

People complaining that there's still "unavoidable NTR" because the antagonist gropes or leers at the women in this game, please don't leave the house without your helmet, because you will not survive the real world.

People complaining that the MC is a spineless beta-male cuck, enjoy living with your dude roommates for the rest of your life, because I don't think you've ever interacted with a real woman. I'm sorry he's not holding them down and rubbing his no-chin neckbeard on their bellies like your cool friend Kyle who totally gets all the chicks and won't shut up about it at recess. And despite what your drunk stepdad tells you when he hits you with his belt for crying at 'The Fox and the Hound', you're not a pussy, you're just bad at feelings.

Just want to start off by saying this is by far the most fun i have ever had while playing an adult game. Easily my favorite 3dcg game of all time. The story is unique as are the characters that come along with it. The writing makes it to where the player is always engaged and i would say it's mostly because of how well the story is written with a perfect mix of comedy and drama. Speaking of comedy this is the most i have ever laughed while playing a sandbox game. Seriously. I can give a rating for each category for the game, but i'm lazy so to make it short i would give each category a 10/10. The animations are top notch and the amount of content within the game is huge. Very minimal grind(if you want to even call it that since there is a built in guide of sorts that walks you through every step). Anyway amazing game overall. Highly recommend!

So much can be said but I'll be short.
1. Sexy content. Obviously this is the most important part of a game like this. The scenes are hot and worth coming back to for replays.

2. Story is good. The story is actually compelling and grows on you as you play. I'm not actually invested in these characters and what happens next which is something I never though I would say about a game like this.

3. Humor is perfect. I actually catch myself laughing out loud at some of these lines. When my brain is not in gooner mode I go back and replay scenes to actually read everything and the amount of one-liners and quips makes me feel like I'm reading an Aaron Sorkin screenplay.

There's a lot of good and bad in this one

this game is a sandbox farm !
I see no reason to make something like that, you have to go to the same event a lot of times to just change one line o dialog

Why is everyone so idiot ?
This might bee one of the worst MC i have ever seen, it's so dumb, and everyone acts very weirdly

Overall quality of renders and video are good

story is ok, it's mostly daily life

It's a slow burner AVN, which I find enjoyable.

The art is great,
I think Cath as MC family art design is slightly less pleasing the eyes than Amber's family and Tefnut,but it fit the story as entertaining as she is.

I think this VN deserve a lot more reader,so I'm giving the 5 out 5.

I love the design of the girls, and the idea of the story, It's very hot. The problem is that it gets so tedious to get the scenes with the free roam, just to get maybe less than 5 minutes of animations. If there was an option to skip free roam then maybe I will give more like 4 or 5 stars

This another game ruined by being sandbox. Having to juggle a bunch of events each day so you don't just spam the time skip really takes you out of the mood. I'll have a sexy but short scene and then the next scene will be just massive dialog with a few sexy teasing pic and I've gone soft by the time I get to the next sexy event.

Characters are also flat and a lot of things they say feel like they're just there to advance the plot. It's kind of humorous at times and they talk about some silly things during sex but it also doesn't help build the mood.

Renders are decent though but the girls that get introduced later are way better. They clearly got better learning as they go but that's a problem because now we're stuck with the old models as the family that you're invested in.

TL;DR: Just download a save file and browse the gallery, then move onto another game

The mother is very hot, and the NTR scenes are also very hot. The author has a very good grasp of NTR, and the animation and rendering are also in line with my preferences. If you don't hate the old bastard too much, this work is worth playing for NTR fans.

Taking this dim and ugly grandpa into this game ruins the fun for me right from the start.

The characters are boring, not particularly pretty and it's all more talk than action.

A total waste of time for me

Everything Jaga Telesin said below me is true. His review is perfect.

Very rarely have i played a game with such a pathetic, spineless beta-male as the main character in this game.

Hes not a harem protagonist, Hes a NTR protagonist.

Picture every negative aspect associated with weakness a man could have: - Now apply all of them to this main character.

I saw the femdom tag, but didnt think much of it. More often than not, the femdom is usually just a scene or two, and i can get over it.

Thats not the case in this game. The femdom is rampant here.

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The dialogue is witty at first, but it wears thin incredibly fast. Every character has an endless stream of witty banter that never fucking ends. Most of the jokes are mid, so its an endless stream of lame jokes.

Im not a humorless cunt, I like humor. Taffy Tales used to make me crack up, (until i dropped that game for adding AI art). The humor in this game just sucks and has zero comedic timing.

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What i expected was a good incest game.

What i got was a twisted mutated abortion of NTR, & Harem.

Just goes to show, when you make a game, make a hard decision whether you want to do a NTR or Harem Game, because if you try to do both youll just end up with trash.

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Oh yeah, i forgot to mention it is a horrible grindfest. You will Grind. Seriously, this game is like disgaea - alllllllllll aboutttttttt theeeeeee GRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNDDDD.

Im gonna have to say that this game is the weirdest games i've played. That's because I played it years ago and I didn't like it. Years after I gave it another chance because I liked its renders and god damn did I feel stupid for dropping it. The NTR not been Cannon is the only bad thing in it

It could be an amazing top notch game if:

- The characters had differentiate personalities reflected in their dialogues. They speak almost like a hive mind entity controlling different bodies...

- The plot had any sort of originality. If you played multiple games on this site, you already played games with this very same tropes and concepts.

- The updates being more frequent. Is not reasonable that a project that gets +5k a month, makes 1 update per year, 2 in the best case scenario. Some argue that the updates are huge, which is easy to dismiss if you compare to other developers updates through a year and sum them together... Definitively NO, the updates are not big enough compared with their cadence and the money the project is making.

On the positive side:

- Renders and animations are amazing, surely one of the best you can find on the big projects of this website. Still don't overshadow the flaws on this project.

I did not expect the writing to be so witty and actually good from a porn game.
This for me is a classic case of don't judge a book by its cover.

The cast is great, and the proportions , although not usually my thing , is great as well. I also like that NTR is noncanonical, so it adds to variety of the gameplay.

I played all the way up to Ch 10 in a single day ..

So, after reading the last three years of reviews on Power Vacuum (yep, I actually did all that), I noticed that a large group of people were praising it, and a large group of people were damning it. I decided to download and see for myself, and after ~9 hours playing and firmly being in Chapter 4, I can say I completely and utterly agree... with the latter group.

+ Attractive models (but overly large bust/booty sizes diminish their allure)
+ Unique LI personalities, though it seems like every girl is bi-polar and swings wildly (permanent mensuration?)
+ Renders are well done with good color/lighting and environments
+ Some good humor, but it is far too overused
+ Fun "minigame" of thwarting gramps' machinations towards the LIs in the house
+ Good animations, for the very few you actually get to see

--- Tease, tease, tease! It took the MC 8 fricking hours to actually penetrate a side-story girl and lose his virginity. And that's RL gameplay time to get there. I hear sex with the main LIs doesn't happen for another 5-6 chapters. Insanity.
-- The humor actually happens in almost every 2nd to 3rd textbox, and destroys most of the enjoyment you'd otherwise have. It's like a psychotic clown on cocaine babbling to a monkey on heroin, nonstop.
-- Despite being a "sandbox", the game is anything but. You can only change the order of interactions/scenes within a chapter - you truly have NO choice in how the story unfolds (unless you have NTR turned on and fail a challenge). This is a disguised kinetic novel.
--------- I can't give this one enough minuses: The MC has NO FUCKING SPINE. He's a wimp, a simp, a pussy to the Nth degree. If there was an option for him in-game to commit suicide, I would have chosen it. Not. Kidding. At. All.
--- LIs around the house constantly walk all over the MC verbally, switching from teasing him, to debasing him, to apologizing, to doing it all over again in the next 10 minutes. Almost like it's a family tradition.
--- MC is constantly apologizing to the LIs, despite nearly constantly supporting them and their needs. Again: utter wimp.
--- There's almost no equality in the house with regards to pleasing LIs, and the LIs reciprocating - the MC is basically just a boy-handmaiden working for their needs. Again: total simp.

I could probably drop in another 7-10 negatives, but it's just exhausting and depressing to think back on the last 9 hours of gameplay. This COULD have been a phenominal game, right at the top with some legendary AVNs. But for the reasons above (among many, many others), it swung and missed. It's Femdom to the extreme, but veiled in such a way as to try and have the humor and renders cover it up, unsuccessfully. I hate to have to do it, as I really did want to enjoy PV, but it ends up a firm 2.0 rating from me.


Had to add this last bit:
Brenna: "There you go...lick it up....you sister fingering idiot..."

Yeah, I'm out. The femdom and male subjugation is just out of control on this one. Zero respect for the MC from any of his family members. Zero. Down to 1 star.

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Edit: So I pushed through a few more chapters, trying to give the developer the benefit of the doubt (for poor pacing in the early game), hoping it would get better. It did, slightly, with the MC gaining a bit more self esteem (a TINY bit), and sex scenes becoming more frequent.

And then the bastard writes the MC into a FORCED SUB relationship with his mother. Zero choice - the MC is back to being a sex toy, a sex slave, a sub.

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Finally pushed myself to finish the game, since I'd already spent ~16+ hours in it. It -does- get better on the frequency of sex (actually turns into a fuck-fest in Ch 11/12), and the femdom -does- lighten up a little bit. But the wacky overused humor continues throughout, and it remains basically a kinetic novel with the NTR-whoops-goback moments it's always had. The huge femdom moment that turned me off prior -does- go away (thank god), so it's not an abysmal failure anymore.

Against better judgement I'm going to give the game (through Chapter 12) a 2-star rating. Partly due to the glacial pacing for the first ~8 chapters, partly due to the overriding femdom elements, and partly due to the overused humor which wears super thin.

This game is a perfectly serviceable erotic game about turning your family into a harem. That part alone is well done and quite hot.

But I have to say, the writing in this game is something else. It's worth playing for the dialogue alone. Every other sentence is a pun or joke and they're all wonderfully creative and funny. I guess humor is subjective, but this is one of the best written games on the site and absolutely worth a try.

I will start this rating with a disclaimer

- THIS GAME CONTAINS UNAVOIDABLE NTR -

I played through all of the 12 chapter and i can say:
Don't let the home page fool you, it contains unavoidable NTR, such as the main antagonist groping the family members and other things, even if you have the NTR option turned off. So if you don't like ANY NTR in game i would not recommend this game to you.
If you ignore that you will have lots of good characters, a quirky story, and a bunch of good sex scenes.
To summarize:

The goods:
- Character design: the female characters look great and are all different from each other.
- Good side-plots: Self-explanatory, in many chapters you will have a new character with a nice side-plot.
- Story: Funny at times, maybe you will not like it if you're christian because they make off them. (But at the same time, why are you playing a porn game if you are christian in the first place? get off this life)
- Good sex scenes: Also self-explanatory, all characters have great sex scenes.

The bad:
- Nasty disgusting antagonist who wants to cuck you and constantly reminds you that he is going to cuck you at some point (gets pretty annoying, pretty fast)
- Boring tasks, sometimes you have to do the same thing over 10 times to unlock one scene, after Chapter 6 it gets better.

I would give this game a 3,5/5
I didn't play with NTR on but it's safe to say that if you like NTR (aka being a cuck) you will enjoy this game, highly recommend to you.
Mildly recommend otherwise.

This game was so fun to play, the renders and animations were great a bit loopy but not enough to ruin it. The characters are diverse and hot as hell, the writing of the game is a bit ridiculous but the game is not trying to be serious so it doesn't matter. The sheer amount of content mixed with the quality of the images was enough to put it at 5 stars. The NTR in the game is easily avoidable and honestly funny. Can't wait for the final chapter of the game and get the ending of this story. The only thing I'll say is I want to focus more on the main 3 in the family instead of adding more characters.

The writing is genuinely excellent!
Just finished Chapter 2 and this game climbed to my Top 5 in record time.

My only quibble is that the sandbox aspect feels a little unnecessary. This might just be my personal bias though, since I tend to prefer entirely VN-style unless the game is very mechanics-heavy.

Regardless, it's 5 stars from me!

I have to say, I've never left an actual review for the NSFW games I played before, but this one take's the cake! Even if there is minimal content of my preference (feet) in game, it literally made me turned on by the NTR (I never play NTR games). But now I will... Jesus!

It's a bit slow at start, and that's OK! It picks up after Chapter 4 or so! The NTR endings are my favourite (And I don't care for NTR lol!)

10/10!!! Congratulations to the developer!

Power Vacuum has one of the most well-organized and planned stories to come out of the porn industry in recent memory -- most (though not all) characters exhibit significant character development over the course of their arcs, the character(s) responsible for shifting the protagonist's relationship with the other characters into the light do so as a simple extension of their existing wants and tendencies, and the various plot developments revealed with each successive chapter strike an engaging balance between surprise twists and foreshadowed inevitability.

While humor is inherently subjective, the developers did a really good job of making it very clear what the game’s humor is like early on – people new to the game are able to quickly identify whether or not they’re able to vibe with the author’s sense of humor and choose whether to continue playing accordingly.

This is an incredibly well-crafted game that keeps the audience engaged throughout its run and exhibits a clear, coordinated effort to avoid unnecessarily attracting audience members that wouldn’t enjoy what it has to offer.