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

The game started off well- reasonable motives, good dialoges and good renders.
But as soon as the 'dick accident' happened, the story went downhill and completely absurd. I understand that the MC's and women's urge to 'rehabilitate' his dck keeps the game alive (or at least the excuse for all the lewd stuff), but come on.. The constant whining and self-doubting gets annoying pretty fast.
I very much hope, that the story AFTER the rehabilitation will return to a more reasonable level.
Another bad thing about the game is the grind- it often takes up to 20 repetitive actions to trigger the next event.. for every episode.

First post for feedback with any game, keep up the fantastic work. Especially after seeing those spoiler pics, and enjoy the story of youth and enthusiasm vs. age and treachery. I do recommend having some way to flip the tables with Hunter's plans, I don't know what you have planned with the relationship stats but it could be a good way to use those like banking them to see through a ruse of Hunter's and basically take over the plan and use it as your own. It could also be a way to add an anti-hero style path, but I also know making any game takes time and effort so I would understand not having that type of time. But yeah, keep up the good work.

Long story short this is easily in my top 3 games I've played from this site if not my absolute favorite.

The scenario is standard for an incest game, a guy comes back home after being away for a while and adds the bonus points for also being because of a tragedy but and here is the big one despite having played a bunch of games that have the same scenario... I've never felt the need to skip to the saucy bits, the writing is so good that for me just knowing what is next in the story is its own reward.

That being said the greatest strength of this game has is in my opinion the character acting, all the poses and expressions on these models are so exaggerated, energetic and just god damn fun, so much so that despite looking kind of realistic being relatively well proportioned human models it feels like a Saturday morning cartoon most of the times.

The humor is quite hit or miss especially since I'm from Latin America and most of the humor comes from dropping off names or references of stuff from the U.S.A and while I have managed to catch a lot of them I'm sure a lot has slipped through the cracks but whenever the humor comes solely from the character's personality it is usually a great big belly laugh from me.

And yes the villain of the story is an ugly, detestable, deplorable, shameless piece of steaming shit... which makes him oh so perfect, the best jokes and interactions come from him and the protagonist trying to outsmart each other and since you can even turn off the NTR and make him lose by default you never have to feel the sting of losing to this character that was made exclusively to piss you off and make you jealous.

The progression I will admit is slow there are some sexy scenes scattered here and there but as of 0.7 there are few full-on sex scenes in here (plenty of foreplay though) but I have to admit the build-up is very interesting and very very sexy also, them getting into an actual wooing phase is something a game only focused on sex scenes will never do this one is focused on story and characters and that makes the sex scenes we do have interesting and I'm sure the ones that are yet to come very satisfying. There is a little bit of grind in chapter 1 too but don't worry that goes away as soon as the very next chapter and becomes a full-blown kinetic novel.

TL;DR: Dev REALLY knows what he is doing with the writing and staging.

Skip to Finale for tl:dr
This is probably like one of the 100s of games I've played on this site throughout the years, but I this might be my 3rd ever review, so Dev you've earned it. I will say that I've never played a game where I've laughed more times than I "came". The witty wordplay blows every other game dialogue out of the water, but that's not to say it doesn't become stale after the ridiculous amounts of hours I've put into this game. I've often found myself un-immersed after a big word that I had to look up to get the joke sometimes. None the less it was still an epic journey.

I can say each update took me well over 8 hours to play in each one and that's me admiring the scenery. I have seen game updates that big since playing Offcuts. I had a couple of problems initially, like the MC's dick being humongous in a game that seems more realistic than most games on this site. If you think you're going to have a hj immediely going into a bj than you're mistaken as this game is very much so blue balling. I mean you can only play so many games where it cuts straight to sex so taking a breather and earning it is very much appreciated in the end.

That's not to say that there are various times where we could've gone all the way with the sister, but the dev clocked out and blue balled us. The 2nd time in the hotel is one that comes to mind. The first time sure she jumped off you, but you would think everything would lead into the moment of sex with the sister after that great monologue from Eva... But nope she takes it up the ass instead. I also can count the times the mother as given us hj's and I like that the 1st 5 didn't go straight too "I can't take it anymore mc, please fill my mouth"... but after the 15th hj I kinda don't even get turned on anymore, because it was played out way too long. Yea sure the more realistic approach is nice and brand new, but it gets annoying after a while.

I love Catherine's route! Yea sure she annoys me as much as she makes me laugh, but the progression of her scenes is actually well paced and interesting. I mean at this point if everything goes right we should have sex with her by 0.8 or 0.9. I care to comment that I don't like the pace with Aliza. Yes sure she was very easy to get a bj from, but I mean it's like you made us blow her off for Mallory, who was being a bitch to her for so long. I'm well aware of the sex appeal she brings, but at the cost of ignoring the Aunt to the point where she just tells you she doesn't want to do it anymore, because it would devastate the mom.
I can get behind this excuse if there were more scenes like bj/hj up until the point where right before sex she stopped and gave that reason, but she was cockblocked so long that she gave it right there.

I can go more in-depth into every story arc I've mentioned, but I'd rather this be a bit quicker. The amber storyline is doing great and I was upset that I got cockblocked by the mom, but her reasons were justified and I like that the Dev knew this and felt the need to make it better for when it actually happens. I can tell where gonna eventually get some Amber/Kimiko sex down the line, so fingers crossed. Now I would like to also mention that this is incredible when it comes to piecing each storyline together. I mean it almost to good... for instance cath sex ed story where she mentions she wants to watch amber and mc fuck is crossing over and when we had sexy time with amber in the bathroom cath got caught. I just like to little details that cross everything as it makes me want to soak every bit of dialogue up.

Not to mention when Eva's dildo was stolen I didn't know who took it. I thought it was Hunter, but then I seen Brenna looking on the floor for a "hairclip" I believe and I figured it was her who took it. Then she gave it to the mom... Oh the irony.
Lastly based on this game I would like to say we've finally got some info regarding why Hunter wants to fuck everyone. I really enjoyed this information as it made me dislike Hunter even more. It made more sense as to why the MC's dick is 9 inches long, so I can finally maybe justify his dick size. Now lets get into stats and the final verdict

FINALE

Last ratings are based on 1-5* ratio

Save/Gallery - 5* (Gallery right in room after chapter 1)

Graphics - 2.5* (Generic but playable)

Play Time - 5* (I spent 5-8 hours on each chapter)

Story - 5* (One of the best I've ever played on f95)

Animation - 3* ( Could be better)

Bugs - 5* (No bugs in my playthrough)

with everything considered I easily rate this game 4.5* out of 5. Dev you've done an outstanding job and you've earned a patreon subscriber!

Three stars just because I liked the writing, humor and amount of reading.

Until Chapter 6 there would almost be no sex (non NTR route). 1 or 2 repetitive scenes with Eva from early chapters. Thats it. I think I'm slow reader and I'm talking about at least 10-12 hours until chapter 6. Amount of sex scenes compared to reading...well, you got my point.

All devs going slowly on these incest games, playing by the book: step by step (ogling, touching, HJ, BJ etc..) and maybe it was fun one or two games but it feels now like a damned routine. I understand sex scenes require more time to make them, but it's really dumb and boring to see spineless MC and prude ladies from one inc-st game dev to another.
That being said - very slow game. Chapters 6 and 7 are better in terms of content amount.

I've had laughs out loud several times. Really hilarious situations.

Also, I'm so not into an Ahegao. It's just so fckn weird to me. Ofc, no judging. But I cant get it how this is turn on, when you dont understand if person is still alive, having a seizure or a brain damage:
https://imgur.com/a/nNgpK5r
Spooky material. Wish game could have w and w/o Ahegao scenes but it would double amount of rendering time and not gonna happen.

Almost all girls to my liking.
Scenes usually have only 1-2 angles.
No sound.
Replay player after Chapter 1.
No grind but often you have to come once to an event and character will tell you to come tomorrow. This is the only BUT.
Good tooltip system. I'm not into Sandbox games but this one didnt bring any discomfort.

For NTR lovers - there's an old ugly creep, who can fuck your girls. Don't worry.

Overall good game. I just wish eveything could be more mature and straightforward instead of "just out of puberty, I'm virgin, please dont hurt me".

The base story is a mess of problems, starting with the MC was forced to leave home at fifteen because your dad was such a monster(all the women knew this was happening) that you need to move out to protect yourself which i can understand but that means your mother and sisters choose your dad over you and 4 years later you come back when the dad is dead and for some reason the women are so happy to see MC which is strange as they clearly didn't care enough about MC then to stop the dad or to leave him and for some reason the MC is apologizing to them? if anything they should be apologizing to the MC, after that the game is a battle of who can incest the family faster MC or your grandfather.

As for the women well i cant imagine any reason a normal person would to want to be around them, they choose the dad over MC and now they want to make MC feel bad for having to leave and survive on his own, they use him and discard him all the time during the game and on top of that they act like such bitches(to the point if i was the MC i would have said to hell with them and let hunter have them) to the MC but for some reason the MC starts an incestuous relationship with them(which MC dosent want) to what protect them from an incestuous relationship(with someone who does want them) it makes no sense, what is the point to this game at all because its clearly not to protect them from an incestuous relationship.

The MC is truly pathetic, crying when offered a BJ, simping over and over again, premature ejaculation, multiple femdom events, forgiving everything no matter how bad in a single conversation(the women get to be mad at MC for ages but he cant be mad at them for more than two lines of text).

Having the game as a sandbox instead of VN creates lots of broken stories in the game, even if you want to follow one character you cant once you reach the limit then you have to stop and do another character, then you have the character crossovers which makes everything out of order, characters being mad one moment but nothing the next, its a terrible way to tell a story, imagine trying to read 5 books one page at a time alternating between them at random.

Even the relationships are badly written as MC is trying to get on with everyone which is fine but then he accepts a committed relationship(meeting and getting approval from parents) while fucking multiple women daily and still trying to get more women, if the MC was not a nice guy it would make sense but he is a nice guy so why is he messing up peoples lives, its like none of the characters have had any thought put behind them as to who they are and just written scene by scene as such they have no character depth.

The writing gets worse with terrible excuses for not having sex, example: "we cant do this to your mum, she'd be devastated if she ever found out and we both know she deserves better" what does this have to do with your mum?, why would she be devastated that two consenting adults have sex?, she deserves better what?, is the mothers(who hasn't been your mum in 4 years) goal to prevent you from having sex and if so why?(especially as she knows you have been having sex).

With such a bad story with horrible writing and characters the only reason left to play the game would be for the adult content and while this game has quite a bit, it takes forever to get to and even then it includes stuff that will turn off most people(you will see an incredible amount of MCs dick much much much more than you think you will(i really cant stress this enough, you will get more out of this game if your gay or just love seeing massive dicks and have to sit through the characters talking about it as well, plus seeing the MC covered in his own cum a lot and on top of that lots of talk on how cum tastes).

The game dosent have any choices at all as anything but the right "choice" will just take you back to the "choice", so the only thing the "choices" do is see a tiny scene of NTR or not which takes makes liking the women or not off the table as you have to take all of them to progress.

There are long boring conversations about video games, weight training, books, general day to day stuff, social media, photography, food, movies, massages, religion, medical talk, etc... you could remove 90% of the text of this game and not lose any of the main story, they just talk for the sake of talking and its almost all useless.

Now for the good things about the game, the art is great both in characters and locations and while the sex scenes are ordinary the art is very well done, a time skip function is included which is very welcomed for this style of game and while there are very few images that are not dick focused or have some other very off putting thing in the picture there are a couple of good scenes.

Story 0/5 (Really really bad)
Sex 1/5 (would 5/5 if not for all the off putting stuff)
Characters 0/5 (all over the place)
Art 5/5 (great quality)
Choices 0/5 (there are none)
Kinks 2/5 (some but every time the focus always gets diverted back to MCs dick)

This was really nice. Really funny story and has the right mixture of work and humor that all porn games need. We need more talks with Hunter since he sees his Grandson as his young image or at least as what he wanted his young image to be.

No flows, just perfect porn game existing in F95zone, I really love this game.

After every episode I assume it can't be any better, the Dev cannot add anything better, funnier, sexier than this but this man is just a legend, I mean after each episode the game is becoming more crazier with so bizarre dialogues, renders and animation. I always prefer a good story than sex scenes in porn games but this game is just something else.

TLDR: There are some underrated games on this site, and if I want to be a good dude, I'll review all of them eventually and stop being lazy. Power Vacuum is the blue ribbon winning bull moose of f95's underrated games. It is probably the only game that can get you horned up, then suddenly make you burst out laughing.

I've been following Power Vacuum since it's debut, initially for two reasons, the character model for Eva and Brenna's big ass. The initial release was somewhat rough, but the dev and his skills, the story and the friggin' jokes have improved exponentially.

Even if you don't find every character to your personal taste, they all have their moments to shine. Each one has their own motivation for their actions - actions in a plot of such ridiculousness, it really just has to be witnessed. Every character is trying to get one over on another character or screw the MC, often at the same time. The family, despite the shenanigans, actually feel like they care for each other. They don't simply exist as the MC's personal bodily fluid receptacles - they interact with each other, have motivations toward each other. You'd be surprised how rare this is in games like this.

The big draw is the humor. No one - absolutely no one sets up jokes so far in advance of the punch line/payoff. I've described the dialog as a combination of Aaron Sorkin's rapid fire delivery with Larry David's carefully set up gags. There's some Zucker in there as well, as some of the jokes are just sprayed off like machine gun fire with non-sequiturs and slapstick pratfalls.

Each update has seemed bigger than the one prior, with them coming in around 10 weeks apart. The sex has progressed with the main girls fairly linearly, but each update has a good handful of lewd scenes for the main characters and the ever increasing side characters.

As far as the NTR tag goes, it's part of the story's narrative that's mostly played for laughs. It is also easily turned off with a click with no real loss to the story's coherence.

To sum up, if you're looking for a laugh and some genuinely hot scenes, play this game.

Great writing. The author takes this production to the level of quality you'd expect from a TV show. Sure, it's the same plot a lot of other family-centric games play out, but with a growing roster of characters that each feels different thanks to excellent writing, this truly is a game worth playing.

EDIT: Review for V.0.7. Would also like to echo other reviews and say it is a bit 'grindy', but again, I can't emphasize the writing enough. I imagine What?Why?Games sitting alone at home, trying to sleep with himself and the only way to get into his own pants is to charismatically talk himself into it. Great chemistry for imaginary people. I had a few genuine laughs and I'm not typically an easy laugh.

Amazing game, creepily disturbing ntr that I wish I could scrub from my mind, definitely recommended just do what I should've done and avoid having the ntr infect your memory-it gets rewards first but isn't worth it for how mentally scarring it is

5/5 girls. 6/5 writing with no points lost for constant your/you're conflations. that's merely clerical. quality cartoon porn for highbrow big brain enthusiasts like me. mindless dickbeaters should rightfully be disappointed.

By far the funniest frickin game I've ever played. Catherine is like Forrest Gump, but sexy as hell. If Archer was a porno it would be like this, except the MC wouldn't be such a giant pussy. More sexy time with the Mum please. That is all.

Very good game, avoidable NTR and the characters are well written. One of my favorite game, good story and renders. I would recommend everyone to try this game if you're a fan of incest/landlord stories.

Total wast of time. The game is being developed for one and a half year for what? just some sex scenes with eva and malbourne because the dev is too busy creating renders for shit jokes, dungeons and dragons (fantasy that doesn't add anything to the real story), broken penis and hunter.

Really, the jokes are so shitty that i passed most of the time skipping scenes. Perhaps there were more sex scenes with hunter in NTR path than the MC... Because why not? better make sex with an disgusting ugly old bastard than the MC.

Also, there is too many clicks, to many tasks for no scenes. You'll suffer a lot just to get a singles blowjob, and it happens only at the later chapters.

Other than creating some bombshells models, this game has nothing. Thats my humble opinion.

Don't waste you time in this, really, it doesn't worth.

Sorry for my bad english, i'm not a native speaker.

OMG what a game! its there since 15th september but I played the seven chapters today... it's simple, great models, great story... little bit frustrating especially with Orphia. I liked the achievement system. waiting for more, you have all my support.

Play this game for a couple of hours and you will be rewarded with MC's dick getting broken...

Really not worth the effort to spend your time if you're (like me) only looking for sex scenes because after playing for hours the only sex scene you will get is with some random girl (one of the main girls literally brings her to you) which is obviously made by the dev to compensate the lack of sex with the main girls.

One of the most quality games around period. Would love to see the creator do other projects in the future just to get more of their writing style. The jokes are entertaining even if I don't know the context of some of them. there is a wit and charm that shows care went into the game and it's much better off for it.

Review of v0.7


Plot:

The plot is pretty simple, try to fuck every girl that appears in the game and avoid Hunter getting laid with one of them.

Sometimes the game feels a bit repetitive but has some humor stuff that makes it fun too.


Renders and animations:

Renders are pretty good and we have tons of animations per update.

Characters:

The characters are good but I think there are too many female characters right now. I mean there were a lot but now with each update, the dev adds even more side characters, and since they are not avoidable I feel it a bit overwhelming.

We are not even done with the four girls that are here from the beginning and now we have eight more in six updates since the first version of the game.


Gameplay:

The gameplay is really good, no grinding and we can easily track our actual progress with each event as well as knowing where the characters are at every moment.

The only Con that I´ve found is that we have to follow every path and play every scene, being only optional Hunter scenes as they lead to a game over. And that we have to play every event in an update to be able to continue it (for example, if I play Brenna photoshoot I can only do 7 new scenes on an update and if I finish them I have to do the rest of the events to unlock the next part of Brenna´s photoshoot even if some events are not related)

Conclusion:

I really like the game and it´s interesting how Hunter events are growing too. But in the latest updates, a lot of new characters were added and most of them are the virgin-girl-that-has-to-be-trained given that we already had that type of character in the game and that the spicy game over thing was based on being caught by the mother or needing to be cautions with characters are less present on each update .

So I think the dev should focus more on the great potential his actual characters has instead of adding new ones and make players totally forget about them all.

Review as of Power Vacuum v0.7
A unique take on a household-hijinks type of adult game, Power Vacuum blends attractive, highly expressive and stylized characters with situations and dialogue that can probably be best described as bombastically witty. Humor is deadpan or slapstick and yet still retains a sublime quality throughout.

Obvious care is offered in the high quality of stills and animated sequences, differentiated character personalities inspire your continued interest from their own curiosities with each other and it offers one of the most original ways to blend (optional) NTR into a game without making it truly controversial among discerning fans.

The style of play might be considered as a "directed sandbox" where the open environment allows for easy repeats of scenes - now complemented by a recent Gallery mode addition - but also keeps the player easily on track by guiding them to which events are still open to play. There is no grind in this game, which is a remarkable achievement for sandbox-like construction.