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

Good, amusing, and (relatively) believable dialog, the characters look good and have distinct personalities, NTR completely optional, only criticism is scenes slightly janky but the positives far outweigh the negatives.

So, let me start by saying I enjoyed this in its early iterations. Interesting setting with Hunter, funny dialogues, decent gameplay (grind seemed fun with the changes in interactions) and good character models.

After playing the last update, I have to say, the funny dialogue is starting to get annoying to me. In all this time, there hasn't been any story progression and I don't really care about any of the characters, since I don't know them. Every interaction with every charater (except Hunter) goes off on a tangent which tells me absolutely nothing about the character I interact with. All the scenes have been because of some cockamamie setup that does nothing to move the story along.

At this point I feel like, the dev decided to focus entirely on the humor, rather than the story, the characters and anything else. And in some cases that might even be passable, but the thing with off-kilter humor, it shouldn't be done to death since after a while it just gets annoying.

Apart from that there is the grind, which I really don't mind at all, since each time you do the same thing, you get a different scene which makes it feel not grindy at all.

Apologies for what might seem like a rant, but I did enjoy this game at the start and thought it could become enjoyable with more content. But, unfortunately for me, the dialogue has become tedious and everything else seems to have been relegated to the background. Of course, this is just my opinion, and if this is the game What? Why? Games wants to make and the story they want to tell, then by all means ignore this and all the best for the future. Again I'm not one for negative reviews, but I felt like I had to say something.

I. FRICKING. LOVE. THIS. GAME!
It's weird, it looks good, the women look good but the dialogue is comedy gold a lot of the time!
The game has NTR as GAME OVER's, so if you are into that this may not be for you.
Not a fan of NTR but...BUT I still like to see the NTR scenes first because they make me even more happy when the MC fucks over Hunter (the guy cucking you) and because the game just jumps you back to the previous choice to try again, so a quick reset.
Biggest CON is it's a bit grindy but i still like the choice to pick who i progress with so even the CON is honestly not that bad.
I recommend it, also fuck Hunter (hopefully not literally).

Simply amazing. All the characters are really good. Especially the mother and older sister. Writing is fine. A little grinding but I guess it keeps you going and builds up the excitement. Overall 9/10.

Just finished chapter 4. While I don't usually make reviews a pros and cons list it seems like the most appropriate way to describe this game.
Pros:

• Slow burn story
• Renders
• Humor

Cons:

• Slow burn story
• Renders
• Humor

The slower story is enjoyable in its way, but it also means there's very little sex for large portions of the game. The need to complete events to move forward comes dangerously close to feeling like the grind in other sandbox thanks to this slow progress. Although it does help get me invested in the game.
The renders all look great, but I'm also fairly certain I've seen them all in other games. Polished but common models doesn't do a lot to excite me on its own, but at least is not distracting.
Lastly the humor. MC has a great rapport with Brenna (not Brenda? that's almost as offputting as Brenno) that effectively gets repeated with everyone except Hunter and Lucia. This does dilute the humor somewhat but it's still a very funny game overall. And nothing beats a funny porn game except a funny porn game that interrupts the first sex scene with family reactions. Between the aforementioned slow burn of the story and this game's brand of humor infecting every slightly erotic scene it's incredibly difficult to actually fap to this.

Overall I'm curious to see where the story goes, but I'm not sure this actually qualifies as a porn game. Pretty sure you shouldn't have to work this hard to get off to a porn game.

Who the fuck is the writer for this game. You are amazing, you have swept the competition with this kind of writing its amazing. Keep this shit up mate. You have actually given character, to faces that are supposed to have no fucking soul, if you write a book I am certain its gonna sell like wildfire.

This game is different in so many ways than other games in this genre. Firstly it does try to have some sort of moral compass, which is refreshing, and also a bit of ethics. The main reason I can't get enough though is that this is the only "adult game" that makes me laugh until I cry. A lot of absurd and funny situation, smart and well written. Keep up the good work!

By humor and hilarious stupidities this is a solid no 1!!
Even wit involved!
The elderly gentleman/"El pervo Massimo" adds to me enjoying this game a lot.
The naive, and in the beginning, inexperienced MC encounters three women and a raisin faced granpa where the women range from ignorant to oversexed while vinegarface is a total maniac.
The dialogue ranges from smutty to witty which suits me just fine!
Comments on butt sweat and philosophical remarks on the reasons for living makes worth coming back to time after time to replay.

one of the best games i've played so far. Great graphics, good gameplay mechanics and a lot of content. I like the design and the story.
With each update a lot of content is added, wich makes it possible to play update after update.

Pros

• Witty dialogue.
• Proper english.

Cons

• Very short, scrawny, boyishly ugly, meek and virgin MC who's only redeeming quality as a ladies man is his wittyness, something he seems to share with every other character in this game, making it not seem so special after all. Why is this a problem? Well, firstly, it makes absolutely no fucking sense that every blood-related female in his direct vincinity would want to have sex with him, when he would probably struggle to attract any woman at all. Secondly... I'll get to secondly shortly.
  
  
• It's predominantly the women going after the MC, while he's resisting (what if someone sees us?!? It's improper, you're my sister!!! ). This is a terrible decision in an erotic game, as the player controlling the MC obviously WANTS him to have sex with the women, not blue ball himself all the time.
  
  
• The MC:s character and actions (se both points above) don't match up with the premise of the game, which is to fill the vacuum within the family that the deceased father left behind, while making sure that the lecherous grandfather doesn't do it instead. It would have made muuuuch more sense if it was the MC who was trying to get into the panties of the women (rather than the other way around) and he had attributes and a personality that made it at least somewhat believable that he could seduce his beautiful female family members, even though they're blood related.
  
  
• Very few choices (are there any at all? Don't remember actually). Mostly it's just about letting all the predetermined scenes play out.
  
  
• Some scenes fizzles out. For instance, on multiple occations, the mother burst in on the MC while the MC is doing something sexual (getting a blow job, masturbating). The mother chastises him harshly and promise that there will be consequences/that they will talk later, but nothing happens and when you encounter the mother the next time, it is as if it never happened. You get the follow up first the next day, when the MC does the same thing that he got called out for on the first day. Then the player is informed that the MC and the mother had a talk that the player never got to see, even though that kind of thing (mother sees son masturbate/fuck a girl) should probably feature at least somewhat in an incest game, especially considering how much time is spent on things that has nothing to do with eroticism or incest in this incest game (se more further down about comedy).
  
  
• A few examples of mind reading, ie the player gets to read the thoughts of the mother. Breaks the first person immersion. Not that it matters too much, as the MC will do his own thing regardless of player input anyway. But why then call it a game, why not just make a comic out of it?
  
  
• The female models are too similar (looks more or less like the same person with different colouration) and sometimes weird looking.
  
  
• While witty dialogue is a plus in general, there's too much of it here, making it seem as if the devs real calling is writing sit-coms and the erotic part of the game is just an excuse so that he/she can continue to write comedy. It also takes away from the serious and taboo nature of incest, which is, after all, supposed to be the primary fetish this game caters to.

Straight up the funniest game out there. Every character has a distinct personality, and the dialog is hilarious.

A small knock would be, yes, it's kinda a grind. The positive spin is that the progression of events feels fairly natural. And there's a robot guide to give you hints, you just keep hitting the daily events and moving the plot along.

Renders are great and all the models are super hot. The 18 yo sister has an absolutely banging body, not a middle school looking rail.

Lastly, the dev added a 'straight to the sex' character in Ch 2 to remedy the otherwise slowly developing sex content. Altogether, a real winner.

I swear this site needs to add a comedy tag. The banter in this game is top notch.

The plot is rather simple but effective. The MC is facing off vs the last remaining male in the family. This dude has decades of experience over the MC, so he must pull no punches against him otherwise his family will be lost.

It may sound like bad news to NTR haters, but the good news is that there is an NTR switch that is toggled near the beginning of the game so you wont be able to witness any possible bad ends.

Secondly the bad ends are treated as non-canonical defeats of the MC. It scratches the itch of any NTR lover, jumping right into the action, then reverses back so it can flow as the story is intended.

The characters all feel fleshed out and fun, the situations they get into are more then just the standard porn cliches, (although there are a few staples in there with the whole picture taking, and massages) but I can't knock it too hard cause some of the hottest scenes are in those routes.

Overall I'm really enjoying how the game is developing so far, even seems to hint at a certain... chadification? Whatever the male version of bimbofication would be, which i assume will be key in MC winning in the end. Nice to see character growth in the actual MC himself, which is absent in even the most popular games on this site.

Haha, Love this game. again with the Haha. Everything is solid, cant complain except I find myself wanting Grandpa to win but it keeps giving me chances to correct my mistakes. I don't care about NTR, incest or any of that. Its a game and I have no morals in a game, just like a good entertaining game, but I know NTR is an issue with some, its really well done, its more of a what could happen if you didn't make the right choice and sends you back to choose the right path afterwards everytime. Like I said id let grandpa win if I could.

Very funny also, makes me laugh alot and its all solid, renders good, animation good, all good. Play it

PROs:

-I really like the female models!

- Dialogue is great! Humour is very subjective but I really LOL'd a couple of times. I assume English is your native language because it's pretty much flawless. For once I also continued reading the text (In other games I often get bored easily and start skipping a lot of it).

- The 'quest-overview thingy' (I can't find a good word right now lol) is very clear. I didn't get lost at all as you can clearly see what needs to be done to move on + how many steps need to be taken.

MILD CONs:

- Story isn't amazing, but I don't mind that much. I've not played too many great story-driven games and it just seems really hard to make a game where you play as a young dude who gets to play with multiple hot girls/women who live under the same roof AND make it realistic.

- Pacing isn't bad, but I would warn against slowing it down even more. Personally, I think I would lose interest if you still plan to do a dozen more updates. If you are building from v0.1 to v1.0 thn it's good. If you are planning to go 5 versions further, I think it will drag out too much. Also, be careful not to introduce too many female characters. From what Ive seen, developers love introducing all kind's of women but you risk creating a game that becomes to big.

- I would like to see a bit more growth in terms of assertivity from the MC. I don't need him to become like Mr Grey, but I would love it if he becomes pretty damn confident by the end of the game....

- The rival character's ugliness is probably a bit to much, but since his model has stuck around till now, I would keep going with him. Besides, I'm sure a number of people will disagree, but I do kind of like the idea of him getting a scene with every female character, where he beats you to 'it'. (as long as they can be avoided). I think it's pretty funny.

Conclusion: Keep doing what you are doing!

Good Points
+ Render style and quality look pretty good.
+ Most girls/women look hot.
+ We have well-made animations with good quality, FPS, and physics.
+ While it's annoying we can say we have a kind of interesting story.
+ Chapter 10 was hot, messy but great. MC had sex with a lot of women and even we got a couple of threesome scenes. The only downside is you need to endure 9 chapters of a slow-burn story for reaching this point.

Bad Points
- While we have a kind of interesting story we can clearly say our plot is pretty much empty and lots of part of the story is pretty much annoying. The story is not that original and is even cringy sometimes.
- While later parts of the game you don't need to grind for scenes in early parts you gotta make a lot of grind for getting scenes and it was pretty annoying.
- The non-NTR path is not well-made at all. Yes, we don't see any sex scenes with other men with girls/women but Hunter watching girl's nude/masturbation videos from secret cameras, fapping them, and selling them to other creepy people can annoy lots of people.
- With every update, Catherine became more annoying than before, literally cockblocking MC in every god damn situation by killing game enjoyable scenes or making some scenes weird than they should... I don't know why but DEV keeps unleashing her and not holding her horses at all... Heck even in chapter 10 she literally raped Brenna with a strap-on... She needs to learn some manners and grow up a little because her current character is probably the most annoying thing we have in this game, but with how DEV doing the same mistakes over and over again it looks like not gonna happen...
- Black outline in the text is annoying and we don't have any option to not use that... We need an option for disabling that outline because it looks pretty bad.
- At first Hunter vs MC type of content was annoying but it was something tolerable, but after 9 chapters we still have the same annoying cliche MC VS Hunter thing. Literally a whole game about MC cockblocking by someone (Hunter, Catherine, etc) and MC Cockblocking Hunter for saving girls, etc. The whole game keeps doing the same thing over and over again and it's pretty boring... DEV needs to change this form of content ASAP... And with chapter 9 we got Drew too! And that's probably gonna make things worse...
- DEV kind of forces some fantasies on his players, don't give them any choice for doing things, and it's kind of gross and pretty annoying... For example, there is a feet-eating scene in chapter 9 and it was disgusting... I can understand footjob, it's something more light fantasy but eating someone's whole feet? Eww... And it should be hard to add an option for doing or not doing, it's a pretty simple thing to do but our game journey doesn't have choices like that. And there is chapter 9's last scene and continuation scenes ''Male Slave'' content with Ophelia... DEV should have an additional option to say ''no'' her and that would be logical, but like I told we don't have matter choices in this game, it's like a kinetic novel with a forced story more than a sandbox with free choices...
- It feels like DEV can execute sex scenes good enough, he doesn't make animated best-looking renders and it feels like he chose worse ones for animating.
- MC got lots of chances to stop Hunter for good which gonna lead to his death but not become a killer himself but he didn't do that or DEV doesn't give his players a chance to choose to do it or not... As I said, this Hunter thing became more than annoying already and it needs to stop...
- What If's bullshit level keeps increasing with every new one and that's just terrible... First of all, DEV mostly focuses on them so we do see main game updates very rarely and mostly got What If updates, which is darn annoying... Secondly, their content is bizarre AF and even does some cheap references using some really well-written games like What If Vol 8... DEV should stop making these and focus on the main game already...
- CH. 12 was terrible... Whole plot about people on the house not believing MC? Like seriously? After all that bond they shared together? Saying MC has to go and they need investigate this more deeply? Not believing him right away and acting like he might be done all those things? Wow... it was pure cringe and made no sense at all. It could be good moment to see all that development done with MC and girls didn't happened for nothing and how they choice to believe him, but no writers has to ruin it... And like it's not enough he just run away... Nice...

For The End
This is one of the games I want to give 4-5 stars but doesn't deserve 4-5 stars because of bad points, and sadly with every new update instead of seeing fixed bad points, we do see new bad points... I started this game giving 2 stars, raised 4, decreased 3, then I give 1 star because of the events in chapter 9 and all these bad points I write, and with chapter 10 I raised my rate to 2 stars and with What If Vol 8 I lowered 1 stars again... While it has the potential to become an amazing game sadly it became worse with every new update but I'm happy with a couple of things became better with chapter 10... I hope DEV will continue doing a better job than the first 9 chapters and stop this What If madness already.

This game is an absolute riot! First, and most importantly (imho), the NTR can be turned off/completely avoided. Which is great, because otherwise I never would have downloaded the game.
The women in this game are phenomenally hot. I love every single one of them in this game.
I'm sure many will think the game is a grind fest, but I kind of enjoy the way the game has you work through events to see the progression of a story line. To me, the game is a masterful example of how to execute the slow burn.
The game gives just enough hints to keep you from wandering around and wasting time.
The best part of the game is the writing. Take the time to read all of it, because it is flat out hilarious!
What a great game!

A really good game so far.
Really good renders, nice and sexy girls. Expecially the facial expressions of the girls when they get fucked is a great turn on! And also unique. I've never seen another game where the dev puts so much emphasis on the facial expressions.

The story is the usually "young brother wants his mom and his sisters", but the writing and the dialogues are top notch with a nice sense of humor.

Personally i like NTR, so i'm ok with the "dead ends" when ntr happens. At least the scenes are good, although a little bit short.

And if you don't like NTR, you can easily avoid it.


- 1 Star because of the repetitve gamestyle.
At least it's easy to play because you always know what to do and where the girls are.


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Wit the 0.3 update there are 2 new girls. Really sexy.
I'm looking forward to new updates!

This is my favorite game on the site so far. It's kind of a typical premise, with a boy returning home to live with his older sister, younger sister, and mom, who are smoking hot. But it's done so much better than the rest. The models look great and the writing is fantastic. The characters feel real. Keep it up!!

There are really good dialogues in this game with a decent, flowing story. Generally they make me bored and I just click to see the next scene but I really enjoyed to follow the conversations. Also great, unique (the most important part, it is really boring to see the same girls in different games) figures for girls. Very good job, I will be looking for the next updates.

I wasn't a big fan of models. Especially some facial expressions. And though some of the charactes could be done better, the writing of the game is top notch. It can be really called "a novel". And it is really funny. Recommending for sure.