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

this game has quite nice girls in it with solid renders, really good english and nice humour BUT

this games contradict itself totally and is a fucking click grind...

i played two chapters just rushing through the story most of the time to see some content with the old guy. the game tells me if that i have to get close to the girls to protect them from the old guy with name hunter BUT if i want that the old guy has his way with the girls you get VERY underwhelmed:

- the help bot tells you always to pick the "protective" aka "good" choice
- you HAVE TO get close to the girls to not get stuck with the story and to see more with the old guy which is a total contradiction
- even i turn NTR on or of i dont see any NTR yet even after TWO chapters and more than an HOUR of clicking and reading...!
the old guy nearly never appears and tries to have his way with the girls just randomly appears to tell some "deep" philosophical stuff....

what a time waste if you want content with the old guy! + my finger hurts from clicking for all these repetitive scenes! (at least make 4 times max per scenes and not 8 or even 12 wtf?)

render, girl and text wise this game deserves a far better rating but the rest is pure contradiction and time waste if you want to be the bad guy and to see more of the old guy!

I wish devs just make up their damn minds on what particular audience they're trying to target. For those who think this is 5 star game... Please get help.
The game starts off trolling cucks, making them think their was NTR scenes. But then as the game progresses they are more of those cuck scenes then actual material for the "Normal" route. You know what pisses me off about NTR games the most? It's the lack of common sense. Imagine this... You do all the right things trying to woo a girl but you make mistake and boom!! NTR.

In this game you grind to slowly seduce the girls, as usual. But while they're strong willed and challenging towards you, make one mistake and all of a sudden they're easy sluts for Hunter. It. Just. Doesn't. Make. Sense. Even if it can be "reset" It kinda ruins it for me knowing the girls are wrecked by the burn patient.

MC's dick issue was annoying and pointless. Cucks are in comments complaining that it's not Cuckish enough, this game is all over the place.

Why 3 stars? Is clearly from the op this game was intended to target a certain fanbase and yet almost all the sex content in the game is for the bad endings and the antagonist in the game.
The games tried too hard on humor and the story seems like don't advance anymore, there is mostly no development of the characters and the mc at all, just pointless humor for the sake of it that at some point it becomes pretty annoying.
The only good in the game is the renders and animations... the story if there is any to begin with has been somehow forget by the dev and the game spirals on grind and pointless scenes.
I think when the mc have sex with the mom he will be as old as the antagonist or even older.

Edited and quit 2 stars more:
The reason is simple, this game has all the sexual content in the ntr path while the mc dont get any sexual content at all and is already 0.6, for a game not centered on ntr seems like any content at all is throw in those non cannon endings (bad endings) while the mc just get some humiliation here and there... A waste of time.
not recommended.

Dialogue is witty and occasionally pretty funny. Started getting pretty annoying towards the end though.
Renders of the girls are great, though some have weird-looking boobs. The MC is still weirdly short, however.

An awfully enjoyable game. The writing is crisp and enjoyable with very little fat to it so you feel engaged whilst playing.

It almost feels aware of itself in the type of game it is. There's a fear that it could become too aware as time goes on and have too many "nods to the audience" as it were but there's no sign of that now.

Characters are interesting, visuals are good. The only downside I would say is there's little to do beyond clicking on a particular room at a particular time. There's no "game" aspect of it. Which has the plus side of meaning zero grind but still, it's odd to have the choice to go to other rooms if there's never anything to do in them.

The con to this game are given the day and night cycle, undoubtedly you're going to run into 'scene hunting' and 'scene repetition' mode which will tire some. But I think every day night cycle game has this.

The polarizing: This is not a 'fast sex' game..you will work to it. That doesn't mean there's no sexual content because there's a ton, but this is a game that has huge character development to get there.

The good: The writing is great but..is there too much of it? I found myself reading everything at first but there comes a point where conversations are just funny and not revealing any development of character or plot points. Ultimately this slows down the pace of the game if you're actually reading everything.

The 5-star part: Pure creativity. I said the game is well written but also this game is among the top percentile of games in terms of putting those well written characters in unique sexual situations. For example, a boy in a house of women game typically just rushes to sex without much thought for the mental barriers that each woman or the boy would go through. This game examines every aspect of this dynamic and does so with some of the most creative sexual scenario writing out there.

This is probably the only game i have played on here the made me laugh out loud, the writing (dialog) is superb and is perfect for my kind of humor. I feel like the creator understands how these types of games are and knows how to make them "the right way", which imo is a slow burn with distractions rather than the mc boning everything that moves the instant they make eye contact. If you have not given this game a try, give it a chance. 10/10

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