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

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...
- Updates takes too much time, today is 11/20/2024 and this game didn't got update for 10 months already, and content never enough to justfy that time passed...

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.

The story and character are great and the ntr is handled very well. since the ntr is a bad end and also avoidable you could probably use a lot more of it or be bolder and include the main girls with it but its really good that you kept the story and characters focused

Great renders, interesting plot, fight for your girls and try to avoid someone else fucking them. What I don't like to much is the lack of importance in decisions, because all the important decisions lead you to a "NTR" scenes that automatically means that you lose and you have to retake the last decision to avoid that, those are scenes that I can't say is really NTR because the girls are always dressed and you can't see nothing more than her faces or hear them moaning, in other words these are just teasing scenes. You know that your decisions don't count because you always have to win, you take a bad decision and you have to retake it because the game obligues you. Really is a Kinetic Visual Novel because the game take your hand and lead you during all the game and your decisions don't mean nothing.
Could be interesting if the game implement more meaning full decisions and the NTR scenes have more explicit content and were more hard to fight, because a NTR game where you have to win all the time and your "enemy" desappears for days or weeks make you think that the NTR has no sense at all if you competitor don't do anything for so much time. The game could work great without NTR because looks like the game was thinked to be just an Harem game and not to have NTR content, even if that content leads you to an End Game.

First review I've posted since joining F95 - and it's been a while.

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We've seen this before: Incest, the mother, the big sister, the little sister, the rival. Good news is that What? Why? Games has an actual grasp of the English language and as a result the writing is well above average. The flirtatious banter between characters whilst not exactly believable (nothing written for any porn game is), is amusing and even endearing. We've got genuine humor, you might actually find some limited value here beyond wank material - and IMO having some personality for the characters makes the scenes much greater.

Renders are great and the animations whilst low in number at the time of writing are also of good quality. If i had to suggest an improvement I'd argue that Catherine's face needs some adjustment, she's easily the weakest looking of the main cast (in terms of quality). In some shots she looks pretty good and then she just seems a bit off? I appreciate there's been some effort to avoid sameface in the women though.

As far as fetishes and actual sex scenes, the slow build is working fairly well. I disagree with one or two comments I've read about the game needing more scenes faster - these are persistent comments on every game and I don't think they have much merit here. Now, onto the main draw...

There's a lot to be said about the NTR content. Personally, I think you should keep it because you've proven with 0.2 that there's a lot of potential here for it in the story. It's clear from the prologue that there was always meant to be a rivalry with Hunter and I don't think it would make the game more enjoyable or more successful without it. By all means, keep the block for the people who cannot help but complain, but continue to develop and add more bad NTR endings. The scene with Eva is brilliant - you've got both a serious netorare kick from the physical aspects of the scene and if you honestly don't like NTR - I don't see how you can't find it funny and then reload. I think when more of these scenes are added for the other women, you'll see a lot of positive responses because you seem to be good at making them. Do not listen to the complainers - there is never enough good NTR - and this is good NTR.

Other positives - haven't found any bugs. That's fucking excellent.

I was also wondering what are the chances of getting some sound added to the actual sex scenes. Not full VO or anything, but maybe some sound effects for fucking and maybe moaning? Might take away more than it would add but I think it would add a lot if it's subtle. It just has to be done right - others may disagree.

Overall, game is solid, content is good, potential is great. Looking forward to 0.3.

Hi, here my review for the first version (v0.1B) of Power Vacuum ;

Pros :
- Terrific renders (specially Ophelia and Brenna)
- The story and the plot are good

Cons :
- Too much grinding
- Not enough sex scene
- Repeatable dialogue (during the breakfast and the diner)

Additionnal comments :
- I liked the fact that you can't spy on your family at night, which I always find weird and it's so common in games these days.

Conclusion:
It's a good game overall, I recommand it and I'm looking forward for future updates !

Good job for your work !

My Rating for [v0.1b] is:

Pros:
+ Great Renders
+ Good Script
+ had a nice Plot
+ Makes you want to play for hours
+ NTR is Avoidible (Not for me)
+ Fast Pace in the Game (No Bullshit)
+ Great Hint System
Cons:
-None

Conclusion:
Very Good Game, no fragging endlessly , great Renders, and Great Story.
The Gameplay is easy and even lets you choose different Paths (for those NTR haters)
Overall a great Game with every bit worth the download.
5 stars in my book.

I'll admit, I'm not into 'just' incest games these days due to the choice on the market. I usually like some mind control or paranormal to go along with it. This on the other hand is so well written and has so much content for a .1 version that I can't give it anything less than 5 stars.

The game is great. A bit too much grinding but still OK. The characters are believable, the relationships genuine, and best of all, the dialogue is really funny. I can tell by the writing skill and vocabulary, the dev is quite well educated. Hey, if we don't use rich language,it will become extinct. Bravo!

To bad that there are no real choices in this game. I dont count any game over options. Because they are no real choice, because they end the game. The setting is not bad, but because there are no choices with real consequences it falls flat. When you can run into a problem and get a last chance to avoid that, that is ok, but here the first or second thing you do is to avoid a game over or just continue the "canon" story.

As far as I can see this is more a kinetic "grindnovel" than a real game, because there are no meaningful choices (when you cut out all game over ones). And then ... the "scenes" are nothing even close to NTR imho. There is no explicit stuff. They are all even fully clothed.

Oh and the whole "my semen covered my room and everywhere else"-talk is just stupid ...

At least you always know what to do and where to find characters to interact ... the renders are OKish.

V0.4
Well, that game surely deserves it's 5 stars. The renders and the camera angles improved a lot since v1.0, even the face of the younger sis i didnt like in the beggining goes perfectly with the exhuberant expressions.

The story made me smile a lot of time and laugh 2 or 3 times, it's a fantasy not to be taken seriously and i liked it.

There's a huge amount of content and is already worth playing as it is.

I dont really see where the grind is that i saw someone complain about since every scene unlock one after the other. U can pass time in your room if you've already seen the scenes at a certain time of a day or quick skip seen text in the parameters if you missclicked.


V0.1
Nice renders even if i dont like the face of the younger one, a bit of animation, story is interesting enough, the grind is so low that you barely notice it.

It's a very good start on my point of view, lets see what gets implemented next.