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

. . . .. . .. . . . . kinetic. . . .. sandbox. . . . . . grind.
Damn. . .. .
ntr path or not.
This shit is fucking messed up. This being kinetic does not help.
you know how usually the landlord/dad in incest porn gotta die off or be a villain? When playing through this, you realize it is seriously messed up how the antagonist traumatized the father. leading to his mistreating the mc enough that the mc didn't miss him until he learned about how his life and family got broken.

The mc seems wimpy to the porn world with his restraint. And the girls have serious reservations about him. Hell, quite often, the mc mentions how he is being used for their gratification while being treated like shit. That and the exhibitionsim scene made me particularly annoyed about this being kinetic. After a certain amount of double standard BS, you don't do shit as it's kinetic. The mc gets a rant, but you don't get to close a path off if you're finally tired of this shit.

And like just about all ntr that ruins the characters of the girls. The mc has to work a fuck ton and go through about a 100 rejections for the girls. Especially so when a lot of the game feels like you're grinding just like this game does. Then the girls just bend over for the antagonists.

Ntr really isn't avoidable. I'll concede it ain't a part of the story if you turn it off. But the transition scenes from chapter to chapter are like reminders (using some poor brothers irl examples) that
- your girl hugs every new member of a football team for a full 5 minutes regardless of the fact that this guy was a stranger 5 minutes before the hug
while
- she took eternity to get beyond handholding with you

constantly reinforces that you don't matter that much. Then supports the notion that the competition has more than just a leg up. Maybe both legs and a dick inserted. Now, she/ntr lovers/advocates tend to be pretty determined at gaslighting you as the new player into thinking it really ain't anything of substance, or it's not what it looks like.
The geezer does use drugs. But not all the time. The transition scenes between episodes or just about any scene with the old shit and any one of the LIs; even with ntr disabled, show the chicks being more open to the geezer than they were with the mc.
One could say this is to demonstrate the difference between the mc's restraint and respect compared to the geezer hunting inexperienced prey while looking like he has a skin disease for a face.
Still, that is character murder.

And it makes zero sense to have all lights on, everything visible. And the walking skin disease convinces the girls he is the mc with just a change of clothes and some voice acting. No they're not visually impaired. They didn't seem to be drugged either.

If you want me to list some pros.
The girls are sexy beyond any doubt.
The dev did try to put jokes, poem/rhymes and a bit.

But that takes me back to another con in the dev doing the regular thing when bringing a non-cult religion into porn. "Let's bring christianity into this and bash it"

Seriously. . . . when setting up an incest scene the characters say "what would Jesus do?"

That is beyond mockery of religion and morals. That's pretty much saying "I did this shit. Now what are you going to do? Show me you're real?"

Maybe that's a pro for many here who likely hate christianity or love to call them out for believing in a fake or imaginary figurehead. But those who like to do that will just as quickly turn around and say "yo! kink shaming is not cool" when something genuinely weird, immoral, and more get's a reasonable reaction.

Unique and great game.

Only reason im giving 3 stars is H scenes. Animations could be improved apart from loops of same frames and lacking of sounds of sex is my main problems with the game. The rest of it was amazing.

Great writing, great renders, great game. One of the few games that made me like all of the girls and made them unique characters. Does a fantastic job juggling them all as well. NTR scenes are well done too, even if it's not my cup of tea.

Easily some of the best art in any porn game, decent story with hot avoidable non-canon NTR, there's a gallery built in, great girls, huge dicks, definitely worth trying out for anybody. The only porn game where I'm actually keeping track of the updates

Terrible, absolutely terrible. This game is a click-fest. There are many events like this:

"Moms night event 1/15", which means you have to experience the same event 15 times in order to accomplish it. Now add that up to 8-10 events per chapter, for all characters.

The event is a little bit different each time (slow progress), but the progress is REALLY slow. The entire first chapter happened without any actual sexual interaction (a kiss on the mouth and a foot massage with the hands were the highlights). For instance, one event (0/9) with mom is that you sleep on her lap on the couch after watching TV with her. And I think 4 times or so it's just the same goodnight kiss on the cheek / closer to the lips with a little bit different text). Then it's another 3 times 2cm closer to the mouth - a joke.

The problem is though, that the dialogues are boring as fuck. Because the characters talk about unimportant nonsense all the time. The generic family topics about your deceased father that you've read a 100 times in Incest games. About how the MC has left the family and they missed him and lil sis was angry. Nothing original.

But that's just 5% of the dialouges. The other 95% is about the household, cooking food, playing games, movies and stuff that is just uninteresting to read, so CTRL is your best friend.

The "gameplay "consists of grinding through the text and bringing the 1/15 counters up to 15/15. (To be fair, some of them are only limited to 3-5 times, 15 was the biggest one so far. But overall they add up).

The old fuck (your grandfather) is disgusting on purpose with very ugly skin and long fingernails and he's groping the girls and trying to be close to them. Part of the game consists of interrupting him, so your boner will constantly get killed when you see that walking corpse next to the beautiful girls.

I turned NTR off, I assume a "bad ending" is where HE fucks them.. I can't even imagine this obscurity. Unbelievable someone designs that by free will.

Anyway, you won't miss anything if you skip this game. In fact, if you pick any other of the good rated incest games, you'll have a 10 times better experience. Because this here is thematically just a rip off from other games (big and lil sis, big sis wants you to take pictures of her, little one knows nothing about sex etc.).

The only good thing is the models, but they don't make up for the underaverage experience. And most other incest games have great models too.

This game is a parody, story makes almost no sense and it gets even crazier as it goes on, same for the LIs, with that being said the game knows that and it doesn't pretend to be something else, it doesn't even have to try to be funny, it just is with the help of the writing which is just as crazy as the rest of the story (in a good way).
The renders and animations improve drastically as the game progresses and there's a lot of lewd content past the first few chapters. The sandbox aspect is very simple and straight to the point, so you won't waste time figuring out how to progress the story.

Was about to drop the game when I started to see how pathetic MC is, how boring the story is, how easily corruptible the female characters are by Hunter and how literally every girl here is a lesbian.

But then.... Drew came, that was the straw that broke the camel's back, his introduction feels like a literal hugbox.

Catherine
What an awful character, had to skip all of her scenes, not only is she probably the ugliest girl in the game (Yes, evenDrewis hotter FFS) but her personality is just terrible, at times feels like she is mentally slow and thats a boner breaker.

Hated her stuff with Amber.

Brenna
Was fine at the beginning but then they had to include that other girl, her friend, EVERYWHERE; Not much else to say, she is kind of hot so if the big sister who is kind of a bitch seems appealing to you, you will probably like her.

Aliza
Not much to say, very little scenes till the last chapters, but she is hot and has a fun personality.

Mallory
Best girl.

Lucia
Not a fan.

Rebecca
Skipped the game to see her scenes...yeah that took a bad turn, she had the hot blonde looks and the conservative farm girl air around her aaaaaand the dev ruined her.

Ophelia
Cant say much, if you are here for the Mom/Milf scenes, it will take you a LOT of hours in to the game before they happen, and honestly? not that great.

She also turns in to your typical femdom milf character, boring and overused.

Futa Dude Drew
No comment at all,I do not like transgender characters in my games, also I believe he doesn't have a lot of scenes in this game, yet.

MC DAD
If I read it right while I was skipping through the last chapter, what the hell was the point of making the MC dad a bottom gay character who liked to fuck Drew? doesn't fit his personality from what the MC read in his journal at all and come on, really dev? Were the whole female lesbian/bisexual cast and the transgender characters not enough for the LGBT representation?


Conclusion
Game is overrated, it is a kinetic novel with no choices at all (obviously, thats what kinetic means, thats my fault for not checking the tags throughly), MC is pathethic and submissive, has no strong personality, has no personality but being boss around by the girls The only glimpse of personality I EVER SAW of him was in one of the bad ends where he kills hunter, he looks cool though, I'll give the game one extra star for having him glow up.

The models of Ophelia, Rebecca, Mallory are hot, everyone else, meh, game takes too long for anything beyond foreplay to happen (which I guess its normal, devs have to earn some money and what better way than milking a game).

There is too much LGBT stuff in this game, which could break or make the game for you (broke it for me), so that's a plus or a con depending on you.



Overall, I would NOT recommend playing it, if you are here for the NTR, just play the What if Stories to be honest.

Excellent from story telling to H content.
At first you might not like some characters but their personalities grow with the quality of the game and you will start to see that it's one of the few games that does feature absolutely different personalities.
NTR stuff is hot and not bound. Animations and models are amazing. Teasing and build-up is great and by level 11 you get a lot of it so the pacing is really good.
Jokes....jokes....well, you can get tired of them, they can sometimes be a no-boner and out of place but overall they are really good especially if you are familiar with the context of references (I wasn't 30% of the time). But the ones I got were really funny.

Simply great. Nice story, great characters, NTR is toggable. Sadly there seems to be some futa-content which I don't like at all and hope is pretty much nonexistent, but we will see (CH 11). Would be great if there were more updated, but I prefer quality over quantity.

Hot and funny game. It starts a bit rough, and I personally took a while to get into it, but the game gets better with each chapter.

The jokes and references do get a bit much from time to time which does take some getting used to and is probably not for everyone.

Don't let the NTR tags scare you off, I hate NTR and luckily the NTR filter in this game does a good job of letting you completely avoid it without feeling like you're missing out on anything.

Good characters (both models and personalities), great sex scenes, and the best humor I've seen in nearly *any* game (regardless of genre). I actually laughed out loud quite a few times while playing. I'll be donating on Patreon as soon as I am able.

Love the humor in the games text, great and funny story, not to predictable ad very entertaining might be weird to say that but the story is worth a playthrough even without the great porn there have been more than a few bellylaughs in there
bests ! and ty for the amazing game

I usually don't comment on games, but this game was one of the best games I've experienced. It had very high-quality art and an interesting story. If you like ntr style and are tired of monotonous games, definitely finish this game.
I can't wait for the next update .

possibly one of the best games I have played. the art is top notch for 3d renders and the NTR is also perfectly mixed in with a non-loser MC. I would like for there to be more What if spinoffs but working on the main game is worth it too. Would also like more Hunter/Bree NTR content.

This game is half as good as it is bad. Why did I say that? Because it's really parted into two opposite fractions that bleed into each other (ntr and opposite). Apart from this,
The bad:
1. Unavoidable bestiality, there is a Li who have given oral to her dog and fantasize about fucking him. There is an unavoidable panty (crotch) licking scene afterwords the mc pretends to be that dog and fucks her and tells her to fantasize that that dog is fucking her.
And you can't avoid these scenes or that Li.
2. Hundreds of references used as jokes between the dialogues that many don't understands becomes annoying sometimes. The worst part is they even seep into sex scenes.
3. Even though there are a lot of characters, most of them talk like a single person, which made me skip a lot of the bloated unnecessary dialogues clearly aimed at increasing the playtime but doesn't add to the actual story.
4. It seems like the author can't decide if he wants to make a ntr/femdom themed game or a netori/maledom themed. Originally all of the niche tags like ntr/bestiality are avoidable but it seems like the writer really like to push the fantasy on the readers so it sometimes gets spilled into the main story and because of all this to and fro between tags the MC's character becomes a little obnoxious.
there's even a non canon scene where MC takes it up his vagina..... so apparently mc gets turned into a beautiful girl and then gets fucked by the ugly old antagonist, now even though it's supposed to be non canon and not seep into the story still many characters mentions although jokingly that MC should take something up his ass again and again in that chapter so that non canon scene almost has a build up process in the main story until it happens non canonically just not in the ass lol so there's that
The good:
1. Renders and animations are top notch.
2. Story: although ridiculous if you play it with a little suspension of disbelief it really keeps you engaging.
3. Sex scenes: even though sometimes the jokes in between sex scenes become a turn off still the way they are presented, the situations, the angles the length of animations really makes up for it especially in later chapters.
Conclusion: overall it's a 3 star game but because of the constant gibberish humer and because it's a hot mess of niche/controversial genres like bestiality/ntr/femdom/genderbender bleeding into the vanilla content, I am giving it 2 stars.

Truly one of the best AVNs out there even tho it doesn't have much in the department of gameplay it sure as hell makes up for it in writing. Power Vacuum validates the existence of AVNs as a new form for adult content that gives you an emotional connection to the thing that you fap to. It has a really good, smart and funny writing and dialogue that has a proper build up and natural flow. I feel like I should address this but even though this game has an NTR tag it is purely non-canonical and often times leads to a game over screen that sets you back before the decision. I'm addressing this because some people here left 1-star reviews that didn't pay enough attention to the description and felt deceived by the tags. While this is a fair criticism, 1-star is not reflective of what this AVN has to offer to people in terms of quality writing and compelling characters. Truly what sets this game apart from most other games is it's set of characters and most notably the main character who is not a rapist or a pushover idiot (I can't understand why for the life of me these two are our usual suspects for the role of MC), but a rather reasonable and well-balanced individual who takes challenges thrown at him in stride.
It's a game that deserves to be in the must play list and I can't recommend it enough.

Great game, very funny, lots of content and characters with crazy proportions. But at the same time it's not really a Harem game, there are moments where a couple of the characters have close moments with the MC and each girl is unique but you're not in a relationship with any of them.


So it's either a Harem game with NTR because they are cheating(No I am not talking about the "Bad Endings that you can skip") or a "Free love" game with everybody fucking everybody. I don't get it.

I did like the game, there was one cuck scene(from the pov of the bull) that I liked and it is without a doubt the funniest porn game I've played(could be funniest game period). Just for those that don't like NTR don't let the "you can skip it" fool you, doesn't matter if it's with a guy or a girl it's still cheating.

This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the funniest game I have ever played. Mainstream, AAA, VN, anything, the script for this game outshines any other I've played in decades of gaming. The scriptwriter for this game is a fucking comedic genius with wordplay, puns, homophones, alliteration, malapropisms, double entendres galore, the list is endless. Seriously funny.

The girls are cute, the incest is sexy, the characters are individual and honest, I have no bad words to say about this game apart from the continued existence of dead scenes that hang around the menu and fool you endlessly into thinking there are new scenes to be found, when it's actually just constantly recycled ones that you have to click through the clock to identify the new scenes out of.

This is a fairly long and meaty game wtih a lot of content. It is a bit of a slow burner with not a lot of sexual content until you go a few chapters in, unless you get the NTR bad endings.

There are a lot of jokes in the game even during the sex scenes and pretty much all the characters seem to have similar humour which makes it both make them appear more like their related but at the same time it can also sound like a person making a joke with him/herself. The jokes does get a chuckle out of me from time to time though some times especially when done during the sex scenes just makes it weird like who would normally toss around dad jokes non-stop during sex???

The sex scenes are mostly great in my book with characters being from what I could glance anatomaly correct, I honestly can't believe how many sex scenes I've seen on here when the penis for instance seemingly goes into the womans stomach or ass cheek instead of the vagina/anus if you look close enough or sometimes even just by looking at all. This one instead has some really porn level scenes with great renders and you can see a lot of love has gone into making the characters in the game with how detailed they are.

A nitpick is that there seems to be a lot of NTR/bad ending sex scenes in the game and some of them seem to have quite a bit more content then the normal sex scenes, except they mostly involve an ugly fat old man who's also suffering from burns all over his body while also seemingly being more of a mix between a orc/goblin and a human then a normal human. The second nitpick is that with how much NTR/bad ending parts there are it would have been nice if there was some actual more development in this area since for now all we have is the bad guy being in the background while drugging everyone else and while it's "understandable" that the NTR scene happens because almost always the bad guy uses a drug on them to make them in the mood and then mostly pushes them down or rapes them. In one of the scenes for instance, spoiler alert.


Still that is just one scene and these nitpicks are not so much of bad content as in more of my personal thoughts that they should be either more developed as in not more NTR sex scenes but actual interaction from the bad guy's side outside of just having oh you picked wrong (because you for instance never watched a specific movie in RL) so now you get to see an NTR sex scene and instead there is some actual interaction between the bad guy and the girls to show how they actually think of him outside of him appearing to drug + rape them. When it comes to sex scenes there quite a few girls in the game that the MC should have sex with instead since the NTR scenes honestly feels closer to necrophilia at times then actual NTR sex scenes.

All in all I would say that if you like the games humour then this is golden if not then the game quickly drops from a 5 down to a 3-4 simply because honestly about 50% of the game is reading those kind of jokes. The story outside of the jokes is sort of interesting but again because of how the bad guy is implemented you don't really know much about what or why he's doing all of this outside of some of the stuff he's done or is doing though getting some of the bad endings will give the player more background story. So it's mostly just about the MC and him slowly going from incest is "wrong" to activly seducing every female that moves while finding out what is happening to his family and the bad guy just pops up whenever the MC picks "the wrong choice" during multiple choice and fucks the girls. There is some depth here in the character interactions but a lot of the time like many other sandbox games the content is gated behind some kind of short repetitive scenes where you get some dialogue then it seems to get sexual or there is some very small romantic progress, then you do it 5-10 times once per day slowly moving forward until you get a sex scene then you keep doing most often a shorter version of the initial sex scene another 5-10 times until you get another sex scene, though some times you don't even get a sex scene and instead you just get something like pick the wrong choice NTR bad ending pick the right choice the MC + girl seemingly get's a bit closer.

Still with all said I am really looking forward to how this game will play out.

Personally I was intitially thinking of giving this a 5 star because I like these kind of jokes, the girls are all attractive and I like most of the sex scenes but there are some nitpicks and probably because I liked this game so much the parts I didn't like became so glaring while I was writing this. If I could I would give this a 4.5 no questions asked but since that isn't an option I'll give it a 4 since the downsides as mentioned makes me unable to give it a 5 star.

This is still a highly recommended game that I would suggest anyone who likes sex games and don't mind the repetivness of games that are a mix of sandboxes and VN.

4.5/5 - As of chapter 11

- Futa/Trans tag: 0/5 going from Chapter one to eight, 2/5 onwards - As of chapter 9 it did introduce a relatively prominent futa/trans characters but it takes awhile to get there. I would not play this game solely because of the futa/trans tag.

- Story: 4/5 - I'm not into incest and this game forces incest onto you. Not only that, the incest is accompanied with NTR and while you can turn off the NTR, you're still presently met with an ugly as shit dried up raisin looking ass every once in awhile. As far as story progression goes it's not bad at all and I have to admit that the NTR portion of the story is surprisingly well done and makes sense within the story itself. But I'm still not a real fan of it.

- Writing: 5/5 - The developer clearly has a large vocabulary and has solid knowledge on the uhh biology behind the erogonous zones. I was pleasantly surprised with just how well spoken the dialogue sounded.

- Wordiness: 5/5 - Following up on above's point, there's a lot of dialogue going on and at times it gets a bit much for me. Entirely subjective and I appreciate the expansive dialogue regardless even though at some points it does get a bit tiring being barraged by the amount of witty dialogue. If it wasn't the MCs penis making me feel inadequate already, it'd be the sheer amount of witty comebacks all of the characters are able to come up with.

- Pacing: Slow burn that towards the middle chapters becomes a full on fiery flame.

- Gameyness: 2/5 - It's a VN first and foremost. It tries to incorperate some kind of gameplay element by letting you visit the myriad of rooms in your home, but at some point it becomes whack a mole trying to find the room that will further the story of a character. It doesn't help that there's a few filler scenes in there which never change and are always visible throughout every day, regardless of progress. If there's any serious criticism I could give this VN, it'd be that.

- Sex scenes quality: 5/5 - This game/VN features fully animated 3D sex scenes of solid quality. Some of the physics can look a bit jello-ylike however other than that and given the sheer amount of scenes there are, it's top-notch quality.

- Content quantity: 5/5 - Power Vacuum has been out for awhile and it's noticeable. There's a serious amount of content to enjoy here. I would wager there's at least 10 hours of content to enjoy here.

Power Vacuum is objectively a quality VN that also delivers on the porn aspect, although slowly. The characters all feel like their own people with their own personali(tit)ties and while the story is ridiculous, it wasn't ridiculous enough to me to the point where my suspension of disbelief became nonfunctional. All of the characters slowly and satisfyingly progress throughout the game with many milestones rewarding the player with some lewdy goodness. The characters interact with each other and it really does feel like you're part of a dynamic household.

This is not a game I can rate any lower than a 4/5 and considering the quality of the writing, the renders, and the sex scenes, it deserves a 4.5/5 rounded up to a 5.

Quick note since I keep seeing people mention Ophelia's femdom phase being their reason for quitting: this is only temporary, for better or worse. The people who quit at this point are missing out.