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

Hunter is an Over the top vile old man (seriously disgusting)
moves in with your “step”-mom/sisters. Dad died and left them deep in debt and hunter is exploiting this by renting a room in their house while planning to exploit their emotional vulnerability over the death of father/husband to fuck and chuck them. His intent is explicitly malicious and scummy.

MC comes up with the brilliant plan of stopping Hunter by seducing the girls first into an incesteous relationship.
You also use a bunch of cruel and frankly hilarious methods to sabotage the old man like spiking his food with ipecac, making his hearing aid overload, messing with the drugs he feeds your sister so that she punches his teeth out instead of fucking him, etc.
Also will acquire a few other girls who are not your family to round up the harem later on.

The MC's explicit goal in the game is to avoid getting NTRed. He is building harem and defending it very aggressively.
The actual plot is linear and the True plot is one where you successfully defend your harem. The game has two modes of play
[NTR on] mode you are allowed to fail, resulting in a “bad end” NTR scene (which is gross because as mentioned he is extremely vile and decrepit looking. Hunter makes a pig orc look handsome in comparison) followed by automatic time travel back to when you made the mistake so you can pick the correct choice.
[NTR off] mode disables your ability to click on dumb choices in the first place so you always succeed in protecting your harem.

The game is a bit slow, but not exactly grinding. Rather each scene is small incremental progress with unique dialog.
Most of the humor is slapstick with varying degree of funny. Some of it is just cringe though. Such as bashing other games in the genre while still falling into the same foibles.

MC starts out as a wussy shrimp meant to invoke shota. With the mom having a giantess build.
After a week of excercise MC mysteriously grows a foot taller and transforms from a shrimp into an adonis with the physique of a body builder.
Then his mother accidentally breaks his penis and through a convoluted scenario it heals bigger, becoming a bitch breaker.
This is, technically, not a retcon.

DEAR GOD WHYYYYYY?!??!
*takes a deep breath*

So this review is for the Chapter 9 version since the What Ifs are just optional side pieces of content.

Aight, so. The GAME!
I have had a hard time finding anything wrong with this game. Over all this is a great sandbox visual novel. The renders COULD be better, but it more than makes up for it with its Unique models in the game... Seriously, I haven't seen anything more grotesque than Hunter.... God he's ugly! The animations can be a bit of a hit and miss mainly, because of how much work was put into each of them.

But the scenes??? They are pretty damn good which is what really keeps me coming back to this game. Whether it's whaching something as grotesque or hot, you are going to keep coming back to replay these scenes.

I also have no complaints about the story. It definitely keeps you engaged with it's humor and it's characters. Even the NTR scenes are well written to where you can't help, but giggle a bit. I just wish there were a couple of NTR scenes that take Hunter out of the picture all together were canon.

So uhh... yeah. Peep this game yo! Along with it's side content (AT YOUR OWN RISK!).

One of the best games on the site if not the best, Great writing, gameplay is pretty straightforward once you pick up how it plays out. The sex scenes at the beginning of the game were average but have greatly picked up as the chapters get higher and higher.

When i first started playing the game, it had a nice plot, sexy, funny scenes, good humor, banter, and this "corruption" feeling, that you can enjoy in a good game...
But then it got worse, and worse... Corruption was replaced by pounding, and there was not that many good scenes...
Models are still ok but they feel like a bit rushed, in compare to earlier releases.
NTR... Not a big fan, I dont mind, but to spend most time on rendering side stories (maybe for top tier patrons...) damaged the image of the main game. And i mean it... Played 2 what if, ald left it there.

This game is slow to progress with sex but gives a lot of time to bind with the LI so its dialogue heavy. now to do what I never thought I'd do and defend NTR.
I'll start by saying that I'm not a fan of NTR but if you want the most out of this game you'll want to leave it enabled, most of the NTR scenes are over the top and with the game dev making a joke then pausing and rewinding to before your bad decision it kind of feels like a dream scenario, it also reaffirms that what the MC is doing is important and that he's protecting his family. the only 2 scenes that I really felt were too much were Brenna CH7 and sleepover CH9 since if felt like more of an emotional NTR.
Another thing to factor in about this game is that most of it is foreplay, dialogue, and binding with the LI and penetrative sex takes a pretty long time to come around, so without the NTR you end up with foreplay for a very long time, I actually think this slow approach to the LI is a good thing since it gives a chance to get to know them and care for them , it also make certain acts much more meaningful like a certain blowjob, if you play this you would probably know which one I'm taking about.
Also if you don't like how the MC looks he'll get better over time, I didn't like how he looked at the beginning too
not a good review since I dint actually talk about the game but oh well, just know its a great game and worth playing

It's generally a nice game. Decent renders, pretty girls and good dialogues. However there are two huge cons which ruin the game completely.

1. Way too much cock teasing. Imagine ordinary relationship path in any other porn game. First you get girl undressed, then handjob > boobjob > blowjob > oral sex > vaginal > anal etc. Now imagine you have to repeat every activity 10-20 times with a slightly different dialog to progress to the next step. Yeah, that what Power Vacuum is.
2. So, you've repeated handjob session 20 times and want to progress to the next step. Can you? No! You can't progress the game with only girls you like, you have to progress with all of them at the same time. So, to unlock the next level first make 15 foot massages with another character and so on and so on. I hate Kate's and especially Lucia's paths yet I had to play it to progress with other girls.

The game really should be like 3x times shorter. This endless cock teasing is just tiresome. Reading walls of text to only see the same animation 20 times is no fun. Honestly, I skipped all dialogues in the last 3 chapters to only see sex scenes. I hope someone will upload Ophelia sex scenes to the Pornhub, because there's no way I will play it again.

NOTE: I only played this once and will again when I have time and change review if necessary.

Lets start with good stuff first!

Massive amounts of content, and it is funny without having to rely on obnoxious sound effects too much. Also, it has taken a risk with its story, I will not spoil but all can say is it does not do the same cookie-cutter BS and most other games and actually tries to stand out from the crowd. I don’t mind the NTR. +3

Cons

The bodies of the characters do not look good at all! The breasts look super weird. The dialogue can seem a little off but this only happens sometimes. The renders are poor. This is a very important aspect of a 3D game on renpy. The models look very low quality.

This is a great fucking game. It's hilarious, looks pretty good and features some simply excellent writing. I'm not overly fond of sandbox games, but this one avoids a lot of the pitfalls of the genre. It's not very grindy, there's no money to worry about (except in a story sense) and no dumb minigames. I was also never left baffled about how to advance a character's story, it's fairly straightforward and the game offers hints if you need them. The LIs are hot, but some have somewhat ludicrous dimensions going on. All in all, if you somehow haven't played this yet, do yourself a favor and fix that!

Almost a masterpiece!

This is a gem of the adult VN community.
The teasing, the humor and the facial expressions are on spot.

Each and every character is unique, with well-developed personality traits and well understood profiles. The only downside I see here is that, while well developed and unique, they are also ridden with a great deal of similarities - mainly their mannerism and quick wit almost being genetically passed down.
Unless intended, this is hard for a single author to notice or escape from, which is why a good editor could do wonders for some counter-play and advice. But this is where my criticism ends.

I applaud the developer/author for doing something I rarely give kudos for here on F95 - and that is delivering a proper easy to follow plot with a ton of supporting- and original sub-plots. The banter is enjoyable and funny. Each character is developing and growing, not to mention the MC *wink wink*.

Playing this game in the later hours of the evening has almost become a minor ritual for me. Especially since I wish to end every day on a positive note in order to steer clear from any depressive triggers.

I wish to thank @What? Why? Games for letting me enjoy the world and characters they have created. You have my utmost respect and gratitude.
Keep adding, keep making and expanding to this wonderful quirky family.

P.S. I love the optional NTR. I rather have it off.

First thoughts of this game were that it was rather cheaply done, but that opinion has changed a little. It does still have a cheap feeling to it, some of the story line and renders are not exactly excellent. Still it grew on me rather fast.

Story - 8/10 There is quite a lot of comical commentary which is not bad although it does go overboard a little. The rest is pretty much involved in close to every usual fetish that is known. Some are a little much, still for some reason it does capture interest.

Originality - 9/10 Have not come across a story/game that tries so hard to involve so many fetishes. I must say that it is done pretty well, there is room for improvement, and it does go a little fast. Still it is more interesting that many others out there.

Renders - 7/10 Here there is definitely room for improvement. A great deal of the renders feel out of date. Although there is a lot to see that is fine. It still has that feeling that it is outdated.

Animations - 9/10 This is where it shines, the animations although certainly not the best. Are a vast improvement over so many others. I give the dev high marks for this, Animations and story are the Main draw in these story/games, and it is quite well done in this one. Of course the sex scenes are still rather short in my opinion, i have seen others that do a better job, still this one is pretty well done.

Grammar - 8/10 There are certainly spelling and grammar errors, as well as comments that don't make sense. A more thorough proof read before putting the chapters out would fix that.

Amount of content - 9/10 Very good amount of content in most chapters, some feel a little short. Certainly high marks for this.


Overall well done, still room for improvement. at first i was not impressed by this story/game at first viewing. That changed after my first complete play through. If the renders were improved along with some of the story, and the animations were longer and a little more involved. This would certainly be a more highly rated and well known story/game. I do like this one, just wish it were better.

This game.... I mean, I really should hate it. It has a lot of things I hate in it, yet for some reason, I enjoyed way too many hours playing.

CONS:
To be honest, the only thing I have against the game is it is way too wordy. I know the banter is part of the charm of this game, but it could tonned down a bit. When you play it from the beginning, it gets to be too much. Plus you know it's just banter, so you start to skim it anyway. I would also like to see the character icons go away from the room selection when they don't do anything anymore. Like Catherine and the spa or Brenna and the pool.

PROS:
I normally don't even bother with games containing incest; it's just not my thing. Additionally, I dislike most sandbox style games. I am also not a hug fan of grind to get to the good stuff. But here I am, talking about how great this game is.

I think for me, it's like watching incest porn. You know they are actors and not really related so I could really care less. In this case, the dev has made this family so much NOT a family and with such crazy banter, that I don't view them as "real". What I mean by that is sometimes these games/VNs have a more serious, realistic story to them where the siblings develop serious feelings for each other. Well, there is nothing serious in this story so it makes it easier for me to get past my uncomfortable feelings.

I also think every game should have a Hunter character. This is the best thing to ever happen to NTR. Seriously. I love everyone of his scenes. He is the skeviest, nastiest, grossest big dick bastered I have ever seen in these games. I think every dev should immediately him to their stories.

Conclussion: If you are looking for a serious game, there is nothing at all to see here. If you are looking for a fun romp through wacking material and totally unrealistic situations and behaviours, then look no furthur. Just becareful what you eat and drink while you are there.

Exceptionally good game. One of the best, certainly in the top ten. Probably even top five. Well-developed characters (both main and side), funny ideas, appealing texts, and the iPatch tops things off . The facial expressions and animations in the hot scenes are awesome.

For me, it also came to the fact that I had not updated the game since 2019 (chapter 2). Somehow I always overlooked the updates. Now I'm on chapter 7 in the game and each chapter tops the previous one.

This game is a must play! Hats off to the developer...

I admit, I had mixed feelings during chapter 1, but once I got through it, I started to really appreciate the slow pace. What else can I say? It's a really good fucking game. You'll be blueballed for the first few chapters, but it's totaly worth it!
Trust me, dev put a lot more work into it than I into writing this review.

The dialogue is witty and well written. The renders and character models are good as well. The premise is so absurd and so are the resulting scenarios but the commitment to the world created and its rules is one hundred percent, which coupled with the rapid fire witticisms gives playing the game a feeling akin to alice stepping into wonderland albeit a slightly perverse one. 5/5 stars.

So far is the best game I've ever played.
The game has a good story, a wonderful art, fantastic milf and excellent animations.
The NTR is right on point, you have the choice to decide if you wanna see it or not, which i found it a great solution for the NTR haters.

Just waiting for and fucking with Ophelia, now a clicker will be waiting for us
.in the beginning, interestingly thin now madly thinning. everyone is waiting for him to fuck Ophelia! Perhaps it will be waiting for it to be worth it, Otherwise, like the game the average of Ophelia and Brena ok, I would like to spice up some super characters and the entanglement rather do the sequel II

I used to have a massive aversion to NTR and dodged a lot of games because of the NTR tag before playing this, but this game has given me a bit of a love for NTR games (when the mood takes me anyway.)

I give this the full 5 stars because in my opinion it's one of the best games I've found on this site, the writing is fantastic, funny and doesn't take itself seriously and I really enjoy the story. The characters are amazing, I don't think there's a bad one in the bunch (MC was kinda boring in the beginning but got better with time.)

Definitely in my top 5 games on this site (probably 1st or 2nd if I'm truly honest.)

çI dont even care if the game is good at this point cause i have been palying for 2 hours and 4 minutes and the good thing about the game taht is the writing and the jokes became far far from annoying like 1 hour ago.
Everybody talks the asme kind of joke, semi intelectual thingy humour, it gets tiring, its like living wiht a "funny" virgin, and i have been there i dont want to live with myself again, so please stop this.

I would care if there was some balance, for instance 140 minutes of annoying dialogues and 10 minutes of decent sexual scenes, but its not the case. The actual case is 170 minutes of annoying dialogues and repeated scenes, for instance the soap opera event (which is 12 days repeating it, to acomplish a kiss in the mouth) and 30 seconds of something that may resemble a sex scene.
By the way, Cathy, at least in the begining is about feet, unavoidable.
Girls tits are horrendous, and they are 2 girls with those "perks"
nemesis is horrendous, ugly and seeing it kils any mood that exist for the next 2 minutes of sex scenes, and seing that in 3 hours you only get 30 seconds, you can imagine how outrageously bad this is.

Will the game inmprove after 3 hours? i dont know and i dont care, this is not worthy of anybodys time. Bt if you like it, good for you, i just cant take it anymore. A Skipfest, that is funny for 20 minutes, where you basically see and do nothing but grinding.

I AM NOT JOKING. lAST EVENT WAS 125 CLICS, AND GOT 2 RENDERS OF A KISS. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE CLICS for a kiss. 125 lines of dialogue FOR A KISS.

Edit:
I replayed all the way through CH9 rgiht when the scene with Amber and Cath and I finally Alt+F4ed cause the scenes are just not worth, most of them are horrendous. Sex scenes are bad, characters look attrocious, and the only value the game has is unrelated to porn which are some dialogues. But those same dialogues are some sort of cream for a cake that sucks, but an uverused cream, maybe like peanut butter or something, or ketchup.
Very amateurish, to the point that in CH9 all of the sudden there is a lot of Wet effect being used, everyone is sweaty all of the sudden.

If you want a couple of laughs, play it, dont play it for the porn cause main characters are plot protected by blueball marketing techniques, and the scenes just suck.

Version: Ch. 8

This is a slow burner game, it takes a lot of time to take of and that's ok, but I have a mixed feelings about this.

The beginning of the game, and I'm talking about the first 8-10 hours or even more the game isn't that impressive but as you progress it getting slightly better and better. The story and characters become more interesting but in my opinion it happens way too late (and it has nothing to do with the game being a slow burner).

The animations at the beginning is ok and I would say above average and as you get deeper into the game they gets better and livelier.

Progressing the story doesn't feel like a grind because every step in the questline accompanied with new dialogue and small progression - in contrast with just grinding stats with the same scenes over and over. But on the other hand, you don't have really any choice in the game except choosing the order of the progression in the quest lines of the girls. Moreover, let say you have a girl you don't like, you don't have a choice to not progress her story, you must do all stories of all girls.

The writing felt to me monotonous in the emotion you get throughout the game and also in the speech of the girls, meaning that the characters didn't feel like they have personality, tonality and patterns of their own but like the same girl talking but in different bodies.
Though I can say that the characters grew personality as the game progressed but way way too far for the average player to push through. I think the intervention party scene was the first time I saw a glimpse of potential the game could have if it divided the story to high and low points and had not a linear monotonous arc but more of a bumpy one.

To add to all of the above, I found many inconsistencies in the story and it breaks the immersion hard. Like when you make some character mad at you in one story line but in the other story line it has 0 effect like nothing happened. Then finally when you get back to the other story line, suddenly the character is mad at you when I already forgot what happened and was surprised.
Also, sometimes there were no followup to some of the scenes which made it look like they were important. Like when the mother is mad and telling you to come talk to her, but nothing happens and you find her fine and well later on which by the dialogue farther you understand that this "talk" with her happened not with you, the player, present in the situation - which is a really weird choice in this type of game.

Maybe you will let few chuckles throughout the game but for me, the game wasn't that funny even in its "absurd" situations.

Overall I think the game had potential because you can see it farther in the game (chapters 6+ maybe) with the story getting better, the visuals with regards the animations are getting better but to get their, you have to push through hours of not so fun gameplay and dialogue.

First three stars, now down to two.

First rating: 3 Stars because it is funny, lots of sex and many attractive women. Bad points about the game are the fact that NTR is only for old-ugly-fat-disgusting bastard.
Furthermore many women dropped massively with time, for instace Lucia and cath.

Second rating: Down to two stars because the downfall of the female characters is becoming worse. Now Rebecca has reached an all time low in that matter. The game needs these type of things or "fetishes" to be optional or at least let the women be optional, if they already did such things in the past.