VN - Ren'Py - Project Myriam - Life and Explorations [Ch. 5.03+p] [Zorlun]

I finally decided to try this game and see what the hype was about.

The character models don't look particularly attractive to me overall. Sure, Myriam has huge breasts and an above average face but the rest of her isn't that appealing to me. If you're into thick milfs then you'll probably love it.

If you look at Myriam compared to most men in the game, she looks huge, perhaps twice their bodyweight (if you compare them side by side). I have a hard time getting behind playing a 200+ pound milf.

Even though many of the female character models in the game aren't that attractive to me, the render quality is excellent overall.

The animations in the game are poor and just consist of 2 to 4 frames each. Even calling these animations is a stretch. They are rough and choppy as hell. Proper animations require a lot more FPS (frames per second). 20 FPS or higher is required for smooth animations.

OK, the writing and story. The story and writing are good overall, however with two major annoyances:

#1 - Dialog is too verbose. It often takes four or more screens of dialog just for Myriam to say goodbye to someone. This is the case in all other areas of the game's writing. I'm not interested in reading a book, I want a summary with the story moving at a reasonable pace.

#2 - Inner thoughts are grossly overused! The player is constantly told what the MC and other characters are thinking. Honestly, after playing through the first half of the game, I just started skipping all the 'Inner thoughts' of all the characters. It was just way too much and I stopped caring! The player is literally told what every character is thinking every second of the story = madness!

During the first half of the game, I was planning on giving this game a 4 star rating. Playing through the second half, I just got bored and the enjoyment diminished. The verbose dialog and inner thoughts just slowed the story down way to much for me.

Lots of spelling mistakes that a simple spell checker would catch. Some awkwardly worded sentences here and there. A few missing words. So many developers out there don't see the value in a proofreader. They try to do everything themselves and won't reach out for help. Authors who aren't native English speakers especially need proofreading help!

The stat changes are a nice plus and some of the choices are good! With a more focused story, fewer inner thoughts, proper animations, and prettier characters I could see giving this game a 4 or even 5 star rating.

I thought Katherine's two hairstyle changes looked terrible. In fact, the first one reminded me of what I typically see on grandmas. Just looking at the hair and nothing else I would think she was 75+ years old. Katherine's original hairstyle looked so much better than everything that came later!

One large complaint with the game is getting locked out of having sex with characters later down the road. For example, with William, if you don't have sex with him after your husband cheats on you, all future options with having sex with that character are greyed out. It doesn't matter how high your lust or other stats are. I checked in the code and because I didn't feel right about cheating on my husband after he cheated on me I'm locked out of future sex with the character. This happens will many characters in the game, not good! So you pretty much have to accept all sexual events or risk getting locked out permanently later on. There is no warning that this closes the path (like the player is warned in other areas of the game). There is no warning at all, you are just permanently locked out.

I can see that a lot of hard work and effort went into this project. I understand that it is the author's first attempt at an adult game title. I wanted to rate the game higher but I can't in it's current form. The game is just average to me IMO.

I wish the author lots of success in future development!

I will give you a trigger warning. You must be very careful playing the game because it does go into rape and spousal rape with domestic violence at the start.

This is definitely one of the most reactive to my choices adult games I played, I have played a ton and it funny how you can see when developer knows what they doing or just an woman hating incel. I was worried at first that it be full into the horrid fetishes and glad given an opportunity to switch off beastality and cut the cord on a rancid character.

To the Developer:
I think it would be more important to add a feature that explains all the different traits and kinks etc when the game starts with text so people can understand fully the traits, kinks etc when it comes to making the choices.

I had fun at the start but then it quickly got pretty damn nasty and was shocking and unpleasant, not my fetish.

So I worked on being more disiciplined with my choices and builiding my Myriam up and really happy with her at the moment. This however does not mean I have lost erotica, actually had lots of erotic and fappable scenarios.

If you lose certain stat (willpower) and get too submissive it can really become pretty vicious and cascade into scenarios that you cant get out of. You also need to make sure you keep her lust up for some encounters though it didnt seem to be a problem with lesbian encounters.

I think that is because with Lust being a bit separated from the lesbian kink which at first was unsure about but then from playing was the correct choice because it allows you to have lesbian encounters with less lust stats but worked up my lust stat now so getting more options.

I have managed at the moment get a happy-femdom-exhibitionist-big dick loving-with incest kink-cougar-bisexual , sexually empowered queen with self defense. It really does give you the tools to turn her utterly into an abused, sexually assaulted and raped c** bucket.

I would highly recommend people put on notifications of what kinks, traits etc you get from choices because it is very important information.

I would say at the moment the Developer has impressed me with showing a flexibility with choices that has helped me shape the current game from horrid start to some I am in very happy with and fitting.

I havnt finished this fully yet so it may got off the deep end as some of these games do and obviously I have missed out on certain encounters but I am satisfied and been able to fap to very erotic scenarios.

The game is definitely one of the best on here for the flexibility and I also praise the developer again for his compentancy in desiging the game with said flexibility which is not present in many games in this genre.

I do recommend playing it and it is a proper adult game.

Pretty disappointed in this game tbh... Sure, the renders are pretty, but what sold me into trying it was the "heavy on choices" gameplay.
Except it's really not...

In short, you are a rapetoy on legs. Every being in town wants to either trick you into fucking them, for the nice ones, or outright rape you, for the others. And basically, your only choices are to say no, or let them (saying no won't necessarily prevent them from doing it by the way). And that's WHEN you have a choice, you don't always do.

Worst even, is that you're making minor choices which open to major events you COULD decide whether you want it or not, but don't.
One example from the very first scene of the game:

I can't tell you how long I've had to sift through the dime a dozen, male protagonist, harem games here to finally come across this.

Finally, a female protagonist where she can choose her kinks in a wide selection.
And that's the most important and enjoyable part: choice.

Outside of one moment early where she has to fuck Anthony in one of the ways, all the sex is completely optional. The game can even be played sexless. That's awesome!
The choice can be made to mix and match the sex content, or go only male, lesbian or bestiality. Or choose to only pursue one person.
It's even enjoyable rejecting the people I'm not interesting in after going through the story parts with them. It adds to the build-up and anticipation of getting to who I do want to pursue.

It helps that the protagonist is likeable and sympathetic too. And a beauty to boot.
All the women in this are.
I'm also pleased to see the bestiality and lesbian content aren't just tacked on like with so many other games.

Very happy that all my searching has paid off.

Great story so far. I love the models, and the great renders. The depiction of sex scenes is great, the animations are high-quality, and I absolutely love how many fetishes you are able to explore in this game. I don't usually play female protagonist games, but this one is top tier. The protagonist actually looks quite realistic, and I liked how they gave you the possibility to actually choose her character -she can be dominant or submissive, even lesbian, and you can pretty much avoid the stuff you don't like. It's a very fun game with loads of content! A MUST!

Great game in my opinion. Well crafted, good content. The sex scenes are good, and the renders are smooth. I wish this game goes on for a longer duration because it is fun! It includes so many types of content with so many different choices! In my honest opinion, maybe Miriam could be made slightly better looking or at least NOT have curly hair in some scenes. She's got a great body

This game has a ton of real choices, a lot of agency granted to the player, great CGs, and lots of good kinky situations and content. There is already a lot of content and enough to keep us all happy for a while but im definitely left wanting more and excited to see where it goes

Love this one so far, would have liked more options with Aiden in the changing room and to corrupt the daughter with William and Myriam. Also Aiden should get a lil some some for helping Myriam in the alley.

To see a project go for so long with regular updates always puts a smile on my face. The game covers several fetishes ( which for some people can be a downside if your prefered content is not updated every patch), but for someone who goes with everything the creator intended i dont really mind that. The renders are good, the story goes as expected for this kind of game. As a player you are always in control which is always a plus when dealing with female MC (Myriam may be a slut or you can avoid sex with anyone- in that case wtf are you doing in here ).
Anyway huge thanks to Zorlun for being active in here and for the updates.

I followed it up to a certain point but got tired, it's not a bad project with aceptable update timing, good characters, acceptable story for a fictional porn game, good setting and gameplay, but no animations, for me, it got boring. In my opinion, with good animations it would have achieved exorbitant success compared to what it managed to achieve.
As a comic I could rate it the highest but, from my point of view, a VN without animations is worth nothing and this is the reason for the bad rating.

One of the top tier porn games of all time!
The game not only allows you many different paths for the female MC, but also covers many, many fetishes!
The plot is very fast paced, without any BS delays and offers a lot of variation and different scenarios.
An absolute must play and highly recommended!

Excelent game, this is easily one of my top 3 games, I wish devolper keep his/their good work, story and quality.
if someone is looking for a good game and not only skip boring text this is your game.

Fantastic game. This game rocks from the start, no slow crawl beginnings here my friend. This VN has everything. love the group scenes and Myriam's humiliation, great balance and really detailed points system. This may be the best and most ambitious VN in production right now. Looks like they have been working on it for about 3 yrs now. This is destined to be a classic and Myriam looks great. She ranks right up there with Kat from "Deliverance"and Nicole from "Exciting Games", two of my favs. This is a raunchy game and I love it. It has everything, check it out!!! Follow Zorlun on Patreon, its free.

The renders did not appeal to me but the great reviews definitely put it on my radar after a while. I LOVE games where your choices give permanent stats that change future play and this has them!

There are a lot of choices but nearly every major path requires mostly the same choices making it feel more repetitive than it needs to. It is long but not as wide as I first thought it would be. I almost wish there were more choices as well - you can select to have dinner with someone, be interested, and next thing you know it railroads you into having sex with them without giving the option.

You also basically have to say yes to everyone and everything to get sexy options later instead of being able to focus on 1 or 2 characters the way I would want to.

I loved the differences between dominant scenes and submissive. Overall I am VERY positive about this game despite the missed potential and really look forward to future content.

The sheer number of choices and type of stats allows for an incredible deal of freedom in how our female character develops. I am particularly a fan of how the game and developer allow players to develop Myriam's personality (e.g., she can be naive and trusting or aware and perverted).

There is a wide cast of characters accompanied by a wide cast of kinks, helping to sate everyone's perverted interests and scenarios. The scenes and story are also well developed, so it is actually worth investing some interest in the plot and story. There haven't been any significant game breaking glitches or grammar errors that ruin the immersion either.

All in all, this is definitely in contention for one of the best female protagonist games/visual novels on the site!

An awesome game. Female protagonist is an absolutely babelicious 30 something woman. Almost every possible kink (except the really weird and illegal ones) are there but none are forced. She starts with an absolute twunt as a boyfriend but can get away from him. One of the best games on here.

Wow.
That's all I can say about this game.
I'm normally not a fan of overly boxomy female characters. Gigantic tits and ass does not do it for me and I have generally avoided games that featured said assets.
Damn glad I gave this a try.
As the game went on, it fulfilled each of my kinks and let me tell you, I have a lot of them.

I don't ever post on here, but I'm gonna do it to commend the creator(s) of this work of art. It actually feels like someone with a brain wrote the script/dialogue for this thing- and English isn't even their first language. Mon Dieu, it is so very refreshing to see a game written by someone with greater than a middle school vocabulary repeating the same lines and words ad infinitum just trying to get the job over with. Kudos Project Myriam Life & Explorations devs. I highly recommend this title.
The renders are well done and stimulating, the pacing/plot flows very naturally to the point where I'm actually interested to see where things are going next and- almost most importantly, I can read this game's story without feeling like the dialogue on screen is subliminally trying to put my IQ into the double digits. On top of it all, the dev(s) offer a variety of different reactions/options for the MC's many interactions throughout the plot. For all these aforementioned exceptional components I'm giving this title a well deserved five stars. It also helps that the MC is a bombshell too, damn. The preview images don't do her justice. If you're iffy on the way her face looks, just give it a chance and you'll see that lighting can be quite deceptive. C'est Magnifique...
-Bogdanoff Approved, don't dump it.

TLDR Absolutely amazing FemProtagonist game. Even if you generally do not like FP there might be a path for you.

In my boredom I decided to try some high-rated games on the site. Myriam had caught my eye many times but had decided to not play it. Not a big fan on FP games, since many of them rely on degradation/weakness/stupidity of the MC. It is just something I am not into as a pretty old dude.

Yet this game was a great experience. There is a kink for everyone and you can pretty much mould your Myriam's personality. I got pretty much into it and to my amusement noticed that I soon had dumped all of the players and abusers on the wayside. Girl power I guess?

Great experience with exceptional variability. Have not seen a game with so many well-thought out branches.

This game is a masterpiece.
You can follow several paths that result in very different personalities and fetishes for the protagonist.
We need more content from this awesome game.