VN - Ren'Py - Project Myriam - Life and Explorations [Ch. 5.08a+p] [Zorlun]

An excellent visual novel! No slow burn, that's for sure!

Good choice selection and the ability to turn off stuff you don't want to see or avoid it with the right choices. Also, a personal thing, I'm glad there is no incest (Anthony isn't the MC's son but her Anthony's from a previous relationship). I'm not a fan of the thinly disguised "landlady" games.

The images are good and the MC is a beautiful lady. Many thanks @Zorlun There are plenty of sexy scenes together with some that are, necessarily, dark. I'm looking forward to see where this goes now that the MC is free of Anthony and experimenting with her freedom plus, depending on choices, dabbling in drink and drugs... Nice to have a Ren'Py game that works this well without having to plot your way around a board to get content!

Now this is a lively ride; even the MC would agree, I think, in those brief, restful moments in the shower she has between irrumations. No slow burn here, things start at a clip and just go faster, with lots of sloppy sex. Renders are good, although there seems to be a lot more care taken with the women - they're much more expressive and subtly posed than the men

It's a VN with some choices. There's a lot of stats under the hood, but you don't need to worry - generally the choices are pretty clear. You like aliens? You can have aliens, but if not, don't worry about it. The basic premise is nice mommy gone wild. There are a number of VNs with the same story on this site, the heroine's journey into depravity. I think this is one of the best.

No world-building ambitions. The Dev keeps things tight and well-organized.. Very episodic. There's a fair bit of grotesque humor that keeps things from being too serious. The dialogue is designed to move the story along. Major kudos to the Dev for keeping things fast, fun and lively.

Flaws? Well, I've already noticed it starting to get a little repetitive, I mean, there's nothing really happening story-wise other than contriving to get the MC on her knees, and then her showertime soul-searching afterwards. There are moments where the dialogue doesn't fit the render - makes me think that parts have been rushed. As for the MC, I'm not that fond of her lack of discrimination. I mean, she's a striking woman, you'd think that if she's having one affair with the teen stud next door and another with a rich stable-owner, she wouldn't need a hobo appetizer. This is a problem common to all games of this type.

One thing this VN does make me think about, is the question of how well the model suits the character. The MC is a model I haven't seen before, which is refreshing. She's unconventionally beautiful, a big, strong, fit woman, a former athlete. You'd think with such a physical presence she wouldn't be such a stranger to sexual freedom. Not to mention that she's more than capable of physically dominating most of the lecherous men she encounters. It's weird that she's so... fragile. I dunno, but I think a more fitting model would be more delicate, a Grace Kelly type (sorry, all my reference points are from Hollywood's Golden Age). It seems weird that the emotional, conservative, church-going mother who ends up half-pulled half-leaping into sexual freedom would look like she could hold her own in WWE. Okay, I'm probably overthinking; it is an erotic VN after all.

And as an erotic VN it totally does what it says on the tin.

So, I played this just now. It looked good on the surface, but i was disappointed. It's pretty much your typical female MC game, and not in a good way.

Pros:
- There are a lot of choices. There is a stat for almost everything, character relationships, fetishes, MC's personality etc.
- The renders are pretty nice.
- A wide variety of fetishes.

Now let's do the cons.

A pro of this game is the number of choices and stats. But that's also it's negative. A lot of the stat requirements are unreasonably high, for example if you don't have 10 "Dirtiness"" points, you don't get scene X so it just skips over it or blacks out a choice so you have to take another route. That is also true on the inverse, sometimes if you do have enough points, it automatically does a scene without a choice to avoid it. So, in reality, this game doesn't have as much choice as it initially appears to have. You just skip content, and there is no alternative content to make up for it. You lose out on stats, and will be blocked in future scenes even if those scenes have nothing to do with each other other than awarding the same stats.

When I read the games description, I assumed this would be a gradual corruption game. A MILF who is sheltered gradually turning into a slut. Nope, not even close. This games story doesn't make sense to me and the characters aren't the brightest or deepest to say the least. It's pretty much sex scene to sex scene. No real buildup or plot to be had other than minor filler between the sex scenes. It just tries to cram as many fetishes ahd characters into the game as possible, everything from a mentally challenged giant hillbilly guy to dogs to aliens and of course the standard creeps female protag games tend to have, and these ones aren't well done IMO.

Choices are nice, until you don't have one or are blocked because you didn't make the right ones. Characters are shallow, including MC, they jut exist to corrupt her and she exists to be corrupted. And, honestly, she's pretty damn corrupt in the start of the game. Corruption needs to be reasonably built-up, no such thing in this game. One sex scene to the next.

So, the TLDR is this game looks nice, but it's just that. It looks nice. If you like the kinks, which are of a good variety, you'll like the game. If you like story's and character development, then you probably won't. 3 stars, maybe 2.5 but I do generally like the art and I didn't have any bugs.

Such an amazing game, a must play for the stat-lovers, even if not sure they really matter that much. The game has something for everybody fetish-wise, and seems like you can avoid some of them if they arent your thing. The models arent my favorites, but the rest of the game is so well.made that at the end it doesnt matter that much.

I think this is the first game I see with a DAP. And despite all the smut, it still manages to have a story and great prahics. Gotta love it! I can't say Myriam is the prettiest character I've seen, but I definitely follow her adventures avidly!

Game version: [Ch.2.07a]

A diamond in the rough. I feel bad rating it 3 stars, it's definitely not an "average" game, but it lacks polish, so it's not quite 4 stars for me. The game has good bones though, and with a bit more effort, it could be great. The renders aren't going to win any beauty contests, but they're decent, the writing is alright, but it might benefit from some editing. I'm not someone who needs great animations, but I kind of hate this 2-frame morphing thing. If you're not going to make real animations, I'd rather have static renders than this.

The biggest thing this game has going for it is player expression and choice. That doesn't necessarily mean every choice you make leads to radically different outcomes, but you get to contextualize what happens and how your character reacts to it. It's sad that this is a praiseworthy thing, but it's actually pretty rare. The game constantly throws choices at you and asks you how your character feels about it or how she wants to react and it's great.

But the stat changes that go along with these choices are another of the game's problems, since the requirements for certain options are tuned incredibly tight and you have to min-max and pick options you actually don't want to unlock certain scenes later on. You pretty much have to pick all the preceding +Lust options in the game for the 25 Lust choice with the dog for example, which kind of hurts the whole player expression thing. The 10 Cum scene in the dressing room is another example of this.

Also, some of the choices are just bullshit and you're basically cucking yourself by picking them because they literally just skip scenes and a ton of stat increases without anything to make up for it. Prime example being the very first sex scene with Hillbilly Hulk in the shower. You can either go do the sex scene and get a bunch of stats or skip it and get like 2 Loyalty points, which don't seem to do anything in the first place. I was hoping you would get a different or extended scene with the husband instead, but no, it's literally just a content skip.

The relationship with the husband is another problem. You get the option to be faithful to him and even its own stat, but the game seems to want to push you not to do that by making you skip content and other people constantly telling you that he's terrible and you should cheat, etc. If staying faithful to him is an option, it shouldn't punish you by giving you less content. Either make alternate content or don't have it as an option. The game is semi-decent at still giving you sex scenes even if you don't want to cheat, but some stuff just gets skipped over, and it feels bad. The standard Ren'py UI for all the stats is also pretty terrible and could do with an overhaul.

After all the complaining, let me end with some positives. Again, lots of choices and opportunities to mold your character, and it's not just a binary between the slut and the normie option. Most of the sex scenes are pretty hot and kinkier than most games. There's bestiality, incest, misogyny (real and internalized), all the good stuff. The game is pretty big on porn and low on plot, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Overall it's a fun time. I'll keep up with it and see if some of the kinks get worked out.

This is one of the best VNs I've played.
The quality of the images, writing, and choices makes this a prime "choices matter" project. So many niches are provided that I can't stop making so many saves to see the different paths.
Fantastic work Zorlun.

Good so far though it'd be a bit more interesting and real if the freshly thrown out husband that assaulted her had some more parts to "complicate" her life with. Also maybe a few sandbox breaks to give more versatility to her story.

The only bad thing I can think of is that it isn't a slow burn.

It has all kinds of kinks, it's face paced but still makes sense in it's own way. Decisions have meaning. You can make Myriam a goodie two shoes or an utter slutty woman. The great thing about it tho' is that it doesn't stop there.
It' s not the one or the other but all kinds of in between. Every step, every decision, makes a difference.
You want her to be a strong woman. Then she is.
You want her to get on her knees for anyone or anything like a good submissive. She will.

It deserves several playthoughs just to get certain scenes unlocked, certain paths opened.

Additionally, the renders and models aren't ones you'll have come across time and time again.

I'm looking forward to see just how kinky, loving, passionate, demure, wild, modest, dominent and submissive one will be able to make her.

Review for Ch.2.07:
English and Writing: Pretty Good!
Story: Very simple.
Contents and render: Noice!
Sex scenes: You will come before you fap.
Fetishes: Includes almost everything and represents them pretty well.
Character development: Good but not great!!!
It is normal for games like these to have flaws. Hopefully things will improve.

One of the best female MC game on this site. The writing is good, the pace is a little slow but not too slow. The character development could have been worked on a little more. The renders are good, but this game could use some good smooth animations then it would be 10/10 game no doubt. Besides that the game a lot going on for it many choices and branches excited to see where it all goes. I recommend playing it.

Played version 2.06b with the walkthrough mod.

This game is really good, although I can't quite give it 5 stars. The models are pretty good, although they look a little weird to me sometimes - maybe the MC's nose is a little small? Not sure, but overall pretty good.

There's not much story to speak of - mainly just a series of events that puts the MC in sexual situations. There's a pretty good variety of kinks available here, and I like the little table in the top left that lets you check all the kink, etc. levels quickly.

There are a LOT of choices here, so I recommend playing with the walkthrough mod to get a sense of their impact (although I did have an issue with that that's already been noted on the thread).

The main nit I have with the game is the accent added to the MC's dialog. I guess it's supposed to sound like a Texas accent, but it always sounds (well reads) to me like a c-level actress trying to sound like Scarlett O'Hara. But again, that's a nit.

As of 2.06b, this one has skyrocketted to my top. 2 chapters? Give me 1000 more! I'm usually not a fan of games with a female protagonist, as it's harder for me to get invested, but it wasn't the case at all this time.

Models are great (however, something could be said about some of the female ones... Might be intended for them not to look that pretty, though), as do renders. The story, dialogues, and events are great, even if there're a few typos here and there. The amount of kinks present is also huge. There's something for anyone, here.

There're no bad choices, you just build up her character the way you want her to be and watch what you want. That being said... I'd like to point out I wasn't sure what I was signing in for with the mystery club, but I didn't expect the two events so far I believe might be connected to it (I could be wrong) to be a gang bang and, most of all, both rapey (which I'm not a fan of, I want "my" Myriam to be willing to do everything she does, to come from her, not to be forced, or taken advantage of). And both were also unavoidable.

This is, however, just a minor detail in a wholesome game. To be honest, it's so good I'm kinda fearing the incoming success might be it's own downfall in the future. I hope I'm wrong.

I absolutely love this one! I've been playing since the beginning and eagerly awaiting new updates. There are so many different paths to take her. Super slut, loving mom (wink wink) even the super obsessed dog and horse fucker. LOL Love it! Great VN! Highly recommend. 5*'s

Great game that's packed with sex and also manages to connect them with a coherent story.

There's a lot of kinks with plenty of safety checks so that a player can avoid any disturbing scenes. Really appreciate the easy t o view stats window, it give a clear picture of the kind of path Myriam is on.

Very sexy and fun game! This game has just the right amount of kinks that I personally like (bestiality, rape, incest, non-concentual sex/unwilling sex, rough sex) and while the story hits on some sexual tropes, it is original enough to not feel like you're playing the same archetypal game on F95!

The story manages to have the MC do the most outrageous things while somehow at the same time keeping her a believable somewhat innocent character (well in most paths anyway).
I can imagine that not all scenes will be to every bodies liking, but with the high amount and diversity of scenes there should be enough to like for most people.

The game flow is stats based and it works generally quite well, but to get everything out of the game can be quite a challenge or a bit frustrating depending if you like that 'puzzle' element.

Initially I wasn't blown away by the MCs looks, but now I realise that the story wouldn't have worked as well if she had the looks of a beautiful supermodel. She has to be the type of woman you don't pay too much attention to until she bends over and you see her cleavage and then she instantly turns into a lust object. I think the developer actually pulled it off quite nicely.

Add to that the high release rate and you got an excellent game.

Damn... this game is awesome.

+When you make a choice it really has an impact, you can make myriam's personality the way you want.

+The writing and descriptions are well written

+The renders and animations are great, the scenes are hella hot (Myriam is hella hot too!)

+ The updates come at a fast and regular speed

If you didn't played it yet for whatever reason try it now. I think the dev did an amazing job on this game, the quality on the general work is great. all the donors did the right decision supporting him. I think its gonna be one of the greatest games on this site. Keep it up man, wish you the best!

Usually i am not a fan of female protagonist type games, however I decided to try this one out based on other reviews and I must say i am glad that I did. The game lets you choose how you want to mold the female MC and the H-scenes are well done regardless of what path you choose. The fun thing about this type of game is also the fact that you can replay it to try out the different paths and corresponding scenes. Great game overall and can't wait for more updates.

I couldn't really get into this, female protagonist just isn't for me it seems.
But!
I really think this is a good game and I'd feel bad without leaving at least a positive review. Clearly a lot of hard work went into this title and I can appreciate it, it's definitely one of the better games out here. If you enjoy playing as a female, you should totally try it out.