VN - Ren'Py - Project Myriam - Life and Explorations [Ch. 5.11+p] [Zorlun]

VERSION:Ch.5.11+P
SUMMARY: Highly overrated, boring and sub-standard quality
RATINGS: (out of 5): 1 STAR GIVEN TO OFFSET OLD HIGH REVIEWS

1. Models: 3
2. Animations: 0
3. General Visuals: 3
4. Characters: 3
5. Story: 3
6. Writing: 3
7. UI & Gameplay: 3
8. Content (amount):3
9. Sound & Music: 0
10. Fetish & kinks: 5

Average: 26 of 50 possible points giving a 52% rating i.e. 2-3 stars.

PROS:

1. Written fairly well, reads well and sentences structured well.
2. Not too much "filler" nonsensical dialogue to read.
3. Models are fairly ok, the MC is decent looking
4. Renders are not poor, though not great to todays expected standards IMO.
5. Good amount of kinky stuff
6. Point system that allows you to "steer" the MC interest and kinks is fun I guess, though I would simply opt for a system that allows for all things to happen, unless the kink is not selected by the player. See CONS

CONS:

1. Per above point, having enough stats to be able to see a particular scene is highly fucking annoying.
2. While the game doesn't look bad, its got a dated look about it which I am not overly fond of.
3. Having no sounds whatsoever is also a big negative for me especially on lewd content where sounds play a significant role in immersion.
4. No animations whatsoever, this too is a big negative, having no animations leaves it to renders show a sex scene and all it does is change position, it just ruins the immersion again.
5. Story is actually boring, the game initially started more interesting but over time tapered down into a same shit different day model.

FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS:

• Regarding point system and locking out of content based on lack of points accumulated. There is no way to get points unless you "spec" your MC into particular kinks to unlock later ones. This is a fail and the system should simply allow you to see all variations based on a per-selected kink interest which could be changed at any time or prompted for during play-through
• This game IMO has run its course and should come to a close, the MC must get knocked up by some black dude, her dog or horse, her "son" or whatever and thats it . There really is no point dragging this game on anymore, there is simply no story or interesting plot to it.

Due to F95Zone not being able to split reviews based on current version of games, or adding a yearly review option where only reviews within a particular year should be used for weighted average game ratings. I try and offset the rating myself as best I can. This is not a 100% true reflection of what I would rate a game necessarily but until there is a smarter way to ensure reviews are current...its the only way I can do do it. Lets be honest, it happens often that a game starts off great then just falls flat after a few updates or completely looses itself. Perhaps having a re-review option presented to us and a way to actually easily find our reviews instead of having to sift through countless pages would encourage re-reviewing and more accurate ratings...

This game is excellent from the point of present kinks and fetishes. I really like that you can decide what fetishes you will pursue. The flaws are that the main character is not that appealing (at least at the beginning, gets better through the game) and the graphics is not the top level. Also missing quality animation. The writting could be also better so you will more attach to main character. But in general the amount of the content overweight the problems.

Very solid game, great renders, and a surprisingly good story make this a staple of porn games. The protag is fun, scenes are diverse (although that is also a downside) Now i wish i could give it 5 stars but i do have a few issues with the game (my real rating is 3.5, but cant do 3.5 on stars, and this game doesnt deserve me giving it a 3)

first, if you are wanting to go in having your character be a dom or dom anyone, you are shit outta luck. there's one character that you can really dom, but doming them pretty much means you are getting a quarter of the content you would being their sub. Then other than that the dominance stat feels pointless outside of a few dialogue changes, the dominance stat isn't dominance, its the ability to say no to encounters, which again, cuts out a large amount of content.

second, and honestly my biggest issue, what almost made me go down to 3 stars, is the GLACIAL update pacing. i first played this game somewhere around mid 2023 (got this wrong in my initial unedited review), and to be frank there is very little added content, like maybe in those 2ish years there is 25% more content, or about an extra 30-60 minutes depending on your reading speed. now at first you may question me calling it glacial cause there are new updates all the time, and yes there are, but i call it glacial because those updates add generally 2 scenes. With around 15-20 sexable characters, multiple sex opportunities most days, and a large swath of kinks, that is such a small amount of scenes. It honestly is starting to feel like the creator has either A. run out of inspiration B. is just milking patreon(subscribestar now but used to be patreon) for all its worth. C. Ran out of love for the project but either feels bad to drop it or doesn't want the income to go away or D. all of the above. i could be wrong on that last part, but thats how it feels to me.

still a great game, but glacial pacing, some kinks getting little content (one footjob scene, 2 golden shower), and dominance points are just the ability to say no most of the time (this should be willpower instead and make dominance actually feel better) keeps it in the 3.5 star range. still one of the few must plays on this website

Forces certain kinks/traits even if you avoid them like the plague even if you use the cheat and throw them into the negative its just a joke of a point system at that point imo. The lesbian route is so under appreciated its not even funny you either go straight/whore and get content or get bare minimum content on the lesbian path so 1/5

This is quite entertaining with a lot of content already! The player can chose many kinks and to play out side stories with different love interest characters. The player can also chose to focus on lesbian content (which is what I am mostly interested in). However, it is not possible to play a lesbian only route (that is why I give it 4 and not 5 stars). Overall, the game seems to be designed based on a straight path with lesbian content as a side effect. But still, it is nice and there is still plenty of lesbian content. With other kink you can chose to pursue it or to bypass it so you can let the story go or focus on whatever you like most. The choices are simple and make sense (meaning questions and answers make sense and the consequences of the choices make sense). So, overall a very nice experience.

First I just wanted to thank you zorlun for sharing this masterpiece with us, really had a wonderful time playing this since chapter 2. Very well made game with engaging choices to choose from and not to mention the marvelous rendering and model of myriam which was made very well. Hoping for your great success in the future and keep rocking zorlun!

I am loving the game mechanics and how you get to choose your content and build up the MC's kinks and stuff. It is fun and I think it will add replay-ability, I am only on chapter 2 so far. Still, great game.

I put 3 only for the fact that MC is really only seen from 2 main angles: domination or submission. These two orientations are major but are much too degrading for my taste because it's not my thing.
There are many more realistic paths but in my opinion they lack content or possibilities. The lesbian aspect is underrepresented and it's a shame. By developing this path we could sincerely have a good AVN.
The Myriam project is interesting in the sense that we see an exploited woman being able to take control of herself and finally choose what she wants to do: in her associative, private, family life. Myriam is really beautiful BRAVO. If this theme is not respected, it will be a huge failure for this game.
If future developments have but to see the MC become a pure toy of degradation or yet another perverse MC it will be a huge waste that in some respects flirts (or even approaches) with many serious subjects and extreme perversities. At some point we must also set limits.
Too bad that the background of the text does not benefit from an adjustable opacity in options and too bad that the French is not developed because the creator is precisely French.

Amazing game!!!! Finally, a VN with enough anal sex lol. There are even double anal scenes if you play your cards right! The renders are solid and varied. Story is not crazy deep but fun for putting Myriam in all sorts of scenarios where she gets banged. If you want a game for stroking it this one is top tier.

This is a great game with diverse content that is constantly updated. I’ve added it to my favorites list. I’m against various online subscriptions and would prefer to buy this game on Steam to support the developer. Is there any hope that the game will be released on Steam?

A very very good game, with lots of kinks and the way your previous choices affect the future gameplay was very nice. I played when it was chp 5.08 so it had a lot of content, a very fulfilling gameplay and I hope to see more of it.

Great game !Although i'm not a big fan of 3D style game, the storytelling kept me interested , the kinky scene are cool and some are fun too. It's a great experience and perfect to unwind of your stressful day. I like the fact that we can avoid situations and direct the game like we want it.

A porn game through and through, heavy on the porn.

I love narrative driven AVN's as much as the next guy, but sometimes you just need a game that delivers hot scenes one after another.

A ton of fetishes are represented here, all in insanely hot scenes, and there is a massive amount of content already.

The combination walkthrough + incest patch are a must, most of the decisions you make are more about what scenes you want to see than they are actually playing through a meaningful story, and the patch restores a lot of old content that really makes the game work.

If you like corruption or are just looking for something mindless to play with your brain off, this is it.

Congratulations Dev - Great Game so far i've played. Well designed Characters (Myriam is really a hot and sexy MILF), interesting and exciting story because of the different choices to make, conclusive dialogues, animated Sex-Scenes.
Because of the last point i have a little criticism. Please dev, can you try to create a loop for the Animations, so that the Animation will not be interrupted because/with the text? I think you can do that and maybe many other players want see that too
The Gameplay-Menue is exemplary - you can see every time the stats of Myriam after every choise.
Because of the diverse choises there is room for every player with different tastes.
And at least its a very very good decision not to integrate crazy Mini-Games.
Before i forget - i've never seen, that a dev replies to so many comments with patience and thoughtfulness.

I went in expecting to play this game as a guilty pleasure and not something id enjoy to the point id put it in my top 10, as I rarely play games more on the porn side of things. This game offers so much freedom in choices to roleplay Myriam and shape her how you want. You can make her pure and innocent , a cougar , a slut etc etc. My first playthrough I started her off as someone that is really naive , then changed into a cougar , now she going down a nudist / pornstar path when they get updates lol.

Only downside to this game is lack of music and animations. But there is so much content and lewd scenes it really doesn't need animations. Especially because from what I heard this dev releases content quite frequently. So with that in mind it's better there is no animations. Especially because alot of these scenes have enough context or just straight up set up in a way that makes them really hot. So because of that the animations aren't missed as much. But you do need to accept some porn logic in this as well as you can't entirely escape it either.

I didn't expect to like this game as i am not a fan of female MC's but the story, characters, huge amount of kinks and some really good use of choices turned that around and now i cant wait for the next update.

I like the little introductions to each character and everyone of them comes off as unique and realistic, also there are so many of them of every verity that there is bound to be a least one you like and unexpectedly i never felt the MC was forced to be with certain characters.

The art is really good both in characters an settings and the sex scenes are also very well done.

The choices do make you feel in control of the game even if that's not totally true although i would highly recommend using the cheat mod and i beg the creator to add a free mode without grayed out choices.

The only down side about this game is that its a Jack of all trades, master of none , as in it has just about everything you could want kink wise from a game but none of them go far enough, hopefully through even that could be fixed with a lot of really good endings.

Story 4/5 (interesting)
Sex 5/5 (loads and well done)
Characters 5/5 (plenty and realistic)
Art 4/5 (very nice)
Choices 4/5 (some control over the story and near perfect character ones)
Kinks 5/5 (stuffed full of them but not forced into any of them)

I usually prefer text based games with character customization, but I'm surprisingly fond of this game.

There's plenty of content in the game at this point and much of what you see is affected by your choices even though you don't really have a choice of where to go each day etc. That being said, I enjoy the submissive and humiliation content so I don't know if there's much for people who don't get any satisfaction from those.

The writing is good for the most part. Though it's a shame that there's a lot of nice interactions between the MC and their daughter and knowing that the two apparently won't share any sex scenes.

I don't remember running into any bugs or constant spelling errors so the polish there seems fine.

There's a wide variety of content in the game, and if you especially like playing a submissive character then I'd definitely recommend trying this out.

As much as I am sick of Daz3D games and models, this one is top notch. Some of my favorite fetishes, lots of routes to take, and the speed at which updates come out is actually shocking.

Once you hit a certain point of the game, you'll kind of realize she can't really get anymore corrupt than she is so it will only be random sex scenes going forward, but the quality of them is solid.

This is actually a harem game. With little nuance that MC is a woman.
And, as it is in all harem games - MC fucks with variety of other characters, sometimes with multiple of them at once. Once again, with little nuance of MC being a woman.
Result? MC feels like an absolute whore. And in my opinion it works great.
The only drawback is in the fact that the only female body to enjoy is MC's. Sure, she gets ravished in a variety of ways and overall hotness doesn't fail us, but by the end of it there is a lack of variety.
Other than that - the game is great, heavily recommend.

I feel other reviews said this best, is this the greatest story telling of all time, no. Is it video game porn, yes. Is there a tremendous amount of stuff going on, in all directions, yes. Can you generally get a feel for it, for sure. Are some of the situations super hot and awesome, absolutely.

things that are going for it, it is very linear. You generally know what is going on to select the good stuff. The stuff is good.

Is this going to win the porn game oscars, I think not, but everybody saw it. It is the avatar of f95zone, without papyrus font.