VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Quantum Loop [v0.6.1] [The Dark Moonshine]

Everything about this game is bad, but please note that it's abandoned. Unfortunately, I missed that fact. It takes forever to start getting intersting, and then it ends. The art is bad, one of the three women is totally unattractive, the writing is bad (including a very poor attempt at English), and the game is insanely repetitive.

Quantum Loop (0.5.1)
Over the years, the idea of being stuck in a time loop has been used time and time again. You change something in the loop and the butterfly effect in the world your main character comes from is immediate.

STORY
You wake up in McWallis Medical Clinic not remembering what happened. A blonde nurse, Patty, wakes you up to ask you whether you realize who you are and what year it is. You can’t remember and that’s where the craziness starts.

The story is an absurd power fantasy where a future technological invention allows Wilkin Samfarmer, director of research at a science company, to swap identities with a young man from a different timeline unbeknownst to the subject. Waking up in the hospital, Wilkins eventually realizes his identity and tries to manipulate the situation in order to gain personal benefit.

The meat of the story is the main character going through repeated sessions of the same day in order to find the next step in his plan. Skipping through the same parts is easy enough as pressing a button, but skipping content does feel like a

GRAPHICS
Graphics in the game are often doll-like and comical. The game doesn’t take itself too seriously with overgrown body parts and exaggerated expressions, which work well to bring humor to the game. That humor is often childish and sexual in nature. The slightly cartoonish look does add to the wacky style of the game, making suspense of disbelief easier to manage.

Most of the game takes place in the hospital. It looks good, but nothing too outstanding. The few scenes that play out in different places are generic, but believable enough to not stand out. One big plus is the continuity of people’s looks as we go through loops from different moments. Let’s hope the game does more of that in future updates. The more intimate scenes are exaggerated, but fun nonetheless.

GAMEPLAY
The game is a visual novel with choices, but those choices don’t really matter at this moment. Eventually the main character learns about his situation and while the gameplay doesn’t change, you start to run through segments faster in order to get to the outcomes you want to have.

The flashforwards are a nice bonus, but don’t actually change anything to the active gameplay. It’s still a Kinetic VN at heart. Quantum Loop doesn’t have a whole lot of meat. There is supposedly a sandbox version of the game (which didn’t run for me), but at this point I can’t find a reason why this story needs to be in a sandbox unless you change a few things and add a bunch of extra conversations and easter eggs.

OVERALL
Quantum Loop, at this point, really doesn’t offer enough to be called a game. Some of the scenes are funny, but most of it is repetitive plays of the same scene until the game lets you progress into the next one. It’s smart from a story perspective, but not always as fun experiencing. Hopefully the game finds a good balance between humor, backtracking and quantum shenanigans in order to stay relevant until the full release. It seems like the game’s developer is up to the task of creating a fun, yet interesting mix of play.

6/10

Designs are excellent and visually actually pretty good. Characters feel distinct both in writing and design. This game does something really nice which is get some impactful details well done like expressions. Kinda wish similar attention to detail was given to pussy/anus. Game overall looks better than the still images seem.

Interesting concept, could be excellent. However I think the inherent pitfall of the concept is repetitiveness and the dev while probably aware of this, I don't think mitigates against this inherent pitfall well enough. The game does feel grindy even though it's just a VN. The dialogue to content ratio is pretty bad and it also gets a bit blue bally. Think a lot of this could be fixed by just having better pacing on content. I feel like 17 cycles should be enough to be solidly in satisfying sex content and even starting into more freaky/fetish stuff or creative/novel sex content but 17 cycles in and it's mostly just masturbation and 1 blowjob. I think that's the biggest downfall of this game: pacing.

On a lesser note, personally not really a fan of the MC choice. I feel like it'd make more sense if he was a more scrawny horny young guy. I feel like with a more jock type he wouldn't be restrained or the women wouldn't be as rejecting as they are. Just seems kinda out of place.

The rendering of the images is not good, the story is not well written, it is a game without chronological meaning. I understand the idea you have but it is not well formulated, a man who travels in time in another person's body, but what good is it to be able to press a button, if it doesn't matter what you press, the game follows the same route? even the dialogues themselves! The normal thing is that if they let you press more than one option, there is at least one "correct" text, but no...

Very promising! A lot more straight forward than Time Loop Hunter but lets's wait and see, we are only at the beginning. Huge boobs, gianormous cock... what could go wrong? I like the humour so far, the codex, especially the dress code for the nurses, intrigues me.

Pretty cool game where you’re stuck in a time loop.

Still in the early stages but shows a lot of promise, story and lewd scenes have a good balance and im excited to see how it develops further.

The puzzles are quite fun to figure out, but pretty easy, and there is a hint system in place if you ever get stuck.

The latest update added a skip feature for obtaining an item after doing it once already, which is a great change, saves a lot of clicks over time.

Edit: Unfortunately turned into a "VN" which is basically just a kinetic novel with a lot of presses. Oh well, RIP cool concept.