VN - Ren'Py - Race of Life [Act 1 Steam] [Underground Studio]

A great AVN, up there with some of my favourites, girls are hot as hell, and the writing is not half bad despite it being only a few chapters long at the time of this review. If you've played BADIK or Summer Heat and liked either one you'll enjoy this.

That's first game, where I just said "Go away bitch, I have to get my wife back" to almost every love interest.
Alisson is such a great woman. Of course not only her

For a cons
- sometimes this all technical stuff can be boring, but I appreciate author for all this knowledge
- for some reason we sometimes can't decide what we feel as a MC. From the beginning I decided that I want to get Alli back, but when somebody ask MC about it it's "Meh, I just do it for Lily" - I don't!

As of Update 3.2 Fix 3, Race of Life has skyrocketed up from a good, middle of the pack visual novel to one of my all-time favorites. That rarity where I’m not only happy to replay the game several times to see all the variations, but I actually look forward to future updates where I can continue all of the different romance paths. Absolutely stunning yet realistic models, a rock-solid story that’s not afraid to throw serious punches in an adult game, well-choreographed and animated adult content, a built in gallery, and mini-games that are fun to play through but possible to skip if you’ve gotten tired of them, there’s not much more I can ask for from an adult visual novel.



I can count the number of games that get this many things right on hand. First off is the writing: It’s exceptional. I have no idea if the physics talk or car talk are legitimate or “Jeffries tubes” level nonsense, but what matters is that I can’t tell. The characters who talk in-depth about cars are believable and interesting to listen to. Not only is the dialogue believable, but each character has a unique way of speaking, with a recognizable personality that deny the common tropes and stereotypes. Better still, these quirks and traits are relayed through simple conversation as opposed to exposition dumps. Veronica is jealous, accomplished, smart, bashful, has low self-esteem, and several other noteworthy bits of character that make her all the more believable as none of these traits are over-the-top making her feel like a real person. I could make similar profiles for the other love interests and even secondary characters, all of whom defy the unfortunate norm: characters who sound like different versions of the author.



Without giving anything away, the author doesn’t shy away from tragedy and mystery. Like most top-end visual novels, the romances and adult content come about through the main story rather than being the main story itself. You’re not spending all of your time finding ways to get into your family’s pants, but instead are working with various characters to invent a new type of battery technology. Who will you take to the fundraiser? There are multiple choices, and multiple scenes (and changes in the way the story unfolds) depending on your choices. Will you be faithful to Veronica, cheat on her, or break up with her? Will you take your student, your neighbor, your girlfriend, or your ex-wife to the fundraiser? Each choice results in different outcomes both in the main story and in the adult content. This is also the first time I’ve seen cheating rewarded, at least in the sense that there’s a fully fleshed-out and animated adult scene that you can only see if, at a particular point in the story, you’ve slept with a different character right before sleeping with Veronica.



Finally, there’s the adult content. There’s a pleasant mix of characters ranging from shy to whorish. You begin with an “almost girlfriend” and so you’ll be seeing adult scenes early on. They’re hot, believable, and don’t feel like the “dream” sequences lesser games use to shoe-in sex scenes into the early game. Some characters are slower burns, like the ex-wife or the neighbor who, while they’re progressing if you choose to follow that path, but it takes a bit longer than, say, Kris, the goth socialite who goes down on you in your first encounter. Other characters are a good mix of fast and slow content. Most importantly, the scenes are believable. Sure, there’s some porn-logic mixed in, but it’s not nearly as far-fetched as lesser games that drop threesomes into your lap. The content itself is excellent. They’re what I call the gold-standard: A combination of good porn writing, animations, and single renders tying the different animations together. The animations themselves are on the short side, but they’re high frame-rate, are custom-made, include multiple angles, and as a personal preference, frequently show the character’s faces. I can’t stress how great it is when an animator knows how to properly render facial expressions during animated sex scenes, and not merely ahegao face. Many lesser works have settled for close ups of buttocks and backs, avoiding the face entirely as they just can’t figure out how to render them believable.



I could go on about the catchy music and how beautiful the love interests are, but I think I’ve gushed enough. I love this game. Definitely in my top 5, and I’m enthusiastically waiting for the next update. If I didn’t know any better I’d think this was a group collaborated creation given that the writing, renders, animation and programming are of such high quality. It’s rare for one person to be so good at all of the important elements of making a good adult visual novel. Race of Life is a great example of one, and I couldn’t recommend it more highly!

After the 3.2 update this has moved into my AVN top spot. It's a fun story with a decent mix of characters, and some crazy hot LI's to spend time with. Technically it's great with superb smooth animations and excellent renders. The story itself is AVN good, has some emotional bits, plenty of humor, and some truly great 'scenes'

Also the minigame racing sections are actually really enjoyable. Very recommended

i really tried to like this game but to make it short the entire mc behavior does not make any sense on a Allison Love route, he speaks and thinks like a teenage manwhore instead of a responsible father who does everything he can to help his comatose daughter. especially on this path if you want to reconnect with Allison and rejected everyone else you get insulted as if you were a dumbass to reject the girls for not wanting to fuck everything that moves. that takes away everything for me, in the end this game does what most other avns here do, they give us porn with good renders and animations and the devs hope that players don't see through the story.

First of all, Merry Xmas Everyone, wish you all a wonderful holiday!

Now , to the review of Ep 3.2 Extra:
The game currently have 3 episode (technically only half of ep3 now?), although each episode are fill with content, like hours long, not to mention having to backtrack , pick different choices to unlock more paths + scene.

+Story : Well-written, no crazy crime/mystery/thriller/sci-fi etc , still interesting enough to hook me in and keep reading , even though i cant understand half of the physics,electromagnetic/car stuff. 4.5/5

+Render/Animation : One of the most high quality ever seen in these type of games. Render are very details and gorgeous, Animation are top tier quality - camera angle, view, position, transition between scene,... it just perfect. 5/5

+LIs/Girls : Beautiful, each of them come with some very unique personality and beauty type, some got more content than most though, a few example:

-Veronica, MC's current "GF" : got the most content for now, she's looks fine, busty body,justmy opinion- face kinda eh, not bad , not great either, especially when comparing to other LIs ,somewhat clingy, force u into commited relationship early on, can turn down, tho u gonna miss tons of content + sex scene with her. NGL, she seems pale compare to other LIs -they're just younger, prettier, smarter and offer more to the table than her.

-Jasmine, best LIs -#Jasmine4life, Gorgeous,hot asf red head, fierce, playful, naughty, smart, always teasing/seducing, she even help the MC make a break through with his project, best option to bring along on race, party, meeting, conference etc story wise.

-Other college girls (Natalya, Alexa,..): Also hot, and smart, didnt know enough about them yet.
-Allison :ex wife, hate n love relationship, she's fine i guess.
-Maggie: Cute, innoocent, didnt have much info on her as of now, mostly just drama with her mom that nearly got the MC kill, not seems to worth it if u ask me.
Overall a 5/5.

High quality,Amazing game, definitely recommended, an AVN this great should be way up there alongside Eternum or sth (in terms of popularity).Looking forward to the next update, hopefully with more Jasmine content !

Race of Life - Race of Punani?

3-2-1 - gooooooo: 4 stars, lots of content in 3 episodes, good story, lots of chicks. Good anims with decent length H-scenes. Worth a play.

Although, there is someone waving a yellow flag - the marketing for this game is a fault: the focus definitely isn't a racing theme. Bizarre.

Anyway, this is a decent game. Your choices matter and seems at some point you'll have to choose one woman - not sure how good the game will get the longer it goes on, though...

IMO:

I'll definitely look out for the game in the future in general, but also to see what situations with girls may come up. I definitely liked the 'jealous' scene with V and Jazz - that could have interesting developments (no idea if it did, I had to ditch V).

Anyway --- there is a lot more to this game (some good, some not so good), so I'll end with:

More a Race for Life than a Race of Life...

Excellent Game - Can't wait for the next edition. Graphics are awesome, good looking girls, amazing scenes, dialog is well written and witty (very surprising). There is much more story than sex, but the quality of the scenes are well worth the wait.

Ep. 3.2 Extra

It's been a while since I could honestly give 5 stars review and today is one of those cases. The game is great, congrats.

Story is built up nicely and tempo feels just right. Not too fast, not too slow, just enjoyable. And definitely believeable. I lost count how many poorly written or just plainly stupid stories I encountered while playing adult games. This one is on the other hand is one the best.

Characters have distinct personalities and behave naturaly. They won't blindly take stupidest decision imaginable, and also whole plot is well written without need to dumbing down the characters. MC also isn't a some braindead hunk, but actual person. If had to pick on something here, I'da say he's too good to be real. I mean dude is jacked, smart enough to go for PhD, good looking, knowledgeable about cars and quite nice at racing, funny, easygoing and good at sex. Almost like fairy tale character, huh?

It also does deliver on the main theme - the racing. I could think of some gmaes that wanted to stand out with some unusual theme, but ultimataly failed to actually incorporate it (like the one about basketball, you know what I'm talking about...). This one however deos good job at in. You can race allright, with a nice minigame, and there is plenty of stuff centered about racing and cars in general. I'm not a native speaker, so I don't even get the technical jargon without help of google translate, but I do appreciate it neverthless.

Writing is great, and I especialy love the banters. During first few minutes I though I'm gonna dislike William very much, yet with his every appearance I found his exchanges with MC more and more hilarious. Quite the opposite type of humour than (literal)shit jokes with Cooper, yet both of them have great written lines adn the conversations are equally appealing. Can't wait for more of this.

Now graphics are honestly great. You can see the quality of everything. Both scenes and character models look amazing. Let me also point that this is most likely first game in which we have hairy MC, whose hair look like actual hair and not pencil lines drawn on body. Heck, dude can also grow beard and then shave it after few days.

Animations are also in my personal top tier, every sex scene is not only hot, but visually pleasing to look at too. And then there are non sexual animations. I do like the car races very much. Since it's basicaly main theme of this game, it is very reasonable to have those parts animated. Feels like important part of the game rather than some unnecessary addition.

If I was to point out one bad thing about the graphic side, it would be the handrail in MC's apartment house. I mean there is this whole detailed environment everywhere, yet the handrail is literally just a brown colored cuboid and since it's featured in many scenes, it does deserve to be an actual 3d model.

It builds up, there was a point where things weren't pointing to a good narrative but I am glad I was wrong, so far.

I think this LN has probably the best sex scenes I have seen in a while, whomever does the animations they know their stuff and I am quite envious and I am sure they are doing them in Daz.

Great game and decently good narrative.

One of the best games I've ever played, well written story and characters, nice action(the racing scenes), hot and interest LI's, wholesome(the interactions with the daughter) and never bored, always hooked in.

I especially liked the slow rekindling of the relationship with Allison(if you go for it), and the top notch animation and renders.

Only thing I disliked is that you are forced with a LI at the beggining, but you can push her away later, so it's no big deal.
Would definitely recommend !

Wow, what an incredible game! There's no need to dive into complex details, it's simply fantastic. The story is incredibly engaging, with consistently captivating interactions with the girls and other characters. Everyone feels authentic and lifelike, adding depth to the experience. The plot is exceptionally strong and keeps you hooked from start to finish. I haven't experienced a single dull or boring moment.

As of the latest update (3.2), the story doesn’t leave you wondering, “What’s next if we overcome this?” Instead, you can feel the developer’s thoughtful planning in the progression, with the narrative building naturally and meaningfully around you. Truly an amazing game!

Good. I like the story. Animations are top. As well as renders.
I hope the amount of possible ways wont be overwhelming in future so the main plot can move at a good pace. Thanks to developer for great experience.

I tried this game a couple of years ago when it was just coming out, and I'm now very impressed with how much it has evolved. The models, renders, and animations are top-notch, the amount of content is extensive, and the story is genuinely engaging. It's one of the best games out there right now.

I played this game before but It wasn't on my mind but after playing it again I must say I'm impressed by how good this game is.

The graphics are top notch, definitely one of the best on this site.
The sex scene are out of this world, all the characters are amazing!

This game is definitely one of the best games currently being updated, a very good story and even better characters, one more beautiful than the other. I'll have to make a lot of saves for their routes and the complaint I had about this game, which was in relation to the racing mini game that I found difficult and confusing, has been resolved, now the developer has made it much simpler, anyway it's one of the best games currently.

An absolute thrill! This game delivers stunning visuals, immersive gameplay, and a gripping storyline. Perfect for casual and hardcore gamers alike. Highly addictive and worth every second. 10/10!! Hll Yeaaaaah!!

fantastic, the best renpy game. The main storyline is about a failed marriage and fighting to resuce the daughter. And romance story is with colleauges, students and mysterious Russian neighbour girl. All the elements are designed so different. And all models and animations are too sexy so that make player hard......

Goated game. Insane visuals, story, animations, lewd scenes, character diversity, gameplay, music, every aspect of the game is incredible. Whe this game gets 2/3 more updates is going to be top3 AVN of all time, no doubt. 11/10

great render. engaging story, and and animations. I feel like some of the love interests are one dimensional, but jasmine and alison are some of the better written ones I have seen in an avn. Cannot wait for more