VN - Ren'Py - Radiant [v0.7.1] [RK Studios]

Just Completed the New Chapter 7 with my Pure Playthrough and the Goodness is still there. What a Joy!

I have to say this One of the Most Heart-wrenching and Well-Done Visual Novels I have had the pleasure of experiencing.

Not knowing the Background Story at all or the premise I went in with Fresh Eyes just expecting a Flirty kind AVN with Side Pieces. What I experience was Me as The Father who got a Chance to Help, Love and Nurture (3) Beautiful Girls from the Obvious life of lack with my One-time Sweetheart.

Once I saw how this I made every effort to counsel them and show them that Love doesn't mean Sex by choosing the Pure Options and later with Alita the Wholesome Options . That worked out beautifully and I was very happy that I was not Penalized for making those kind of Choices as any Loving Father would.

My only concerns
1. Too much Swearing by MC (F-Bombs and JC's and G_Damn in particular)
2. Felt I had to walk a bit of minefield make Pure Only Pathway because I didn't understand the ramifications when I was only left with a "Dark" Choice (As opposed to Lust )

Purchased on Itch and THANK YOU RK Studios for allowing me to enjoy RADIANT

5/5

The story is very engaging, and I like the models and personalities given to the various girls in the game. However one thing I occasionally do when playing AVNs with good writing ( and when given the choice ) is play the 'good' guy route. That being no relationships with girls, everything is proper and professional.
You...can't really do that in this game. I mean the OPTION is there, but even when you choose it the girls will constantly hound you over and over, and a lot of the filler dialogue reads as if you DID hook up with the girls. It's...mildly annoying, and very damaging to the overall story.

Everything else works fine, though. Not really any animation but the renders are good, the pacing is normal, the girls are cute and unique, and the music fits fine. It's not a BAD game, just a buggy one.

Did you also get lured here by the premise of living a fantasy of wholesome incest and cute renders? Let me stop you right there and ask you a question. Are you ready to play through mountains of completely unrelated content that doesn't involve the girls pictured on the front page in any way, shape or form? If your answer is "No," skip this one. This game is an unfocused mess.

My main gripes:

• There are way too many love interests in this game that you're heavily encouraged to pursue. The three daughters account for around 35% of the content.
• The game technically allows you to reject anyone you're not interested in but even if you do so, they're still heavily involved in the story while adding nothing to it. Example:
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• MC behaves like a horny teenager a lot of the time. He starts stuttering and gets a raging hard-on the instant he sees boobs. I wouldn't have an issue with it if he was young and inexperienced but he's presented to us as a 30-something playboy who's been around the block and is no stranger to female attention. It's really jarring.
• Not enough content with the daughters (sexual or otherwise). I feel like I've barely gotten to know them by Episode 6 (7 hours into the game).

This game could've been a gem if it just stayed focused on the daughters instead of padding the story with a bunch of useless characters. Not to mention, it would've been finished years ago.

Its a game that has been here for quite a while. Unfinished but just about enough content for me to write a review about.

We start as random somebody who got stood up by his date, immediately hooks up with another date, creampied her, experienced a near death accident, and is transported at least 19 years into the future where you're rich, successful, and immensely well endowed. Yes, there's a lot of bs here already, and we're not even half through. You then find yourself guardian to three girls who cannot be more obviously your daughters from that date years ago, all of which cannot and will not hide their immediate attraction to you, and the story pretty much unfolds from there.

The story tries its hardest to take itself seriously but you simply cannot imagine the writer not bursting into fits of laughter as he writes this drivel. The MC of this game is like some sort of pornofied superman with zero faults and just about every and any girl within his vicinity is immediately driven to suck his cock, and Im not even kidding because the game tries its damnest to make it absolutely clear that every fucking female in this game think the MC is a greek god incarnate. There's something to be said about developing things naturally, and then this game pulls its pants down immediately and pisses all over it.

The 2nd problem Im having with this writing: There's just too many girls that dont, and shouldnt, matter. The game puts the triplets as its poster girl but then shoehorns so many other women in your direction that you can be forgiven for thinking that there wouldnt be any sex involving the supposed main characters of the game at all, befitting its unfinished state. I spend so much time fucking around with Brooke, Mira, and Vanessa before I even so much as lay a finger on the main girls of this game. By the time I reach actual penile penetration with one of them, the MC have already more or less fucked 4 different women within what seems like two weeks.


In conclusion...

Despite the poor writing, I cannot but give this a good review because ultimately if you skip past all the other girls that dont matter, and ignore the fact that MC is basically Capt "Playboy" America himself, then the game is decently written with enough to suggest relatability of a father meeting a set of teenaged children he has never knew existed prior. I like that the three girls actually changes their interaction based on the choices you make, and display emotional statuses when they inevitably see you favouring one over the other. Most other games would simply ignore the 'harem' state and just assume obliviousness between characters but this game, happily, is coded different.

A shame that the game is nearing 5 years of development and yet remains unfinished though I admit Im not altogether sure how the game would end given the events thus far. Happily though Im sure I'll never have to worry about it because there's more chance of an apocalypse than this game finishing any time soon.

Recommended because for all my criticism I still somehow managed to pull through to the end, and you simply cannot fault the level of effort. The game devotes enough frames to simulate emotion and movement - a rarity in H games to be savoured when available.

in general it has a lot of promise, with good graphics and in the beginning it had a decent story
but over the years it only shows sighs of a struggle, and a good cash grab by the dev, simply because he hasn't made a deadline in over 3 years
also in comparison to others who make more updates with better graphics to todays standards
this is imo now nothing more than a meme, and im pretty sure we will never see it gets finished

Amazing game the story and art is top tier the 3 daughters must be loved and protected at all cost, tho the onlyy downside with such a great game is the slow updates it is just so good that icannot wait to see more any longer

I just finished this game and it was incredible! I chose the lust path for redhead, love for the blonde and dark path for the dark haired cutie. The way the choices are set up gives it amazingly horny replay-ability.

Well that was one of my favorite games I've played, very well done and the scenes were so steamy. The characters feel real.



Also allows you to play as the bad guy or as the good guy, caters to both crowds.

Now waiting my butt off for the next chapter.

Easy to rate 5 Star

On the one hand:
+ The models are adorable. I want more of them.
+ Humorous. And jokes are funny.

On the other hand:
+ Sexy scenes with these great models is... very sexy. Greatly designed scenes.
+ Jokes are funny. And they lead to build-up of scenes with the Girls

You design a hot sexy scene. And then build and write everything perfectly .
very recommended

Excellent game. The character models are amazingly detailed and pretty damn attractive, though once in a while their eyes look slightly inhuman.

Character variety is nice. The spread of choices, both for characters and ways of dealing with them, feels like it adds a nice spice.

The plot is not terribly original in a general sense, but it definitely throws it's own spin on things, which keeps it from being stale or copy-cat.

I'd say 8.5/10, but because I enjoyed it so much, I rounded up to 5/5 stars.

Contains a lot of my favorite degenerate fetishes but the release speed feels a tad slow. I like the design of the 3 girls and their distinct personalities. Definitely recommend it overall.

If I had one complaint: the game has 3 routes you can take per girl, and it doesn't do a fantastic job at distinguishing 2 of them as they feel very similar.

Game is great i most aspects, story, writing and renders, etc. It is worrying that it doesn't have that much content despite the years it's been around but if it dies end up getting finished it could be a really good one. That inconsistency in uodates is why I cant give it a 5 stars

everything is great about this game all i need is fast updates nice graphics, cute girls, i like the story ! i hope we get fast updates and maybe radiant 2 after you finish 1, future family or whatever i dont know

Have you ever ejaculated so hard that after waking up from all the stars your head was swimming through, your first thought is "fucking hell bro I need an omelette"?

I return to you mortals forever changed after a epic ejaculation that soaked through my black tee like the launch of a great battleship onto the ocean blue.

My men held the line through six hours and six chapters of a self-actualized successful man edging the line between self-gratification and sober responsibility, caring for my canonically 18+ newfound daughters in their tender time of grief and of vulnerability and in indulging their nascent curiosities in what it means to finally have a capital D Daddy.

The escalation of the girls' initial shy interest into their ultimate naked passions is carefully measured as to barely titillate until you're begging for narrative release, and it sure does deliver.

As for the insipid objectivity that is demanded of me:

the writing and characters are very believable, although some plot contrivances will have to be accepted, like the player character is irresistibly attractive

the CG models are nice, but the CG scenes themselves don't have much dynamism. There is animation though limited and narrow in scope to only the most titillating of scenes, but this is mostly a VN with static images. They get points for doing a lot of PoV shots that you would normally only see when having actual sex (for real [yes, I am implying I have been laid before, much to our surprise]). It gets a lot of mileage out of its pictures.

the side pieces are cute. I love the inclusion of a neurodivergent woman

but seriously guys for all this logorrhea and word buffoonery, I just had the best orgasm of my life, and I just needed to share it with someone

Great game! The different routes have such a great and distinct feeling between them that really gives the game some great replayability.

One of very few games that ACTUALLY lets you play as either a jerk or a good guy, without locking you out of pretty much anything. 10/10.

I joined this site about a month after this game's first release back in 2020, and I had very high hopes for this game. The renders are great, and it has daughters. Those two things are enough for me to give a game 5 stars.

However, like most people, I lost faith in this game after a couple years. There were almost no scenes for such a long time.

These past two updates have been great though. They seem to have been spurred on by the game being marked as abandoned a couple months ago though, so I'm expecting the content to slow down again, but whatever. There will be more content eventually.

I'm been following this game since ¿2021?. The gameplay is fine, cause, it's an actual gameplay (with choices and paths) and not just a star-skip button for an ero scene. Another good point is the writing, been as grounded and cleaver as it can be for the kind of story its telling. Finally, the renders are really nice

In this genere and format, is among my favorites, along with Sisterly lust.

However, I would really like to see more content focus on the sisters and least focus on the coworkers.

Review for V0.6.3
I can't help but feel a bit dissapointed with this game, I feel like the game could be so much more.

First off, the graphics—they're okay, but not mind-blowing or anything. I would say slightly above average on this one, it just doesnt really stand out. The girls do look nice though.

Now, the story... not super original and a bit on the cliché side, but honestly, I kinda have a weakspot for games like this. Three desperate/hopeless girls showing up to your doorstep and you helping them. Just don't go in expecting to be blown away by some groundbreaking narrative.

The whole harem situation in the game is... weird, to put it mildly. You're basically living with these three sisters, romancing them, and somehow they're all clueless about what's going on with the others. It feels like a missed chance to add some real depth or drama.

The way the romance is handled also feels a bit off to me. You're supposed to be this caretaker figure for the sisters, which already sets up a strange dynamic. But instead of handling it with some nuance, the game just dives into the romance without much hesitation. Only the girls are a bit reluctant, but the mc just doesnt mind at all.

In other games, the protagonist is usually more reluctant, and the relationship develops more naturally and is also initiated by the hopeless/desperate girl, which makes a lot more sense to me and just feels more wholesome. Here, it just comes across as creepy rather than wholesome or romantic.

Speaking of which, I feel like there has been no good reason given for why these girls are falling for the main character. It just happens, and you're supposed to roll with it. It makes the whole romance angle feel kind of shallow and unearned.

So yeah, that's 'Radiant' for you. It's got its moments, and I enjoyed it for what it is, but it's definitely got its downsides. If you're into these kinds of stories, you might get a kick out of it, but keep your expectations in check."

Pros:

+ Great buildup, as realistic as you can be for a game with this genre.
+ Interesting dialogues, not boring at all.
+ Non-linear story, plenty of choices
+ Allison (nuff said)
+ Game is very polished, haven't seen any bugs or typos at all.
+ I wanna mention, there is some real suspect content towards the end lol, but you can skip it so plus points for that.

cons
- for a game that's been developing since 2020, there is very very little h content for the main characters. Slow buildup is amazing but then Imagine the blueballs for someone who've played from 2020 lol.
- I'm pretty interested in the "dark" path but so far it's more like the "asshole for no reason" path, I would've thought dark meant sadistic but it just means you're a dickhead.

Some constructive criticism from me:

Focus on the 3 main girls, it makes no sense that side characters have more h content than the reason people play this game in the first place. Do not add more side characters until you've achieved this.

Does anyone here actually like dream sequences? Maybe it's just me but I've never cared for a dream sequences, and I know it took valuable development time to make, so I'd rather not have anymore of that.

That said I'm giving this a 5/5 since I'm pretty lenient and it truly is a great game, hope the dev keeps this up!

After playing through the entirety of Radiant 6.1 I judge this to be not a game. It's a narrative heavy choose your own adventure story. There are zero gameplay elements, and while there are choices, they don't actually constitute being a gameplay mechanic, more of a turn to page 764 for the orc warlord, turn to page 52 for the loli maiden.
The story itself is a good read, the models are attractive, and the fact that you wind up with three fraternal triplets and can only bang one of them before the version is over, means it's a slow burn erotic novel.
Overall I enjoyed it, but it loses a star for not actually being a game.