Ren'Py - Red Room [v0.36c] [QuietLab]

Was excited about this one, there are some rare fetishes being explored here. Unfortunately this is an objectively poorly made game from any angle.

I don't care that much about the story but man the story in this game is horrendous. It seems like the writer wanted to pull of a MC that slowly loses their mind and accepts killing women, but this was way beyond their abilities and instead it comes off as a nonsensical schizophrenic plot line. Probably would have been easier to make the MC either pure good or pure evil.

Nonetheless, this fails miserably as a fap game too. The models have decent bodies but the faces and eyes are horribly distorted, when characters smile they make these forced facial expressions that are very difficult to look at and have made me constantly cringe in displeasure. Like others have said most of the game is boring vanilla harem with poor sex animations, the gore scenes are more interesting but even those are sub par and give me "edgy teenage angst" vibes.

The gameplay is boring and unnecessary clicking in a clunky/buggy interface to find the next scene in an unnecessary and pointless sandbox, then more clicking to skip over the poorly written dialogue and ridiculous plot/action, to finally get to the sex scene, which is always a disappointment. Hopefully one day someone will make a red room game worth playing.

PS: almost forgot, the most infuriating thing is characters and locations constantly changing names, is it a fucking cottage or a fucking cabin??? make up your damn mind. You may think it's cute for each character to have 15 different nicknames but it really just makes your game confusing and annoys the player.

Before us is perhaps the best representative of trash horror in the style of the film Hostel. I've been playing since the first versions. The quality of the game is constantly growing.

The only thing missing is animations. Well, the sex scenes are very short. In some games they take up a thousand lines, in this game there are at most three lines.

Despite having some interesting details here and there, the story and the scenes of this game can only be described as twisted if not sick. Could this statement be a badge of pride for the creators?
I really don't understand what joy (sexual and intellectual) there is to sadism, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia, among other things. But, if there is someone out there interested in this pot of morbid and sadistic things I guess you are free to go for it. Of course this is assuming that the game is currently not violating the f95zone rules.
This review is for v.036c. I am ratting this as Terrible. And this is less for the content itself, and more because the game doesn't even allow the players to choose their own path, away from all the sadistic scenes. I am not sure if with that I would be able to make the story more interesting, but I have played before other games where the player is confronted with moral dilemmas and that can be interesting. Here there are no moral dilemmas, it's straight to the point: torturing and killing for the sake of it, which is not interesting at all in my opinion. Bad.

Wow this is garbage.

I will leave the biggest problem (story, writing) for last.

The models look meh, they look outdated, and just boring.

The sex scenes have very bad "animations" they are just repeating frames.

The gore is very boring.

Music? Never heard of it, it apperantly doesn´t exist, and isn´t important.

Grammair is bad it got a bit better but still isn´t perfect.

UI is boring, and the bloody ... minutes later transsision looks very trashy and cheap.

The gameplay is horrendous it´s a badly designed sandbox in a mostly linear storyline.

And the story is, so badI still can´t believe I didn´t just dream it. MC loves watching the redroom where girls are killed, but oh no his sister is suddenly there, but he saves her, but oh no now he has to search for new girls for the boss of the redroom, but not really they already have them the MC just watches live and says how horrible it is, so he decides to kill the new killer "butcher" who is just a catoon villain, but oh no now he has to kill the girls; (but i thought he had to search for new girls, why do they always already have someone?) the MC ofcourse is shocked and sad that he has to do that I wonder how this dramatic situation will unfold? The boss Lucias comes to his home and takes him to the new redroom, there he must rape a girl but he gets a drug that makes him horny? so he does it and while he rapes her she gets killed by a screwdriver but he has his eyes closed and doesn´t realise he is now fucking a corpse ): how does he react? "wow you guys are so mean how could" then the next day the next redroom session begins. He and his boss take a line, and the MC is happy to rape, mutilate, kill, rape her body and eat her????? How? Why? Why whaz happened he disliked it and felt disgusted it at first why the sudden change of heart? Well maybe the drug made him like that that must be it, the next day he flies to the big boss, and says how happy he is with his new job, and happily rapes and kills another random girl for them without even taking a drug before that. Okay I guess he just decided to become evil and completly different. The another girl and he is still happy about the things he does. Wow what an amazing story.

I left a lot of stuff out, like all the vanilla harem stuff that you do during the day, with way too many characters and they are all so boring amd without any ounce of creativity.

I really don´t recommend this game, the horror parts are awful and, the gore is very bad, the comedy is very unfunny,the version I played literally ended with a fart joke, and the life of slice stuff is generic sandboy harem stuff you have seen a thousand time.

... Wonderful game which fits a certain niche ...
... All people here complain about this game graphic violence ...
... But c'mon ...
... This game is advertised as being ALL about graphic violence ...
... Even screenshots tell you that ...
... That being said, the story in this game is, well, pretty chaotic ...
... The only negative comes from the very idea of this game ...
... You cannot really have a loveable character if there is a threat of death for them at every step ...
... Also, some loveable characters ended on the sharp end of the axe, characters that were meant to be LIs ...
... But that's not what made me give it 4/5 ...
... The grandma scene singlehandedly brought this down by a star ...

One of a kind game for those, who into guro/necro stuff! Pretty boring in the first, like, ten days, but it's surely worth the wait. Disappointing lack of scenes with Nancy, no matter the choices you make

Patiently waiting for the next update

It says in the tags what you are getting. Its a great game if those tags appeal to you. Dont get discouraged by the people who dont read reviews or tags, give it a shot if you are into gore, mutilation and torture

I don't mind the violence, but if you're going to strip a girl in a game like this there really ought to be an option to fuck her before killing her.

The dialog is pretty poor too, and the models mediocre.

Amazing game! Fair warning: if you can’t handle intense gore, graphic violence, or tough themes, this isn’t for you. Snowflakes, consider yourselves advised!

Please don’t abandon the development—keep it going strong!

The game as such is well made. High quality models, fairly good writing and a so far logical story. But it plays to base desires that even I, a confessed deviant, find abominable.
When you start to play this game be aware you will taking on the role of someone who will be trained to become an inhuman(e) monster.
Torture, mutilation and murder for sexual gratification sake only.
Barely adult girl strapped into a gyno chair and iced with a screwdriver to the forehead while raped, pregnant girl not much older than the first electrocuted until she's burning up. Another abducted girl locked into a water chamber, drowned and reanimated with adrenaline to be raped and chopped up with a fire axe and the corpse raped again before thrown into a meat grinder ending in obvious references to canibalism.
This story is dehumanizing and abhorent. I know its just bits, bytes and pixels but people that get off on this kind of "blocking" seem not of sound mind to me.

There's not a lot of gore themed VN games, but this is definitely one of the best (In term of gore and violence).

The rendered graphics are decent/good, but story wise, it's kinda interesting. You got an urban legend like Redroom to be the main theme which I never seen someone did this before, even though there is still too much to work but I see the potential in this game .

It was quite a good and small update though (v0.30a).
Please, add gore tag on the list and way more warnings, coz there are 100's of people who can't tolerate that kinda extremely brutal stuff.

Well just wanna say, if the story goes way darker, it's fun to play too.
And this is one of them.

Keep on with your work, I know you'll do your best.
It's honestly on my top 5 list right now.

Before I go, please please, don't abandon the project, I repeat don't abandon it.
The story is getting interesting, REDROOM has another competitor. Love to see how deep and darker it goes.

(Please take time and bring us a bigger update.)

Ciao QUITELAB team

'violent necrophilia' needs more warning than 'contains graphic violence'. Yes, sure there's no 'gore' or 'necro' tags, but the download post could mention it a bit more strongly.

Game was better before it took the turn. It's also quite buggy and despite the help system, is a bit of a mystery where to go sometimes and the game won't let you advance until you find the spot.

WARNING: this game does not contain just usual violence, I was expecting fights or similar, BDSM you know, that king of violence. But there is content that is really crude and CRUEL. Revolting scenes. There is no eroticism. After a while, you cannot skip the extreme guro stuff. There is no good guy path as I initially supposed playing it, the MC turns into a sicko fast.

Play it if you are into a really bad horror. Because it's bad also as a splatter VN. Yes, it's bad also for an horror, because the dialogues are badly written, broken English everywhere.

The graphics would be mediocre if this was made 6 years ago. The normal sex scenes (the very few ones I have seen at the beginning) are just one position, then MC cums. That's it.

I could talk about the plot, the lack of credibility in the characters, the non-sense dialogues since the start. But I'll just waste time.

I did not went farther a really cruel and honestly disgusting scene, I tought the MC could have a path were he fights against the psycho people as it was , but he just becomes one as well. The plot is poor and there are no "paths", just a few minor variables but it's mostly a forced unique story. The "sandbox" style is used just to make you wste time and clicks, roaming around the house is just for increasing the repulsion of the player.
Maybe I should read the reviews and comments before downloading a game with those tags.

Dialogues: 1/5
Grammar: 1/5
Graphics: 2/5
Eroticism: 0/5

v0.28a

You have likely heard by now that this is a gore centric game.
I would sort of disagree with that.
Let me explain.

It takes a long time to get to that part of the game. It seems to be meant to build your interest in the characters and get a sense of what is normal.
Then smack you with the shock.

I found this boring really. And the sex scenes were way too short to be enjoyable.
It was very clear that the dev gets off more on the gore part than sex.

If gore isn't your thing, I don't recommend this one.
If gore is your thing... well eventually you get a bit of it I guess.

I found the story lackluster really. Just a frustration of zero choice.
At least I always knew where to go and there is no grind though.

I am a fan of darker genres. I loved certain parts of this, but they were so short that I didn't get to enjoy them any.

Idk. I feel like this one missed every mark it aimed for, imo.
I mostly tried it for the sleep sex, incest, and rape tags plus the talk of how extreme it is.
Meh. A couple of the gore scenes were extreme but they were short too so again, just not enough of anything in particular imo.

Not going to bother with this one anymore. I'd rather read a book.

this is quite possibly the darkest, most bad ass porn game i have ever had the pleasure of partaking in, this blows away all the cuck simulators with ease, like i don't understand why that focused on the beta part of it anyway, nobody wants to be an alpha any more? but anyway, i like dark, i grew up fapping to traces of death and horrific up close and personal life real life deaths in the city of all varieties , i am a hard core person and i like hard core shit and this sir is fucking hard core 10/10 all day erry day Rape, Murder, Dismemberment, mutilation, necrophilia and slavery...... it was like i loaded up a game and wandered into the Cannibal Corpse universe and i fucking love it "

They think they know who I am
All they know is I love to kill
Face down, dead on the ground
Find me before another is found

I come alive in the darkness
Left murdered and nameless
Dead unburied and rotten
Half eaten by insects

She was so beautiful
I had to kill her

Tied her up
And taped her mouth shut
Couldn't scream
Raped violently
Rope tight, around her throat
Her body twitches
As she chokes

Strangulation caused her death
Just like all the others
Raped before and after death
Stripped, naked, tortured

They're all dead, they're all dead
They're all dead, by strangulation

I come alive in the darkness
Left murdered and nameless
Dead unburied and rotten
Half eaten by insects

It felt so good to kill

I took their lives away
Seven dead, lying rotten
Unburied victims
Their naked bodies putrefy

Strangulation caused her death
Just like all the others
Raped before and after death
Stripped, naked, tortured

They're all dead, they're all dead
They're all dead, by strangulation

I come alive in the darkness
Left murdered and nameless
Dead unburied and rotten
Half eaten by insects

They think they know who I am
All they know is I love to kill
Face down, dead on the ground
Find me before another is found"

I was drawn in by some of the tags but any potential that this game might have had was let down by poor writing and the always extraneous sandbox elements.

Renders at least were decent enough, few as I saw, but if the writing is lousy you might as well be showing me stick figures for all the difference it makes.

This is one of the most fucked up games out there. And that's the only reason I'm giving it 5/5.
Writing is bad, the story doesn't make sense sometimes. But it has plenty of action and tons of terrible shit you won't find anywhere else. If you are not into rape, snuff and anything sick just ignore the game.

If you are not into really heavy BDSM this is no game for you, but I am and love it. one star removed cause the english especially at the start is terrible. But the game itself I love and hope the creator will continue to work on it till they finish it how they want

This game feels a bit like a 1980's sex comedy, with a slight dash of horror/thriller mixed in. As you may be able to tell from the generous sampling of One-Star reviews, that's not a mix everyone is going to have a great time with.

Horniness and enjoyability in adult gaming is mercurial, to a certain extant. Because of that I can't just say, "everyone who hates this game is wrong, it's awesome!" However, in my opinion, there's nothing 'average' or 'mid' about the models for the female characters. With only a few exceptions, I think they're all pretty great. Oddly enough, the character model for the mother seems to have degraded through releases. She's not as pretty in 0.24b as she was at the beginning. Scarlett, the sister character, is still a standout for me, though. Really attractive character.

The set design throughout is also done very well. This is a 'sandbox'-style game (more on that in a second), which means you'll spend a great deal of time clicking through renders of homes and buildings on your way to the next story beat; and in that regard, all the locations look good, feel lived in (or at least look like snapshots from a Home& Gardens magazine) and immersed me in the world of Red Room.

I'd also like to address another thing I disagree with; the opinion that the story is bad. Completely disagree. The story in Red Room is not bad. The writing is. Let me try to illustrate that point. The main character is living with his mother and sister, working for his grandfather while his sister looks for a job. Being inattentive at work leads to an accident, and the main character finds he needs to get a new job. He begins working for a shady dude named Thomas at his photography studio, while wooing Thomas' sister on the side. This eventually leads to a tense revelation, and another, more permanent job opportunity for the MC and his best friend. Alongside that legitimate occupation, due to prior crimes the MC now also finds himself in deep with a more illegal operation.

This is not a bad story. That's more plot than a lot of AVN's have, and that's still just the set-up. Being completely honest, I haven't masturbated once playing this game. The sex scenes are short, very short, and not much is going on in them. There a quite a few of them, to be certain, they just aren't that long and there isn't much stimulating about them. But I like stories with corruption and snuff as fetishes or themes, and Red Room has those, and the story is good enough that I kept going even though it isn't terribly erotic at present. Strong hints of incest, my personal favorite fetish, doesn't hurt either, though I'd prefer if incest and snuff not mix, and thankfully that doesn't seem to be happening in Red Room.

The writing is improving, however. Noticeably. At the beginning of the game, I legitimately wasn't even sure if Scarlett and the main character were related because of the manner in which the two of them spoke to one another. But as the story goes on, they become more familial in their responses to one another, especially in the second half of this 0.24b version.

Now there is a complaint I've read that I have to agree with entirely. Red Room is a kinetic visual novel, masked as a sandbox to give it more of an adventure game feel. That's simply the truth at present. There are no genuinely impactful choices. Everything plays out in one specific way. All you're doing is clicking on rooms, doors and people to progress. I personally hate sandbox in VN's, so I was thankful that there's a suggestion box letting me know what I'm supposed to do next, but I'd much prefer just being able to go through the story using just the spacebar. As it is, that's not the Dev's interest, so if I'm going to continue with Red Room I'm just going to have to get over it. But for what it's worth, yes, Red Room is a kinetic, no genuine choice visual novel, that takes longer because you're unnecessarily trapped in the sandbox system.

I really love darker themes in adult games. Corruption, snuff, rape, necro, these can be powerfully erotic if done well. Very late into 0.24b, there's a moment with a pretty girl and a screwdriver that actually felt a bit titillating. And incest is just wonderful, again, when it's actually embraced as a fetish and not just matter-of-factly stated as a thing that's happening; that too is improving, as Scarlett and the MC are growing closer. I genuinely think there's promise in Red Room, and I will continue to look into it. If those traits and fetishes do not interest you, then by all means, steer clear of this game. But by no means do I think Red Room is a lost cause. If you are a fan of darker themes, I'd encourage you to give this a shot. I wish the Dev luck, and hope this game continues to improve.