VN - Ren'Py - Restore Her Career [v0.28] [Kalyha]

The game has no animations, the woman look a bit young to be Aunt/Mother and the English is a bit crude in the newest versions.

On top of that I normally don't like VN where I just klick through a story.

Still, the game deserves 4 stars!

The corruption style is made beautifully, it has the right pacing which a lot of other games miss.

Despite the young look I like the female models and the story is on point in my opinion.

It has not this thirsting periods where a big nonerotic plot is told, and we have to click through only to be rewarded by a short little tease.

Here the erotic content is the only focus of the story so there is not much wasted time between the scenes while also not rushing the slow corruption of the mother. Kalyha just hits the mark with the pacing.

The best Part is the dedication of the Dev! Releases are fast and the quality is improving constantly. With each update he addresses old content as well, fixes spelling mistakes and reworking scenes so that clipping errors and the like are solved.

Further, each update is like an episode which forwards the plot significantly.

This is his first game and you can simply see that he tries to improve, he is very active on this forum as well and is open to suggestions while staying true to his idea of the game.

Okay I lied. The best part is that you can play an asshole, we really need more games like this!
:-D

Story: Power fantasy incest simulator. Dialogue is perfectly cliche but it still tingles the same way. This isn't a story about characters. It's a series of images with some stupid jokes thrown in. Dev knows this and plays to their strong suit by embracing the absurdity.
4/5
Art: Art here is where this simple game suffers the most. The characters aren't super unique nor are they interesting. Even the mother who is the most well developed character is so over exposed by the lighting and lack of facial expressions that sometimes I forget she isn't made of plastic.
Posing isn't terrible but definitely could use some work to sell the huge breasts. Honey Select is very basic but you can still do wonders with it if you try.
2/5
Gameplay: Normally I would have a problem with something like a clickthrough VN but considering how the dev wanted to approach telling the story I am willing to consider it working as intended. The choices are just ways to slot in some extra jokes.
3/5
Overall:
3/5
Check back in later.
Dev seems hungry so maybe if they slow down a little and take the time to pose faces could be worth following.

Very good, love the amount of content for version 0.3. You can see that the dev is new to this and here and there are spelling errors but that is all fine. I dont see any problem with that.

For me its a 5 Star because it combines a lot of things i like i.e.

Heels, Big Breats, Corruption, Fotoshoots, Lingerie and so on.

The only thing i would have loved wouled be if it was sadbox and you could "unlock" content with some type of medium grind. But its fine like that and maybe in the future that can be added.

Update based on v13:

Well, it was total crap in the beginning. But after some time I decided to give it another go - and... it became really nice! Renders became better and the story became not that stupid. Though I still don't get this point with "no choice" choices where you can chose a very stupid/rude comment - it produces some very out of the real-life context lines and then goes back to the initial "choice".

So, I'm changing my rating from 2 to 5. And would recommend this thing. Though the MC is a real ashole and sick in the head, but he doesn't try to hide it.


Original Review (based on v2):

The text is written by a kid (no offense, just stating obvious). Too primitive, both in terms of plot and expressions. Judging by some of the grammar mistakes the native speaker would never do, English is the second language at best. Not MTL either though. Main character sounds retarded, other characters are cliche and non-existent. Choices are absolutely absent. You can "chose" between smth like "Hi, Mom!" or "It's time to suck my cock, you horny cunt!" (not literally but very close to the original game text). After that Mom says with a surprised face: "Wow! What did you say??" - and then... yes, you have to "chose" again between "Hi, Mom!" and "It's time to suck my cock, you horny cunt!" so that you could "surprise" her again.

So if you want to swim in the pubertal kid fantasies - the game is worth your time. The images are somehow decent: HoneySelect screenshots, not the best I've seen, not the worst, so that's why 2 stars, not 1. Though the developer should definitely do smth with the lightning - because almost all the screens are just over-lighted too much. Plus convert img files from png to jpg or webp. Because almost 5Gb for this amount of content of this quality? Srsly??

Excellent, i love the speed between releases, but please switch to jpg/webp . The game is so fun with those "wrong" dialogue options, pls dont remove them
And keep with rough fucks, that scene feels amazing

This game started good, with a solid set-up for the history. The models are absolutely amazing, the history pace goes rlly well and don't get annoying, the mc is really twisted and this makes the corruption much more real and enjoyable. If i may say, the dev really is putting effort in his game, the updates are big and you don't need to wait a lot for updates, unlike those other big games with over 1k patreons that takes too long for little content.

Overall - 3.5/5

Renders - 7/10 (Seems like HS renders)
Characters = 6/10 (Each boob is as big as her waist! Takes it away from the realism that the dev wants to bring into the game)
Story - 7/10 (Nothing new, but there is a lot of content as of 0.2)
Dialogues - 6/10 (Needs a lot of proof reading.)

It is not as bad as the 1 star rage ratings suggest. There are lot of areas for improvement. There has already been some improvement going from 0.1 to 0.2. Hopefully it will keep trending up.

[v0.2]

I am very biased here because the type of interaction and kinks presented are really my thing.

Objectively, this isn't a very good game. There writing is amateurish. There are some problems with the grammar but it's not the worst you will see around here. The choices are ridiculous and just rolls back when you choose the obviously outlandish things to say. Shallow characters. Blah blah blah... I won't be getting into everything, but just note that it has all the hallmarks of a very mediocre VN.

So why did I rate it 3 rather than lower? Well... I really like "dominating your mother" fetish. The MC is kind of a dunce, but he is unabashedly "evil." So at least we dodged the awkward virgin pervert MC that thinks he isn't being a sexual predator. The mother is a typical mom but we see some submissive streaks in her. This combination is pretty hot to me.

I also very much like honey select models and this game has some good choices. The tits are pretty fuckin big, but I don't particularly mind that. Some high heels representation is great too.

Basically, if you want to turn your mind off and fap to this particular fetish, you could check it out. Well, there isn't enough content yet, but maybe in the future.

Edit: I'm revising my stars to 4 stars after keeping up with this game until now (v0.10). While most of the stuff i wrote above are still true, the game really does the corruption and domination justice. The dev also works extremely fast and puts out sizable updates each time. It really turned out much better than what I thought it would in the early version.

As of 0.2, the game is looking pretty great. Has beautiful renders and is developing the MC's relationships at a good pace, most certainly keep an eye out for it!

I feel like it can be optimized a bit more though, it already is 3GB in size, for a relatively small amount of content, maybe look into different image formats or file management, idk

Looking forward for more.

I'm giving this 1 star because we can't give negative scores nor a 0. Review based upon v0.1 but I don't see any chanve for improvement

This would be your tipical incest corrupting game if only it wasn't for how muc of a creepstake the protagonist he is.... he hasn't seen his mother for 10 years and not even 3 hours laters he thinks how he would want to slap her ass or fist her...while mimicking the gestures...
and the presmise of corrupting the mom through photoshoot? ridiculous, she's been a model for years, if some photographer hadn't corrupted her already, I doubt the MC will in a way that makes sens.
there are animations... like a powerpoint [resentation, you don't know if the text is supposed to show up or not, so you press anything and you miss it.
Choices don't mean shit.. you can say how you'd like to fuck your mom in the ass in front of her and it will go back to the selection.. till you get the one answer the game intends you to.
the english is something you'd expect from a b-rated tarzan porn parody,,, proofreeder needed asap.
Renders are exagerately bright and certain poses look ridiculous even for HS.
one good thing? it has huge tits

Review for Restore Her Career 0.1

I'm not writing a lot of review but I felt like this one was needed to counterbalance the one star rating that this game doesn't deserve. I will explain why.

The plot is very generic, I don't have much to say on that. It's the typical young boy coming back home who lusts after all girl he meet, family included. Some scenes are a bit far-fetched or may feel rushed but I don't think it was not in the author intention to make it very deep. The thing is, it works if you are looking for a quick fap story.

On the graphic side, the game uses Honey Select if I'm not mistaken. The models aren't the generic ones you could find in a lot of similar project, which gives a unique feeling to the game. Everyone having huge boobs isn't my fetish but as it's a personal taste, I'm not taking it in consideration into my review. The characters also change clothes which add a nice variation to the visual aspect of the game.

Speaking of choices and content, it's only the start so don't expect much, but it's not that bad either. I've seen a lot more game with even less content. Expect around 10 minutes of gameplay. Choices don't seem to matter right now, but I appreciate the fact that dumb choices are just here to entertain as the game rolls back to the choice selection after them.

Finally, as I'm not a native english speaker, I'm not so keen on the grammatical side of the textual content, but it didn't appear horrible to me.

Overall, despite its generic plot, the game still has a unique visual aspect and an overall good quality if you are not expecting a deep story.