VN - Ren'Py - Reunion [v0.65] [Karabinek]

Review of v0.5a
If "harem" is your #1 fetish, this is the game for you! Up until now, this is the best game/VN (more VN than game, in this case) to go up this harem rabbit hole in a concise and structured way. A lot of dialog is around the consensual harem/polygamy/"open relationship" idea and, TBH, it is a lot less cringe than you could imagine!
The women are some of the best and beautiful 3D models around, and the MC will have the opportunity to have relationships (and fuck) with most of them.
This is one of those VNs (for my taste, of course) that you want to spend time reading and following the story, not just skipping dialog to the next FAP scene.
Speaking of sex scenes, they are mostly static, although there are still several animations. However, even the static scenes are very well rendered and the dialog that goes with them helps make everything sexy AF.
I know I should give one less star because there is no sound or special effects, but I just can't: the hours I spent with the game so far were certainly worthy of 5 stars!
Let's just hope the dev can continue to work on this until the end of the story.

v0.5
The renders are pretty decent. Not perfect, but good enough, but the story is kinda weird and all over the place plus the writing feels repetitive and a bit tedious.
I think if especially the latter was straightened out it would improve the game quite a bit.
Last but not least the sub stuff in this game seems really weird.
I can't speak for everyone, but not all dom-sub relationship involve name calling, force and threats and overall it seems like the dev only knows about hard sub or slave relationships, so that's all there is.
Not the worst, but it shines a wrong light on this whole part of kink in my opinion.

this story needs better pacing. i mean the women fall in love with the MC like in the first 10 min. a slow burn this story is not. i mean the assistant falls for the MC like right away. there are some grammar errors but i over looked them. my advice is use google. throughout the game i keep seeing i am or you are (i am coming or you are right). like i said it didn't bother me and i applaud the developer for trying, but the errors did take me out of the game world. i can't imagine why this game is so large, the game is summarized within the the first 20 min. the mc meets girls, girls fall blindly in love with mc, thats it. there may be additonal points in the game, but after 20 min i just couldn't go on.

The story is really good, most of the Li are written well and I'm happy its back on track

Mc-is very complicated but I mean that in a good way, he's not a pussy and he's not a Chad, he's just decisive in his actions, he can be this romantic and compassionate guy one moment and in the blink of an eye he changes to a dominanting person that wants revenge and he doesn't lose sight of reality while changes in his mood take affect

Story-it's kind of a typical guy comes home and romances the family but It does have its own twist and I think it works, it's only version 5 now so there's still plenty of unique things to come, I also like the fact that we don't miss scenes and get forced down a bunch of different paths (other then a few Li that have sub/love routes)

Love interest-ok so I'm a guy that loves virgins and there's only 1 in the story that we know of (I have my suspicions on 3 other Li of different ages and believe a surprise reveal is coming) here's the thing, even though none of the women are virgins (except Lisa) it didn't bother me,why? Because the Dev didn't go full blown into detail having a Li talk about how she's a pro cocksucking hoe and got around town, what do they say about past relationships? Not much......like at all

(No ntr/sharing, the mc is a walking pussy magnet, another Dev I gotta resub to when I can)

Honestly, I'm gonna say upfront, this is laughably generic and the only difference between the women, is what magnitude the sadness in their backstory is, and if their boobs are large or obscenely large. And it's pretty funny reading through the story, the writer didn't even think of what MC or his dead dad's businesses even were until halfway through the current end of content. If I read another generic business term, I might scream. And I think a tag is missing from this one, inflation, because there is no DISCERNABLE REASON FOR THIS TO BE 20GB. I CHECKED. I downloaded BOTH versions and looked at them side by side. There is no difference in quality. And that is just wasted space, time, and effort for the Dev. Not to mention most of the lengthy dialog is MC or the love interests rehashing every minute detail of the plot so far to another character. So you the reader have to hear the same few sob stories over and over and OVER. And the biggest joke is the "uncompressed" version is still broken, the second scene with chloe has something missing and just shows an error for the whole scene. And the phone is useless, you get ALL of the wallpapers super early on and there is no reason to click the phone after a certain point.

So here's the story, MC returns home after being away for 10 years and all of his adoptive sisters now want to have sex with him. You know, the plot to EVERY GENERIC GAME ON THIS SITE. I will say, MC is already in a polyamorous relationship with two girls so I guess if nothing else, he's not some innocent pseudo shota insert. Anyway, step mom is evil literally for evil's sake. All of her actions still have yet to be "justified" as there are about three interactions with her up to the end of current content. She kicked MC out of the house and brainwashed his dad, I guess? Still no answers. MC was given control of all his dad's assets after he died and is helping out the step sisters while he's in town. The youngest daughter has no issues besides loving MC. Middle sister is getting blackmailed, and oldest is in an abusive relationship.

The main plot is supposed to be MC taking revenge on the step mom, but he just inserts himself in everyone's issues even without player's choice. Then at one point HE STARTS COMPLAINING ABOUT IT?! No, he for some reason has infinite wealth and was throwing money at everyone's issues he can't bitch about helping people when he offered. And all the plot points happen for one scene and then nothing comes up about it later. As most of the later "problems" are just the girls coming to terms entering a polyamorous relationship with MC. And even then none of them care.

I won't waste time retelling the sisters' stories. The characters that I'm gonna complain about for a paragraph are Sandra and Emily. Everything surrounding their stories is complete crap. And I think it's pretty representative about how I feel about most of the writing in this. Sandra is MC's lawyer, and every single time they interact all MC does is stare at her and internally monologue about how hot she is. Aka ogling and lusting after her. And sandra talks to emily about it saying "He was staring at me all day, he wasn't insistent, but determined and decisive." THAT'S LITERALLY THE SAME THING. She has no reason to like MC at all and her sob story makes no sense either. A video of a jock forcing himself on her made her get bullied? Sure. Also, she's always wearing a wedding ring, what's up with that? Then there's Emily she knew MC in high school, and later, suddenly "I was so in love with you" type stuff. Then right after that Emily and Sandra say they had feelings for each other the whole time? When? Was it between Emily telling Sandra to fuck her boss, or when Emily was flirting with MC? Because I missed any chemistry they had. Because they spring that on MC before completely succumbing to his "relationship."

That is the issue with this story. Pacing and focus. Every character already loves MC but they wanna take it slow but want everything to happen. And it tries to act like a slow burn with Jennifer(the one with the biggest boobs) to make it seem like she's worth chasing, but right after getting sexually assaulted almost she jumps at MC. Both her and her friend Jill, by the way. Like I get it, dumb porn game, but there's TWENTY THREE women in this (so far) and everything's spread so thin on top of giving the facade of being deep just by making all the characters sad. It's padded out with repetition and over abundant coincidences that make it so there's no real problem for MC. So there's no stakes. He gets mad because he helps people, which IS LITERALLY HIS JOB. And none of the characters have a personality, I cannot name ONE personality trait of anyone outside of maybe Mary and Khloe.

All in all, the central plot takes a backseat for most of this. The characters are boring. The size is padded out for no good reason. And the translation is almost good. At first I thought it was written by someone in english but there are some glaring grammar and spelling issues that show up later. You know after the dev stopped letting the editor take their money so they can render images that take up more hard drive space. But for whatever reason I am sort of interested in the story, I guess. Middle of the road renpy game, and I'll close this out with a message to others that might review this or other games:

JUST BECAUSE THE MODELS LOOK GOOD, DOES NOT MEAN IT'S WORTH 5 STARS. THEY'RE ALL THE SAME FLIPPED DAZ MODELS.

I find it a good story even if the beginning seems to be cliche, but the further ado the more i want to continue read it. The characters a very gorgeous, good rendert and most of them have neat story behind. Animations though need more work on it. I've enjoyed the good game although couple of bugs (v0.5). I give this game 4 stars, and add one star in hope for a good continue in the future.

Its got a good story and great renders. Game size is a bit big if you download the un-compressed version, but so far I've had no real issues with the compressed version except at the start of the game (where the smoking choice occurs, I ignored it and kept rolling and didn't run into any more issues)

Very good work , the merits have been said by everyone over and over again . Let me mention the disadvantages . The game is too big , 18GB , My PC isn't expensive , and that size puts too much strain on PC . Early plot design chaos , the last few updates have been much better .
It's the only game I've everday turned on my computer and looked forward to an update, and I can recall every single screen clearly .
I can only ask the author not to abandon halfway .

Its fair to say that i fell in love with this title.. The animations are pretty good even tho there is room for improvement and MORE to be added,
The characters are well designed and extremly likeable minus the step mother (not as a character personality but just her look feels off)
The story is well written, yes a few typos but passable.. Characters like Khloe are just some of the best and captivating..
My BIGGEST tip to the developer is to practice facial expressions in a mirror that you want the character to express.. FAR TO MANY times in numerous consecutive scenes the facial expression remains unchanged and spoils the mood of the scene.. a little extra time spent here (see how Chasing Sunsets does it for better example) and it would be a damn near perfect avn..
I hope for the future of this title as there is quite a lot of elements established in the existing story that could easily expand the tale into multiple seasons.. Forming a business empire that employs the 'collectable' characters in various roles of the business' to play to each of their strengths.. Having that ensemble team working together to take down the corruption in the city, dealing with everyones personal or interconnected enemies in a battle of revenge and power.. The future long running prospects are great and i'd love to see it play out (including all the near imminent pregnancies that seem to be upon us)
My hat goes off to the dev team and i hope we see more from this avn in the future

Great storytelling, great girls, but definitely needs some polish.

I didn't go the intended direction with one of the girls and every once in a while the characters would reference something that never happened.

Also, usually the English was readable enough that I could tell what was meant, but nearly every line had some level of incorrect grammar, bad spelling or just said things in ways that no native English speaker that passed second grade would ever say them.

The girls are excellent, there's great variety and the scenes are nicely animated. A good game with lots of potential but the dev needs to be careful and try to focus on improving character relationships first rather than introduce more plot points. The game can be great, and even as of 0.45 there's plenty of content and enough sex scenes for a good amount of playthrough.

I almost couldn't believe that an 18GB adult VN has such poor sex scenes. They're more narrated than animated, and the MC's cock is rather disgusting. But hey, at least the game lets you pick between seeing smoking scenes and not seeing them. Dev sure got his priorities wrong.
The girls are rather pretty, if you can look past the usual emotional drama. Story is about your father dying, you wanting revenge, etc.
Anyway if you want an overall high quality game, look somewhere else. If you just want to have some good fap material, definitely look somewhere else.

Played version 0.45 with the walk-through mod.

This game is pretty good. The story is probably the best part - it's seriously working on GoT levels of multiple story lines going on here. But there's a good mix of different types of relationships that keeps it interesting. I tend to like the threads where there's some revenge incentive driving it, and there are a few of those. The straight-up romance ones are good too.

Aside from the overall story, the writing can be hit or miss, but it seems to me that it gets better further into the game, maybe as the dev gains more experience. This is mainly related to the dialogue, which can be stiff/awkward at times. This is the main thing keeping me from giving this 5 stars.

The visuals are pretty good as well, although I've never been crazy about the breasts generated with this renderer (this is DAZ right?) - they often look strangely shaped to me - particularly the really large ones, like Jennifer's.

I'll make it short and simple.
You will like this game if you like: Harem, busty females, good feels relationship between the MC and his girls, no think faps

You will not like this game if you like: Intricate stories, a complex MC with a lot of flaws.

Im glad I ignored some of the other reviews and decided to give it a shot. Its no masterpiece in terms of story, but this has the stuff im looking for hence the 5. I normally would just give a 4 until the game is actually completed, but I feel like I needed to help offset some of the other ridiculous reviews where some people seemed to not enjoy the topics that this game is centered around, but decided to play it anyway and come out all surprise pikachu. Keep up the good work dev, can't wait to see more scenes with the ladies.
P.S if anyone knows games similar to this help a brother out

Had a decent premise, but the whole harem aspect of the game is not believable or enjoyable. MC is like a god that every woman who meets him wants a piece of him without him doing anything noteworthy. It feels silly and breaks the immersion. There are a couple of interesting characters that are mainly the sisters and the stepmom, but everyone else is just there to increase MC's harem.

With that many characters available and so little development between them makes the game feel terrible. I guess with more dev time it could turn into a better game if at least each character is given proper development, but we will have to wait and see.

There are aspects of this game I really like and the women are certainly all fun to look at.... the renders are solid, settings are fresh and the animation and content is great... which is why we are all here.

To be honest, there is only one problem with this VN/Game but it is a big problem; the MC is just god awful.

Close your eyes for a minute and think about any hero. Animated, comic book, movie or TV show. Any hero. What do they all have in common? Flaws. They all have flaws. It's what makes them real. This MC, however, besides being butt ugly and having zero fashion sense, has none. I know... the MC is not supposed to be a hero and yes, we all come to expect well hung, great endurance, with the ability to please multiple women in these games so I am willing to cut most MCs some slack... but it's too much mary sue for me.

He always knows the right thing to say. He never makes any mistakes. He is a super bad ass. He knows how to run his father's business even though he has never spent a day of his life in the office. He has women throwing themselves at him and they don't care that they have to share. I mean, he's perfect!

The problem is, there are so many good VNs out there these days and this dev is clearly talented enough to produce at a high quality. Here's hoping the dev wraps this one up soon and starts another one with a new MC.

The models are nice but almost identical. The writing however, is absolutely awful. All the women are immediately madly in love with the protagonist for virtually no reason. The story is nothing but cliches, and the conversations seem to come out of a bad romance novel written by someone who's never actually been in a relationship of any kind.

Review for Reunion v0.45:-
Like being in a relationship with a hot sex doll.

I loved the renders and models initially, but the more time I spent playing this, the clearer its glaring issues and inadequacies became to me.

Every character has the same "bimbo sex doll" body type. Writing is dry, wooden and soulless, there's no real emotion in the text or the stiff faces of every character, they always have the same dead expression. Characters are one dimensional tropes who fall in love with the MC for inexplicable reasons, and they're always damsels in distress. The game's story & character decisions make no logical sense; backstories are bare-bones and character motivations are non-existent, they all live only to be saved by the MC and eventually join his "open relationship" harem. There are plenty of spelling mistakes and bad grammar instances. Writing skill and comprehension seems like that of a 14 year old teen who is learning English as a second language. Sex scenes in this game are also- badly posed, vanilla and infrequent.

"Reunion" is an uninspired, amateurly written, tropey, revenge/power fantasy with no real personality or life in it's narrative and characters. The 17 GB file size hosts a ~10 hr playtime which has 2 handfuls of adult scenes, and boring, trite dialogue full of meaningless conversations and the protagonist's mundane ruminations.

PS- This VN's strengths begin and end at the visuals (discounting the models). If you want to turn this into a compelling game: spend more time with the story, make characters more varied in appearance, give them some endearing qualities and motivations, and please make them express more emotions. Realistic body types, characters with some depth, facial expressions, more adult scenes, and a new writer will make this VN a top contender on this site.

This is a really good game.
For starters, current amount of content (as of 0.45) has enough to keep you entertained for around 12 hours or so. That should tell you that the dev is already taking this very seriously and already has some depth. I'm not familiar with the dev's schedule yet, so I can't say how long it usually takes for each release, but regardless, I loved this game.
It IS, if it slipt by you, a HAREM game. So if you don't like that, it definitly won't be your cup of tea, since you already start the game with 2 girls in an open relationship.
I feel that the story gets better at each day and what started as what it seemed to be a simple revenge story is evolving into something much more complex, with mysteries and interesting characters. So, if you haven't played this yet, be sure to do it and support the dev if you can.

version 0.45 does sound like an early version but the volume of this game is quite heavy - a few hours of playing. It takes a bit of time even if you just skip everything. So it should be enough for you to see what's inside.
Personally loved the story of a rich man with all hotties around him. But could have been a little better if it was an incest game, making Lisa and the other two actual sisters of MC.
There're a few errors in the game at the current stage, you can still ignore the errors and continue but a bit disturbing.