VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Revenga [v1.0 Extra] [Maks]

I'll likely update as the game progresses but as the game stands (0.6), I'd give it 3 stars

The dev has the right idea in trying to create a story line that pops out and surprises you with promises of twists and turns with every new development in the plot. Problem is the pacing, especially in the beginning, was rather quick. Instead of hinting and slowly uncovering the vindictive bitch that is Mallory, we're presented a psychotic, murderous skank. The presentation of her nature was a bit too sudden and given that we already know she's the antagonist before we even press play, this was not needed. It's only towards the latter part of the content that her insanity becomes more fleshed out and comprehensible. The dream aspect of Gloria is a nice touch though as that's really the only time we get to experience calm in the story and see something of sentimental value.

The animations are a little bit janky but not the worst thing out there. Renders are pretty average but still pretty attractive. I do get some of the complaints about forced sex scenes which is understandable but I still enjoy it nonetheless

In the coming updates, I'd suggest slowing down the pace a little bit and to try adding more dialogue between characters. The non sexual content in between the sexual content is still just as important in creating an enjoyable game

This is a surprisingly fun game. Visual are quite nice girls look hot and sex scenes and animations also good. I like the story tension got me engaged. Dialogues and choices seems matter. I'm looking forward to see new updates in the future.

Not going to come here and give a false 1 star rating....

Reason for the three stars and not 5 stars is because this game was doing really well story wise and the renders/animations were top notch!!

That being said there is a side to this VN that put's me off from continuing to follow this game and that's the 'FORCED' amount of content that you as player have no control over after a good few chapters of having control over what particular girls/women that you can pursue or are interested in to then being nose dived into sex scenes with a milf (aunt) and two rather rough looking lesbian girls (cousin & friend) with no choice in the matter. Choices seem to have taken a downward spiral in the last two episodes and having no choices doesn't reflect a story very well when choices are supposed to mean something.

If the dev decided to revisit these scenes and started adding choices then I would gladly start playing again and revisit my review but as of now I couldn't give this game anymore than a 3 star and that's being generous as the game stands.

I love this story
Renders are good
lot of hot woman
Happy to see another story then mc seducing family
Love the revenge plot
Not a fan of stepmom black widow plot Trying killing the dad for his money
Glad that the stepsisters are gonna be part of mc harem if you choose to forgive them but use them as a C dumpsters to take some revenge
Lot of sex scenes for 0.6
But here is my problem The revenge plot is not even in this game yet ,
Step daughters get arrested on charges or attempting to poison and murder the stepfather and this is where 0.6 ends
There are some scene where mc threatens Stepmom and sisters But there nothing special

Poor game in just about all aspects, the choices is limited to who you want to fuck more or less but still you get forced sex scenes like the aunt or threesome with hannah.

Story is good in theory but the execution is garbage, the entire thing is just so unrealistic and so are most of the dialogues, ontop of that the english leaves much to be desired, while it's not awful it's clearly written by someone with very basic skills.

I'll end this with he only positive, some of the females look good even though renders and specifically sex-scenes could be greatly improved.

I liked Second Chance. It was a good story with some nice renders. This one has the same quality renders and better animated scenes but the story is crap. and it's really badly written. I play VNs for the immersion it gives me otherwise I'd go watch Xvideos. Well this VN makes you wish you'd spent your bandwidth on something else. There's nothing in Revenga apart some good 3DCG sex. There is no passion, no empathy for any of the characters and even less for the MC, tropes Uni graduate coming back home. Maks needs a writer like a car needs 4 tyres.

I'm going to review this game starting with the Pros:

-Renders: the renders are good, they seems slightly better than the Developer last game Second Chance, so it's a good improvement.

-Animations: the animations are obviously better than Second Chance, seems like the Developer gained some skills from last year, good to know.

-Dialogues: this novel is well written, i didin't notice any major grammar errors so far.

And now the cons, oh boy here we laugh:

Story/Plot: The revenge story plot could be a good setup, but the problem is the women personality, they try so SO hard to be evil that everything become ridiculous. I mean i know they probably hate the MC for some reasons but there's a limit to everything. The MC is treated like a monster or the worst human in the hystory for no reason at all, it's just like a chinese manhua, so ridiculous and exaggerated that makes you laugh.

This has to be the tenth time I found one of those childhood revenge fantasy games, but the first time where the MC's mom was literally murdered by the step-mom. And like all those other games, I find it just as distasteful, do the people who enjoy this stuff REALLY think they turn 'badass' after college? You don't. You either get over it or become lonely as fuck as people don't want to hang around someone that bitter and resentful, I learned that the hard way.

And the MC in this game is a special case, every scene he goes "my whore step-mom and her shitty daughters" or some cringe like "I'm no longer a timid fat little boy". I dunno why I'm sort of triggered by these games, maybe because I used to be this hateful myself, but thankfully not incestuous!

Really hope there is at least an option to change the MC, not make him into some sad hatefilled edgelord or something, give him some actual peace, allow him to abandon his inheritance as all it's doing is turning him into a monster. I've seen these stories before, the protagonist doesn't become better or more likeable as the story goes on but just sadder, angrier and more irredeemable. On that note, we never really see this "ruined childhood" of his.

The first interaction is him being a massive dick to his step-family, would've been more effective if he was at least somewhat diplomatic and polite, just trying to see his dad, instead of outright hostile. I guess he couldn't wait to show how 'alpha' he became? But I digress.

All the females are either unrealistically nice (If I were that white haired girl I would've peaced out until the whole drama was resolved, cuz some stranger hookup from the airport bathroom was threatening my friends), or just weirdly evil. Like, how many of us had a mean step-mom who married our dad and abused us for his fortune? And deflate the balloon? Yea, sorry, but I laughed at that and sided with the step-daughters cuz that was 40k level of grimdark, and my favorite faction happened to be Chaos, specifically Slaanesh, where tickling and sewing needles are considered foreplay.

Art was okay I suppose, all these 3D games look the same to me. Art is inoffensive is my only impression.

In summery: If this is your outlet for a tragic childhood, get help before you hurt yourself!

As someone else said, this game has major problems, mainly:
gameplay is nonexistent. Choices boil down to "fuck this girl yay or nay" and "where you wanna cum". Just go watch some of those life selector porn videos for that. And it's no exageration, i've counted two instances in which you can choose "be mean and "alpha" and "not be mean"" and one instance in which you are honest or lie about hooking up with other girls. That's it
Characters are pretty 2 dimensional, they're basically walking stereotypes and cliches without any real depth. They're engaging enough to not fill like cardboard but you know there is about 0 depth, and they follow porn logic with porn dialogue, but not even in a witty parody way (No, really, even for porn games. Basically everyone jumps to suck your cock as if they had a clitoris in their mouth, when they feel sad they want to get better with sex, and even after talking about the death of loved ones they're like "now, to the bedroom?". The aunt's first reaction to seeing her friends sucking your cock? "i wouldn't mind a taste myself"

the girls are really cute, but the renders are just average. Not enough to carry the game on their own.

Updated Review, Update 9
I don't know if I can get behind this game as much as before. It's good at the beginning before the characters start having proper sex, but after a while it gets boring. Like, my favorite model is Maddie but I'm bored with her personality. She's just accepting of anything the MC says. There was an interesting part of the beginning when the MC was a savior of sorts from her rude Aunt, but it's kind of just solved so there is no more interesting content between them. It's just a threesome with the Nurse... again...

I do like how you can have revenge on your stepsisters. It's interesting that you can also forgive them. The issue that hit me the hardest was the Incest. The aunt... her scenes were awful. There was no pacing. No taboo. No interesting reason. Nothing. She just offers you a massage and blowjob... then you have sex with her if you have the extras pack. It's so soulless, what's the point of them being related?

Luckily, I still really like the renders even though they aren't the best. I like them stylistically. They are very shiny, almost doll like. But it's good for me. I want to get revenge on the Stepmother. I hope it's more satisfying than the blood related aunt :/

It looses 1 star. 4 out of 5.

Original Review Below

Revenga Version 0.5
Having just finished this update, I'm a bit disappointed. I like the characters, and the MC, but we really just moved on from exposition to sex scene, to exposition, chill scene, sex scene, and more sex, then sex scene. While this isn't in itself bad, they are batches of 2 girls each. The first has the MC with Aunt's 2 friends. Good enough, but no real substance. The last one is the bit with Maddie and the maid, I forgot her name, and it's a good little threesome. Then it's over before much happens.

I mentioned before that updates were too short, well this is definitely what I meant. 1 day of content without much progression. I know there is a dark plot with Enrique coming up, but with just 1 day every update, I can see the plot losing steam. Maks, if you're reading this, I hope you can fix the short updates. Maybe release 2 days instead of just one. Easier said than done, I know. Still, it would help alleviate the feeling of being cut off before you truly start getting into the game.

Revenga MAIN REVIEW at Version 0.4
You know, I think I'm gonna buck the trend of negative reviews. I played this a while back and had zero complaints about it. Unless it goes into a "kidnap MC's LI's and forces them through rape/torture" I think it'll be fine.

To start, this game is very straight forward. Your dad was in a loving relationship with your mother growing up. She died in a mysterious way. The father in grief remarried a "Sociopathic Manipulating Moneygrubbing Whore" and her, alone with her equally morally corrupt daughters torture you for your entire rest of your childhood.

You start the game coming back from your educational prior commitments (Highschoo? College?) and soon your getting busy with this REALLY Hot AND nice girl on a plane. You come home to your fathers house and it turns out that it's also the nice girls aunts house.

The rest of the game is pretty good if you like it when people get their just deserts for being shitty to you. Again, very simple story, but VERY effective. You basically have family members (Aunt, Cousin) plus 3 Step later to choose from (Stepmom/2 Stepsisters), if you're into that sort of thing.

Immediately the game begins to put you in a power position. Not that shitty "you start as the passive MC that gets abused until he is strong enough to fight back" bullshit. You immediately discover deception in your Stepmother and take steps to make sure you are respected.

If you're into this sort of narrative, you'll enjoy this. There are maids to love, romances to bloom and family members to impregnate (maybe?)

Thoroughly enjoyed it. My only real complaint is that it seems too short sometimes. The models are good, especially the Stepmothers Niece. She's the one on the right in the cover image. The game makes you the "alpha" right away. The rest of the story is I assume reserved for the revenge

Here's why this is a 'poor' game:

1. The models look bad by current standards.
2. The gameplay is nonexistent, it's just a slideshow with options to decide where to cum on girls.
3. The characters don't make any sense, and not in a wacky-entertaining way, more in the I don't want to see this character anymore kind of way.
4. It's a disappointing regression in every way from the developers previous game, Second Chance.

I didn't give a 'terrible' rating because I like the premise of the MC bending and breaking people who hate his guts, and that might happen in this game.

v0.4
Holy moly this is dumb! (but when did that start to matter on this site?)

If it hadn't been for the fact that I've tried the devs previous game (Second Chance) I wouldn't have given this VN a second look after seeing the title and banner, since I kinda enjoyed the one.

Renders in this is not bad, not great which is kinda strange since imo devs tend to improve on imagery from one game/VN to the next. (take almost any dev worth their "salt" on this site with more than one notch on their belt)
As it stands, it is what it is and what you see is what you get.

Writing and characters is done in such an exxxaggerated way that it almost becomes comical, except I'm not laughing (apart from the one or two stale snort).
Plot is the "former fat kid becomes swole'ish to put his former torturers in their place" in a contemporary setting in a non-descript city location.
In other words not much in the way of ethos, pathos or logos in the dialogue.

I want to say I won't be coming back to this VN but It's standard procedure to slow down when passing a car wreck on the road, right?

v0.7 Edit: Still some of the dumbest writing I've seen, humor continues to be absent and characters are either the smartest or dumbest people in the room. As far as erotic content goes it's it's milquetoast at best. I was holding out hope for improvements but there are none.

v0.8 Edit: Anything short of revealing at the end that it was all a collective shared fever-dream of all the cast concocted from a mix of bad shrimp, alcohol and a lack of anti-psycotic medication won't be enough to justify all the crazy shit happening.
Dev really had to have sat with this story for a while, way before he made Second Chance and thought "this will be my masterpiece", cause insiting on keeping this VN going at this pace and with these characters are nothing short of willfull self-ignorance.
(I'm of course being extremely hyberbolic in my review, but I mean... Come on!)

v0.9 Edit: Probably the weakest continuation to a tense cliffhanger I've ever seen, the stakes feel so low it could almost induce a coma out of sheer boredom. And on top of that a twist that even Shyamalan wouldn't have tried to shoehorn in. Dialogue and characters in general continue to be terribly written and there's really not much else to say...
At this point I almost blame myself for paying enough attention to actually read the text.

v1.0 Edit:
It's actually over?
I was going to do a long end of the line review, but like Maks I'll just wrap up as quickly as possible for no apparent reason.
Anyone familiar with the term "axed". Shortly it means to abruptly end something i.e. someone's job, a series, or in this case, a game. Why is it suddenly ending? Who knows, creators might be bored with it...
Everything that happensin this entire update is a wrap up from beginning to end. There is literally no conflict that doesn't get resolved. Bad guys sits together with drugs, hookers and I guess ties to a murder with only hearsay evidence from a deranged bitch and her idiot daughters.
Question: Why did MC feel the need to rape Mallory when she was in police custody, and how on earth was the case not then thrown out for gross negligence.
...
You know what? I don't want to write further about all the dumb stuff in this "game".
Play it if you want, but turn of your brain now, because you are in for a ride that somehow manages to be wild, boring, fast and slow all all at the same time.
IMO there is nothing good to take from anywhere this whole game and I am glad it is over.
✭ ✭ ✰ ✰ ✰ for the snorts and renders

Found this VN can't wait to try it immediately

Pros :

• The girls are pretty, except Gina, Gina definitely need a rework Love the hairstyle as well, especially Maddie and Patrice
• The story, so far it's great. Not a lot of important choices but i'm fine with that, because it's still early.
• The background is decent.

It's still in the early stage but i enjoyed it, Maddie is just so adorable and lovable

Not the smoothest animation i've ever seen, but least it is animated. Nonetheless, not a big deal.

The story is interesting even tho its still early, can't wait for more.

HAVE TO GIVE THIS ONE A RIDE!

first impression, is great
but there is like for me on my opinion when the mc fucked maddie i think its little bit rush? cuz mybe also this is very light game new, but for the all the art/models/render its really great but just one more i hate its the older sister MC's shes kinda creep for me
and the story , ohhh yes yes yes yes get revenge on them, i hope coming update or the ending will goth multiple ends, like the good, very good, bad end, very bad, or maybe even just normall u just got the maddie the first heroine, oh and yes dont forget the harem route with BDSM or Humiliate their sis and his mom

All I can say is a pretty decent start to the game, not much to complain about. Render look good, all through the animation could be a little longer. The fact that the MC has it out with the stepfamily makes it more interesting. Only thing I wish is that there was more options and choice for dialog when getting revenge or insults. Kind of pick your own path on revenge.

This is one of the worst things I've played. I can't think of a single redeeming feature of this mess.

-Low grade porno movie story. Choices don't even matter. They boil down to "bang her or nah?".

-Characters are extremely exaggerated and try hard. They try way too hard to be evil or tough or horny. Just every emotion turned up to max. The damn step-mother and her brats are ripped straight from a Disney movie with no character except being evil coz why not? MC is also a white knight that dives to save the damsel with his giant "sword" which they suck on 5 minutes later. Just bad

-Content locked behind paywall. Like this "game" couldn't seem anymore like a lazy attempt to feed off the success of the previous game.

I thought being a second game, it would be an improvement from the first but with worse renders, worse story and worse characters, this is a mess that I would want to stay far, far away from.

I'm updating yet again. I'm not sure why things keep going down hill with this VN. It started off looking real promising at first, but then it's just become a cliche.
PROS
Renders are ok
Models are good(except for the two evil sisters)
CONS
Story has, in my opinion become mundane and forgettable
Overall
Just an average VN. MC is visiting his pops, who is near death. The step family are all bitches. I had to replay the entire VN to remember what was going on with the story. I only remember the name. I guess that's something. Choices? There really aren't any that I remember outside of the nurse, and I'm probably not remembering correctly. I don't think I'll be continuing on with this VN. I wish the dev the best of luck.

I had high hopes for Maks' second game as I enjoyed Second chance, but it's quite a disappointment.
First, MC is a whinebag. "Boo-hoo, life is very hard for me. My father is a multi-millionaire and I've just graduated from a prestigious university where I fucked a ton of girls." Is he fucking bragging here or what?
Then on the plane he meets the cousin of his step siblings. And they hit it on as said in her character description... Yeah, more like she begs him to have sex with her after talking 2 sentences while fawning on him what a perfect specimen of the male gender he was. And it doesn't get any better later on.

The models look ok, but low effort. Stock DAZ models as far as I can tell.
The sex scenes are animated but not very high quality and uninspired.
The backgrounds on a lot of renders look bad. Low details and such.
The story is total cliche.

All in all, the game could be good, but has no heart in it. As if the dev had lost his passion for making games and was only out for the money.

Update after finishing the completed game:
Unfortunately it didn't got better since my first review. The step mother and step sisters are such cliché villains I was sometimes wondering if they were originally from a Disney movie.
Another LI , also jumps on MC dick after talking two sentences with him after explaining how he had bad experience with man. I wonder why...
The story continues to be a mixture of coincidences and clichés until the end. And even the surprising reveal that is just stupid that does not make any sense nor is used in any meaningful way.
Even the titular "REVENGA" just seems stupid in the end.
Most of the side girls are looking ok and the sex scenes with them are not bad but they are kind of meaningless only there to show how "great and manly" MC is and how every girl falls head over heals over him. The only exceptions are who I thought were cute and had fun personalities. But the worst in my opinion is
Final verdict: 3/5
Not horrible but nothing exceptional either and is worse than the dev's previous game in every sense except for the quality of animation.