VN - Ren'Py - Ripples [v0.8.0 Public] [Jestur]

5/5 rendering ;
perfecto. epic riley and truth&dare helicopter scenes.

5/5 writing ;
interesting plots. kept me wanting to know more about what happened and what'd happen next

5/5 characters ;
very attractive characters and as you notice from game tags, the game has a large variety for players to have fun with

5/5 game contents ; 2-8 hours of game play length depending on how you play

the game is so much fun to play. creator is a genius. Definitely one of the best games i've played on f95. highly recommend

Version reviewed: 0.8.0

General
[x] Excellent
[ ] Good
[ ] Okay
[ ] Poor
[ ] Trash

Story
[ ] Deep / Emotional
[x] Decent / Engaging
[ ] Meh / Generic
[ ] Weak / Uninspired
[ ] None / Just Lewds

Characters
[x] Memorable & Unique
[ ] Likeable
[ ] Average
[ ] Forgettable
[ ] Annoying

Choices
[x] Real Impact / Multiple Routes
[ ] Somewhat Meaningful
[ ] Cosmetic Only
[ ] Linear with Minor Branches
[ ] Kinetic VN (No Choices)

Lewd Content
[x] Frequent + High Quality
[ ] Balanced & Earned
[ ] Sparse
[ ] Rushed / Low Effort
[ ] None

Visuals
[x] Top Tier
[ ] Good / Stylish
[ ] Mixed
[ ] Poor / Inconsistent
[ ] Unappealing

Audio
[x] Great Music & Voice
[ ] Decent / Fitting
[ ] Basic / Forgettable
[ ] None / Muted
[ ] Distracting / Bad

⚙ UI & Polish
[x] Smooth & Bug-Free
[ ] Minor Issues
[ ] Clunky or Laggy
[ ] Broken or Unusable
[ ] Unintuitive / Confusing

⏳ Pacing
[x] Well-Balanced
[ ] Slow Start
[ ] Too Fast / Rushed
[ ] Dragged / Filler Heavy
[ ] Incoherent / All Over

Recommend?
[x] Absolutely
[ ] Yes
[ ] Maybe
[ ] No
[ ] Avoid


User Review:
Ripples hooks you with a fresh sci-fi premise with stakes that underpins its adult storytelling without tipping into obvious clichés—think time-touched echoes rather than straight plot twists—so you’re intrigued from start to finish.

On the technical side, it shines: well over a thousand bespoke CGs, fluid bespoke animations, and a soundtrack that never misses a beat. The UI is crisp and responsive, and there’s zero sense of recycled assets—every scene feels tailored.

What sets it apart emotionally is how characters grow through subtle, heartfelt moments rather than dramatic reveals. You’ll see genuine shifts in attitude and self-discovery that enhance the experience, making each route feel rewarding both narratively and, of course, visually.

Love the art,story,visuals.Started as a porn game but stayed for the story,now that the update is near by i forgot i didnot give rating to this cream of the crop avn.hopefully many get to play this masterpiece.Much love to jestur

PRO:

• What can I say? It just works. The combination of high production quality and inspired effort shown in Ripples stands out in the field of adult VNs.
• Creative and carefully constructed sex scenarios, with above average sound design. An adult scene lasts many minutes. There's buildup, intimacy, copious foreplay, women getting off, fun and sexy dialogue, positions, finishing, afterglow. The sound effects are tasteful. The creator clearly has a great understanding of what makes things hot and satisfying as a consumer of it, not just narratively, but also cinematographically speaking. This alone elevates this game above most of the top rated games in the field. Those little details in the animations, like when characters kind of roll up their eyes in pleasure? Absolute cinema.
• High-quality writing that feels professional. The script is fun, cute, interesting. Characters have distinct personalities, and you want to see more of them. The banter doesnt make you fast forward all of it immediately. It's amazing how a good writer can elevate almost every aspect of such a game. I think this might be the best I seen in the genre on a metric of "average quality / line"
• Numerous animations and renders with attention to detail. None of those terrible Honey Select catatonic seizure orgasms and creepy weird smiles. Its probably not on the artistic level of Eternum, but it beats pretty much everything else.
• In the microcosm of adult VN beauty standards, the character models body proportions are on the more realistic, real-life side. No backbreaking inflated balloons and brazilian buttjobs. Sadly rare, but highly appreciated.

CON:

• generic, stock Honey Select assets, which dont really look good. In terms of the creativity and pure technical quality of the models and textures, there could be big improvements. All of the girls hair stand out as being the worst of the bunch, closely followed by faces. Eye shapes and facial features feel repetitive. Middle aged people dont look middle aged, old people dont look old. The men are the exact same characters like we seen in every other Honey Select game.
• Way too many LIs. I know... it's a harem, what are you talking about? But hear me out. I think this is a pitfall of many harem stories. When the writing is so good and characters feel interesting, I want the content to be tall/deep, so I can spend more time with these interesting characters. But instead you only get to barely meet and spend time with these interesting people, which feels like a disservice to the quality of the writing. There are so many girls in play, it's implausible to imagine there ever will be enough time or content for them all. When the development inevitably ends, I cant help but to feel thid will feel somewhat dissatisfying.
• The usual trope of MC having a life-threateningly enormous penis, the prettiest, biggest, irresistible and addictive. One way or another, most sexual scenarios boil down to revolve around this, constantly talked about, constantly yearned after. MC slams his monstrosity into everyone and its the best experience they ever had. I find this the most tired trope in adult games. Don't misunderstand. Everyone being attracted to MC is a hot fantasy. But why does it have to be because of the comically large dick every time? For the record, every other adult game does this as well. So it's not like this would be uniquely bad about Ripples. With all that said, the whole thing is a pretty vanilla experience... you're definitely not going to live out your fetishes here, unless it's a woman taking control sometimes. Or being in a blindfold. But that vanillaness, is a very well-executed one.
• Camerawork in sex scenes could be better, but its already better than most. The situations where I felt that it's a bit cheap for example: the same blowjob animation is shown from north, east, south, west. That's not really different "angles", and don't really add value... or the least, just the minimum effort for variety.
• Please, no more "I have to talk to Jenny about working at the power plant". For god's sake...

As a final word:
One of the highest quality adult VN games I ever played. If this would be the new standard, luxury space communism must not be far away either. Highly recommended to anyone who are into a spectacularly executed, mostly vanilla and entirely straight experience. For many this will be their favorite, and I can clearly see why.

Story is excellent, looking forward to how the next chapters develop the excellent groundwork. Recommended for those looking for a good "time-paradox" type of story with some extra spice on top. The animations seem to be rough in the start, but each chapter onwards they kept getting better.

What a gem of a game! The author does nearly everything well and oftentimes great.

Pros

• Excellent character models (for a Honey Select game)
• Excellent renders and visuals (for a Honey Select game)
• Excellent story
• Excellent writing
• Excellent English
• Excellent character development
• Excellent lewd/sex scenes
• Excellent animations
• Excellent humor
• Near perfect blend of story vs lewd content
• Good game pace
• Fun and lighthearted story/game

Cons

• Since this is a Honey Select game, all the female character models have large hips and large asses which looks a bit odd. All female characters are basically pear shaped.
• Honey Select character models also lack skin detail and have perfect skin making them look like porcelain dolls to some extent.
• Music in the game is nearly all instrumental. Some of the music got old and repetitive. Some music didn't fit the scene IMO.
• Some story and dialog text got a bit wordy for me (i.e. too verbose). When critical information wasn't been shown I sometimes found myself skipping through some text and dialog. The very best games I've played never inspired me to skip any of the text, dialog, or story.
• Inner thoughts are a bit overdone/excessive
• The game is mostly a power fantasy where the MC is highly thirsted after by all the female love interests. The MC doesn't have to work very hard to get some of the LIs in bed. Pretty much all the LIs love the MC's huge cock.
• A slightly smaller cast would make the game more enjoyable for me. Oftentimes it took so long to cycle to the same love interest again that I forgot their background and story. This long delay until the story cycles back to the LI also made me lose interest in them a bit. I would have preferred a smaller cast where more time is spent on each unique character! This would result in shorter delays until time was spent with each character again.
• It often isn't obvious on what the best choice is and so it's easy to make the wrong choice if you don't use a guide or the mod.

The cons are mostly minor complaints, I have no major ones.

My biggest complaint with the game is that it's a bit too wordy for me. Too many authors think that more writing equates to good writing and this is not the case. Good writing = good writing and it doesn't have to be a long, verbose, or wordy novel. The writing is excellent, it just takes a while to get to the point sometimes which caused me to skip some of it when critical information wasn't being told. I have played other adult games and visual novels where I didn't skip a word (the very best games on this site) but unfortunately and sadly this wasn't the case here. Still this isn't a major complaint but a moderate one.

Overall the game is excellent in nearly every way! The game is fun to play and the developer has a great sense of humor. It's rare to see a dev that's good at both storytelling and sex scenes and this author does both well. The visuals are the best I've found for a Honey Select game. The animations are excellent and smooth. The sex scenes are immersive and passionate. Thank you very much dev for putting some serious work into the sex scenes and not making them short and lackluster! (a big problem with many other games)

I highly recommend this game and encourage others to give it a try.

One of the first AVN I ever played and one of the best, great character design, beautiful models and the story is actually really good. Then we look at how amazing the animations are with the sexy times having sound effects is peak greatness for me, I want to play it more cause it is just that good

This is an outstanding game! The characters are well developed. The artwork is excellent. There is just enough story to hold your interest, but you don't have to wait too long for sexy scenes. Really nice job!

This is up there with Mist and Once in a Lifetime for me as one of my favorite adult-content experiences. I love the story. Dark is one of my all-time-favorite shows, so the parallels are massively enjoyable, but there's enough of a difference to keep players engaged and eager to find out what comes next. The renders are outstanding and the scenes are almost incomparably well done for an AVN. The characters are fun and well-written. Exploring each relationship is a pleasure. The pacing is awesome. I played all 7 chapters in one sitting because I was so engaged in the experience. Well done! I can't wait to see what comes next.

5/5 for great renders, amazing story line with fun premise.

Personal note: Usually stories with multiple characters suffer from character clarity, but it was amazing to see how I could recognize each member of the ensemble through one or two unique behavioral quirks/specific functions within the plot. This is good to see, especially when you're planning to create a harem-based game with 10+ characters. Excited to see future updates.

Yo this game is fucking awesome!

You smelly pirate hooker!

11/10, would smash

Art: noice
Animation: double noice
Story: noicity fo sho
Mechanics: well though out and implemented. and super noice

So of course this is a game and a story, which means there will be a disconnect from reality. However, it is very grounded and the characters feel real and very much believable. Mad respect, please keep it up and I wish the developers the pinnacle of success to their dreams.

Like really, I would pay to learn how to do the animation and work that's done in this game if I weren't a bum.

#bumlife

I am not into the timeline stuff but this game is enjoyable. One of the top tier games here. Worth trying out. Dev also transparent with his progress.
Good storytelling. Renders are also pretty good and unique characters. Hope to see more games from him.

An original and intriguing storyline. Characters with distinct and well-defined personalities. Beautiful girls, often touching. The sex scenes are often amusing. In short, one of the best games of its kind.

I haven't even gotten very far into it, but omg this is amazing. I keep laughing my arse off, and haven't even gotten to an actual scene yet...
but at this point this is a legit game and deserves a perfect 5/5 or more.

though it's choices are often limited to just 2 or 3, they feel natural choices and so do the responses that you would expect your character to be making with those choices. It doesn't feel forced, it feels like the characters come to life and you get to know them, like a real novel / game should be.

** It's alot more fun than i can describe easily and what's more it's even manages to make up for being a VN which are usually too simplistic for me to enjoy, this one makes up for that with depth of characters. **

I had this on my list for a while now but never got around to playing. I'd say I missed out.
I was very much entertained. Probably I'm way off but the masked person reminded me of the mysterious masked stranger in Misfits season 2 (British show, I hope it is ok to reference tv shows if not other games).
Overall very enjoyable.

What I liked

The story flows nicely and you get some eye candy and h-action along the way.
h-scenes are nicely done and get the job done for me
animation is outstanding. I am fine with just still images if the animation is not well executed because it disrupts more than it supports the action. This is must definitely not the case here, quite the opposite. Animation of non h-scenes is done very nicely and adds a cinematic quality to the game.
While I was initially not really charmed by the looks of the character models they grew on me and now I would not want to change them.
Music and sounds are decent, UI is nice
Made me laugh quite a few times
I love some of the characters and I would consider putting one of them in my sig if I could only decide which one ... hot contenders are Luna, Riley and the glorious Scarlett.

What I did not like
magic dick syndrome - not the first and not the last game to use it but I have to list it.
Shelby - I find it hard to believe that people are bitchy just because. She is portrayed as very one-dimensional bad person with no motivation whatsoever. Perhaps that is still coming but until I see some depths she is on my bad list.
Had to revise my opinion after the restaurant scene,

Turned out to actually be a good game, wasn't expecting much but after reading through some posts on the thread I finally tried it; and ended up finding it fun and charming. I actually am enjoying the story when I'm not busting to some awesome sex scene and the writing isn't too cringe so it's enjoyable even when not trying to rub one out.

This game is really great. The graphics seems fantastic and improves through the game. The story is a bit too much about some time travel stuff and a bit ruins the flow but it os not so bothering. Also it could be written a bit better in a way you will attach more to those characters but overall it is very good. Can't wait for the future versions.

I have seen this VN around but had no idea what it was about. After playing through, I can say it is quite good. It has an interesting story and characters that develop nicely. You may not like all of the characters, but you begin to see underlying aspects of their lives that provide an understanding as to why they act the way they do. The character models are good and the animations are smooth. This is a story heavy VN with a fair bit of adult content interspersed. There is plenty of mystery and intrigue mixed with appropriate amounts of drama and comedy to keep everything fresh and constantly changing. Transitions from one time to another are done well with aspects of each time coming back to haunt the MC appropriately after blunders.

Time travel in general has always been a fun read for me. I suppose the draw is that we all would like to have a "Mulligan" ( a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong ). The story is engaging and leaves you wanting more when it ends (cliff hanger). Kudos to the developer(s), I'll continue following the story as new releases come available.

This is a story-first sci-fi AVN. It's paced how the player wants, and there appears to be no real forcing of replay (though you might want to because the story is solid).

If you are a looking for a sci-fi story-driven game, where choices matter a bit, but aren't game-crushingly bad, you've found it.

Jestur is a wizard with art. The dialogue is deceptive, in that smart characters will speak with a level of intelligence, but others will speak with a moderate level of intelligence. The line between the two is blurred by the use of casual speak, leading to a need to pay a bit more attention than you might otherwise. (No harm if you don't, the story still rolls on, quite well, on first pass.)

The width of characters does mean that a lot of the standard trope-type behaviour happens, and a lot of them are shallow-depth with stereotyping used to shade around them. While this sounds like a bad thing, it allows the audience to wind down while playing the game, and let their imagination run wild. I suspect Jestur has done this to allow for juxtaposition later (as it has happened already a few times), leaving a lot of character detail aside, and allowing us to make assumptions instead.

I'm a story-first player, so I'll say that the story is spectacular. Because Jestur has been clear that the story is already mapped out, I'm comfortable saying it, alone, deserves five stars.

The animation and scenes aren't all that important to me, but I'm not going to deny that all of it is exceptionally well done too, and, from an art perspective, deserves the full five stars too.

My only real gripe is the character depth, but as I said above, I'm pretty sure Jestur is toying with us, so I'm giving it the full five here too.

As usual, bonus points for designing it in a way where we don't have to replay it to death to see every scene.