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

[DETROIT123_io]

Hi , So my friend said to try out this game . So can you guys give me the pros of this game? Like whats the story , Kinks and how good are the LIs and the sex scenes . Also whats the update time between each version?

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

Close to zero. Tiffany is "totally not the mom" in the unpatched version, but Scarlett is her daughters' mother. Creating a whole new scene for the incest patch strains the plausible deniability of Jestur not having anything to do with the patch too much.

Or he could just not address it at all and claim plausible deniability.

 

[dolfe67]

Hi , So my friend said to try out this game . So can you guys give me the pros of this game? Like whats the story , Kinks and how good are the LIs and the sex scenes . Also whats the update time between each version?

Read the reviews

 

[mardatonitefankardo]

can anyone explain me how to have this game with incest mods on android?

 

[JJ1960]

Hi , So my friend said to try out this game . So can you guys give me the pros of this game?

Scarlett. That’s all you need to know.

 

[Rehwyn]

As long as Scarlet and her daughters don't interact directly it would comply with Patreon, it would have to be something more akin to the Valerie / khloe scene back in the jewelry shop where you focus on one and the others are just spectators.
But the chances are close to 0 of it ever happening and it probably doesn't make sense for them to share... But It's funny to think about it

I don't think that would comply with Patreon at all actually, even them being in the same scene already would be too much for them from what I've gathered. Chances are I'm wrong of course, but I've come to expect them to take the most stupid stance they could whenever possible.

I seem to remember a dev I know that asked if two sisters in the same scene but not interacting was okay, and Patreon's response was "no". But at the same time, I've seen other games on Patreon do stuff like that and be fine. So it seems like one of those things where the official stance is no, but they don't enforce it strongly. I suspect the "no" was to cover their ass if the dev did include it and the payment processors came back bitching; Patreon likely didn't want the dev to be able to show receipts that they approved it. Still would be a risk for Jestur though, so I suspect it sadly won't happen.

 

[torpedogoat]

Hi , So my friend said to try out this game . So can you guys give me the pros of this game? Like whats the story , Kinks and how good are the LIs and the sex scenes . Also whats the update time between each version?

Here is how you can very easily do your own research and answer these questions, like most people do if they are unsure whether to invest time in a specific game:

• Start by going to the first post of the first page of this thread. It has a date (in 2020) and a release date (in 2025). Divide the difference between these two dates by the number of releases, which you can find by opening the Changelog spoiler and counting the releases. That tells you the average time between releases. (Also look at the last few pages of discussion and check for complaints about recent long time between releases or small release sizes.)
• Open the "Genre" spoiler to see the tags that apply to this game. (Yes, it's a misnomer, but this misnomer is a standard on this site.)
• Look at the example pictures to get an idea of style and quality. This particular game also has a short video trailer in the "Animation Trailer" spoiler.
• The average star rating and the number of third-party contributions (translations, mods) can give you an idea of how popular this game is. If you click on the "Reviews" tab, you can read the latest reviews, which also tends to be very instructive.
• The release history and the download size can give you an idea of how much material there is.

If this doesn't answer your questions, it makes sense to ask whatever is still unclear in the forum.

As to the story: That's usually explained under Overview, but in this case there is very little detail to avoid spoiling things for people who want to be surprised. So I will put my short summary into a spoiler: It's a science fiction time travel story ('ripples' in the time space continuum or something like that). The main character has sex with a number of women, then accidentally travels back in time where he again has sex with a number of women, some of whom may be identical with or daughters of the previously mentioned women. That's essentially where the plot is right now. This works well as a set-up for unintentional incest or similar things, which was probably part of the original plan. But due to Patreon rules the story now gives this a wide berth in a way that can probably not be 'corrected' by an incest mod. Perhaps the beginning of the story would have needed some adaptations to account for this change in direction, but I may be wrong, and I think so far that hasn't happened.

 

[DETROIT123_io]

Here is how you can very easily do your own research and answer these questions, like most people do if they are unsure whether to invest time in a specific game:

• Start by going to the first post of the first page of this thread. It has a date (in 2020) and a release date (in 2025). Divide the difference between these two dates by the number of releases, which you can find by opening the Changelog spoiler and counting the releases. That tells you the average time between releases. (Also look at the last few pages of discussion and check for complaints about recent long time between releases or small release sizes.)
• Open the "Genre" spoiler to see the tags that apply to this game. (Yes, it's a misnomer, but this misnomer is a standard on this site.)
• Look at the example pictures to get an idea of style and quality. This particular game also has a short video trailer in the "Animation Trailer" spoiler.
• The average star rating and the number of third-party contributions (translations, mods) can give you an idea of how popular this game is. If you click on the "Reviews" tab, you can read the latest reviews, which also tends to be very instructive.
• The release history and the download size can give you an idea of how much material there is.

If this doesn't answer your questions, it makes sense to ask whatever is still unclear in the forum.

As to the story: That's usually explained under Overview, but in this case there is very little detail to avoid spoiling things for people who want to be surprised. So I will put my short summary into a spoiler: It's a science fiction time travel story ('ripples' in the time space continuum or something like that). The main character has sex with a number of women, then accidentally travels back in time where he again has sex with a number of women, some of whom may be identical with or daughters of the previously mentioned women. That's essentially where the plot is right now. This works well as a set-up for unintentional incest or similar things, which was probably part of the original plan. But due to Patreon rules the story now gives this a wide berth in a way that can probably not be 'corrected' by an incest mod. Perhaps the beginning of the story would have needed some adaptations to account for this change in direction, but I may be wrong, and I think so far that hasn't happened.

Thanks a lot . You are the Goat . This helped me a lot . Also i did not understand what you meant by patreon and incest mod . Please elaborate

 

[elbo911]

I seem to remember a dev I know that asked if two sisters in the same scene but not interacting was okay, and Patreon's response was "no". But at the same time, I've seen other games on Patreon do stuff like that and be fine. So it seems like one of those things where the official stance is no, but they don't enforce it strongly. I suspect the "no" was to cover their ass if the dev did include it and the payment processors came back bitching; Patreon likely didn't want the dev to be able to show receipts that they approved it. Still would be a risk for Jestur though, so I suspect it sadly won't happen.

I remember that too, can't tell you anymore which game/dev it was either though.
'Them not enforcing it strongly' only comes down to the fact though that Patreon doesn't have staff dedicated to 'play-test' all content on their platform. Sure devs ignore the rules and get away with it, it just takes one malicious report though and they'll have to face consequences. So each dev will have to decide for themselves if they're willing to take that risk, and I sure won't berate anyone for avoiding it.

 

[DETROIT123_io]

I remember that too, can't tell you anymore which game/dev it was either though.
'Them not enforcing it strongly' only comes down to the fact though that Patreon doesn't have staff dedicated to 'play-test' all content on their platform. Sure devs ignore the rules and get away with it, it just takes one malicious report though and they'll have to face consequences. So each dev will have to decide for themselves if they're willing to take that risk, and I sure won't berate anyone for avoiding it.

patreon gets strict each year . What about Itch or Subscribestar?

 

[Daermon420]

Sure devs ignore the rules and get away with it, it just takes one malicious report though and they'll have to face consequences. So each dev will have to decide for themselves if they're willing to take that risk, and I sure won't berate anyone for avoiding it.

Yep and the more eyes a game has on it the more likely it is someone in that group will decide to snitch to Patreon. So it's extra risky for very popular games like this one to try that stuff.

 

[elbo911]

patreon gets strict each year . What about Itch or Subscribestar?

Nobody can predict the future. I honestly have no idea where itch.io stands in all this. SS has kinda become a safe haven for games with more 'controversial' fetishes like incest, bestiality or whatever, but it may only be a matter of time until payment processors strangle them too. SS theoretically has pretty much the same official restrictions on content as Patreon already anyways, they're just way less enforced and I have no idea why. Devs still clinging to Patreon seems to have to do with the fact that many users prefer it over SS because they have more payment options there, at least that's what I believe to have gathered from random posts throughout the years.
A few days ago Steam also went down hard on adult games, again driven by payment processors (or at least that's the narrative), which doesn't bode well for adult game development as a whole either. We'll see what comes of all of it, it sure doesn't look like happy times ahead imo.

 

[DETROIT123_io]

I see the red head girl all over F95 . It seems she is a fan favourite . Btw is the incest between the two sisters ?

 

[dolfe67]

Nobody can predict the future. I honestly have no idea where itch.io stands in all this. SS has kinda become a safe haven for games with more 'controversial' fetishes like incest, bestiality or whatever, but it may only be a matter of time until payment processors strangle them too. SS theoretically has pretty much the same official restrictions on content as Patreon already anyways, they're just way less enforced and I have no idea why. Devs still clinging to Patreon seems to have to do with the fact that many users prefer it over SS because they have more payment options there, at least that's what I believe to have gathered from random posts throughout the years.
A few days ago Steam also went down hard on adult games, again driven by payment processors (or at least that's the narrative), which doesn't bode well for adult game development as a whole either. We'll see what comes of all of it, it sure doesn't look like happy times ahead imo.

Patreon is preferred to subscribestar because:
1. It's more popular
2. You can pay with paypal
3. Better UI

It's better to have both anyway, let people choose.

And don't wait to be banned from patreon to open a subscribestar as it can take times. Dev of more controversial stuff don't even bother to open a patreon but are on subscribestar. Also some incest games got banned from patreon (even with third party patch) but are on subscribestar.

Steam didn't go down "hard" but changed their TOS a little and banned a few incest games. Several devs got scared though and changed their game as a precautionary measure.

 

[elbo911]

I see the red head girl all over F95 . It seems she is a fan favourite . Btw is the incest between the two sisters ?

You've already kinda been introduced to her here. Learn her name!



If you play with the incest patch (for the time being only available via the WTmod that includes it) Tiffany will be MC's mom.

 

[torpedogoat]

Thanks a lot . You are the Goat . This helped me a lot . Also i did not understand what you meant by patreon and incest mod . Please elaborate

Patreon is a platform where developers of free games can build a community of players who pay them a small amount of money every month to finance the development. It's the most popular platform of this type and therefore the most lucrative. It's essential for games such as Ripples being as good as they are, and continuing to exist.

Since Patreon is so popular, it has attracted the attention of religious extremists who exert pressure (e.g. via credit card companies) to get porn off such platforms. That hasn't worked so far. But what they have achieved is that Patreon throws out every game that has incest in the widest sense, or an official patch that adds incest (to close the workaround that some Steam games use for restrictive countries).

This seems to be a problem for Ripples, which I think was started before Patreon got these anti-incest rules. At the time, since (for reasons I don't really understand) incest is so popular in these games, it made financial sense to include it in your game. And it appears that the original plan was for the main character to discover at some point that one or more of the girls he had sex with in the 'present' was actually his daughter, as a result of having had sex with her mother while time traveling to the 'past'. This plan, if it existed as many of us believe, had to be revised and the plot change accordingly. This may make this set-up turn out to be frustrated foreshadowing, i.e. foreshadowing (an implicit promise of future events) that is ultimately not satisfied, leaving a bad taste for the reader. But perhaps we are wrong, or perhaps the author finds a different way to satisfy the foreshadowing. Such as by the main character's temporary belief that he had committed unwitting incest with his daughter(s), before finding out the father is someone else.

 

[sexypeanut]

I played the update yesterday and HOLY MOLY! This was a great update. Although focused on just one thing, it was really well done.

Props to the dev for arraying a bunch of super sexy girls in one place and even adding a male invitee to make things a bit more believable.
Funny thing is that I'm not in Scarlett and Valerie paths but still got the threesome scene. Scarlett has a really fun personality and I'm thinking about replaying the game to add her to the harem.
Riley saving us in the end was awesome, although how did she know he would be there? That left me scratching my head...

 

[Daermon420]

Riley saving us in the end was awesome, although how did she know he would be there? That left me scratching my head...

She mentions something along the lines of "They usually give me orders at the very last minute." In this case I'm guessing she's talking about the masked man and whoever else is running the show on that side of the conflict. They knew MC would be in trouble and sent her to bail him out.

They clearly know a lot about what happens, sometimes even before it does like when April warns you that is Tiffany about to be attacked just in time to save her.

It wouldn't make sense if it were orders from the other side, since that's who Riley just saved us from.

I can't think of anyone else it could be. If there's some 3rd faction I haven't caught any hints of it yet.

 

[CinderFall201]

She mentions something along the lines of "They usually give me orders at the very last minute." In this case I'm guessing she's talking about the masked man and whoever else is running the show on that side of the conflict. They knew MC would be in trouble and sent her to bail him out.

They clearly know a lot about what happens, sometimes even before it does like when April warns you that is Tiffany about to be attacked just in time to save her.

It wouldn't make sense if it were orders from the other side, since that's who Riley just saved us from.

I can't think of anyone else it could be. If there's some 3rd faction I haven't caught any hints of it yet.

Well all we can do is speculate as to what will happen next time. For now at least we can replay the game over and over again and come up with new theories and such!

 

[JJ1960]

She mentions something along the lines of "They usually give me orders at the very last minute." In this case I'm guessing she's talking about the masked man and whoever else is running the show on that side of the conflict. They knew MC would be in trouble and sent her to bail him out.

They clearly know a lot about what happens, sometimes even before it does like when April warns you that is Tiffany about to be attacked just in time to save her.

It wouldn't make sense if it were orders from the other side, since that's who Riley just saved us from.

I can't think of anyone else it could be. If there's some 3rd faction I haven't caught any hints of it yet.

Operating under the hypothesis that masked man is future MC, it's likely that he couldn't remember exactly how long the various threesomes he participated in lasted so didn't know when to tell her to show up and save his bacon.