Ren'Py - Completed - Room for Rent [v16 beta] [CeLaVie Group]

I have a real love/hate attitude towards this game as it was a literal rollercoaster for me. I was contemplating giving it 2 stars but that would not be fair to the devs and the game. Also, of all F95 games, this is the game that came the closest to being supported by me as it ticked off most of the boxes on my list.
Loved the story, concept, pace, girls I couldn't stop playing (more on that later) but it all came to abrupt stop when, at the end of the game, there was a confession of some kind (sorry no spoilers) and that TOTALY ruined the whole game for me. Being that I can never play it again (whole story literally washed away with 2 sentences lol) I decided not to support knowing it can never be reversed. However I know other people will like it so:
Renders are awesome, girls are gorgeous, and there are no balloon tits flopping around. Blue eyes, blonde hair, A and B cups! Sign me up. I mentioned that the setting, story and pace were great.
It was difficult to play the game in the early stages of the development as game does not provide any feedback on your choices so you have to poke around a lot. I got stuck many times and even gave up in Ep10. I picked the game back up in Ep16 and installed a saving grace WTmod by NightTrain. That made the game absolutely the best ever (that is up to the point when it all went to hell lol).
I know a lot of work went into making this game and even tho the game is dead to me I will highly recommend it (consider the mod if you want to improve the flow of the game).

OK So a bit of a hard one to score.

The grind is on the rough side, not gonna sugar coat it, but I have played far worse. I would definitely recommend playing the game with @NightTrain 's mod. (In fact, I would probably score it 3/5 without the mod.)

The girls are cute, but the graphics are very average.

The amount of content and playtime of the game is very good. The story starts of as a pretty standard simple corruption game, a twist in the middle of the game makes it far more interesting. Towards the end of the game I actually were very interested in the story. The characters are different enough to not feel like a copy and paste.

Tons of sex and erotic content and nice build-up in the beginning.

Definitely need the mod as stated before. I have not even tried it without it, but can imagine that it can be a nightmare without some guidance,

Well, I spent 205 in-game days (over 20 hours) and I couldn't more. Quality of renders is very good, lolis are pretty, no doubt here but story? I liked it from the start when there were, let's say, up to 3-4 characters but after a while there were more and more characters with practically same story and grind... I feel that story became very repetetive and unrewarding. Just sleep - do 3 -5 events - sleep. Not my cup of tea. Very good start but it went wrong on the path. 4/10. [v16 beta].

It has a few shortcomings. Why can we only save during sleep?. Specially there is no "gallery" section, This is so sad . I can't wait for the next update. I'm following . Please update as soon as possible.

The game is very much grinding and slow burn. But I love games, where you see a story behind and slow process/manipulation. Graphics are good and the girls have decent sized boobs.
The story could happen in real life, something I like. Of course, the girls are really dumb, but nonetheless, this is still realistic. No dragons or other superpowers.
I deduct one star, because you really need the walkthrough mod. Otherwise you will only grind and spent hours on the game without having any progress.

Bit of a copy paste from my Best friends daughter review with last part changed for RfR.

Loving your games. Been following both your games for a while.
The positives:
1. Models and renders are beautiful and breaks with the adult game norm of bigger is better.
2. Also absolutely love a slow burn with tease. For me tease is 90% of the fun.
3. Adding the slow corruption(?) with outfits progressively becoming more revealing really helps. Can you add more steps even? ;-)

As for the stuff your games have been criticized for:
1. Writing: Can't fault it. It's functional and gets the job done.
2. Girl hunting: It really is a bit of a hunt to find the girls. Definitely does not add to the game as I don't want to start creating a spreadsheet of their schedules, especially as the cast grows. Is it a negative? To some it might be. Personally, I play with mods on 2nd and later playthroughs as the "hunting" is more tedium than challenge.
3. Story tracking: I know the game is supposed to be a bit about exploring and figuring it out for ourselves, but things like a "To do list" for the MC might help. It acts as a quest tracker. The player knows what still needs to be done, and is the breadcrumbs to the next event. Doesn't have to be too specific. Similar to what you did with hints, but more structured. It will make the game more appealing to the speed as well as story focused players.
4. Handling criticism: Relax, enjoy and make your interactions with the players fun. I've seen other devs do it, and it definitely adds to the hype and the positivity around the game. As for figuring out what the players want: It is very possible, as it's what I've been doing for a couple decades (not game dev though). You just have to distance yourself from the situation and sift through the comments to distinguish between what is useful and what is just bs.

This game specific:
1. Loved the initial slow progress / corruption
2. Loved the modeling sessions
3. Nice, if slightly predictable twists at the end. Ties things up quite nicely.
3. As more girls got added the cast became a bit more cluttered. And does not allow you to get into each new characters personality. So, other than liking the models, didn't feel for them like any of the initial girls.
4. Linked to #3: As more characters got added, their corruption progress sped up quite a bit. Why? If your focus is on tease, then tease. It almost made some of the girls redundant. In a sense, they didn't really add much to the game.
5. Linked to #3 and #4: Each new episode appears to have a specific focus or flavor. But while the focus is on some of the new girls, what is happening to the previous girls? At times it felt like they were discarded like yesterdays newspaper. Maybe see if you can integrate them into the story more.

All in all, enjoying and looking forward to next update.

If you love senseless grind, this game is for you and you can ignore the rest of this review. However, if you are part of the 99% who hate grind, read on!

You really need a guide or mod to get through all the illogical crap the dev has put into this game. For example, told to always knock on the door but to get one scenario to progress you have to not knock (but the game doesn't tell you that!)

What had potential to be a good game is ruined by the nonsensical grind. It feels like the dev has padded out the game to make it slow burn rather than keeping it interesting through actual content. Repeating the same scenes over and over again does not make fun.

The MC is a creepy perv but you are told by the dev not to be a creepy perv!

It does get better towards the end but by then most people will have lost the will to live.

Anti-cheat in a game that don't involve multiplayers is the fastest way to make people go away even more in a grind game like this, is enough a bug to waste all progress and need restart the grind again. Had really potentials, that's sad

I tried... I really wanted to like this game because I like the premise of the story. But in the end I just couldn't...

First I should warn that the game is unplayable without the walkthrough mod! Not sure what the dev had in mind here, but unless you enjoy an unending grindfest where you're just clicking different rooms and progressing time without any indication where to go, I would strongly recommend to play this with the mod!

But that aside. I play most of these games with a walkthrough mod, so I figured: 'if grinding is the biggest problem here, how bad can it be if I play with a mod?' - Right?

Well, even if you don't care about...
...the MC being an old creepy pervert.
...the fact that the story is extremely unbelievable and the writing in general is just terrible.
...the renders being average at best.
...your choices not having an impact on the story (with the exception of getting a 'Game Over')
...the fact that the age and the appearance of the MC is suddenly changed halfway through the game.
...and the endless grinding.

...even then, the game is still just super boring and very predictable!

The story is about corruption, not through blackmail or abuse, but real corruption. And that's fine, even if the whole process takes a long time, but there is absolutely no originality, no element of surprise. First you want the girl to wear less clothes, and little by little you succeed in getting her naked. Then you try to kiss her, and again little by little you achieve your goal. And after that you try to lick her pussy, get a BJ, have sex, etc, etc...

All these things happen in an extremely slow, predictable and linear order of events. Exactly the same, time after time. You try, she refuses. You try again, she gives in a little. You try again, she gives in a little more. You try again, she gives in a little more than the time before, and so on, and so on.... Until you achieve your goal and it starts all over again from the start.

In this case the slow build-up does not create suspense, it only makes you lose interest in the story. Not because it's just slow, but because it's so freakin' slow that it's almost moving backwards!

And thus, in order to break out of the rut, the dev introduces two new girls... with EXACTLY the same personality and EXACTLY the same corruption routine! So you can do the whole charade not once, but twice all over again!

This game could have been nice. But after a couple of hours I just couldn't take it anymore and stopped...

Okay my first review and i must say this game is dramaticly underrated.
The Gameplay is really grindy and without walkthrough you will click for hours and hours (THX for the walktrough mod).
The renders arent really up to date (lots of clipping bad lighning and you can see when a newer gen model was used.
Also it is really i mean REALLY slow burn at the beginning (only the first few chapters) but after a while it sets new speed limits^^

What i really liked was that the models where for nearly all tastes from slim teen wit small breast till the well buld women with big t.. erm i mean personality XD (and no trace from the classic Porn cliche Bimbos)

The story impressed me the most, it startet like a really and i mean REALLY cliche corrupion story so stupid (Big Brother greets... Yes Max i mean you...)

But this all comes with a twist and a big one big enough that i played the whole thing in one session... (yeah ok im sick My doc says he cant do something for me..)
I wont spoiler but twist is near Acting Lessons level (without the fire) ok a little spoiler no LI dies.

I can really recomand to try it (but save the headache and use a guide or walktrough mod) dont be frightened by the screenshots or poor rating like me at first (startet it only cause im on vaccation and was bored)

Its really great and i cant wait for the next update (hopefully soon!!!)

Sorry for all the grammar errors and misspelled words (not my nativ language and a bit sleep depriven after 30 hours -,-)

First impression of this game is that All the girls are virtually identical If they were to shave their heads! they would be clones! No body difference at all! Now for the progression It is the "poster child of GRIND" And Bob gives me the Creeps! A peadophile Comes to mind? he has no redeeming features at all! Who must hate large breasts, I will never play this again!

-Cons (First game where there are no Pros I suppose that's a feat.)
Just no! The makers have you playing as a malnourished Santa looking mofo with severe alopecia no less, trying to woo jailbait teens, that's just creepy. Honestly tried to find something good to say about the game but there's nothing, all the characters are dead eyed dolls, except the protag but we all know what's going on behind that creepy old f*ck*rs eyes. Seriously its dull & there isn't one likable character in the entire game

First of all I understand people dont like the grinding There where moments where i just wanted to stop playing because it was so slow
But I decided to hang on because i only had 2 of the three girls showing on thumbnail move in

The walktrough mod really helped me so thank you
NightTrain

I did like :
Renders
Story ( I actually loved the plot twist)
Lot of hot scenes
Ending of the update

I did not like :
The unnecessary watching a girl sleep scenes
At a point in the story you need to visit a girl every 3 hours otherwhise game over
How long it takes for a new story scene to happen

If you want to try this game make sure get walktrough mod

the character design is hot. but the game is needlessly repetitive.
even with skipping everything and using the walkthrough mod it took hours untill i saw the first cumshot.

its the same scenes over and over again like a naked ground hog day.
and if you game over the game shuts off. if you get at a certain point in the story the game shuts off. highly annoying.

this is a waste of your time. literally.

at first the gameplay is awfull ! i meani can't go anywhere for the first episode withouth any walkthrough
But the creator have the great idea to put how many events we have to find and then it's magical !

Maybe the corruptionj of the girls is a little to bit linear (shy, get nude, touch, suck, fuck ...) need to be change for the future releases, but the girls are amazing
thanks for this game

The pacing is uneven - very slow start.
Lots of Engrish, but tolerable.
Cool girls - there's a theme, but a variety too.
Had to use the walkthrough mod to keep the clicks to a sane level.
But overall I liked it.

Would be higher stars if you didn't have to install "cheat" mods to be able to play it. Without them, the game is way too grindy, and you could spend a lot of time not progressing because you missed one little thing. Overall it is a good game though. Renders are on point, the story line(does have grammar/spelling errors) is great. First time I played the game(v14 beta a) I found myself playing it for hours! Now, granted some of that time was spent trying to figure out what I was supposed to do to progress(then I found a cheat mod), but even after installing one, I am still sitting here playing the game to see what happens.

A cheap old guy young girl porn. In the first minutes of gameplay, meaning clicking, a 10 year old with 15yo tittes gets into an old guy appartment, and after one Shrodinger game over you get her a drink and touch her thigh cause i guess she touches alcohol and gets drunk or something. Was it alcohol? didi she drink? who cares.

After that you clic some more, reading stuff that is pointless, cause it tries to be funny, but its not working for me it just makes me feel embarrassed, and see this loli blush for some reason and hold the old guy.

You clic some more and if you are a pervert and get inside the room you get a game over, and probably stop playing, cause having choices that you cant make is the stupidiest thing in the world.

But if you like 10year olds that apparently look exactly the same ,blushing, this is definetly your game.

I tried a second time and i am in day 50. Well, i imagine this game without a mod is actually impossible to endure, the grinding knowing what to do is beyond insane, Arkham is a government health insitution compared to this.

The plot thread used to move forward with the girls is basically taking advantage of the fact that all of the girls try to look 13 but they are actually 9, and thats why they are so retarded. I tell you, a friedn of mine told me about his "18 childhood friend" confrontim him about the fact that he touch her a lot, even while sleeping.

This guy touches everyone from the beggining, and nobody actually cares.
The writing sucks, this guy who is a doctor/photographer/hacker (i guess he hacks the department of education or something, its beyond ridiculous.

All of the above is bad, but what really clicks the wrong way is this guy telling "i got to do "stuff"but i guess it will not be in this release WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

I can swallow that new events are mostly the same with 2 new renders, i can swallow that most of what happens happens with the girls being absolutely passive, or rejecting the guys advances. The same guy reasoning that lack of Vitamin D can lead to mental problems, and forgeting about the mental problems of sexually abused individuals. How can this 18 year olds have survived so long being that retarded? Who knows?

This guy gives a dress who is almost non existant in the back and his comment is "im not sure if she is aware that she is naked in the back" SHE JUST HAD IT in her hands and dresssed, how wouldnt she be aware of that? How retarded do you think she is?
This and more in the writing department who sucks unimanginably.

The visual department, well... it is there, the old guy is disgusting, and patronizing, and the way he touches could be better and improve the overall feeling. He grabs breasts with his wrists most of the time, its realistic in the way that he has difficulties moving his fingers, i mean he is old, but it could mean that the developer is lazy.
I understand, you need to move the arms and tune the posing, and the adapt the fingers to the actual shape of the girl chest, it is a lot of work, its better to make a default pose, and bend just the elbows.

For that render that is gonna be used 3000 times, a little bit of more work would be nice.
This lolis with 50 year old pussies are weird, this girl that never had a boyfriend and ignores everything about sexuality has a vagina that opens like a tunnel when something touches her. You can expect a baby coming out with that stretching.
Like I said in the first contact with the game,this is cheap as fuck, for an asset that is gonna be used 300000 times, a little more effort put in it, would be more than appreciated.

If the game improves in the lacking areas from v5 to v16, maybe can reach 3*. So far its at 1* so i make the average, to be more "fair."

EDIT V13:
Well, the areas improved, the plot stupidity got fixed, the passiveness of the girls got fixed (it was expected, bu i didnt had any hopes really) so the game deserves a 3.

Areas that still ned work and wont have it probably:

At the beggining one blowjob could take 100 ingame events, in the end a blowjob ma take 6 renders, and half of them are just played backwards.
Most of the time there is no dialogue and somoetimes you see things hapeening and ending before gewtting to understand if its really happening. Like MC supposedly fucking Amy in the ass, kind of balls deep, but in a later state she even refuses the tip.
The worst thing of this game is the sex scenes, sometime they just happen and thats it, Prematuire ejaculation is a thing in this game, literally most of the times The mc touches a girl and she starts cuming. It is really a waste.
And this brings another issue:
Having a slow build up of 100 events to get into a girls pants, and the sex scene happens in 6 frames with almost no dialogue. Sex scenes are decently possed but they are subpar.

The game is not bad but come on... the 3 girls are exactly the same with a very small hair difference.. why dont you create them different from each other?
And i am not talking abouth just change the hair and use the same template.

It's not a typical game, which may explain the haters.

To me, the slow progression makes discovering new things more enjoyable. I play this game when I have time to walk through the scenes and pay attention.

I really enjoy the progression with the individual characters, and especially the occasional unexpected kinks (I won't spoil it here).

If you bang through the screens expecting something new to pop up, you will quickly become lost and disillusioned. This may be a life lesson for some.

My two cents: There are many games on F95 that I didn't like, so I don't play them.
I've never found anything I dislike enough to waste time reviewing.
Life is short.