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

I love the scenario, truly. But the creator opted to saddle the experience with some of the worst pacing and character development. This isn't a slow burn...this is the dev blowing the match out every time you try to get the fire going.

I become bored out of my mind on on day 48 and still crap. I read other reviews and it just seems like people are just saying praise about pace and so on but I just stopped. I lost interest real quick. problem if you want to cheat the developer guilts trip you in saying how this is not how the game is suppose to play but you know what if you make a game make it were you have peoples attention. I seen better games then this. I can't find any redeeming points I way too slow pace I found my self skipping a lot of repeated text. I do not recommend this game

ugh fuck, there is a minimum word bs for reviews. honestly this isn't worth it.
Just read Bombastic's review in december. all that and more.
i have never seen something so bad nor a dev so lazy and just sloppy with his work. this is a pooor attempt of trying to make some money by groping kids, who all have the exact same face, with the mc's wrists during the same scenes on loop. besides the fact that if you dontuse a WT mod you will feel like unnistalling right away. i have no clue what goes through this dev's mind, specially when he can see what kind of other games, with actual plot, and great creative worktheir devs, when he creates something like this and just as bad the so called spin off.
well good luck i guess

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.