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

Review edited for version 0.8

NEW CHANGED REVIEW:

After several more updates, it's time to finally do another review - and unfortunately all changed to the bad.
The grind is getting more and more horrible. Given hints are less and not really helpful sometimes. The exact timing of events is a pure mess. Even some events blocking others without any sense (like events for amy block further events for sandra and Liza). Without any walkthrough this game is nearly unplayable.

It's NO FREEROAM at all, if you have to trigger the right events at the right time at the right place to continue -> then you could make a linaear VN instead !!!

What is the sense that you told the girls that you will have a party on saturday, but if you miss dinner at friday 22:00, the event will not happen and you lose a whole week where you barely can do nothing?
....
several more things -> just ANNOYING and BORING (to use the friendliest words i can imagine for that shit)

Really sad - because this could have been a top notch game

The dev is resistant to complaints and still doing strict his way, which is his right of course. But on the other side this is a reason to drop that shit. The renders might be still nice, the story is good, but the grind and senseless run through all choices until you trigger the next event messes up all fun.
Sorry.

older Review for 0.4:
After i tried the game again, i recognized the dev took comments serious and changed a LOT to positive!
You can see my origin 2 star rating below, but now this game is up to 4 stars for me!

REASON:
- the gind is getting much less because of the implemented hint system now - already not perfect, but a huge step forward
- Events still need exact time, but it's more clear what to do (also there is a walkthrough now)
- sexual content slightly grew up
- the boredom is less based on slightly changed scenes which make you curious what's comming next
- renders are nice
- you can now save the game outside the daily point by pressing F1 and save manually

=> so now i give also the stars for gameplay and story arc, which will raise my origin 2 stars up to 4

Origin review:
not recommended to play.
the idea might not be bad as all, and the renders would be nice....
... but there is a huge load of negatives like:
- extreme gindy
- most events need an exact day/time to trigger which does not make sense at all
- hard to trigger most events because there are rarely hints how to trigger and what to do
- you mostly jump through all locations and reroll to jump into the next one until you see something different option which might be a trigger (or not)
- even after lots of days ingame there is no sexual content at all, exept you call shown breasts as sexual content.
- the most close contact you can get is a hug
- after 10 minutes of gameplay it starts getting just boring
given 2 stars because of the positive renders - i deny the 3 missing stars for 1.) gameplay - 2.) story arc - 3.) the last star would be for perfect games - and this is far from perfectD

TLR Great graphics horrible game play. Feels like cookie clicker interrupted by dialog. Gets 2/5 just for the graphics.

Pros:
Graphics are really good and detailed.
Realistic character development.

Cons:
Linear story with grind mechanics .
Every hour you're presented with about 10 rooms to go in so you have to click each one until you find where the girl is or what room you have to trigger something in.
No Saving but for once a day. (Thank god for roll back)

Suggestions:
Hope to god the creators removes the grind and builds a linear story with choices. A simple Visual Novel with these graphics would be headed straight for the top.
*First review ever on the site*

It looks interesting when first starting, but I have to be honest, the more and more you play it the more and more you'll be thinking to yourself "did a child write the dialog". Ignoring thing such as the start when you phone the girl and she tells us she's homeless (but can afford to place an ad?) but also magically able to teleport to your home within 5 minutes, it's the dialog which made me have to quit.

You'll feel as if a 12-year-old had written their first porno, it doesn't make sense and it fails at being "so bad it's funny" to just plain bad. If this was corrected I'd correct my rating but it's far too much for me to be able to continue without cringing.

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----------Story----------
Old man decides to have a roommate because he is lonely. He also wants her to be good looking to take advantage of her. He is tired of browsing porn sites.

----------Positives----------
- Creativity story (though not well made yet)
-The avatar are well made
-The scenes with the characters are very well made
-Female MC is beautifully done
-The out fits are nice and add to the story
-Nice erotic scenes

----------Negatives----------
-It is version 2.0, this would make you think it is a completed game, it is not. Should be version 0.2
-Slow pace
-Very repetitive
-Long process to get to new scenes
-Same line repeated consistently day after day
-Menu selection is
-Grammatical issues
-Male MC is very creepy with all the touching, does not go with the scenes correctly
-Could do without male MC being need huge part of the time with no point to it. (he never is with the Female character and never pushes the envelope, just touching/petting)

----------Rating explanation----------
I was going to give the game a higher rating but after reading my own review had to change it, from a 3 to a 2. Poor story execution, repetitiveness, dialog issue, and other drawbacks way this game down. The art is great and the scene transitions are good, but not enough to make up. I have to give it a 2 for now but it can surely get better.

----------Key_Takeaways----------
If you have some time the worth trying out just for the art but it will be a grind. Hopefully future updates will take care of this. It has the making of being a decent game and could get a lot better if clean up the down falls.

Hope you enjoyed the review and it helps you decide on if oyu would like to play or not. Please give me feedback on what can be done to improve or what you would like added..

Cheers,

Only a few minutes are enough to see that the game have no potential. The Artdesign have no love and no soul. In this day's we have so many of this kind of boring games. And i don't like the character Models

The renders are ok, but my main problem with this demo is that the gameplay is super grind-y. Every time you want to go to an upstairs room or back down you have to click through three screens of the MC walking. LIkewise at the end of every day (the only point where you can save your game) there's 5 screens of him getting undressed and flopping his chop out. The writing is unfortunate as well, both in terms of story pacing and translation to english. To top it off the demo is censored as well, but considering it's only the MC that seems to get naked, that's probably a small mercy.