Ren'Py - Completed - S.H.E.L.T.E.R. - An Apocalyptic Tale [v1.0] [Winterlook]

here's how i am forced to rate this. figured it was high time i add my input as others have. note that i gave up on this 1/2 through development but i do not believe anything actually changed for the better. dev had recieved similar complaints early on with a promise to improve the scenes, but it seemed more and more this would not happen. as i recall, girls got like 1 additional scene but no rework of old shitty scenes as promised.
without further ado.

1. no way to let players choose who they like. dev forces everyone on you by way of a forced harem. you can't say, have the mother alone and not boyish older sister or useless younger sister who doesn't want vaginal sex (don't even know how she even gets pregnant all her scenes are completely wasteful trash hj/bj/anal content no actal sex.) missionary is almost non existant with any girl. don't like cowgirl it's too 'femdom' feel and doggy is stupid. can't even see anything with that

2. love route sucks. slow burn. and has worse content. (to be fair, i'm not sure if at least this ever got better) lack of vaginal sex scenes and creampie scenes for all. in a breeding focused game, that is ridiculous. scenes focusing instead on lame/weird/weak shit. what little creampie there is is lazily done by cutting out the money shot.

3.big one here. why i hate so many preg themed vn's here. they follow this pattern: progressional softcore scenes.
hj/bj/anal/ect all unwanted 'fetish' filler shit pushed at you that you don't want/not into just to get actual sex (vaginal). drag the game out to drag the profits out without much work reusing a cheap-to-produce phallus asset scene taking up most of the screen.

why would these guys push handjobs and simialr BS to straight players when clearly marketing hetero? why are the girls even bothering to disrobe when they are not even going to use their bodies at all? for that matter, why the hell is the girl always chosing what we do and get? why is the player not in control of what kind of scenes we want to see based off what we are actually into, and what is most normal, expected and popular?

ask any patreon dev, and get attacked by their sycophantic 'fans' who have finally been given a place to belong in life at their feet in their cult following. dials set on free perma lawyer, who will happily pretend they get something out of a game HJ scene and would prefer it over the real deal IRL.

bottom line: art is good, most girls look attractive, player control is abysmal, scenes are few and abysmal, presents as a pregnancy fetish themed game but tries to achieve this with little to no vaginal sex. sadly, cannot recommend.

Good post apocalyptic sandbox story, with an entertaining three acts.

Gameplay: 4/5
I'm a fan of sandboxes. This one does a good job of avoiding being grindy within a playthrough, however most choices are locked in, so you'll have to play multiple times to see most of the content. Following the harem + corruption choices (which looks like it covers most of the content for a single playthrough) gets you about half of the gallery unlocked. Would've been interesting to be able to change the job assignment within a run.

Visuals: 4/5
There is a solid amount of work put in, though the quality has some variance which seems common with this style. One thing that stands out, and is common with similar art styles, is what seems like a quality difference between the portraits and the scenes.

Writing: 4/5
The story overall is entertaining, and the three act structure suits it well. Unfortunately the dialogue doesn't feel engaging, and skipping/click-spamming to get through was common.

short, to the point, good art.
if even a bit inconsistent, they may have switch artist midway.
Not the best in slow corruption or slow progress in any way, and thats good. Every day you could do something, mostly, i just wish it informs whenever you impregnate someone so you dont have to wait and "waste" time.

I was going to rate it mediocre because I went romance but oh boy did I miss out on a lot.

This game has to be played multiple times to get the "better" scenes. Game play wise, I don't like that, but I can appreciate that the routes are very different.

Characters feel very different (At least on romance) the girls preferring different kinks and willingness to do stuff.

The biggest negative is that the Gallery is just a CG viewer. So if you want to see the scenes properly you need to get a save, unless some generous soul makes a mod

The setting is reminiscent of works like Fallout, but with a more intimate feel and focused on human drama with connections to the adult genre. A great mix. The characters are well developed, with distinct personalities and arcs that evolve in an interesting way. More and more characters emerge, thus improving the interest.

Really enjoyed this one, played last year and decided to play it again to give a better review!

You play as either the middle son of a family or a guy from a group of friends and you survived in a bunker for some time now its time to leave and see how the world is, while doing that you get to know more people and decide whats next for you and your crew.

while in this journey you can make people fall in love with you or corrupt them to be yours.

I love post apocalyptic theme games (like Fallout) and I enjoyed a lot playing this one, the art is really good and theres a good option of things to do.

would love some VA action and some after story content but still great game with enjoyable even though simple gameplay and story!

Also I loved all of the heroines and It was really cool managing the camp! would love to see more of that feature.

an incomparable work in several aspects that is almost scary, a game that gives you freedom of choice at the same time that each one of them has a real consequence, not just an extra dialogue like most current games, in addition to addressing the apolypse theme well and having very interesting and likable characters. Masterpiece

Within my top 5 corruption games on F95. It deserves your time.

I love the art. The corruption does not break immersion. There is not too much grinding. The main characters are fleshed out with different personalities, bringing different kinks and flavour to the table. The story is an original twist on a well-explored universe in the videogame universe. My only disappointment was how rush the ending was. I would suggest if the creator is open-minded to let some people from the community flesh out the final product, maybe with a mod or something, because, although it is already great, this game could be exceptional.

I really like the concept and art style, but I can't finish this game. The story is so unbelievably disjointed that nothing makes sense. Characters will say things that don't match up with the current situation. Only reason this gets a two is because of the character art and story concept.

Great game! All the girls are awesome and super hot! Game is fun to play, and have nice diferent routes, depending of what you like most
Really wish the lewd scenes were animated, it would make this game a 5 star

The first time I played this game, I didn't make it through but I did make it back to beat it completely and I'm glad I did! I wasn't initially a big fan of the art style but I felt it grew on me and I loved the stories and different characters and how you get to interact with them and knock up the various members of your harem!

Best game I ever played!

Loved the incest buildup, the choices we had during it all, alongwith the pregancny elements to it all.
Keep pumping out more gems like this mate, you've dug gold here!

Again, Best game I ever played!

Great art. Fun atmosphere (very biased FO enjoyer). Plenty of cute gals to meet. Honestly the only complaint I have is there isn't more. Like, I just want there to be more and more to explore. Also maybe more of the raider route.

>Story is somewhat decent, I like the idea of shelter but end game comes too quick.
>Originality is on point. Images and the paths you take is really great.
>Amount of content somewaht good for its caliber. 4/5

It is a working and completed game, but that's kind of it i would say.

The game play changes a few times, but generally is just not very inspiring. A lot of the story choices feel like they don't really matter.

The story is fine, the original shelter idea really isn't a big part of it as the settlement takes up most of the game. And honestly it's more interesting.

The characters are decent but don't get developed much. 2 of the original 3 I didn't even end up sleeping with because I couldn't enter their room.

The porn is pretty boring. The art style is mediocre imo, but that's taste. The writing isn't that hot though and it's just one static image. Worse the corruption isn't actually corruption. It's just instant drugging that turns otherwise interesting characters into brainless sluts. Incredibly lazy.

Should you play it? Well, it's a working and completed game, so if you have nothing else to play. sure. 3/5

One of the best non-VN games here. It won't move you to tears or change your life, but:

• Great original art
• Characters with personality
• Great scenes
• No grind
• Just enough sandbox to be a sandbox
• Love/corrupt paths with entirely different arcs - well worth playing both

If the art/tags don't repel you, stop considering and play it.

One of the better lewd games, if you are looking for porn focused fallout game, this might bw the best you can get

Original artstyle
Characters are different from each other
Basic love and corruption mechanics
Pregnacy

Game is a sandbox
There is a ending even couple of them

Great game

Cons: not always clear relation grind
Not every character have corruption route
Y-shield and food mechanic is annoying

It's a very good game based on Fallout / other post-apocalyptic desert media. All the characters are super attractive and enjoyable, and the maledom scenes are probably one of the best in the genre. Not a lot of games have pure maledom tbh, so this is nice.

Fun parody of Fallout and is a good h-game overall, it has hot scenes, art is good, characters also good, good story and variety of options. Decent game. 5/5. Highly recommend. It's the simple formula well done.

Story 4/5
This just supprised me alot, not so much the story which is still pretty good but the choices in this one is above soooo many other games.

You start out with your family, mother, fater, 2 sisters and your given a choice to pick one of them to have a relationship with or all of them or none of them, in my first go at the game i went for the red head youngest sister and after some time you take the white haired military sister along to go outside and visist the town MC has been working with, thats where she meets the sheriff which apparently is an old friend of hers and they are apprently friends with benefits so your asked to leave so they can have some fun together.

I found it a little weird since i was thinking what if i had picked the military sister to start with, so i tried a fast restart picked her and when we got to the town her old friend still wanted to have sex with MCs sister but she turned her down since she was testing out being in a relationship with MC, so yeah choices really does matter in this one and it does change story aspects in a pretty big way which is just damn nice to see.

On a side note you do have the option to leave with the sister aka turn the sheriff down or you can let them have fun alone or be in a 3-some with them.

So yeah choices are really well made in this one and your free to turn down or fuck whoever you want.

As for the rest of the game its pretty stright forward, its an easy sandbox that dosent have all that much of a grind to it which is nice, theres kinda some management stuff but not really since its very limited since upgrades comes a pretty set order so you dont really have much of a choice on what to build.

Theres quite a few holes in the story where it feels a bit stupid and weird, i cant get the military sister to work for the settelment or be MCs guard which feels quite idiotic but whats even worse is that MC has a military android that he never fucking uses, it just stays in the bunker looking into the wall....i mean why even put it in game if its not beinig put to use, it should be following MC around every damn second hes not in the bunker and all you can put her to work as is a freaking maid? or mechanic? what?

And yes the ending is extremly rushed, i barely got the brothel build and never saw any of the girls giving birth to MCs kids other then the sister, granted you might be able to see it if you just sit a click skip day for a long time but i dident really care to test that out.
You dont see any of the kids growing up either so it really failed alot by cutting everything way to short.

Maybe its more of a 3 star game due to the ending being rushed, it had potential to be a really good and fun game but it would have to be 2-3 times bigger atleast with better management system and more exploring and so on.

Girls 2/5
The art is proberly not for everyone, i dont know why this type of art always has to have big tits, to me they just look ugly as fuck and would have liked too see some smols as well, but theres just no real diversity in builds.

Sex scenes 2/5
Game isent animated which lowers the value alot and the sex scenes arent really the best, maybe its due to me not having a big tit fetish that i find them boring and bad.

Music 3/5
Pretty average background stuff, a little above average but not by much.

Choices 5/5
Its nice to see games where choices matters and makes a diffrense, in this one you have the freedom to fuck whoever you like or just say no and it works perfectly.

Story and choices are the two most importen aspect in a game for me so i had to give this 4 stars even though the girls wasent in my taste and the story was cut really short, but ii still enjoyed what little is there.