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

I don't know why there's universal praise for this game.

Updates have been slow, the MC's penis changes size drastically between scenes (going from a shrimp dick to a baby's arm holding an apple), some of the character art gets ugly in some scenes, every single character has the personality of a dumb whore, locking half the H-scenes behind a binary choice is annoying, and clicking through each day is tedious at best.

The art that is good is great, the concept is awesome, and there's a lot of room for expansion. Some of the writing is decent, and the grindy bits can actually be pretty fun. As of right now, your best bet is just to rip the images out with the RenPy extractor and have fun with those after playing a bit.

Edit: Nothing much has changed/been added, same complaints still apply to all new content.

Edit 2: Once again, not shit has changed at all. The fugly art scenes are still there, and there's very little else added to the game since I wrote this review a year and a half ago.

I just played the v0.15

I love character designs.
The sex scenes are very well drawed but they would be perfect if they had more animation and maybe changes of camera angles.

The characters have a bit of variety in facial expressions, although they lack variety in poses.

The story is interesting at first, but after a while you notice that it lacks a bit of drama or missions since it is set in a post-apocalyptic world

The decisions that have an effect on the love relationship with the characters are marked, which I like.

Although I personally point out that it has several little details, I give it 5 stars because I really liked the game, and I hope it gets better in the future.

One of the best games ever currently my fav . very cool art style the character are amazing and so fucking hot .
wonderfull sex scenes .
but what the games lacks at the moment is the buildup for the sex scenes every thing happens so fast . in summertime saga there is a buildup for sex scenes and also a free roam option would make this game more awesome .
and needs more quest . and then other character should also have there daily routine going on during different time of day and the sex scene should depend on that .

Honestly one of the best ones I've seen for a while! I love the style and what you can do regarding each character. Good job, keep it up! I do hope there is gonna be more content for each of the original characters and also new content for new characters and also the characters in the settlement (Though I want it more for the ones inside the shelter),

Decent game.And you will get bored after you play it awhile.The story about a virgin mc and how he want to impregnated his family while finding some girls to fuck and love/mb.The girl also okayish.But my favourite one is Melissa and Angela.It seems like Kira and other girls on surface been around before the bomb.Not really my taste.And the dev keep adding slut in this game.Maybe his kink or something.Anyway,if you like adventurous type and been around type of girl,this will be your game.Its good,and they dont seems too impress with your bed skills,more like they cum and you cum,thats all.The game also a bit grindy but acceptable.

Review as of 0.13
In my opinion, this is a step up from their first game, Fate of Irnia. In two ways specifically, art and grammar. Fate of Irnia is fairly inconsistent with the art. A character may look decent or good in one frame and below average in others. In Shelter, the artwork is way more consistent in that a character's art remains the same throughout. Grammar is still an issue unfortunately, but compared to FoI, its leagues better. You might run into a few sentences that are broken English, but nothing too bad. Also, the game is using the Renpy engine from the start, so that's a plus. Overall, I give it a 4 star rating, despite a few flaws, for having a decent, refreshing art style, as opposed to reusing some Daz 3D models.

Replayed the finished game now and it pretty much holds up.
Amazing artwork models,backgrounds,scenery are 10/10.
Story is good and the epilogue is ok.(dont expect any mindblowing twists).
BGM is +.
Good fap game and overall another good game from this dev.

As of 0.12

A sci-fi, Fallout-type, post-apocalyptic, repopulate-the-species game is a niche that should've been done a long time ago, and Winterlook is finally doing it.

That's a good thing, since Winterlook works with my favorite themes of incest and pregnancy. His (or her) games usually have a strong resource management component, romance/mind-breaking paths, and conception-fertilization images. And all of that is here again: earn cans of food (currency) to buy anti-radiation syringes that give you the ability to do things and people. Like impregnating them.

There are quite a few positives to this game: The art is good, better than Winterlook's previous game, The Fate of Irnia, and there's a variety of scenes and positions. No animation, though. The storyline works for this game, the writing is pretty believable (in a post-apocalyptic sense). The inclusion of both romance and MB (and different H-scenes for each) is great. And Winterlook updates frequently, usually every 2-3 weeks or so.

There are a few critiques and things to note. While the art is good and improved, a lot of the models are reused, which is why the father looks pretty...feminine. The frequent updates also smaller updates, so you might be better off skipping 4-5 updates before playing it again: I just played 0.12 and it's far more developed than when I played 0.07. Still, some parts of the game are still pretty bare-bones. Finally, ongoing resource-management mechanic is annoying because it means you have to do it all over again if you want to play the Romance and MB routes. You'll definitely need to UnRen and go into the console; I think the commands are, courtesy of @bepri :

has_cans = xxx
has_syringe = xxx

Note that if you pick either Romance or MB route for a single member of your family, it's applied to all three of them. No mixing-and-matching, which is what I would prefer.

Overall, a good game with a terrific genre and fetishes. It's fairy quick, so definitely worth a playthrough.

Update at 0.23: I'm upping it to that final 5th star. It's just an all around good game and that art is amazing, unique, and sexual. The pregnancy content in particular delivers so much better than most games that promise the fetish do and as it progresses it just keeps adding more and more women. What's there to say other than, it's a damn fine game and worth supporting.
A good game, try if you haven't. Four star and getting better and slowly more content each update. It could eventually use a walkthrough as some of the game isn't as intuitive as it could be, the gallery helps at least know you didn't see something but it doesn't tell you specifically/how you missed it, and it is apparently going multipath like his last game so one playthrough can't see all. Aside from that, the only thing keeping it from five stars is it's still too early/too little content. Even there, it's been getting frequent updates. Good game and getting better.

Overall review:

Story 4/5 : not the best but it will do for now
Models 5/5: They all have unique body shape and each one has her quality
Content 5/5: So much content in so little time, the man creating this is a legend
Scenes 4/5: So far all the scenes are great, but i still don't see any anal in spoon position among others

This is my first review even though i've been in this forum in more than a year, and i have to say, "This game is amazing in it's current version (0.7)'' (Even better with incest on)
A big thank you to the developper and will drop some pennies as soon as i can.
Cheers.

Review of version 0.5

This is a refreshingly original game with great artwork and straightforward gameplay. The premise is kind of silly - the MC's dad wants his son to repopulate the planet by impregnating his family members. The dad is impotent so he ends up being his son's wingman as he seduces his mother and two sisters.

The dialogue is good and provides a romance and an "MB" route. I have no idea what "MB" stands for but it seems to be for just fucking and not love.

There is a little bit of a grind until you reach the settlement, but it's not tedious and it's brief.

The game does suffer from some bugs and I had to refer to the forums at one point because a bug caused me to get stuck.

The only downside is the lack of artwork. For a version 0.5, this has very little variation in the artwork. Most of the artwork is sprites and backgrounds. The sex scenes have 2-4 images each, but there are only minor variations between each image. This seems rather light, which is a shame because the artwork is one of the better aspects of this game. If there had been more artwork, this game would easily be a 5-star game.

Recommended

This game has a huge potential imo.

1) you get into the hot scenes since the first update, which is not granted in many other games. So thanks to the developer for that.
2)the fate of Irina Is very good.
3) incest+pregnancy=best game ever
4) the updates are small, yes, but they are frequent too, much more than other games.

Only thing, i mind a Little bit having the father around (even if he Is cool) i Hope he dies or leaves the shelter for ever, things like that.

And i hope for the mom pregnancy (hopefully pregnancies) to happen soon and to have a lot of scenes with her full belly.

Thanks a lot for this game dev!

Well, this game is for from being finished. But, it looks promising! and with Winterlook's reputation, we're in for a treat!

However, I strongly suggest that the devs refrain from rushing the H-scenes. We don't want the quality of the story and dialogue to be sacrificed.

One of the reasons The Fate of Irnia was so successful was because of the writing and pace of relationship development.

It's a 0.1 version so you shouldn't expect much in the terms of content. So let me focus on what's there. First of all the classic incest trope is alive and well in shelter, so if you like that you'll be happy. The artwork is really well done, especially the characters which is as good as anything I've seen.

But unfortunately that's about all I can say for the current version. You get to peep on 3 women and see the tits of a 4th, and that's about it for v 0.1. I mean, I'll check it out again at a much later date, but for now... eh, it's not bad.