VN - Ren'Py - Savior [v0.16c] [Purple Fellas]

v0.12

this VN is already three years in production, which considering the amount of content, is pretty poor.
the game really trades on its visuals above novel, as the grade of art is far surpassing the grade of writing.
i also wonder if the artist and writer are even on the same page as i can see no reason for the girlfriend other than a pointless distraction left over from a chaotic start to this being created. even a plot twist will not warrant her inclusion in what is basically a decent plot.
sadly, it is not turning out so well written. the idea is there but the dialogue is basically writing itself. take out the sex scenes and it falls into mediocrity.

it leads heavily to becoming not only incestuous but double incest...with the same family. different. but this seems to be it's only real appeal beyond imagery. sex scenes in abundance really do hide all manner of sins here huh.

a slightly more imaginative telling and this could have been really good.
personally i have seen enough as after 3 years i'm still not hooked

(v.12)

Plot-driven VN, MC loses father, hot mom and sibs, x-filesy story with superpowers, mind-control, conspiracies, mom has weird eyebrows...

The plot is a ridiculous power-fantasy, but the dev puts a lot of effort into keeping it moving, so kudos. There's definitely a lot of thought put into this. It would be better if the MC didn't have powers, make him more reliant on his own abilities...

The dialogue is like Jane Austen, everyone speaking in perfect prose, lots of subordinate clauses, everyone explaining everything, natter natter natter. There's even a narrator, why the f--k he's necessary I dunno.

Renders are good, good composition, good use of sprites, nice animations, clever use of effects (flashing etc.). Maybe more closeups... with renders this good I think you can risk it, and it would make the intimate scenes more intimate. Not sure about closeups of mom's weird eyebrows, though.

Two paths, gud vs evil, so it's replayable. Watch mom's weird eyebrows go up in shock at evil MC.

There's effort into differentiating characters. Law of conservation of cast means that everyone is connected to the plot, which gives a feeling of claustrophobia. MC breaks out of various pickles by realizing that you wouldn't like him when he's angry. Mom's eyebrows - they're a character of their own.

Fappable, yes, if the yummy bits are a little infrequent for some. But the buildup is generally good, and most of the women are hubba-hubba. Some nice little touches (ahem) when MC unveils his penis. Betcha thought I was gonna make a crack about mom's eyebrows, didn't ya?

If I could give .5 stars I would. This is better than my standard for 3 stars, but not up there to the 4 star level. I think the plot is about to get totally out of hand, with the alternate dimension etc, so watch this space.

Oh yeah, and during a tense scene in a park, the MC demands, "say something!" and the other person replies "something," so, yeah, like keep that clever banter going. Two weird eyebrows up.

I love this game, there is a real plot, a wide choice of path that rytme the game well, not to mention the influence of good and evil.
Not to mention the animations and graphics which are of very good quality.
it is really part of my top 5!
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J'adore ce jeu, il y a une vrai intrigue, un large choix de chemin qui rytme bien le jeu, sans compter sur l'influence du bien et du mal.
sans parler des animations et du graphisme qui sont de très bonnes qualité.
il fait vraument parti de mon top 5!!

Was pleasantly surprised to see such a good and well-built storyline. Graphics are excellently created and animated. Definitely top 5 on this website (if not top 3) despite the (what is now possibly over) 500+ games

reviewed against 0.11c

I gotta say, it took me a few times to get into this. I kept picking it up, getting bored, dropping it only to pick it up again. I mainly kept coming back because it looks pretty as hell and whilst having whats looks like a not bad release schedule and let's be honest, those two on their own can paper over a great many flaws in a game.

So I came back to it. And I'm glad I did, it's fun. The characters are varied and kinda entertaining. Sure there's issues with tried and tested tropes (the shy sister/ the not so shy one / the hot mom / the hot friend etc.) but nothing off putting.

The story is both a hindrance and a big big plus. The Dev is putting the effort in to actually have something there as opposed to falling into mediocre "put dick in this simulator". not going to go into a huge retelling but it involves a big bad, an external threat, a chosen one (you), a mysterious father. It's all there. But as I said this is both good and bad.

The good is that by putting in the effort alone, this game is better than so many. The issue I have with it however is the pacing and use of the game mechanics is a bit... off.

So you're basically the Savior of the title, you're going to save everything. Which is nice, it's fun to be important. So you've got powers to do ......things. The problem with the game so far is it seems the author prefers what those powers are to be incredibly vague. Everything is hinted at but it's teased out. What makes it annoying is the big bad is set up pretty damn early. So it's kind of like "here's the big bad thing you're going to save us all from, they can do this and that and that and please save us Obi Wan Kenobi you're our only hope" but as you play the game you're left going ".... how the hell can I do anything against all THAT?" I'm about 3 quarters through the game so far and I've seen like..... 3 powers I have, one of which is "I can punch harder than a normal dude" but all of which cause me to knock myself out if I use. I'm getting that eventually I'll master them all and turn into Doom Guy or something but right now I'm an ex-cop who every now and then, can punch a guy quite hard, who also happens to enjoy getting his dick wet.

As I mentioned I'm sure eventually I'll get a power that can turn the tide but right now it seems the only reason I'm still alive is plot armour, and stringing the villains plan out long enough for me to get up to 100% seems a bit.... absurd given your enemies have already shown they can basically do what they want.

It's not off putting, it's not something that would make you roll your eyes and turn off, but I feel right now the MC is a passenger in the story and if I'm meant to be the "Savior" then it kind of needs to be shown how exactly I'm going to be that, cause until then it feels a bit hollow. Some exposition around your powers and your backstory is criminally needed here cause right now the MC's being told he's going to save everyone and I just can't see it.

Visuals are fantastic, story is engaging, characters are varied and the Dev obviously knows what they're doing and are committed to telling their story. It's worth your time, and hey, you might not be as picky as I am and love it. Right now though I'm waiting for the event which will grip me and change my opinion of this game from "aye, not bad" to "fuck, this needs to be on Steam so I can throw money at it"

Girls are pretty. I like the story.

But the game deserves 1 star, for a simple reason: choices don't matter. Don't pursue a scene? Too bad, it may well happen anyhow.

Example:

That isn't to mention "forced" scenes. The stuff with Amber isn't a big deal, but considering I can turn her down later and end her route, forcing players into sleeping with her is annoying.

Maybe the dev intends to get back to previous sections, and make the choices matter. But at the moment, it feels as if we're given too few choices. Too few options with those choices (basically breaking down to "pursue her" or "hurt her," but no neutral choices) and situations where your choices just don't matter.

And that makes the entire experience seem broken to me, and utterly destroys my interest in playing the game.

The issue of, at the very least, making the choices that do exist MATTER, by not making future scenes that directly contradict choices being what we see, and instead reflecting what we picked, would see me come back. But right now, I couldn't bring myself to keep playing.

Let's go. This one isn't over yet, it's still updated and if I were to guess there's still a lot of history ahead, so let's wait to enjoy it because this one is delicious. I wasn't going to do an analysis because I was going to wait a few more att, but I felt I needed to talk about this one, I think there's enough things to talk about.
Note: I didn't play all the routes, I forgot to do that, bad.

•Strengths:
- Man, the story is amazing. This game has history and a wonder. The synopsis says it all so I won't say too much to not spoil it, but I guarantee it's very good.
– Look, the character design is very good and the environments are also well made
– One thing I don't usually talk about much, but I think this one is worth talking about is the personality of the MC that in this one is more determined to do things and there are few times he acts like a chicken. This one is badass.
– Choices are important to the story and the part that I did everything possible came at the end of the game lol but there are a lot of choices and they mess with the story.

• Negative points
– Look, really. I only remember one detail that I didn't like, because even the fact that he's more active, if you know what I mean, is well explained. So what I didn't like was not having the possibility of him not starting a relationship with that woman, how do we know what's going to happen until because right? I'm not a fan of betrayal so I didn't enjoy it, but if it wasn't for that it might be worth it. It's not a spoiler because it's literally something that happens in ten minutes of gameplay.

Final thoughts: maybe because I didn't do all the paths I can't say that all are good, but what I did I liked. For those who want to know, I'll leave it for the end to dwarf spoiler kkk. But the game is very fun, I think it is perhaps one of the best on the site and I will definitely continue this story.

Rating: 10/10 (I would give 9/10, but as I didn't do all the paths I won't lower the rating for something that may have been my fault)

Worth it: This one for sure.

Here's what I did:
I avoided relationships with all girls and did everything I could to earn kindness points. “But it's a romance game too” ss, but the one I wanted to stay didn't appear, so bye to the others.

Thank you for reading this far and thank you enjoy the game you will not regret it.

*Edit: Played to the newest update and things got better. The good/bad system is in play and you can now have sexy bits by being good but being bad is still about raping everyone with tits.

I´m spoiled. 2 years ago this would be a solid 5 stars VN, today, not so much. On the plus side, we have great graphics, with hot models, great fap material. The overall premise of the story is great too, sci-fi paralel world stuff, makes things interesting and fresh. Now for the weak spot: the writing is stupid. Not nerve wreking shot at your screen stupid, but really weak. The charecters arent really well built. For example, these days, smart, 21y olds, hot as hell, city girls, arent virgins and gullible. Unless there´s a specific reason for that and in cleverly written games you get that. Lewd scenes are poorly written into the story too: most of the time the MC is exploiting some virgin girl or is being rapey. There´s more to it of course, good and bad, but i´ll finish here.
A few years ago this game would be the bomb. Now it´s average. I´ll still play it. There is fap material here for sure.

Not sure why this is rated so low. Especially with all the crap AVN's that are 5 starred right at the beginning lately. Maybe because there is no taboo which definitely this should not have the tag.

The renders are "excellent" The animations are excellent. Story is above above average since it actually has a story and not too commonly used theme. The only things that can be improved on IMO is the consistency of updates.

This is a game that started out pretty interesting, I played the good path and just thought this would designed to be a more of a slow burn type of game. Their was some sex scenes but few a far between. Then I figured I would try the evil path and boy was this a completely different game, I soon realised this game was only "meant" to be played as the evil asshole. There were far FAR more sex scenes, im talking 3 to 4 times as many scenes availlable. Also you have less LI on the good path, so not only less sex scenes the evil path has exclusive characters which you don't exclusive LI's that are only available on the good path.

Im only giving 2 stars because if the dev would have said in the beginning if we want to experience the real game we should'nt waste our time trying to be the hero and just go full-on evil asshole if you actually want porn in your porn game.

Savior is a story about a guy that is thrust into a situation in his life as a result of the actions of his father when he was a child. The stories title is pretty much what the MC is or is supposed to be. I will first give you the good parts before explaining why I only gave this 2 stars.

GOOD

The renders in the story are pretty good. If you are looking for a story with alot of eye candy, then you will like Savior. I didn't really see too many issues or artifacts with the renders and although they aren't the "best", they certainly aren't the worst.

The story itself isn't really a new one but it is approached in a fairly unique manner. There are the usual and typical tropes but then again, it is an adult VN so those are to be expected. The story certainly has the potential to be fantastic.

BAD

My problems with this story are that the plot and the interweaving subplots are all over the place. Here we are with an MC that "appears" to be estranged from his family. He left home, took a job and hasn't connected with any of his family in a long time. One would think that there would be alot more tension in the family and although Mom would always welcome her son home, you would think that their relationships would be more strained yet they aren't. In fact, the character that is the most outspoken about his arrival end up in his pants on the first night!! Hardly the estranged family here. This is a recurring theme in the game where things are way too easy for the MC. Everyone just drops to their knees with this guy and declares him king of the couch in many ways. All of it is in stark contrast and a polar opposite to the beginning of the story.

The MC himself in the beginning is portrayed as this heart broken son that has lost his dad and is dead set on finding him. You get the feeling that he has cast everything and everyone aside in this endeavor yet that never really happens.

The humor is this story is really misplaced. There is humor when things should have a serious tone and you are left asking what in the world is going on. The humor is so bad that it is at times annoying leading to click through just to get past it.

Everything is rushed. The story had the potential to be fantastic but it seems rushed. It is almost as if the writers were impatient and simply couldn't wait to get the action moving. There is very little build up to anything and aside from the opening scene where you learn what happened to set the story in motion, nothing is explained. You are simply left to try and figure it out as you go. Thankfully it isn't easy to figure out as the story-line itself just kind of goes in one direction without any real focus on any one thing. Details get dropped in your lap. There is no suspension of disbelief and you are lead along like a horse with a carrot dangling in front of him.

Overall this story simply isn't worth all of the credit the fans are giving. The writing is mediocre at best, the humor is misplaced and the whole relationship building thing has just been tossed right out the window in favor of an "Oh you have a dick so left fuck" story-line.

I give it two stars because while it may be good enough to download and play, it isn't good enough to truly enjoy.

I must admit i nearly skipped this one, which im really flad i didnt. The first time i looked at it i read the description and thought its some kind of boring DNA-Manipulation overpowered almighty hero bullshit, where the MC is all powerful and can do everything. Im really glad i gave it a chance tho because even tho the story is like what i have described a little bit it still doesnt seem boring to me so far.
The Plot is actually pretty interesting with a unique setting which, at first, sounded kinda dumb with the paralell universe and whatnot but actually is quite fun to play. With the slow discovering of the powers there is still a suspense beign built, which makes it quite enterntaining to play.
The women look very good, and the animations are very enjoyable so i have to say overall: this is a great VN and its definetly worth checking out and giving it a chance.

The first couple of chapters are a little rough from a story perspective (the Amber character is particularly poor writing), but the game improves greatly in both story and visual quality from there. Very fun concept that I look forward to the dev exploring further.

Hmm I really liked the story of this one though we've seen this concept in other movies and stuff many times. It is sure unique regarding adult games but idk why it field flat for me on some points and the overall execution would've gone better. Despite having enjoyed playing this game and looking forward to the next update, I'm only giving this 3 stars so far as I like to be critical when presenting my review.

*review for v0.10d

The only thing I didn't like about this game is the story. For example, MC invites a girl he just had a one night stand with the other night to come and sleep with him at his family home. She then proceeds to straight away go to help one of the sisters to pick up an outfit while being naked in front of a complete stranger. Some other weird stuff like that throughout. If story is what's important for you in these type of games this is not it.

Otherwise the game offers great visuals, nice animations (although no sound), hot models and very nice dialogue.

I'll definitely check out future updates but not because I care what happens with the story.

Overall good game, 3.5/5 or strong 3/low 4.

Superb. Maybe the most interesting & original story I've seen here. The renders are awesome. The pace feels great and there's a solid amount of content (version 0.10d). Anyone who's into Sister stuff should absolutely play this.

This is by far one of the most interesting games I've played. Tbh, I wasn't convinced in the beginning where MC was a police officer. The humor was immature and plot delivery was all over the place. Worst immersion breaker was when the police officers call themselves by first names like "officer Allison". Yeah.

But then, miraculously the quality springs into new heights. The humor gets actually fun for the most part and the plot, while nothing too original, is exciting enough. But where this game really excels is the renders and character interactions. There are good variety of assets and they are used with sense of style. Some male characters could use a little more polish though. The characters are deep and there's real tension between them. Your choices really matter and many of them makes you think long and hard whether you made really horrible choice or not. I can already feel that in the future updates my choices will bring consequences that will touch me deeply...

The sexual tension between characters are superb and the intrigue is real. LOVED IT!

Spelling is above average and just a small amount of spelling errors, most of them in the first martial art training scene.

I played the current content once but will definitely play through all the routes. It left me wanting more. Some characters really grow into you and makes you care of their fate.

I'd give 4,5 stars but there's still a bit of room for improvement so 4 for now.



Good:

-Renders are excellent
-Assets
-Plot
-Characters which are deep
-Intrigue in sexual situations
-Overall vibe

Neutral:

-The first chapter

As a dev myself with 4 games either being made, or completed, I rarely review games because I do not like to show favoritism or want anyone to think that devs made or asked me to review it, but I can't hold back.

I only play probably a total of 10 games, as most games on this site are vanilla, therefore boring as hell, but I did enjoy this game. Good story, good renders and really good animations. The story is fun, and not meant to be taken overly serious and the themes of control are there in spades.

Good job Devs, you got yourself a sub from me. Keep up the good work!

Based on the (as yet) unfinished v0.10 Beta.

My usual disclaimers when writing reviews on here are that A. I am here for the "plot" not the plot and B. I am very picky with visual novels and think broadly they can be very subpar. So, take both of those into consideration for my review when thinking about this game.

Pros

• Kinky and fucking sexy – A big theme of the game is mind-domination/control, corruption, enslavement and rape (not in the brutal kicking, screaming way, but when the girls are being mind-controlled into it, that’s what it is). There’s also hints of risk of pregnancy (which I hope the game might lean into a little more down the line). Basically, all of this amounts to a number of my favourite kinks which aren’t really in enough games. For me this is actually a big enough plus that I raised my estimate of the game by a fair margin.
• Renders and visuals – The renders of the game are honestly pretty top tier. The girls are also all, to a one, super fucking hot. I’m actually a really big fan of the models for both Maeve and Amber which somehow seem more unique and interesting. I’ve said this in other reviews that this is never something I put too much weight on, and I can be happier with less high-quality visuals, but it does warrant saying that there’s a lot of nice stuff to look at here.

Mehs

• Daisy-focused – Somebody else (Anoxida) said this in their review, and I hadn’t really noticed until they pointed it out, but it is VERY true. The game has 4 main girls (the family and the girlfriend) and then at least another 3 regular recurring faces (the maid, the sister’s girlfriend and the work friend). Of these core seven, the sister Daisy gets the absolute lion’s share of screen time, even intruding into scenes with the other characters. While Daisy was actually the least favourite of mine of all the girls I didn’t outright dislike her, but I can admit in hindsight that I wish the attention would be more spread out between the cast.
• Gary Stu protagonist – The old classic VN trap where the MC is an absolutely effortlessly perfect male specimen capable of smooth talking, fighting, superpowers and being shredded as fuck with a HUGE cock all with 0 effort. As in other games where this is the case, I don’t totally hate it because I enjoy self-inserting on this, but it does make for some slightly cringe-worthy setups from time-to-time.
• Awkward writing – English is very clearly not the Purple Fella’s first language and it shows in the writing. There’s fairly often grammatical errors or just weird uses of language which are a bit unfortunate. The dialogue actually reminds me of Become a Rockstar in a way because of how stilted and robotic it often is as well with characters talking like their dialogue was generated by Dialogue-o-Tron 3000:

• TOO much dialogue – Along with the robotic writing, there’s also just too much of it. It should honestly be cut down by about 15% to remove a lot of the dead weight which drags the game down over time. This is particularly note-worthy in one of the middle sections where it feels like the protagonist cannot go 2 minutes without saying how Daisy is the “sweetest, cutest, best girl ever”. Like… Jesus, just tone it down please? To be clear this isn’t so obnoxious and noticeable that it's exxxaaactly a negative but it’s really treading the line.
• The black girl looks weird – A very odd nitpick here, but there is an early scene with a character called Samantha. This took place at night and so for 60% of the scene I genuinely thought her darker skin colour was as a result of the rendering being made to look like it was in very deep, dark shadow. Until I realised she’s actually supposed to be black. It’s really VERY bizarre that with how good all the other girls look, the black girl’s skin looks legit ash-grey. More like a fantasy dark elf than just a girl with dark skin.

Cons

• Meandering story – Unquestionably the absolutely single WORST aspect of this game and I’ll come back to this in the main body below.

In Savior you play as a police-officer who leaves his job in order to move back in with his family and finally solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance from many years ago. During this time you also discover that you have a bunch of super powers, in particular the ability to hypnotise and control other people’s minds. This is the basic premise and honestly it had a really strong start for me when I played v0.3 a couple of years back. However, as you might be able to tell, I now feel the game just does not deliver on the initial promise.

So, another user (taler) used the word “meandering” and honestly it is the absolutely most perfect word to describe the game’s story.

The game cannot decide if it wants to be a heart-warming slice-of-life game or whether it wants to focus more on the supernatural and otherworldly elements (and conflict) which make up the majority of the game’s backstory. It cannot decide if it wants to focus on having you dating and reconciling with your family or mind-controlling them and corrupting them one by one. It jumps between settings and characters basically on a whim and so it feels like it simultaneously never gets anywhere but also is moving far too quickly and not letting itself get into a groove.

It’s honestly beyond frustrating because really you never spend any time with any one of the settings long enough to get settled before there feels like there’s a huge dynamic change and you’re off again somewhere else.

I can’t really decide what the core issue here is. It feels a little like Purple Fella’s are trying to do too much all at once and should have been a bit less ambitious with their ideas. However, I actually feel like they COULD have pulled off all of this stuff were it not for one glaring issue: there’s so little connection between the chapters and segments of the game.

I’ll provide a few major examples. In one of the later chapters you spend some time with your family maid Maeve, finding out about her history. When this chapter started I genuinely took a few minutes to remember who Maeve was because she had been introduced 5 chapters earlier and then just had been nowhere to be found at any point since. The other example also occurs later when your girlfriend comes over and is upset at you for not having spoken to her for a few days. You make up and have hot sex… And then after she leaves (I assume… She just seems to vanish) you proceed to not think about her for another few days of game time…

The absolute worst example though (and apologies in advance for the spoilers) was from the most recent chapter where you (finally) spend some time with the most unappreciated of the main girls (Olivia). This has you going on a couple of "dates" with her and SOMEHOW getting pulled into the relationship struggles of another girl (while hanging out with Olivia). Not only does this whole chapter feel TOTALLY isolated from everything else that's going on (there's no mind control options at all, none of the other main girls seem to be there and the central conflict is shoved to one side) it also drags on for-fucking-ever because of how long you spend trying to solve this other RANDOM GIRL'S relationship issues. Honestly... This whole chapter was easily the worst of the game thus far which doesn't exactly bode well given that you'd hope quality to improve over time.

Essentially the devs seem to be unable to weave the different story lines together. When the protagonist is interacting with one of the girls and one story-thread, that is ALL there is to the game. The other characters might as well not even exist, not even in the background. Because of this, there’s a constant feeling of bouncing from one story to another with no real cohesion between the various elements of the plot.

Add to this the slight frustration with the awkward writing and quite simply wayyyy too much filler text and the story feels like it slows to a crawl. It’s frustrating to read and experience.

Another aside here is that the game often will jump to interactions between two other characters, interaction the protagonist isn't party to, and these also can go on for far too long and feel like "surely I shouldn't know that this is happening?"

And then it lets you mind-control one of the girls and have some super kinky sex with them and it’s all juuust about worth it. Seriously, if the game just leaned a little more heavily into that roughness and force, really made it more about you creating a harem of mind-controlled slaves and I’d be ALL about it dude. So it’s just a real shame that I feel like I can’t rate it higher than I have.

Missed potential for sure.

There is a lot to like about this game. The renders are good and the underlying story is compelling. The girls are all hot and each of them are unique with solid stories of their own.

There are some problems with it; the MC is a Gary Sue and that gets a little tiring. Always saying and doing the right thing... His "mistakes" are just due to the fact he does not understand his powers, but otherwise he always says and does the right thing.

There could be more choices as well. It is more of VN then anything. The decisions you make for the MC really do not change the overall story, except as it relates to the LIs but dialogue choices are limited.

As I mentioned, however, the underlying story is pretty good and it keeps you guessing. Plus, the content is pretty good. There is teasing mixed with "full contact" and the interactions are well done, if not entirely believable. As the MC learns more about his powers, it seems like there may be a lot more choices moving forward, at least as it pertains to good and corruption. There is a scene the with the brother of the maid that could be considered almost evil but the player can control if it gets bad at all.

There are some other smaller issues, like Aubrey. Her character shows up early then kind of gets in the way and it almost seems like the dev was not sure what to do with her. Regardless, she is a great character.

Anyway, this will be a love/hate kind of a game for most people, but it's solid work from a talented developer. It's not in my top ten, but it's worth a download.