VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Scandal [v0.02] [Stef Story]

Love the game ! cant wait for more. Sandra is beautiful and sexy,and smart,besides some simple spelling mistakes I am really loving the way the story if going.I hope the dev keeps going with some of the lesbian paths,as I find them very well done.Really cant wait for the next update,hope it doesnt take as long as Jessica oneils hard news, or a wife and mother..

v0.01 review

It's your typical middle age housewife feeling frustrated with her love life.

Characters are decently written, there's some depth to them and the game goes into great lengths to make their agendas believable.
The experience is dimished a lot by a rather poor English translation. I can live with mistakes, I'm not a native English speaker myself, but when the game mixes up "he" and "she" in a porn game multiple times, that's a problem.
Especially if you get into a situation when it depends whether you get lesbian or straight content.

CG are decent. Female bodies look nice although clothes cling to them in a weird way. A summer dress look like it is made out of tightly hugging spandex around chest areas.
Male bodies look decent when out of clothes, but in clothes all the same flaws apply. It's like you put a body builder in a Star Trek Next Generation uniform.

When it comes to story and pacing, the MC seems to drift extremely easily to incest with her 18 year old daughter and their conversations appear very out of place. I'm not demanding Chekhov quality from a porn game, but the game did much better job introducing potential male sex partners and those dialogues felt much more realistic.

CG 3/5
Story and characters 3/5, but with potential to improve with a proper translation and a little more effort in certain areas.

There's practically no sex scenes so far in the game, so I can't really rate them

I think it's a good start by the developer that already has one interesting game, but i feel like this one is better in many cases and a lot more erotic than the previous game.

There are some issues with some grammar here and there, renders and character models are nice, i really like the MC model in this game, i don't think i saw one that is 1:1 in other games.

Sometimes theres a problem with animations, i mean everything works, but you have to click through it and then they play by themselves.

+ Renders, models, eroticism and the theme.

- Grammar issues here and there, font could get some work
- Sometimes trouble with going through animations
- Sometimes less dialogue in the thoughts of MC is better than a really long ones.

Overall i think for someone that is a fan of Fem. protag. games and well we don't have a lot of them on the market, you will be probably satisfied like me.

I give 5 because dev seems passionate like with his previous project and it's just a good start.

Demo Version
Off to a good start. I have been following your other work as well.

Needs Work
Animation is inconsistently implemented. Too many screens where there is nothing to do but click to advance the image - but there are other areas where the animation proceeds on it's own. I prefer the latter as I find myself staring at screens waiting to see if something is going to happen.

As always: don't tell, just show. You don't have to narrate what we see on the screen. Same with thoughts. Let the user figure out their feelings, it's more immersive.

Show some degrees. Everything seems to be set at full blown crisis, but it doesn't have to be. It doesn't make it more interesting. I think there is a level of maturity missing. Folks that are married that long are prone to forgive a lot of variance in behavior. A little underwear kink is not going to affect her that much. This also gives you room to build. Besides you have the young couple's crisis which will be more intense due to their age and a global financial meltdown as a setting. You can't have everything jacked up to 11.

On the bright side...
You seem to be getting a better feel for the married couple. That give and take and knowing each other is better represented here. Very little comes as a shock in a long relationship, and there is an ongoing commitment that should be rock solid.

Keep it up.