VN - Ren'Py - Secrets and Promises [v0.04] [badbod]

This is not a high felocity AVN. Despite themes like criminality, violence and optional moral degeneracy Secrets and Promises is a very slow and thoughtful novel.
The biggest strength in my opinion is the dialogue. It's very considerate and each individual behaves in a way so you can tell them apart. The MC is the centre of gravity though. Like in many of these games he is a former special ops soldier turned superhero.
I'm also not sure if it was necessary to involve so many questionable peeping tom moments.

It's definitely worth checking out for those who enjoy rather simple 90s movie narratives with good dialogue and varied and interesting character arcs that have room to develop and surprise.

I didn't like the previous game of the developer but this one I love.

Great game, characters, story, images & animations. First class. First game (Boxed In) was excellent as well, but this is next level. Each update has been large and advanced the story appreciably. Looking forward to the next chapters.

Here we have a developer who delivers like a machine, and so far without asking for any financial support.

+ The story is quite good. It's no Shakespeare, but above average for a porn game. I'd give it 3.5/5.
+ The renders are well done. There are also certainly better games, but also significantly worse ones. 4/5 from my side.
+ Because the developer doesn't receive any financial support, he is completely free from any requirements imposed by support sites . This makes him one of the very few developers who can create their game exactly as they envision it, without any constraints or patches. 5/5
+ And in my opinion, the biggest plus is the characters. It's one of the very few games that features girls who seem natural and not like they came from a Hollywood printer. 5/5

- One of the few things that I think could be improved are the animations, which I find rather stiff. There's room for improvement there. Thankfully, though, there aren't any two-render "animations". 2,5/5

One of the best games on F95. Different in many ways, mostly the models. No perfect bodies, but natural ones. Story is well written and good to follow. H-Scenes are at some points something completely new. If the concept and quality will go on like this...we will get a perfect game, worth to ply more than only one time.

The characters' diverse expressions are captivating, and the story development has significantly improved compared to the previous game. While the version is still low, the future is even more exciting. The main story progression is truly captivating.

So far "Secrets and Promises" is a great game.

Great character models, much more realistic than all those artificial creations. Just natural women.

The story is also interesting at first and definitely kept me entertained.

Can't wait to see more. Keep up thew really, really great work.

One question. I can't find a Patreon link or anything like that anywhere. Is there anywhere I can support you?

Edit: Saw a rating where someone asks the same question. So if nothing changed since then, I have my answer...

Good: Decent renders, OKish choice driven paths. The most plausible incest story around. Well presented kinks, great over-encompassing story.

Great: The characters feel lively, they ain't copy/paste personalities.

Best: Dev seems to dish out renders like crazy. Updates are fast and they do deliver.

Wish this all the success to keep it going.

Badbod hits again. Interesting characters, interesting story, good renders, good animation. Looking forward to a next update. Everything seems to be set up, hopefully it doesn't flop. Which is the only reason I am not giving this good of a game 5 stars, still following him and will be lurking on the sight.

man it is a great journey in the game, I mean yeah it is not that realistic that MC easily hook up with every women he met but good things it is enjoyable, all characters did make sense not like a horney mf just want to have sex. Animation is on average level and it is actually beyond my expection because author didn't take donation/subscription at all.

The game is good in everything. Not a bad plot, visually likable characters. The visuals are generally average, but this does not interfere with the overall perception. The sex scenes are quite intense, which also adds advantages to the overall impression. Thank you!

Awesome story with twists and tuns. Awesome graphics during scenes. Occurring updates with plenty of content . Not as much sandbox as I prefer but still has some choices for my liking. Can't wait for more updates. You're awesome!

Decent but not great. Let's just say that based on the other reviews I was expecting a lot more from this game.

Visually it's pretty good. Renders look original, character models are realistic and diverse. The dialogue is (mostly) well-written and the overall pacing of the game is perfect. Plenty of stuff is happening but at the same time the game doesn't move so fast that it becomes shallow.

The story in general however was disappointing. It feels like the developer is going for a dark psychological drama but the story is all over the place and it often doesn't make any sense.

• The game suffers from a common porn VN disease where every female character is hot, single, and madly in love with the protagonist for no reason.
• The MC travelled halfway around the world on foot to deliver a letter to his dead best friend's family because of a promise. But we're not even 24 hours further and he's already groping the daughter and fucking the wife. And after that the story doesn't get much better.
• Animations are very average, especially for 2025 standards.

Good stuff, sandbox is not really sandbox, meaning no real choice to explore, little verbose in some interactions but overall really good...if not predictable. I will definitely check our the dev's other work.

To start with i loved the story, but it went way of the rails when MC desides to work for the gangsters whos after hes friends, none of that made any kind of sense and made the story really go to shit, now MC starts doing the same shit to others that he was trying to save hes friends from and that makes for one shitty storyline, worst part of it is that MC trusts those gangsters to wipe the debt of hes friend.....right that makes sense right? lol...its awefull, first thing MC does is to go back to the story he kicked the gangsters ass when they first met to shake down the owners there for money.....

And MC just keeps going "i dident have a choice" when it comes to working for the gangsters....right....sure... and yeah it gets worse since it goes all out on porn logic and now MC can get BJs and shit from the females that dont have the money for the gang.....it went from playing a nice soldier vet that helps out to becoming a gangster who can abuse womans when they cant pay.....sure you can turn them down but just giving that option shows a clear picture of what kind of story this is supposed to be, since your supposed to play the game like a pure idiot abusing girls if you go by the in-game walkthrough, funny enough the cop in the game feels the same way i do, that MC is the most brainless dude and trusting whatever people tells him, hes just not fun to be....now had this been like the law abiding citizen movie then story could have been great fun, but instend MC becomes a pet doggy for the gangster bitch just missing a colar around hes neck.

And yet all of the above is just done so MC can become a hero after all trying to save everyone.....why he would ever accept that when he dident do it from the start is idoitic, why would he first go "i cant fight them i dont stand a chance" to "sure lets save everyone" rofl.....

And ofc its all so you can start up a relationship with your dead best friend wife.....yeah i wont be doing that since i play for story not a fuck all that moves game.

Normaly i would give this 1-2 stars but i like that you have choices in it so you arent forced to do shit you dont want to like the best friend wife so it got some points on that, its proberly the first ive seen that truely follows your choices, like 2 girls having a pool game i turned one of them down early game, she lost the game and had to do a dare which was kissing MC with tounges and she moves to MC saying "dont worry i know your not into me" so they just fake it insted, now thats how choices should be in all choice driven games.

It also fails on sound and music, its just to rare and playing silent games for 80% of the story makes it a bit boring.

As for girls they look alright and there is a bit of diversity in builds but mostly the type i want which is smaller to normal tits instend of the bimbos in most games, not that this dosent have that as well.

When it comes to adult content i pretty much saw nothing yet, proberly since i turned down the few there might be something with, so i cant really rate animations or sex scenes untill the game has alot more content then whats there currently so ill try it agani at a later date and adjust the review then, for now ill give it 3 stars even though story is a bit wierd and dosent make much sense at the moment.

This is the second magnificent game from this developer. He tells a nice, sometimes humorous story without being long-winded. The developer playfully weaves sexual content into the story, making it seem natural and not forced. The characters are diverse, appealing, and lively.
I am looking forward to future releases and would like to support this developer.

Wonderful. Such great, real relationships. Great dialogue, really funny at times, nice mixing up of situations -- and the girls are delightful. I really love this artist. Yessiree, it's certainly another 5 from this dev!!
****I need to update this review in order to say that I am in LOVE with this AVN. Really: story, character, emotion, sex -- it's all there! And OF COURSE this is the genius who won't take money! **Gush*** I will follow this dev anywhere...

I actually like the story in "Secrets and Promises" a lot more than in "Boxed In." The pacing is awesome and I can see this game being a major multi-year project. The models are also perfect and realistic. MC's personality and development has been also believable. Great stuff so far!

Wow really enjoyed this one. I like some of the choices {and I'm glad there's a back button lol!} A lot of lewd stuff in this and a decent amount of content
for 0.002 version. Looking forward for the next update. Great Job Dev keep
it coming!

Wow. Just wow. Badbod is such a fantastic dev. This VN is so great. I liked their previous work, Boxed In, yet it was a little frustrating because I'm not a huge fan of incest and that VN was very incest-heavy, to say the least. At the same time, the story was so well crafted and the lewd scenes were so hot, so I could not NOT play it. This one, however, has a more compelling story and it is so beauitiully executed. Truly brilliant writing and also great "directing"/pacing. I wish all VN's were like this. The only thing I miss is sounds during sex scenes, but hopefully that can be added in a later update. Keep up the good work, Badbod - you are a genius!

EDIT: Okay, so now I have played the 0.2 version. Great to get an update so soon. But I have to take back what I said about this VN being much less incest-oriented than Boxed In - it is actually a quite incest-heavy story. Still, everything is so well done, and the scenes all seem natural in a way (from the story's perspective), so the dev gets away with it, so to speak. The scene where Millie wakes up was so hot, and beautifully animated, that it was impossible not to get aroused from watching it. So I still consider Secrets and Promise a great VN, and I still think it is a step up from Boxed In, however excellent that VN was. Can't wait for the next update!

EDIT AFTER HAVING PLAYED VERSION 0.3: When I saw that that a new update was released, I was very happy and excited. I didn't want to play it right away, instead I waited until Friday night when my wife and kids were asleep and I really could take my time and enjoy it. What a wonderful update to this wonderful VN. The renders and animations are on another level than basically everything else - but it's the story that really makes it such an engaging experience. The sex is never just thrown in, it is always plot-appropriate, and therefore it feels so gratifying when a sex scene comes. The buildup is magical, the delivery is lovely. When I played this update, I noticed being a bit melancholy after a while, knowing that the update would end and that I would have to wait some months until next update. It's a weird combo: playing with a great appetite for every new frame, and at the same time not wanting it to end. The dev is such an artist, and such a scriptwriter, I am so impressed. Secrets and Promises has convinced me that AVN's are better than porn. I have entered this brave new world and I never want to go back.

Really nice, all the chars have personality.
I appreciate the differences between the LIs, could be even more for my taste (body hair, chubby, boob size/saggy, trans etc.)
Most importantly, the story and dialogue is authentic and convincing. Definitely looking forward to how this develops.