Ren'Py - Seeds of Chaos [v0.4.07] [Vénus Noire]

While ambitious the game continually fails to come close to the mark of the billed "being a villain." As stated in another review the player is actually an underling spreading the influence of others. So much so that events which could easily be warped into usurping power are somehow "transformed" into being beneficial to one's overlords.

Given the proclamation of the character's mental facilities and cunning, the game serves as a disappointment as to this goal. Instead the player is often put into some form of submissive role quite frequently and most of the heavy content involves either this submissive role or ntr. The rest is given some passing, but the main focus is, indeed, this situation.

This is nothing new. It has been a criticism I've had even during a brief time as a supporter in the hopes that more of this would be inserted.

One should also anticipate a heavy amount of gay/bi content along with this inherent role of submission as simply natural. The game attempts to cater to all, though focus predominantly on a small niche despite the proclamations of one being more than the underling the story forces from the claim of being the bad guy.

Amazing game with well written plot and unique art. Covers a wide variety of fetishes, and has a dedicated dev team. All adult content is optional, including NTR content (but trust me you won't want to miss out on it.)

The Connoisseur rating for Seeds Of Chaos [v0.2.47]

"Very good" - The Connoisseur

The art is exquisite but looks like there are different artists doing the same characters, that causes some distraction, my advice would be to alocate specific characters to specific artists.

The story is quite unique, and it has the potencial to be great, it just needs bit more pacing.

There are lots of fetishes for everyone here, I'm not a fan of some of them but they seem to be avoidable.

The overall game is quite good, the biggest problems I found are the black screens, It looks like the graphics part of the game is further behind compared to the rest in terms of quantity, which causes players to advance in the plot with no images, forcing them to play again when the images are implemented. When the black screens disappear or get less frequent I'll glady rate this higher. I rate this with 4.2 stars

Seed of Chaos is a like a refreshing break from all the 3D stuff and manga stuff. The CG art is just top notch with its shading and it's detail, just makes me wish there were some animation. Its still too soon to talk about the game mechanics in terms of combat, economy and resource management since its still incomplete but it looks promising. The way I see it, as is, Seeds of Chaos can be a solid VN in of itself with its solid story if the developers chose to forgo other game elements. If [Vénus Noire] develops the other game element well, that would be icing on the cake that would make Seeds of Chaos stand out from other games.

So much text. Soooooo much text. Text to graphics ratio at least 10 times too high. Too much black screen with only text. Am I getting this wrong or is this not supposed to be a visual game? This feels like reading a book with an image on every tenth page. I found my self button mashing to get through walls upon walls of text because it's neither well written, nor interesting or serves to push the story forward. 9/10 times it's just mundane events with no relevance to the story being described in excruciating detail. This game feels like a visual novel but instead of having a coherent story with natural progression every chapter is pulled out randomly. I seriously don't get the appeal of this. If ten artists were deployed to give this story visuals for like a year, to catch up with the walls of text then I guess the game can be good. But the art is so far behind I feel like this will never happen.
If you like reading random chapters out of lewd books and sometimes having an image appear then I guess this game is for you. I found myself incredibly bored.
The gameplay was difficult to understand, I feel a tutorial would have been nice.

[Update] Due to access to a mod now that opens up the scene replay and some text editing that opens up the gallery, you can now enjoy the glory of the game without the grind. Will rise it back to 4.

[Update] I am updating this rating to 3 stars bordering on 4.
While the art is still amazing and the game is okay it has run across the issue many games here do, it's complexity and grind level have surpassed the level of fun and reward that a game, especially an adult game, would ideally hit for it's audience. If you're okay with a lot of effort and replaying then this game is higher ranked for you but ideally at this point the game could really benefit from a code to just unlock the gallery and scenes.

[Original] Very much on the borderline of being a 5 star game, the art is incredible and diverse. I dock it a star only because while it offers A Lot it's also time consuming, that's mostly only an issue if you're a completionist like me and want to see everything with an in game gallery that big. Did I mention The Art Is Incredible? Give it a try if you haven't.

This game is incredible. It covers almost ever fetish under the sun with more yet to come, every sex scene is optional, you won't be forced out of your comfort zone if you don't want to be. The characters are interesting, the story is great, the world building is terrific. I believe updates are monthly, the developer is reliable. This game already has a decent amount of content, it has the potential to be one of the greats. I would definitely recommend it!

This game is occasionally referred to as Seeds of Cuck, because roughly half the art is ntr. It thankfully allows you to choose to turn this off, but not quite all of it, and if you do turn it off there's a general lack of events that take place. Even some of the events that aren't kinda are. As an example:


Now the writing: some parts are good, others very sloppy. The game was set up with the presumed intents to make you the "bad guy." You are not the bad guy.


I found the exploration aspect fairly boring. Don't get me wrong, it's honestly impressive he was able to program that whole map, but there should be more direction on where to go and what to do.

He could make a great prequel game with this system, and I think it would even make more sense if he did, likely appealing to a more mainstream audience. But I believe he chose this specific setting to allow some of the debauchery take place.

The wife is the hottest babe, at least for me, but 90+% of her art is ntr. I can only recall one scene at the beginning where she sleeps with Rowan, after that her character is just a demon cumdump unless you turn off ntr in which case she's pretty much removed from the game.

The game caters to niche audiences as well as mainstream, but here's an issue: if you're more of a mainstream man, you'll miss out on a massive amount of content. And if you're one of the niche (perhaps you like gay?) you'll only see a bit of that. This means the game attempts to appeal to everyone, but in doing so appeals to very few. You have to be interested in a huge amount of fetishes or you won't be interested in much of the content. The music is really good and most of the art is well done, but some of the art is kinda unimpressive. It uses many different artists and in doing so sets up an inconsistency in visuals.

I love this game! I've been following it for awhile now. The scenes that have pictures are great. There are some scenes that just cut to black, I wish those had pictures, though I'm pretty sure the dev has been adding them, slowly but surely. The characters are hot. Personally I'm a fan of Jezera! This is definitely a game I would recommend!

art is excellent and the premise is strong. Actually interesting gameplay loop. Characters are varied and intersting. Good mix of content. Very excited for future updates on this one. Shows extreme promise.

Game is too reliant on RNG to the point where you have to constantly save and reload and pray you get the right event. Then there's deadlines that lead to an automatic game over with little to no warning.

The writing is also pretty terrible. The main character is a spineless coward who exists to get cucked but the developer's Mary Sue Andras, who himself comes off a bumbling retard despite the writer's attempts at making him a credible villain. Even if you're a fan of NTR this game is pretty lackluster in every aspect so far. Maybe wait a couple of years until the game has a solid foundation and tolerable writing.

One of my all time favorite H games! Deeeeeep story elements, unique characters, and choices that truly effect what you see are propped up with original artwork and an engaging interface. While it is an unfinished product there is still easily 8 plus hours of gameplay that rarely feels grindy.

One of the best!
I loved the game play, the art is fenomenal! The fantasy story, the characters and the HUGE amount of options are very good!
It isn't clear how to trigger some events and It would be nice to have a way to check the main objectives, tough.
I love the submission path that this games takes you on or you could accept the dark side from the begining. Too many possibilities...
It has a high replay rate to discover new options!
Some times you have so many things to do that you just get lost exploring and finding events. Some good, some bad, some I have found only once and then the game has always a new hidden surprise!
Congrats dev team!
for me your work is breewing a master piece!

Very nicely done nice dialogues nice drawings!!! Need more NTR and some bugs are occasionally found
Other than that it is very well made in all other aspects! The story flows good and it is somewhat original!

One of the best games on the site. Helayna and Alexia are stupidly hot and I cannot get enough scenes with either. There's also plenty of monster girls ranging from goblins to something called a Dragon Ogre which I had to look up as I didn't even know what one was, her scene was great. Basically there is a ton of content already/

I absolutely love this game, the monster girl content is great, the netorare is completely optional, as is all the sexual content. There is an update at least every month, hope the dev keeps up the good work, can't wait for the next update.

The art is mostly great and is sometimes outright fantastic. There's plenty of scenes in it already. What's important to note is technically this game is very early on. It's one of the more ambitious games on here and if it gets finished it'll be huge. I thought Rosaria was the only realm we'd play until recently, what they actually plan is big. The characters are also good some are probably my favorites from this site outside of Where the Heart is and Acting Lessons.

There's some great scenes there is certainly no shortage of things to fap to and the fact they're well drawn and described helps. There is also a great variety of scenes and there's multiple races. Which is refreshing considering how many incest and/or corruption games on here where the kinkiest act in them is a footjob. It's fun to have something a bit different. Everything is also stoppable as well. As in basically every scene is avoidable if you don't want it to happen.

I also like the fact that you're not the most powerful individual you work for the twins under duress at first. However, a big part of the game is the fact Rowan and his wife can end up liking the roles they have under them. Rowan going from hero to villain seems inevitable simply because it offers him so much more freedom, power, wealth and respect than he ever got as a hero.

It does have problems though the first I'd call a big one the second is more pure personal opinion. Both seem to be more because the story and games is early on.

1. The mechanics are barebones atm and not explained well. The later part is the biggest problem as it makes it a little too easy to fail the first objectives when you're new. Which is likely off putting for new players. They will work on the mechanics at some point and once you know how it works it isn't a problem but initially it is there.

2. The twins are one of the most important parts of the game, Rowan serving them willingly and becoming more corrupt is supposed to be a choice. A choice undermined because there's an imbalance between them. See both are the ones you work for and storywise they both give you a lot of power. The problem is while Jezera seems to actively want and tries to corrupt the player morally and sexually even if that means giving him power over others. Andras on the other hand seems to want Rowan to betray them by keep been a dickhead. A couple of scenes where Andras and Rowan kick ass in a battle together or fuck someone together wouldn't go amiss. If you're going to work with them in the game there has to be a reason to do so for both twins.

I tried this game encouraged by very good early scenes art and have to say it's epithome of cuck gay spirit. Not as insult but as a matter of fact. Only lacks incest for holy trinity.

I was the most disappointed with character writing, especially MC wife, her being pretty much just fetish trigger slobbering over guy who ruined her life, killed/burned everything she knew and is, for all that she knows in the beginning of game, actively trying to kill her supposed "love".

Random events on world map serve to artifically prolong the game while failing to build any sort of gameplay. There's a reason why people dont't actually play this game. Art Goes from great in few opening scenes to ok later, and as of now there's limited number of illustrated scenes.

Overall ambitious but bad game, art being the best and gamplay the worst points. Add 1 star if gay ntr (mostly submissive) style is your thing. And if it's not don't waste your time on this game, because that's 80% of content and main storyline.

The art work and story is very good. So many choices that lead to different scenarios. Although, I'd really like to see more of Alexia, the game still has enough content to keep me interested in future development.

Good art style but as soon as the game shifts from the VN style in the prologue to the management game it becomes hot mess. The UI is basically terrible, a lot of the features appear to not be fully implemented and despite paragraphs of introductory text it is never that clear what you actually have to do.

The writing is good but overly verbose. for example there is a whole scene setting up a tour of the castle when a quest indicator and things being functional would have been much better and simpler.