Ren'Py - Seeds of Chaos [v0.4.08] [Vénus Noire]

This is without a doubt one of the most ambitious adult games currently in development. The art is original and beautifully drawn, the plot is unique and engaging and the devs seem to be active and committed. Its also fairly inclusive - offering a wide variety of scenes that will appeal to people of all tastes and perversions. The scenes are also telegraphed well so its unlikely you will be exposed to something that you don't want to see.

However, it is not without its drawbacks - all of which can be attributed to its sheer size. While progress is consistently made, the scope of the game is so large that it seems like it may be in development for years. Not necessarily a knock against the game, but those looking for a conclusion will be left waiting. Additionally, again because it is such an ambitious project, some may be turned off waiting for the storylines that they want to be updated.

Finally, taking the lewd elements out of it, there seems to be a really interesting and engaging game classic RPG-like design there that just hasn't been fully utilized. They're obviously a fairly small outfit, so it's hard to blame them for not being able to address all of these issues but its hard to see the devs' unimplemented vision and not wonder "what if?".

This is without a doubt a game I can't wait to buy in its completed form, but for now, I'll just settle for rooting for these devs to finish their grand vision.

The tragic tale of a good hero that gets used for bad deeds.

I seriously don’t get all the hate this game gets, it’s definitely one of the best h-games I have ever played:

(+)
-the best movement system of any renpy game on this site.
-lot of renders by different artists
-lots of choices which matter, and different ways of going about things, cyoa
-resource allocation and strategy as well as moral quarrels
-lots of free roam
-solid writing and great characters you actually feel for
( had to revert a bunch of times so the main couple stays together, they deserve it, after all they‘ve been trough)

There is really nothing to lose when trying out this game and I‘m sure you will like if you give it a chance.


further ways of improving:
-character animations (escpecially for the Mc which u see quite often, even if it’s just blinking would make a huge impact)(maybe some voice acting, even if its just yes/no)
-because of the many free elements and choices a lot of the work the developers puts into never reaches the player, because the choose a different choice for example. (There should be some way of seeing this scenes as well, without replaying. Maybe the MC finds some kind of magic mirror which lets him see different realities if he had made different choices, as well as tips for locked gallery pictures and the ability to explore different choices or something)
-for inspiration I would advise the developer to maybe look at „ravager“, another high quality renpy fantasy game.

Very good game

- pro:
- Lots of scenes
- Variation of scenes
- Good art
- Not very grindy
- Easy to use UI
- Lots of intrigue

- con:
- Missing scenes
- unfinished
- A LOT of text
- Although you can make corrupting choices, the two MC (male and female) do not seem to alter/difference much throughout game. She stays naive and gullible, he stays basically the good guy

Looking forward to completion. Though, I'd prefer if Rowan had "better" sex arcs(?) similar to Alexia's. Not necessarily with him being the sub, possibly another character who isn't already sex crazed.

Excellent game, waiting for the next update. There are certain blank/black screens, are those artworks incomplete? Also I seem to have gotten around 90% of the cg, is there any way of getting all. I have played it over 3 times but can't seem to get them yet.

Like the game a lot. Would like to see spots on the map not get locked out if you go to them too early. Good mix of straight and gay stuff. Also nice that you don't have to see any sex scenes if you don't want too Game is still very much wip but worth trying.

Game is not finished, but it has everything one can hope to get out of the game (sex, intrigue, story, unique NPCs). Fantasy setting allows game developers to really explore and experiment with characters, setting and game mechanics.

In Seeds of Chaos you play as the Hero Rowan Blackwell who is well known throughout his home country (which is the whole setting of Act 1) for his role in defeating the forces of Chaos. The game takes place years after this conflict, in which through an increasingly erotic turn of events that are controlled by the player. Rowan starts to descend into decadency, degeneracy as he is pulled out of his ideal retirement.

The Gameplay

As of right now from start to the current end point of the Alpha it took me around 15-20 hours to complete. Trying to collect all CG’s is 30+ hours. The game apparently is only a Sixth??? Of the way finished.

Its rather simple, you have objectives that you have to meet by certain deadlines. At the presence there’s only three, that are enforced. Which give you plenty of time to complete. To accomplish this, you are given a set amount of move points every week. You are looking for certain places, mines, villages in order to generate items and materials needed for Chaos. You will have a budget which you will use to build rooms that generate certain things for chaos, such as armor, more troops. Whenever you move on the world map an event has a chance to fire. These events vary greatly from fangirls, to getting mugged, you never know. Even after three playthrough’s I keep seeing new events pop up. When you aren’t in the world map you are either in the castle or are out in the world. There are currently two locations outside of the castle that have a number of places you can visit which have a horde of options and text to go through. At the Castle the MC can interact with a number of NPC's who have budding storylines. These storylines all involve sex, along with stat boosts.

RPG Elements

Currently you can only can make choices. As the stat system is currently being reworked. The choices you can that impact the story and how characters interact with each other and you. This is some of the deepest branching choices I’ve seen in a game. Considering how this is only the first Act so far, this system could become the best I’ve ever seen. You can also corrupt Rowan and his wife which increases the level of smut you see.


Smut
There’s a lot. The first one occurs within 4 minutes of the game starting. The second is five minutes later and it branches. You can avoid all sexual encounters in this game and are usually given ample warning as to when one might occur. All scenes are static pictures that are followed by text, I found most scenes that weren’t fetish (I’m vanilla as you can get) to be tasteful. The art quality varies from each artists depiction of the characters on screen. The tags for thread cover just about everything, however some characters have multiple scenes with the MC.


Best concept for a Smut game I’ve seen, I hope it keeps growing and we get the whole Six ACTS.

This game fantastic. You can roam around the map and make choices. Theres inventory and fantasy trade things but not like in an rpgm thats the reason I like so much. Story is interesting. Artwork is beautiful. It will be a unuqie and special game if it will be completed.

Great game, with a lot of love put into it. A bunch of different kinks content options that are generally well signposted so it's pretty clear what you're choosing.

It's still in development, but content releases are regular and explained well. Right now the only (legitimate) ways to ge tthe game are through patreon or steam, and I def think it's worth throwing a few bucks at, but you can check out the older free version to see if it's something you like.

There are a LOT of NPCs. And it can be a bit tough not to fall behind on the Rpg elements if you just horndog around like I usually do, but th world/story is really quite elaborate and there is definitely a full game here besides the sex.

This is my first review of any game so forgive me. With that being said I've played through this game multiple times and I can honestly say it's one of the best H-games I've played. I can feel the amount of love that went into the writing and world-building. The characters are pretty straight forward so far but I feel like they'll start to open up as later builds are released. The sex scenes are very well written with the added effect of influence from the choices you make as the main character. I found myself invested and could feel the pit in my stomach as some of the NTR scenes played out. The collaboration on the art is a great move imo it keeps things fresh and interesting. The open worldness of the game is a little too reliant on RNG and makes some scenes hard to come by. granted this is an early build so of course there are bugs one main thing I wanted to point out was the scene player doesn't update after a certain point. All in all seeds of chaos is definitely one of my favorite narrative-driven H games and I'm excited to see more to come.

Edited for version 0.2.6.1

One of the best h-games I have enjoyed so far.

Pros:

- great storywriting
- great graphics
- great h-scenes, some are animated too
- a lot of different kinks
- ntr is completely avoidable even (but personally like the ntr part)
- interesting and unique characters
- dozens of hours playtime
- they greatly improved the randomness of events

cons:

- still encountered some minor bugs but nothing game breaking and it's fully ok for a game of this size (for example saw events with characters before they've been introduced)
- don't like the level system. It takes a lot of time to even reach 1-2 level and it doesn't feel like you get "stronger". Don't really like the whole rolling die system either. But that system isn't that important imo yet so I wouldn't even substract points for that.
- one of the pros can be a con too. If you only like one kink included in the game it might take some time till there are new scenes you like

Overall one of the best games on this site imo. Especially like how the game handles the Alexia corruption part and can't wait for more Alexia content.

20+ hrs of content but you're probably not gonna like this is if you're not into non-con/dub-con.
Half the game is a VN, the other half is a hexagon-based turn-based overland exploration game.
There are a lot of choices that directly affect the scenes and the story.

Beautiful, yet sometimes inconsistent art. Great NTR progression. High fantasy and well written scenes. Likeable and attractive characters. Tons of options with different outcomes gives it a ton of replayability. Can't wait to see where this goes.

Artwork 5/5
My only complain here is that the scenes drawn by momdadno are a bit too cartoonish for the main theme of this game. The ones done by the other artist (ex. Alexia's Punishment scenes) are much hotter.

Plot 5/5
Usually, a hero being defeated by enemies he can't best marks a "bad end" in other games, but here its just the beginning. The future is uncertain for him and even for us the players.

Dialog and Narration 5/5
In my opinion the highest point for this game. Some scenes are left with a black screen because the artwork hasn't been drawn for them yet, however they are still very much erotic due to the text alone. In fact, even if the whole game was text based it would still be more immersive than the majority of stuff you can find on this site.

Gameplay 3/5
Probably because its not finished yet, but the whole stats/items/mapping is more annoying than it is enjoyable.

Scene Picking 2/5
I would appreciate an easier method to viewing newly added stuff, instead of needing to have 99 saves for each decision on the playthrough so I don't miss anything. And even then the script might break. Console helps in picking scenes to play, or at least would help if the scenes were titled in a way to make it easier for players to know what happens in them.

So the smut is top notch, the gameplay annoying.

First up I loved the smut in this. The art was great. The world and settings great. The build up and heat fantastic. I loved the slow corruption of the wife and things going on in the castle.

But I loathe things with time limits. I want to get out and explore at my own pace. Throw in the movement limit per week, and that fog of war, no way to zoom out on the map, and just getting around and discovering villages and things was a pain. Then all the micromanaging junk for building upgrades and worrying about money coming in, soldiers/military might, what to research ... eventually I just decided to give up, accept I'd fail by week 22 or whatever it was and see what scenes I could get within that time frame... if this had been a visual novel it would have been amazing... I liked how it started in that fashion, but once you were having to explore and be in charge of the castle it all became more hassle than it was worth... also having to go around and click on each of the npc's rooms (including downstairs that I didn't realise existed for a bit) after each week to see if any new events were available was a bit annoying (just give them an exclamation mark or something if there's new stuff to do).

So yeah, I hope progress continues with this, but I shan't be playing it again until there's a full release and hopefully someone's made a mod to go along with it so you can walk about as much as you please, and there's no time limits so you can just advance stuff as and when you like ... because even looking at the tips and stuff linked in the OP it just wasn't worth it... but it's gutting because like I said the smut is phenomenal and that's the only reason it's a 3 not a 1.

This is by far the best true visual novel game I have found and it's not even completely finished yet. It has compelling characters, humor, corruption, darkness and beauty. It is story driven with choices that matter and is filled with distinctly beautiful art. Venus Noire has created something wonderful for fans of grimdark fantasy, corruption and hot housewives fucking minotaurs.

Edit: Fuck it's taking them forever to finish this game. They keep regularly updating and the art is top notch but the amount of characters and choices have gotten out of hand. Still an all time classic but admit I've checked out until they finally finish it.

It's kind of hard to rate this game.
I believe that for some people it can easily be a 5 star game or a 4 star game. The art is nice, maybe among top 5 games here. The story has some potential and the lore is interesting.

The problem for me is that this game is too text heavy. It is like a fat book. To read through it you need about 10 hour. But, unfortunately, it is not a very interesting book - about half of it is about mundane boring unimportant events that add very little to the story or the character development. To top it off, the game seriously lacks pictures compared to the amount of text.

The developers want to cater to gays, males, females, those who like NTR, those who don't - to almost everybody. But as a result, if you are not into some or most of those fetishes, you are going to see even less pictures.

Maybe, it would work better if it was just a visiual novel, but unfortunately, there are a lot of clicking and grind. And so it is kind of difficult to replay the game if you want to see the stuff you missed.

So, overall, a lot of effort was put into this game. It is easy to see. But for now, it is neither a good porno game, nor a general visual novel. In my opinion, you should not play it for now yet. In a few years it can be an amazing game but no now.

The effort really shows in this game. The massive amount of dialogs and detailed references, so much characters and personalities. It is very impressive to see the small changes in dialogs affected by the myriad of past choices and then to have more changes dependent on corruption levels. Aside from a few spelling/grammar error here and there, the art is great and the story, the different small and large events are very immersive. Whether people like the genre/theme or not, there's no denying this is a well paced, interactive, top notched game. Solid.

One of the most inventive games on the website. Avoids most of the cliches and cookie-cutter elements of other games in the medieval fantasy genre. Clearly a lot of time went into the writing and world-building. More attention could be put toward the sex scenes, mostly in the number of renders per scene and scene length, but that comes down mostly to personal preference. I'm very interested to see where the game will go with its development.