Ren'Py - Seeds of Chaos [v0.4.13a] [Vénus Noire]

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.

This is my first review for a game, mainly because this is the first game I felt a need to review.

I love this game. The art style is unique and incredible well done. The game play while at times can be annoying due to the randomness of events is still amazing.

Definitely recommend everyone to give this game a try at least once.

This game is a mixed bag in my opinion. It has tons of good to great art. Dozens of sex scenes. It's an interesting change of pace to most games in this genre. Plus it attempts to cater to a large number of fetishes as well. Finally, there is a lot of promise in the story and setting. However, it fails in the stated goal of letting you play the villain.

The backstory is that the protagonist is a great hero from the last conflict that helped slay the big bad of the age, the Demon Lord Karnas. Yet, the way Rowan is presented, you're going to wonder immediately how he didn't trip over his own feet and kill himself on the march to Castle Bloodmeen back then. Let alone believe he helped kill the Demon Lord.

Rowan is a weak willed and all too submissive character for the backstory we're supposed to buy into. It would be more believable if he was just a veteran of the last war and perhaps a local village hero. At least then the constant beat downs you suffer through against even orcs would be understandable. Oh, and expect a lot of that, because if you try to exert yourself in any way without cheating, you will be punished repeatedly.

You are not a hero or even the villain. Truth is, Rowan is a glorified Steward. He's put in charge of the lands and forces of his betters, the twin spawn of Karnas, and expected to manage them or else. Constant threat of violence, rape, torture, imprisonment awaits, and the Sword of Damocles doesn't just hang over Rowan's head but that of his wife Alexia and the broader realm as a whole.

If you like NTR, gay, femdom, or submissive main characters in general then this game is fully for you. There is a lot of content geared toward those interests, and more power to you. However, if you expect or want to flip the script on the twins and take charge, you're out of luck. I backed this game on Patreon in the past for the promised Overlord route, but in the three+ years of work on the game there has been minimal work toward it. Being able to rebel as a real hero or become the villain and finally impale Andras alive on a spike is a LONG WAY off. Check back in another 3 years.

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.

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!