Ren'Py - SexNote [v0.24.0c] [JamLiz]

SexNote [v0.24.0b]

I usually enjoy games in this genre, especially those that feature a harem of hot MILFs for a young main character. But this one is a disappointment on multiple levels:

The gameplay is painfully repetitive, full of unnecessary grind and constant time skipping. To progress with any character, the MC has to interact with them at very specific times of the day. The quest design is deliberately grindy, but it doesn't create a sense of real progression — it just serves as artificial padding to slow the player down until the next scene unlocks.

The storytelling is downright bad. There’s no believable narrative at all. It already starts off weak with the MC being raised by two supposedly lesbian MILFs, who are suddenly willing to sleep with him later on. The game doesn’t even try to make it plausible, aside from a half-baked ‘magic’ excuse.

There’s no convincing arc behind any of the seductions either. It’s all just mechanical: grind through time skips, perform repetitive tasks, and then —out of nowhere — a sex scene happens. Then it’s back to grinding / time skipping, then another random scene. It's obvious this game lacks any real writing talent behind it.

And if that wasn’t enough, the latest version of the game [v0.24.0b] has a serious progression bug: if you go too far with Lisa’s story, Jane's progression — one of the main LIs — becomes completely inaccessible, making it impossible to finish her storyline.
I reported this politely (!) on the official Discord bug report chanel, but instead of acknowledging it, the developer had my message deleted.
Rather than fixing a game-breaking issue, they chose to censor feedback.

If the visuals were at least genuinely erotic, some of the game's flaws might be forgivable — but even that potential is wasted. The art style leans far too heavily into an exaggerated cartoon design, often drifting into the absurd and completely unrealistic. It comes off as more ridiculous than arousing — especially with the fairy characters, though they're far from the only offenders.

In the end, what could have been a fun and sexy experience is completely undermined by an over-the-top cartoon art style, bad writing, tedious gameplay, broken progression / game breaking bugs — and a dev more focused on protecting his ego than fixing the game.

pretty banal quests and gameplay, go there and bring it and collect hypnosis pieces, I don't know why everyone liked it so much, but the art is nice and there are also a lot of characters and well-crafted, there are also a couple of good points, I liked it.

Terrible and not worth your time, especially since it's now been abandoned.

Amateurish animations
Childish graphics and writing
Poor navigation

Startup contains tons of quickly flashing images which is harsh on folks with seizure issues. Would be nice if that could be skipped....but you can't.

Just skip it..

1) Confliction with Belle and Olivia. Belle event can only start if you start it on an earlier version of the game.
2) Latter events are more repetitive.
3) Weird artstyle
4) "Fast", "Faster" - what's the point.
5) not enough moresomes for a harem game.

This game could improve and get at least a 4, with the correction of some significant flaws.
1. The artwork is inconsistent and it doesn't look like much effort was put into it. We're all pretty familiar with the backwards spelling issues from mirroring characters but it looks like different artists drew the usual characters versus the sex scenes and animations. Suddenly the girls get much larger and are barely recognizable from their usual selves. And some of the ahegao faces actually look much more like the character is trying to keep from sneezing.
2. Ah yes, sex scenes. With few exceptions they are all "Faster/Faster/Cum". there's no point in slower or keep going other than to see the text again, which might be necessary since scroll-back is disabled. If the developer wanted to do something different, require the players to go through some extra steps in response to the character responses to get to the climax ("Oh, baby, let me catch my breath" --> click Slower) but as is they're pretty much standard repeated dialogue and just get through the three button clicks.
3. Bad grammar. It looks like this game was originally done in Spanish and then ported to poor English. Please someone, teach these text porters how to say "I am thinking about going" rather than "I am thinking to go".
4. Typos and inconsistencies. Character name changes/typos go unchecked even after numerous updates.
5. Missing images. But at least it handles the missing images instead of doing a screen dump.
6. Poor pacing/Difficult sandboxing. Although the game is supposed to be a sandbox game, many of the events are: Brixxia wants you to take care of Mia first. Mia wants you to take care of Linnet first. Ruby wants you to take care of Linnet, Olivia wants you to take care of Linnet. OK, so it's really a linear game here where we need to do Linnet before we can do much else.
7. Bad event triggering. Some tasks, like "See Mia at school in the morning" don't fire when you go to school in the morning, but will fire a day or two later.
8. Conflicting tasks. Although there are, technically, 3 periods in each day, most of the events need to happen in the afternoon, and several of the morning events take all day. Afternoon events can be ask simple as communicating a task is finished and being told there will be another one tomorrow --- and suddenly it's night. Which means you will probably only get one event per day. It seems as if the developer thinks he's getting paid by how many day's you go through. Thankfully time is meaningless since two characters will both tell you you need to do something for them "tomorrow" at the same time, but you can even do it 3 weeks later.
9. Overly grindy. The initial minigame or collecting magic is fine but having to clean the church N times, study with Mike N times, decorate the church 2N times, fix the shower 2N times, deliver or screw up deliveries 2N times, without appreciably advancing the story, supports the theory that the developer thinks he's paid by making your character sleep between events.
10. Non-responsive/Laggy timed minigames. I don't have this problem with other Ren'py games but this one does not respond quickly when clicking tiles and images, meanwhile the timer is running down. Sometimes if you click twice, the image will select and then unselect. The developer should put in a SKIP button for most of these minigames.
11. The game is presented as "Living with two adoptive mothers and stepsister" but there is not an actual no-incest option. It's all incest.
12. And some of the characters (e.g. Mrs. Jones) would only be appealing to a very small segment of society but you can't skip them.

On the other hand, the story could be reasonably fun and amusing. The plot aside from the tropes is not overused and can be interesting.

This game has gone from one of the better examples of what a vn could be, to a generic grind fest with zero appeal. Worth a download, just to play the early content that was written fairly well and beautifully animated.

Gameplay - 1/5
Again, this game has become a complete grind fest. New scenes are locked behind repetitive clicks with a complete lack of a novel experience.

Animations - 4/5
Always been a strong point of this game. Not strong enough to hold the rest of the game up, though.

Story - 1/5
I would've reviewed this higher within the first year of development. The last few updates have been so bad and devoid of a plot that I considered putting 0/5 but felt that wouldn't be true to the game as a whole.

Overall - 2/5
Animated well enough to be a standalone animation. But the repetitive gameplay aspects and writing really drag it down.

This game made me fall back in love with visual novels. Plot was definitely a major part I give it 4 stars. So many characters for the MC in the story to talk to. Game really reminds me of my early days on Nutaku

I don't know why the rate is this "low" 3/5 is low for the quality it has.
It's content rich, has a lot's of characters and scenes and the art is one of the best in this forum. It is grindy sometimes, but that's the only bad thing i can think about this game.
Highly recommend.

Ok, this game is not excellent, there are plenty of things to criticize. But at the end of the day, it is a very sexy game, I love the art style and the animations. And I find the story quite engaging, though incomplete.
The worst part is the grind sandbox, but oh well...

If you want a more deep sex game this is not for you, but if you just want some sexy fun maybe you'll like this.

I've played this game a few times when it's been updated and always keep forgetting I did. The character all the way on the left of the banner is the only recognizable one from in the game, but she's pretty small so it's easy to forget.

The grind is really rough. The art is nice for the most part. There's not really a great overarching story, although there is something. It feels more like sandbox and most plays that way, with events that are time specific and quite annoying to trigger. Lots of checking your journal and having to do a ton of steps that you can only do during the day, and then skipping time periods. The number if LIs is both a strength and a weakness, obviously a strength in variety but the weakness is more to grind.

Eventually you'll probably reach a point where you'll just want to unlock all the scenes, watch what you want, and then delete the game. In previous versions unlocking was tricky, now I think it's just included in the game as a simple gallery unlock all button. So if you mistakenly grab this again like I've done, at least it's going to be quick.

I do genuinely like this game. Every time a new update comes out, I start from scratch, and then, unfortunately, remember what a grind most of the characters require. And when you can only advance most characters during the morning or daytime, there's a lot of, "Scene, bed, skip time, scene, bed" and it does get exhausting. This grind makes sense for the mom and the sister, and would be perfect if there were only a few love interests in the game, but there are like.. 20? Possibly more. I do love the art and Imma keep playing, but damn it takes forever.

Horribly inconsistent art through most of the game, almost like 10 people drew the images. The animations are pretty boring, the gameplay is a grind, there isn't a ton of variety to the sex animations, either. MC has the dumbest, dead-pan experssion on his face at all times.

The writing isn't the worst I've seen, but it's quite boring and there are several spelling/grammar mistakes in the game.

Pirate it, fap or don't, but definitely not worth the money at all.

This one is great! i love to game.\

I can see various protagonists in this game and

I don't get why many people are negative on this game.

I love the newest engine too!

nice artwork. but i am sad that this game is abandoned

Lost its potential. so mine is 4

Hi,

First of all the game is a bit oriented incest, so be aware of that.


Pros and Cons of SexNotes

Pros:

- Extensive content offering a broad range of sex scenes and mechanics.

- Open-world sandbox encourages exploration.

- Well made animations and good art overall.

- The grind is not abusive.

Cons:

- Lack of a coherent narrative or objectives leads to an aimless gameplay experience.

- Absence of sound design diminishes the emotional impact and charm of sex scenes.

- The vast content feels superficial, lacking depth and engagement.

- Inequal quality of arts and animations between some content.

- The grind can be kind of boring sometimes.

NB: The game is in progress since 2019

Version tested of the review : v0.21.0

Okay, first this game is very incest based, awesome!

I think that the relationship with the blonde lady should have been another older sister or a aunt not a lover of the mother?!?

The relationships evolution is superficial and not deep, not thought enough.

But what makes this game very good is the freaking graphics, awesome marketing, awesome art, awesome animation, they really know how to make the coomer take their wallet out.

Good job overall.

This game is just straight ass, but not in a good way. The dialogues are terrible, characters have 0 personality and the game is grind after grind, you have to repeat the same boring thing 5 times just to unlock a scene. I just don't give 1 star to this because the animations are good, i guess.

Okay Game 2/5, Graphics the only thing keeping me to playing this game.

The graphics are Phenomenal, But MC is the one i hate the most. Like damn, MC is like Saint among Saints Goody 2 Shoes that can't do anything wrong. Like he has no emotions.

The Miss Mia storyline was the one that broke the camels back for me. She treats you like actual garbage and when you see Denzel putting her in her place, MC is now supposed to help her and act like nothing ever happened. Like Bro.....WHO WROTE THIS STORYLINE? AT THIS POINT I EXITED THE GAME AND DELETED IT.

This is the problem with 80% of VN Games. You can't be evil. Only a Few Allow you to be.

and the Storylines are mostly dragged out. Like why do i have to go clean up the church 6 times when i can do it 1-3 times?

I don't even know what to write about this because nothing really stands out apart from the parody characters. The writing is pretty weak and everything is dragged out, story lines that should take five scenes to complete will go on for 15 or 20. For example, in order to bang not-Hinata Hyuga's mom you spend almost a half dozen scenes fixing a water line.

All the game has going for it is the parody characters, other than that it's the bog-standard VN where you click (and you'll be clicking quite a lot) until you hit a sex scene.

My Rating: 2/10

Story: ★★★☆☆
Dialogue: ★★★★☆
Grammar: ★★☆☆☆
How well it plays: ★★★★★
Art Style : ★★★★★
Animations: ★★★★☆
Sex Scenes: ★★★★✩
Quantity of Girls: ★★★★☆
Replayablity: ★★☆✩✩

You must be wondering, why did I rate this a 2/10.

Why?

One word: Dominatrix

I honestly wanted to wait until this game was completed, and give it a nice 9/10, because that was the direction it was heading. I wanted to say nice words, and rate it fairly.

The moment I stepped into the step-mothers route... everything I had enjoyed from the game up to that point was quickly replaced with disappointment.

Pros
Good art
Above average animation
Lots of different girls
Some niche picks like GILF
Pretty easy to get into the good stuff

Neutral
Wasn't a fan of some of the women's faces, but that's subjective

Cons
Basically all the same body type
Lots of fetch quests and they almost all overlap times so you can't really progress with more than one girl a lot of the time
Buggy at least on mobile, I got a lot of crashes when exiting the gallery as well as losing a bunch of scenes in my gallery randomly despite regular saves.

Overall I like the game and it has a lot of good content, but there are just a few kinks to be ironed out before it's ready to be a perfect product.