RPGM - Ren'Py - Shadows of Desire [v0.5b EA] [Shamantr]

The art is great. Lovely. Very appealing I don't mind rpgm. It keeps me investing in stead just clicking and reading away, Distraction.

Story is messy. Written like nonsense. Almost dumb. Gameplay mechanics and resources become completely useless and irrelevant.

Need a lot work in the story. Maybe even a ret con. Game needs to follow a main goal so it feels more like a game. 3 stars. Good luck.

The game is graphically fantastic, its setting and the expressions of its characters are 10/10, I understand that it is one of the author's first games and I personally think that it has a very high level, and it is unfair that they give it Bad marks just for being an ntr game, in the first game I do feel that Camila's personality is very different but it is positive since this version is a little more realistic, and in the other game she needed to be more flirtatious since it was a shorter game and a version alternative.

Haven't played all yet but a masterpiece so far.
The game has a bit of building up and running around in the beginning. Yet it's a cool story and it doesn't really feel like way too much of a pain. A bit at school like someone mentioned.
I also appreciate NTR RPGM games. When you approach that door with a heart sign on it, there is a feel to that.
Great hot girlfriend.
Would have preferred if words like <removed> and such were excluded but I'm not that picky about it and it's not overly used either.
That routes were marked better, like maybe with colors or something.

Definitely worth 4 stars at least for any NTR fan. So far I'm giving it 5. Could change when I've played more but I highly doubt it.

Also there are three routes explained, all that leads to NTR, 1 cuckold, 2 cheating 3 blackmail.

If you're not in to NTR, this is a hard pass for you.

Also one thing this game does better than most, is the sound. Sad music and heart beats and such. It really adds to the tension and atmosphere.
I hope more devs will copy that.

Although it is rough around the edges, this is actually what I might call an NTR masterpiece. It was clearly made with soul. Artist really did a good job with Camilla, she is so beautiful. I think that RPGmaker combined with rendered art gives the game a unique vibe.

The language needs amendments as it is in broken English from a Spanish speaker.

I'm sure it's been said a bunch but I love this main female character. Camilla. Beautiful, innocent and eager for corruption. Weak boyfriend getting fooled and cucked with humorous dialogue and events. However racially charged it makes for great taboo. Only thing that could make it better is a more complete game. Not sure if a bug but V 3.0 I began to get error messages towards seemingly the end of Birthday party. Gonna have to peep this patreon for exclusive content cause it's hot.

I don't know if it's just me, but the girlfriend is the most attractive character in all the netorare I've played. If this is just me, the author and I probably have interconnected minds.

Talking serious. The corruption is slow and good, the rpg is a little slow in the school part but the rest of the game works well. The girlfriend's expressions are incredible, I have no words

EDIT 2: 3.5 stars from a previous 2 stars. Latter half of the game would be 4.5-stars on the cheating path alone, grading on an f95Zone porn-game curve. But the other paths & earlier content drag that down considerably.

It's really just the cheating path that gets good. Cuck path has a couple of genuinely great visual scenes in chapter 5 but plausibility & plot are hot trash. lol. Blackmail path is also very uneven & less hot than the other two. At its best parts: Hotter than any individual scene by EvaKiss. As a whole: Wildly uneven and can definitely use some trimming & focus for quality. Dev definitely has some very strong talents and skills though, seen in bursts of great quality in-between much poorer stretches. If he can add more focus to his game/story design & improve on his weak-points I can see his next game being pure dynamite. Or alternately a retcon at the end of development on this game with his newly developing skills to fix visual sore-points, condense focus and sharpen the story for plausibility.

Edit: PREVIOUSLY TWO STARS: Gave this another shot for the Chapter 5 Renpy release. Marked improvement brings it from 2 stars to 3.5. If earlier chapters get a BIG writing rework when converted to Renpy & the male (especially black) faces are improved to not look ridiculous, this could become a 5-star (for a porn game) title.

Faces of the black male characters in the latest chapter are still cringeworthy at parts, with the white-guy-painted-brown effect from certain angles & lighting, namely in the hair texture/color, eyes, cheeks & brow ridge, which is a huge pet peeve for me. Though still a marked improvement from early chapters. Another character also has a huge body & tiny-ass head. Plus white male MC is still weird looking. Yet the female characters for the most part are designed well. Writing in early chapters also still awful & will hopefully be cleaned up when those get converted to Renpy.

REASON FOR EDIT: Despite the above, everything from the writing to the graphics are a marked improvement, if still not perfect. The female characters - especially the main LR - are of super-hot design and Renpy is a much more palatable format. I'm truly hoping the dev focuses on the male characters' heads, faces and hair because it's still just such a huge sore spot in a game that's really stepped it up in all other ways.
Honestly, the final sex scene of Chapter 5 is about the hottest I've seen in one of these games which is another huge reason for this edit. The skill & talent is there & the dev has put a lot of effort in to improve. both writing and graphics (or maybe got some help). It's still just very uneven at times. Hoping more support will help the dev work out the flaws in the game.
______________________________________________ Original Impression from RPGM
Very poor writing: Dialogue, motivations & interactions are completely implausible. It's as if written by someone who has never had a relationship or even regular day-to-day interactions with other human beings. There isn't even the thinnest iota of writing ability here.

Poor format: RPGM makes absolutely no sense for this sort of game. User going from point A to point B adds nothing but time-waste here. There are no relevant functions where RPGM would be apt. No battling or equipment/item management. This would be better in RenPy.

Very poor graphics/design: On top of the grossness that is MC's hair, a variety of characters are weird or unnatural looking. Facial expressions are ridiculous as well. Pet peeve that's the absolute worst: Dev just picked a Caucasian Das3d model & painted him brown, putting an afro on him. It looks just as described. Why, when you can get free models with African facial features on F95Zone? This just makes me thing it was due to sheer laziness & no care for quality whatsoever. The model looks ridiculous.

Even if you like the fetishes/scenarios this game aims for, it's a waste of time. Unless you have absolutely no standards for quality whatsoever & your capacity for suspension of disbelief is retard-strength.

This game is really interesting because it allows you to play the cuckold and the bull. Graphically it's not the most beautiful game but the author knows where he wants to go and makes players want to see the transformation of Cami and Fred.
I think that in terms of humiliation he can go even further. Afterwards what would be good is to give the player the choice of transforming Fred either into a loser or into a big alpha male after having ingested a pill

I would really like to rate it higher as i do like the idea of the game aswell as the designes of the female characters and the overall story.
However what i don't like is this generic stupid MC with little dick, the concept of girls who turn into rad sluts just by seeing a bigger dick and unfortunately the poor game mechanics of this game.
I like RPG games, but this one better be a renpy game because the running and minigames just aren't fun.
I don't see the point in making this a RPG Maker game, cause there are no elements ingame that would justify this decision.
On top of that, the animations aren't particularly good (to me). Really (!!) hoping for some major improvements and i will gladly come back to this game if they are made.

This game possesses a rare potential seldom found elsewhere. Granted, one must truly appreciate this genre or be willing to embrace the fact that Black men predominantly take the spotlight, and that the protagonist's girlfriend and surroundings inevitably succumb to corruption. This game may not be suitable for those unwilling to accept these aspects.

What makes this game exceptional is its captivating storyline that never grows dull, coupled with a gradual escalation of character sexualization. Some characters are already corrupted, offering a glimpse of what awaits the Female Main Character (Cami) later on. With various routes offering entirely different narratives and scenes, SoD is perfect for those who appreciate a non-rushed experience. Personally, I prefer the Cheating Path, and towards the end of the 0.3b update, I genuinely felt my heart race. It's been a while since I haven't just skipped through to the sex scenes; I was genuinely engaged and eagerly followed the game's development. And with each update, it only gets better.

For those seeking an emotionally challenging story and for those who appreciate beautifully crafted renders, this game has something to offer. I highly recommend trying out the public version at least once before delving into the official and high-quality Patreon versions..

Simple the best game I've played since years

Just try it except if you really hate ntr

Characters are well designed (Jason the mad and the GF are awesome) story is a bit crazy but in a funny way, dialogs are great, animation are not perfect but enjoyable, and there is a lot of little details (like sound, face expressions, decors) that make the difference and feel like the dev is putting a lot of effort on it.

The only thing that I would like is to have a better help to understand exactly which path I'm taking. Cant wait for the next updates!

spent HOURS playing this on the cuckold route and I must say the Dev focused way too much on the story rather than the sex scenes. Seriously, at this point, the game might aswell be a SFW game by ripping out the badly made sex scenes and just focus on telling the story completely

The advantage of the game is the variability. You can choose three paths, each with its own storyline and events. But you should not expect any seriousness and thoughtfulness from you. Personally, I'm not a fan of the BBC, but I liked the visualization of the characters. The scenes look good, and after a small "remake", the smoothness and quality of the animation have improved. The gameplay is not complicated, go there, go here, and the stage is yours. I will also consider small mini-games for Fred as a plus. But since this is an RPGM, there may be some bugs and broken scripts, but all this is promptly fixed. The potential of the game is great, Shaman commands my respect.

I love this game, everything is good, the story, the graphics everything. No more games like that! The cheating side is so good, more development on that side. The rpg side is meh, it's long and difficult to explore everything but the characters make up for it.

This is by far one of the best NTR games out there.
Story & Plot - Well thought of and written
Renders - Great
Sound - Great and thrilling
Content - good amount every update

With the white girl and black guy, this added another level of spice in the NTR category.

i have to leave a review for how overall disappointing this is, so far just a giant build up to be let down in the end, no actual ending scene, very weird pointless animated scenes, full character shots instead of heads and body would be way better, the writing is obviously been translated using google and should have be double checked with how nonsense it gets at times, there is too much pointless running around for just a tiny bit of content, i would suggest focusing on one route at a time instead of having 3 that have hardly any decent content. don't listen to the 5 star reviews unless you just like the idea of being a bbc cuck that is the only draw here.

great game overall, the best part is Camilla's model, she looks SO hot, the hair and her looks are definetly the highlight (her ass too of course), my only complains are the stereotypical speech between the black ppl in the game (it got better as the game advances except jason's friend) the corruption is a nice burn pace, nothing outrageus but also not really realistic (its an hentai game, no need for that because if it goes too hard it goes to the boring side) great blacked themes, lot of games try but fail spetacularly at the execution, looking foward for the next updates

probably the first great BNWO game ever made, which is crazy considering how many there are. Maybe it doesn't deserve the 5 because it's RPGM, but I'm extremely biased. If you are okay with stepping out of vanilla NTR (yes that's a real sentence) And getting into some messed up shit, this is a masterpiece. Renders might not be for everyone taste, but they are pretty much perfect for me as well. I was going to spew on some shit about how I like the camera work and tension building in the scenes, but felt instant disgust at myself for even typing in the words (it's true though don't @ me)

edit: it's not RPGM anymore, mankind has truly peaked

In my opinion this game is in the top 3 of Ntr games out right now. Every character has a unique trait that makes them believable to the story being told. It also contains Ntr in the form of phone calls, text messages, face time and there's even an app where you can see the corruption going on.

The male protagonist although weak and a simp in some routes the player has the option to fight back against the antagonists which is very interesting if you like that. Or you can just pick the best routes to really destroy his life and lose everything and everyone around him.

The antagonists are borderline psychopaths who have no problems going to the extremes to get what they want. Evil but charismatic to say the least.

The female protagonist together with all the other females in the game are amazingly and beautifully well done and in some cases other females can take the limelight out of the main girl.

Now to the developer Shamandev, although it's his 1st ever game it's really amazing how he keeps in touch with his supporters either over Patreon or Discord he will interact with them on the daily, Sneak peeks, polls and votes are pretty much done every week without a fail. Updates are usually 1 month apart. Trust me when i say he is the hardest working Ntr developer right now.

Good for being the creator's first game, it's fine, but there are things to improve.
1 Even when playing with the guide there are scenes that you miss.
2 the character of the mother seems very unattractive to me, dry skin and there is nothing attractive about her face.
Be careful, I'm not complaining, just giving an opinion, I think that as the game progresses the creator will improve for the better and I trust.
I liked the recent update. success to the creator