RPGM - Ren'Py - Shadows of Desire [v0.8] [Shamantr]

v0.2c
I am really impressed with the game so far.

The 3 routes design is great. They are 3 differents NTR subtopics : Cuckold, Cheating, and Blackmail.
Each one seems to really stand out from the others, with a distinct story, unique scenes, and the girl's feelings progressing differently.

The walkthrough helps to navigate through these routes, but it could be made clearer. I would much prefer to be able to find my way directly in game with clearly indicated conversation choices, without alt+tab.

The art is good, the girl is superb.
But animations can be hindered by strange arm/hand movement. And you cannot hide text, altough you have some textfree moments where you can admire the image.

"Antagonists" are tall, muscle, bbc guys.
Boyfriend is weak, but can still have some courage and try to stand his chances.

On a personnal note, it will easily be in my absolute top tier list with a bit more content.
The game don't shy on some roughness (smearing mascara, drugs, dominant words) and that's the best part.

OMG THIS IS AMAZING.

I'm into lewd games since 2019, have played hundreds of games from then to nowday, but the years have passed and almost all the new games I played were just... not exciting enough .
I really wanted something like Summertime Saga, My New Life or Milfy City that got me excited or even euphoric for an update, well, this game accomplish this and with a 10/10, this dude really knows what's hot and how to truly develope everything.

Just hoping to have more quality of life in the future and just keep the quality dude. All the paths system is truly unique but lacks in the needing of an external guide, if this guide is implemented into the game all would be 11/10 even if doesn't make sense.

The renders are all amazing and very proportional, Camila is tied in my first spot with Lucy from MNL and those are big words dude.

You got all my attention from now on and a spot in my favourite games from this site ever (a new pledger too!), congratulations for your amazing game and keep the good job.

Shadows of Desire weaves an intriguing NTR narrative that keeps you on the edge of your seat, exploring human desires and consequences.

I recommend it for anyone into NTR games.
Edited: more amazing updates, and now rated 5 stars.

One of the best games on the site, doesnt take itself to seriously and understands how subtly and facial expressions convey emotions. Good stuff overall. Not sure what more to say except it doesnt contain much padding, unlike this review trying to reach 200 char.

Not my favorite art style, but had nothin else to play so I gave this a go. Overall Id say its average. Just a lot of annoyances that drop it a lot to me. Those things might not bug others so I can understand a higher rating, but for me, it was not great.

I like the basic premise, and even with teh jank animations the scenes I like are good, which is what kept me playing till the end of the current update.

But right out of the gate, the first 30min teh only thing I get to see is the flaccid tiny dick of the cuck, fucking why? There is no reason to shove that in my face.

Then there are all the time waisting mechanics, go click the shiny glowing thing 12 times, go click 10 locker doors, ect. There is no need for all of that, why are you dragging out playtime for boring mechanics that add nothing?

The characters are all adults right, so why are we in highschool? Or if this is supposed to be a university, then why does it operate like a highschool? And why are the teachers dressed slutty? I get that its a porn game, but small stuff like that just breaks any impression. That teacher would be fired on the spot.

It took me a while to find the exit in the basketball court at the start. Many of the exits are not obvious or marked in any way. You sometimes get a small arrow, but not always.

I feel the game wants to hit all the NTR routes at the same time. This makes them all feel poorer in my opinion. Im not a fan of jumping back and forth between the cuck and bull. It just ruins the experience of both routes. If I want Netori im not gonna have a good time playing cuck boy. And if I want Netorare or Netorase I dont want to be controlling the chad.

I think the option on what kind of route cheating or blackmail is good, but it seems only the blackmail route is in the game so far. (unless i messed somthin up)

Not a fan of tatoos either so some of the girls were a major turn off, but thats just more personal preference and not an issue with the game.

Overall, I think im not the target audience for this. I would prefer a mystery Netorare where you control the MC who doesn't find his girl cheating till the end. (Me as the player see all the scenes though).

If you have nothing else to play and are bored, I think its worth a single play through.

I'm sure somewhere in the mind of the developer the plot is consistent, yet despite some visuals, it's not really good. It helps that the story takes itself not really seriously a few times (red eyes), since there're a lot of jumps in character progression and loose ideas.
If you get over the typing (terrible grammar, missing punctuations, smileys—N-word meant as an insult), you may get something out of it or look forward to how it unfolds.
A few mini-games that aren't too bad, even seemingly got a social media element in there—however, RPG-Maker, man. Can you even hide text in this game?

As long as the main characters can actually love Fred and don't immediately turn into sex-driven clichés, it doesn't go too far, which is good.

All in all, it's a whatever-project that seems to have enough elements to make the plot somewhat work. Hopefully, it stays this way & there'll be more consistent stuff.

I really want to like this game but the game mechanics design is awful.

Even after reading the walkthrough, it is so hard to reach a certain path. Like literally need all stars to align.

The renders are great but if trying to get a scene is so so much work, it really isn't worth the effort.

Great start. There are a few bugs and translation needs fixing. Renders are ok however definitely needs more work. I understand the dev doesn't have a decent rig so hopefully he can get something better as he progresses. Good luck

Idk why this game has such high reviews? The plot, renders, etc are fine and the spanish to english machine translation isn't a problem ether. My main gripe is that this is yet another rpg maker game aimed at wasting your time.

e.g. theres a point in the game where a guy asks you to count bushels in the school yard. Walking over there and seeing them and coming back and giving him an answer should have been enough. BUT NO you have to walk and click on all 17 of them before you can leave. Theres nothing plot related to this, its not fun to do in itself. Its just filler.
Theres a bunch of other little things like that in the game walking back and forth clicking on things and going through menus and you could argue that its for realism or some bullshit, but not this.

Its not fun walking around for no reason or fiddling through slow menus. You end up just holding down the skip button because its all so tedious and then you miss some dialog and you have no way to look back.
You get the feeling this was made by yet another "game designer" that doesnt play games themselves.


Or better still use renpy,or flash or something else and make this game a visual novel/point n' click.

0.2v

Still early stages but such a great potential, so much work done in terms of structure that will shine in the near future, i really like were this is going.

3 different paths that it will be a real challenge for the developer but very well thought-out it seems. this game has unique characters but time well spent in the right places, girls look really good nice poses and expressions that is what it matters for me.

For the moment only three complaints:

- For the people that want to explore all of the three paths, we need more visual ques in game, is really easy right now to lose yourselve and mix choices of different paths and this can lead us to break the game, and it would be perfect that in the save file you could see which path are you following. This is the biggest issue for me, but it can be fixed in the future, I ask for a lot here, I know, game development is hard, but I have hope as is early in development to upgrade this part,

- Too fast animations, even if the dev gave me the same loops but at 0,5 speed it would be awesome.

- the hard R's, yeah i understand the premise of the game it suppose to be over the top but i don't know I see as and old thing and it threw me of a little, the MC can show anger to the "antagonists" in different ways.

The engrish is terrible and the story feels so lost, you are going from task to task with no correlation. There are plenty of games that do the cheating/cucking better and have better art that aren't on rpg maker. Go play those instead. Maybe when this is finished over a year from now I'll look at the scenes and change my mind but so far this is hot garbage.

I cannot for the life of me understand why this got such a high score. The English translation and grammar is so incredibly bad it's almost impressive.

The art is kinda dull and the facial expressions are a bit exaggerated.

In regards to the story it's so simple it feels like a 14 year old wrote it.

All in all it's disappointing, and the reviews scoring this a 5/5 are just baffling.

Really good game, alot of potential here. I liked the pace of the narrative, the visual of the girl and I also liked how there are several paths and variables that can change your narrative, so everyone can find the NTR narrative style they like best (I personally really like cheating, but I'm not a fan of blackmail the girl. But I'm sure other people think differently than me, so adding different routes in the game was a great idea. Just be careful with any bugs that can happen if the player mixes different routes).

I hope we see more animations in the future, as the dev evolves, rather than just pictures.

Good start, games look promising, the content is great, i will be sure to keep looking for the new updates. RPG maker is not my favorite engine, but the game delivers. If you are into IR, cucking and NTR this game shows promise.

The game is very good, it could have a mark on the choices saying which way you could be going and it would also be interesting if in the future it involved more mc family members, such as mother, sisters, aunt, cousins, etc. Congratulations on the great job.

v0.1
this game has lots of potential.
i love how mc girlfriend looks.
the story is good too
and i love the part about how you need to work to get money or your girlfriend will find a job its make the game more realistic
i give it 5/5
Dev pls work hard on this game \^o^/

Pretty great start. Very much looking forward to seeing more BBC NTR! The girl is very cute, and I can't wait to see her abused in different ways. Good choice for a boyfriend as well, always nice to see the size difference between BBC and a small white one.

I'm giving this a 5 but please author lose the hard R. You're not English so I'm completely understanding of the cultural misunderstanding but it's very disrespectful and even Black people don't use the hard R.

Otherwise hot damn this looks great and I'm pumped for some updates! Gonna wait for a couple before I start putting money towards my guy here but I feel like my wallet is gonna be 3$ lighter every month eventually!

Pros:
3 path for most ntr lovers; sharing, blackmail, cheating (my fav and super pumped to see!!)
EXCELLENT models. Not too cartoony and there is a clear reason other than dick size why the fmc is attracted to the antagonist (which is shown right from the start and isn't because of sex skills. Major emotional plus!)
FMC has agency and is in love with her man BUT you see the existing cracks in the relationship and where someone more emotionally stable like the antagonist is alluring to her.
Dialogue, other than the hard R stuff (that I will remove if he removes accordingly), makes sense and you see and feel the different cultures. The black talk is quite obviously turned up to 10 but my mans got rizz so it's alright... for now.
MC has potential to be a decent person but you definitely see where he lacks even when you choose to be the best version of him. He got the girl by literally being first in line and has held on cause others just didn't approach her cause they're waiting for them to break up. My man ain't waiting so it makes sense why now she falls.

Cons:
Kind racist with some hard R dialogue but the writer's main language is Spanish so I'm imagine there is some loss in translation. Spanish has the word Negro for black so I understand the familiarity with it. just replace the er with a and we good man.
Maybe tone down the black speak too tho. Funny for a bit but as the story goes on I imagine it's gonna get old.
MC's model looks... dead? Gray? Something is off. Everyone else looks great! (Especially the fmc in the sneak peek artwork hot DAMN those eyes). Just the MC looks weird to me.
Short - not really a complaint yet and more of a compliment at this stage. I want it to be 1.0 not 0.1 cause damn this prologue was HOT. The tension, the conflict, the legit characterization of antagonist and FMC, etc.

A little exaggerated in terms of race play and character behavior, lmao, but otherwise kinda entertaining with selection of paths. CGs are okay too. If you like those kind of games - give it a chance. It has potential.

I really liked the idea presented, I prefer the path of cheating, of hidden netorare. Seems to have great potential, I just hope the amount of routes doesn't detract from the quality of the game. The girlfriend model is very hot, I hope to see a lot of teasing too.