Ren'Py - Shattered Minds [v0.18 Beta] [eXtasy Games]

Literally just saw the thumbnail in the latest updates while browsing, typically not a ren py game person, but damn am I glad I clicked on this and dl'd it to give it a chance! Best game I have played on this site in quite a while honestly. Lot of content for new player like me. No bugs encountered. Good models. Decent writing. I played for like 12 hours! Excellent!

Even though the idea of mind control isn't new, this game's story presents it in an interesting way. I've read a lot of stories like this, but most of them didn’t have a strong foundation, so they ended up feeling boring. This game is mainly a sandbox, and while you shouldn't expect Shakespeare-level storytelling, that’s actually a good thing in my opinion. The developers clearly focused on the sandbox aspect, which pays off.

One problem I see in many games is that developers can’t decide whether to make a sandbox or a visual novel, and switching between the two usually ruins the experience. But in this case, the developers stuck to one style and slowly built on it, which makes the game more enjoyable.

Also, the overall quality is high, especially compared to many other games. The animations are impressive, and you can really see how much effort went into making everything.

Most importantly, the writing is solid and easy to understand.


In conclusion, this is a well-made sandbox game, and I definitely recommend it.

This is a top tier game if you are are a story driven sandbox game.

Warning, if you don't like incest, mind control, harems, and pregnancy then this game will not be your jam. Similarly this game is a sandbox with some grind. If you don't like that again this will not be for you.

I want to start off praising the dev here. A lot of adult games develop in a slow trickle bouncing around characters and story ideas which leads the game to feel disjointed and chaotic. Since this is a sandbox things can be done out of order but it's smart enough to maintain that certain things have to be done to progress the overall story or a particular character. Due to each patch being a focus on 1 love interest it means the story feels complete and fleshed out which is a real plus. Similarly it feels like scope creep feels limited here which is another huge issue for most games on this site.

The characters are well designed and likeable enough, with some being particularly interesting. No one overstays their welcome and due to it being a sandbox story it doesn't feel the worst when you don't interact with someone for a while. The only negative here is you can easily blast through a character's content you really like and then they are in their post game state for a long while. I think it's fair to say most love interests are secondary outside of your family and a few others as they don't feature much in the overall plot (which is totally fine).

Sex scenes are good with a variety of poses and good animations.

Overall story is engaging too. No complaints. Its interesting and does the job of setting up sexy scenarios well. Mind control is an easy I win button for writing as the love interests clearly don't have the mental leap of why they are happy being in the world's largest harem.

This is a very good standard for sandbox story games to meet.

Reviewed version: 0.17

This game is right up my alley! Incest (or not, if you so prefer), pregnancy, beautiful art with hot animations (some can even be viewed from two angles), a nice variety of girls (both in appearance and personality) and an intriguing main plot full of twists.

The game also becomes more and more of a sandbox as you progress, which is exactly what I like.

Not only that, there is already a huge amount of content for version "0.17", and the developer seems to be very professional about keeping the updates coming as promised.

Bought it on Steam and also became a supporter!

What is there to criticize? Not much, tbh, but no game is perfect:

• Once "subdued", most girls become rather generic. I would suggest adding some (potentially repeating) special content for each girl where they approach you with suggestions, or can be assigned to manage some part of your real estate empire, etc. They also need more lines about their pregnancy status, babies born, the other girls in your harem, your main plot progression, real estate empire, etc.
• The minigames are generally not very fun and should either be simplified/cut or reworked.
• Some "side" girls (like Leah) are way hotter than most main girls and should be developed further.
• Sofia (your mom/landlady) needs more fleshing out, both as a person and in terms of general impact and usefulness to you.
• Some key people in town (police chief, mayor?) should pick up on your ongoing corruption of the women and your growing daycare brood, with associated storylines.
• When a pregnancy is completed, you should get more information about which girl gave birth (or produced mind points) , and she should react to it at least to some degree, at least the first time(!)

Anyway, in my book, this is one of the top 5 porn games in existence (not counting modded mainstream games.)

This game was really fun
Sometimes a little repetitive, it would be cooler if there was more contact between the girls
But it's really cool to master everything
I hope they release more games like this
200 characters is a lot

quite Amazing! I didn't know this game can be so much mind control. I believe it will be better if more girls are included. Some tits are just too large, making them hard for some people to stand. Anyway, keep up the good ones, hope there will be more.

Great game. One of the best for free roam, satisfactory quests and nice variety of girls. Walkthrough implemented if u stuck, cheats as well if u struggle. Highly recommended for new and experienced players. Quite addicting in my opinion.

I found the first 15 minutes of the game boring, but when I learned the game system it only got better. The game hooked me like few others have, I like the story and I like the character design, it's a fairly long game with many sub-plots.

The only downside I could put is that I miss longer and more varied animations.

Highly recommended

Review 0.17

TLDR :
Honestly this has some nice ideas, like different personalities for the LI's depending on your choice, inviting them to live with you, pregnant and breeding....but it's just mind blowing boring, grindy and the story is neglectable.

Longer version:
There's barely any main story, what is there isn't all that interesting either.
The LI's don't feel interesting in any way, have not much of a personality and their path/story are not particular interesting either.
In some cases the story just stops in the middle, like with the mother, than you can grind to raise her corruption and suddenly she jumps on the MC's dick...she has so far the worst storyline from the LI's.

When they are corrupted you can choose between 3 personalities, which make barely any difference (like there is just a few words difference between gf and servant). Really a wasted opportunity.
Overall when you have finished their paths and they are corrupted, there really isn't anything interesting happening, or things you can do with them.
You can call them to have sex and see the same 3 sex positions over and over and over again that's it.

You can also invite them to live with you...so you can see them at your home, no new events or scenes thought.
Also the LI's aren't really interacting or acknowledging each other.

The sex scenes are short, have like 2 angles per position and there isn't much talking or anything.
Sex scenes are unlocked along their paths, when you have corrupted them you can replay them as much as you like.
There are like 4 of them per LI, hj/bj and missionary/doggy/cowgirl that is the same for all girls, thought the scenes are a bit different.
If they are pregnant you are limited to one position like cowgirl and hj...when they have a big belly you can't have sex anymore....like man, big bellies are the appeal if you like preggo sex....

Just to make it clear, i didn't unlock all LI's, after 5 i really lost all interest to play further.

There also some ''side girls'', or more like random girls, like the one in the coffee shop. You can corrupt them too, which takes forever and is rewarded with a sex scene (like 5 or 6 renders, no animations)...

Overall a really boring game, with a lot of annoying and unnecessary grind.
The good ideas, like the personality system or breeding sytem are pointless at the moment. There is really nothing to do with the girls after you corrupted them either.

This has got to be the most braindead game I've played in the last 8 years.

The game starts off decently, you get a believable house and family members, they look decent as well. But that's where the positives end.

There are like three parts or stages of your progress.
The inital start and build up with the characters, mainly the mom and sister, promises you, but the more you play the worse it gets. For example, once you finish the first part of the mom storyline, which is basically where most of plot ends, you get a sudden block, where you you are locked from continuing by another character, the sister. You have to finish her questline and entire story so you can continue even corrupting the mom. Now in the 2nd stage, you have to corrupt them... By doing the same thing over, and over, and fucking over again. The scenes while doing those aren't even worth anything, just the most basic 2 lines dialogue with a basic scene.

Then once you fill the corruption bar (as the game says) the last "stage" starts, which should be the best part since up to this point there aren't any sex scenes with the mom. Well... You get to fuck her but it's one of the most basic "oh yes my son" line one pose and nothing else. Furthermore, once you you finish that scene and their stages/corruption is fully done, there's about ONE sex scene, and it's the most basic ass sex animation with 0 dirty talk or anything, it is, by all means, garbage and not worth the "grind" at all.
This goes for ALL the characters I've played with.

Now for the "grind", you get to waste your time for absolutely no reason or fun. That's absolutely it, there's nothing more to it than just "make this number +1, sleep, repeat". Absolutely dreadful. There are no enough events or balance so the grind feels a little lighter.

The minigames all felt very shoehorned, and in most cases you should skip them and save your time and sanity, there's really no point in doing them. If you really want just play some good old flash games.

And this is not mentioning how bad the story is, the way it starts is decent like I said but 10 minutes in, the whole corruption is dependant on a lotion bottle... That your superpower fairy made... That for some reason can't simply make again and now you are buying it off the dark web... It is this bad.
This was one of the first games I've actually felt the line of "porn plot" to this degree.

The game is really top among all harem sandbox games, but there is still something to work on!) I was very surprised that the side characters, for example, in the cafe, during intimacy there is no animation, only pictures. And this noticeably worsens the quality against the background of the main harem, where all the girls have animations. The most beautiful girl is Ava, and so few functions, fortunately the author still made interactions with her) well, at least cowgirl. For each update, 1 girl is added, this is not much, but if you imagine the difference at the beginning of the game from 0 and now - the game has grown noticeably and turned into a super top harem, with variations of poses, animation, POV, which unrealistically raised the game to a new level.

i really like this game, for a 0.16 theres a LOT of content. Each girl are different, variety of boobs/butts and personality. most games are ALWAYS have the same girls 3D model but this game is different. Kinda rare to be honest. Minigames are fun too, you can earn more AND you can skip it to get a fixed rate. Quest are great, good pace. Not too soon not too far.

v0.16

I feel like this game could be so much more... there is a lot that I like about it. Like the ability to make girls live with you after you corrupt them, choosing their behaviour, not too horrible leveling system, actual visible pregnancy... and the models are mostly decent, if a little flawed.

And yet I can't help by feel disappointed by it. The sex scenes are just... not satisfying. They are robotic, unimaginative, have only a couple of poses and camera angles. And what's worse - when you get the girls to live with you, instead of unlocking new poses, you just get to repeat ones you already did during their storyline. And when the sex scenes are the least exciting thing about your game... why is it even an eroge?

I do want to see this game when it's fully out, and I want to hope that it will get better, because it has a generally pleasant gameplay and a decent story. But right now, it is what it is. After corrupting every currently available girl, I just felt like in hindsight it wasn't worth it.

The game is okay.

Story is decent enough but writing is average.

Mind control aspect is always fun but very dissapointing here.

Models are mostly good.

Soundtrack generic, but fitting.

Gameplay is a bit too grindy the minigames, aren´t good they are either just boring or way too long, I liked the burger mingame because there are the most disgusting burgers I have ever seen which is fun but it´s just way too long. But it´s nice that you can skip them and still get money/experience but would be better if I had fun and didn´t even want to skip them.

Sex scenes very dissapointing, the animations are too robotic, and the sex scenes are way too repetitive.

Characters, I didn´t really care for them but I didn´t hate or find them annoying either.


I would recommend it, if you want a mind control game that is vanilla.

As a mind control lover, I see dev made this game better since I experienced it when it public, just finish Sarah route, one of the girl I like in this game.

i hope the other girl's route is so good, also before completing the game i will vote for 5/5, they are on the right track until now, this is the second mind control game i like the most. good luck dev.

1 star for no gei
1 star for mechanism and genre of mind control
1 star for sanbox
1 for diverse stories and character
1 for encouragement

This is one of the few games where the map is well organized. As for the story, I can only say that I never trusted Ava. I've always been suspicious of characters who, like her, share their bodies with the protagonist and give him some advantage but have their own thoughts and opinions. I just want to see how he's going to deal with her. Another thing that can be seen is that the protagonist didn't even need to use his power to conquer some characters. I don't think he realized it yet, but the interactions he had made him more charismatic and confident. So if he lost his power, he could still use that confidence. Anyway, it's a really good game, it's worth it.

I want to like this game, I do, but it's essentially a glorified scene collector. There's a decent amount of grinding in order to get scenes with the various women in the game as well as a bunch of minigames and an alternate world section? (I didn't play long enough to know if we go back).

There's a pregnancy system (sort of), that involves a loose fertility system and once you get the girls pregnant, their models change but I didn't find any other interaction (either with them or other people) so all in all it was a little dissapointing.

Average game with mostly decent models, and quite a bit of (repetitive imo) content.

This game is a little underrated in my opinion. The models are hot, and the writing--while at times almost cartoonishly simplistic-- is clear, efficient, and free of major errors. It feels like a return to erotic games of years past, which isn't a bad thing. That is also not to say the main story is uninteresting.

The gameplay loop of corrupting different characters is pretty entertaining and doesn't waste your time. I find the characters consistently extremely appealing. Even if some of the girls aren't to my taste, others more than make up for that.

I also want to emphasize how consitent the updates in this game are--a very rare quality. It updates frequently and new content typically feels substantial without being overwhelming. The quest guide is also great for getting back into the game so you don't get stuck or forget where you left off.

I look forward to every release of this game, and probably check out new updates more consistently than I do for any other game.

A good game if you share the mind control fetish (which I do). Story-wise it's kinda all over the place, so don't expect a deep narrative. It's a pure power fantasy with some pretty girls.

The "subdue" mechanic is especially neat, not because it's realistic, but because it really nails the mind control fantasy of completely taking control over a person. But there are weak points as well, e.g. Eleanor's story which made me quite uncomfortable as it crosses the line into non-consensual territory clumsily. Generally, the MC is really lackluster, he's basically a boy trapped in a young man's body. He thinks very immaturely which leads to some weird scenes, especially with the "mom" character.

The game is a sandbox with built-in hints and cheats, so grinding is reduced to a mininum. The hints are detailed, so you never get lost. Choices are mostly linked to the subdue mechanic.

Sex scenes occur frequently, but they're not exactly hot. Some poses are a bit awkward and the animation loops are short and somewhat stiff. On the other hand, I really liked some of the facial expressions of the girls. The girls are all really pretty, especially Sarah is incredibly cute. Sadly, her story is really dumb and ends before it gets interesting, at least in the current update. I also liked Alice and Chloe.

The dev seems to want to expand the scope of the game which can be dangerous. There are already a lot of women in the game, I'm not sure if adding a truckload of side characters really is necessary, especially if the "corruption" consists of repeating the same thing over and over again.

Graphically, the game is alright. Renders are a bit blurry at times. There are sound effects, like some moaning during sex scenes which is a nice touch. I don't care about music in adult VNs, so you've got to check other reviews for an opinion on the soundtrack.

I'm not sure where this game is going, this could be one of those "gets updated for a few years before it slowly dies" games. There already is a lot of content and most of it is good - if you like the premise. If you're looking for actual romance and/or engaging drama, this game is not for you. It's a fap game first and foremost.

underrated. actually when I saw the version is just 0.15, I did not expect such complex story. basically, it would let you fuck every female you met, pretty cool harem game. although some people pointed out that the story has some flaws, I agree, but overall this game is great.
a small advice, add more interactions between different girls, instead of just finish after full control, it is a kind of waste.
anyway, your work is great, keep up