Ren'Py - Shattered Minds [v0.22 Beta Fix] [eXtasy Games]

TLDR: Tricky rating, 2 or 3 stars. Highly unsatisfying sex, relatively weak story, little sense of connection/relationship with the girls, kinetic, timegating, some terrible girls, MC getting raped by a fat ugly woman. But good mind control, corruption, harem building. Some hot girls.

Positives:

• Some of the girls are hot. Mostly beautiful faces, some excellent bodies. (With several unfortunate exceptions.)
• Anal towards the end of the game. Couple of scenes includes dialogue highlighting MC is taking her anal virginity.
• Good rendering quality.
• School setting. Fucking classmates and teacher.
• Mind control, brainwashing, corruption is relatively well written (with some exceptions).
• Becoming master of the house, building a harem of devoted slaves.
• Reprogramming the girls' personalities, e.g. making them totally submissive or mindless fucktoy.
• Animations included. They're not good but at least it's something.
• Can change between two camera angles during sex.
• Most of the girls are (relatively) innocent, which I find more satisfying for the corruption.
• Some threesomes, e.g. with mom and sis.
• Making a dude watch as you fuck his girl.
• Can avoid pregnancy fetish. (Def not my thing.)

Negatives:

• Unsatisfying sex! Boring, repetitive, vanilla. Animations way too slow. Penetration shallow. Orgasms are short, sudden, muted.
• Most girls are forced on you.
• Too little depth, content is spread across way too many girls (26 so far!).
• Don't feel any connection with the girls, there's no sense of "relationship".
• MC gets raped. Twice! First, an ugly fat woman drugs him, ties him up, feeds him Viagra, rapes him. Worst scene I've seen in a porn game. Later another woman gets MC blackout drunk and rapes him. We get no choice.
• Weak story, too many plot holes, clichéd, frustrating.
• Kinetic. Just somewhat hidden by game being a sandbox.
• MC is an idiot.
• Side girls are hotter than most main LIs.
• A couple of character models are genuinely disgusting.
• Even after making a girl a slave, you still can't fuck her ass (for almost all girls).
• After corruption, bascially every girl has the same four sex acts/animations.
• Saggy breasts on many girls.
• Timegating, grind.
• Blueballing for quite a while at the start.
• Many missed opportunities. With mind control and slaves you should have the _option_ of gangbangs, DPs, or even whoring out your slaves if you wish.
• Quick-time-events.
• The companion inside MCs head is annoying, obtuse. And lots of lazy writing to explain away how "she" is messing up MCs plans or refusing to explain anything in a reasonable way. Obvious from the start what she's doing.
• Clearly supposed to be a high school but the game pretends it's college and everyone is 20-21 years old. Stupid. Better to let the player set the ages like in some games.
• Text doesn't match renders. E.g. text talks about the girl taking the dick all the way but the animation is showing she's just taking the tip.
• Content locked behind "coming soon" messages. Would be better to just leave it out entirely until it's ready.
• Too little dialogue during sex. Just a couple of lines then the animation repeats with no text.
• Forced footjob.
• Forced femdom.
• Annoying, boring side-stories inside MC's mind.
• Unskippable minigames. (Most minigames are skippable but not all.)
• Some of the girls are already huge sluts, talking about how many guys they've fucked. I prefer corruption.
• LI is screaming for MC to fuck her hard. But MC just weakly and slowly pushes his dick 2-3 cm in and out.
• The pattern for main LIs is fuck them once during corruption and then you get a repeatable (boring) sex scene, so you forget about them.

Number of scenes (Replayable scenes count once. Dreams don't count.)

• Vaginal: 54 (Amaia: 1. Cynthia: 1. Leah: 1. Stacy: 1. Sharon: 1. Eleanor: 4. Luna: 4. Chloe: 3. Linda: 2. Angela: 1. Sofia: 3. Sarah: 3. Polly: 1. Camila: 2. Mary: 2. June: 4. Zoe: 3. Billie: 2. Scarlett: 2. Angela: 2. Lillie: 1. Violet: 1. Claire: 2. Alice: 3. Cara: 2. Francesca: 2. )
• Anal: 7 (Amaia: 1. Mary: 1. Scarlett: 1. Eleanor: 1. Angela: 1. Claire: 1. Billie: 1. )
• DP: 0

(Version played: 0.22 Beta)

This game is not good.

I don’t like giving very low reviews for games, and I really tried to like this game, but I just couldn’t. The story/world of the game isn’t terrible by erotic games standards, but it just doesn’t do anything with the subject matter. It introduces superpowers and a corrupt government organization trying to contain them… and then does basically nothing. You don’t run into other people with powers (except essentially one time that’s used exclusively as a macguffin to solve a plot the dev wrote himself into for “drama”), you resolve any issues with the organization easily and quickly every time they come up and often in the stupidest ways that would, in any world based in logic, incriminate you even more than before. But I digress, these games are rarely consumed for their story, so what about the characters?

Well the characters mostly suck too. 90% of the characters are introduced, given some sort of flaw or insecurity for the MC to exploit, and then instantly mind-controlled. There is no slow-burn, no character development—nothing. And worst of all, as soon as you finish “corrupting” a love-interest, you’re basically done with their content aside from being able to call them to your room and repeat the same 3 animations you’ve already seen before. It’s crazy. Every character’s storyline is so short and then there’s just nothing afterward. It’s such a waste.

But in my opinion, the worst sin of an adult game is not when it has a bad story or even bad characters, it’s when the game has bad erotic content. That’s literally what we are here for. If I wanted a great story and great characters, I’d read a book or watch a prestige television show. The reason we play adult games is for the sex, and if it sucks, then the game will never be great (imo). In this game, the sex scenes suck. They are boring, repetitive, and short. Nearly every sex scene consists of exactly 1 or 2 animations that repeat until you hit the “cum” button and end it. It’s just awful. No build up, no foreplay, no tension, no dirty talk—just nothing at all.

Add on top of this the fact that you will spend literal hours of your real life just grinding out xp and mind points through playing the slowest game of Simon Says just so you can actually play the real game (unless you use cheats). It’s so banal and it’s a transparent way that the dev has tried to pad the playtime of the game without adding any meaningful content to engage with.

I recommend people avoid this one, it’s just not good in any way except for the odd character with a hot model.

Good game, for Renpy anyways. Enough to make it feel like it's not a straight VN. Some minigames and sandbox stuff thrown in. Good models aside from a few issues with weird clothing, like the nerdy girl's sweater which does come off a bit uncanny valley. But the parallaxing and the girls shifting between a few subtly different idle images is a nice touch.

It feels like a lot of work went into this, so I feel bad, but I can't in good conscious vote this any higher than 3 stars. For me. Your experience may vary.

It's the characters. Not the story entirely, the overarching plot is okay. But man...

So these are ostensibly adults. They're in a college that is very clearly just a high school, but whatever. The main character is obsessed with the head cheerleader, even though she's awful. Like I think if they spent literally any time trying characterize any of the woman in this game, they would have had her kicking a puppy. But they don't do. The woman exist mostly to become one of three cookie cutter "reprogrammed" characters. They each have a short questline where you dominate them. And then the only real diffrence between them is that they look slightly different when you fuck them.

And that's... fine. It's porn.

No back to the cheerleader, we get to see that despite our main character's frankly inexplicably placed affection, she spends all her time with the quarterback of the football team. Oh no! These dang popular kids. We're told he's also a bully who has bullied us for years. (Don't forget we're adults, in college).

We don't really see him bully anyone at all, and he doesn't seem to have any idea who you are, but sure. God forbid we spend any time fleshing out anything. We need to introduce more woman for you to forget about as soon as their questline ends.

But don't worry. We'll use our new powers to embarrass him! This time we'll be the popular kids! That's not a joke by the way. That last sentence is almost word for word from the game. I mean, I don't think he refers to himself as a kid, though frankly he should.

Honestly, if these were 14 year olds, well the porn would be way more problematic, but the characters wouldn't bother me as much. At least, I could say yeah, he's an awkward preteen and one day he'll grow out of this. But it really feels like someone needs to see a therapist about some unresolved trauma from high school. And hey, if that's you, you might like this game.

easily one of the most enjoyable games I’ve played in a long while. It has that perfect mix of story, gameplay, and adult content that keeps you hooked for hours. The mind control mechanic is well thought out and actually fits into the plot, instead of just being thrown in for the fetish. Every update adds noticeable improvements, and you can tell the dev really listens to feedback.

The visuals are beautiful — not just the characters, but the environments too. Animations are smooth and the pacing of the story feels natural. I especially like that quests are clear and progress feels rewarding instead of grindy. The harem element is handled in a way that makes each girl feel unique, and the dialogues make them more than just background characters.

What I enjoy most is how the story keeps expanding, with new twists and scenes that actually matter. There’s always something to look forward to after every quest, and the updates come at a good rhythm.

If you like games with a solid story, great renders, and a mix of superpower fantasy and adult content done right — this one’s a must-play.


A rare gem in the genre. Fantastic story, satisfying gameplay, and plenty of content already — and it just keeps getting better with each version.

Visually the game looks good, the models are nice, there's lot of content, but the story suffers a lot from how under developed the female characters are.

The game utilizes the mind control fetish but that doesn't mean you want the female characters to feel like dolls with an on/off switch.

The MC has a "landlady" and "roommate" and you never feel like he has a connection with either one of them. This extends to all the other female characters and a big problem with how the mind control works, the MC's interactions with the female are all about how he's going to mind control them, just listening to their problems until they become sex dolls.

The story is very good to play and the harem is also very good, good animation, the development is very good. The story keeps you in the game, the unfolding of the story is integral and the 3D of the girls is good (it could be better, but it's not bad at all).

This game actually has an interesting story and lots of actions. The renders are pretty good, with a variety of bodies and personalities for everyone's taste.
So why I give it 4/5 stars and not 5? Because after a while, adding too many characters + sandbox mode makes the game kinda repetitive. Hopefully the dev can spend some time expanding the stories of existing girls.

Was waiting with review, because didn't want to give this game 3*. Latest update (0.21) upraded this title to 4, so here we go:

Extraordinary plot that maybe have some small logic holes, but generally is pleasurable to read... and have repeatable breeding! Game is about superpowers and MC is ugly in his coat not afraid of using them. Corrupting people and bending their will or changing their minds to become powerful person with army of "loyal" women. Game don't have choices, if it comes to plot (at least I don't remember any of them), but it let dev focusing on this story giving relatively often updates. So, even if you can expect some enemies, you rather shouldn't be worried about losing, because of doing something wrong. It kills the thrill, but I can live with it.

Game have many pretty LIs and before MC conquer them, we'll be able to know more or less of their story. The problem is that, you're going to change their minds, so it's hard to get real connection with them. Even, if you want them as girlfriends (my choice), you'll always know, they aren't really themselves. It was the main reason I'm not giving this game 5*, but maybe dev will surprise me in future. That's why I hope that instead of adding 2000 new LIs, dev'll focus more on current ones, so there are more exclusive scenes like these added in 0.21v, which will let us at least a lil bit more connect with them.

As I mentioned earlier, LIs are pretty, not beautiful however. Visuals are on very high level and animations are nice for an eye, but they aren't exceptional. There's also a management system which is not challenging at all in setting up and don't require too much grinding. Beside of the very beginning, you can just set up what you need, breed many children and keep sleeping. It don't require almost anything, so I didn't feel guilty using cheats after a while maybe about energy, but it saved huge amount of time to cheat energy while corrupting very side LIs. Never really needed it for main LIs however.

To sum this up. If you like breeding harem games, you found one of these rare gems. It should also be a must play for people who like getting LIs in shady ways and bend their minds. For others? It's still a good game and I definetely recommend at least trying it.

Its a grindy sandbox requiring Money, XP, Energy, etc. Mod/Cheats makes it a lot more playable however.

Plot is simple you have mind control ability. government is after you.

LI's range from smoking hot to disgusting.

The biggest issue for me with this AVN is simple once a girl is in your harem the lewd content with her is just repeatable that's it. Its why I am giving only 2 stars and even then I waffle if I should give 1

Fun game that doesn't require a mod to guide you so that's a plus. Animations are good and the actual story isn't bad either. Only real complaint is that the harem become braindead once you 100/100 them.

I have spent several hours playing Shattered Minds 0.20 beta. It's still under development but outstanding so far. The game is open world where the player can explore and choose which girls/milfs to add to his harem. I am looking forward to additional updates.

Sandbox ruins this. Its in there pointlessly but to add grind, and it destroys the flow of the story. It results in indifference towards all of the characters. Animations arent good enough to carry it without having a decent plot

Would pass

Mega game, the first time I played it I was surprised and boy did I choose the friend route wrong, without a doubt one of the best that hooks you with the story and characters, not to mention that it's full of beautiful milfs.

One of my favourite porn games that already played! Love the stories, love the mechanics of the game, its so amazing the fact working the girls until you get them to our harem.

I am huge fan of huge big tits, so the game have I good balanced of body forms, size and shapes. Love Alice and Linda ! Another thing that is rare to find for me is the pregnancy kink which make me hard as fck! Simple love it!

What I would love to see in the future more different sexual animations depending the places. More huge tits characters. More stories related with beach. And the cherry on the top of the cake for me, would be adding urination kink .

Amazing game! Hoping to see more of it!

[v0.19 Beta]


Characters and relationships:
⠀⠀⠀Every character and every relationship are all shallow. The only interesting character is Luna (and maybe June, simply because she has more quests), the rest are meh, but even if they weren't, we wouldn't be able to find out, because they turn into nameless slaves way too fast.
⠀⠀⠀For some reason mom dresses like a hooker without any corruption to begin with. You help her out with her boss, who's openly sexually harassing his employees and literally laughs like a gremlin. Then you massage her couple of times, have sex, add to harem. And it's the same with other characters: you do them a couple of favors, corrupt them a bit here and there, add them to your harem and that's it, it happens way too quickly. And the only content you will get from them from now on is a repeatable sex scene, that is pretty much the same for every character. This way we fail to establish any emotional connection with these characters. You can get them pregnant infinitely, but it's treated like an afterthought and a liablity: nobody reacts or acknowledges the fact, it only lasts for 1-2 weeks and is very restricting in actions that you can perform. And ofc instead of working with and expanding upon already existing and barely touched cast, the dev just adds more and more to the pile.

Grind:
⠀⠀⠀There is quite a bit and it IS annoying, but not so much to the point of being an absolute slog to struggle through. There is exp that you need to level up your mind control ability, money, mind points and "stamina". Honestly the most annoying one is stamina. The Ava minigame gives you enough exp to get through most encounters, money is easy to earn with blackjack and mind points you need to acquire new harem members for the most part, and there are a bunch of those, but you also get a lot with fake pregnancies, so you just have to skip a bunch of days. But stamina you only get 2 points each day and it's NOT NEARLY enough, and you constantly run out. Sure you can consume energy drinks to mitigate the issue somewhat, but when you do, you get screen noise effect, which I'm totally not a fan of, and it needs to go. Also why give the player option to "Mind Insight" characters that you can't interact with yet? And why does it waste your stamina?

Choices:
⠀⠀⠀Flavor text; Skip/see a scene; +/- corruption (attraction) for a character; set a girls role in your harem (reversible); can skip some characters, but most are mandatory; don't think there are decisions that would branch the story, character paths or anything of the sort.

Plot:
⠀⠀⠀Kinda Interesting. There are some plot holes and inconsistencies mainly related to power and Ava, I won't go into details, but you'll see, they're hard to miss. Don't know what purpose served the fantasy and cyberpunk quest sections of the game, other than to throw you out of immersion, they aren't really coherent mini-stories, more like parodies so to speak. I'd prefer if MC actually had to delve into the depths of his mind, having to deal with psychological traumas/barriers/challenges in order to obtain his new powers, but alas.

Erotic content:
⠀⠀⠀Most sex scenes are incredibly short, like, '5 seconds' short. The build up is weak, there is basically no sex talk, no intimacy, and barely any aftermath either. There are moan sound effects but they're not well mixed and feel disconnected from the scenes. Animations are okay, pretty mediocre to be fair, they lack life, momentum and amplitude.


Playtime: 10-15 hours

Amazing Renpy Game, and probably one of if not the best Mind Control games here, while a lot of games do have mind control few have it as the main gimmik and this one does it amazing, also cant wait to see the personality transfer(possession) get more explored.

I think this VN deserves a better score than it has.

The story is pretty entertaining and there really aren't any glaring errors with spelling or grammar.

The animations aren't bad though some of the sex scenes are a bit lack luster. However the repeatable sex scenes are a big plus.

The quest system is well done and easy to follow.

One big drawback is there is an emphasis on supersized, sloppy, saggy breasts to the point of looking nasty. I'm not sure what the Dev was going for but yikes. Case in point one character, Luna, who has normal, average sized boobs is described as being too small. It's hard to imagine anyone considering her breasts as too small but someone has some unrealistic expectations.

Still all in all worth playing.

Game is decent overall, except that it's a bit grindy and once the MC does all of the possible actions with a character they will NEVER get another scene in the game.

Instead of focusing on the existing and making more interactions among them, which is what we'd expect since we had a pseudo group scene, the dev instead basically mothballs every single woman and just adds a new one.

So if you like games where you have a limited play arc with a character and then she never gets new scenes, this game is for you. If you like games where the MC, once he get's the women in bed, has more and more, and more interesting scenes and encounters with them, this is not the game for you.

It's a pity the dev didn't focus more on a smaller group of women and have the MC, depending on which way his 'alignment' went, have them do more stuff toeach other and him, ending with larger and larger group fun activities. That would be more logical than someone simply chasing more new women each time.

Edit[0.21]: Well, I said I'd change the rating, and here I am doing just that. Dev added post-control content for the characters, and I couldn't be happier about it.
Although, honestly, the tits thing is still an issue that would otherwise bring the score down to a four, but I feel like the recent update needs to be rewarded, so five it is.

This game is a massive mixed bag for me.
On the one hand, the story is pretty good, the mind-control mechanic is cool, and the moment the MC takes full control of someone is satisfying.

On the other hand, the amount of massive sagging tits is an issue for me, but the main problem is the eventual pay-off. Like, the process of taking control over someone is good, but then when it's done, that's basically it. They become just another body, possibly living in your home, and you get some entirely silent scenes with them that are basically the same for each of them.

Honestly, breast thing aside, if the dev simply took one update cycle to focus on improving the aftermath of a character's story, and created at least one, repeatable custom scene for each character after they become fully enthralled, that would instantly bump the game up to at least a four, possibly a five for me.

Good story, well done mind control mechanic in a sandbox that is not frustrating. Good visuals and pregnancy is fun.

Only issue is breast size is about 50% too big across the board. You can focus on just the girls you like (that is, younger with realistic breast size) with only a few exceptions, but I expect to hit a ceiling soon. Hoping I don't have to make the grannies or the women with breasts to their knees have to join my harem. It seems the more recently introduced LI's have closer to normal sized breasts, so I think dev is listening.