VN - Ren'Py - Showcase: Bianca and Aaron - Game Night [v0.2] [Saruh Games]

This review is for version 0.2. Even as a fan of NTR, the structure feels very rushed and thirsty. I barely get a sense of who these people are, and who they are to one another, and they're already getting very handsy with each other. It's game night, but instead of snacking on snacks, they go straight to snacking on each other. And it's all happening behind the back of the husband, who is unavoidably up to no good himself. I mean, you can make the wife nice if you reject all of the advances from their "friends," but then the experience is over pretty quickly. And so far, she's the only one who has choices the player can make, and they consist of binary "be loyal" or "be skanky" decisions.

Meanwhile, the dev announced on their Patreon page that they're not getting as much money as they want, so they're scaling back on the size of the updates and will not release any more free ones until the game is complete. That's totally their call to make, but the tone feels kinda passive-aggressive. Perhaps they should consider that abandoning both of their previous games and being gone for the last 5-6 years has factored into the community's financial decisions. That and tariffs, and inflation, and other growing economic uncertainties. Sometimes there's context to be factored in here.

Either way, based on how quickly the action is developing, this seems on pace to become a full-blown orgy within 1-2 updates. But since there are apparently bills to pay, I'm not confident that this will actually occur. Since the future of this project is unclear to me, I'm not sure how much I want to get invested.

I mean, this narrative spaghetti can still be salvaged with certain reset techniques. What we've seen so far could turn out to have been a dream, or a flashback. It wouldn't be pretty, but it would at least give us the opportunity to get to know these people before they start going hog-wild on each other. I think it would also give one or more of them the opportunity to be more likable.

Not very good.
First off the NTR is unavoidable, which is FINE... just put it in the OP somewhere.
Second the women look inhuman. No way a human being can achieve such deformity, thankfully.
Third the action is one-note. First a round where you make out with each of your husband's friends or tell them no and they basically force it on you. Then a next round where each gropes you and you tell them no and they still grope you just not as much as if you say yes.
Fourth needs the rape tag. The disregard these "friends" have for being told no is ridiculous.

If you want a quality NTR story with characters that make sense and renders that look human look elsewhere.

I see the NTR haters and BBC closeted gay racists got to this game before it could get any love and respect it deserves. THIS GAME IS FRIGGIN HOT! It doesn't have to have much build up because the exposition is explained. It doesn't do cheesy flashback tropes or give you blue balls because it just gets straight to the point in a very sexy way.

IDK WTF other people are talking about with the comments about the LI models, they both are smoking hot. Maybe they like characters that are built like little boys but for those of us who like thick MILFs, you wont be disappointed. As of this review, it's still in early development and it's obvious how short it will be but man am I a sucker for sneaky sex scenes and game nights. I'll never get tired of staring at vaginas and I'll never get tired of a game night. If that's not you, keep it moving and don't ruin it for the rest of us!

This game is not a masterpiece (4.5) but it definitely gets the job done. This started off as a thread post but now not only will I thank the Dev for a good fap but I will post this review and support the game. Sick and tired of decent games being review bombed by idiots.

I had very low expectations after reading the front page and still got dissapointed.
- It says male and female protagonist but you can't rename the husband and all decisions are made by the wife.
- The choices are either go full slut or get nothing. Not even with the husband.
- You can't name that a story. It's basically Husband inviting 4 of his friends that all fucked his wife in the past. The black dude were just her fuck buddy.
I don't even understand how you get on such a stupid idea.
- The not slut choices doesn't really work. Yes she blocks away but the text after what's belongs to the choice is the same as the slutty path.
Let's say you don't kiss the first guy the choice for the second guy is called - Kiss X too. And they act like you made that choice withe the first guy.
- People calling the wife hot etc. She looks like a deformed barbie doll that had a few surgery's to much.
-Husband invites 4 guys that all fucked his wife and the wife invited one of her friends which is the biggest slut who is after her husband. That is some hyper genius storytelling. I don't think I need to mention how bad the characters are.

Pro's:
I like the idea with red and blue team but does easily bug around.

Conclusion:
All in all it's slop as it's finest. Fair enough the dev mentions it. but my question is why even creating something like that.

Showcase: Bianca and Aaron (0.2 version) works because it doesn't pretend to be more than it is: an excuse for a quick fap. The plot is completely pornographic, with little buildup but since all players are in the game since before, it works well enough to get you through while keeping some interest beyond the scenes themselves. I don't like the fact that choices don't really matter, the only thing they seem to do so far is lock you out of some content, so basically it would probably have worked better as a kinetic novel than a VN; also, I find it curious that you can only choose for Bianca, Aaron's part moves onwards without you having any choice in it. It is nice also that in a story like this, Aaron is not a spineless small-dick guy, but actually quite the opposite.

Render quality is not great but it's pretty decent; animations aren't great either but they are clearly improving quickly, which is quite promising, and I like the emphasis so far in other things beyond penetrations and bj (kissing, groping, etc.) and how the three men around Bianca each have their "style". I turned off the music as I always do, so can't comment on it, and the sound effects are not too common but always add a bit without becoming tiresome. I like the blue/red pov swap, even though it does have some bugs when moving backwards through a scene or skipping through it since you already saw that loop.

So, all in all, this stands more or less in the middle ground. Won't provide you with a great experience with depth and so on, but surely delivers on what it promises and is improving along the way.

I do fear though that with his track record of leaving abandoned both previous projects (even if I do think Angelica from the beginning was better than Showcase so far) this one will also get the abandoned tag if it does drag on instead of being a short story as promised. But as I said, I hope to be proven wrong on this.