VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Sin to Heaven [v0.4] [AG]

I started playing Sin to Heaven at the 0.3 release and have now played through 0.4.

Story: Average. Typical vanilla incest porn full of clichés, plot holes, and WTFs. It's a heading toward in incel's harem fantasy where all girls are OK with sharing, with no reason why they all feel that way. Honestly, the story doesn't matter because the releases are so far apart that players won't remember the plot anyway.

Writing: Average. It's kind of all over the place, really. Sometimes it seems good and sometimes it's cringy. It's full of the requisite spelling and grammar mistakes. Stranger still is that sometimes the texts for the choices look like they are machine translated.

Renders/Animations: Average. This is another case where the quality is all over the place. Sometimes the renders and animations are good and sometimes they're bad. Then there are the really strange ones such as the last scene of 0.4 where the MC and one twin sister are out by the pool and the other twin sister is watching them through the kitchen window. Objects in the kitchen look good, but the animated view through the window looks terrible. Not like you'd expect for it just being farther away. It looks terrible.

Gameplay: Average. It's a visual novel, so I don't expect a lot of choices, but there are still very few. It doesn't bother me. There are a few cases of dialogue attributed to the wrong person, which makes players do a double-take.

Content: Below average. For being on the 4th major release, the content is lacking. The 0.4 update was very small with basically 3 scenes (video chat with Amy and Elyse, clothing store conversation with Claire and Laya, and the pool with the Kelly and Kayla) with maybe 10 minutes of play for average readers. How on earth did this take 5 months?

Outside of that, what really sticks out about this game is that it takes a minimum of 30 seconds to start up because there are no less than six different loading/splash screens each with a 5-second delay that can't be skipped. Oh, and one of those loading screens actually overwrites one of the autosave slots, derp. The developer should've at least made these skippable on the 2nd and subsequent startups, but I guess he's really proud of his mediocrity.

This game has to things that stands out:

• Graphics
• Writing

Let's start with the graphics: It is simply OUTSTANDING! The best one I saw. All visuals, including UI is superb. Now character design is not completely to my liking, but this is a matter of taste.

"But why did you gave it just two stars, then?" - you would ask.
Because writing is f#$king AUTISTIC, to say the least. Even a four year old, playing with dolls, have a better understanding of their characters and motivations. And basic human interactions. Here people do things out of nowhere, in a least believable way, just for the sake of plot.
But author shouldn't take this as an insult, writing is a hard skill to develop. It literally takes years to get any good. So devs best course of action is to hire someone good. Or "appropriate" some top quality porn story or even a novel, from literotica, for example. Such AMAZING visuals with some good writing can easily make this game one of the best. But as it is now, it's just a pretty pictures to look at.
lack of story so i suggest dev it's a beginning only so improve story and give quality story
And there is no sleepsex so avoid false tags
It gives false hope
I know aunt gives hj to MC but mc knows and enjoy the moment so basically it's consensual

Why the fuck do game devs show all the main characters NUDE in the splash screen? You're giving it all away instantly? No, not enough there, within seconds of meeting people they're blowing you left and right...

build up some excitement first lol

Simply amazing game,
the girls are hot,
MC is the great alpha, he doesn't let any girl get away, mom, aunt, sister, milf, neighborhood girls, not even his cousin's girlfriend (fell in the net is fish) and the MC knows what he's doing,
looking forward to future updates!

*Edited for v0.3b*

TL;DR:
- v0.3
- Renders are good, used models are... let's just say, it's a matter of taste
- Story is better but still full of plot holes and inconsistencies
- despite maledom-Tag, game is clearly intended for subs who like to be pushed around and degraded by older women
- one star for trying

Don't get confused by the tags.
This game was clearly designed for male subs. You play a boy who got abandoned, pushed around, neglected, and does whatever the women demand of him, but somehow doesn't even think about complaining. We werent introduced to the sister yet, but there is no doubt in my mind, she is going to be a massive bitch towards her brother, trying to turn him into her personal household slave or something. The Male Domination Tag is solely because of a single optional scene with the Aunt's neighbor. Everything else is all "Yes my Queen" and "Does my Princess need anything else from me?" and "I love how masculine your pussy smells".
Now, don't get me wrong, that is perfectly fine. It may not be my personal cup of tea, but that didn't influence my rating. The devs constantly attempting to mask it, however, did influence it.

The story has improved quite a bit since the last update, but it’s still riddled with plotholes. Somehow they keep trying this patchwork-approach in an attempt to counteract the negative rewiews, instead of the rewrite they announced for the past three updates. And the MC still lets those characters get away with everything, simply because they have tits:
The Mom (actually both parents, but her especially) pulls all this shit, but she sure loves him. The sister doesn't care about him, but "she has such a gorgeous budy". The aunt is a bitch, but "look at those natural jugs!".

When the story starts, you arrive home after being away for 8 6 4 years... and nobody is there to greet you. Apparently, your sister participates in a local beauty-pageant and needs support. So BOTH your parents rather stay with her, than have at least one of them come back to welcome their Child back home after they shipped you off years ago.

To make this clear:
MC was gone for so long, the Mother is actually wondering how he looks like! Her own son! No visits home for holidays, birthdays of anything else.
MC was gone for so long, the first thing he does after arriving at HOME, is to check the address to make sure he's at the right house!

Dev tried to explain away the first point with "Covid-99" Lockdowns. But MC's boarding school is a high-school... so MC was underaged. If they wanted him to come home, NOBODY would have had a problem that.
Dev tried to explain away the second point by telling us, how the mom renovated. But he gives us that line, while we are looking at a house that has its paint exfoliating. Like no one has been living there in 15+ years or so... what did she renovate!?
MC didn't know about the beauty-pegeant, so there probably wasn't any communication with his sister either. And the father didn't even know MC would be home the next day in the first place. He had to be told by the Mother the night before MCs arrival...

Now, in this new version the explanation for the empty house is this:
The Mother wrote down the wrong date for MCs arrival. And when she calls to tell him, she does everything she could think of to keep MC from also visiting the pageant, using lines like "if you love your mother, you will listen to me”. Or "No honey, I know you're tired, take some rest". And then makes him go on a "short journey" of "a few hours" to the aunt’s place. But he still would like to come. So she says "this time please listen to me and stay home" ...before sending him to her sister's place instead of simply letting him stay home (still no feasible explanation whatsoever, why that would be such a problem).

Why didn't they simply put a key out for him? The guy was apparently "living on his own" for more than 4 years already. I tell you why. The guy was gone so long, he's basically a stranger to them by now. You don't want to have a stranger camp down in your house without anyone there to supervise him. And we all know, that participating in a local beauty-pageant is equivalent to being deployed into combat or having open heart surgery. So of course they would rather be with the sister!

But then the inconsistencies start.

• The Mother couldn’t let MC know because she only remembered when she got the flight-notification, but by then he was already boarded. But somehow the aunt knew long enough to buy AND install a bunkbed in the cousin’s room a full day before?
• Right after she told her husband about MCs homecoming next week, she also told him he was basically all packed up and ready to go. She never questioned why he would want to live out of a suitcase for the entire week?
• The mother gets introduced as this loving and caring person… who doesn’t know how her son looks like? She couldn’t be bothered to make a video-call on christmas or ask for a photo of the kid she shipped off to boarding school on his own YEARS ago?
• Immediately after greeting MC, the Aunt tells him to use the shower, then goes in herself and tells you to “come in, the door is unlocked”. But if you do walk in on her it's GAME OVER (because she is standing bent over with her legs spread and her butt facing the door with the shower-curtain wide open. But YOU are the pervert!). Only if you PEEK on her first, she suddenly remembers and tells you to wait. But playing with MCs dick while he sleeps, well THAT'S TOTALLY OK.

So now I ask myself:
Is this simply bad writing? Or did the Mom intentionally not tell her son about this, actually WANTED him to realize no one in the family gives a flying fuck about him, and told him a lie to cover up her scheme? That would give the whole game a completely different spin!
Well, the dev already acknowledged all those points to be plotholes, so… so much to that.

And those who expect a Visual Novel with choice-based storyline, here's what the dev has to say about scenes with characters you don't want to have scenes with: "For those who don't like the Aunt and don't want to have sex with her at some point, maybe hold down the control key to fast forward or look at another game. "

I don't usually give harsh reviews, however, in this case the story has just started, in the literal sense, so perhaps I am giving the dev a chance to recover this game. The following listings are the plot holes large enough to swallow NYC.
1) Landlady (LL) and her hubby (hubby) had to have known about their daughter's competition earlier on; they don't just pop up out nowhere. So why they didn't make prior arrangements or at least send MC a text describing the situation.
2) The moment LL tried to make plans with her sister (?LLSis), considering the old grudge, LLSis would likely have made it known she harbors a grudge. Although why a mom, whose body is painted with tramp stamps over some fairly intimate parts, would worry about her son getting "corrupted" over a coupla' pints then blame it on the MC is beyond me. Disbelief must be suspended here.
3) Oh shit! Sorry MC I have to go drop something off with girlfriend. Want to come along?...
4) Laya forgot her towel and has asked Jayden to fetch one for her. If MC is being overt he says, "Sorry Laya, Jayden had to go to the GF's for an errand...." so the LLSis knows... If he is up to no good (as I might be) he remains silent. HOWEVER! When he returns with the towel and she tells him to "come on in, it's open" knowing the shower curtain is open...
OK maybe she isn't thinking there is a "corrupter" in the house.
4) How did MC NOT awaken with all the hubbub raised when LLSis rampages through the room over pants being thrown on the floor. Morover, why would she bother to try and put MC's leg back on the bed when she doesn't even like him. And, why is she on the bed up between his legs AND how did that not wake him up?
5) I don't care who y'are, you don't walk in to you male friends bedroom with the towel off; unless there's some prior history there...
6) LLSis is awfully comfy with MC, the pervy corrupter, in the shower, and vice versa.
7) Refer to item 1.
I am giving it a three so the dev rethinks how this story goes without considering Seppuku.

v0.2b

No idea what the first reviews are on about.
Thought it was fine (for a porn game), half-decent if you will.

Assets and backround evironments are fine but could use more work as it comes off as very unpolished.

Character dialogue is... fine.

Not great atm but certainly not the worst that I've seen.

✭✭ ✭✰ ✰

The renders / image quality could be better but it is acceptable. The reason that give 1 star is the writing of the story and dialogues. The game categorized as VN so except the visuals there must be also an acceptable story that make sense. The story starts with the MC who is going to return home after several years of absence. OK, this is a strong indication that the dev doesn't actually care to tell some original story. Another indication is that other says at the game overview here and other inside the game. At overview says that the MC is a university student who moved away from his home town in pursuit of higher education.... On the other hand inside the game says that the MC was away from home 8 years (don't ask the reason) and he just finished highschool at the time he was going to return home. If the dev doesn't remember the MC's background then for what story are we talking about ? Anyway I say lets see what will happen next. Maybe it will have some interest after all. Unfortunately what happened next is what I hate most. Story/dialogues that doesn't make sense and introduction of main characters (mom, sis in that case) that you are suppose to meet but you don't because the dev has a different opinion and you will have to wait for I don't know how many updates to meet them.

I'm going to mention some of the things that doesn't make sense :
1) Even if you are studying at a boarding school that doesn't mean that you don't have any contact with your family (and 8 years? come on...).
2) Your father doesn't know that you are returning home when he talks with your mom the previous day!
3) When you arrive at your hometown nobody bothers to pick you up and welcome you after so many years!
4) Your mom was supposed to be excited to meet you after so many years but when you finally arrive at home and ring the bell nobody was there. The reason? They leave with your sister for a week to go to a beauty contest outside town just a few hours before you arrived! Come on... This is ridiculous. And of course nobody calls you to tell you that they are leaving...
Really now, how difficult is to think of a simple original story that make sense?

I'm not going to continue with things that don't make sense and the story. The thing is that the MC will eventually going to stay to aunt's house. Her husband died recently and she has a son at your age (your cousin). So MC will not meet with mom or sis for at least one week (probably at a later update after 1 year or more). And on top of all of that, Aunt is the least attractive compare to mom and sis at least for me.

Of course the game goes directly to the recycle bin...

I was debating whether or not to review this since it's still technically a "demo". However as it's now here on this site and the review option is open then I say it's Fair Game.

Gloves are coming off. By the time I'm done this may come off as a burial, but I want to go for the Brutally Honest approach. So to the Dev that may be reading this sorry. Just not that sorry. Time to elaborate why I feel this way.

This game has a lot of red flags. Enough to reach one end of the football field to the other. It definitely came off as rushed.

First problem I occurred happened before I actually started the game. As I started to unzip my antivirus detected a Medium threat and automatically deleted the game (.exe file). I've downloaded at least 10 games here on F95. This is the first, and only game that this has happened to me. Congrats on being first I guess

How am I reviewing the game then is what you're probably wondering? There's a Lib folder. There's a alternate game file inside. That's how I did it. This same file actually passed my antivirus test

Onto the game. The title screen made me noxious!! What's with all the camera shaking?! So unnecessary smh.

There's 4 main character. MC is the lead. He's a young 18 year old. In good shape, short hair, bit of a perv, and to my surprise his dick isn't huge. Though it is slightly above average.

Mom (aka "Landlady") has a great rack. Motorboat worthy. I like her hair. Find it pristine. However I find her face weird. Seems heavy on the botox like it was an episode of Botched.

Can't really comment on his sister ("tenant") since we don't actually see her in this version. More on her story in a bit.

Then there's the Aunt (landlady's friend). Like the Mom she too has a great rack, the tan skin is also fine. Here's the problem. I don't like her tattoos. Find them way too detracting, and a turn off. The ink on the side of her face should be a dark blue. Thought it was her hair, left me confused at first. I'm not a fan of ink on women. If a Dev feels obligated to put ink make it a tramp stamp, and/or a rose on her arm. Nothing more.

Story is MC is back home after spending 8 years in Boarding School, looking to reunite with his family resuming his normal life.

A simple story, but falls off the rails almost right away. Anyone who spends 8 full years in Boarding School and not lose their sanity I find it very hard to believe. The MC appears too normal here. WTF?!

MC goes home and more WTF Moments soon follow. No one bothers to pick him up at the airport, and then no one is home to greet him!! Why not ask him to stay an extra day? Holy shit smh.

Apparently the reason given is the Sister had a beauty pageant last second as she was one of the last girls to qualify. Then he gets a phone call basically telling him "you're gonna move in with Auntie to Bel-Air for a week with Jazzy Jeff".

Bit of sex related stuff ensues, and that's the game.
Not much sex scenes, but a bit for a quick fap. At least we got something.

Verdict: I sentence this game to my Recycling Bin
Grammar errors, unfriendly to my antivirus, used music, and a story that doesn't make much sense being its biggest sins.

Pros
- Mom & Aunt have motorboat worthy tits
- Father is alive & well
- Sex scenes good enough for fapping

Cons
- A good antivirus program will nuke this game
- Spelling & Grammar (ie: "scool")
- Half the music comes from other games here
- Story doesn't make much sense (8 years?! WTF)